I haven't discussed this with my writing partner yet either, but my instinct is: Enforcement, no. Encouragement, yes. And they may well carry some extra frozen sperm and eggs; I would, if I were them. However they're mostly coming with expectations from their various cultural backgrounds and the colonial authorities are not interested in imposing top-down alterations of social structure.
The initial crop is not expecting more colonists. They have had some immigration since then, but not a lot -- the initial wave was heavily government subsidized; anybody moving there now has to pay their own way or choose to stay after a temporary employment posting.
Extending the question then, assuming they land basically speaking the same languages as when they left, what about 400 years later?
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Date: 2012-04-25 06:07 pm (UTC)The initial crop is not expecting more colonists. They have had some immigration since then, but not a lot -- the initial wave was heavily government subsidized; anybody moving there now has to pay their own way or choose to stay after a temporary employment posting.
Extending the question then, assuming they land basically speaking the same languages as when they left, what about 400 years later?