Sprague and it's population

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@Shiki Temperature does not drop to -70 degrees every night. At least not on planets that have atmosphere. Look for the sahara for example: it's hot as hell at day, and cold at night, although way north of -70 degrees.
Welfare is more like "you got a matress, a roof over your head. You get food on ticket" et cetera et cetera. And in this case, I did not built the container house logic around land-based vehicles, though arguably that would be hard, but not impossible. I'd rather have used some sort of hover platform that can also act as a crane, hell larger ports probably got something similar on most House planets. So all in all, it should be probable to house that many people. Would it be comfortable? No.

I am not saying the planet should not be colonized or populated. Millions of people, some on the scale of numbers of Yuma, Gran Canaria, Nauru, Tangier, Akabat, etc. I think to start with 10 million and then increasing, a high number, but at least somewhat reasonable. Considering Yuma got under 5 million and those are also Bretonian refugees. But not 3 billion, aka not at the scale on Cambridge or Denver.

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