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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.

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

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.

The Ark, tv series.

Surely if you’re sending someone on a 3000 year journey, you’ve prepared for the possibility of making a faster ship in the time between them leaving and arriving at their destination!?

Do I dream on the trip? Do I remember any of the dreams? Thatd be pretty cool.

Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.

EDIT: If you haven’t figured it out, I’m describing the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

I'm psyched. Less work for me!

I think either Asimov or A.E. van Vogt wrote a short story with this premise already back in the late 1940s.

Is HFY a community over here yet?

Oops we forgot something. Sends him back.

But at least your great great great granddaughter is pretty fine 👉😏👉

Or you wake up and there's nothing there because that star died a thousand years ago and the light from the supernova hasn't reached earth yet.

If they had faster ship technology, surely they’d be able to locate the older ships in transit and relieve the astronauts of their duty.

Back to the future that is less distant than the future you wanted to go. A Hollywood classic.

This is the plot of a short story, Far Centaurus, that I read a long time ago.

one of the, like 3, interesting quests in Starfield was based on that!