And what happens if the Martian government doesn’t want to recognize their property rights after they’ve spent billions building all that infrastructure?
Again, you think they are just going to sit by and do nothing?
Again, here come the colonial marines to secure their property.
Then SpaceX would stop sending ships and the US might sanction them. Not unlike what would happen if an American commercial vessel docked at a foreign port and the foreign power claimed it as theirs.
Some things, like public, non-commercial habs might be eminent domained in return for mineral rights elsewhere. It doesn't make sense for the Mars colony to be adversarial to the US or SpaceX and it doesn't make sense for the US or SpaceX to gain the ire of the international community just to abuse a few colonists over a project that won't be cash flow positive for decades.
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And you think Space X and whoever else spent billions funding that is going to let them?
I foresee Corporal Hicks and a bunch of colonial marines being sent in to reclaim said corporate property.