AlbertoTheAlpaca



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    "Speaking from a selfish perspective, I hope you stay. But, we also have another offer."

    Ryland looks down at his best friend, eyebrow raised. Curiosity pushes the burgeoning tightness enough for him to ignore. "Yeah? What's that, Rock?"

    "We can build onto the Hail Mary— a spaceship large enough to carry you, me, and other scientists. We go to Earth with you," Rocky trills. Ryland can't believe his ears. Rocky's carapace tilts in the way that means he's smiling. "We live on Earth, learn from the humans, and return in our own time."
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    Or, Rocky offers to travel back to Earth with Grace. Featuring best mate Adrian

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    “Oh,” I sigh, rubbing still-shaking hands across my stubbly face because oh, that was so close. Too close. We were supposed to be done with the theatrics, with the life-and-death bullhonkey.

    What the heck, universe? Not cool.

    I don’t want to move for a bit. The siren song of dissociation calls my name, and honestly, I’m so, so chill with just sitting here for a second and decompressing and trying to remember all the breathing techniques I learned for my students, butー

    But the lights are still flashing red, flashing with urgency and Mary is saying something and I have to drag my mind, kicking and screaming, back to focusー

    “-ected. Toxic gas in Laboratory detected. Toxic gas in Laboratory-” Mary drones, and once it clicks into place the cold sweat is backー

    Oh god noー

    The banging noise. The gas leak. The lab.

    Rocky.

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    “The man is a pariah in his field. If you’d read his post-doctoral thesis,” Vale chuckles and shakes his head. “He’s not what I’d call ‘leadership material,’ in any case.”
    “Dr. Grace is very well respected on this ship, Friedrich,” Dr. Cohen says with a hint of reproach. “While you’re here, perhaps it is best not to say such things in polite company.”
    Vale rolls his eyes, but lets the subject drop with a muttered, “Really, what could Grace do to me?”
    The astrophysics team experiences a collective realization: Friedrich Vale might be a complete idiot, actually.
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    Or, Friedrich Vale is the newest scientist on Stratt's Vat. Friedrich Vale, for whatever reason, does not like Dr. Ryland Grace. Friedrich Vale is about to have a VERY bad time.
    Featuring the crew of Stratt's Vat being totally prepared to throw a bitch overboard if they so much as give Dr. Grace a dirty look, because he's too nice to do it himself.

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    "I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."

    "Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"

    "Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.

    "Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."

    "Let's not joke."

     

    or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller

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    25 Jun 2026

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    Junior Jedi Archivist Jocasta Nu has always had a fascination with Mandalorian culture and became holonet penpals at a young age with an open-minded Mandalorian bounty hunter called “Jas” who was curious about the jedi and willing to chat. As the years passed they become close friends, the two of them sharing culture and Jocasta helping to translate Jas’s writing—but even after over a decade they only knew each other through the holonet, never seeing each other’s faces, never meeting in person.

    This all changes when Jocasta Nu is promoted to Head Archivist and finds a repository of beskar’gam in the jedi archives, stolen in war over a thousand years ago and never repatriated. Jocasta knows that she can’t let the injustice to the Mandalorians stand and reaches out to her penpal to arrange a way to return the armor.

    But, as tensions in Mandalorian space rise and Jocasta and Jaster come face to face for the first time, Jocasta is forced to ask herself how well she truly knows Jaster and—more importantly—if she truly understands just how impactful the consequences of her actions might be.

    Completed story, will be 40k, updates on Saturdays
    *I am writing a part 2, though this story does end as planned

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