It was 'The Orville' had am episode like this, except the occupants didn't know they were on a ship, they didn't know they were heading for a star either.
Inhabited Generation Ship (The Golconda)
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It was 'The Orville' had am episode like this, except the occupants didn't know they were on a ship, they didn't know they were heading for a star either.
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Time for all you do-good suckers to have a wonderful space trucking grind bringing blight infected relief supplies to the ailing generation ship.
A generation ship - and even a ship whose inhabitants don't remember that they're on a ship - is an idea that goes back at least as far as Tumithak of the Corridors in Amazing Stories (1931).
This might be what I was thinking about (The New Generation):
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You just reminded me to play them - srry they're not working for you, but for those who it works with - worth a listen. I think the voice gets across their worries far better than teh text - 1000 years away, how will humanity have changed? Like if a bunch o'people from the year 1000 turned up today...
1000 years is a really long time. I guess the generation ship's crew would be disappointed by the lack of progress.
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Spent 1,000 years in a sardine can to hopefully preserve the human race, only to find out that humanity survived and in the interim turned into a bunch of time-travelling psychopaths that shoot anything and everything that moves (and even rocks that don't move). Disappointed must be an understatement.1000 years is a really long time. I the generation ship's crew would be disappointed by the lack of progress.
I think I remember Dr Who had an episode where people thought they were on a ship but it was actually a fake in a building on earth. I think The Master had conned them into it for some reason.
Ooo, you don't like people enjoying playing a computer game?
Maybe it's the Elite version of Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B...
Some would say the entirity of Dr Who was people being conned they were on a ship or a remote planet where actually they were in a quarry in Wales
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Nah enjoy what you want. Obvious narrative is obvious.
I didn't get that from his comment at all. He's just saying that when a CG is inevitably announced to bring relief supplies to this ship, it isn't far fetched to think that the "do-gooders" trying to help might bring blight infected fertilizer or other goods to the Golconda. After all, it's what led to the blight in the first place: CMDRs acting as unwitting vectors of poisonous materials.
If there will be a CG of that kind, it will be regular trade CG and players will bring needed goods to some nearby spaceport, controlled by a faction that will take responsibility for organizing the "event".
Golconda doesn't have landing pads for players to land on (and wants to limit contacts with outsiders to a minimum).
Fair enough. My point is that regardless of where the trade CG asks players to deliver goods, it isn't far-fetched to think that these goods may possibly be tainted or poisoned in some way, since that's exactly how the blight started in the first place, the galaxy wide availability and distribution of RX7 fertilizer.