ShadowyFuture



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    "He needs to keep Loki talking. Keep him conscious. Until help arrives, whenever that is, whatever it looks like. Thor is coming, he has to keep himself convinced of that, or he’s going to fall apart at the seems and they’ll end this in a worse position than they started. “Um,” Bruce says, and finds himself incapable of coming up with any sort of neutral topic whatsoever. He knows so much about Loki and so little at the same time, the important things tucked away where the only person who will find them is himself. “You… What do you like to do? For fun?”

    He can’t see Loki’s judgemental expression, but he feels it all the same. “Fun?”"

    AKA: After nearly getting killed while trying to get supplies for the Statesmen, Loki and Bruce are stuck together, injured and half delirious.

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    One day, Mr. Grace disappears from class. He reappears on TV as part of the Project Hail Mary team, but Abby was waiting for the day after the launch when he would go back to teaching.

    He never does.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    "Scenario A: We keep waiting here like dumbasses for rescue. 

    Likeliest outcome, 99.29% probability: I die, and then you die, and the data is wasted.

    Scenario B: You try to drag my mangled body up to the surface.

    Likeliest outcome, 99.87%: Your systems fail less than one quarter of the way up, and we die horribly at the same time from impact when you experience catastrophic failure.

    Scenario .C: You leave me here and try to make it to the surface by yourself.

    Likeliest outcome, 98.12%: Your systems fail before the halfway point, and you die on impact when you fall. I die slowly down here, alone.

    [Scenario D: You salvage what you can from my body.

    Likeliest outcome, 64.89%: You successfully reach the surface and deliver the data to ART and its humans. Mission casualty ratio is reduced from 100% to 50%, and the colonists are safely retrieved.]"

    Yes, 1.0 bolded its preferred scenario, because it thinks I am being dumb.
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    Murderbots don't eat. Three discovers a cannibalism taboo anyway.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    Rocky visits Grace's life support quarters with some exciting news, some time into his recovery on Erid---the biodome habitat has finally been completed.

    It takes a step through the airlock and sinks down into rough sand and pebbles. I chirp and hop down after it. Grace has not seen the biodome yet, but neither have I, and in my enthusiasm I dart slightly ahead.

    Grace inhales so sharply that I turn to hear him better in a panic. “Grace? Grace, what is wrong? You are hurt?”

    My assumption is quickly corrected when, without warning, it bolts.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
    Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
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    It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.

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    27 Jun 2026