Surely if you’re sending someone on a 3000 year journey, you’ve prepared for the possibility of making a faster ship in the time between them leaving and arriving at their destination!?
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People intrinsically know their some of their loved ones are going to die before them, that doesn't mean they won't cry when it happens.
I'm psyched. Less work for me!
Or you wake up and there's nothing there because that star died a thousand years ago and the light from the supernova hasn't reached earth yet.
Fortunately that really couldn't happen. Supergiant stars are unlikely to be promising colonization targets.
that's why we should only go when it's possible to travel near lightspeed, can't beat that
But at least your great great great granddaughter is pretty fine 👉😏👉
"what are you doing multigenerational step bro?"
I think either Asimov or A.E. van Vogt wrote a short story with this premise already back in the late 1940s.
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If they had faster ship technology, surely they’d be able to locate the older ships in transit and relieve the astronauts of their duty.
that sounds like a plot hole so let's put some plot into it
a lot of technological advancements happen in times of war, that's when scientists get the funding to make weapons, but that research doesn't go to waste afterwards, the knowledge stays and can help in times of peace
what if the ship was sent, and a great war broke out soon after, all records and those who remembered it were destroyed, all whilst technology advanced becuase of the race to invent new weapons, and now the knowledge is being utilised for a more cheerful cause - space exploration, and FTL travel
the forgotten ship would peacefully sail across the great dark blissfully unaware of what happened, of how their mission has been erased from history, regardless if it was on purpose or accidentally. Their eventual arrival would make news across all human colonies, their language so ancient, their biology similar but in a strange way imperfect, living relics of the old world ripped right out of already faded pages in history, what a shock it would be for both sides of the encounter
Back to the future that is less distant than the future you wanted to go. A Hollywood classic.