Okay, calm down. Just calm down. You aren't some ditzy cheerleader: you are a middle aged manager. You have a degree, you know how to think. Yes, it is hard right now, I understand. Let's try some of that square breathing stuff. Out, hold hold, in - no, more slowly. In - that's it; slow. Out. Get the rhythm. Okay, calm down. Excitement will not help here, just breathe and calm down. Think of calming things for a minute or two. Good, I have music in my head. "Claire d'Lune" good, Debussy, that is calming. 'Glad I'm not multitracking Wagner...
The galaxy we call home is a very large and old place. Within its vast expanse and during its time of existence great and wonderful things have happened, and then happen again. Life has arisen, developed to marvelous intelligence, and then faded away. The very stars are born in turmoil to live raging lives of unimaginable nuclear violence and then finally too they die. When galaxies collide only rarely do actual celestial bodies touch and yet entire solar systems are rent apart and life is extinguished upon a grand scale. Every single thing that might be said about our galaxy, about any galaxy is writ large.
Once a fine race of intelligent beings arose in a small pocket of the galaxy that may as not remain unnamed...
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