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Originally posted by PvK:
I figure that the minimum 1 million per year is ok, and abstractly represents either civillians arriving by their own transport, or simply the initial development of a new world and infrastructure, and not necessarily actual reproduction.
PvK
Well, population growth is a difference between birth rate and mortality. When people settle a new world, it is mostly young, healthy people with all normal human instincts. Not surprisingly, population jumps in first years.