Generation ship conflict

Generation ship conflict

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(19 Sep 2026 - Updated to clean up the factions and make it more wild)

In 2089 a desperate plan was launched from a failing Earth to colonize Proxima Centari B. Earth's best, brightest and richest boarded a massive, shining, opulent, state of the art ship, the Good Hope, and departed on a journey that would take 30,000 years. Generations would come and go. The ship had complex systems with multiple redundancies to sustain the population and they lived, reproduced and died. Many of them failed along the way. Society declined to the point of civil war many times over the course of the voyage. Yet the Good Hope's inertia and AI overseer kept the ship on course, even though the ship and her people were held together by little more than sheer will and a shared history of struggle that replaced their history on Earth.

When the Good Hope arrived at Proxima Centari B, none of the hardened survivors expected to find the planet occupied. They are outraged by this. The ship's AI is adamant that a claim on this planet was filed with the UN before the Good Hope ever left Earth.

They certainly didn't expect to find humans there, living in a futuristic utopia on a fully terraformed planet.

Humanity had not only forgotten about the Good Hope. Humanity had eclipsed them, in every way, except perhaps in their grit and determination.

But now there is a conflict. The citizens of the Good Hope cannot carry on to some other planet. It must launch landers, provisioned with now archaic pioneering equipment and deploy her people, who are determined to survive at all costs.

The people of Proxima Centari B are obscenely wealthy and soft by colonist standards, but they have things and tech the colonists cannot imagine. This is a pleasure planet. Hedonism and control is everything here. Everyone is so pampered. So soft. They have FOOD! They have a military, and police who enforce their brand of law and order through a crushing web of mass surveillance and control though. They rule with an iron fist inside a velvet glove. Dissenters are medicated or erased and nobody minds. But can their futuristic weapons and military deny the colonists, even if they try? They have never been tested like this.

Take up your roll in this conflict. The Good Hope has people of every stripe and profession. So too do the people of Proxima Centari B.

Will you find peace? Will you conquer? Will you just try to survive. Be a warlord or a farmer or a engineer or a cosmetic surgeon or anything else you want to be, in either faction, and see what happens when humans from across time collide!

Created Aug 4

Updated Sep 19

Published Aug 4

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