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    The alien put its top two legs together and… started… doing… something.

    Simon felt like his mind was not computing. He just couldn't, for some reason, recognize what he saw. It was not a vision issue. His eye was fine. It was just the why where it all fell apart.

    Okay, maybe those… rhythmic movements and limb waving left and right were some kind of an aggressive display. Maybe the rock was taunting him. Or showing off its guns.

    The alien proceeded to… gyrate its hips at him, which, well, alright. Probably taunting.

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    A hiccup on the way to Erid hurls the Hail Mary away from her course. Now the space around them is starless, the radio comes to life with a female voice, and there is a single visible moon that might just be the door out of this mess. Up is down, past is future, the Light is in the deepest darkness, and death is never the end.

    In so many words, Grace and Rocky (and Simon) have to save the stars one more time.

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    14 Aug 2026

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    Grace, Yao, and Ilyukina all arrive in Tauseti together.

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    12 Aug 2026

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    The Hail Mary has spent the last four years on its return journey to Earth; its Taumoeba safely secure and its astronauts excited to finally return home.

    But Earth was never expecting their return, or the knowledge they bring with them.

    or; local earthlings startled to find out crew they sacrificed 26 years ago alive and well. also aliens exist.

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    12 Aug 2026

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    Grace doesn't have a very good estimation of himself. He has no idea how much people genuinely like him, especially (most) of the people involved in this project. Ikukhina meets him, finds him adorable, and immediately decides to adopt him. Yáo is the only one who can even somewhat contain her but finds himself also somehow adopting Grace in the process.

    Then Grace wakes up with amnesia.

    What happens when Grace remembers he was sent against his will? What happens when he still meets Rocky first, they still have to go to Erid, and now the three of them have to duke it out for custody/best friend rights of Grace?

     

    Updates every other day and has a heavy focus on the initial trio friendship before Rocky shows up, so it'll be a while before we meet our favorite alien spider rock

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    12 Aug 2026

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    Dr. Ryland Grace wakes up to find himself alone, yet not entirely. With his crewmates stuck in their coma and no hope of waking them up any time soon, his only hope is to research the oddity that is Tau Ceti. What happens one day when his crew finally wakes up?

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    12 Aug 2026