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From these images (brightened and contrast reduced to see the full sphere beyond the terminator) and area calculations we can tell the ocean only covers 3.6% of the surface and the 'moon' has an atmosphere, one that's a similar color to our nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. In order to accommodate the ~100C surface temperature required for the blood ocean it would need both significant temperature and significant gravity to maintain such a warm atmosphere without a sun.

The remainder of the surface seems to be solid but very reflective, perhaps a metal of some kind which would add significant mass required for gravity and atmosphere and reflect heat back into itself. Another possible factor could be an extreme rate of rotation which would increase temperature and lessen perceived gravity at the equator but contribute to shedding of atmosphere much faster (but as they've likely only been around since the quiet rapture we may not have to worry about the atmosphere shedding any significant amount). @dessathealien I could easily see your white hole being located at the center of this Eye-like ocean and the way it parallels the being seen in the void is uncanny.

@negative-pressure-ventilator confirmed the map in the film uses meters for scale, and is 600x600m for the initial scan. The extended map for the cave system goes out to x:1100 and up to Y:950, the blood ocean has a diameter of at least 1km but likely much more.

Assuming that the temperature of the Blood Ocean is similar to the average human body temp (37°C/98°F), the minimum atmospheric pressure of AT-5 would be about about 7.1 kiloPascals or 0.07% the density of Earth's atmosphere. Any lower and the ocean would boil at 37°C. If Deadlymelodic's design for AT-5 is canon (and god I hope it is the eye imagery is fucking perfect) and the atmosphere is that visible from space, then I'd lean towards the atmosphere being a bit denser, maybe 30-50% the density of Earth's atmosphere.

Without the gravitational acceleration to work with or any reference for scale, it's difficult to say exactly what the size and density of AT-5 is. If we were to say that the Blood Ocean has a diameter of 1 km and that AT-5 has the same gravitational constant of Earth, then some very very rough math gives us a mass of like... 4.08x10^11?? The circumference would be like 17km though which is INSANE, so I think it's safe to say that the Blood Ocean is a whole lot bigger than 1km.

I fucking love sci-fi interplanetary pseudoscience. One of my favorite video games of all time is No Man's Sky.

Oh man, I wish I was smart enough to do these kinds of deep-dives myself. I'm fantastic at character stuff but when it comes to things like this, I get lost.

Private Lessons

His thoughts on the Quiet Rapture also seem the most sound compared to everyone else's "every star in the universe is gone." How does anyone know that for sure? The idea of the stars being gone and the light we do see being from dead stars is already a known fact about the universe; anyone can say that, but how do the know for sure that ALL of the stars are dead? Let alone the blood moons: a moon is a planetary satellite. What are these moons orbiting if the stars and planets are gone??? We're dealing with an Eldritch horror, here, did the stars in fact all die all at once, including the planeta, or did a few space stations go missing because of a curious "god," hence the stars look different? Did the blood moons just appear because of the Rapture, or did this "god" make them for humans it was already playing with?

Simon rejected sleep.

Simon is afraid that everything will be taken away from him again(((

Original post by @morallygrayautisticscientist here, this post was so funny I decided to draw it lol.

Panel by panel below:

"How did I find out about Bloodymary"

Look I see all of that shit.

I see everything.

Just 'cause I don't comment on it doesn't mean I don't see everything.

Why do you think I know?

You think you're hiding?

You're not!

You're doing it out in the open!

All of that shit!

I've seen everything!

I've seen all of it!

Every dirty little secret that you think you're posting publicly is being posted publicly.

You're not even trying to hide it!

this is so silly.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

See hi-res version here: patreon.com/posts/157786371

Sketches of Grace, Rocky and Simon as I try and figure out how to draw and colour them.

I keep thinking of how the more comfortable and safe Simon becomes in his new life on Erid, his sillier side starts to show. He's allowed to explore and learn new things and have fun. Unadulterated fun he never got to experience as a kid.