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    Grace thought he had adjusted well enough to life on Erid. He had his best friend, a biodome for himself, a job, and he was not dying, which was a pleasant bonus. Everything had worked out, and he was content living the rest of his life among the Eridians, until they detected a strange, impossible transmission from a starless patch of the universe, and Grace just had to look into it.

    Simon wonders why he ever accepted to be part of the convict realization program in the first place, when he knew full well they would have just sent him to die.
    He just wanted to live.

    Despite being universes apart, they were Seen. Through signals, they met.

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    OR: Grace and Rocky track a distress signal from a human not far from Erid and get wormhole'd straight into the Iron Lung universe. No one is happy about this, especially Grace who's very much not prepared to deal with -gestures broadly- THIS.

    Loosely inspired by The Great Tribulation by aloremrem, thanks to them this went from 'Simon gets thrown onto the Hail Mary' to 'Grace and Rocky get sent to hell'. The plot is different, but the inspiration is there so I'm crediting aloremrem anyway.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    When Grace gets seemingly teleported by means unknown into the SM-13 right as it was nearing The Light, both Simon and Grace have no idea what is happening. Grace knows he was supposed to be in his house on Erid, Simon knows this new guy cannot possibly be a hallucination, and Ava, upon hearing Grace ramble about theories for how he got there, knows that new guy is Smart. Could-Secure-Our-Survival Smart.
    She orders Simon to bring Grace back to the surface, and thus begins Grace's ordeal in a starless universe.

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    20 Jul 2026

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    PEAKKK
    SO WELL CHARACTERIZED AJSHNDGDNFHFJDHDJ

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    Simon waited.

    Waited for them to apologize. Tell him there’s nothing they could do. That he wasn’t worth the trouble or resources, that he wasn’t worth the time.

    But that never came.

    Instead, after a second Grace came back on the line, his voice sounding determined now. “Alright,” he said. “Hang tight.”

    Simon blinked slowly. “What?”

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    18 Jul 2026

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    “I am not sweet,” Nico replied, feeling his expression turn surly. “Any sane person with half a functioning brain would know that was the right move. Why wouldn’t he want a playlist? The guy loves music.”

    “You are sweet and it’s so sweet that you won’t admit it,” Kayla replied, a knowing smile on her face, like she knew she was getting under his skin. Nico rolled his eyes and quickly turned out of the infirmary, feeling himself blush red all over his face. He was not sweet.

    or, Nico doesn’t think he’s romantic. Everyone else disagrees.

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    16 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    SCREAMING. CRYING. GIGGLING. KICKING MY FEET AT 3 AM.
    I LOVW THIS FIC SO MUCHHHH

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    There's 1 in 70,000 people on the planet who have the gene needed to survive the Hail Mary's expedition. In that limited pool, 1 in maybe 1000 had the necessary skills needed for the mission — more dire still, even less people were willing to volunteer for what is essentially a suicide mission.

    When an explosion killed not only their science officers but also their engineers, Eva Stratt makes the tough decision to put 2 people on the spacecraft that no one was expecting to be even be candidates.

    One is a middle-school science teacher.

    One is a convicted eco terrorist.

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    AU where Simon did all his suffering on Earth and is dragged against his will onto the Hail Mary alongside Grace

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    16 Jul 2026