1. A single Space astronaught is sent in a ship on a 200 year voyage to a new star and new planet, the first person every sent on such an exploration. He suffers through 200 years of bordom just to be know as the first person to colonize a new planet in a new solar system. He will get to name everything, River Jones, Mountain Smith, etc. He get there to find that humans arrived 100 years earlier, they found a fast travel method.
2. "I turned 21 in prison doing life without Parol" the ultimate waisted life. By 21 Alexander had conquered half the world. Why do some lives turn out so differently? No one could create an empire now. But maybe in the future, in space, someone could create an empire of known worlds, Could it be someone who started out in Prison, with a wasted life and changed enough to gather the resouces, and support necessary to create an empire, and if so how?
3. A Space life boat lands on a new planet, how do modern people survive without technology, or very limited tech. How do humans interact with new life, You don't know what is poisoneous, what animals are agressive, how do you make fire when you lasers don't work. What is that sound in the bush at night.
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I was reading your third idea when the series Firefly came to mind. Its on Netflix, you should watch it. I think you'd like it. Its similar but not the same.
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