Building colonizable worlds will probably exploit that fact — start with a debris pile, piling up star system debris into an Earthlike orbit and with an axial spin, followed by piles of water ice, then finishing it off with piles of frozen nitrogren and oxygen. As the temperature rises then stabilizes, add in Earth organisms in an appropriate order.
Colonies would be constructed on big flat shield-shaped chunks of mineral foams (extruded in space from more debris) and dropped in. They’d ride the very large tides.
I like it. Reminds me of “The Millennial Project”...
I liked that book.