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    Ryland Grace was ready to sacrifice himself and his unborn child to save Rocky. After realizing he won't be dying after all, he's now doing his best to prepare for parenthood aboard the Hail Mary with the limited supplies he has. With only his alien best friend for support, there is a lot to do before passenger number three is welcomed aboard.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “Listen, Adrian, Rocky, guys, I need you to do something for me,” I tell them. I can tell that they instantly shift their attention to me, focused in my direction, waiting for me. “If it comes down to it— You’ll save our babies, right? You’ll keep them safe?”

    “Rocky protect family!” Rocky exclaims without hesitating. “Rocky keep safe, pebbles safe, safe, safe, statement.”

    Adrian speaks a heartbeat later. “Grace mean if Grace die.”

    Rocky stops instantly, whirling back towards me. “Grace will not die. Grace will not die, statement. No choice, no choice, no choice. Rocky choose family. Adrian choose family. Rocky Adrian choose Grace, choose— choose pebbles. Same time, statement. No choice, statement. Rocky fix. Rocky always fix. Promise, promise, promise.”

    “But,” I try to say, “if there has to be a choice—”

    “No choice, statement,” Rocky repeats, more forcefully this time.

    or: Ryland Grace experiences a lot of bleeding and starts having contractions. Everyone panics in their own way.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    It’s been a few years since the Hail Mary succeeded, and now Grace and Rocky are on a mission to help the other affected stars that are being eaten by Astrophage. They’ve been traveling around the galaxy, letting taumeoba loose on the infected areas, when they run into a strange solar system. It’s got a planet with a moon that has an ocean full of… blood? And what’s even more strange is what they find on the surface. Or a more fitting description: who they find.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    ‘It was, decidedly, not Grace’s day.

    He felt as though he had completed at least 15 laps on Stratt’s Vat from all the people who needed a word with him. What little free time he had between his brief meetings were filled by mind-numbing paperwork that never seemed to shrink in number. And, to top it all off, he had an annoyingly persistent stomach ache that had plagued him since he woke up.’

    Or: Grace gets a bad stomach ache just before meeting with the primary Hail Mary crew and blames it on overworking himself. Spoiler alert: it isn’t.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    There's something Ryland Grace hasn't been doing properly, and he pays for it dearly.

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    05 Jun 2026