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Carregando... Handbook for Space Pioneers: A Manual of the Galactic Association (Earth Branch) (1978)de L. Stephen Wolfe, Roy L. Wysack (Autor)
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The FTL colony ships were vertically oriented with passengers and crew in large towers. On the more rustic colonies the towers were detached and landed on the surface as housing. Intersteller travel was so difficult and expensive that every colonist had to surrender all of there property on Earth in exchange for passage. Colonists from countries where there was no private property were provided with an equivalent sum by their government.
Except for high government officials, starship crews, some scientists, and the odd super rich person it was strictly one-way. There wasn't even any trade (with one exception) between the colonies and Earth because shipping was so uneconomical.
The exception was a planted so rich in rare minerals (some of which didn't exist in the Sol system) that there was some trade. Unlike all the other planets with a single world ocean and one or more continents this planet was mostly land with two seperate oceans surrounded by land and didn't connect with eachother.
There were other spacefaring species. They were very different from humans. One was less than a foot tall, another was based on energy instead of matter. Earth was a member of an interstellar UN like organization named (& I definatly remember the name) the "Galactic Alliance of Intelligent Lifeforms" or GAIL. The Earth agency in charge of colonization was called GAILE as a result.