Redshift (itch) (The Act Apart)

The Earth was dying. Well before the end came, a sleeper-ship was launched, hastily built and aimed at a distant star. It was an ark, full of cryogenically frozen people and enough genetic material to give humans another chance on a new world, if they could find one. That was 300 years ago. Contact was lost just as the ship reached Beta Persei. Meanwhile, climate change ravaged those remaining on Earth. Against every prediction, humanity survived - barely. After many generations Earth has become habitable in some areas but there arent enough people to perform the work that will need to be done...