First post! Here’s a stolen meme!
/196 is the only place I really like on Lemmy.
I really like how the web serial Sideways in Hyperspace handles this problem.
In short, the faster ships catch up with the slower generation ships, facilitating trade, arranging transport for those who want to leave, and allowing them to become extrasolar cities and stepping stones to the wider galaxy.
Heck, sign me up. That’s basically time travel to a future where presumably humanity has gotten its shit together if they’re still around inventing better ships. I see no downsides.
Exactly! If it were a generation ship however… That would’ve sucked.
Narrator: Humanity did not get its shit together.
Or you end up with the version of this from the Coriolis RPG setting where humanity collapsed into a second dark age in the time you were traveling, so now you’re trying to bring it cultural enlightenment to the barbarians who have better tech but no idea how to properly build it maintain it.
It’s a weird game.
that sounds fucking awesome
Yeah that’s literally getting to leave with a parade and arriving to being an instant celebrity.
This human being was around 3,000 years ago! They’ve traveled deep space through hypersleep! What mysteries do they have of the long forgotten and ancient past to reveal to us?
Also, here’s all of your space credits from the $1.67 you left in your savings account. You’re now a multi-trillionaire.
Also, here’s all of your space credits from the $1.67 you left in your savings account. You’re now a multi-trillionaire.
More likely the bank closed in the meantime
Nice. Being ~3040 years old will get me access to super ultra porn.
Horror movie idea, this concept but when the second humans arrive, they find the human civilization that got there first was wiped out before they got there and they don’t know why.
Oh, wait, that’s actually a great idea, write that shit bro and or broette
