It's the future of space. The space government wants to encourage people to colonize new planets...

It's the future of space. The space government wants to encourage people to colonize new planets, but the new planets are by definition less nice than existing tamed planets. You can send robots ahead to make a city in advance, but how do you encourage millions of normal people to abandon their current lives and move across light years?

You can get millions of people to leave if their current planet is super overcrowded and you promise clean air and free land.

The same way we did it in the US to get a bunch of stupid peasants to farm literally uninhabitable wastes in the great plains, you pay them up front and then refuse any and all responsibility for aide once they destroy the newly inhabited ecosystem and usher in a literally civilization ending natural disaster like the dust bowl.

Call it something nice and hope people are duped.

It worked for Greenland.

Do you think Funland or Happyland sound too suspicious?

The promise of free land is usually enough to lure people out. Tie in offers of aid and independence and they will come running.
Like says, take a look at the history books.

Comrade, do you want to die of starvation in an overcrowded hive city full of smog and pollution? No? Okay!

I have a once-in-a-life opportunity for you. We will provide safe passage to Epsilon Alpha-1, all expenses paid, and all you have to do is work for us for 10 years once on the other end. Afterward, you will get your own land, something even you grandfather didn't have here on Earth.

Decide quickly!

Indentured servitude worked back then. It will work again.

If life is shit, they'll do it themselves. If life is good, then what's the point in colonizing planets for the government in the first place. Alternatively, establish exile as a punishment.

Just offer to take the tedious uninteresting responsibilities away from them. Offer to ship them out there for free. Supply them with everything they need to get started, free of charge. Build homes for them first so all they have to do is land and unpack. Appeal to their laziness and impulsiveness first, greediness and miserliness second, and their ambition and safety last.

Yep, history is pretty handy here.

Consider the 13 colonies of the US, for a good long time they were tax-free - mainly because implementing taxes over such a huge distance is pretty hard

Your advertisement campaign is thus:

>FUCKING SPACE!
>FUCKING NEW WORLDS!
>FUCKING NEW STUFF!
>FUCKING NATURAL RESOURCES!
>FUCKING WEIRD ALIEN ANIMALS!
>FUCKING ALIEN SKIES!
>MOTHERFUCKING SPAAAAAAAAAACE!

You'd have to beat back volunteers with a laser stick.

>>FUCKING SPACE!
>>FUCKING NEW WORLDS!
>>FUCKING NEW STUFF!
>>FUCKING NATURAL RESOURCES!
>>FUCKING WEIRD ALIEN ANIMALS!
>>FUCKING ALIEN SKIES!
Calm down, Kirk

NAH, give the planets names like "harmony" or "eden"

nice-sounding words...

offers of frontier kits free with every immigrant (including children and the elderly) so the more people move the easier it is for the migrants so they don't worry about having nothing when they arrive. kits include a reasonable number of various tools and basic equipment for the environment.

maybe advertising "adventure" on planets that have a more Australia-like level of danger. you'll get hard-asses moving out there to prove how tough they are.

then of course there is Penal Colonies where you offer to send low-violence volunteer criminals with long sentences.

on planets with an above-sustainable population you might use a draft system and force individuals to immigrate (or require the drafted individual to find someone else to immigrate for them). if they want to bring family or pets they are welcome to do so.

>then of course there is Penal Colonies where you offer to send low-violence volunteer criminals with long sentences.

What was that novel where in the future of space, criminals were sent to do hard labor on this particular deathworld, but the twist was that the protagonist was actually innocent and volunteered to be imprisoned there because that way he could build up a "credit" of +1 murder that would allow him to legally kill any one person, since he had already done the time

FUCK NO!

No, but seriously, the simple offer of "new worlds" would be enough for a huge number of people.

"Time in Advance" by William Tenn

It's awesome.

Advertising can get people to do ANYTHING. Just look around you.

Also, If you fuck people's works, resources, autonomy and moral, they'll agree with any alternative you present. Just look at realifepolitiks

>are you man enough to colonize?
>don't be the last chum to colonize!
>Would you like to live in a land free of (law-taxes-nuclear fallout-immigrants-robots-heathens-whitemales-insert current media-pushed enemy)?
>Everybody who is cool is already colonizing! It's a shame that there are limited places on the next ship. Will you be lucky enough to get your ticket? Enter in this contest by calling 555-5-55-5-5-55555-5-SPACE ($1 call establishment, $4 each additional minute)
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> Encourage
With elecro-whips and pain-sticks, you encourage them into the transport ships.

Or you sucker them in with marketing. The artificial humans doing the terraforming aren't labelled as such in the promotional videos, but people will just have to stay in their domes for another few decades until the atmosphere is finished.

If anyone tries to return from a failed colony, do not rebuild the launch laser. Do not encourage them to use the gas giants in your system for gravity braking assists, or aerobraking, or magnetic braking with their meteor shielding. Toss a planetoid out into their path instead.

>Alternatively, establish exile as a punishment.
It worked for australia. That, and encouraging shell-shocked veterans to move there and set up a farm.
Let them keep their service weapons and powered armour; they'll need it for use on the wildlife.

> Pic related: Tuesday in Australia.

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Wealth, tell people they have the chance to make great wealthm Promise them land on these new worlds, worked great for the brits.

Do what the Romans did and give land as a reward for military service, assuming you have a large force with people coming and going often.
You could pardon low level criminals if they willingly move.
Since the majority that move might be lower class you could design a planet/sector specific nobility that they can ascend to when they move and stay for x years.

Thanks user, you're a peach!

Only colonists get anagathics/life extension drugs

In my last sci-fi game, heavy automation in the future made for crazy high unemployment rates on the homeworld. Companies could hire ship crews, colonists, explorers, and miners by the thousands for cheap.

Barely needed the "SPACE IS THE FUTURE" posters that were everywhere.

They get dibs for any land they manage to work. If they use the land, its officially theirs and they can leave it to their children.

Free land is a great way to move people in any era.