ROB wants you to organize and lead the colonization effort of a new planet

[Agent23]

ROB has decided that humanity's eggs need to stop being kept in just 1 basket, so as usual, her turns to you to do the heavy lifting.
You have been given ownership of a an FTL ship with coordinates to a new solar system containing a habitable planet with several large continents that have a mild mediterranean climate with the planet being terraformed and populated with useful Earth flora and fauna, no pests, no dangerous viruses or bacteria, no weeds.

The ship can support 10 000 people and carry a total of 250 000 TEU worth of cargo.

It will also be able to land somewhere on the surface of the destination planet and manufacture basic clothing, electricity and food sufficient for a population twice that number for at least 3-4 decades after landfall, but it can also rely on several cargo and scout shuttles prior to that for scouting purposes.Think Trek and Wars style shuttles with infinite refuel.


Here is where you come in.

You will also have a budget of 20 billion and be tasked with selecting the best possible number and type of candidates to populate the new world.

Furthermore, you are to make sure as few people on earth know about this project, especially governments.

You will act as the organizer and governor of the new colony and the Pater Patriae of the new nation/planet.

You will be choosing the people, the equipment, and the new political system, even the name of the planet is up to you.

To smoothen things out for you, ROB has also equipped the ship with a modified Fallout style autodoc that can heal any injury and extend lifespans indefinitely, with each usage rolling back the clock for the user to their peak physical state and making sure the patient can live another 150+ years, but you can not use it on more than 10% of the colony's total population unless you are using it upon yourself and your direct family.
it also removes any bad recessive genes and genetic defects.

Oh, and the ship is armed and you can have it launch into space and rain tungsten rods of god upon the planet in case of insurrections.

You also get the equivalent of 2 T-800 terminators to act as your personal bodyguards.

Ship controls will respond only to you.

 

[King Arts]

Hmm this scenario is hard to complete to make you happy. If we had full/more access to Fallout tech like the Autodocs, or Mr. Gutsies, or stealth tech or teleporters from Star Trek it would be easier.

The problem is it's going to be hard for a normal person to gather up 10,000 people of the right ideology. That the Autodocs are limited makes it harder as we can't just use it to deage older conservative people who think right. But it would be possible with enough time to get that many people to agree it's just very hard to do it secretly.

The thing we can't do by ourselves is load up 250,000 tons of TEU? Buying and loading that can't really be done. We'd need to either already be rich or, get ourselves a rich patron.

I can think of a rich guy who would be into it Elon Musk. The problem is getting to talk to him. You can't just talk to random billionaires whenever you want. But if we had stealth camo we could sneak into his home or office, and if we had advanced technology we could show it to him and get him to make a deal he could come with us if he wants to go to another planet and be part of the colony. But even if he would rather stay on earth, we can give him the schematics for our tech after we leave since we don't want the government to stop the colony. But without advanced tech we would just look like a crazy stalker who broke into his house.

 

[Agent23]

Hmm this scenario is hard to complete to make you happy. If we had full/more access to Fallout tech like the Autodocs, or Mr. Gutsies, or stealth tech or teleporters from Star Trek it would be easier.

There is no need to "make me happy", reading what scenarios you come up with is fun enough.

The problem is it's going to be hard for a normal person to gather up 10,000 people of the right ideology.

Up to being the operative word, fou can have a much smaller colony population of you want.

That the Autodocs are limited makes it harder as we can't just use it to deage older conservative people who think right. But it would be possible with enough time to get that many people to agree it's just very hard to do it secretly.

Anem, I did leave you a special loophole.

The thing we can't do by ourselves is load up 250,000 tons of TEU? Buying and loading that can't really be done. We'd need to either already be rich or, get ourselves a rich patron.

TEU is a size unit, not a unit of weight.

I can think of a rich guy who would be into it Elon Musk. The problem is getting to talk to him. You can't just talk to random billionaires whenever you want.

How fortunate you have a 20 billion budget which can be used to supply and orgamize the project.
You could buy a few hundred million worth of Tesla stock I'd you want to get his attention, although I would not go anywhere close to a snake oil salesman such as him.

 

[Bassoe]

Furthermore, you are to make sure as few people on earth know about this project, especially governments.

Does it work if they don't believe me?

 

[Agent23]

Does it work if they don't believe me?

Well, you will have advanced, space faring tech at your disposal...

 

[Bassoe]

Well, you will have advanced, space faring tech at your disposal...

I meant that ideally, I'd be perfectly honest and advertise for volunteers on the internet while showcasing none of said tech until I actually started landing shuttlecrafts to pick up everyone who signed up.

 

[Agent23]

I meant that ideally, I'd be perfectly honest and advertise for volunteers on the internet while showcasing none of said tech until I actually started landing shuttlecrafts to pick up everyone who signed up.

Blowing the lid off of this is undesired.

 

[Bassoe]

Why? Only a few kooks will believe a guy with no evidence asking for survivalist volunteers on /k/ and by the time enough UFO sightings filter into the public consciousness that it becomes clear I'm not bullshitting, I'll be leaving the solar system with no intention of returning. Good luck inventing enough tech to follow, I mean it in the most sincere sense and surety that you're not gonna be able to pull it off.

 

[Corbell]

Ok, big job for me. I have no experience with such a large project, and I am NOT a natural leader.

The money would help, I could just hire people... but, the bit where you want to keep it secret, that's hard...

My timeline of thinking, first I considered kidnapping people, but that would very bad for governing...


Then I started thinking about the autodoc. That's a big lure, but only for 10% of the population. Unfortunate.

Mmm, could have pick out the people I need and grab expendable... "masses" to just be the other 90%? That's not a very good answer...

I admit my NEXT thought was, mmm, "direct family"? I could just MARRY an absurd number of competent and useful women, after all, I can offer them a new planet and not only immortality but eternal, YOUTH.

But, really, how many wives are we talking about? This would be.... unwieldy...

Then I got it. "Direct family". I wasn't sure of the legality, but I just looked it up. In America it IS legal to ADOPT ADULTS.


So, now I can hire a few good organizers, of any age, legally ADOPT THEM so that they are now my sons, or daughters, they can do the heavy lifting of getting the people and materials we need for the colony.

Query, do I have access to the ship and it's tech while organizing the colony? Also, how long do I have to organize the colony?

Because if I have access to the tech, if I can open negotiations by SHOWING them the ship, and offering to make them young as an inducement to joining?


This is starting to come together nicely.


The new colony will be names NEW AMERICA, and I will be planning a society much like this one, only without direct election of Senators. I think that was a mistake.

 

[King Arts]

There is no need to "make me happy", reading what scenarios you come up with is fun enough.

Lol. But if what we come up with is boring then "ROB" will definitely say that something won't work.

Up to being the operative word, fou can have a much smaller colony population of you want.

I read somewhere that you need at least 10,000 people to prevent incest. But after reading the OP again the autodoc heals everything including recessive genes that would mean there would be no bad effects with incest.

Anem, I did leave you a special loophole.

I saw that @Corbell found that out, polygamy and marrying thousands is big, but it's easier to just adopt them. Then you really can call yourself the "father of the nation"

TEU is a size unit, not a unit of weight

Yeah I misread that.

How fortunate you have a 20 billion budget which can be used to supply and orgamize the project.
You could buy a few hundred million worth of Tesla stock I'd you want to get his attention, although I would not go anywhere close to a snake oil salesman such as him.

I did not see that we were given money lol.

Still though I feel like dealing with Musk is the best option among billionaies unless you want to go to Bill Gates can you think of someone else. Besides you'd be able to get in touch with private sector accountants and advisors to decide what best to spend the money on.
Also after I leave Earth, then I'll need a company on earth to trade with later on, if it's possible. Speaking of that

How long does the FTL ship take to get to Earth from the colony? Also what does it look like?

Ok, big job for me. I have no experience with such a large project, and I am NOT a natural leader.

The money would help, I could just hire people... but, the bit where you want to keep it secret, that's hard...

My timeline of thinking, first I considered kidnapping people, but that would very bad for governing...


Then I started thinking about the autodoc. That's a big lure, but only for 10% of the population. Unfortunate.

Mmm, could have pick out the people I need and grab expendable... "masses" to just be the other 90%? That's not a very good answer...

I admit my NEXT thought was, mmm, "direct family"? I could just MARRY an absurd number of competent and useful women, after all, I can offer them a new planet and not only immortality but eternal, YOUTH.

But, really, how many wives are we talking about? This would be.... unwieldy...

Then I got it. "Direct family". I wasn't sure of the legality, but I just looked it up. In America it IS legal to ADOPT ADULTS.


So, now I can hire a few good organizers, of any age, legally ADOPT THEM so that they are now my sons, or daughters, they can do the heavy lifting of getting the people and materials we need for the colony.

Query, do I have access to the ship and it's tech while organizing the colony? Also, how long do I have to organize the colony?

Because if I have access to the tech, if I can open negotiations by SHOWING them the ship, and offering to make them young as an inducement to joining?


This is starting to come together nicely.


The new colony will be names NEW AMERICA, and I will be planning a society much like this one, only without direct election of Senators. I think that was a mistake.

I mean the direct election of senators? Really that's where you think things went downhill?

Anyway I'll name mine NOVA ROMA, at first it was New Eden but that's too geneic I feel.

 

[Bassoe]

What do the terminators look like? Cause if I can pick, that lends itself to impersonation and replacement shenanigans and suddenly controlling whole preexisting terrestrial goverments or corporations. If not, the generic Arnold Schwarzenegger/Summer Glau models are still potentially usable for catfishing "volunteers" on online dating sites.

 

[S'task]

Getting ten thousand in secret is definitely the hardest part of all this mess, but I have a decent immediate and extended family to draw on, and both my mother and father are still alive and my father has a lot of contacts and my mother is an organizational wizard, and, last I checked, immediate family does include parents, so that helps get some of the details of organization and recruiting divided out.

Using that as well as some internet contacts, I could probably get a solid core of a hundred or so to begin the process and quietly and slowly build out the roster focusing first on basic skills to build up infrastructure and farming.

In the long term the government is going to be something akin to a Constitutional Monarchy, I'm not going to pretend that, given my exclusive control over the ship and it's abilities, plus the life extension technology that it's going to be anything else. However, both due to drawing from a pool mostly of modern western people as well as the effects of modern communication that a purely dictatorial system of government is not going to work in the long term. For as many experts and such I can have around, people still know their own needs and local situation better than I and any council I form could actually know. Further, as I am a firm believer in that humans are inherently sinful the more power any elites have leads to temptation to abuse.

So, the government will have myself, my immediate family and a small cadre chosen as an immortal executive branch that will deal with external colonial affairs, initial colonial set up and organization, and creation of a basic written constitution and once things are set up will act much like the Executive Branch in the US, tasked with executing the laws and managing day to day government affairs. This constitution will then have a bicameral legislature, one, the Common House, will be based on proportional population representation, with one representative per thousand people elected on a three year rotation in a parliamentary style election. The second will be geographically based and known as the Governor's Conclave, with geographical regions set by the Executive Council, one representatives per region who also acts as that region's governor and is initially assigned by the Executive Council, but this may shift to a regionally elected position depending on the success and growth of the colony over time, this position sits for six year terms. Finally an independent judicial branch will be created with a Supreme Court where the judges will be chosen by the Executive Council and approved by the Conclave. Spending will be controlled by the Common House. This Federal government will primarily be concerned with large scale matters, external matters, and managing the currency.

Regional governments that the Governors act as Executive over will have similar bicameral legislatures: one based on population and one based on geography, with a critical difference in that both these are filled by elected officials by the general population. These Regional governments will be who make most day to day laws and deal with keeping local areas organized.

While this seems like a lot of overhead, I'm attempting to future proof the system to be able to scale up and able to handle more people and much larger populations. The Regional governments will likely be phased in over time with the initial colony just being run by the Federal, which will seek to slowly built out and create new Regions over time.

The life extension technology, aside from being used on my family and the Executive Council, will also be a used as a reward for great service or contributions to the colony.