Re: B Ark Colonist and Colonial Industry... [LONG[

On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 16:27:09 -0800 "Brian Bilderback"
<bbilderback@hotmail.com> writes:
>Ryan M Gill wrote:
>>>From: Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
>>>
>>>>  >Roads are incredibly expensive to build and maintain.  Is there 
>any
>>>>  >reason not to use GEVs instead?
>>>>
>>>>  Make-work.  Think WPA in the USA in the 1930's.
>>>
>>>On a fledgling colony??????
>>
>>Yeah can't you see it.
>>
>>"Come to the outer worlds. We'll find you something to do. You can
>>come, dig ditches, install vinyl siding, sanitize telephones and much
>>much more. Just call....."
>
>You'd be surprised at how attractive that might sound, depending on 
>how bad 
>things are back on Earth.
>
>2B^2
>

A "politely decorated " Penal Colony.

A group too big to kill efficiently but too dangerous to let run loose. 
(The PHR - People's Holy Republic - in my little backwater corner of the
universe.)

A group funded by a corporation to exploit some private colony world.

A "Vacation Planet" for the upper 1% of the nation.

Plague carriers, mutants, "Pilgrims" redux.

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
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