Whewould you hide?

Janet, I could easily see 'claiming' asteroids, but it would necessitate something on the order of fairly cheap 'singleships' or some such. And then you might have problems with claim jumpers. As far as 'hiding', you might utilize the jovian system or suchlike where interference from a nearby giant radio source would tend to scramble a lot of communication and sensory systems, Mercurys' neighborhood would be good for that as well.
Victor

From: janet_baker76
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:48 AM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Where would you hide?

Hi, spacesettlers!

I used to participate on this forum four or five years back and enjoyed the discussions very much. We had some memorable ones! Could I ask for your input again? Back then I was planning a fiction book, and I still am. (!) I am at the plotting stage. I want my protanonists to 'run for it' to an out-of-the-way place that could conceivably be within reach in say, fifty years, given that in those fifty years we got ourselves at least one functioning colony and had sustained that level of interest and commitment in many other space-y areas like asteroid mining and so forth. This place would be reachable yet somehow, someway not so easily accessible. I would like it to function the way the farthest-flung households in Scotland or northern England functioned in the 1700's, say. You could get there with an army but it would be hard--legal and physical impediments. So those areas tended to collect rebels.

Envision it for me. Could there be a large asteroid on the 'dark side' of something or other? Could we have evolved (or devolved, or revolved) to a system of ownership of asteroids where ownership was based on 'first touch,' like planting a flag used to be when the continent of American was open season? That's what I mean by legal impediments to invasion, and the 'dark side' of something (with the possibilities of disruption of electronic 'touch' as well as visual, from earth, etc.)is what I mean by physical. There might be people on the list now who could think of other kinds of impediments to invasion, like the ability to hide in another dimension, etc. etc. but I'm less interested in that kind.

I've been lurking and wishing the topic well. But--All this time and we're no closer to real public interest in space than we were back in 2006. Worse, in fact. Also we seem to have become stupider, in the public forum. We seem to be devolving. It's hard to accept. But I don't want to get off track--can you give me a great space hideaway?

I don't really know what I'm talking about, but this is fiction!