Terra during the Long Night

Steve Bonneville asks:

> Why did the Terrans abandon all settlements except for the Earth-Moon area?

Note that that is all settlements in the Sol system. Terra
didn't abandone it's old colonies in the neighbouring systems.
Economics, I suppose. Trading with the colonies was profitable,
maintaining the outer system settlements wasn't.


      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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        "Come all brother spacemen that travel along.
         Oh, pray come and tell me where the trade is all gone.
         Long time have I travelled, and I cannot find none."
         Ch: "And sing: All the hard times of the Empire.
              In the Empire are very hard times."
                                Traditional song.