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    He's waited four-ever.

    NASA doesn't know Watney is alive. How will trying to survive in total isolation until Ares 4 change him? What new challenges will he face? Can he make it 1408 sols without completely losing himself?

    For god's sake, someone send him a new mix-tape.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    ARES 3 @AresIII
    Boy's onboard. We're headin' home.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Yao was a principled man, glad to be working with a crew of brave volunteers from all over the world who came together to save the stars. It's probably for the best he doesn’t find out how must of the crew were recruited.
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    Aka, Yao finds out how most of the science and engineering team were recruited by Stratt.

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    30 May 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    29 May 2026

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    The close observation of the food packets ceased as Mark realised something. As his eyes passed over the pile of silver, he noted mentally that there weren’t many left. It should have occurred to him that Duh, of course there’s not many left, you’re only here for another week.

     

    But that voice of reasoning was instantly flattened by the instinctual worry created by eighteen months of worrying about fucking starving. It had been wired in Mark’s brain to instantly spiral in anxiety when he saw anything of the likes; not enough food, broken Hab canvas, frozen-over potatoes-

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    Mark spirals when he sees the food supply dwindling. Beck and Martinez help him out.

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    28 May 2026