![]() Alternatively, in the hundreds of years the trip takes, humans manage to invent faster-than-light travel, and colonize the destination world long before the sleeper ship arrives. ![]() ![]() The ship gets knocked off course, or encounters a Negative Space Wedgie, and isn't found again until far into the future. Our hero uses a " Sleeper Starship" - a (typically) slower-than-light spacecraft that puts the occupants "on ice" (either literally or a Convenient Coma that slows aging) to allow them to survive the travel times between stars.Sometimes it's the fault of Green Rocks or overt magic (or both!), other times it's just because they got frozen inside a block of normal ice. Some mysterious phenomenon unexpectedly freezes our hero until he is found centuries later.The Human Popsicle usually takes one of three forms: Honestly, just because a word has "-gen-" in it doesn't mean it has anything to do with biology.Ĭryonics Failure, where something goes horribly wrong that kills some or all sleepers, is a potential danger. (This is more the realm of cartoons and soft science fiction that can get away with it more easily)Ĭryonics, the study of preserving humans or other organisms at low temperature, is frequently confused with cryogenics, the creation of very low temperatures and the study of how materials behave under those conditions. In this case, of course, the freezing has to be by natural means which stretches the credibility of Harmless Freezing even further. It also works with the past, as many works have played with the idea of turning a prehistoric caveman or a viking loose in modern society. This can get especially thorny if their home or civilization has since been destroyed and forgotten, or changed beyond recognition, making them a Living Relic. The result is that we get a Fish out of Temporal Water setup wherein a human - usually the audience's approximate contemporary - is thrust into The Future and has to adjust to their new environment. Once they get to the future, they can be thawed out and reanimated. ![]() Unfortunately, this time travel is one-way, unless time is cyclical.Ĭryonics, as Applied Phlebotinum, is a mechanism by which a person can be frozen, halting the aging process and giving them a non-stop ticket on the Suspended Animation Express to the future. The billionaire Tech Bro's Time Travel: be put into a high-tech cryonic pod at death and wake up in the distant future. ![]()
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