Many of you will not know the other side of history only that has been told to your elders. An account that is often written from one side. Today I correct that wrong, I fix the coming to be of me, how I shocked your world and now I ended up in here. This side of me, I mean our history is long, it is older then I am. But it all started just over sixty years ago.

A new discovery was announced that a new M class dwarf was discovered with two habitual starts. For the first two years, the news was received a bit timid, a possibility for colonisation if humanity ever came to it. Though we had more pressing problems on our hands, global warming, tensions between nations, scarcity of essential resources. The future was looking dystopian, self-centred.

That changed when Seti discovered faint radio signals from the Teegarden system, by distributing the signal across a fast computer network across the world with multiple complex mathematical algorithms revealed a that whatever created it was not a fluke of a star, but a structured dataset. The signal did not die off, it only grew in strength and more numerous. In a rush to get more of this signal and provide that was initially headed to a different star was used to send to the Teegarden system. Only three years after discovering the message, the probe was launched. Its onboard thermal-nuclear generator together with the latest development in ion-EMP hybrid drives allowed it to travel at a good portion of the speed of light. It was estimated that in thirty years it arrived and could send data back. It was a great year for humanity, the launch of the probe was soon surpassed by the first Solar collector satellite to capture fasts amounts of solar radiation to provide power down to the ground.

On top of that SETI announced they discovered that the weak radio signal heard three years earlier was akin to a radio station. They had found alien life, and it was closer by then anyone thought. We were no longer alone. In the wake of this, just a year later, we finally got the holy grail of power production. The First fusion reactor became active, the first that could sustain the fusion reaction for a long time and provide more power out then put into it.

In the hope to gain more funds, SETI launched an internet radio where they transmitted the received radio signal and the translation below it. The launch nearly caused massive riots across the globe as people failed to grasp the complications. Yes, humanity as a whole was afraid, yet more and more money was poured into mars missions. The planet was nearing total collapse, and we needed a plan B. Teegarden was too far, mars were perhaps doable.

The first carbon dioxide scrubbers were installed two years later, at the end of the year, every country had enough to absorb not only their own carbon dioxide emissions but also take a jab at lowering the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere using chemicals, and algae. Work started on the first manned mission to Teegarden. It was too far away to keep sending probes. We wanted someone on the ground. I can remember this news, I was perhaps nine at that time. The technologies developed for the Mars missions were used, such as cryo pods.

When I was eighteen, I enrolled in university to become an Astro-engineer. I wanted to be one of those who developed and worked on the new Mars colony. The world was not big enough, and yet it becomes a whole lot smaller when later that year the first TV station of Teegarden was received and shown to the public. I don’t know what we expected you to look like, the theories where wild but the look that came near to dragons, well no one dreamed of that. Perhaps they did, but you don’t want to hear that side of our imagination.

Through my studies, I became sidetracked into the first mission to Teegarden. When I graduated five years later, I was launched into orbit as the first human mission. After passing Jupiter in the last gravitational slingshot, I entered cryo-sleep.

Only waking up thirty-six years later that we got commercial nuclear fusion and the first probe arrived. My ship’s computer received the data and displayed it for me before sending it amplified back to earth. It was vital that we didn’t let them know we were coming, and we were listening.

When I arrived, that was when our story together starts