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"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one."

🎶No understand Word. What is Sploot, Question?…What is funny? Why Grace Laughing, Question?🎶

eva stratt whump the likes of which i have never seen

alex's insane, gorgeous, poetic prose, which does so much lifting without ever being overwrought

alex's noticing, and stratt's noticing, and grace's desperation to be special and then not liking it when he is special.

giving stratt the horrible complication she deserves!!!!!!!!!!

oh it's gonna hurt so bad and i know what's coming and i am SO delighted and excited for it fuck fuck fuck

They’re best friends but by both Earth and Eridian standards everyone is like “Oh wow, they’re… close-”

Like little to no cares about privacy around each other because, well, fuck you aren’t getting much of that on a spaceship for multiple years now are you?

Wherever one goes there’s a 50% chance the other will be there too.

Whenever Grace talks to another Eridian he uses some sort of portable instrument to communicate but with Rocky they just speak in two separate languages at each other. It’s like seeing someone speak to someone in only Chinese and the other person only responds back in English.

Would be funny if Eridians aren’t very touchy but Rocky is basically clingy as fuck when it comes to Grace. Always tugging on his pants like a toddler to get his attention and stuff.

Grace just using Rocky in either his ball, enclosure or his xenonite suit as a backrest while he’s grading or doing work or something, Rocky fully absorbed in his own thing. Sitting as close together as physically possible while having zero interaction with each other. Parallel play at it’s best.

These two come in a pair. Do not separate.

All of this and more, fully platonically, people wonder if they’re the world’s first weird inter solar system couple and if they’re in some weird polycule with Adrian but no, they’re just like that.

It’s just Rocky and the human he adopted as a permanent part of his family that he will spend every possible second of the rest of his short life with because he won’t be here forever and he’s not going to waste any of his time for the world.

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Thank you to @fancycake for their hilarious idea that I had to draw

so! The limitations make constant trips up and down impossible. Let's work with the constraints.

This means Grace's ass is STAYING on the hail mary until they have his biodome ready, and they are scrapping as much of the Mary's internals on that same trip, because this is an undertaking they are doing as few times as possible.

Earth's radius is 6371 km. Erid has a radius of 12835 km. That is a much bigger planet! With a bigger atmosphere! And just eyeballing from a screenshot of the movie, Erid's rings (which would be around the equator, that's how they always form with very few exceptions) extend over 13000 km up.

All of this means if we imagine the docking for the elevator is at the counterweight station, it would likely be even farther than the previously imagined 100000 km distance from the surface of Erid! That is!!! SO FAR. That is longer than circling the globe twice. Moving from the surface to the top would take anywhere from 2 to 5 days moving between 1800 and 720 km/h. that is ridiculous. this is a ridiculous structure.

Of course, all of this rests on the space elevator being an as imagined on earth space elevator with long cables and a huge counterweight to make it stable. Maybe their 'elevator' really does work like one in a building. Maybe it's an enormous set of cargo elevators in some stupid huge tower that only reaches to like, geosynchronous orbit? And this thing, though the power of 'fuck you it's xenonite I don't have to explain SHIT', could be built anywhere on the planet, and would be below the planet's rings? Why not. It might be. How would this work? No clue! but it would make things easier and faster, that's for sure. A trip on this would take only 20 hours to 2 days at the same speeds as above.

Grace hearing they have a space elevator and being like waow so cool!!! and then it’s literally an anime tower to geosynchronous orbit is REALLY funny.

I think the space elevator could have a power cable built into its cable (urgh… the weight…) but you can also beam power at things with lasers, maybe they do that? They could have satellites (I guess a bit above and below the plane of the rings, pointed in at the space elevator cable running through the rings?) that blast the crawler’s receivers to power it. This would mean the crawler wouldn’t have to carry fuel for its own astrophage generator, just take lots of trips to refuel satellites.

It would also mean they’d need a whole ongoing space program but that’s pretty implied. Just maintaining the space elevator probably means they’ve signed on to a bunch of shit in orbit all reliant on and focused on the space elevator.

However, I think having any kind of traffic in orbit with astrophage/IR drives is INSANE. They must refine the ring asteroids for propulsion mass up there. They HAVE to. Like, it all runs on astrophage at the end of the day (maybe they would even be breeding astrophage up there off of asteroid mass if their oceans weren’t SO convenient) but you cannot be blasting around on DEATH LASERS for minor maneuvering when anyone else is anywhere nearby.

So actually… the rings are really good… because they can use them for propulsion mass (vaporize asteroids into gas, pressurize it, safely squirt their equipment and small craft around).