Assassinvalek

Thinking about Rocky and Grace getting to Erid.

The Hail Mary doesn”t have a radio any more powerful than needed to communicate with the EVA suit. Rocky could make one, but the planet they’re going to has fuckoff stupidly powerful radiation shielding, and even if they get a signal through, nobody’s listening. The Eridians are just kinda trying to survive and hoping that their interstellar ship will return with answers at some point.

Which means that they had extremely little warning when the Hail Mary showed up.

The Guy Watching Out For The Safety Of The Space Elevators hears a blip on their scanning equipment. It’s something big. “Oh,” they think, “joy! The ship is back!” Except it’s not the ship; it’s something very, very weird. Largely aluminium, and hollow.

Imagine everyone freaking out for a minute (IS THAT SOME KIND OF WEIRD ASTEROID THAT WILL HIT THE PLANET???), then realising it’s a FUCKING ALIEN SPACESHIP and freaking out even more. Out comes some like, kludged-together lander module made of xenonite with alien spin drives attached, and out walks the fucking engineer of the tau ceti project all like “so we just nipped by Planet 3 and saved our species, also, I found intelligent aliens. I brought my alien buddy home with me, he played a key role in saving us and can’t go home but he’s extremely fragile and we need to work fast to keep him alive. Let me explain his fucking weird biology real quick, we can get the details later from the massive repository of alien science data I also have now.”

Here comes the sun

Shambhu does not look too happy.

these were the rejected ones