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2 unusual facts about Space colonization


On the Steel Breeze

It depicts a massive interstellar colonization effort, involving hundreds of immense generation ships known as "holoships" carrying millions of humans to extrasolar planets.

Zip Zap

The player controls a robot sent to an unexplored planet called Hallucinor with the job of investigating it ahead of human colonisation.


Firaxis Games

Early on, Firaxis has produced several PC games, including Sid Meier's Gettysburg! and Sid Meier's Antietam!, based on their namesake famous American Civil War battles, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, a space colonization game taking place in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Professor Weston

Weston’s plan is to usher in a new age of space colonization in order to ensure that man and his descendants will, in some form, continue to survive for all eternity (the idea was actually borrowed from Stapledon's Last and First Men).

The Jesus Incident

The book is notable for inspiring the Marathon Trilogy, in which an AI, known as Durandal, achieved rogue consciousness during an attack of a colony ship by an alien race.


see also

Krafft

Krafft Arnold Ehricke (1917–1984), rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization