backwardsand-forwards

Grace, explaining how humans evolved: yeah so basically we evolved to be persistance predators where we would just slowly walk towards our prey and track it until it got so tired it couldn't fight back or run away and then we killed it :)

I will never be over how excited Rocky was to get Grace's laptop. I mean, if I went on a mission because my planet was dying and then I met an alien who helped me save it and he also gave me the collected knowledge of his species in an advanced little machine, like, he gave that to ME. ALL THE KNOWLEDGE HIS SPECIES HAS GATHERED SO FAR, sure, they don't know how to turn Xenon into a solid but they know about relativity and radiation and movies and so many amazing things I could have never imagined before I went on this trip. And he just handed it to me because we're FRIENDS, I didn't even have to ask him for it, he just did it. Without hesitation. He didn't even tell me "This is for your planet.", he said "This is for you." Like, hello? Can you imagine coming home after decades, your crew is dead, but you made it and you don't just bring the solution for the whole "the planet is dying" thing, you bring the collected knowledge of an advanced alien species?!?!? And it was a personal gift.

holdon

Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:

To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.

Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.