Yeah, see, you're expecting Pandora to be anything like a sane and reasonable place, which is your first mistake. There's, uh, no laws? No official ones, just, y'know, whatever anyone decides to enforce themselves.

[Be that someone running a settlement, the boss of a bandit camp, or... one of the corporations.]

Basically. I mean, at the point where I'm from, he only just took over Hyperion. But since he's running it and he's got access to all of Hyperion's money, resources, manpower...

Yeah, he basically can just say he owns the place, so long as people let him get away with that.