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    “How far did he get?”

    “Almost touched the fence,” Carl says.

    “He was motivated,” Eva murmurs distantly. She is suddenly very tired.

    “Past tense already?”

    Eva flinches, feeling slapped in the face. No more coffees brought to her right as she starts to lag in the afternoon, no more bags of obnoxiously-colored candies hidden away in her pocket to slip to him, lest the vultures in the engineering department claim them all. No more staring at reports while he spins his chair around and talks about nothing, his voice soothing white noise to her after three years of hearing it practically nonstop. No more beers shared after a long day’s work, a brief respite before beginning another grueling day the next morning. It is all past tense now.

    (eva stratt has just kidnapped her second-in-command. eva stratt has just lost her closest friend.)

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    30 Jul 2026

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    From the Hail Mary’s projector room, they've scaled Earth’s mountains, traversed its oceans, explored its cities. Now, Rocky wants to return the favor.

    or; eridian soundscapes to study and relax to.

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    17 Jul 2026

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    What the title says. About 11 years ago (from my perspective; relativity is weird) I was launched into space onboard the Hail Mary to figure out a solution to the Astrophage problem. Now I live on an alien planet I call Erid, in the 40-Eridani system. Yes, I’m actually Ryland Grace. Ask me anything.

    Also, can someone please tell me if Eva Stratt is alive? And ideally send me a video of you punching her in the face? Guess that’s a long shot, but it can’t hurt to ask.

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    Grace and Rocky figure out how to connect to Earth's internet from Erid. They may not have thought this through.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    The planet 40 Eridani a b is approximately sixteen point three light years away. She checked. It’s actually a very popular Google search these days.

    He keeps having these dreams about a person with no face. It's on the tip of his tongue, really.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

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    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    03 Jul 2026