honestly, simon is such a good addition to the crew, not cause i ship him w grace but cause like the three of them are on this triangle chart, each in their corners, when they travel
Rocky knows that his world is saved and he will see its flourishing in the way it should, and even more because of Grace
Grace, until like 16 years after living on Erid was left in this unsure state, with earth being a weird shrodinger's cat, because he didn't know if the beetles reached earth, if he manages to save his own people
and Simon mourns his doomed world and their sun that's long since dead (no matter if you hc he's from an au earth or an earh-like planet with very human-like creatures) and his people who are destined to die and he can't actually do shit to help them.
An engeneer, with a full crew of 23 Eridians all dead because of the thing they weren't aware of.
A scientiest with two out of three people sent to the mission dead because of the thing they knew about, but thought to not be a threat
and a pilot, who should be dead and was sent to die first and do the mission second
they are a perfect team narrative wise
