The Moon Crisis ended the Mirondian-Solar System honeymoon. Before the starship building announcement the Solar System people viewed the trading as clearly beneficial, and ignored the social stresses it was causing as a temporary, necessary evil of gaining the benefits. After the starship announcement, and the following Moon Crisis, Solar System people began paying more attention to the tradeoffs, and some started calling them "the dark side of dealing with Mirondians."
Most of those who could work the new systems saw no tradeoffs. They saw humanity as getting better, a lot better, and they themselves were perfect examples. There were also a lot of wannabe's who were enthusiastic about the new system. They weren't in it yet, but they were hopeful. These were the people taking all sorts of Earthling-sponsored training courses on how to do things the Blip! way. Some of these courses were authentic and very helpful, some were scams, and in this time frame it was hard for beginners to tell the difference.
Before the Moon Crisis a lot of humanity had no opinion. They watched, but they hadn't made up their mind one way or the other on how "good" all this new stuff was for humanity. After the Moon Crisis, this segment of humanity steadily shrank from a large majority into the minority -- people took sides.
The other side was those who were unhappy -- those who saw no dream coming true. Many were people who tried, but couldn't get with the program -- they just didn't think right. For them adapting to Blip! was like early Industrial Age people who couldn't get used to using clocks. For those poeple who couldn't develop clock sense, doing shift work at a factory wasn't going to work out, and that form of the Industrial Dream was not for them.
A few of the unhappy ones were malcontents who had been in the program, but then dropped out. They had been in the dream, but saw a nightmare. These were people like Foursmoots, and these people gave a lot of ammunition to those who wanted to slow the change down and make it more "equitable."
Many organizations started with the expressed goal of making the social change more equitable. The one that became the center of the protest movement was the PEOPLE FIRST! group, with Foursmoots as its president. Foursmoots gave the movement philosophic credibility, his two second-in-commands gave it "street cred" and high profile. The organization became famous for it's high-profile stunts and it's ability to move opinions through a viral network of news seeders who kept Spacenet new sites hopping.
Work generated by the starship project was not evenly spread around the Solar System. Some places got big contracts and forged ahead economically and socially when a huge influx of new people followed the contract. Other places did not, and became backwaters. The Moon became a backwater, much to the dismay of "Moon boosters" -- those promoting the economic development of the Moon. The Mirondians had learned their "Moon lesson" well. Not only did they not base the starship project on the Moon, they pointedly would not sign into any prime contracts which proposed to use Moon facilities.
"They are turning us into a Solar System Park!" grumbled Charles "Good Time Charley" Monson, President of the Moon Boosters. "Christ! There was no one complaining about 'Moon Pollution' or 'Moon Surface Scarring' when the military built MB-10 to protect us from the Mirondians. That was the biggest surface complex ever put on the Moon. Now, we can't sneeze in our space suits without a Pollution Allotment License. This is deeply silly!"
It was silly to the Moon Boosters, but the Mirondians went even further. Instead of using the Moon as the Earth-Starship transshipment point, they built a whole new shipping complex at the Earth-Moon L-5 point. The Moon Boosters felt hugely cut out. Not only were they cut out of the starship project, the constant acceleration transportation revolution was passing them by, too. As travel became fast and cheap to everywhere in the Solar System, the Moon lost its special status relative to Earth. Even before the Moon Crisis of Year Five, the Moon community had started into what would become a years-long recession; its brightest and best went elsewhere, and by Year Seven the Moon community became a hotbed for those who chose against the Mirondians.
Between Year Five and Year Ten, the tensions grew. The starship got closer and closer to done, which meant that launching it and filling it with crew would soon happen. As with all other things concerning Mirondians, people started choosing sides on whether or not it was a good idea to become part of a starship crew.
In this time many people were choosing sides, but many more people still stayed confused. So much good was happening... and so much bad! So many happy people, and so many angry people! For most people, the confusion was getting very deep. And when people get confused, they either make no choice, or poor choices.
In Year Seven, the Mirondians started formally recruiting Solar System people for a Year Ten departure, and the side choosing got nasty.