#humans are stupid
A crew of astronauts spend their entire lives to embark on an interstellar journey that will take 100’s of years to arrive. En route, however, technology advances. When they arrive, they find others have already arrived decades ago thanks to new tech…
Those others had arrived to find others who already arrived. And those others had found others who already arrived.
As a weird side effect, the further you draw a line to trace the new planet’s history, the younger / newer the astronaut is in respective to Earth generations.
And so, while the Earth’s first sent had their glory taken from remaining the first, it was the Earth’s first sent who were the final pioneers to complete their new home.
