Eh...I get where you are coming from, but there's a lot of differences and one very minor similarity.
The Hundred is about a ship that is searching for habitable space years after a nuclear holocaust made earth uninhabitable. They want to try and colonize/inhabit Earth again.
Great Britain is a country, who got decided to send people to other inhabited and habitable countries...to get rid of them. In this case their convicts and debitors - mainly because of over-crowding in their prisons. They had habitable land and were quite happy where they were - they just wanted to acquire more.
The only similarity between the two is they both choose to send convicts, but Great Britain's decision makes logical sense - ie, let's get rid of our convicts and have them pay us taxes on the new land, and send valuable resources while we sit pretty here - plus we've acquired more property = more power, and we have people there who are capable of fighting off our enemies.
The Hundred logic is oh, we need to find a habitable planet fast, wait, I know we'll send a bunch of kids who get in trouble and can't behave down to this old planet that we made uninhabitable ages ago - to check it out! That way if they die, we know its not inhabitable.
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Date: 2013-01-28 10:47 pm (UTC)The Hundred is about a ship that is searching for habitable space years after a nuclear holocaust made earth uninhabitable. They want to try and colonize/inhabit Earth again.
Great Britain is a country, who got decided to send people to other inhabited and habitable countries...to get rid of them. In this case their convicts and debitors - mainly because of over-crowding in their prisons. They had habitable land and were quite happy where they were - they just wanted to acquire more.
The only similarity between the two is they both choose to send convicts, but Great Britain's decision makes logical sense - ie, let's get rid of our convicts and have them pay us taxes on the new land, and send valuable resources while we sit pretty here - plus we've acquired more property = more power, and we have people there who are capable of fighting off our enemies.
The Hundred logic is oh, we need to find a habitable planet fast, wait, I know we'll send a bunch of kids who get in trouble and can't behave down to this old planet that we made uninhabitable ages ago - to check it out! That way if they die, we know its not inhabitable.
Sigh.