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The first crew would face the most difficult challenges. Imagine the relief after expecting to establish the fundamentals of civilization, and instead are just assigned your living quarters.

Call that one a win.

Take risk of signing up for a 3000 year hyper-sleep trip.

Reap the rewards of being a pioneer without having to do any of the hard work.

Jerks didn't come pick me up on way there? Wtf dudes.

Not only that, but 3000 years into the future, language has changed so much that the plural of SHEEP is now SHOOP

That's right, androids do dream of electric SHOOP

Shit's wild yo

Well at least you didn’t have to spend the rest of your life building civilisation from scratch.

Couldn't be bothered to pick him up on the way.

3 Body Problem has an interesting take on this. Faster than light travel is not possible but communication is, meaning we’re anxiously preparing for an alien war that won’t happen for 400 years but they can see everything we do in real time thanks to quantum entanglement.

I read an interesting book based on this premise called The Forever War, it’s been awhile but it was pretty good!

Similar premise but with soldiers sent to fight a war and eventually finding it already over.

Technically you just slept through the whole thing

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.

How is that not great for me? Setting up a colony must be hard work and all around pretty horrible.

Cryosleep in earth would be pretty baller. Imagine all the people who'd sign up to just skip ahead 50 years.

I mean if they get there ang there are like ruins and remnants, that's going to be a good sci-fi horror-detective-thriller story

At least you aren’t a soldier ready to restart a war that’s been settled

Babylon 5 had an episode on this. A sleeper ship was launched and a few years later we got jump gate tech from an alien race.

it'd still be cool as fuck, i wouldn't even be mad

With some variations, used already a few times in games and series.

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.

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.

That's the plot of a nice obscure theatre piece I know, but they don't travel that far, are awake, and see the other ships pass. It's awsome and fun for the audience and super frustrating for the characters.

That was the only memorable part of Starfield for me.

The real solution to this is simple. You're a ship full of colonists dreaming of settling a new world, right? So go settle a new world! Ask the citizens of your target world for an FTL-capable spaceship, climb aboard, pick a new target further afield, and head off into the wild blue yonder. It seems that's the least they could do in such a situation.

So you're telling me, someone else did all the work already, I don't have to lift a finger? Awesome.