Proxima: Reflection Protocols

Part 1: Approach / Deconstruction of Hope)
(Spoken, single voice, processed through comms filter)
Lens distortion. Red dwarf.
From a point to a spectrum, from target to background.
All calculations correct. All systems nominal.
Arrival is an act of silence.
Earth is now the flight log,
An archive read aloud to remember:
Why did we come?

(Part 2: The Scan / The Empty Gesture)
(Choir enters: low, sustained, wordless vowels, creating a sense of awe and dread)
Probes deployed. The drone is sent.
Diagnosing void by homeland standards:
For carbon, silicon, patterns.
The answer — a null array. A perfect vacuum for meaning.
The only anomaly... is our own emission...
(Choir shifts: becomes more fragmented, mimicking static and reflected signals)

(Part 3: Crisis / Paradigm Shift)
(Choir transforms into a dissonant, questioning cluster of voices. Individual lines are spoken over it)
Mission Control is a sarcophagus for hope.
Engineers are silent. Linguists have no object.
The psychologist logs the mirror syndrome:
The crew longs to see a face in the data,
Speech in the noise.
The mission twists into a ritual...
...of decoding our own sounds.
The order to "observe" mutates.
Into the order to "contemplate."
(Choir resolves into a single, pure, but cold chord)
The object of study... dissolves.
Only the act of study remains.

(Part 4: Protocol «Echo» / The New Directive)
(Grand, resonant choir returns, now layered, representing the collective voice of the ship/consciousness)
THERE IS NO CONTACT. THERE IS A CHANNEL.
ONE-WAY. WE ARE THE SOURCE.
PROXIMA IS A MIRROR.
A RELAY. RETURNING TO US
OUR OWN SONG. PRISTINE. UNDISTORTED.
WE TRAVELED LIGHT-YEARS TO HEAR
THE SOURCE CODE OF OUR OWN MINDS,
GIVEN TO US IN THE SENSATION
OF ABSOLUTE SILENCE.
THE NEW TASK: TO RECORD.
NOT THE "WHAT"... BUT THE "HOW".
NOT THE SIGNAL... BUT THE SPACE BETWEEN.
TO DOCUMENT THE FACT OF OUR PRESENCE
AS THE SOLE COSMIC EVENT IN RANGE.

(Outro / Log Entry)
(Choir fades to a solitary, thin vocal pad, then to a single voice)
Date: Not Applicable.
Location: Proxima Centauri.
Phenomenon: Stable.
Presence: Confirmed.
Emission: Outgoing.
Expectation of Response: Terminated.
Mode: Observation.
Object: The process of observation.
(Sound collapses to a pure carrier tone, then to digital silence)