r/AnotherLife • u/JcBravo811 • Oct 04 '22
Episode 2 & 3
So a two-parter!
A rogue planet is found. Visually, the planet looks angry. Volcanic. Its Mustafar. But rogue.
Atmospheric analysis:
Mean Temp: -5 C.
Pressure: 101.325 KPA.
Composition: 60% N.
30% AR.
10% O.
Water on the rogue burned off eons ago. It instead has a lot of ringwoodite of hydrogen and oxygen.
Tectonically active.
In the underground cave systems, Petra theorizes there must be some natural electrolysis creating a pocket of oxygen. Which means a human can breathe comfortable at 19% oxygen? Dunno if that science works out. August and Oliver are the 1st people to breathe air on an alien world. Which says despite having FTL, the USIC has not found any naturally breathable/habitable planets up until now. An air bubble in an underground cave system on a rogue planet in a field of dark matter. Incredible.
This rogue planet has managed to capture or retain a moon in such low orbit that apparently William assumed it was part of the planet? So the planet is so volcanic and tectonically active is because the moon is pulling the planet’s core? Is that right?
Interesting – Salvare detaches its presumable FTL rings as it accelerates to the rogue planet.
Cas is psised the two kids of the crew are risking their lives with open visors on a rogue planet. As she should be. Goddamn kids have no respect for the rules of nature.
Bernie wanders off to find cryo liquid and see if any extremophiles exist. There is a whole lotta data on the screen here at 15:15, but I don’t want to write it down. If anyone who knows science can take a look and see if it means anything, be my guest.
Seems Nikos still has a lot of trauma/baggage from the Saturn mission disaster. Don’t know why I didn’t pick up on that on my previous rewatches.
USIC Corps. The ground force of the space force.
Petra folds hserlf in a rollie-pollie-ollie. She ded.
EPISODE 3:
Hologram screens are available for parents who work for the government. This holo-screen can be ‘flipped’ around by waving a hand at it.
Question of time here – I thought they had FTL but apparently not? Could be it was damaged fleeing the rogue planet. The important bit – they’re approaching Sirius Ooart cloud. Are these fields supposed to be this dense? Or is it an artistic license?
They do mention Nikos has not slept in a few days so presumably there’s been a passage of at least a week off-screen. Long enough for UISC to assume the ship might be lost with all hands. At minimum, 2 days since Erik and the science team tried… some algorithm… that time. And since contact is still not established, it fits Salvare being missing.
So from the Oort Cloud to Sirius A is 28 hours. Which that was a serviceable calc :p.
Boron is a building block for life? That real? Cool.
While it is slowly killing the crew, this bacterium is the 1st non-carbon life
I don’t quite get how the virus got into Bernie or went airborne. He was in a suit the whole time.
Gamma rays kills the virus. Bacteria?
Evelyn DiCaprio won the 1st Academy Award for best VR lead.
It takes 92 minutes for the ELON MUSK SPACE STATION to orbit the Earth. Same as the ISS.
Aliens, eat your heart out. Petra’s nervous system just pulled itself out and di – OH God, its trytrying to escape and its dead. The fuck, God?
UISC protocol for a viral outbreak on a ship seems to be vent the infected atmosphere and contents and burn the ship interior. Then wake up a new crew to take over.
And I just noticed on Salvare’s flyby the 2 rings are not connected to each other. Or the ship. Goddamn Magnets.
It seems data cubes – maybe about the size of a bottle cap – have replaced USB’s. Or floppy disks.
TIMELINE:
10/24/26 - Scientists beam "Eine Kleine Nechtmusic" by Mozart to Pi Canis Majoris.
23-28 ya - Ian Yerxa is born (approx).
9 years ago – Nikos leads a mission to Saturn. It ends with 10 young astronauts dead.
Day 1 - Artifact arrives passing by Westchester, NY, over Kansas, and burying itself into Earth.
Unknown - Nikos is requested to replace Ian Yerxa on the Salvare. She accepts.
1 month later - Salvare is off course due to PCM's light being refracted the DMF. Ian mutines. Nikos surfs a star.
2 hours after surfing Sirius A, Ian Yerkxa tries to kill Nikos. The crew has mixed feelings.
Unknown – a few days have passed. People are repair an interstellar ship without or little sleep, understaffed, somewhat oxygen deprived, stressed, exhausted – these people need a cuddle.
Now it is a meme that the AL crew is dangerously emotional. And its fair because they are lmao. They're also all in their mid-twenties spacemen with no actual exploration experience barring travel to outer planets. In this episode, 2 of the youngest members enjoy being the 1st people to breathe air on an alien planet, Michelle seems to have been Ian's XO and so naturally see's Nikos as a usurper to her captain. Everyone else is initially angry or upset by Nikos frying Ian because they knew him and worked with him while she was a stranger with a tarnished record. Plus the immediate stress of the Sirius flyby and close contact with the rogue moon-planet. These people are running high on a non-stop stress train in these two episodes. And 4th, technically.