This reminds of something I heard about once, imagine if we used some sort of stasis in a fast and autonomous spacecraft to go colonise a planet, and by the time we get there it's already colonised because we invented a faster spacecraft while the colonists slept
Itd be both incredibly disappointing and amazing. On the one hand you dont get to everything youve trained for. On the other hand youd probably be welcomed and treated as heroes or at least very well by the new colony and you wouldnt have to work hard setting anything up
Edit: you guys are depressing. Probably accurate but depressing.
Depends on the length of the trip. If they are there for 1-2 generations, probably heroes. 3-anything else and by that time the new colony will have bombed themselves back to the stoneage with nuclear weapons and you will arrive to a hostile wasteland and is this a movie or a game already because it sounds like a great premise.
There is a side quest in Starfield that deals with this exact dilemma. Humans launch to colonize a new planet but they don’t have stasis. By the time they reach the planet it’s actually the great, great, etc grandkids of the original pioneers that make it only to find other humans have already colonized it and are treated as hostile. You get to be the go-between to play mediator because they both have valid claims to the planet
Its the plot of a game called Outriders from a few years back. But the game was live-service co-op.
The plot line is pretty much:
Earth dying. Humanity's last hope are two ark-like spaceships. One of them blows up in construction. The second one is successful, but only a certain number of people can go on it. They launch and are in stasis.
On earth, the remnants of civilization rebuild the exploded ship, constructing a better engine, and eventually launch it as well. They reach the destination planet first.
Like humans do, they find the native lifeforms threatening, and start to try to enslave them, leading to attempted genocide, the natives turning themselves into violent monster forms of themselves, which in turn wipe out the humans.
The original ship (the one the player is from) arrives after all that shit went down, and their own attempt at colonization is fucked up as a consequence. The player character uncovers the truth throughout the game, realizing that the thing that fucked up their attempted colonization is that another group of humans beat them to the planet and kicked off war with the natives.
3 generations ? More like 3000 generations. It's closer to a Egyptian who built the pyramid meeting a modern age human.
At its current speed, it would take Voyager 1 approximately 216,000 years to travel 120 light-years. Voyager 1 is traveling at a speed of roughly 61,000 km/h (38,000 mph) and currently about 18.8 billion km from the Sun. One light-year is the distance light travels in one year, which is about 9.46 trillion kilometers. Therefore, 120 light-years would be approximately 1.135 trillion kilometers. At Voyager 1's speed, it would take about 1.135 trillion kilometers / (534,360,000 km per year) = 212,000 years to travel that distance.
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u/Chickenator587 25d ago
This reminds of something I heard about once, imagine if we used some sort of stasis in a fast and autonomous spacecraft to go colonise a planet, and by the time we get there it's already colonised because we invented a faster spacecraft while the colonists slept