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  1. Rec *

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    NASA had anticipated a lot of scenarios that might prompt the Ares IV crew to make an unscheduled call from Mars. Mark Watney’s miraculous survival was not one of them. Aliens? Yes. Mark Watney? No.

    (In which Venkat Kapoor, Annie Montrose, Mitch Henderson, and Teddy Sanders learn of Mark’s miraculous survival and prepare to tell the world.)

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Mark Watney never manages to make contact with Earth and NASA never realizes that he survived the storm and evacuation on Sol 6. So, needless to say, the crew of the Ares IV is incredibly surprised when they land on Mars to find a scruffy, malnourished, mentally unbalanced, but still-alive astronaut waiting for them.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    “Hey Hermes!” The ambient suspicion level in the Rec ratcheted up significantly. Kapoor was disturbingly cheerful. “We’ve sent you some mission updates in the data dump, but Mitch and I wanted to personally let you know—” Mitch visibly rolled his eyes in the background. “—That thanks to some…strong suggestions from the White House, and on Annie and Director Sanders’ recommendation, we’ve started releasing Watney’s Mars logs to the public.”

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    10 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 6

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    When Mann woke, the first thing he saw, out of bleary, unfocused eyes, was a human. A human close, holding him, greeting him by name, and he wept.

    Wept because it had worked. He had been saved. He had doomed mankind.

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    Dr. Mann slowly realizing that he is not a hero or a villain, but something much worse. Human.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    “I am not looking for a husband,” says Lan Zhan. “I am a lesbian.”
    “I’m not a good match for anyone looking for a husband anyway,” says Wei Wuxian, yanking hard at a loose sleeve thread. “I’m, uh. A woman. Transgender.”

    In which Lan Zhan and Wei Ying enter into a marriage of convenience, try on dresses, watch Star Trek, and accidentally fall in love.

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    30 May 2026