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Sorta random thought, but I think there's real potential in media, of turning the "colonizing barely habitable / uninhabitable planets with terraforming" trope of outer space on its head by having a story that looks like it's starting out that way and then you gradually realize that "there's no one who already lives there" is a colonial civil/savage narrative and there's actually at least one major sapient species with a civilization already there, who is being erased by the space colonizers. It could make for a great "oh shit" reveal while teaching people about how colonialism functions.
I imagine a backdrop kinda like The Outer Worlds. In that game, it's sort of just "what if capitalism but in outer space" but they are also a colony in a sense. They are a colony, however, that leaves out all of the historical baggage associated with colonizing by doing it in a setting where other life with "awareness of its awareness" is unlikely to exist already.
Best I can do is a white savior story where the protagonist in exchange for betraying the other colonizers is magically granted indigeneity and allowed to marry the chieftains daughter.
Hollywood is sure obsessed with shoehorning a romance plot into everything. I remember reading the intro blurb of an edition of Ender's Game (yeah, this was in my lib days and before Orson Scott Card came out with some rightist views, anti-LGBT notably if I remember right). Anyway, OSC was talking about offers Hollywood had made to have the book made into a movie. And he was talking about how he had to be really careful in reading the contracts closely cause they'd try to do stuff like aging up the characters to have a romance between two of them. This in a book that is primarily about young children...
This is one thing I respect about The Outer Worlds. Even though I enjoy romance subplots in character RPGs like that, it's not essential to them. And as I understand it, those in charge of making the game didn't really want to do a romance subplot involving the player character. The closest thing to one in the game is with an asexual companion and another non-player character. They could have made it a priority and probably made more money that way, but they chose not to, and I don't think the game is really any less for it. I don't think it would be worse with one, but it's also not like it needed one, ya know.
You would like "The word for world is forest" by le Guin!
Interesting, thanks, I'll have to give it a look.