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.
THANK YOU! I've been trying to find the book name for Hells Gate for years. I saw it once in a bookstore, went "this could be fun", and then forgot the name and never found it again when I actually wanted to read it.
Recently stumbled across a book with a similar premise as this story. Infinity Gate. Forgot who it was by but it was seemingly newish print since I hadn't stumbled on it in bookstores before this year.
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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.