
You broke the law or maybe you were just the member of the family of a person who did it and you got the assignment straight away.

Even for the smallest offence, people were assigned to penal colonies. When the problem of Earth's overpopulation reached catastrophic dimensions and the plan of other worlds' colonisation misfired because of the lack of volunteers, the Earth's Government decided to introduce a very restrictive law. It begins with the paragraphs reproduced below:

An introduction to biospheres is only one of the multiple updates made available today.
