Just watched an entertaining and well done video of a massive starship’s voyage to the Alpha Centauri star system, to a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star, to spread humanity to a new planetary home.
One of the big issues presented was a need to ensure diversity of the passengers destined to populate the new planet, they want to be sure that all races are represented and this diversity maintained right up until arrival, and not become homogenized through intermarriage, though that wasn’t specifically covered in the video. Neither was the subject of diverse religions, only that they should all be genetically compatible.
The fact is that we fight over race, along with a lot of other more valid reasons that are still all self-defeating. So I hope that if we do manage to take over some distant planet, we have learned how to stop killing each other first. Otherwise we might just as well stay home and do it.
Besides that, why should races be included that never helped advance Mankind? Like Negroes, who invented nothing except the burning tire necklace, Australian aborigines, American Indians, Samoans and so on. Diversity is woke bullshit, it’s not practical, especially in a 100 year star trip.
Then, what if this is how races propagate in the Universe? Life is probably common, maybe that planet already has an ancient civilization on it of Worgles or even Zoggoths. (Oh, horrible thought). Our intrepid travelers may end up as lunch, or freeze-dried and turned into watch fobs. Seriously, there’s no reason to expect to be welcomed, by anything that might already be there on this planet that’s judged suitable for humans.
Personally I don’t think that we’ll be fit to visit other star systems to colonize them for many thousands of years yet. For a few explorers to wander the stars and see what’s there, fine, but considering the horrible mess we’ve made of our own planet with no real effort to clean the place up, we shouldn’t be allowed to go wreaking havoc among the stars. First we need to learn to get along with each other, stabilize our population and dispose of our trash without generating any pollution.