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It's ArtFight!! Same deal as always, these are free to use anywhere. I appreciate credit either here or to ~baubleBee on ArtFight. Below the cut is a link to the Ko-Fi download for the files and some instructions on how to use!

Perhaps less overtly than the Hail Mary crew, this is a sacrifice for her too. She was fully prepared to spend life in prison or be put on the death penalty for taking responsibility for this. She was fully prepared to give up her life with no glory, no statues, ultimately not going down in history as the hero she was but rather as the criminal scapegoat she knew they were going to make her into.

I think that's why a lot of people who get angry on behalf of Ryland Grace as if they were placed into that situation themselves are missing the point. Sending the data-return pods and saving Earth was never about "I told you so and here's Rocky as proof and I'm saving you all anyways because I'm better". Staying on Erid was never about "You all threw me away so I'm never coming back".

Because in the end, we must recognise that there was no better option for anyone involved. Nobody wants to send people to their deaths and commit mass ecological destruction and commit humanitarian crimes just like how nobody wants to die in the cold vacuum of space on a one-way-trip. Nobody wanted any of this. That's why I think it hurts all the more that Stratt did like Grace. It would have been an excruciating decision to place Grace aboard the Hail Mary knowing that the reason why he's likely to succeed is because he's a "fundamentally good person". The qualities that make him somebody who deserves to live are the same ones that make him the necessary sacrifice. Like sending Laika up into orbit knowing her innocent cooperativeness is what made her the best candidate.

Hail Mary, full of Grace. The Lord is with thee.