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 i personally think it's highly unlikely aliens get off their planet without solving the psychopath problem, and when they do, they certainly aren't going to let this mind virus come to their colonies

who else but megalomaniacs would want to trick millions of people into murdering each other? 
 i'm pretty sure the entire genre of scifi horror is all about some psychopath turning on everyone in the middle of the vacuum, does anyone really believe that you can have such a delicate environment around people while there is even one sick mind on board?

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 Conquistadors didn't solve the psychopath problem before embarking on the fragile environment of a leaky wooden ship. 
 strong leadership will get you through a few weeks but not decades

as for when they landed, there used to be white dudes running the show over there before and there was a prophecy that they would return 
 also, just to point out, you have to scuttle a ship to all die... a spacecraft just needs a big enough hole that doesn't get patched up soon enough, and even then, how long you gonna survive if all your air is a cloud in deep space, spreading outwards at half the speed of sound 
 *I would not want to dominate over.

Typo 
 Psychopath problem? 
 how many people in the population can spot a psychopath, and how many can pressure everyone to pretend they aren't?

"give him the benefit of the doubt" etc etc etc

a story as old as the oldest books in the bible refer to (i mean garden of eden)