Re: asteroid habs

I recently read a historical novel about the Scottish colony in Panama 
c.1600AD. It was entitled "Rising Sun" and covered a lot of  the 
political and financial intrigues and failures before the First Fleet 
set sail. Then the decline and failure of the colony is covered in some 
detail.

I'm also a sucker for novels written as journal entries (c.f. Brust & 
Bull's "Freedom and Necessity", a terrific novel).

Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

>G'day,
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>Actually I think its a pretty good one as 100,000 or not if you're
setting
>up a colony that is fairly isolated, but taking a good deal of input
>(resource/financial) to start you do want some yobs wrecking it on you.
At
>least at the start the people with the kinda money to do this are going
to
>be major nations with millions to chose from so 100,000 still allows
you to
>be selective. However, that doesn't mean you won't get the odd "things
go
>wrong" events (which can make for exciting scenarios) because the
stress may
>make facets of personalities come out that may have gone unnoticed
during
>the selection process - as has happened in Antarctica a few times even
in
>recent years. In addition living in confined quarters with a limited
number
>of people (OK 100,000 is limited, but you're not likely to mix with the
>entire group) is gonna mean that things get on your nerves and tempers
>flare. We watched a doco on Jamestown the other day, that led to some
>interesting ideas for scenarios/future history events to do with
colonies.
>
>Cheers
>
>Beth
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