I gotta say I'm with Twesterm too... while major colonial forces almost always did try to educate people first...(I'm looking you Cortez) they also made sure to bring a lot of gunpowder with them in case that didn't work.
They definitly should of brought some kind of chemical or biological weapon... or at least some smallpocks blankets. Things are ridiculiously cost effective... it's partially why they are illegal.
It's not like major corporations haven't done if before.
I mean heck, in the real world corporations just outright contract kill people, hire armies to kill groups of people they don't like and sell equipment to people with full use and knowledge that said equipment will be used to help in a genoicde... and real corporations aren't even portrayed as evil.
If everything goes bad... just unleash a bio-weapon to destory everything, and then bring in some scientists who are on your side... and have them claim it was caused by the Flu... or some other harmless earth disease that was catastrophic for their planet. By the time anybody nuetral gets their to investigate... all signs of it would be gone.
Plus, to me... these "Save the enviroment/corporations are evil" movies are always more powerful when everyone unites, tries to stop them... seemingly win but then get beat down in the end.
Happy endings really just breed complacency.
