Poll: Annexing an Alien World

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Well, the moment the greater threat has been eliminated the rest of the xeno filth will have to be exterminated too, so let them do whatever they want, it'll save on ammo later.

 

[verdant monkai]

Hey there fellow Escapists. I wrote a book! It's currently being judged for the Amazon 'ABNA' contest, but I've got a blog up that features some teasers about what you'll find when it's released. (http://woundedworlds.blogspot.com/)

But this is a discussion forum, so I will borrow the topic of discussion from the plot of my novel. The main conflict centers around the annexation of an alien world. We have just liberated it from a hostile extraterrestrial force that still poses a threat to both ourselves and the natives. The General Staff agrees that the only chance of eliminating the hostile threat for good is to join liberated worlds into a cohesive alliance and the quickest way to do that is annexation.

The natives are on the fence about this, but while they're mulling it over they've taken to hunting down and brutally executing enemy collaborators. However their terms for 'collaboration' extends to anyone who has assisted the enemy occupation forces in any way during the occupation; file clerks, secretaries, security guards -- all of these are fair game. This DOES NOT extend to those who were pressed into slavery, only to those who were paid/rewarded for their services.

People are dying by the thousands -their families the objects of disdain- and though they were not technically slaves, it is obvious that most had little choice but to have served the occupiers. Your action or inaction in this matter will decide a successful annexation. What do you do and why?

Thanks I love questions like these


First of all we would make it clear that we were more than willing to lend a hand capturing the political prisoners. Soldiers would be deployed to aid the local authorities, and Earth Gov. representatives would be on site to help decide the prisoners fates. If the enemy is as bad as you say anyone collaborating with them is either, just as bad, very stupid or someone we don't need hanging around anyway.

Each case would be examined closely, depending on the severity of their crimes they would receive various punishments, I would negotiate to try and make most of the punishments less severe, most would serve prison sentences where they will be put to work for the war effort. The most heinous of the offenders will be executed swiftly and painlessly*. History would remember us as brutal for these actions, so the official story will be that the executed prisoners died from suicide/over work/various medical conditions. whereas the prisoners were righting their wrongs by aiding the war effort instead of sabotaging it.

This would suggest to the local government that we are willing to work with them and not manipulate them too much.

*Earth Gov. would fake some executions to obtain custody of some of these prisoners which were to be executed, and experiments (such as dissection) will be performed on them. To discover their weaknesses, and to test weapon effectiveness, just in case the aliens decide to turn on us. We will also be able to achieve a complete understanding of their biology and mental differences.

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

I went with the third option. I like it because the contingency plan is to do nothing. It's easy to do nothing.

 

[ProbabilityZero]

Where's the option to annex all alien life in favour of superior human life and adapt any forms of science that is useful to us into the human empire?

 

[senordesol]

Where's the option to annex all alien life in favour of superior human life and adapt any forms of science that is useful to us into the human empire?

That would be..."other", I think.