I felt the need to offer a few points of logic regarding these statements.
First of all: Let’s never stop talking about Neytiri’s soft pink bits, those pretty parts were the reason why Avatar is one of my favorite movies. It is only because JC was concerned about turning a profit in the puritan American marketplace that he covered things up for 98% of the frames in the film.
The Resources Development Administration (RDA) is officially described as a publicly traded company with millions of shareholders, they have to conduct their operations with at least an outward semblance of ethical behavior (while generating profits) to satisfy those shareholders. While the RDA is the most powerful non-governmental organization in human space, their monopoly rights to strip-mine unobtanium on Pandora were granted by the Interplanetary Commerce Administration (ICA) under the strict conditions that prohibits weapons of mass destruction. So no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons can be involved in their operations.
They created the Avatar program at an immense cost originally in hopes of using the clone bodies to perform labor in the mines without requiring environmental protection. Because this approach proved not to be cost effective for the amount of workers required, the Avatars that were created were then used for scientific exploration of Pandora’s resources and to attempt peaceful zoning negotiations with (manipulation of) the native population. Manipulation is more cost effective and outwardly more ethical than unprovoked warfare. Without the Avatar program, there never would have been any basis for this movie.
When the RDA expanded their mining operations by bulldozing the Tree of Voices they sparked a chain of events that quickly escalated to outright warfare with the Omaticaya clan. Tsu’tey conducted a retaliatory strike which killed RDA personnel and destroyed lots of their expensive equipment. It was this event that offered outward justification (to the RDA shareholders) for Quaritch to lead his massive offensive strike against Hometree. At that point they could offer the casualties and property damage as evidence which could sway public opinion to their point of view. Nuclear devices must be avoided when you want to avoid radioactive contamination of the material that you are mining (refer to Operation Plowshare and Operation Storax).
Considering the unique biological and environmental requirements of the Pandoran ecosystem, the chances of finding a compatible world and the massive logistical effort for such a transfer would realistically bankrupt at least a billion RDA companies.
But I really like the implication of a relation between the RDA and Weyland Yutani. I have no idea where this image originated, but it is certainly cool.
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