07-20-2018, 05:56 AM | #11 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Where would you build your colony?
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07-20-2018, 08:00 AM | #12 | |
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Virginia
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Re: Where would you build your colony?
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07-20-2018, 10:53 AM | #13 | |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Where would you build your colony?
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I would want someplace where there were few competitors for but is not exactly a Deathworld. I would like it to be Earthlike enough that someone can develop it without intensive technology but not so much that someone else will covet it. My colony will fight for it's existence if it has to, but I really do not wish to bequeath to my children a nasty feud or some shame for some morally questionable thing done in the process of said nasty feuds. Dealing with nature is usually easier then with fellow sapients. I would also want a climate between temperate and subarctic. It would be littoral and provide a lot of marine life for survival. Plenty of timber and good soil too. But it would be cold enough to freeze off germs, the other main danger besides competing sapients. Once those two dangers are accounted for, nature is a problem in engineering. Trade is unfortunately a problem. If it can plug into the trade routs someone will want my colony before it is big enough to defend itself. On the other hand it has to be near enough to get immigrants. As I am a billionaire (presumably I am Baron Rothschild as well as Theodore Herzl), and can make alliance with others, I can afford to provide a lot of offworld technology. This is tricky as if my children are to be viable they cannot have my wealth as a permanent umbilical cord.
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07-20-2018, 11:12 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Where would you build your colony?
Talking about things that don't make sense in the setting is not trying to generate interest in the setting. It's an indication of disinterest in the setting.
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