Okay, I need assistance from the wise and knowledgeable folks in the forum. Or anyone else, for that matter.I have an idea for a story, but would like to incorporate SOME stab at realism.The common saying is that it would take 10,000 years to get to our nearest neighbor. So, let's say 50 years in the future, we could probably get there in 5,000 years. (Baby steps for technology).Now, if 6 fictional colony ships were to carry 30,000 people, preferably in different directions, what would make good targets, based on what we know now (yes, we'll probably know more in 50 years, but work with me now...)- Alpha Centauri - I plan to go with the "dry" theory, where planets orbiting either star are unlikely to have much in the way of water. Also, formation of gas giants might be retarded here, so they couldn't have been used to "clean up" the inner system neighborhood.- Sirius - Would the close proximity of Sirius B cause difficulties in the formation of a Earth-like planet?- Epsilon Eirdani - Smaller mass, high amount of debris, and weirdness in the magnetic field would cause difficulties- Tau Ceti - Debris Disk causes problem?- Red Dwarves - in general, if getting there takes this long, why send a colony ship to a dying star?- Other Binary Systems - See explanation for Alpha CentauriDoes anyone have any inputs on potential targets? Obviously, this is fiction, but I can at least try for a theoretical basis.Jason