M Fnord Wrote:Okay, not really. The Federation’s long-term plans are all about increasing exosolar migration from Earth. They aren’t planning on abandoning Sol per se, but they’re taking a longer view than some of the other factions; eventually there will be mass migration from Earth into space, and whoever’s got the infrastructure down first wins. Greenwood’s already working on that with their settlement of the Achird A system; if they can do it, then Starfleet can do it better. Or so the theory goes.Yeah. Marsden's a big believer in the Global Plan and the Human Diaspora. Every Greenwood ship carries a complete copy of the Black Archive in digital storage, and the bigger ships carry hardcopies of a lot, too, just in case -- mostly cultural and historical records and a big book of "how to build industrial infrastructure from the ground up, after you've crashed your colony ship and lost everything but this book" (It's noted that the plan for -that- particular contingency is expected to take over a century to begin mass-producing 21st-century technology, so it's kind of a last resort, but still, it's -there-.)
The big colony ships also carry complete seed archives and gene/zygote banks of every species they can get their hands on, from aardvarks to zebras.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.