How does a population, in less than seventy years, grow from almost nothing to 500 million? And, given the hardships, why would people want to settle these worlds to begin with? All questions answered in this week’s podcast.
Episode 1.3, a reading of the Unified Republic of Stars, Chapter 3. This week, we go into detail on how, and a little bit of why, people left Earth to settle the colonies as well as some of what they encountered when they got there.