I mean, they set up a pretty brutal theocracy that ended up hanging a bunch of people for being witches, so... yeshttps://twitter.com/Itsjoeco/status/1322302638470402050 …
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I'm not saying that there's no such thing as genuinely downtrodden poor people seeking to flee to a new land to escape persecution But those generally don't top the list of "official" colony projects, because those people don't have any money
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North Carolina, for instance, is the result of people fleeing Virginia into the crappy uninhabited northern part of the Carolina colony which was officially owned by the rich assholes in Charleston The split into NC and SC was because it was easier than kicking them out
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Well, and penal colonies. But shipping prisoners to Mars for slave labor seems prohibitively expensive. That's got to be the plot of at least 6 sci fi books already though, yes?
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In sci-fi prison planet/station/colony is a very frequent trope.
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