"That's - pretty damned impressive, we were not ready to go anywhere and come back, not for a while, it would have been insanely expensive even by our own standards.  We built insanely powerful beams of light and used that to launch probes, just to get started on practicing, but they won't get to their destinations for a long time.  We did it just because we could, in the end, and not for - not for reasons, really."

"We were reasonably sure there was nobody else anywhere near our neighborhood, in any sun close enough for us to see it, for light to travel to us from there - people did some clever calculations saying that the aliens were probably around a billion years out, in our - simultaneity - all with logic and calculations that don't apply here at all, if your wizards can teleport there and back in less than years.  Find any people around the other suns, or is it all just lifeless other planets the way we'd deduced in our own world?"

"That's - incredibly impressive, we were not ready to go anywhere and come back, not for a while, it would have been insanely expensive even by our own standards.  We built insanely powerful beams of light and used that to launch probes, just to get started on practicing, but they won't get to their destinations for a long time.  We did it just because we could, in the end, and not for - not for reasons, really."

"We were reasonably sure there was nobody else anywhere near our neighborhood, in any sun close enough for us to see it, for light to travel to us from there - people did some clever calculations saying that the aliens were probably around a billion years out, in our - simultaneity - all with logic and calculations that don't apply here at all, if your wizards can teleport there and back in less than years.  Find any people around the other suns, or is it all just lifeless other planets the way we'd deduced in our own world?"

"That's - incredibly impressive, we were not ready to go anywhere and come back, not for a while, it would have been insanely expensive even by our own standards.  We built hugely powerful beams of light and used that to launch probes toward the second-nearest sun, just to get started on practicing, but they won't get to their destinations for a long time.  We did it just because we could, in the end, and not for - not for reasons, really."

"We were reasonably sure there was nobody else anywhere near our neighborhood, in any sun close enough for us to see it, for light to travel to us from there - people did some clever calculations saying that the aliens were probably around a billion years out, in our - simultaneity - all with logic and calculations that don't apply here at all, if your wizards can teleport there and back in less than years.  Find any people around the other suns, or is it all just lifeless other planets the way we'd deduced in our own world?"

"That's - incredibly impressive, we were not ready to go anywhere and come back, not for a while, it would have been insanely expensive even by our own standards.  We built hugely powerful beams of light and used that to launch probes toward the second-nearest sun, just to get started on practicing, but they won't get to their destinations for a long time.  We did it just because we could, in the end, and not for - not for reasons, really."

"We were reasonably sure there was nobody else anywhere near our neighborhood, in any sun close enough for light to travel to us from there - people did some clever calculations saying that the aliens were probably a few billion years out, in our - simultaneity - all with logic and calculations that don't apply here at all, if your wizards can teleport there and back in less than years.  Find any people around the other suns, or is it all just lifeless other planets the way we'd deduced in our own world?"

"That's - incredibly impressive, we were not ready to go anywhere and come back, not for a while, it would have been insanely expensive even by our own standards.  We built hugely powerful beams of light and used that to launch probes toward the second-nearest sun, just to get started on practicing, but they won't get to their destinations for a long time.  We did it just because we could, in the end, and not for - not for reasons, really."

"We were pretty sure there was nobody else anywhere near our neighborhood, in any sun close enough for light to travel to us from there.  People did some clever calculations saying that the aliens were probably a few billion years out, in our - simultaneity - all with logic and calculations that don't apply here at all, if your wizards can teleport there and back in less than years.  Find any people around the other suns, or is it all just lifeless other planets the way we'd deduced in our own world?"