Willow

You’re Eva Stratt, it’s 3 days before the launch. And a miscalculation in the astrophage caused an explosion in your labs that not only killed your 2 scientists for the voyage, but also the 2 pilots and the 2 fucking engineers.

You already have the replacement for the scientist, you had it since you discovered he was coma resistant.

But finding coma resistant people is way harder than it looks when the changes are 1 in 70’000 people.

Luckily, your team is able to find an engineer, an individual charged for an attack that killed 62 people years ago, which left him with only one arm, but apparently despise that he’s still one of the best choices.

The issue is the pilot. Oh and what’s that? Apparently Grace has a twin brother? Who not only this means he’s most likely shares the coma resistant gene, but also was one of the best stuntman ever, and yeah he got a pretty bad back hit but he’s still able to ride and pilot most crafts, is already well built and has plenty of experience in high stake situations?

Ok so you have a middle school teacher, his stunt-man brother an ex terrorist in a tin can 11.9 light years away. None of them will remember anything of course because all of them will be forced to go.

What could possibly go wrong?

i cant be normal about anything i like ever . it has to consume me like evil mold

The Eridians misunderstand him, and proceed to panic because they only have one human. They only have one human but it turns out you need to keep them in packs. They can die if they're isolated for to long and they can't let Grace die this is bad bad bad.

So they send a message to earth, asking if anybody would be willing to volunteer to live on Erid with Grace. They stress that while this is a life or death matter, they need the human to be a willing participant. That all of their needs and wants would be met and that the Eridians would give Earth information and technology in exchange. The volunteer would be given a life of luxury in exchange for living on Erid with Grace.

Unfortunately, there is a mistranslation, and the humans think that the Eridians require a sacrifice otherwise they will use their resources against earth. In order to avoid a possible interstellar war with an alien species, they choose a convict who has a life sentence to be locked in a bare rocket and blasted off to Erid.

Eden told stories to children about a bright light coming and saving their most worthy, a bright angel with shining eyes and the embodiment of the warm sun, reaching out and pulling them to heaven.

It makes Simon wonder. Is Erid Heaven? Was no one else worthy? No.. there's no way he was worthy enough for Heaven. But.. You had to be dead to get to Heaven. Was he dead? He's never seen an angel while alive before.. so he must be. Perhaps this was the best Heaven he would ever get.