When I first mentioned doing this series to a certain nerdy red head I know they asked how I’d do it. Partly for my amusement I mostly demurred, for the sake of this series, I decided I’d go part way towards answering. The partway is only because I don’t know the conditions both economic and […]
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Colonization Scenario Three: How I’d Select
Posted: 22nd November 2016 by onyxhawke in Colonization, SeriesTags: culture, Diaspora, skill, space
Scenario Two: Creating A New Culture & Phenotype
Posted: 19th November 2016 by onyxhawke in Colonization, SeriesTags: biology, culture, space
Assume you’re building a colony ship and you have unlimited power over who gets on the ship and who does not. Your casus belli is a desire to create a new “race” of people, and a new society. You’ve already selected the art, food, text books, interior layout of your colony, and a hundred other […]
Colonization Scenario One: Political Expedience
Posted: 8th November 2016 by onyxhawke in Colonization, SeriesTags: brain fodder, research
Any time there’s a colony inception, there’s a reason. For this one you’re the welfare and social services administrator for all the people in a large region. There’s welfare queens, ex-cons, junkies, people with disabilities, folks turfed out of their jobs by social and or technological developments, petty criminals still in jail or on probation, […]
Deep Roots
Posted: 7th November 2016 by onyxhawke in Colonization, Series, UncategorizedTags: science
This should be the start of a series on one of my favorite ideas in science fiction, and the major factors that go into it. In my extremely humble opinion we don’t see this explored enough in writing, and not much talked about in television and film. There are a ton of fun things that […]