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Once the Bold Explorers have finished their job and found some exotic new lands or strange new worlds, it's time to take advantage and start a colony or settlement! There are many reasons why people might choose to leave everything they know behind and set off to carve a new life out of an untamed wilderness. They might be seeking freedom, opportunity, or wealth. They might be fleeing an intolerable situation: discrimination, overcrowding, debt, poverty, bad governments, crime, ruined reputation, family conflict, or maybe the fallout of a terrible divorce; none of that matters in the frontier, in the frontier it doesn't matter who you are, where you come from or what happened to you, all that matters is what you can do and how can you contribute. On the other hand, it might be the case that the settlers simply had no choice in the matter — far-off lands are such a convenient place to store your criminals, dissidents, and other unwanted population. The dangers in settling new territory are great: hostile terrain, hostile wildlife, hostile natives, bad weather, lack of readily accessible resources, and much more. You may end up cut off from your homeland completely, and contact without settlements isn't guaranteed either; oftentimes, the Frontier becomes a Points of Light Setting, where homesteads and towns are deeply isolated from one another. Success is never guaranteed, and many settlements will fail, often with great loss of life. Nevertheless, the biological urge to expand and grow is strong, and new colonies will rarely lack for volunteers (or "volunteers"). Successful colonies can even end up matching or exceeding their homeland in power or resources, leading to plenty of opportunities for conflict. And what about those natives, or small green creatures, who live where you've planned to plant new roots? I guess they'll just have to take their chances. Of course, if you are one of the natives (or small green creatures), living where someone has decided to settle, you may not be very pleased with the notion. If you can't talk them out of the idea, then it's possible that This Means War! This trope tends to be a big part of American and Australian self-identity and mythos, though it is, of course, not limited to America or Australia. See also: Cult Colony, Lost Colony, Penal Colony, Injun Country, Colonized Solar System. Related to The Migration. May serve as a mere setting for a work, or be an active element of the plot. Works in this setting often involve The Pioneer or the Determined Homesteader. |
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Destiny invokes this with suggestions that the people of the Last City will one day spread out and retake the ruined remains of their homeworld, though it isn't followed up on because the entire system outside of the Last City is incredibly hostile to human life. In Destiny 2, after much of humanity was forced out of the City by the Red Legion invasion, the leaders of humanity have started pushing for more expansion, after both realizing that by concentrating in the City they were leaving humanity vulnerable to another attack, and because the Guardians have realized that just because ordinary humans don't have the Traveler's blessings, they can still fight and hold their own against the monsters beyond the walls. | |
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Master of Orion and its sequels all involve trying to colonize planets in nearby star systems. New colonies are fragile and have to be protected, but a race that doesn't create enough colonies will find itself helpless in the face of bigger, more powerful enemies. | |
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The latter half of the mod Russell takes place in an NCR pioneer settlement called Silverwood, where The Courier and the titular bounty hunter arrive to find a wanted scalp hunter called Glanton. Silverwood is constantly getting harassed by a tribe called Sand Wolves and the town's sleazy mayor has hired Glanton to take care of the threat after the natives slaughter an entire family in the outskirts of the town. Courier has the choice to either help the town after it gets attacked by Caesar's Legion or help Glanton commit genocide. Either way, Glanton will wipe out the Sand Wolves, whose survivors swear vengeance on both him and Courier. If saved, Silverwood will eventually turn into a prosperous mining town and its future inhabitants will forget the horrors committed by Glanton. | |
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The Silmarillion: The three tribes of the Edain flee from Eriador, where most of Men have been corrupted into wickedness by Morgoth, cross the western Blue Mountains and arrive in Beleriand. The Bëorians settle in the forested northern mountains of Dorthonion and become of lords of Ladros, the folk of Marach emigrate the mountains of Hitlum after swearing fealty to the High-Elven House of Fingolfin, and the House of Haleth end settling in the Forest of Brethil after a very long and turbulent migration. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: After first contact with the Vulcans and rapid improvement of conditions on Earth humans started to spread out through the solar system, starting colonies on the moon, Mars, and in the asteroid belt. In "Terra Nova" it's revealed the first extra solar colony was set up on a planet called Terra Nova. While initially successful the planet was hit by an asteroid which irradiated the survivors. Unable to send anyone to investigate the fate of the colony was a mystery until the Enterprise visited in 2151. Convincing the survivors that Earth had not attacked them, the Enterprise helps the colonists relocate to an uncontaminated part of the planet. In the expanded universe, the colony later joins the United Federation of Planets and by the 24th century has grown to about 378,000 people. In "Strange New World" the Enterprise comes across an uninhabited Minshara class planet orbiting 61 Ursae Majoris, about 31 light-years from Earth. While toxic pollen renders the planet uninhabitable at the time, the Federation was able to eliminate the pollen from the planet in the early 23rd century, which was named Archer IV after Captain Jonathan Archer. By the middle of the 23rd century, the planet had become a major Federation world with a population of over 700 million people. |
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Honor Harrington: A major part of the backstory is the Diaspora of humanity made possible by Faster-Than-Light Travel. By the time this series takes place, most of the settling has already been done, and many of the colonies have launched their own colonies. | |
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Earth 2: A group of rebellious humans attempt to colonize an alien planet after their spaceship crashes due to government sabotage. | |
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a spiritual successor to Civilization where you colonize a new planet in the Alpha Centauri system. | |
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Bravestarr: A Sci-Fi Western which focuses on the settlement of New Texas, a planet created to resemble the American Frontier. | |
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In Canyon Passage, Jacksonville is a small settlement on the very edge of the frontier. This means the residents have to be self-sufficient and are completely isolated when the Indian uprising occurs. | |
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The Last of the Mohicans is set against the backdrop of the settling of the American Frontier, and the settlers' interactions with the native peoples. | |
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The second episode of 2001 Nights, "Symbiotic Planet", deals with two sets of colonists on the planet Beta Hydra V, from two different factions back on Earth, and the dangers they face from each other as well as from the new, untamed planet. | |
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Outcasts chronicles the story of refugees from wars on Earth who settle on a new world called Carpathia. | |
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Dragon Ball: In Granolah the Survivor Arc, the Sugarians who survived their planet's destruction settle in Cereal after buying the planet from the Hiita family. They feel pretty guilty when they meet the last Cerealian still living on the planet and find out his race was also nearly wiped out by Frieza's forces. | |
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Methuselah's Children: The long-lived Howards hijack a Generation Ship seeking a new homeworld so they can escape persecution. | |
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Space Empires also uses colonization of new planets as a strategy to expand your empire. | |
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Stephanie Harrington (a spin-off of the previous) is a more direct example, which takes place during the early years of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Stephanie's family have settled on the wild and untamed world of Sphinx, offering professional skills desperately needed on Sphinx after most of the original settlers died due to a native disease that was very deadly to humans. | |
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Freefall takes place on a newly colonized planet in the final stages of terraforming. | |
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Outpost 2 is a more typical RTS game and while there is some building going on, ultimately everything you do will be destroyed by the apocalypse (possibly a reference to the first game's Unintentionally Unwinnable bugs). Though if you finish the campaign by outrunning the threat, the survivors steal a rocket ship and depart to somewhere more hospitable. | |
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The Long Earth at some point follows a bunch of settlers emigrating onto one of the parallel Earths to start over in a world without industrialisation. | |
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Haven (2020) centers around protagonists Kay and Yu avoiding persecution by the Apiary, their home planetary system, by settling the distant, uninhabited planet Source. It becomes clear not long after their arrival that they weren't the first to try and live on the planet, but what became of their predecessors isn't spelled out until later in the story. | |
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Sons of Ares: Triton and most celestial bodies beyond the orbit of Saturn are considered the frontier of the solar system by their settlers. | |
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Pocahontas: All about the settlers at Jamestown colony and how they interact with the Powhatan people. | |
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Sins of a Solar Empire combines 4X style expansion with Real-Time Strategy, as three species race to colonize available planets. | |
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In Let My People Grow!, Superman finally finds a way to enlarge the Bottle City of Kandor, and its inhabitants choose to colonize a large, primitive world orbiting a red sun. Kal and Kara pick an area near water sources and surrounded by fertile land, and they enlarge the city. | |
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The Secret River focuses on the conflicts between Australian settlers and the native Australians, as seen through the eyes of a transported colonist. | |
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Deadwood depicts the gradual advancement of the eponymous and illegal gold rush town — illegal because the land had already been ceded to the Lakota by treaty — as it wrestles with the dilemma of incorporation into the United States, the influx of new settlers, internal power struggles and the dangers of Lakota raiding. | |
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The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold is set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world where farmers are trying to reclaim and settle new land, some of it deemed unsafe by the Lakewalkers who guard against the dangers. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Silmarillion: The three tribes of the Edain flee from Eriador, where most of Men have been corrupted into wickedness by Morgoth, cross the western Blue Mountains and arrive in Beleriand. The Bëorians settle in the forested northern mountains of Dorthonion and become of lords of Ladros, the folk of Marach emigrate the mountains of Hitlum after swearing fealty to the High-Elven House of Fingolfin, and the House of Haleth end settling in the Forest of Brethil after a very long and turbulent migration. The Fall of Númenor: After the War of the Wrath, the Edain (Men of West) set sail towards the country-sized, star-shaped, virgin island of Elenna, created for them by the Valar, who wanted to reward them for fighting Morgoth alongside them. There, the Edain build their first cities and found Númenor, the greatest Mannish civilization. |
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The Civilization series features expansion of your Earthly empire through colonization or conquest. | |
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The Twilight Histories episode “Hannibal One� takes place in a world where Carthage won the Punic Wars and crushed Rome. 1000 years later, they’re establishing their first colony on Mars. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: To the New California Republic, the Mojave is a frontier territory they plan to annex once the Second Battle of Hoover Dam is won, and Courier can meet sharecroppers sent settle the land. The local opinion of this varies. The latter half of the mod Russell takes place in an NCR pioneer settlement called Silverwood, where The Courier and the titular bounty hunter arrive to find a wanted scalp hunter called Glanton. Silverwood is constantly getting harassed by a tribe called Sand Wolves and the town's sleazy mayor has hired Glanton to take care of the threat after the natives slaughter an entire family in the outskirts of the town. Courier has the choice to either help the town after it gets attacked by Caesar's Legion or help Glanton commit genocide. Either way, Glanton will wipe out the Sand Wolves, whose survivors swear vengeance on both him and Courier. If saved, Silverwood will eventually turn into a prosperous mining town and its future inhabitants will forget the horrors committed by Glanton. |
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Civilization: Beyond Earth, the Spiritual Successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, is where you also colonize a new planet with the added bonus that you are the first faction to arrive on the planet and it's just you versus the environment for a while. Eventually, though, the other colony expeditions from Earth will land and it becomes more of a traditional Civ land grab fest. Additionally, it's heavily implied that expeditions are also sent to other habitable worlds. This is confirmed in Sid Meier's Starships (which is not an example of the trope, as the game doesn't involve settling anything), which states in the intro that multiple worlds had been settled by humans thousands of years ago. | |
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The Vorkosigan Saga starts on the newly discovered world of Sergyar, and its colonization is part of the backstory of the rest of the series—especially after Miles' father is appointed governor of the new colony. | |
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The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg tells the story of several Swedish villagers who claim new land in Minnesota and explore the new country during the mid-19th century. | |
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The intro to Freelancer starts with five Sleeper Starships making a blockade run during the final battle of the 100-year war started in Starlancer and jumping into the unexplored Sirius sector. The game then picks up 800 years later, when the Sirius sector has been settled and split up between four Houses, the descendants of four of the colony ships (the fifth one suffered a breakdown and disappeared): Liberty, Bretonia, Rheinland, and Kusari. In between the region of space claimed by each House, there are unclaimed Border Worlds, where the feeble rule of law is barely kept in order by the Zoners, a 100% neutral faction that is the de-facto owner of these worlds and only cares about running strictly neutral anarcho-capitalist commerce hubs called Freeports; the rest of these worlds is variably split between House-run colonies and detachments, criminal bases and private corporate operations. | |
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Ascendancy fits the typical pattern. The main difference is the utter absence of humans. All aliens are of the starfish kind, except for the Minions who are machines and Balifids who look like Intelligent Gerbils. Additionally, some worlds have no habitable "squares" at all, meaning that, while it's possible to land an initial colony hub there and, thus, call it a colony, it's impossible to develop it until terraforming is researched. The exceptions are the Orfa, who thrive in hostile environments. | |
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Time Enough for Love: Two thousand years after Methuselah's Children the Chairman of the homeworld the Howards eventually established asks the oldest human alive for assistance in establishing a new colony. Lazarus Long also recounts a time he was a settler in the old western American style on another planet. | |
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In Macross, following the conclusion of Space War I, which nearly annihilated all life on Earth and reduced the human population to mere millions, a massive space colonization program was started. The idea was to spread humanity out so that if Earth got blasted again, the whole human race wouldn't be at stake. Later series take place either on colony worlds or on large fleets looking for a colony world to settle. | |
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Rocket Age's Venus is becoming covered in settlements. These are a mixture of corporate and national, mostly being Earthling controlled, but the one exception is Tamatha, a Martian City-State made up of refugees from the Ebb Revolutions. | |
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Sword of the Stars allows you to explore and colonize planets as one of several different races. Bonus points for each race having different requirements for what they consider an "ideal" world. For example, a hellhole for a human may be perfect for a Hiver. | |
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Kara of Rokyn: After moving to planet Rokyn, the last surviving Kryptonians rebuild their city, Kandor, and begin exploring their new world, expanding into new lands and starting new settlements. | |
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Aliens: the planet on which the Xenomorph was first discovered has been terraformed and colonized by the Wayland-Yutani corporation. | |
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: The player takes on the role of child who was born on a Colony Ship on the way to settle a new planet, with the game starting right before it makes it to its destination. The game adresses the fact that any planet that would be a good place to build a settlement would have pre-existing wildlife that will inevitably get disrupted by the colony's very presence and respond in kind. | |
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In Traveller all the major races (those who have developed Jump drive, meaning Aslan, Droyne, K'kree, Hivers, Vargr, and three human races) rule interstellar empires of hundreds of colonies, and they're settling new ones all the time. The Aslan in particular have a thing for expansion due to the males' drive for land ownership. Aslan have a bad reputation for aggressiveness but they will just as often settle on empty or near-empty planets or trade mercenary service to the local government for land. | |
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In Outpost, you have a starship of limited that you must decide what items to bring before you shoot it out towards one of several possible planets. You then choose your landing site and start building up buildings and facilities like many a sim-game. Outpost 2 is a more typical RTS game and while there is some building going on, ultimately everything you do will be destroyed by the apocalypse (possibly a reference to the first game's Unintentionally Unwinnable bugs). Though if you finish the campaign by outrunning the threat, the survivors steal a rocket ship and depart to somewhere more hospitable. |
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Star Trek Star Trek: The Original Series: "This Side of Paradise" has the Enterprise on a rescue mission to a Federation colony, supposedly endangered by deadly radiation. "Operation: Annihilate" introduces the audience to the planet Deneva. Originally home to a freighter base that transferred materials mined in the asteroid belt to Earth or other planets, the planet soon became home to a Federation colony. By the mid-23rd century, the planet was on its way to becoming a major Federation colony with over a million people living on the surface, and over 100,000 people living in the capital city itself. In the First Splinter Timeline Deneva had continued to grow in the 24th century and became a full member state in its own right before being destroyed by the Borg in their 2381 invasion. In "The Way to Eden", the crew of the Enterprise meet a group of space hippies who hope to create a new colony on a planet they call Eden. Star Trek: The Next Generation: One of the ongoing missions of the Enterprise was assigned to was scouting star systems for suitable planets to establish colonies on. In "Emergence" this is averted as the part of the galaxy the Enterprise is in is full of main sequence binary stars with no M-class planets. Star Trek: Enterprise: After first contact with the Vulcans and rapid improvement of conditions on Earth humans started to spread out through the solar system, starting colonies on the moon, Mars, and in the asteroid belt. In "Terra Nova" it's revealed the first extra solar colony was set up on a planet called Terra Nova. While initially successful the planet was hit by an asteroid which irradiated the survivors. Unable to send anyone to investigate the fate of the colony was a mystery until the Enterprise visited in 2151. Convincing the survivors that Earth had not attacked them, the Enterprise helps the colonists relocate to an uncontaminated part of the planet. In the expanded universe, the colony later joins the United Federation of Planets and by the 24th century has grown to about 378,000 people. In "Strange New World" the Enterprise comes across an uninhabited Minshara class planet orbiting 61 Ursae Majoris, about 31 light-years from Earth. While toxic pollen renders the planet uninhabitable at the time, the Federation was able to eliminate the pollen from the planet in the early 23rd century, which was named Archer IV after Captain Jonathan Archer. By the middle of the 23rd century, the planet had become a major Federation world with a population of over 700 million people. |
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The New Land is about Swedish immigrants settling in the wilds of Minnesota. | |
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Galactic Civilizations features alien races competing to colonize new worlds. The game's backstory even explains why all races start this at the same time. Until recently, aliens only used gates to travel between stars. Any other travel was by sublight and took millennia. Arceans planned to trick humans into building a gate with no "off" switch so that they could invade. However, humans had fusion technology and used it to miniaturize the gates into portable hyperdrives. Then some well-intentioned idiot sent the plans to all other races... Occasionally when settling a new world, the player will find that it is inhabited by a (comparatively) primitive race. The player is then presented with an option to leave the natives in peace and settle where they aren't, move the natives together to free up more land for yourself, or just enslave them and take the whole planet. |
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There is no GATE; we did not fight there: Rhavenfell constantly calls for and attracts migrants to settle and reclaim more and more land after clearing away outside threats. | |
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Rogue Trader: One type of commercial venture Rogue Traders can carry out is establishing colonies on newly discovered worlds beyond the Imperium's borders. Or preparing lost colonies for integration with air-dropped cathedrals to the God-Emperor of Man, or mercenary companies. | |
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Silver Spoon: Mikage's grandmother likes telling stories about the time when the Japanese settled Hokkaido. Wild animals (bears) and natives (Ainu) appear. Later there is a two-chapter side story about Hachiken's great-great-grandparents who were Japanese pioneers settling Hokkaido. |
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Gundam: The Spacenoids in the Universal Century Gundam works started out as this, whether as willing pioneers seeking a new life or forced off-world by The Federation. The simmering tensions and divides that emerge between them and "Earthnoids" eventually culminate in the One Year War and subsequent conflicts. By the time the events of F91 and Victory take place, the Side colonies have all but usurped the Earth Federation as the dominant force in the Earth Sphere. And by Gundam: Reconguista in G, are for all intents and purposes the ones calling the shots. Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam meanwhile deconstructs the trope further with the Jovian colonies. As end-points for the Jupitris-class cargo vessels carrying their precious Helium, Jupiter was promoted by the Federation as a bold opportunity for would-be settlers. But as the colonists and their descendants find out, life in the new frontier proves to be much harder, far more punishing, and isolating than in the Earth Sphere. Which in turn fuels bitter resentment within the Jovian Empire. |
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In Alien Legacy, you are the captain of one of many colony ships sent from Earth about to be destroyed by a hostile alien race. Your goal is to settle the Beta Caeli system and discover what happened with another colony ship sent to the same system. You build colonies, explore planets, moons, and asteroids, research new technology, and search for traces of your sister ship and the colonies it created 20 years ago. | |
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Superman: In The Krypton Chronicles, Superman and Supergirl's ancestor Val-El sets sail to explore Krypton's unchartered seas. After a long and eventful voyage, Val and his crew find a large landmass, subsequently named Lurvan, and decide to settle in that place and build their own city-state, Argo City, instead of returning home. In Let My People Grow!, Superman finally finds a way to enlarge the Bottle City of Kandor, and its inhabitants choose to colonize a large, primitive world orbiting a red sun. Kal and Kara pick an area near water sources and surrounded by fertile land, and they enlarge the city. |
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Xenoblade Chronicles X: After Earth's destruction by a pair of warring alien fleets, one of the few surviving colony ships crash-lands on a new world they name "Mira", and the game is mostly about the colonists' attempts to establish a permanent colony there. Things get complicated when they learn that (some of) the aliens that destroyed Earth have also crash-landed on Mira. | |
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Colonization, a Turn-Based Strategy game from Sid Meier, which involves colonizing the New World as one of four European nations. | |
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FTL Yall: A recurring theme across several of the stories. Once space travel became possible, Earth governments set out to colonize everything they possibly could. | |
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Tunnel in the Sky: Gates are used to send people to establish fairly low-tech colonies on distant planets. A survival class on a jungle Death World gets stranded for years and has to build a colony from scratch. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: "This Side of Paradise" has the Enterprise on a rescue mission to a Federation colony, supposedly endangered by deadly radiation. "Operation: Annihilate" introduces the audience to the planet Deneva. Originally home to a freighter base that transferred materials mined in the asteroid belt to Earth or other planets, the planet soon became home to a Federation colony. By the mid-23rd century, the planet was on its way to becoming a major Federation colony with over a million people living on the surface, and over 100,000 people living in the capital city itself. In the First Splinter Timeline Deneva had continued to grow in the 24th century and became a full member state in its own right before being destroyed by the Borg in their 2381 invasion. In "The Way to Eden", the crew of the Enterprise meet a group of space hippies who hope to create a new colony on a planet they call Eden. |
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Pandorum takes place aboard a colony ship launched towards an inhabitable planet from a dying earth. Unfortunately things went wrong... | |
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Haegemonia: Legions of Iron: Humans discover wormholes and start settling other systems. They don't stop even when hostile aliens show up. | |
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Farmer in the Sky: The characters are settlers on the Jovian moon Ganymede. | |
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In Planet Explorers's campaign, the player is one of a thousand colonists sent to settle on the Earth-like planet Maria. Things get a bit hectic when their starship crashes and the native wildlife start taking an interest. | |
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In Fury Born has Alicia De Vries' family use "Colonization Credits" to fund their purchase of land and equipment in a frontier world. The dangers of this kick off the primary plot of the final novel of the series. | |
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The Fall of Númenor: After the War of the Wrath, the Edain (Men of West) set sail towards the country-sized, star-shaped, virgin island of Elenna, created for them by the Valar, who wanted to reward them for fighting Morgoth alongside them. There, the Edain build their first cities and found Númenor, the greatest Mannish civilization. | |
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The first 3-D Ultra Pinball is based on building a deep space colony and launching a starship. | |
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In The Krypton Chronicles, Superman and Supergirl's ancestor Val-El sets sail to explore Krypton's unchartered seas. After a long and eventful voyage, Val and his crew find a large landmass, subsequently named Lurvan, and decide to settle in that place and build their own city-state, Argo City, instead of returning home. | |
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The Outer Worlds: Settling a new planet was the reason that the Unknown Variable signed on for. Unfortunately for them, a malfunction in the ship's FTL drive resulted in it taking decades longer to reach the Halcyon system than expected, and by the time they arrive it's already been settled and taken over by a conglomeration of mega corps. | |
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The Coyote series by Allen Steele is about the colonization of a new planet using slower-than-light technologies, which makes communication with the home world very slow, and frequently surprising. | |
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Space Colony involves you trying to create colonies on planets so you can exploit them for their minerals, or turning them into tourist destinations. This would be easier if it weren't for the fact that everyone you control is an idiot, insane, or both. | |
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Eclipse Phase: Before the Fall, almost every rocky planet and large moon in the solar system was colonized by the old Earth nations and the hypercorps. After the Fall the Pandora gates were discovered, and the major factions controlling the solar system started using them to expand into other systems. The Gatecrashers module includes info for running campaigns where the players are exosolar colonists. | |
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Doctor Who'': In "Colony in Space", the Time Lords takes control of the TARDIS and the Doctor and Jo arrive on a Earth Colony in the 25th Century, where a ruthless mining company are using a dinosaur-like creature to force the colonists to leave the planet. | |
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Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series begins dealing with this in the fourth book, Drums of Autumn. North Carolina's Royal Governor, William Tryon, grants Jamie Fraser a huge swath of land to populate and run as he sees fit, and the struggle to do so while having virtually no hard currency with which to buy things (most commerce in the backcountry is barter) eventually leads to the founding of the area known as Fraser's Ridge. | |
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This is a big part of Evolve's lore. The game takes place on a colony world, several of the hunters previously held jobs protecting colonists from deadly alien fauna on their new worlds, and the constant expansion caused the monster invasion by spreading the blight of Patterson tech. | |
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Paint Your Wagon: This musical features the colonization of a new town, No Name City, in the American West. | |
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Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam meanwhile deconstructs the trope further with the Jovian colonies. As end-points for the Jupitris-class cargo vessels carrying their precious Helium, Jupiter was promoted by the Federation as a bold opportunity for would-be settlers. But as the colonists and their descendants find out, life in the new frontier proves to be much harder, far more punishing, and isolating than in the Earth Sphere. Which in turn fuels bitter resentment within the Jovian Empire. | |
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In The Starchild Trilogy, the people fleeing the tyranny of the Plan of Man on Earth have formed settlements in the mysterious reefs of space, between the stars, where exotic fusion-based life forms have created great, hidden, habitable masses far from any star. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) shows the colonization of New Caprica (though later abandoned) and Earth. | |
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In the Uplift series, Galactic civilization grants temporary colonization rights to clans for terms of thousands or millions of years, but the planets must be abandoned and allowed lie fallow periodically as well, in order that new species with the potential for Uplift can arise. The only planets exempt from this system are species' homeworlds, which they retain until they eventually "fade away". The second trilogy has members of six species, including humans, illegally colonizing the fallow and criminally abused planet of Jijo, seeking redemption through devolution (it's complicated). | |
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In The Riftbreaker your main goal is to explore the alien world of Galatea 37, pacify the local wildlife and build up the necessary infrastructure so humanity can start colonizing the planet in earnest. | |
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This trope is the basis of the entire plot of Our Personal Space, taking place on a newly founded extraterrestrial colony. | |
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Chakona Space: Chakats were designed for exploration and settlement of alien worlds. The more recent Stellar Foxtaurs come in seven breeds specialized for settling different environments with minimal technology. | |
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The Big Trail is about a group of pioneers headed across the Oregon Trail to settle the territory. They have to brave the usual hazards, like Injun Country, the Thirsty Desert, and the snowy Sierra Mountains. | |
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While this is not your goal in XCOM: Interceptor, as various corporations are the ones who set up mining bases in the Frontier, your task is protecting them from alien attacks. | |
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In The Red Vixen Adventures House Darktail's plan to escape Countess Highglider's petty revenge was to save up enough to buy a fleet of colony ships for themselves and their loyal sworn commoners, which was why they couldn't afford to pay Rolas' ransom in "Captive". But after the Red Vixen helps expose the Countess's crimes they get her lands and the plan is sidelined. Up until Salli claims the planet Bloody Margo was using as a secret base in the "Shadow" books and they start a colony there. | |
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The backstory of Firefly as well... "Earth That Was got all used up, so we found a new solar system. Dozens of planets, hundreds of moons." There is also a fair amount of on-going colonization seen during the story. | |
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The Schoolhouse Rock! episode "Elbow Room" is about the expansion of the US from the original 13 states to its current size (not counting Alaska & Hawaii, the "freak states".) It also suggests that if we need to expand more we'll settle the moon. | |
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This is part of the plot of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Besides exploring the Andromeda galaxy, you must carve out a home for yourself and the Milky Way colonists. | |
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Toward the Terra: The refugees postpone their search for Terra and colonize a marginally inhabitable planet for a few years. Unfortunately, the humans eventually caught up with them. | |
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Terra Nova features a time-traveling colony in the late Cretaceous era established by a dying 22nd-century Earth. | |
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Two of the three default starting scenarios in Rimworld have this as their basic premise. "Crashlanded" follows three survivors smashing down on the planetary surface in escape pods and forced to survive in the wilderness by gradually building and protecting a settlement until they along with whoever else they may have recruited up to that point can jury-rig together a ship to leave. "The Rich Explorer" leaves you with an eccentric Richard Branson-esque millionaire adventurer who one way or another got fed up with the glitterworld life and set off into the unknown; though this one character is better equipped than the three crash survivors, he is still (at least initially) alone, so it is considered the much more challenging start. | |
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In Ironsworn, Ironlanders are humans who have fled The Old World and are now settling the edge of the world—the Ironlands—in hopes of making the peninsula their new home. As the rest of the setting suggests, this settling is perilous. | |
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars Trilogy covers the colonization and terraforming of Mars over the course of 200 years. | |
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In WildStar the Dominion and the Exiles are both trying to colonize Nexus, the newly rediscovered Precursor homeworld. The Dominion because they see it and the artifacts that can be found there as their heritage, while the Exiles are Fighting for a Homeland. | |
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Cimarron is another film about the Oklahoma land run. The Oklahoma land run came about because the United States, which had previously set aside Indian Territory for the Indians after stealing the rest of America from them, decided to steal that too. | |
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In Surviving Mars, the entire point of the game is to create colonies on Mars and try to make them self-sufficient as possible. | |
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Age of Empires III has the players who chose one of the European powers establishing settlements in the Americas or Asia (with some supplies from their home cities). | |
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In The Twilight Zone episode "On Thursday we Leave for Home", there's a colony with 189 people on the desert planet V9-Gamma. The colony was established in 1991, and they left the colony in 2021 when a ship arrived to take them back to Earth | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: One of the ongoing missions of the Enterprise was assigned to was scouting star systems for suitable planets to establish colonies on. In "Emergence" this is averted as the part of the galaxy the Enterprise is in is full of main sequence binary stars with no M-class planets. | |
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Starship Troopers: The Terran Federation and the Bugs are at war over real estate. It's taught in schools that any civilization that stops expanding is doomed to extinction at the hands of more aggressive competitors. | |
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