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“To The Night & The Cloud” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

1914

Artist : Jessie Bayes (1876-1970)

John's freezeworks are like if Stratt's Vat didn't have blanket immunity, and when they discovered astrophage was an inexhaustible source of energy, their funding was immediately cut and Project Hail Mary was cancelled in favor of building climate-controlled biodomes on Mars.

Then when Stratt pushed back by pointing out that this new plan would leave 90% of the world's population to starve, the project backers told her that she seemed very emotional, and obviously the stress of the situation had gotten to her. Maybe she should take a vacation. After all, people have ended up committed after far less stressful experiences.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What? What's happening? A hug. It's, uh, usually not something one does by themselves. Oh, I— wait, I do the same? Would you just get in here?

kill astrophage

What – what this? It's Earth. So you can remember me. Rocky can't forget.