Scarlet Feathers
It was not unheard of for entire gryphon colonies to vanish without a trace, if they refused to join.
Dark Scales
I didn’t have any friends in the colony.
Better Breeding Through Chemistry
Deacon dawson, a brilliant human geneticist, uses his wealth to escape to a private colony world. deacon seeks the perfect woman and decides to make her himself.
Containment II
Oft times the offshoot colony was absorbed into the main colony, but not always. other times it was left along and contained to one planet.
Shared Blood - Act 2
For gryphons, it is to seek out another colony and find a mate to settle down with. if they cannot find a suitable colony, eventually gryphons feel the urge to return to the colony where they were born and settle there.
Toothless Goes Courting, Chapter 4
Feeling lost, i looked out over the colony, feeling the gentle snow pattering against my scales.
A Doggo's Tale: Becoming a Good Girl
Instead, the doggo's leadership turned their eyes to the humans' outlying colonies. minimally defended and with small, spread-out populations, these colonies were ripe for the picking.
Chapter Ten - Dunar
There were scattered mining colonies on the fifth planet, and on the moons of the eighth.
Mass Effect: Chasing Ghosts Ch 6-7
Turns out the leader of this colony has been doing business with mercs.
Seeds Of Life 3 - Something Out There
"maybe there's two colonies? there was conditional circumstances for that." "whatever. i'm knocking." - - - - - gunner ebony, master chief and senior linguist of the colony, twitched and rumbled in hir sleep.
Said the joker to the thief
"it may seem a little forward to ask for it in such a way, but... aren't the raizari owed that from the colonial office?" "yes," i growled.
Metempsychosis - Part 4 - The Past Always Comes Back to Haunt You
Eventually, as time would have it, the divergence of opinions on the exploitation of the colony began to create schism between the colonial cities.