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Originally Posted by mindstalk
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.
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Along with them would be people who loathe transhumanism and the associated Fifth Wave ideologies and customs, they are canonically mentioned in text. They would actually be a good analog of the people who founded Massachusetts Bay colony, in terms of their relationship to their larger society.
As time passes, you might see some of the harder-core anarchocapitalists among the Duncanites want to get away, too. Over time, the Belt will inevitably get less free-and-easy, as populations grow, and later generations fall away from the founding vision and the 'winners' in the free-for-all grow in power. So there would be an outward pressure there.
The hardcore 'green' Duncanites would also want to find new environments to set up to ecospheres for its own sake, sort of like they do on Europa.
The TSA might want to set up some enclaves out-System too, just in case China ever really, completely loses patience with them.