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    There's 1 in 70,000 people on the planet who have the gene needed to survive the Hail Mary's expedition. In that limited pool, 1 in maybe 1000 had the necessary skills needed for the mission — more dire still, even less people were willing to volunteer for what is essentially a suicide mission.

    When an explosion killed not only their science officers but also their engineers, Eva Stratt makes the tough decision to put 2 people on the spacecraft that no one was expecting to be even be candidates.

    One is a middle-school science teacher.

    One is a convicted eco terrorist.

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    AU where Simon did all his suffering on Earth and is dragged against his will onto the Hail Mary alongside Grace

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    30 May 2026

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    When Grace gets seemingly teleported by means unknown into the SM-13 right as it was nearing The Light, both Simon and Grace have no idea what is happening. Grace knows he was supposed to be in his house on Erid, Simon knows this new guy cannot possibly be a hallucination, and Ava, upon hearing Grace ramble about theories for how he got there, knows that new guy is Smart. Could-Secure-Our-Survival Smart.
    She orders Simon to bring Grace back to the surface, and thus begins Grace's ordeal in a starless universe.

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    29 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    In 1949, we sent the first primate to space.

    A little rhesus monkey. The scientists forced him into the rocket.

    He died upon impact with the ground. But, first, far from home, a monkey touched the stars.

    Far from home, a child of Earth was spat out. Here, he is resurrected, emerged into a new world.

    Monkey... something has followed you.

    (Three years in to the journey to Erid, there is something so bright and big in the Hail Mary’s path that it triggers an automatic shutdown of their engines.

    When they stop, there is nothing bright there. In the center of where this anomaly would have been, there is a submarine. An improbable submarine, and the even more improbable person inside of it. He is far from home, praying for safety in his dreams, where he floats in the water of kind oceans and hears his mother spin bedtime stories. He wants, with all his being, to be saved.

    Someone is listening. Someone is re-writing his story.

    Someone gives him Grace.)

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    28 May 2026

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    Ser Duncan the Tall wakes up in a land he doesn't recognise.

    The Erdtree burns gold on the horizon. The call of Grace pulls at his chest like a fishhook. The locals are hostile, the wildlife is worse, and the item descriptions are frankly insulting.

    He'll meet a merchant who plays the lute, a maiden with one amber eye, a spirit horse with opinions, a seamster, and a scholar. He'll fight crabs the size of wagons, and demigods.

    He is not Anakin Skywalker. Or Azor Ahai. He is not even especially clever. He cannot read most of the item descriptions and understands fewer.

    But he gets up. Every time.

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    26 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace is living peacefully on Erid. Peacefully until something (or someone) so monumentally bloody stains the water in his enclosure.

    Simon is trying to get by on what he thinks is heaven, until he starts to mutate into something unholy.

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    You know the drill it’s platonic bloodymary time

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    25 May 2026