Not sure if the name itself, "COLON," isn't a fiction?
COLON-y
The founded the settlements in the "New World" to earn money from their colonies?
And to get rid of dissidents / undesirables,
both?
The losers in what ever war was relevant at that time, got sent over?
COLONge COLME is another "Colony" -
Of the "Roman" Empire?
started that way?