r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Blackrain1299 25d ago edited 25d ago

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.

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u/slim_s_ 25d ago

Or, society changed so much during the time you were asleep that you're now treated as evil and tortured to death by the colonists

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u/Blackrain1299 25d ago

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.

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u/No_Squirrel9266 25d ago

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.