So We Made It was colonized because a ramrobot elected to settle in spring. It meant that the slowboats took a long time to get where they were going, and there were no round-trip tickets. Unlike the ramrobots, the man-carrying slowboats could not use interstellar ramscoops. Then the ramrobot would beam its laser pulse back at the solar system, and the UN would respond by sending a colony slowboat. Having located a world the right distance from the star to which it was sent, the ramrobot probe would drop and circle until it found a place at ground level which matched its criteria for atmospheric composition, average temperature, water vapor, and other conditions. The designers didn't know it, and the UN didn't know it but the ramrobots were programmed only to find a habitable point. Unfortunately they were programmed wrong. During the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries, the ramrobots explored most of what later came to be called "known space." They were complexly programmed, but their mission was simple. No human explorer would have marked it for colonization. With no oversized moon to strip away most of its air, it has an atmosphere like Venus': thick and hot and corrosive. That innermost world is about the size of Venus. The third inward has no air the innermost has too much. Strictly speaking, none of the planets is habitable.
The Ethics of Madness ~~o~~ TAU CETI Is a small cool-yellow Go dwarf with four planets.
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