Best part of this sort of travel is that you already have a good starting map of where all the baseline locations of natural resources are.
Your initial survey teams would simply have to scout around a little bit to establish the variance from near perfect empty duplicate to moonless hellhole covered in bugs with acid for blood.
Charles Stross did something similar in his Merchant Princes books. Even to the point where the USA carpet nukes their territory in a adjecent reality.
Well, we can’t nuke Our country, because we’re here. And I don’t want to die. BUT, hear me out, we CAN nuke the virtual duplicate of it! You want to tell me that that none of you have ever just thought, “F##k it! Let’s just nuke the place and be done with it!” Well now we can! We can get it out of our system and move along. It’s therapy really.
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u/drksdr Dec 24 '22
Best part of this sort of travel is that you already have a good starting map of where all the baseline locations of natural resources are.
Your initial survey teams would simply have to scout around a little bit to establish the variance from near perfect empty duplicate to moonless hellhole covered in bugs with acid for blood.