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After the taumoeba gets back to Earth, the world unites again to send a mission to Venus with it. The astrophage is controlled to safe levels and the world mostly goes back to normal (though a lot has changed). Thousands of years later, humans and Eridians are both space-faring species. They regularly interact and exchange info. However, astrophage has continued evolving. One individual eventually figures out faster-than-light travel, and as this means time travel it rapidly spreads and completely covers every single star as they can easily fill every single point of every single star. The astrophage then as well catalyzes the stars to explode, by creating a massive shell around them and as they absorb energy and then become reflective from being full it reflects the energy around the star, rapidly increasing the amount of radiation pressure and forcing it together from the outside pressure overwhelming the internal radiation pressure and helping gravity to press it together until it explodes into a supernova, black hole, or similar, violently destroying the entire system. The moons in Iron Lung are rogue dwarf planets that happened to be far away from stars when they exploded, and the only survivors were those that were far away on an interstellar journey when it happened. At this point, the original human-Eridian meeting has long been forgotten, and after the quiet rapture, the two species cut ties as they each blamed each other. The astrophage also functioned to essentially hide the event, as they continued to absorb energy and reproduce (I do not have an explanation for how stations nearby planets survived lol). Later, collected astrophage put into the drive used on the ship bringing Simon to the planet ejects him into the past, during the events of PHM at some point (really up to the story you want to tell, though I suppose all of this is).

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