Re: [FT universe]
From: jatkins6@i... (John Atkinson)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:56:13 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: [FT universe]
You wrote:
>Former Christian groups from the IF and ESU (notoriously unpopular
>with ESU Communist leadership and IF extremist Muslims)
Heh. . . I've got a lot of these covered in my NRE and associated
territories. New Tiblisi got a lot of the Georgians. Armenians are a
major ethnic component in the Empire, and brigades of Christian Arabs
are part of the Tagmatic central army.
>5x10^10th religious groups (everything from cults, covens, and
>oddball sects to the catholic church - all of whom may underwrite
>colonies - imagine papal colonies backed by a no-birth control policy
>and a bunch of catholic money...)
I can't imagine birth control on any colony world. You need to have
kids. Lots of 'em.
5x10^10th ethnic groups that don't want to be near other ethnic groups.
I've got a planet settled by Serbs, with Croatians also moving in to
try take it away from them. It's a nasty planet with low-technology
and completely fragmented. Some princelings can barely raise a
reinforced batallion. NRE "peacekeepers" defend enclaves, including
all the spaceports worthy of the name.
/va/basileus/serbs.html
>Here's a thought: Remember what britain did with Australia? Can we
>say spaceborn penal colony for civilized gov'ts too kind to just pop
>off annoying dissidents and malcontents. Gulags in space....
My Free Ukranians. :)
John M. Atkinson