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*** Also, the mineral is a stable room temperature super conductor which would be infinitely more usable than obscure research into the mind of a larger planetary neural network. The neural network can't be sold but the rocks can.
**** One of the capabilities of the neural network is ''biological immortality via mind transfer''. Studying and duplicating that would get you more money than a planet-sized pile of rocks.
**** And another capability is true artificial intelligence, in a universe that does not already have it. While admittedly few technologies are more lucrative than a room-temperature superconductor, mature AI is one of the few that ''would'' be.
** As for Quaritch himself, he would rather get the Na'vi to leave Hometree voluntarily, but if he can't, he plans to forcibly evict them in the most humane way possible. After that, {{spoiler|he goes after the Tree of Souls ''only'' because he's worried about being overrun, and wants to ''spiritually'' cripple the Na'vi}}.
* On ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'', the Confederacy rejects [[Hitler]]'s Final Solution because they consider it "a waste of human livestock".