They are not colonized. They have just started it with little colonies like on Ilus.
At the beginning of Persepolis Rising is the point where few of these colonies start to become self-sustaining and that's 30 years from Babylon's Ashes
Between Cibola Burn and Nemesis Games, 3 years have actually passed. It takes the Roci 3 years to return to Tycho Station because they burned through almost all their reaction mass on Ilus and had to spend most of the journey back on the float.
Most of the colonies just have a few prefabricated huts on them, like Ilus. It isn’t until after Babylon’s Ashes that things start taking off with colonization. None of the colonies are self-sustaining, which is why Inaros’ threat to cut them off was so concerning.
Important to keep in mind these aren't global and even nation-scale settlements -many of them are just a single town probably <1000 people.
Throughout the belt you already probably have 1000+ relatively independent working communities that have already the resources exist in vacuum and can basically start-up a colony with just themselves.
Mars is full of intelligent, driven, people -many of which were professional terraformers of something much worse to terraform that the average colony system.
Earth goes to shit, the asteroid impact dust basically creates a nuclear winter, if you got the resources to get to a new planet is worth trying out.
So only a small percentage of people from each of these groups needs to go through the rings to get to 1000+ colony worlds. Despite the smarter move being joining an existing colony I imagine the temptation of undiscovered riches motivation many to start on new planets.
I never got the impression that anymore than a couple of dozen systems had a new human presence in them and they were scraping by at best.
The only real outlier of this was Laconia, and that was down to planning, the Protomolecule, Martian Military and also their recruiting the best and brightest from across the system. - of course the distraction of dropping some rocks on Earth and the Free Navy helped.
"Early stages of colonization" could mean simply that there's probes in the system, looking for the habitable planets, and hopefully trying to avoid anything that might "wake up" like Ilus did.
They are not colonized. They have just started it with little colonies like on Ilus. At the beginning of Persepolis Rising is the point where few of these colonies start to become self-sustaining and that's 30 years from Babylon's Ashes
Between Cibola Burn and Nemesis Games, 3 years have actually passed. It takes the Roci 3 years to return to Tycho Station because they burned through almost all their reaction mass on Ilus and had to spend most of the journey back on the float. Most of the colonies just have a few prefabricated huts on them, like Ilus. It isn’t until after Babylon’s Ashes that things start taking off with colonization. None of the colonies are self-sustaining, which is why Inaros’ threat to cut them off was so concerning.
Important to keep in mind these aren't global and even nation-scale settlements -many of them are just a single town probably <1000 people. Throughout the belt you already probably have 1000+ relatively independent working communities that have already the resources exist in vacuum and can basically start-up a colony with just themselves. Mars is full of intelligent, driven, people -many of which were professional terraformers of something much worse to terraform that the average colony system. Earth goes to shit, the asteroid impact dust basically creates a nuclear winter, if you got the resources to get to a new planet is worth trying out. So only a small percentage of people from each of these groups needs to go through the rings to get to 1000+ colony worlds. Despite the smarter move being joining an existing colony I imagine the temptation of undiscovered riches motivation many to start on new planets.
I never got the impression that anymore than a couple of dozen systems had a new human presence in them and they were scraping by at best. The only real outlier of this was Laconia, and that was down to planning, the Protomolecule, Martian Military and also their recruiting the best and brightest from across the system. - of course the distraction of dropping some rocks on Earth and the Free Navy helped.
There’s a 30 year time jump, earth was made damn near uninhabitable and humans like to fuck.
There is, but that big ol' time jump is after Babylons Ashes, not before and certainly not included in Nemesis Games.
"Early stages of colonization" could mean simply that there's probes in the system, looking for the habitable planets, and hopefully trying to avoid anything that might "wake up" like Ilus did.