u/Grouchy_Purchase3057

Technology/equipment breaking down faster than the colony can reproduce it

Typical set up: earth has rapidly become uninhabitable due to reasons so a team is sent out to establish a colony in a last ditch effort to populate a new planet and save humanity. Time (more or less now. +5-10 years if needed to establish some new technology that will be essential)

Crew is small and supplies they arrive with are limited (this is addressed).

Theoretically, they arrive with all of humanity’s knowledge stored digitally. However they’ll be establishing a very primitive colony while they repopulate.

How do I deal with the fact that the technology housing this digital library on the ship is going to go bad before this colony can reestablish the industrial base needed to build a new computer/server/whatever and pass the knowledge on?

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u/Grouchy_Purchase3057 — 2 days ago