re: #15 lawhawk

He’s fashioning himself after Cohaagen in Total Recall or Weyland Yutani from the Alien franchise, or any other corporate villain in scifi.

Also reminds me of Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land: they bring the “Man From Mars” back to Earth, and his lawyer argues that by some dimly-applicable legal precedent he actually owns the whole planet by being the only (human) person there…