Brown Dwarf Colonization Inspiration

I think the material would be in-situ. Bill was talking about utilizing brown dwarfs, which would probably have planets and comets and other such things a solar system ought to have. The videos talked about rogue planets and asteroids, both of which obviously have plenty of material to make habitats from.
Who would do it and why? One reason for a small colony might be specifically because it is so isolated and hard to find. Think of Skelling Michael or Shangri-la or Jonestown or Plymouth Rock. A religious order, particularly one that has been made illegal or is being persecuted, might want to set up a self-sufficient new world away from everyone else populated only by their own. Or rebels who want a hidden base for their gov’t in exile to lick their wounds. It might also be a safety-valve for people who have had enough of society, like running off to join the Cossacks or be a Mountain Man (particularly if technology allowed one person with a cargo-hold of self-replicating robots to have his own private self-sufficient habitat to be constructed as long as he could find the deuterium to power everything, which should be common on icy worlds). That might appeal to a lot of introverts (and if that introvert was a scientist then you have a space-borne Island of Dr. Moreau.) The Space Force may want a space DEW line. Astronomers might want to be away from the radio-chatter of the solar system. If they have enough raw materials and self-replicating tech, why would they need to trade? Although if necessary, it would be easy enough to trade information (like Mr. Stone in The Rolling Stones). They might also trade whatever was so illegal that the criminal cartels had to move production out of the solar system into someplace impossible to find. If there is interstellar trade, a habitat near a trade route might trade energy with passing ships (providing solar power or propulsion via. laser or maser) or even possibly some material (perhaps by particle beam or electromagnetic accelerator).