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The crew of The Infinity were chosen in a grueling decade-long application process that analyzed every aspect of their personal and genetic history. This screening process was followed by five years of intense NASA training.
Intense 😳 how about governments changing and new laws being approved? Is NASA an independent organ? Take notes to search more about it
follow their journey via the official The Infinity social media accounts.
Because of course they’d have one 😂
Although... would they? Do astronauts have social media?! Wait, what?
Don’t forget to register to vote in the global referendum to name Planet HT 3485 c.
Is this really done!? I feel like this isn’t done. 🤔 they name it all themselves
Read about the new commercial stasis service that is promising to help civilians live long enough to see The Infinity land on Planet HT 3485 c.
This is just delicious detail 👌🏼
I need to be prepared for the next crisis. I have to know the ship inside out,
Anxiety giving me anxiety
By the time you read this, I think you’ll be working on three-dimensional propulsion mechanics,
Wait, what?
Molly is my therapist and miscellaneous pillar of support. She was assigned to me by NASA after my parents died, to help me deal with their deaths—and
Ouch... right in the feels
I’ve been alone on this spaceship since my parents died. The last time I hugged someone, smelled their shampoo, or even just spoke to them face-to-face was February 25, 2062. Five years ago. Right now I’m officially farther away from any other human being than anyone else has been since the evolution of the species.
All. The. Loneliness.
When I dream, I dream in screens. A line of text, a voice in my ear.
How odd, but so real considering her life
I should be proud to be the first human to land on a planet and create a new civilization. I get to carve out a new home for humanity among the stars. But some days it’s hard to remember the exciting parts. I get stuck in the memories. It’s hard to focus on the future when the past is so distracting.
Just so relatable!
Not on a I’m in space kind of scale but in a more down to earth privileged first world country inhabitant
On my very worst days, I think of nothing but how vulnerable I am out here. I’m balanced on the edge of oblivion with only a fragile skin of metal separating me from the void of space. My only choice is to carry on into nothing, until the day that The Infinity reaches a new star system and glides into orbit around a rocky planet. If the planet turns out to be hostile—if there’s scorching radiation from its two suns, or an atmosphere fierce enough to turn my lungs black—then I’ll be lost. I’d have to make the decision to keep going to the next hospitable planet, which might be many years’ extra
...more
Did she just describe life? As in life to all human beings? Well, I think she did.
Who thought it was a good idea? A life of never seeing a horizon
Interesting... I’ve never before thought how comforting it is to see an horizon.
I represent the culmination of centuries of human achievement and exploration. But who cares if my name goes down in history, if no one remembers who I really am?
The I vs the We
Eternal debate
How long until I’ll be able to see The Eternity? How long until it will be able to see me?
Oh, all the hope on her voice
fin.
Fic with a true teen’s voice
Not bad at all
I watch the new episode without taking my eyes off the screen for even a moment. Jayden Ness, the puppy-eyed and long-legged mixed-race selkie, and Lyra Loch, the no-nonsense feminist banshee, are trying to track down a fairy selling illegal love potions.
This in itself is hilarious and just pure gold 😆
My gratitude has dissolved into a mess of confusion and nerves. Someone on that ship knows I like Loch & Ness. They know that much about me, when I know nothing about them.
Yes... unsettling in the least
This shouldn’t be hard, but for some reason I feel shy. What if I say the wrong thing, and make a terrible first impression? Should I be formal and polite, or funny and relaxed? This would be so much easier if they’d sent me a message first. Then I could just copy their tone, instead of having to try and work out what to say myself.
Me and new interactions every time
while I definitely sound awkward, I don’t sound as stupid as I could, so it’ll have to do.
Also me 😂
even though light is the fastest thing in the universe, messages currently take over a year to travel through deep space between me and Earth—and the delay increases every day. At this point, it’s almost impossible to have a proper conversation with anyone on Earth.
Had never really considered that 😯
The Infinity has just been ruled a low-priority mission by the international board. This means that using the DSN to transmit high-memory data such as audio files is no longer considered a valuable use of space agency resources.
Fuckers!! That’s a person right up there!!!
to get no audio messages at all? It’s all I have.
Exactly!!!
From: NASA Earth Sent: 06/24/2065 To: The Infinity Received: 02/28/2067
The whole dates thing is mind boggling- so fucking long!!!
Do you think my dad had a habit of swearing in his messages? Was NASA so offended that they introduced censorship settings? That would be very funny. If so, I apologize on his behalf.
This is endearing
The real measurements stop at age eleven, because after that Dad wasn’t here to measure me anymore.
She was so young!!! Such loneliness and grief at such an early age 😔
But then, as always, I start criticizing myself. A voice in my head tells me that I don’t know what I’m doing, that nothing I’ve written is right. I start panicking that really I’m not clever at all.
Fucking inner voice and all that
If I was strong enough to be independent, then I wouldn’t be so desperately lonely, I’m sure of it.
Your wrong, Romy. It’s in our DNA to want to close to another human being. It’s also called survival instinct, strength in numbers and all that
From before everything went wrong.
Okay, Romy, you do realize I need to know what happened, right?? Getting on my very nerves here!
(But that’s ok, I forgive you, keep going).
The recording shows me the mother I might have had, if things had been different.
Oh, the pang in my heart 😢
I can’t believe you’re only sixteen
Wait, sixteen?!? She’s frigging 16?!!!
Seals. Whenever I get sad, I watch videos of seals on YouTube. They’re basically mermaid dogs, and they are all giant idiots.
😂 so true
I keep picturing you like Jayden Ness from Loch & Ness. The way you described yourself sounded a bit like him,
Hmm... too convenient wouldn’t you say so, Romy?
Gone.
Hmm... so she killed herself. We knew that much already, this suspense is killing me! What about the astronauts?! What happened?! Malfunction??! What?!?
Our ships are about more than just us, aren’t they? Everyone on Earth is depending on us to get to Earth II. They’ve invested nearly half a century of money, time, and research into getting us there. I couldn’t let them down just because I was scared.
Aww
This voyage was never meant to be easy. It was meant to be important.
Very nature on the part of messed up and turn out by pain, 14 yo you, Romy. Bravo!
There’s something about you that just makes me want to open up, I think.
He is the only other human being you have access to after all.
It’s funny how similar you two are. It’s such a coincidence.
Hum hum
Too funny almost...
I can tell you what I want to experience the most:
Cute list ensues
I’ve set the rainfall as my morning alarm tune, so it will be like we’re together, listening to the same rain outside our windows.
Okay... a bit stalkerish, Romy.
I know you’ve had few interactions in life but this is becoming stifling and someone ought to give you the newsflash, girl.
I might as well put the alcohol to good use. It will be interesting to know what being drunk feels like, just for future reference. J might mention it again.
Alcohol for future reference. That’s somehow hilarious
Before I’m even awake, I wish I were asleep again.
There’s your future reference , right there 😊
We are writing to inform you that The Infinity and the transmission unit on Earth are now in the control of our noble Union of the People’s Republic.
Oh. Shit.
the political landscape of Earth has shifted a considerable amount by the powerful UPR’s victory in the Third Global War.
Good-ness-me... 😨
All hail the UPR! May the king live long and vigorously!
THE KING?!!!?
It’s not like I’ve ever even been to Earth. I have no real investment in which ruling government is currently controlling the piece of land that one of my parents came from—or that the land the other came from has been bombed. It’s all happening on a planet I’ve never seen. But I still feel uneasy.
I feel your unease
I don’t think I’m being told the whole story.
Ohhhh boy...
I don’t trust them, J.
What if... J is one of them, though???
Would you kindly transmit to us the details of your vessel’s system operations to date for analysis?
Ah... Nop! Will have to pass
How did they feel after the deaths of the rest of the crew?
How would he know this?... I mean, probably NASA informes them but still... I don’t trust this J character one bit. Not one bit.
