11-07-2017, 01:56 AM | #51 |
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Re: If interstellar Colonies become possible, who goes first?
Yes. There's no practical way to make it self-supporting, so that the population can grow without commensurate increases in the amount of supplies you have to ship there.
For an interstellar colony, that depends on a whole lot of things that can't be known until you look at the site, and try some experiments. You can presumably live in space by similar means to how it's done in Sol system, but does that cut down your need for supplies enough to make it practical? If there's an ecosystem, can we actually add our preferred food sources to it and have them be productive without collapsing it? Will humans be able to live in that ecosystem without dying of allergies?
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11-07-2017, 10:33 AM | #52 | |
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11-07-2017, 10:37 AM | #53 |
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Re: If interstellar Colonies become possible, who goes first?
If you're not interested in a place of organic beings to live there's no reason to set up anything but scientific outposts and/or mining areas (if you can find anything worth transporting back to your civilization).
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11-07-2017, 03:11 PM | #55 | |
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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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11-07-2017, 03:35 PM | #56 | |
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11-07-2017, 03:43 PM | #57 |
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Re: If interstellar Colonies become possible, who goes first?
The very first post supposes FTL, so I don't think the more plausible means of extrasolar transport of THS R.A.W. really fit.
(Would R.A.W. be the right word to use or should it be S.A.W. for setting as written?)
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11-07-2017, 03:56 PM | #58 |
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Re: If interstellar Colonies become possible, who goes first?
Good point. With FTL the security concerns become much more important, and the Great Filter starts looking pretty menacing. I think you might see an international alliance in respect to defense and exploration in that case.
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11-07-2017, 04:22 PM | #59 |
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Re: If interstellar Colonies become possible, who goes first?
Note that dumb ideas can still make for interesting campaigns. One campaign I considered (though never actually ran) a time-forward version of THS called Posthuman Stars. Basic idea is that people using the Shezbeth black hole came up with a way to generate one way wormholes (no return trip unless you found your own black hole at the destination and built a station, though they did verify via radio that it worked), and a bunch of people decided that colonizing the stars was the right thing to do.
Queue warfare and loss of records in the Solar System, and then rebuilding and improving the tech to allow recall. Some of the extrasolar colonies did eventually phone home. Others didn't. Clearly some adventurous types need to go out there and find out what happened. |
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Some would prefer to invest in the Solar System instead, many will invest in both. Some of the same people who hoped to make money in Virginia (on Earth) and Carolina also invested in the East India trade and domestically too.
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