It’s worth it, to live on

Stratt: "hmm what do you think dr grace?"

Grace: wow what a crazy plan that would take an absurd amount of power to accomplish and have far-reaching impacts "yeah it's feasible, i'd go with it"

Stratt: "alright, you heard him, do it"

He would probably feel Grace calm down while doing it and go "I am now a hugging kinda person"

Come on, he gets RIGHT IN THERE when he wakes up and Grace sees he's fine for the first time

That clingy little crab-rock wouldn't think twice

In my head Secunit is like old like

meanwhile three is like

A lot of the side characters in PHM were changed/merged/removed for the movie so I thought I would draw how I imagined them while reading the book. Closeups below the cut!

"What if Stratt didn't force Grace to go?" Then the Earth dies.

"What if Yao and Ilyukhina had survived?" Then they all would have died in space, not enough food to get to Earth or Erid

If the Taomoeba hadn't escaped then Grace would have never seen his best friend again. Returning to a world he loves but no longer recognizes.

If the stars weren't dying then Grace never would have met his best friend at all. Living content but alone.

Project Hail Mary is a hopeful story. It is a story of friendship and what it means to be brave. It's a story about saving the world.

Ok someone has to take this away from me before I drive myself insane attmepting to idk art better 🙈

likeliest answers:

-pirate media

-bribe someone (with pirated media)

-sit in a small confined space and watch media

-internally lament the stupidity of mankind

-help out

-repress some stuff

-begrudgingly stop repressing that stuff in order to unpack it

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So . . . I was thinking about how "all the astronauts were there by choice" and yeah, Ryland very clearly wasn't sent up in space by choice. That was still very messed up.

But, if they stuck with this story, then Stratt technically would not be lying to say he joined the program by choice.

Yes, upon first meeting, Ryland was essentially drafted into working on Astrophage. Just like the rest of the project's scientists were. And he apparently kept this in mind.

However!

Ryland was also allowed to leave after finding out the composition of Astrophage.

He went back to his lab and straight up demanded (to Stratt's face!) to be let back on the project because he couldn't stand by and watch the world break apart. Not when his students would inherit that world.

I saw a discussion that said he was brave enough to continue working on Astrophage, despite knowing that it could melt metal within less than a fraction of a second.

It was powerful enough to evaporate metal!

That's crazy, and I feel like a lot of people would get far away from that stuff if given the choice.

Ryland went back to a lab full of this stuff of his own volition.