Terrans on Earth and on some asteroids and outer satellites;
Lunarians on the Moon and other asteroids and outer satellites;
both species settling different hemispheres on Mars.
I would not usually agree to such social separation but we are not used to dealing with two intelligent species either. Each would have to be able to visit the other's territories for many reasons and there would also have to be diplomatic relations between the two different kinds of realms.
As it happens, some Terrans settle an extra-solar planet while some Lunarians settle asteroids in the same system. Also, Lunarians rediscover and settle the eccentrically orbiting Solar planetoid, Proserpina.
If there is not enough space for everyone, then someone somewhere is getting it very wrong.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I would have revised your last sentence: "If there is not enough space for everyone, them someone somewhere is going to lose out." E.g., either Terrans or Lunarians might expel or kill off the other species from Mars. Because, regretfully, that is exactly how real hominids and humans have behaved in actual history.
Ad astra! Sean
"Do unto others, before they get a chance to do unto you," as the saying goes.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Too grimly true! And sometimes that attitude is necessary, when it comes down to questions of life and death and the survival of one's family and people.
But that is not a desirable or good attitude. Here I have in mind what Christ said in Matthew 7.12: "Therefore all that you wish men to do to you, even so do you also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."
Ad astra! Sean
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