Current Events > The scary thing about colonising a different star system.

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That during the centuries long journey, humanity could have progressed much faster in space travel tech and arrived at the system decades before the original colonists.

The original settlers would have no idea what kind of fate is awaiting them when they arrived and saw that the planet they were suppose to colonise already have a thriving colony by the future generations.
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That was the original backstory of Vance Astro of the first "Guardian's of the Galaxy" he was send to Alpha Centauri in suspended animation. By the time he got there (1000 years) faster than light travel was invented and humanity had already colonised it, and most of the rest of the galaxy.

A good model would be to pre-plan for upgrades being provided to the colony should the means become available to do so. Either way, the colony knows the stakes going in.

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DeadlyNinjaBees posted...

A good model would be to pre-plan for upgrades being provided to the colony should the means become available to do so. Either way, the colony knows the stakes going in.

I don't trust humanity to remember that over a few hundreds years lol
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I don't think this is that scary.

The only way for this to be possible is for technology to allow humans to hibernate for centuries (or something like cryogenic freezing). If this happened then none of those travelers would realize how long it had been.

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St0rmFury posted...

I don't trust humanity to remember that over a few hundreds years lol

You're not wrong. They'd probably come across the ship and treat it like an archaeological dig in Egypt, putting the cryo sleeping travellers on museum circuits.

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JE19426 posted...

That was the original backstory of Vance Astro of the first "Guardian's of the Galaxy" he was send to Alpha Centauri in suspended animation. By the time he got there (1000 years) faster than light travel was invented and humanity had already colonised it, and most of the rest of the galaxy.

You'd think they'd pick him up on the way.

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This is really trippy to think about

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It happened in W. Micheal Gear's "Donovan" series.

The whole series has problems with the hyperdrive fucking up.

So the first group that was going hit the drive and instantaneously (to them) arrived but it took them like 70 years real time.

So they were supposed to be coming to a pristine planet and instead two generations of people were living on it.

The environmentalist in said transport was pissed.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

I don't think this is that scary.

The only way for this to be possible is for technology to allow humans to hibernate for centuries (or something like cryogenic freezing). If this happened then none of those travelers would realize how long it had been.

The game I'm playing now has lore about generation ships which is meant to sustain human life without cryogenics for centuries over the trip. Their descendents are the ones who will do the colonizing when it arrives.
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Yeah that's one of the major things to consider in interstellar travel, soon enough so that there's no more than necessary risk of cataclysm on Earth but advanced enough so that waiting some time won't lmfaoyou'retooslow the travel
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Space catgirls will be resentful if we try to colonize them.