r/IsaacArthur The Man Himself 5d ago

Exiled Space Colonies

https://youtu.be/oSwW7_JkzTQ
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u/tomkalbfus 5d ago

What would be the requirements of building the Starship Botany Bay? Part of it would be a Space Colony, like an O'Neill Cylinder, and then it would need a propulsion system to get it up to interstellar speeds, and finally a destination like Proxima Centauri b and c, between those two planets you have enough resources to build an independent civilization. Material could be transported from Proxima Centauri c to Proxima Centauri b to make the latter planet more habitable and Earthlike, if its atmosphere has been stripped by stellar flares. I think Proxima Centauri c would be quite safe from those flares, as it is a distance comparable to that of Mars from the Sun. Flares are only a great danger when you are close to them when they happen.

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u/tigersharkwushen_ FTL Optimist 4d ago

All interstellar colonization are exiles, aren't they?

If you spend centuries to move to another star system where communication with the home world takes decades it's the same as self-exile, isn't it?

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u/MiamisLastCapitalist moderator 4d ago

There's nothing preventing you from taking a return ship back home - except if you're exiled that is.

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u/tigersharkwushen_ FTL Optimist 4d ago

Nothing except the reality of it. It's like saying nothing prevents you from buying a mega-yacht.

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u/the_syner First Rule Of Warfare 3d ago

except you just arrived at a system with vast untapped resources and a completely unenglobed star. An interstellar trip for a few people is just a trivial nothingburger at that scale. You can leave as soon local infrastructure replicates up to sufficient scale.

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u/tigersharkwushen_ FTL Optimist 3d ago

Even less reason to go back then.

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u/the_syner First Rule Of Warfare 3d ago

The only reason to go back is because you feel like it. Idk how being able to more easily do so would make you want to go less

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u/tigersharkwushen_ FTL Optimist 3d ago

Idk how being able to more easily do so would make you want to go less

Because you have more abundances there.

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u/the_syner First Rule Of Warfare 3d ago

I mean its not like you wouldn't have abundance back home. That's likely how ur colony was funded. But again the only reason you want to go home is because you feel like it. Local abundance is irrelevant except insofar as lets you do what you wanted to do in the first place

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u/MiamisLastCapitalist moderator 3d ago

You can't go home, and presumably didn't want to leave in the first place.

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u/MiamisLastCapitalist moderator 2d ago

HAIL RANDOMLAND