In the proposed fictional scenario, human colonists regard local aliens as non-sentient obstacles to settlement. The objection assumes that a civilization capable of interstellar travel and cryosleep would also possess technology capable of devastating a planet. Under that assumption, the colonists could destroy a civilization from orbit. The argument concerns consistency between the expedition's transport capabilities and its destructive power.
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Space colonization and the threat of orbital destruction
A fictional colonization premise is challenged by the destructive technology its interstellar travellers would presumably possess.