The other challenges of space

[MatthewVilter]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

So...suppose the cryoships that arrived on the colony passed through some kind of time anomaly, or were held in flight by these 'Seeders', while the other colonies evolved and changed. Maybe everybody else arrived on their target worlds 50 million years ago...

I like this idea a lot! How about this: Something goes wrong in hyperspace and when the colonists wake up the computer tells them where their target was supposed to be was empty space. So it made some observations and took them to a different new home. The colonists try to use stellar drift to figure out the time but nothing is right! It has been so long* or they have come so far that old starmaps are useless!

*I don't actually know that modern or near future drift predictions don't run past the heat death of the universe.

Edit: I suppose dark matter could do something unexpected and keep the universe livable for longer then expected. Or maybe the ships are in a new universe!