The requirement that not just infomorphs and genetic material, but whole living communities be transported, means that the best way to do this is to:
- Build a fleet relatively big ships.
- (Optionally) Deep-brainscan the passengers.
- Put the passengers in nanostasis in the Core section of the ships.
- Maintain ships using cybershells inhabited by AIs and AI+Shadow combinations of the passengers. Make sure the AIs/Shadows are deeply programmed to have the community's best interests as a priority.
- Upon reaching the destination, unpack the passengers and un-stasisify them.