At least you aren’t a soldier ready to restart a war that’s been settled
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Babylon 5 had an episode on this. A sleeper ship was launched and a few years later we got jump gate tech from an alien race.
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I mean if they get there ang there are like ruins and remnants, that's going to be a good sci-fi horror-detective-thriller story
The real solution to this is simple. You're a ship full of colonists dreaming of settling a new world, right? So go settle a new world! Ask the citizens of your target world for an FTL-capable spaceship, climb aboard, pick a new target further afield, and head off into the wild blue yonder. It seems that's the least they could do in such a situation.
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That's the plot of a nice obscure theatre piece I know, but they don't travel that far, are awake, and see the other ships pass. It's awsome and fun for the audience and super frustrating for the characters.
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Do I dream on the trip? Do I remember any of the dreams? Thatd be pretty cool.
3000 years of dreaming would radically warp your sense of reality I think. Laying down all those repeating neuron paths century over century I doubt anything would be left of your recollection of the waking world
Waking up would be like being born, nothing would make sense
Aaaand now I have a new story idea
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With some variations, used already a few times in games and series.
So you're telling me, someone else did all the work already, I don't have to lift a finger? Awesome.
That was the only memorable part of Starfield for me.
Yep, and the biggest letdown. I expected the main quest to be meh, but side quests to he pretty fun.
They had the opportunity to create a really cool mission out of this, but instead created one of the most interesting stories and least fun questlines.
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Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.
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The project founder accidentally died, the computer AI fails to keep them alive and the spiders start to think the satellite is a god. Then they enslave the native ants.
The big problem is no one remembered to tell the humans on Earth about the experiment. Or the humans on the generation ship that knew died centuries ago.
EDIT: If you haven’t figured it out, I’m describing the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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Surely if you’re sending someone on a 3000 year journey, you’ve prepared for the possibility of making a faster ship in the time between them leaving and arriving at their destination!?
People intrinsically know their some of their loved ones are going to die before them, that doesn't mean they won't cry when it happens.
I'm psyched. Less work for me!