Onyxmoron

Na, no good. Theoretically speaking it is reasonable that Colonising a planet is more than landing a ship, it is a way of 'claiming' a planet as your own. The minimum possible number of passangers allowed on a colony ship that is launched from a planet, is the minimum possible population alien civilisations will accept as a true colony(theoretically speaking). </t

Think of this: The blank cargo hull, build it up as a survey vessel, if you send one of those out, find a nice planet, and refit it into a colony ship, it colonizes the planet with a population of 1. So, I rationalize it this way: starships have to have some sort of emergency environmental habitat survival backup stuff--in the same way that an airplane has parachutes: if the thing goes down, you gotta make sure the people inside can survive wherever they land. So, taki