History Main / SettlingTheFrontier

* ''TabletopGame/WarhamemrAgeOfSigmar'' is a PointsOfLightSetting where only the scattered Free Cities remain as sanctuaries in a {{Multiverse}} where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou; the Dawnbringer Crusades are armed expeditions that set out to found new Free Cities and expand that pocket of safety just a little more. Given the myriad dangers that exist in the Mortal Realms, this is easier said than done, and more Crusades than not fail for one reason or another, usually resulting in the horrible death of everyone involved.

* Diana Gabaldon's ''{{Literature/Outlander}}'' series begins dealing with this in the fourth book, ''Drums of Autumn''. North Carolina's Royal Governor, William Tryon, grants Jamie Fraser a ''huge'' swath of land to populate and run as he sees fit, and the struggle to do so while having virtually no hard currency with which to buy things (most commerce in the backcountry is barter) eventually leads to the founding of the area known as Fraser's Ridge.

* ''VideoGame/HaegemoniaLegionsOfIron'': humans discover wormholes and start settling other systems. They don't stop even when hostile aliens show up.

* ''VideoGame/Haven2020'' centers around protagonists Kay and Yu avoiding persecution by the Apiary, their home planetary system, by settling the distant, uninhabited planet Source. It becomes clear not long after their arrival that they weren't the first to try and build a settlement on the planet, but what became of their predecessors isn't spelled out until later in the story.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'': after Earth's destruction by a pair of warring alien fleets, one of the few surviving colony ships crash-lands on a new world they name "Mira", and the game is mostly about the colonists' attempts to establish a permanent colony there. Things get complicated when they learn that (some of) the aliens that destroyed Earth have ''also'' crash-landed on Mira.