Where would you build your colony?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

For this, you are a billionaire with a mission. Preserve as much of humanity's heritage as possible. You believe that a truly massive war is brewing and that mankind is unaware of just how destructive the next really big war can/will be.

You basically plan to create a colony/ark to preserve vast amounts of cultural, historical, technological, and scientific, information. You also mean the population of the colony to preserve a wide range of human genetic variability.

So...where are you putting your colony/colonies and why? Extra credit, will you disguise the colony or just hide it?

You keep posting such questions in Transhuman Space, where the setting isn't exactly conducive to building distant hidden colonies, particularly ones big enough to matter in the grand scheme of things. May I suggest an alternative direction? Take a look at Eclipse Phase, which is to a noticeable extent inspired by Transhuman Space, and actually explores the topic of such massive war and other existential risks to all of humanity . . . and even has such colonies depicted in e.g. Gatecrashing*. I suggest you take a look at the EP community and try discussing your ideas with them - whether by forum or discord.

* == Direct link to PDF. EP books are distributed under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-SA).