When a Gorean city founds a colony, usually as a result of internal overpopulation or political dissension, the potential colonists, typically, even before leaving the mother city, develop their own charter, constitution and laws.
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Most importantly, from the Gorean point of view, when the colony is founded, it will have its own Home Stone.
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The Home Stone of Port Cos, significantly, was not the Home Stone of Cos.
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Ar's Station, on the other hand, did not have its own Home Stone, but its Home Stone remained that of Ar.
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This is not to deny, of course, that the colony will not normally have a close tie with the mother city.
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It usually will.
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There are too many bonds, cultural and historical, between them, for this not to be the case.
When a Gorean city founds a colony, usually as a result of internal overpopulation or political dissension, the potential colonists, typically, even before leaving the mother city, develop their own charter, constitution and laws.
Most importantly, from the Gorean point of view, when the colony is founded, it will have its own Home Stone.
The Home Stone of Port Cos, significantly, was not the Home Stone of Cos.
Ar's Station, on the other hand, did not have its own Home Stone, but its Home Stone remained that of Ar.
This is not to deny, of course, that the colony will not normally have a close tie with the mother city.
It usually will.
There are too many bonds, cultural and historical, between them, for this not to be the case.
- (Rogue of Gor, Chapter )