Right but if a society cannot possibly survive on its own, then what? If the settlement is tied by umbilical to a company or country or treaty org here, it's ha

Right but if a society cannot possibly survive on its own, then what? If the settlement is tied by umbilical to a company or country or treaty org here, it's hard to act like it's an independent entity, because it's not one. I think we're certainly capable by now to create a charter that hands the colony over to itself at some point, 10, 20, 50 years in the future.