Hard science fiction, pretty much. Hydroponic farms, meat-vats, and algae-vats for food, more-or-less modern life support systems (possibly assisted by cracking lunar rocks for oxygen), et cetera. Good enough to be self-sustaining, but no magic nanobots, FAI, or anything like that.
Basically, my question was getting at “how easily could one person misbehaving epically screw the entire colony?” or, alternately “How many things to the colonists need to do ‘just so’ to keep it all viable?”
The more easy for an individual to screw things up for everyone, and the more ways the colonists need to all work together in very specific ways, the more “rigid” the system needs to be, but it should not be a shred more rigid than that.
That’s obviously not a complete answer to what sort of government, it’s more my initial thought about how one would start thinking things through.
Hard science fiction, pretty much. Hydroponic farms, meat-vats, and algae-vats for food, more-or-less modern life support systems (possibly assisted by cracking lunar rocks for oxygen), et cetera. Good enough to be self-sustaining, but no magic nanobots, FAI, or anything like that.
Basically, my question was getting at “how easily could one person misbehaving epically screw the entire colony?” or, alternately “How many things to the colonists need to do ‘just so’ to keep it all viable?”
The more easy for an individual to screw things up for everyone, and the more ways the colonists need to all work together in very specific ways, the more “rigid” the system needs to be, but it should not be a shred more rigid than that.
That’s obviously not a complete answer to what sort of government, it’s more my initial thought about how one would start thinking things through.