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Noting that this question is specific to human colonization, and Thucydides’s answer is explicit that driving concerns are to support life, and I notice that the story I’m working on turns this on its head because the premise is different in a fundamental way, I thought I'd ask a new question with this difference:

As a post-human culture emerges and finds its need for resources potentially growing by orders of magnitude and it is freed from many of the issues of needing to support fragile flesh, it naturally expands into space. (See this question for timeline.)

My plot has development driven by a Great Goal of launching an interstellar mission on a deadline, but before that expansion into space has already started.

What order would they do things in?

Other than the quest for resources to eventually build a new civilization, and the general desire to get away from the politics and economy of Earth, one goal relevant to the early part of the plot is scientific knowledge: build a series of telescope modules that will be farther out from the sun than Jupiter.

Noting that this question is specific to human colonization, and Thucydides’s answer is explicit that driving concerns are to support life, and I notice that the story I’m working on turns this on its head because the premise is different in a fundamental way, I thought I'd ask a new question with this difference:

As a post-human culture emerges and finds its need for resources potentially growing by orders of magnitude and it is freed from many of the issues of needing to support fragile flesh, it naturally expands into space. (See this question for timeline.)

My plot has development driven by a Great Goal of launching an interstellar mission on a deadline, but before that expansion into space has already started.

What order would they do things in?

Other than the quest for resources to eventually build a new civilization, and the general desire to get away from the politics and economy of Earth, one goal relevant to the early part of the plot is scientific knowledge: build a series of telescope modules that will be farther out from the sun than Jupiter.

Noting that this question is specific to human colonization, and Thucydides’s answer is explicit that driving concerns are to support life, and I notice that the story I’m working on turns this on its head because the premise is different in a fundamental way, I thought I'd ask a new question with this difference:

As a post-human culture emerges and finds its need for resources potentially growing by orders of magnitude and it is freed from many of the issues of needing to support fragile flesh, it naturally expands into space.

My plot has development driven by a Great Goal of launching an interstellar mission on a deadline, but before that expansion into space has already started.

What order would they do things in?

Other than the quest for resources to eventually build a new civilization, and the general desire to get away from the politics and economy of Earth, one goal relevant to the early part of the plot is scientific knowledge: build a series of telescope modules that will be farther out from the sun than Jupiter.

Noting that this question is specific to human colonization, and Thucydides’s answer is explicit that driving concerns are to support life, and I notice that the story I’m working on turns this on its head because the premise is different in a fundamental way, I thought I'd ask a new question with this difference:

As a post-human culture emerges and finds its need for resources potentially growing by orders of magnitude and it is freed from many of the issues of needing to support fragile flesh, it naturally expands into space. (See this question for timeline.)

My plot has development driven by a Great Goal of launching an interstellar mission on a deadline, but before that expansion into space has already started.

What order would they do things in?

Other than the quest for resources to eventually build a new civilization, and the general desire to get away from the politics and economy of Earth, one goal relevant to the early part of the plot is scientific knowledge: build a series of telescope modules that will be farther out from the sun than Jupiter.