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The private contractors (spoilers)

posted 9 years ago by mobocracy
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Maybe I just was distracted or something, but there seemed to be an unexplored mystery or conspiracy. The commander leaves to go to the main base some miles away. While he's gone, a unit of private security contractors shows up and tells them they aren't to leave the base, and this order is confirmed when they check it.

Was it ever explained why the private contractors were there? Why they had orders to not leave the base?

Was the government aware of the alien base? The contractors representing some intelligence group trying to study or capture it? You could even go out further on a limb that they represented some rogue faction that had made a secret collaboration deal with them and were trying to prevent the military from discovering and revealing it. Or they were being forced to stay in the base to serve as test subjects for the mind control army.

It almost seems like the contractor scene was part of a larger element of the film that got cut or couldn't be filmed because of budget constraints but got left in for other reasons.

[–] delgadillojose 8 years ago

My interpretation of the contractors is that they were hired to investigate because the higher-ups already suspected that the aliens had some kind of device in that region.

The higher-ups did not want the normal soldiers to investigate because it's harder for normal soldiers to keep quiet about it (especially when there's a camera crew embedded with them).

Why would them talking about what they found be a problem? Because what they found was a device that could jam/destroy the satellite network protecting Earth. If knowledge about such a device got out, civilians all over the world would panic like crazy and lots of politicians would have to deal with the heat from such an event.

[–] cyguration (3874) 7 years ago

Excellent interpretation and response. Many PMCs are used for clandestine operations exactly like this, so it's no surprise that something involving both mind-control and a way to disrupt the Earth SDF would be handled in as quiet, need-to-know manner as possible. Especially something off the record like that.