The CD is ruled by a Grand Senate located on the Moon, and eventually constructs interstellar colonies for the joint goal of economic gain and a means of exiling troublesome elements of society.

Two hundred years from now, a starship named the Floran will depart with the intent of forming Earth's first interstellar colony on a planet orbiting a neighbor star.

"And I wanted to be the first man to found an interstellar colony."

It must have been during the first years of the colony, when nobody - crew or colonist - had been sure that an interstellar colony was possible.

But that was because, at that time in his life, his own circumscribed vision happen to focus on founding an interstellar colony.

Often enough he'd heard me talking wistfully of joining an interstellar colony.

Norn, Apollo 4, held life. . . but Tau Ceti 3 was closer to Sol, and that world-Avalon-became the first interstellar colony.

Dyson and Carl Sagan envisioned that humanity could migrate to neighbouring star systems, which have similar clouds, by using natural objects as slow interstellar vessels with substantial natural resources; and that such interstellar colonies could also serve as way-stations for faster, smaller interstellar ships.

A New Guinea-sized island was quite ambitious enough for humankind's first interstellar colony.