[Spaceships] Interstellar Colony Ships

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by ed_209a

After 1 century or more, would the technology even be relevant?

It would be like King Louis XIV of France sending a fleet of galleons to somewhere 150 years away (yeah I know, bear with me), then sending them back, because we might need them in 2009.

I agree that the raw materials would be more useful to the colony, Especially if it is designed from the outset to breakdown into stuff useful to the colony.

STL interstellar civilisations need to adopt a very leisurely pace of change anyway. So it would be more like the Roman Republic sending off a bunch of galleys after the Punic Wars, and the Empire getting them back around the birth of Christ.