ilovelocust:

Am I the only one hoping that the Altean found inside that mech at the end of Season 7 turns out to be a volunteer?  It’s one of those situations where it would be so much easier for Haggar to manipulate the remaining Alteans into laying down their lives against Voltron willingly, rather than to go through the effort to hold them all prisoner.

Let me explain, back in Season 6, Romelle told us that she kept quiet about what happened to her brother, because none of the other Alteans would have believed her if she told them Lotor, the savior of the Altean, race was secretly draining some of them of their life force.

Lotor was a saint like savior to the Alteans of the colony.  When their home planet was lost, when they were being slowly and methodically hunted to extinction across the universe.  He came to them and took them to a paradise, where they could live out in the open, free of fear.  

Everything the Alteans of the colony have, including the preservation of their culture, they owe to Lotor’s actions, and that creates the sort of life long fanaticism that won’t just disappear because someone tells them that Lotor was actually killing the people who left the colony.  They’d need to see it with their own eyes, and even then, you’d probably have a non-insignificant amount that thinks the evidence is faked.

So you have this colony full of Altean Lotor fanatics, and then Voltron goes and kills their savior.  It wide spread knowledge across the universe, Lotor’s dead and Voltron is the one who did it.  

Also on top of that, the only witnesses to what Lotor was doing to the Alteans are all stuck in a time freeze or Haggar.  All anyone else can know is either Voltron just randomly turned on their ally, or if someone intercepted any of their transmissions, that Lotor wanted to wipe out all the Galra and rebuild the Altean Empire.  So either random murder or well deserved justice/revenge from an Altean colonist perspective. Neither will endear Voltron to the colonists.

Then who should show up on the colony’s doorstep? Why it’s Honerva, the beloved mother of their savior, who Lotor refuses to accept suggestions was the same the same person as Haggar.  Honerva is wielding ancient Altean magic that only the worthy can learn.  Honerva is opposed to Voltron.  Honerva gets to tell the story of how the Altean’s savior died with no one to contradict her, and Honerva has a means that those colonists can take revenge against his murderer.

Why turn them into slaves, when they will happily help her build her weapons against Voltron and pilot them with righteous fury in their veins?  What they are doing is justice, and who is there to tell them differently? Voltron? That’s Lotor’s murderers. Romelle? She’s no more trustworthy now than she was back then. The BOM? Galra scum.  Perfect allies and not a single lock needed to keep them in.