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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
I think that ship of logic has long since sailed for THS. The lack of sense for biologicals sent to space at all has already been shoved under the rug.
If people make sense in space, for "reasons", then one could just as easily use such "reasons" for sending people to the next star system.
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Bio-people don't make sense for several existing things in the setting, notably in this case distributibuted swarm systems like Starswarm and transmission as data. Since these are the best available methods of interstellar travel in the setting, by significant margins in terms of speed, efficiency and cost, I think it is probably reasonable to expect that serious attempts might use them.