Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

At 6:31 PM -0500 1/30/02, Laserlight wrote:
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>Er, where do these assumptions come from?  If travel was all that
>expensive, we wouldn't have colonized all these planets, we'd've stuck
>to just a couple --"NAC gets this continent, ESU gets that one, Pan
>Europe gets the other	one, and all the little guys can have those
>islands".  It takes a while to fill up a planet.

Which is why European Explorers pronounced ..."from this river to the 
east I claim in the name of King XXXXX." It was a land grab pure and 
simple. You established some sort of presence and claimed it first. 
If you claimed it and didn't establish a presence you likely lost it.

I suspect that St. Jon has similar ideas behind the expansion of the 
major powers.

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