Simon was originally a military aerospace engineer designing what turns out to be WMDs. After an seeing his creations in the hands of horrible people, a la Tony Stark, he quit. Nearly broke him.
He later becomes a pilot for a private company. (Eden Airlines lmao)
Eden Airlines turns out to be a cult thats does some domestic terrorism. Simon was unaware of it, but as the only survivor he get blamed and incarcerated.
The Patrova line is still a problem. Ava, who's in charge of IRoN (Intersteller Relations of Nations) comes to visit his cell. Gives him an ultimatum. Work with her and he can walk free.
"You ready to do good for a change?"
The ship is officially the SM-8, the Solar Maiden- 8th iteration, but everyone lovingly calls it the Iron Lung.
Simon: Why is an Intersteller ship is called the "Iron Lung?"
Ave: If the mission is a success, we can all breath a little easier.
Simon: ... thats fucking stupid.
Simon was brought onto the team as an engineer. He wasn't trusted by the rest of IRoN, but his experience and expertise was sorely needed. He points out many flaws through each design iteration, comes up with improvements and solutions.
A flaw that wasn't caught in testing results in the mission engineers (prime and back up) getting blasted with radiation. (Don't worry Jack and David fine :] ) They're immediately taken off the mission. Simon is wracked with (even more) guilt.
Ava pulls an Eva on Simon, sending him to space.
Simon: You said work with you and then I'm free! We had a deal!
Ava: For what it's worth... I'm sorry.
Unknown to Simon he was the back up engineer and pilot if needed.
Part of me wants Ava to be on the ship too, but passes away durring her coma to add to the the angst. The other part wants Ava to remain on Earth alive and well.
At Tau Ceti, Simon gets jumpscared by this wet, kinda mean creature. It looked like a horror movie, Elli's dark shape swimming in what looks to be blood.
Elli is an Axolotl Eel cat looking motherfucker. Theres a lot of amazing concepts of her out there already! I love her little blood orb.
To me she's the size of a mid sized dog (like a Labrador), with the general body of an Axolotl (especially the tendrils), sinuous tail/body, and a bunch of little cat like legs.
Her environment is some weird mix of red Sulfuric acid and oxygen.
They get off to a rocky start, Simon with trust issues and Elli suffering from isolation. But they warm up to each other pretty quick.
She can talk telepathicly, but Simon really hates it (horror movie vibes), so she talk through the speakers instead. Simon does get use to the telepathy though.
I like to think her species is semi hiveminded. She uses "we" instead of "I". Maybe more like how a teacher says " We don't stuff in our mouth"
Simon has to build her a habitat on the Lung so she can do ✨️Science✨️
"Where do you want these weird ass tubes??"
"Fuck this alien shit..."
Simon lovingly annoys the fuck out of her
Canon happends from here.
Simon: So it's like fishing?
Elli: What is "fishing"?
Elli in the don't go crazy room :... We hate fishing.
She learns that Simon was sent to die in space and has *opinions*
"I don't want to die, Elli. I deserve it, but I don't want to die. Elli, I hurt so many people, killed so many people. It's my penance... Do you think I deserve this?"
Even with all his pilot experience, the fishing trip goes wrong.
Simon has to dunk Elli back into her enviroment. He losing his arm. (Or less angsty burns the everloving fuck out of it).
Again canon happends. This time is Simon's recovering and Elli goes on a science binge to save their stars. She comes up with a solution and tries to make breeder tanks.
When Simon wakes up he improves the design using a coral like substance from her ship.
Elli gives Simon a way to go back home, they tearfully part ways, the Taumoeba escapes, and Simon has to make a decision. Go home to a planet that doesn't want him or save the only person in recent memory to love him.
He sends all the information through the Life Vests, little probes made for this purpose.
"Hello everybody, My name is Simon and my friend Elli discovered a solution to save all your asses."
He lived happily in Space Atlantis in a little under "water" biodome. He's loved, spends all his time with his best friend, and is a respected engineer that brings a plethora of advancements to Erid.
Then Grace, in all his boney geode glory, shows up on Erid and they fall in love.
Grace, with bony exoskeleton plates on parts on his body, crystalline fragments along his face, and kicked puppy wet eye.
Simon, with thinly veiled insatiable xenofucker lust.
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A poor soul gets sent to AT-5 to look for resources.
A teacher who left Earth to live on a space station survived the quiet rapture get recruited to help research an anomalous moon.
AT-5 is made of layers upon layers Human Bone and heavy metals. (Think Earth's layers). While most of it is just solid compact bone, it also has pockets of marrow and spongey bone
Theres large tunnels and caverns filled with ammonia and other noxious gases. There's calcified arteries running through them.
Dr. Ryland Grace goes on a research expodition with his crew of Comandor Yáo Li-Jie and Engineer Olesya Ilyukhina
Grace had a little polished geode in his pocket that reminds him of Earth. One of his old students gave it to him. He misses them after the Quiet Rapture.
Its basically the SM-8 expedition. There had been other routine explorations, so no one expects anything to go wrong.
Their vessel, the Hail Mary, is a essentially a big ass excavator drill with a tiny lab. (Like a two bed apartment sized vessel). It was lowered into a previously excavated tunnel through a big hole.
For a while everything is fine. Grace analyzes bone fragments and arteries and discovers it still living tissue somehow. They knew it was fully organic before, but didn't know to what extent.
The make up is lead, mercury, and ammonia. Yet somehow the bone is human.
Tragic events happen resulting in the loss of the other crew members. Somehow Bone Dust entered their digger and turned them into calcified boney statues with ammonia burns. Grace, in an EVA suit, was protected but still runs the risk of being contaminated and losing oxygen.
Grace, who was just supposed to take samples and analyze them, is now at the mercy of the Bone Moon.
He figures out how to move the Hail Mary and navigate. Still in contact with Stratt and everyone. He has hope.
But then he realizes the tunnels are changing. The crew topside cannot detect the changes so they can't help him. Some tunnels appear to be freshly dug. After a while he loses contact with Stratt.
Here Grace gets his first look at Bone Spider Rocky.
Rocky was an engineer who helped build and test the prototype excavators. While on a test run he falls into a collapsed bit of spongey tissue.
He falls to the moon's core. It's dark. Vantablack. There's immence pressure and searing heat and a voice thats interested in him. The prototype excavator implodes on him. The bone and metal fuses with him. Mutates him. The ichor God in the middle of the moon is happy to have him.
Rocky is a ginormous bone rock spider. Like full arachnophobia, splintered rib like bone protrusions. Blind, calcified eyes everywhere. Skulls and metal imbeded into his carapace. Mercury venom that somehow melts tunnels for him to travel through. He finds Grace with echolocation, causing tremors to wrack through the Hail Mary.
Everything happeneds pretty much the same from here. Grace is tricked by Rocky, taken to the God in the core.
Rocky pulls Grace into the depth, liquid darkness surrounded them
"They abandoned you. No. You abandoned them. You ran away like a coward. You don't even have a family... I... don't have a family. Not anymore. They're gone...she's...gone."
" The Darkness, the warmth. How could I forget? We can be One in the center of it all."
The whole time the rattling of Rocky's massive carapace resonates through Grace's skeleton. The smell of ammonia and the thick cloud of bone dust choking Grace.
The God in the core sees Ryland and his little earth geode. Sees them as one entity.
More stuff happeneds. Grace is loosing oxygen, he's loosing his mind, losing hope. He makes the decision to send the probes, if onlynto warn the others.
Grace's leg gets fused to the floor of the Mary, turning into geode like crystal. Random bony protrusions appear everywhere on his body, flesh slotting off from burns. There's geodes coming from his face. Gets really fucked up by ammonia, mercury and mutation causing bone dust. Think semi-sentiant sand storm. Bone Dust that really want to be in his lungs.
The bone geode explodes killing Rocky the Bone Spider and destroying the Hail Mary.
Ryland sent little probes with all the video logs he made and all the data he gathered. They make it safely to Stratt.
Then Grace, in all his boney geode glory shows up on Erid and they fall in love.
Grace, with bony exoskeleton plates on parts on his body, crystalline fragments along his face, and kicked puppy wet eye.
Simon, with thinly veiled insatiable xenofucker lust.
