[ WP ] After four hundred years in space the first ever colony ship finally arrives at Alpha Centauri only to be hailed by a human voice .

When the stasis pod cracked open the lights were far too bright and the klaxons were sounding. Something was very wrong. As the captain it was expected of me to jump to action but after four hundred years I could barely struggle out of the pod. Wrapping up in a thermal blanket while feeling returned to my limbs, I eased into the nearest operator console. 
 
 Ship status appeared to be fine, no breaches, no system failures, everything was green and yet the klaxons continued to sound. I checked our position and was surprised to see we'd made it. I pulled up the view screen and saw the small pair of specs, barely discernible, that was Centauri A and B. It had been four hundred years and we were only a month or so out from Centauri B and I'd been woken up a week earlier than I should have been. 
 
 Checking the crew status I saw that the other officers' pods were rapidly reanimating as well, but I'd been awoken first. Thankfully the rest of the crew and passengers were still in deep stasis. The Genea was a colony ship and almost all of the passengers were settlers. No use waking anyone up till we solved this problem. 
 
 Looking around the other ship status screens for something else that was wrong, or at least a way to silence the blaring klaxon, something impossible caught my eye. At the com officer's station an incoming transmission notification was flashing. 
 
 Easing over to the communication's console I saw something more impossible, the transmission was local. I accepted the transmission, which thankfully silenced the klaxon. I was expecting something alien or fantastical, nothing else could be so far out here and able to contact the ship directly. Contact with an alien race was always something we'd hoped for eventually. I think I was more surprised though when a perfectly normal human greeted me. 
 
 `` Captain Sommlin?'' the man asked once the connection was established. `` I'm Commander Thompson, it's good to finally meet you.'' 
 
 `` Who are you, how do you know my name?'' I demanded. 
 
 `` I know quite a bit more, you're actually my great grandfather, believe it or not. I'm sure you have lots of questions, but the obvious is that technology has advanced a lot faster than your ship. and quite a bit's changed since your ship left Earth. Yours was one of the first and slowest colony ships and so one of the very last to arrive. We've been holding this outpost waiting for your arrival. There is so much to show you.''
