life has already died out on Kepler 452b...
On a sweaty greenhouse of a planet, about a billion years ago, Noel Smuk is arguing with his executives.
"Well if we can't get a person off this boiling hellhole, what can we do?"
"How about sending a robot ship with frozen microbes? The AI can scan for life and seed any sterile environments, then come back and tell us where it has fertilised. By the time it gets back we'll have developed better cryopreservation."
"Great, where to go?"
"There's this little exoplanet about 1400 LY away, bit small, bit young but it should definitely be on the list"...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
