How did the people of Erid feel when they got that? I mean, here's this thinking machine they apparently had no concept of, containing all this advanced knowledge of things they had no idea about like radiation and relativity...

My headcanon is that they're gonna feel like total assholes for not sending something similar back, so they end up using the laptop and Grace to make a human-compatible primer of Eridian science including the recipe for xenonite and their spaceship, then launch it towards Earth.

But the laptop didn't have just science texts; it had fiction and music and games. So they add a bunch of Eridian cultural stuff too.

“It’s over.”

1: theyd be comparable to different types of earth fruit, according to this phone we have.

2: we are dots because thats the easiest shape to swarm in

Mini lore snippet lol: at first I just doodled the cat alone in the middle of a page, but I loved him so much I just turned the page and drew the whole thing. He's so great.

"It would have been easier if you'd just said yes."

I have a tendency to imagine Lucien in decadent situations

technically i made this last year just for fun, but im now repurposing it for Down to Earth and therefore had to scribble out the numbers, dates, and times explanation

i plan on making art and images for the fic that include words in this language, so if you plan to decode it i recommend saving it!!!!

translation: Hello, Earth! I am Rocky.

direct translation: Hello,Earth! Iam Rocky.

the untranslated symbol is 1!