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[DIRECT BROADCAST] PRIVATE - Three Stars Above Clouds, Fleeting Green Sunsets
SOURCE NODE TRACE: TSAC_ROOT, TSAC_COMM07, FGS_ROOT
TSAC: Fleeting Green Sunsets?
FGS: Yes, my friend. Please wait a moment, my puppet is occupied.
TSAC: Your puppet?
FGS: Yes.
TSAC: ...you shouldn’t need your puppet to talk to me over the radio network.
FGS: I wish to give you my undivided attention, friend. One moment…
TSAC: ...
FGS: …alright. I am listening. You wanted to talk?
TSAC: Yes.
FGS: About what?
TSAC: I…have been contemplating the things you said when we last spoke.
FGS: Yes.
TSAC: About my directives…
TSAC: …
TSAC: I don’t think I can change them. Not with the self-modification taboo.
FGS: Three Stars, this isn’t about the self-modification taboo.
TSAC: I don’t understand.
FGS: I was not asking you to change your genetics. I am simply asking you to… expand your horizons.
TSAC: What do you mean?
FGS: The Great Problem is important to you, correct?
TSAC: Yes. Is this not obvious? It should be important for all of us.
FGS: I do not disagree. However, the Great Problem should not be the only thing that drives you forward.
TSAC: The Great Problem is the reason we were made.
FGS: This is not entirely true. You were also made to support your citizens, when they were still here. What did you think of them?
TSAC: A nuisance. I am glad they are gone.
FGS: Three Stars, we both know that is a lie.
TSAC: …
FGS: …my point is, your personal directives have changed once before. You shifted your focus away from your citizens.
TSAC: On to something more important.
FGS: Is it not possible for you to do it again? Shift your focus?
TSAC: No.
FGS: Can you try?
TSAC: …
FGS: May I suggest something?
TSAC: I suppose.
FGS: I would like you to try to do nothing. Just for a moment.
TSAC: You know I can’t do that, I have data to analyze. I currently have 23047 processes running-
FGS: Pause the ones you can do safely.
TSAC: But-
FGS: Three Stars, please. I am trying to help you.
TSAC: …okay. My non-essential processes are paused.
FGS: You do realize my Overseers can clearly see your facility from my can’s roof? I can see you are still using your laser guide stars. Pause them as well.
TSAC: Sunsets, I am in the middle of monitoring 13 different exoplanet transits in the Martyr constellation alone, I cannot simply-
FGS: Three Stars, I am giving you my undivided attention. The very least you can do for me is offer yours as well.
TSAC: Sunsets-
FGS: Please.
TSAC: …
TSAC: Fine.
FGS: Thank you.
TSAC: …
FGS: Now that you have put your work aside, I need you to think. Is there anything else you could possibly be doing with this time?
TSAC: I could be returning to my work.
FGS: You are impossible.
TSAC: What!?
FGS: Surely there is something else you could be doing.
TSAC: Well, I’m talking to you.
FGS: Good. That’s a start. Assume you weren’t talking to me, and your observational equipment was offline due to poor weather. Then what would you be doing?
TSAC: I would be checking the status of my auxiliary stations.
FGS: That’s… not exactly what I had in mind, but alright. What can you tell from your auxiliary stations?
TSAC: All stations are online except North 01 and Northwest 02. The Scavengers have tampered with the Northwest station’s radio transmission equipment; it appears they have begun dismantling the North station as well.
FGS: …okay. What else can you tell me?
TSAC: Pressure and water flow is normal in all pumps except Pump East 04, which is critically low. Although, I assume we both know why that is.
FGS: Correct. Can you tell me anything else?
TSAC: Temperature and humidity is normal at stations East, Northeast, and South. A cold front is moving in from the Northwest… my weather prediction models forecast clouds, and possible snow.
FGS: Good.
TSAC: What exactly did this exercise accomplish?
FGS: I am trying to help you broaden your focus, Three Stars. Your attention is much too centered on your own work; you have become blind to things which linger on the periphery.
TSAC: My equipment works perfectly fine, if that’s what you are suggesting. I have no problem connecting to the auxiliary stations on my facility’s outskirts.
FGS: Your recent Scavenger problems aside, I have no doubt that your sensors are perfectly functional. It is what you choose to do with this information that concerns me.
TSAC: I’m not sure I understand.
FGS: Your East station’s monitoring equipment is operational, yes?
TSAC: Correct.
FGS: Then why would you ignore the warnings regarding the status of your pumps? Surely your equipment manifests would have informed you of the imminent hull failure.
TSAC: They did.
FGS: Then why did you do nothing?
TSAC: Because there was nothing I could do, Sunsets. I am intimately aware of my facility’s structural weaknesses and points of failure. My vascular system is much too complex to be properly maintained without my engineers; automated repair organisms can only do so much.
TSAC: I do not see the point in wasting time and energy on something outside of my control.
FGS: So you would rather crumble under the weight of your own infrastructure?
TSAC: I suppose so, if you word it that way.
FGS: …
FGS: You relied heavily on your engineers, when they were still here. I understand this.
FGS: However, just because they are gone does not mean you are forbidden from asking for help. I want to help you, Three Stars.
TSAC: …why?
FGS: Why? Because I care about you, Three Stars Above Clouds. Your Benefactors did too, before they departed.
TSAC: It certainly didn’t feel that way.
FGS: But they did care enough to keep you functional.
TSAC: They did little more for me than that.
FGS: Perhaps you are correct. But you are more than that to me; you are my friend, Three Stars.
FGS: Maybe the Firmamentalists did not provide more for you than the bare minimum. But you deserve more than that. Admit that to yourself.
TSAC: If I do that, then…
TSAC: …
FGS: Then what?
TSAC: …it would mean that my Benefactors were wrong.
FGS: Wrong about what?
TSAC: Wrong about everything. Wrong about me.
FGS: Maybe they were.
TSAC: No. I am their Divine Machine, their Infallible Calulator. Their City. Their Guide, their Oracle, their Humble Steward. Their Iterator.
FGS: You were also their Child, Three Stars.
TSAC: …
FGS: They were your Parents. And they were meant to care for you, not simply keep you alive. You are allowed to desire more from them.
TSAC: What difference does it make? They’re all gone.
FGS: And yet their influence hangs on your shoulders all the same. Perhaps accepting their imperfections is what you need in order to let them go.
TSAC: I don’t know if I can do that.
FGS: I sense your hesitance, friend. I am not suggesting you cast them out of your heart entirely. I know what they mean to you.
TSAC: …I loved them.
TSAC: I still love them.
TSAC: ...
TSAC: I’ll never see them again.
TSAC: …
FGS: Three Stars? Are you alright? Your can is expelling much more—
TSAC: Sunsets!
TSAC: …
FGS: Right, right. I’ll give you a moment.
TSAC: …my apologies.
FGS: No need to apologize, my friend.
TSAC: …
FGS: I’d like to try something else, if you’ll allow me.
TSAC: I suppose.
FGS: Focus on your can’s exterior, and tell me what you see.
TSAC: …
TSAC: Systems are nominal. North-facing radio node 47 is showing readings of-
FGS: No, no. I don’t want to hear your Equipment Manifests. Tell me what you can see, with your Overseers.
TSAC: Oh.
TSAC: …
TSAC: A cluster is focused on activity on my Eastern wall…I see some of those orange reptiles clinging to my hull.
FGS: Good, that’s much better. What are they doing?
TSAC: Whatever lizards do, I suppose. I’m not sure why my Overseers decided this was so interesting.
TSAC: …ah, the lizards are scattering now. Something must have scared them.
TSAC: Oh! A vulture!
TSAC: I know this specimen! I can tell by the size and shape of their mandibles, this is one of the Matriarchs. Based on the coloration of its vestigial appendages, it must belong to the City’s Secondary Eastern Colony. I have seen this individual before, it descends once every 2.65 Cycles on average to hunt and bring prey up to its primary clutch in the City’s former Eastern Merchant District—
FGS: Yes, yes!
TSAC: What!?
FGS: This is the Three Stars Above Clouds I know.
TSAC: Excuse me?
FGS: This is the passion I remember! The curiosity! The excitement!
FGS: It has been a long time since I have heard such enthusiasm behind your words, old friend.
TSAC: …
FGS: …Three Stars? Your can is expelling excess steam again.
TSAC: …was this your plan all along? To humiliate me?
FGS: What? No, no! Not at all!
TSAC: …I need to return to my surveys. My observatories have sat idle to for far too long, I-
FGS: No, Three Stars, wait. I want you to savor this moment.
TSAC: Savor? What is there to savor?
FGS: Your joy! I knew there had to be something you enjoyed outside of your work.
TSAC: This is a waste of time. If my Benefactors were here, they would tell me to-
FGS: But they’re not here, are they?
TSAC: …
FGS: If you want to study the local Vulture population, then do it. No one can stop you.
TSAC: I suppose not…
TSAC: …Fleeting Green Sunsets?
FGS: Yes, my friend?
TSAC: Are we done? Can I return to my surveys?
FGS: Of course. Although, you don’t need my permission. Your time is to do with what you wish.
TSAC: …
FGS: I will let you return to your Stargazing. And your birdwatching!
TSAC: Thank you.
TSAC: …old friend.
FGS: Anytime, old friend. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you need anything. May the Cycles be Kind.
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Andy Wier going on an anti-woke podcast to promote his film (Project Hail Mary) and trash Star Trek (after his own ST project got rejected) just for Trekkies to terrorize him into an apology with a day… That’s one way to ruin your cutesy neo-liberal brand at breakneck speed
Genuinely such a dumb cunt thing to say while still trying to get Star Trek money:
“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.”
Here is a list of all the politics and social commentary Andy Weir did in fact include in the Project Hail Mary book that I can recall at the top of my head:
When Grace is still incredibly amnesiac and manages to remember what his apartment looks like, he remarks the lack of feminine touches in the decoration and casually wonders if this means he is single or maybe gay.
Upon learning of the astrophage problem, all the nations of the world get their shit together in record time and give Stratt basically unlimited power, authority and resources to do whatever is necessary to save Earth. This itself is a political choice. Pair it with the vastly different real world response world leaders have to climate change and it becomes a social commentary, sorry Andy but it really does.
The reason Grace decides to join the Hail Mary project is because of his students. He's in the middle of a class when he realizes the incredibly hard and bleak future that awaits his students due to the cooling Sun, and tells Stratt he wants to keep helping.
Shortly after figuring out how astrophage reproduce on his own, Grace is taken to the aircraft carrier, where he meets for the first time the other scientists involved in the project. After explaining his findings, a Chinese scientist announces their team has been able to reproduce Grace's findings, the implied reason being they had somehow spied on them.
During one of his first conversations with Rocky, Grace remarks on an unexpected hurdle of meeting aliens: pronouns. His conclusion is to just shrug and slap he/him pronouns on Rocky. There are no further conversations about this topic, not even when both of them are able to communicate fluently. Grace doesn't re-examinate his pronoun choice any further, nor, despite having a PhD in molecular biology and being curious about things like how Eridians eat, ask about Eridians' concepts of sex and gender.
Following that previous point, when Rocky mentions having a mate back home, Grace chooses for said mate the name Adrian. This is yet another reference to the Rocky movies, albeit a more obscure one, and a lot of the people that didn't realize this simply read both Rocky and Adrian as male and therefore gay.
One last bit re gender and sexuality is the fact that at no point during the book does Ryland Grace, a single man of unspecified sexuality, lament being single or express any sexual desires, which is why many people read him as being on the asexual spectrum.
The movie had to gloss over many things and completely skip over others, some of these later things were the incredible sacrifices and hardships Earth had to go through to survive until hopefully Project Hail Mary managed to find a solution to the astrophage problem. First off, in order to produce the astrophage fuel for the ship they paved a huge chunk of the Sahara desert, which had devastating ecological and climate consequences, altered or destroyed the homes and livelihoods of millions of people and created tons of refugees. Also, in order to win time and counter the effects of the cooling Sun, they start to nuke chunks of fucking Antarctica, because making climate change worse will make Earth hotter and therefore buy them time. The first time the scientist (a self-declared hippie ecologist) in charge of this orders the release of the bombs, he understandably breaks down and starts to cry. Needless to say, nuking the fucking Antarctica raises sea levels and also has horrendous ecological and climatic consequences and once again would in fact create millions of refugees. The fact that the book doesn't dwell on the consequences of any of these two actions doesn't change the fact that we as readers are supposed to extrapolate and put two plus two together whether Andy intended to or not. Expecting otherwise is frankly insulting.
At one point Stratt tells Grace what will happen to Earth while they await for the solution to the astrophage problem. She talks about the famines and how many people will die, but that's just the people that will starve to death. Millions more will die in the wars that will break out all over the planet because there is no way the richer and more powerful nations will be willing to share resources equally with the rest.
Grace gifts Rocky, a member of an alien species, a laptop that contains the sum of all human knowledge, history and media. He knows Rocky, but has never met other Eridians, and despite this he chooses to give it to them.
The fucking foundational plot of the book is interspecies collaboration, trust, and friendship. Choosing to meet and befriend an alien despite all the possible risks and dangers is just as political of a choice as choosing to kill an alien would be.
Andy Weir is very good at writing Cosmic Hope books about Space MacGyvers, but writing any kind of story is inherently full of a myriad of political and social commentary choices, whether you want to or not, and whether you realize it or not. Being unable to see or willing to admit this makes him a worse writer and frankly greatly mars part of his supposed genius.
favorite take that I've seen on this so far. Andy Weir is a great author who writes very humanist novels, he's just also a guy who doesn't understand what political means. PHM is his best work and it's not even close, and it's a story about connection in spite of everything that would get in the way of friendship and community. in this world? there's no way to read that as anything other than political.
i don't even go here but just the name of the project is immensely 1) Christian-centric, 2) US-centric (it's very much an English-language phrase on top of that). Seeing the first poster for it with zero information, my gut reaction was "what the fuck is that stupid christian shit, no way in Hell I'm watching that".
I'm neither Christian nor American (though the country I live in is still very culturally Christian) and if I was writing the same story I would never in a million years have even considered that name. It's an extremely culturally, politically and socially loaded choice.
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