Great Dispersal

From 2131 to 2205, one hundred and thirty terracompatible planets were discovered. Massive starship building programme initiated in O’Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160. Civil conflict on some early multiethnic colonies. Individual Govcentral states sponsor ethnic streaming colonies. Edenists expand their 3He mining enterprise to every inhabited star system with a gas giant.