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TFOFC-VERSE: PROJECT HAIL MARY FAKE BOOK RECS

The Father of First Contact: the Uncharted Life of Ryland Grace by Dominique Reid. (If you only read one book about Dr. Cpt. Ryland Grace, make it this one. Reid really humanizes him in ways that he deserves + this one has The Declassified Records. You know the ones.)

Amaze!: Languages of the Hail Mary by Ray Tamaguchi. (The Hail Mary Accent Book For People Who Want to Get Emotional About An Accent Shared By Two Beings And Other Cool Language Stuff Too.)

Microscopic Empire: The Fight For Taumoeba 82.5 by Thandi Mazibuko. (Mazibuko makes lab work feel like a forensics thriller, I never want to see someone say scientists can't write well ever again.)

Inspired by @ctrl-shift-alt-9 's headcanon about Simon mining asteroids as a convict I decided to headcanon a design for a four convict mining unit. I'm not the most comfortable in photobash but it really felt like the perfect medium for this one.

Portable mining units

As I envision it this MS's would be a small part of C.O.I's mining operation. Leaving prisoners inside mostly on their own for better or for worse, with not much guard oversight in terms of rationing or behaviour, the shittiness of the circumstance would depend mostly on who you are stuck with. And considering the relative autonomy, being considered for MS work would be the kind of thing you get for good behaviour.

Otherwise you just get to work in the bigger supervised mine or the refineries (which I might also concept out later).

(Also I would consider it funny that the C.O.I owns both an SM and an MS 13 and both had the same unlucky convict inside at some point.)

More headcanons

- The mining stations are all equipped with a radio that is supposed to only serve as communication with nearby tow ships, but there is a way to jail break/jerry rig them into taking external signals. The convicts that can do that are valuable in prison society. The jail broken communicators are mostly used to listine in on passing vessels, or sometimes even far away eden scavenger transmissions or something like it. If a mining operation is all made out of previous eden brothers, that is most likely what they do in their free time.

- a sub headcanon to this is an actual pirate radio station in the iron lung universe, but I think I'll make a separate post for that.

-All the mining suits are numbered, and since Korean culture might have survived in space I think number 4 is still considered unlucky. Simon always gets the number 4 suit