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