[GZG]Habitablesolarsystems [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

I have to agree that permanent *sustainable* societies are extremely unlikely
in the timeframe allowed.

For uninhabitable systems, it seems quite reasonable that many systems would
have some sort of "prospecting/refeuling" base to support wildcatters
and S&R (probably a couple of hundred permanent residents). Many would be
government sponsored (for military refeuling) or simply to discourage pirate
bases.

For extremely poor or marginal systems, these bases may have been abandoned or
sold to private concerns (or even blasted to space dust by the departing
government).

Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/

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