The timeline has been altered so that the Tannhauser made landfall at 0 L.C. This makes things a lot less confusing, and has been done for a number of reasons.
'300 million people at once, on a fresh planet, can't work. No infrastructure, no farms, no food. The Tannhauser was equipped with plenty of supplies and colonization equipment, but it still wouldn't be enough to support the entire crew. You'd need 10 tannhausers filled with food, prefab houses, tech, and equipment just to accommodate all the needs of the 1 with people on it. Once the Tannhauser arrived at Neo Terra, in entered a geosynchronous orbit and transferred all of its power to supporting the millions of cryopods onboard. The Tannhauser's massive size prohibits it from safely being able to land on the surface.
The skeleton crew wakes up. They realize they have had mechanical issues with the historical and technological data repositories. The clock has reset itself. Last Contact.
Not everyone wakes up at once. It would be foolish for them to do so, and protocols were set in place to prevent such a thing from happening. The first people that wake up are the farmers and the leadership. They scout the geography of the planet from space, ferry themselves and the equipment down to the surface, and begin to prepare the planet for intense colonization. The leadership writes the founding charter of the Free Peoples of Procyon, the Libra Carta, and works with the farmers to establish large farms to feed the people.
After a decade, a stable farming cycle has been established. Next come the engineers, architects, builders, and workers. These are people who have signed up to work while the rest of the colony is asleep. These men and women that know they will live most of their lives setting up the planet for the rest of the people sleeping up in space. There are almost 30 million on the planet at this point. They're able to eat and sleep safely, the planet providing a copious bounty of food, working every day to bring the planet to full capacity.
Then comes the people who are knowledgeable in fields that enhance human culture. Scientists, cultural leaders, teachers, among many others. They establish the most essential foundations for mankind's future. Public hospitals, colleges, governments, technological institutes, and more. Most importantly, a space program is launched with the goal of providing the technology and scientific principles that allow for a complete settlement of the sector. The waking of essential 'planetary crew' continues to happen for another 25 years.
By the year LC 50, the planet is ready, and the space program is nearly complete. While some of the technological readouts and schematics were lost due to errors on the Tannhauser, the principles behind them were not. This leads to the creation of new ships and technologies that are unique to the Procyon sector. By this time there are 160 million on the planet, 150 million Colonists, 10 million newbirths. The time has come to awake the remaining colonists sleeping up above. 150 million freshly woken are ferried down to the planet over the course of a year. Once on the ground, they are briefed on what has happened, and let loose into the new society, free to choose their own destiny. By LC 52, every colonist has awoken. The culture shock is intense for some, as they reunite with friends or family members have aged dramatically during their sleep.
The gears of history begin to turn. After six years, the founding members of the ASP secede, using the developing deep-space exploration techniques to find new systems to settle. It was unbeknownst to the people Procyon just how quickly things would change...'
Neo Terra was rendered uninhabitable in 68 L.C. This means your character from Sirius can have aged anywhere between 30 and 84 years. However, there are strange effects in the aging of those who have been exposed to long-term cryo sleep. These effects will be explained in a further update.
