"I'm not exactly a bushi myself but if I can take the founding of Asakaze as an example...I would imagine much of the colonizing world would start with a lot of geological survey work, perhaps the same work you would do when it comes to mining. You would want to plan your potential settlements in areas where you have access to valuable resources to sustain life. It would of course help to have resources to build too, as shipping resources in and out can be a pain but settling next to a mining vein isn't as good as settling near a river. Local weather will have to be taken into consideration, if a place is suspectable to drought and storms, it might make it a less appetizing place," she nodded
"After the groundwork is done, you would likely want to colonize a settlement with as many skilled personnel as possible, so that they can be independent. Colonies would never survive a week if they had to wait for someone to be flown in with a particular set of skills. I'd like to think that Asakaze benefitted much for such a base, and it still does, engineering finds itself to be a popular skill around here seeing as we are still a relatively young settlement. I suppose in time, courtliness and artistry might find themselves more important once we've settled."
"I suppose asteroids are the bulk of things that you encounter in your duties. I can see those are being rather predicable...despite having read my share of stories about asteroid carrying a form of life or something fantastic, crashing into dead planets to change them," she gave an amused shrug as she walked on. "Once life is found on a new planet, I imagine that it would be a lifetime's amount of work. If things stayed the same, I imagine I would be busy here for a lifetime, in fact."
(OOC: I would say the colonization process is still early to actually have a reliable number of riding animals there.)
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