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[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 49 points 2 weeks ago

Only 150 light years away?! Wow, that's practically next door! Now all we need to do is figure out how to go light speed and even then it'll take a further 300 years just to know if the colonists got there safely or not!

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

When the first colonists arrive the planet will already be inhabited by humans since 100 years after they left we invent the warp drive. And trying to intercept them mid travel and board them on to the new ship is impossible since they travel near the speed of light in the darkness of space.

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure that's a sidequest in Starfield. The ECS Constant colony ship set off in 2140 to colonise a planet, arriving in 2330 at the planet Paradiso, which had become a luxury resort planet for the rich, because shortly after the ship left, humanity invented the grav drive and every ship just zoomed right past them.

[-] Enzy@feddit.nu 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Whenever a game gives me a questline like "a mysterious ship is hailing you. You have never seen anything like it, you get the feeling that it is very important" I blast the fucking thing out of the sky.

Don't tell me what I think is important, dev.

[-] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

They've already sent galactic missiles to wipe us out before we can ruin them.

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