Colonization Scenario One: Political Expedience

[onyxhawke]

Originally published at Agent Incite. You can comment here or there.

Any time there’s a colony inception, there’s a reason. For this one you’re the welfare and social services administrator for all the people in a large region. There’s welfare queens, ex-cons, junkies, people with disabilities, folks turfed out of their jobs by social and or

Comments

[xander_opal]

Maybe a legal end-run for non-violent offenses that shouldn't necessarily be illegal, but the host country can't quite get the political clout to change the laws. Which will make for an interesting conflict and attitude between and about the host country and colony

[onyxhawke]

With all the varied skills among the non-violent criminals, and the probable complete lack of need for maintenance or non food/medicine for the first decade or so, mostly there will be plenty of time to learn new stuff.

But yeah, there's bunch tons of potential for cray-cray story lines.