On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Bruce  Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2018, at 6:54 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/2018 4:14 AM, Kelly St. Clair wrote:
>
> Though that same amazing terraforming capability, necessary to give the
> setting all those habitable moons etc, raises another question/pokes another
> hole in the /official/ reason for the Migration - why are they /here/, and
> not still in (a fully 'formed and settled) Sol system? Heck, with that kind
> of tech, they could have re-terraformed Earth-That-Was itself; even if it's
> used-up blackrock, zero resources left, it's still useful just as a great
> big lump of real estate right in the middle of the habitable zone.
>
>
> Not just Earth, but Mars, Venus, and several of the moons orbiting Jupiter
> and Saturn would be likely candidates.  And there would be no need for
> Miranda…
>
>
> Well that ignores the most potent causal effect in all of the universe, the
> SSS Imperative: the “Script Said So” :-)
>

The thought just crossed my mind... What if they did, and the people
who took ship to the 'Verse were political exiles?
Considering the Alliance's proclivity for cover stories and
psychomanipulation, they could have convinced everyone aboard on the
way out that there was nobody left behind and it was impossible to fix
the Sol system.

Meanwhile, the UN (or whatever) is doing just that

And someday, the two groups run into each other.