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Old 09-12-2019, 04:45 PM   #25
David Johnston2
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Default Re: Realistic STL Interstellar Missions

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
Persecuted groups don't have the resources to carry out a two hundred year project.
People who want to get rid of them without bad P.R. from mass executions might. One variant on Enterprise Done Right that I considered was one in which all the colonies were established as ways of getting rid groups United Earth considered to be nuisances or who didn't like the new regime. Thus there'd be colonies founded by American militia types, Scientologists, lesbian separatists, Palestinians, organized crime groups, neo-fascists, John Norman fans...

Ehn. It was as good a basis for planets of hats as any.
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