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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
You would just mine it in the asteroid belt which has all the rare earth metals in reasonable abundance.
The costs of an interstellar colony are ridiculous, as are the costs of interstellar shipping (and at best you will have a turnaround time measured in decades if not centuries). If you need a significant fraction of GWP in antimatter to make the trip once, selling some ore after a couple of centuries isn't going to be profitable.
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Decades? Antimatter? You're talking about real engines; the thread is about FTL, with turnaround time of weeks.
As for who'd
want to go, isn't there a hidden cluster of xoxes/rogue AIs in the outer system? They've got reason to get far away from hostile humans, like the early ahumans of Orion's Arm. Whether they can get access to a drive/ship is another matter.