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    A few hundred years after Ryland Grace and Rocky save their stars from Astrophage and turn Ryland into an Eridian through an old Earth Project called the Avatar Program, the Eridians set out towards Earth in hopes of establishing an alliance with the aliens. On the edge of Jupiter, however, Grace ends up in a faulty escape pod and crash-lands on Pandora. Stranded on an alien world, Grace must survive until his fellow Eridians can come pick him up from the moon.
    Now, if only he could convince the residents of the moon not to kill him first.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace was Eva Stratt’s first choice for mission science specialist aboard the Hail Mary. He declined, and the astrophage explosion never happened, so Martin DuBois was sent to Tau Ceti. He died in a coma along with Yáo and Ilyukhina. Simon was born on Earth fourteen years after Ryland Grace. Instead of the COI, the latter half of his childhood was marred by the beginnings of the astrophage crisis.

    Fourteen years after the launch of the Hail Mary, a beetle returns to Earth. Over a decade earlier than should have been physically possible. The telemetry reveals that all three members of the crew died. So who sent it back, and why? Grace and Simon work alongside a team of scientists to see if the Earth’s Hail Mary pass can still be salvaged.

    (Absolutely no knowledge of Iron Lung or Arrival is needed to enjoy this fic - I just borrowed a character from each. This is an AU of Project Hail Mary in a universe I'm calling the "Penpal Verse," for reasons which should become apparent.)

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    30 May 2026

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    Stratt is right. He doesn't have the courage to follow her to prison, not at the cost of his career, or his life.

    He has no political or judicial sway; no way to alleviate the charges that may face her.

    But still, he believes.

    His whole life is just believing in near-impossible things now; believing in the Hail Mary, and believing in this:

    We will meet again somewhere.


    AU - DuBois and Shapiro didn't die in the explosion and Grace stayed on Earth

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    30 May 2026

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    “Rocky,” I say sharply. The irritation feels unpleasant inside me, foreign like a toxin.

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    28 May 2026

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    Tom Ryder knows damn well why Ry stopped showing up one day, why he stopped answering his calls. His stunt man walked in on him with his brother one time and suddenly no more Ry, didn't take a genius to work that out. Why else would Ry have left him, or blocked his number. Luckily, he's got the perfect plan to make it all right again.
    He wasn't expecting the bodyguard.
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    Wherein Ryder causes Colt's fall from The Fall Guy as revenge for Colt getting between them, and to bring Ryland back into his life.
    Luckily, Carl saves the day.

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