If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled. 
If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled.
We do a lot of
in the genre
"HUMANITY FUCK YEAH" slop fiction tends to tell on itself by claiming that the only way to stop the evil aliens is by being evil to aliens.