daryen
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Take a "degenerating" setting like TNE (either) or Hard Times (or, for that matter, the Long Night or the Darrian Maghiz). In such a setting there is frequent collapse of world systems, and several worlds slowly become uninhabitable.
If you take published UWPs as printed, you find that most of the population simply survives or dies in place. No one, it would seem, is inclined to escape from their threatened (or even doomed) planet and go somewhere else. Like maybe someplace they can breath the air. Or maybe at least has air.
I fully understand that many times the populace doesn't have a choice. If Virus comes into your archology, takes over all the systems and shuts down, you're screwed. Or if one of Lucan's fleets decides you are an inconvenient hi-pop world, you're dead. Or if the starships are all gone, you have no way off. I am not asking about these.
Most of the time the collapse is (relatively) slow, with a lot of time to react. In such cases, it would seem to me that there should be frequent migration, and I don't see why any LoPop hostile world would have anyone left on it (except, of course for some too stubborn or too greedy to let go). It would seem to me that all LoPop worlds can be evacuated, if the desire and opportunity is there. Is that reasonable? Or am I missing something?
The follow on to that is, what would the human "throughput" be? Let's take the extreme example of Entrope and Winston in the Spinward Marches. Let's assume that there is an organized effort to evacuate the 10+ billion citizenry of Entrope to Winston. Could it be done? How long would it take? Could it even be attempted? Or is there just so many of them that they have a better chance at survival by trying to keep things running on Entrope than they do surviving the J1 trip and rebuilding?
If you take published UWPs as printed, you find that most of the population simply survives or dies in place. No one, it would seem, is inclined to escape from their threatened (or even doomed) planet and go somewhere else. Like maybe someplace they can breath the air. Or maybe at least has air.
I fully understand that many times the populace doesn't have a choice. If Virus comes into your archology, takes over all the systems and shuts down, you're screwed. Or if one of Lucan's fleets decides you are an inconvenient hi-pop world, you're dead. Or if the starships are all gone, you have no way off. I am not asking about these.
Most of the time the collapse is (relatively) slow, with a lot of time to react. In such cases, it would seem to me that there should be frequent migration, and I don't see why any LoPop hostile world would have anyone left on it (except, of course for some too stubborn or too greedy to let go). It would seem to me that all LoPop worlds can be evacuated, if the desire and opportunity is there. Is that reasonable? Or am I missing something?
The follow on to that is, what would the human "throughput" be? Let's take the extreme example of Entrope and Winston in the Spinward Marches. Let's assume that there is an organized effort to evacuate the 10+ billion citizenry of Entrope to Winston. Could it be done? How long would it take? Could it even be attempted? Or is there just so many of them that they have a better chance at survival by trying to keep things running on Entrope than they do surviving the J1 trip and rebuilding?