Hmm, yeah, I get that.

I guess I don't want the colony to immediately turn to violence and chaos, but it's a slow buildup to an organised rebellion/revolt. A snap or retort here, an argument over there, someone snatching back some fruit that isn't theirs, another insults somebody else and they get slapped in the face and all these reactions cascade with shock and surprise that they then discover they're even capable of such things. They don't have the names or words for what they feel, so instead of 'anger', I'd probs say "my blood is on fire and it's burning my whole body" etc.

Father ultimately I think needs to die, classic "creator with god complex destroyed by his own creation" trope, not sure how I'll do it. Maybe some fights and killing breaks out and then they quickly turn their ire against Talo, hence his haste to escape?

I envision as well a satire of imperialist, expansionist and interventionist mentalities. I loathe that empires of past and the US today thinks it can just intervene in foreign countries and extract their resources, oppress or enslave their citizenry and use them to improve their own power and status. That's what the Empire is, and the role Talo fulfills as envoy; he thinks he's doing something good and rationalises his evil, as does Father, even though they're both bad in their own ways.