Got any older memes pug?
Oh that is absolutely brilliant. I never thought of that 😆
This is the plot of a short story, Far Centaurus, that I read a long time ago.
Riffing on the meme
You make it to earth and you forgot the historical reason why you avoid earth. It is a prison planet
Oops we forgot something. Sends him back.
Also can someone check if I turned off the stove? Thx
it’d still be cool as fuck, i wouldn’t even be mad
Yeah, what’s the new civilization’s tech like? Bound to be more advancements than just travel speed. Do they have sufficiently fast FTL communication with Earth to keep up with the tech advancements?
That’s another solution to the Fermi paradox. FTL travel is impossible, but can’t actually be proven to be impossible, so no one wants to be the sucker.
Don’t have to fll. Just have to be a third faster to give them 1000 years head start
Sounds awesome not only you skipped the hardest part you have everything setup and get to live a good life. Unless of course that was your goal to experience building the colony.
FTL isn’t possible, ERBs would pastafy any matter passing through them and there is no way to control the other end, and take Kardashev scale 3 civ at least (and that’s even pretending the Kardashev scale isn’t the purest daydream fantasy)
There’s an HFY story where the guy in the slow ship became a tourist attraction for the advanced humans that beat him to his destination.
His bank account had grown to billions and they offered him billions more to keep it going.
one of the, like 3, interesting quests in Starfield was based on that!
Interesting premise, shit execution, as is the case with every quest in starfaild
guess you didnt play a lot of quests then. lot of them have good execution, namely the vanguard questline
It was decent and has its moments, but it only works because starfield is a universe where phones with cameras and the internet don’t exist, and instant communication only exists when the plot remembers it’s not Fallout, which is not often. Secret military research? Believable. Said research getting out of hand and destroying a whole colony? Believable. Nobody giving a single flying fuck to said colony outside the questline? Weird. Not a single mention of repression and censorship about the event? Even weirder. Then again, after the terrormorph attacks New Atlantis, nobody gives a fuck (because cameras and phones don’t exist, nobody is asking about relatives or friends that are missing), not even the “TV Station”. After the damage is removed from the city, instant amnesia hits everyone.
How is that not great for me? Setting up a colony must be hard work and all around pretty horrible.
It’s like a start up. Show up early and buy in on low stocks, work your ass off, retire at 40. I’d assume it’s something like that. Pick the best place to build your house, claim all the resources.
Or maybe he just wanted solitude.
I think that’s exactly what one would be hoping for. One does this to escape the reality of human civilization and seek the adventure of building it over again.
“Hard” Sci-Fi stories making a big deal about faster than light not being possible but then treating pods that magically freeze and revive a human body for years as such a triviality that we invented them by 2004 or something in the timeline.
