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Originally Posted by nick012000
Why limit yourself to planets? If you're doing a Space Opera setting, why limit yourself, when you have all the sweep of the universe before you! Asteroids! Comets! Space Stations! They're all out there, and with no FTL, it makes sense that they'd want to colonize anything they can.
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I limited the setting to planetry settlements for a number of primarly narritive reasons. As appealing as they are artificial habitats do tend to remove some of the justification for long range colonisation. If you can build a decent habitat and persuade people to live in it why bother spending upwards of ten years in hibernation to play pioneer in the back of beyond?
Secondly they are by definition highly controled environments, this can limit their usefulness as settings.
Undoubtedly such places will exist but at least for the time being they are likely to be auxilary to planetry settlements. Whether this will chainge when I get around to writing campaigns within this setting and start to flesh out future developments remains to be seen.