Proxima B: The Pale Red Dot

By my calculations (one light-year = six trillion miles) about 26 trillion miles from here. There are two ways to figure out how to traverse such a vast distance within one's lifetime: (1) Figure out how to do it oneself; or (2) be apprised of how to do it by someone else who has already figured it out.

What I sense (in these muted, orderly, and deliberate revelations [of which this is just one]--like gradated pearls on a string--of the existence of a larger, perhaps Galactic, Imperium of those who travel, somehow, faster than the speed of light, to which we seem to be asking admission as participant equals) is confrontation. Somebody doesn't want us to go nuts and demand it all at once.