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    Three years after the probes carrying Taumoeba and Dr. Ryland Grace's final message arrive on Earth, humanity launches an interstellar spaceship with a brand new mission. Thirty-six crew members (including two graduates of a certain San Franciscan junior high school) travel to the star 40-Eridani to make friendly contact with the Eridians and bring them the alien life form from Tau Ceti-E that can save their star if Dr. Grace's sacrifice failed.

    Grace, now fifty-seven years old, is just trying to balance his life as a teacher while no longer being the only human on the planet anymore. It's a big adjustment, but Rocky and the Terra's Grace crew are going to make sure he's well taken care of.

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    21 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 97

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    Rocky finds Yáo's gun and things kind of go downhill from there.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    "Grace sad, not good. I fix."

    "… Um. How?" I ask. "Oh, God, please don't make me a human-shaped robot to hug. That would be so creepy."

    "No robot," Rocky promises.

    (Or: Grace was touch-starved even before he left Earth. Rocky attempts to fix.)

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    20 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 49

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    The Hail Mary would only give it's crew their methods of execution after the mission had been completed and the Beetles sent to earth. A precaution. Meant to ensure they would die only after the mission was complete.

    The Beetles left for Earth over a year ago. The ship's mission, as defined in it's programming, was completed. I had considering trying to reprogram it for considering the mission done after we had reached Erid, but the risks of breaking something was deemed too high.

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    20 Jul 2026

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    Grace forgets that most humans don't speak in a mish-mash of English and Eridian and Simon has a slightly different misunderstanding than the main one I've seen.

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    20 Jul 2026