Colonization of the solar system

Bodies with Atmospheres

Atmospheres can deliver building materials in the easiest usable (do not use "digestable"!) standardized form.

• Air using micro ships and macro ones.
• Gas giant atmospheres
• Venus

Asteroids in the main belt between mars and jupiter

• pro: enormous accessible surfacer area - probably way greater than all the planets and moons together
• pro: just the right temperature for the presence of a variety of materials
• pro: no gravity traps
• con: all the material is in the solid state requiring complex mining
• con: laggy telecommunication in a dispersed net due to light-speed runtimes

Moons and dwarf planets in the outer solar system

Furter out in the solar system small bodies become increasingly icy. Water ice and at some point even nitrogen ice becomes rock forming material. If not enough carbon and silicon is present one might want to mechanosynthesize weaker bonding ices there and use those materials for not too demanding structural purposes