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    10 hours ago

    Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.

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    The project founder accidentally died, the computer AI fails to keep them alive and the spiders start to think the satellite is a god. Then they enslave the native ants.

    The big problem is no one remembered to tell the humans on Earth about the experiment. Or the humans on the generation ship that knew died centuries ago.

    EDIT: If you haven’t figured it out, I’m describing the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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        No, and that is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar which people thought was a rip off of Project Haily Mary by Andy Weir (which I read and loved). When the trailer for Spaceman was released, Weir had to go on social media and tell fans Spaceman of Bohemia was published before his novel.

        EDIT: I did not read Spaceman of Bohemia.

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      10 hours ago

      Or in a similar vein, the ship’s cat has evolved into a suave humanoid with impeccable taste in fashion.

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      Better than the sort of intelligent final evolution of the cat you released when the captain attempted to confiscate it that has a selection of fine outfits and hair gel.