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The vast majority of space colonies (which include many different types like Side 3's closed ones & Shangri-La from ZZ) were made in space without any of the problems launching them into space from Earth. Not only is this a sci-fi future where most forcefully deported were practically given the directive "make this work or you die", if anything it'd be practically impossible & orders of magnitude more expensive to build the components on Earth.

That's another point to expand on. Manufacturing on Earth has many obstacles to the point it can be argued going big in space is much easier than Earth. Earth's gravity sets its own restrictions. You ever weld stuff? On one hand, you may need a space suit in space. On the other hand, welding in freefall may need a special technique to avoid getting voids, but the surface tension of liquid metals is usually quite high so I am sure such details can be overcome. No need of gas shields or flux. Doubtlessly, we'd be able to make new alloys impossible on Earth. Much of Earth manufacturing also has to fit shipping containers while Unicorn shows asteroids are pulled from the belt & made into colonies. Moving objects in general would be significantly easier. We wouldn't need mega lifts & a component with a mass of thousands of tons could easily be held in place with minimal force and then welded into position.

"Refining them". My freaking ass. Space manufacturing will have its own downsides but if we had people on Earth with gravity magic? There would be tons of procedures far easier.