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    After launching a Taumoeba probe to Venus, the old Hail Mary crew gets together to mourn and reminisce. Long ignored truths are finally spoken aloud.

    Inspired by Dan by Noah Kahan

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    03 May 2026

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    The original Project Hail Mary crew get together to mourn Grace after the successful launch of the taumoeba to Venus.

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    After a year in orbit, Grace thinks he's ready to finally make his way down to Erid. The planet has been eagerly awaiting his arrival, ready to welcome him like a hero. Grace forgot to consider just how loud Erid could be and, more importantly, how frayed his tolerance is after years of near solitary travel.

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    Grace is overstimulated and has a meltdown shortly after arriving on Erid. Rocky tries to help.

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    01 May 2026

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    Grace has a meltdown due to overstimulation when he first goes onto Erid’s surface. He then tells Rocky the truth of how he ended up on the mission.

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    Grace is dying. He's been dying half this trip. There's no point in ignoring it, though he and Rocky try to anyway. One particularly bad day, he finds he can't shake the thought of Yao's gun, hidden away down in storage and calling to him.

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    "There's a gun on the ship.
    A gun on the ship for one very specific reason. A reason that Grace has spent years running away from, but one that keeps chasing after him. "

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    01 May 2026

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    Grace is depressed in the final days on the journey to Erid.

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    One unexpected benefit of Rocky's new xenonite suit is the discovery that Grace's panic is often soothed by Rocky's weight on his chest. It's come in handy during many nightmares and Rocky is ecstatic to have a new way to help. During Grace's latest nightmare, Rocky goes to put weight on his back to soothe him. It doesn't work. It really, really doesn't work.

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    01 May 2026

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    Rocky accidentally makes Grace’s nightmare memory of being forced onto the mission worse.

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    As he settles into Erid, Grace finds himself wanting more and more to better blend in with his new neighbors. His biology is a hard bridge to cross, but he gets a few ideas when Rocky gifts him some Eridian gems.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    Grace feels out of place on Erid. After Rocky gifts him with some gem stones from near his birthplace, Grace feels much more Eridian.

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    The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).

    Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    Rocky panics when Grace wants to swim.

  7. Rec 42

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    Ryland Grace wakes up on the Hail Mary with no recollection of who he is and raging OCD.

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    27 Apr 2026

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    Grace has OCD. Once he meets Rocky and eventually tells him about his OCD, things start to become better.

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    "Humans put Eridians in game, question?"

    "You mean, like a spider?" I ask. "Are you seeing a spider?"

    "Not spider," Rocky says. "Four legs. Tall carapace."

    "What color is it?"

    "Middle-rough."

    Middle-rough. That's Eridian for green.

    "Strange sound," Rocky comments.

    The creeper explodes.

    Grace and Rocky play Minecraft. That's it that's the fic

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    27 Apr 2026

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    Grace introduces Rocky to Minecraft.

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    "Without thinking of it, Grace makes it through two and three fourths of a bag of coffee. Rookie numbers. The taste didn't get better, but it was something new, almost comforting in how demanding it was of his senses. It shushed that little voice telling him if he had to see another white spaceship panel, or taste taumoeba again, he would throw himself into the nearest star’s orbit."
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    Grace remembers he can drink coffee, and immediately regrets it.

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    27 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Grace finds the coffee supply and quickly regrets it.

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    "Understand. Some Eridians like that. Family, friend, profession thrum enough. No mate or offspring."

    Grace feels... Not exactly relief — the unease doesn't leave him — but something similar to appreciation rises to keep it company. "Huh. That's nice."

    "Yes. All Eridians important for community."

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Grace thinks about a conversation he and Rocky had about him not having a partner and being fine with it while he watches Rocky sleep.

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    "What are Eridian funeral rites, Rocky?"

    Or - Grace was growing older.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Grace and Rocky talk about the end that nears.

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    On the long journey to Erid, Rocky and Grace tell each other their reasonings for going on their respective missions.

    Rocky is... less than pleased with Grace's answer.

    Or - Rocky finds out that Grace was forced to go on the mission.

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    23 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Rocky learns that Grace going on the mission wasn’t voluntary. He’s not happy about it.

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    One thing that Rocky has learned about humans is that they like to look at pictures.

    Maybe. Or maybe it is just a particular habit of his Grace, who seems to pass more and more time sitting in the projection room and looking at his rolling images of Earth.

    Rocky likes Earth. Especially the beach. That’s Grace’s favorite place, too.

    But the pictures don’t change. Not more than they did the first time Grace showed him, with the waves crashing up onto the sand and the leaves of the trees rustling in the wind.

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    Rocky's perspective of Grace's depression on the journey to Erid.

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    23 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Rocky tries to help Grace through depression on their way to Erid. He’s getting good at helping.

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    Ryland Grace reaches the end of a very, very long life on Erid. Rocky and the Eridians say goodbye.

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    23 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    When Grace dies, all of Erid mourns.

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    His friend is sleeping.

    He takes the chance to reflect on the long years that have passed since their voyage on the Hail Mary, and what their friendship means to him.

    He knows he isn't ready for what comes next.

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    23 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Rocky realizes that Grace has passed on. He stays to keep watch for a while longer.

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    For Eridians, the six of six of six is special, and today marks Grace's 216th anniversary. Measured, of course, by Earth's orbit around its star Sol.

    In the morning, while the fog is still high, Adrian finds Rocky at the beach.

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    23 Apr 2026

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    On the 216th anniversary of meeting Grace, Rocky reflects.

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    inez: Welcome to the Mr. Grace Memorial Discord! This server is open to any student who had him as a teacher or knew him as a person. It’s a place for us to mourn and remember him and his one true love: science.

    Earth, after the Hail Mary launches.

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    23 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Some news and social media following the first two years after the launch of The Hail Mary.

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    The elevator's receiver array picks up a garbage signal beamed in from deep space. No matter their attempts, Eridian scientists cannot make top or bottom of it. A misfire, or an echo of that long lost crew's final transmission, most likely. It is recorded, but never publicized.

    And then it happens again.

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    22 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Erid receives a transmission from an alien speaking a butchered version of their language. (Or, Grace manages to send a message to Erid to get them to come and meet him so he can give them the information to save their planet after Rocky’s death. He also offers his own body to be studied for science after he will soon die.)

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    Both crews survive. It doesn't make Grace and Rocky any less important to each other.

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    22 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Both crews survive. This changes nothing between Rocky and Grace.

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    One day, Mr. Grace disappears from class. He reappears on TV as part of the Project Hail Mary team, but Abby was waiting for the day after the launch when he would go back to teaching.

    He never does.

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    21 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Grace leaving his students behind, seen from Abby’s point of view.

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