[Why Send Out a Colony Ship?]

• What is the rationale behind sending out a ship?

[Background]

• What is the launch year?
• Who launches the ship?
• What is the earth government and politics?
• Wars?
• What is the environment on earth?
• Other Significant Past Events?
• How much of the solar system has been colonized?
• Alien contact?
• Are habitable planets common or rare?

[Technology]

• FTL - no FTl and no FTL communications
• AI's?
• Power systems?
• Genetic engineering?
• Artificial gravity - no
• Intelligent animals?
• Nanotech?
• Raw materials?

[Destination]

• Distance and how long to travel there?
• Why go now? Why not wait 100 years and halve the travel time?
• What is the star type?
• What is the planet type? Gravity, atmosphere, radiation
• Why this particular planet?
• Why do they settle a planet and not stay in space?
• Why change the people and not terraform the planet?
• How was the planet discovered? Probes? Earth based sensors? How much do we know about it?

[Ship]

• What is the size and number of ships on the mission?
• How is the ship built?
• How big is the crew?
• What is the speed and acceleration of the ship?

[Medical technology]

• Do genetic changes involved in the evolution cause new medical problems to occur over time?
• Have all diseases been cured?

[GenEProjectScope|Project Scope]

-- Main.DaveK - 19 Jun 2004