Asteroids, Associations, Clusters, Trojans, & SSBs

<p><img height="448" width="587" src="/files/u8696/trojans.jpg" alt="Trojans" /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_in_fiction">http://en.wikipedia… href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt">http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_group">http://en.wikipedia.org/wi… href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_family">http://en.wikipedia.org/w… href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_asteroid">http://en.wikipedia.org/w… href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Solar_System_body">http://en.wikiped… href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite#Satellites_of_satellites… many can be expected exist in a given stellar system?<br />How many can be expected to be in a 'prime positioning'?<br />How many can be expected to be suitable/used for Colonies?<br />How many can be expected to be suitable/used for Logistics Depots?<br />How much advantage/disadvantage is there in comparing, a small asteroid fortress, and a large outer system station?</p><p>Small system bodies seem to be given quite a bit of theoretical possibility in configurations, that far outweigh the amount of observable configurations available.<br />So how much can they be used to fill out a system's population, and how easy is it to set up a private outpost for fun and profit?<br />How much fictional use of these can be expected to be plausibly viable?</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_moon">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… href="http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Three_Trojan_Asteroids_Share_Neptune_… href="http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/etrojans/etrojans.html">http://www.ast… /><br />Has <em>anyone</em> found these to be useful places to expand out the otherwise 'dead space' of the black?<br />How often do you have adventures pass by habited '<em>rouge systems'</em> of small system bodies, beyond the main primaries of the frontier?</p>