Who launches the ship?

• A government, a world wide government, a space based government, private enterprise, a religious group, or a secret society - Secret Federation of World Wanders. See thoughts in the government union. My vote is for the newly created SEA Union! smile --CmAmidon - 27 Sep 2004

• Why not all three? Different groups would have different, and competing reasons for both their own launches and also for wanting to stop another groups' plans for launching. -- AnnelieseFox - 24 Jul 2004 15:34:01

• Or each government, group, or organization can have their own space on the ship. Sounds good. It could lead to a lot of conflict. Not bad for a story environment. -- DaveK - 25 Jul 2004 02:18:45

• What I'm leaning towards is another space race developing. This one is brought around by China. In other posts, I discuss creating a SEAU (SouthEast Asian Union--China, Japan, Korea, India, etc), and I believe this foreseeable economic block would/will seriously consider moving into space, albeit slowly. Once other countries or unions (EU, USA) see this move back towards space, I see it as inevitable that they will try to follow with competing ships and technology. What happened to kick America into Space? It was the Russian initiative and the launch of Sputnik, and I think a futuristic space race is quite plausible and possible. Once the initial tech is created, I think compteting ships is inevitable from different governments/unions, and religions. So my vote is: GenE1-(first ship) A SEAU launching around 2150, with other groups rushing to catch up tech wise, and launching ships maybe 10-20 years later our time (which in our timeframe is a lot of years, but in the GenE universe timeframe is nothing. Most ships could launch to different planets, while at least one is sent to follow/catch up with another rival ship. -- CmAmidon - 29 Sep 2004 00:04:08