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The Colonist - Part II: Landing

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7 This is the second part of a series of questions I'll ask about a self-sustaining colonization ship. I'll keep editing this post as things unfold. If you can, check out the other questions of this series for a bigger picture: Part I - Construction Some Context Each Colonist journey is a one way trip to a new world. There aren't resources or space enough for another 20~200 year trip back, so the people in the ship (about 100 individuals) must be equipped with whatever they might need to start a new civilization from the ground up. The original idea is that these giant vessels are not meant to come back home, they're meant to BE home . And this is the main point of this question, since every Colonist must take the passengers to the new world AND serve as a first base of operations to aid them i...