Re: GZG FH: Blue water navy.

We always think of colonies as a few croppers grubbing along trying to
make a living. Eventually successfull colonies become "little" civilized
worlds, then get more established. There's no reason on a  world with
large seas that the use of sea going vessels won't become a prevalant
means of transportation of trade. You don't have to have two powers
sharing a world. Town X makes is the agricultural center of the planet,
Town Y is the manufacturing center, they trade via seaborne routes.

Also why do colonies have to be one government? Eventually as a planet
grows, and people move to different regions, the same host of problems
can develop (i.e. "those lowlanders don't understand our problems up
here in the mining community, we should form our own government" etc
etc.) The story of human settlement for all time.

All of this can lead to multiple regional or national governments on teh
same plaent as a colony matures.

Los