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    After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    "There is no point in any of this rumination. You are gone. You are nothing now but a muse, something that I can conjure upon command and listen. You are nothing more now than a lullaby, a prayer, a dissonant, augmented, ugly, beautiful melody."

    Rocky and Grace part ways for their respective planets. It should feel like a victory. It doesn't.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    He was fourteen during the battle of Filament Station. Even now, he can’t entirely remember why he was brought there in the first place. But he knows what he did. His memory of what happened after was spotty, and it was best if it was kept that way, he thinks. Some things shouldn’t be remembered. Not when your life is on the line as such is now.
    He spent the next fifteen years of his life as a COI prisoner; that is, until the COI discovered those four blood moons. Then, with a promise of freedom, he was welded into a submarine and sent down a one way trip into the oceans of the fourth moon, AT-5.

    Or, the fic that starts out as a complete movie study of Iron Lung, with a bit of PHM sprinkled in. And the explanation as to how one Ryland Grace and his best friend, Rocky, rescue an abandoned ship in the vast emptiness of space. Cue a lot of bloodymary. There's also gonna be a decent amount of religious trauma in this too. This is probably gonna take a lot of time.
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    10 Jun 2026

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    The alien—Grace—is finally asleep. Or, at least, Rocky thinks he is. He’s curled on his side, tucked away under a covering. Rocky sits on the other side of the alcove the human lies in, fiddling away with one of his many repair projects. Typically, watching another as they sleep is fairly straightforward and uneventful. Not much is needed beyond something to do and to keep a lookout for whoever’s resting.

    But Rocky can’t help but focus more on Grace as he rests. He just can’t; the way the human sleeps is, quite literally, otherworldly.

     

    Or: Snippets of Rocky watching Grace sleep during their mission to save their stars

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Ryland doesn't know where he is, what he's doing, or why he's doing it. All he knows is that he's in a universe with no stars and that an organization called the COI found the Hail Mary spinning out into deep space. He knows that Rocky may be injured somewhere, and he knows that the man that currently lays in a hospital bed in front of him should be dead as dirt but has miraculously survived.

    He knows he has been given an ultimatum. Find out what brought Simon back to life or never see Rocky again.

    The task proves more complicated than he thought.

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    08 Jun 2026