WAVING!!!!!
I am not worried either. By T.S.Eliot, the lines in quotation marks are from Mother Juliana. Link to info on her below.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
“And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well”
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelations_of_Divine_Love
Revelations of Divine Love is a medieval book of Christian mystical devotions. It was written between the 14th and 15th centuries by Julian of Norwich, about whom almost nothing is known. It is the earliest surviving example of a book in the English language known to have been written by a woman. It is also the earliest surviving work written by an English anchorite or anchoress.
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The first four lines of that poem are the opening for my SF novel. The working title is "Scout's Honor".
It is basically an Age-of-Sail novel set roughly 1,700 years in the future. There is FTL travel but no FTL communications. If you want a message sent between systems, one or more ships will have to take it. Best speed of travel is about 19 light years per week.
The problem with space is that no matter where you are, every place else is a long way away.
Or, as Douglas Adams put it in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)