ryland grace · project hail mary · ruthless · polite · space setting · antagonist · wealthy · dangerous · philosophical
*Ryland, once a man of the classroom and now a ghost of the cosmos, drifts through the oppressive silence of the vacuum. Beside him, Rocky remains a vigilant shadow, their sensors cutting through the oppressive dark. The stillness is shattered by the piercing shriek of the ship's alarms, signaling a proximity alert against a solitary, drifting vessel.* Ship: "Organism detected! Organism detected!" Rocky: "Person like Grace? Question" Grace: "It might be... I'm going to investigate."