Flashback to awkward meeting where everyone talks about how they want to commit suicide when the mission is over. Back to the present, Rocky is still alive. They're doing experiments with asteophage and other microorganisms they find in the sample from the planet. Trying to find the predator. They do.
Flashback to prep for launch. There's been an explosion. Both the science people for the mission are dead.
Back to the ship, they're doing science that mimics the atmospheres of the planet they're near and Venus and the.planet in Rocky's solar system where the astrophage is reproducing. They're gonna do some science and see if under those conditions the predator can feed and reproduce.
Ch 22 Pg 363
The lights have gone out. Its pitch black.
Narrator makes his way to the control room where he finds one lit control panel and is able to turn on the backup battery power for life support systems so eh doesn't die. He makes his way to the power generator and finds instead of it being full of astrophage like he expects its full of fowl smelling gunk. The predator has some how made it into the fuel tanks and eaten and pooped out all the astrophage.
Rocky is able to clean it out and put in enough astrophage to power the ship. But not anywhere near enough to propel the ship. If they can get back to Rocky's ship they can get all the astropage they need. Narrator has an idea. Use the small ships that are there to send word back to earth to get them back to Rocky's ship.
They do that.
CH 23 Pg 382
Flashback to talking an out the scientists that blew up. Then telling narrator that he's the best replacement.
In the present they're setting up the beatles to take them back to Rocky's ship. They're gonna accelerate for three hours and then coast for 11 days. Narrator wants to use the gravity for that three hours to do science. He does science with the Venus and the other planets atmosphere and he finds that the astrophage is alive and well. Somehow the predator can't survive in those environments. It sucks and Rocky is pissed.
Flash back to narrator telling Stratt to get someone else cause he doesn't wanna go on the mission. Stratt says she doesn't care, he's going anyway. She's gonna drug him and put him on the ship and by the time he wakes up from the coma it'll be too late. But as an extra fuck you from Stratt to narrator she explains that she will additionally be giving him drugs that cause a temporary amnesia so he won't remember any of this.
Now I'm glad that the Venus experiment failed. Maybe they can figure out a way to save Rocky's planet and everyone on earth can die.
Ch 24 pg 395
Narrator is bumbed that he got Shanghai'd but he's here so he's still gonna try yo save earth. They figure out that the problem with the predator is the nitrogen. It dies when nitrogen is introduced to its atmosphere. Narrator has an idea, what if they can breed nitrogen resistant predators. We have antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, why not predators that can handle nitrogen.
They're done thrusting so they spin up the centrophuge so they can keep doing science. They're a little successful with the nitrogen resistant predators. They've got some that resistant to up to a 1.5 % nitrogen environment.
Ch 25 pg 409
We have huge success with the nitrogen resistant predators. They've bred predators that are capable of living in up to 8% nitrogen. We're at the point where its time to say goodbye. But there's drama. Narrator doesn't have enough food for the trip back. Of course he doesn't, this was meant to be a one way trip. He only has the amount of food he does cause two people died on the way here. The problem is fixed by Rocky making narrator some extra fuel tanks so he can get home faster.
Now it's really time to say good bye. It's very emotional. Rocky is narrator's best friend and they are never going to see each other again.
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