Talk:Black Imp/@comment-2607:FEA8:29C0:4C1:A5E2:19CC:E8C:3C34-20190705183147/@comment-150.107.175.123-20200819115659

"You had a teleporter to the planet in your cargo hold with as far as we know, no plans to do anything with it, so..."

The thing is, not even the commando knows why they had a teleporter in the cargo hold to begin with. Since the only place it could've come from was the planet (or the imps, in the theory above), its safe to assume humans stole it to bring it back home. While we could be nice and say they're simply taking it to reverse engineer the teleporter technology, most events in our history involving colonists setting foot on new land don't really end all cut and dry... The most likely scenario is that we intended to go BACK to the planet, study it, farm resources, destroy the ecosystem and wildlife in the process etc.

Just as we humans have, will and usually always do.

Providence isn't a dumb, savage, and lifeless being. He KNEW this would happen so he took pre-emptive action. Was it brutal? Yeah. But it sure as hell was necessary, as anything close to just a warning shot would've resulted in us nuking the place outright. As for the monsters, well I doubt they have the higher brain function to realize "Hey, maybe I shouldn't hurl a fireball at this weird alien and instead approach it carefully to see if it poses a threat to us". And since all your survivor wants to do is survive in that hell hole, murdering half the planet's extremely aggressive population just to get out alive is kind of a moral gray area to me tbh.

tl;dr humans have a horrible track record when it comes to colonizing. Providence murdered out of self-defense, your character murdered out of self-defense; both of them did what they felt they needed too. The fauna of the planet is overreacting a bit, but you can't really blame a grizzly for defending their territory. The people who decided to steal the teleporter and use it with ill-intent (presumably) are the bad guys here and everyone else is in a moral grey area imo.