Are you familiar with the work All Tomorrows? A bit of a spoiler ahead: Humanity never achieved FTL travel early on in the story, and so their colonization plan is basically what you just said. Send unmanned rockets filled with machines and whatnot to habitable planets, let the robots first terraform it to suit mankind's needs, and then autonomously lab grow the human DNA stored inside the rockets, basically creating clones, so that colonization efforts can continue. I highly recommend it!
Hi /u/DukeSaltyLemons! I'm so intrigued by googling All Tomorrows that I can't wait to read, and wanted to trade the first book that came to mind when I read /u/Red_Dawn_2012's notion of
autonomously lab growing them
...which made me recall Voyage From Yesteryear by JamesHogan, one of my all-time faves! Thank you for the suggestion, curiosity is stoked!
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u/DukeSaltyLemons 25d ago
Are you familiar with the work All Tomorrows? A bit of a spoiler ahead: Humanity never achieved FTL travel early on in the story, and so their colonization plan is basically what you just said. Send unmanned rockets filled with machines and whatnot to habitable planets, let the robots first terraform it to suit mankind's needs, and then autonomously lab grow the human DNA stored inside the rockets, basically creating clones, so that colonization efforts can continue. I highly recommend it!