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For some reason colonization of Ceres is just not as widely discussed as the moon or Mars, despite the planet's1 unique advantages in comparison to the moon or mars. These include being closer to the outer planets and low surface gravity makes Ceres ideal for outer solar system exploration. In addition ice on its surface means plenty of fuel and oxygen from isru. The other arguably more important reason is that it's close proximity to mostly metallic asteroids means that there is a monetary reward that will occur within the investors lifetime. Although distance and micro gravity are worse than the moon and Mars, artificial gravity or rigorous exercise are not are probably still necessary for those destinations anyway, and the distance is just a harder version of Mars. Because this is colonization not exploration this isn't a big problem since the low gravity of Ceres will reduce costs and the residents are permanent. Ceres also makes sense from the stepping stone to the outer solar system due to lower transfer times, although the rarity of good transfer windows could reduce this by a lot, and Mars's moons may be preferable for that. (I don't know how to end new topics but please discuss it...) 1 I consider dwarf planets to be a subset of planets, as red dwarfs are to stars. Versus asteroids which are to planets, how brown dwarfs are to stars
