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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
TL10 also gives you affordable immortality through Mutation Repair genetic therapy as per Bio-tech p.182. Use TL10 nano to do it and it's only $50,000.
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However, in a quasi-realistic setting (one where interstellar trips are very expensive and machines-that-can-reproduce-themselves are dangerous and inefficient) TL 10 tech will be in very short supply. The colonists will have what they brought with them until it breaks down, and possibly a few imports if round trips home are available. And a lot of the colony's early industrial era farmers, miners, loggers, foresters, and hunters will suffer serious accidents and die before they can get to ultra-tech medical care. Of course, without more details we don't know whether the OP wants vaguely realistic economics, but the colony less advanced than its metropolis is a common trope in interstellar colonization stories.