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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 May 2026

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    Rocky makes the flexible xenonite membrane to comfort Grace.

    Eridians don't sound like this, the fleshy parts of us are more internal and not so… active? There's just so much to hear, with it in my arms like this. The textures of its skin, the lines where the skin folds out of habit. The burn where I touched it, really touched it.

    Inspired by jadepataki's Boundary Conditions :) all dialogue from the original story! I just wanted to write Rocky's POV. I thought about how *different* Grace would sound now that Rocky can hear him through solid connection instead of through air-xenonite-air.

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    20 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 45

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    Problem: Human emotional and physical deprivation during long-term interstellar isolation.

    Solution: Alien engineer builds a flexible xenonite membrane to allow safe pressure-based contact.

    Complication: Feelings.

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    20 May 2026

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    Missing scene from the book of Rocky finding out how old Grace is, from Rocky’s perspective.

    Grace has mentioned that he is a scientist as well as a teacher to human children. On Erid, only our Elders would step down from their purpose to impart their knowledge on the next generation. Grace must be very old indeed to become a teacher, and to be chosen for this mission.

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    19 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    A short post-Erid fic about aging, remains, and the way Rocky understands Grace’s body through sound.

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    19 May 2026