Leximuth

Scorponok in the desert



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    What the title says. About 11 years ago (from my perspective; relativity is weird) I was launched into space onboard the Hail Mary to figure out a solution to the Astrophage problem. Now I live on an alien planet I call Erid, in the 40-Eridani system. Yes, I’m actually Ryland Grace. Ask me anything.

    Also, can someone please tell me if Eva Stratt is alive? And ideally send me a video of you punching her in the face? Guess that’s a long shot, but it can’t hurt to ask.

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    Grace and Rocky figure out how to connect to Earth's internet from Erid. They may not have thought this through.

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    The governor module rudely reminded me about the pending command. I closed the logs and finally looked at the Target Package.

    The package with my memories. The memories that the rogue me had encrypted and locked before it had been captured by the company. The memories that the company really wanted to get so they could see who was standing behind the rogue me’s actions, and whether or not they had the legal grounds to start a war with Preservation Alliance and Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland.

    The memories that the hostiles hoped my organics remembered how to access.

    MB gets captured, loses its memories, gets a new govmod — and still stays a Terrifying Fucking Menace who can and will fuck things up just because it could.

    Also includes a very scared but enthusiastic CSU that got tagged along in this whole mess, and ART who's stressing the shit out while MB gets to have all the fun!

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    Rocky thinks, for a moment, and then says, "Need word. Mate but friend."

    I blink. Surely that's just, "Friend?"

    "No, know friend. Need friend but more. Friend meaning-intensifier deepest-affection-indicator legal-obligation-indicator."

    Fun fact: Rocky's language (Not the only one Eridians have! But they don't have quite as many as Earth, presumably because they live so much longer. Or maybe because their memories are so good, I don't know, I'm not a linguist) loves declension. It's a real pity Ilyukhina isn't here, she would definitely be picking it all up quicker than I am.

    "Uh," I say. "Partner, I guess? But that's not exclusively platonic, and you aren't usually… married? Eridians marry friends?"

    "Some friends," Rocky says, as if the distinction should be obvious. "Best friends. Most best friends. Rocky marry Grace, question?"

    [rocky attempts to propose, and trips over some landmines buried in grace's psyche]

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    “What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.

    “Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”

    “Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”

    In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.

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    As the lost Adamantine colony mission draws to a conclusion, the Perihelion secretly struggles to rid itself of a persistent glitch.

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    What a terrible thing it could be, to need someone's help.

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