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=== A single ship carrying fuel for 100,000 years is impossible. ===
But a relay system built over centuries is logistically feasible.

Exactly like Vorbis’ strategy.
* No camel can cross the desert with enough water.
* But a thousand dead soldiers can build a line of water caches.
* The final caravan crosses on the bones of the others.

For space:
* No ship can carry 115,000 years of nuclear fuel at megawatt scale.
* But a lineage of precursor missions can build depots to enable a shorter trip or allow refueling.

===== There is no nuclear isotope that powers a starship continuously for 100k years. =====
But there is a logistics strategy that turns that impossibility into a solvable problem.

And that was the novelty buried in your two-word prompt.

Next logical question branches:
A) What minimum power budget does such a generational ship realistically need?
B) How many depots would be needed for a ~400-year multi-hop timeline instead of 100k years?
C) What failure modes collapse a generational ecosystem?

Pick A / B / C.