Colony
A Colony is a group of sophonts living in a new territory, but retaining ties with their parent state.
Description (Specifications)
In most cases, Colonies in a TL:10-12 society or more advanced refer to colonization of new planets, moons, or planetoids. They are interstellar colonies expanding the reach of a World-State into a Pocket Empire or a larger political grouping.
History & Background (Dossier)
A world, country, or foundation sponsors most colonies. Because colonies generally lose money, profit is rarely a motive for sponsoring a colony. A colony must become self-supporting; sponsors cannot supply goods indefinitely. Lingering problems will doom a colony.
Some colonists raise food to feed themselves and to sell to other colonists. Others produce commodities for export off-planet. There may be hunter/explorers as well - people who live in the wild, occasionally visiting civilization to sell their unusual finds. The last have limited use in any colonization scheme.
Farmers or miner/prospectors will settle first. Storekeepers and other businessmen will follow. The arrival of medium and large businesses usually signals long term success in producing saleable exports. Few colonies become self-sufficient in manufacturing. Saleable commodities from under-developed worlds are almost exclusively precious minerals. The economies of under- developed worlds are dependent on resource prices.
SolSec Colonization Factbook for Solomani Colonization Strategy
As a result of the big losses in the Solomani Rim War it was very clear that Solomani must growth for regaining their superior natural leading role over the Charted and Uncharted Space. In 1007 the released the Colonization Factbook to the Secretary General with Highest Secrecy Level ever seen, because of its strategic meaning, but also for its possible psychological devastating effects to the public. Now in 1105 the book is still only known to a handful of people, but there were several excerpts known to specific functions and persons in the Solomani Sphere. The more or less most known, is the "The little Settler Tom", which was given to mission leads, but there are also less known handbooks to the Sector, Subsector and System Gouverments, some of them were issued by Better Home Publishing House.
Better Home Publishing House: "The litte Settler Tom"
The book targets explicitly to deep space colonziation, and provide tips and strategies, also tools, operating figures and key data. Everything was packaged, in the story of the little settler Tom, which was written as an adventure story. After reading this book, people are knowing whats about the 72 rule, the colonial growth rate, Birth control and the economic effects of those figures, which leads to specific toughts without having this said. As this book becomes more or less public (it was a so called secret advise from your friends), there was an increase of settling motivation.
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