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Strangebuddy
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Here's a sci-fi idea:
Humanity ventures into the stars but there's a clear divide between the haves and the have nots. The rich stay inn Earth in cryo pods, occasionally waking up for a bit but otherwise resting for for decades at a time while the rest are slowly making their way to habitable planets, making gates along the way that will allow faster than light transport for those who stayed behind.
The idea was that the rich would be woken up a few millennia later and sent to enjoy the fruits of a new planet while the humans who went would clear the path for them in exchange for some land (the AIs on the ships were supposed to assist with pacifying the humans who went and making them obedient)
The final gate gets built and the rich are woken up to go on their journey...only thing is, humanity, due to being in space for centuries, have undergone some changes. Whether it's mutated super strong individuals, ones that were altered for living in zero gravity, cross breeds with compatible alien life, or beings that were altered through too much exposure to cosmic radiation, the human race has changed...and they have little interest in obeying some old humans who stayed on Earth.
The rich humans are now going to have to find something they can offer them and every job has already been filled.
Humanity ventures into the stars but there's a clear divide between the haves and the have nots. The rich stay inn Earth in cryo pods, occasionally waking up for a bit but otherwise resting for for decades at a time while the rest are slowly making their way to habitable planets, making gates along the way that will allow faster than light transport for those who stayed behind.
The idea was that the rich would be woken up a few millennia later and sent to enjoy the fruits of a new planet while the humans who went would clear the path for them in exchange for some land (the AIs on the ships were supposed to assist with pacifying the humans who went and making them obedient)
The final gate gets built and the rich are woken up to go on their journey...only thing is, humanity, due to being in space for centuries, have undergone some changes. Whether it's mutated super strong individuals, ones that were altered for living in zero gravity, cross breeds with compatible alien life, or beings that were altered through too much exposure to cosmic radiation, the human race has changed...and they have little interest in obeying some old humans who stayed on Earth.
The rich humans are now going to have to find something they can offer them and every job has already been filled.