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    Ryland’s starting to think the human from the submarine isn’t really a human at all, not anymore. It doesn't matter, he wants Simon all the same.

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    Simon knows that Ryland Grace is an angel, he just can’t figure out how he got to heaven. He’s not complaining, though it took becoming a devil himself to finally behold the divine.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Erid had lost hope of the crew they sent to space ever returning. And then they spot a different ship coming towards them and a pebble talking to them over the radio about how they and Rocky found the solution to the star-killer problem. Chaos, of course, ensues.

    Aka. The Eridians assume Grace is a pebble.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    [“No! What’ll be next” Grace joked “A sex doll I can treat as a friend?”

    Grace paled as the words left his mouth, oh dear god, what had he done.

    Calico gasped “Amaze!”

    She turned to a nervous intern sat next to her

    “Write that down! Write that down! Oh, just think of the profits, we could sell copies at the gift shop!”]

     

    Grace apprehensively evaluated the large, xenonite chest that had just been delivered to the front door of his beach house. He had a horrible inkling about where this was headed.

     

    Or: Grace befriends a sex doll. Rocky is totally not jealous.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    At some point between arriving on Erid, emaciated and delirious, and starting up his classroom, Dr Captain Ryland Grace had become a global sensation.
    His actions, unbeknownst to him, triggered cultural waves that, to the humour of Saviour-Rocky, and the glee of the management team at the Centre For Human-Eridian Friendship, introduced trends with unprecedented efficiency and reach.

     

    Or: Grace is unwittingly a cultural icon, baby he’s bigger than Madonna.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Ryland and Rocky discuss what to call each other.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Adrian is trying their best to do everything they can to help Erid while Rocky remains lost in the stars. He'll come home, they know he'll come home. So they just have to do everything they can to help while they wait down the clock.
    And then the astronomers spot something headed straight for Erid. And it's not the ship they sent up there over half a century ago.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    'Rocky, do you remember the expected, average human lifespan?'

    I ask it conversationally but Rocky freezes in place all the same.

    'No,' he states.

    'No?'

    'Yes, Rocky remembers. No, do not want to talk about this.'

    I lean back and fold my arms.

    'Rock…'

    'Grace. No. Bad bad bad.'


    Dr Ryland Grace is an old man. Dr Ryland Grace knows what he wants to happen when the time comes. Rocky doesn't want to talk about it.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    When Rocky returns to planet Erid after 60 odd years, Adrian expects a beautiful reunion with their long lost partner and a happily ever after under a brightening star. Instead, they get an extremely codependent and traumatized mate, and a malnourished, creepy, leaky space blob, who are attached at the hip. Could Adrian learn to love this alien creature, or will it tear their marriage apart?

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Rocky tries to teach Grace how to speak Eridian. It goes…okay. And strangely emotionally.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Rocky picks the xenonite weaver back up. “It is fine. No more surprise noise.”

    I laugh. “Well, hold on, what qualifies as a surprise noise?”
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    Rocky discovers a small selection of variety of noises that humans are able to make.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    All life on Earth evolved, in the beginning, from aquatic life forms. To many, the call to return to the ocean is instinctual, a feeling deep in their bones that goes far beyond any rational reasoning. To float amongst the waves, to kick and splash until it feels as though you were always part of the water, is to be entirely free.

    --Or--

    Grace gets access to an ocean, and immediately forgets everything else he's supposed to be doing.
    Rocky is not as thrilled by this.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    “Grace, question?”

    I perk up at the sound of Rocky's voice. It's not uncommon after almost two years into our trip to Erid to ask random questions about me, or humans, or really earth in general. Especially after an hour or two on his computer.

    “Yes Rocky?”

    “Humans persistence predators, question? Humans hunters, question?”

    “Ah.”

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    or humans can seem terrifying to space rocks

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    01 Jul 2026

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    There were four hours of camera footage on the beetles. They’ve all seen parts, because it’s everywhere, but no-one has been able to bring themselves to watch the whole thing. But they owe it to Dr. Grace. They owe him far, far more than that.
    The lights dim, someone presses play…and there he is.
    “So, I met an alien…”
    Katsuki laughs, shaking his head in amazement. The whole world knows about the Eridians by now, but all he can think is: of course. Of course Dr. Ryland Grace made first contact twice. He always was the best of them.
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    Or, for the first time in nearly 30 years, the Petrova Taskforce reunites for one last mission: to see what remains of their Dr. Grace.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Grace had once explained to me the meaning of their surname in their native language. Elegance of form, beauty in motion.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Grace knew that there were going to be cultural differences between Eridians and humans.

    Rocky knew this, too, but no matter how foolish humans could be, even the densest of them knew this was courting, right? Right??

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    AKA Grace keeps doing things that Rocky percieves as courting (per Eridian traditions) and is entirely clueless about it

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    01 Jul 2026

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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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    01 Jul 2026

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    Eridian reddit reacts to extraterrestrial life.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    A curious Eridian breaks into Grace’s biodome while he’s sleeping, and learns that a human scared out of sleep will often wake up swinging

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Something was standing above his towel.

    No… someone.

    They seemed to be observing the towel, claws tapping against the material with what he took as curiosity, pinching it between the appendage.

    Was it Rocky? It’d make sense, the Eridian would certainly have something harsh to say about him leaving his stuff laying around. He always had some mean quip to insult his shoddy human memory.

    He opened his mouth to defend himself before Rocky could say something snappy, when the figure then moved, stocky legs rising from beneath their carapace and lifting them to their full standing height.

    They were tall. Too tall.

    That wasn’t Rocky.

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    Grace receives an unexpected visitor one night in his home on Erid.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    “Proof of concept,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. “We’ve tested it thoroughly to ensure it fits the specified nutritional profile, and several members of our team have ingested small amounts of it to ensure there were no adverse effects.”

    “You ate some of it?” I ask, rudely. I’m too irate to mind my language. Who do they think they are? That meat is for Grace. In a way, that meat is Grace.

    “Yes,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. They and the rest of the human life support thrum know better than to be offended by my occasionally strange behaviour. “Obviously we weren’t going to risk the life of Honoured Grace on a completely untested technology.”

    That doesn’t mean much. There’s a lot of things that are safe for ingestion by Eridians that would outright kill a human.

    Trust Grace, I remind myself. He’ll have thought of all this.

    (OR: Grace's meburgers from the book epilogue. Let's talk about those!)

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    30 Jun 2026

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