The decorated garden boxes…fuck bro 😭😭😭 they got me good. Also super curious as to the panspermia hypothesis in the Terra’s Grace au, and what led to that being believed enough to be decorated with rather than life evolving individually. I sense 1000 biology discourses. Dr Lutfi being so vvv smug when all the data arrived. Ryland Grace making waves and enemies in the bio field even after everyone thought him dead. The life tree made me imagine of an interstellar family photo/etching: Grace seated, with the crew and eridians around him, Rocky Adrian and Yiming and Imara and some of his pebbles closest, a vial or dish of astrophage and taumoeba in their hands.

in general, the details behind the panspermia hypothesis of the PHM universe being generally accepted as supported by evidence in the Terra's Grace fic are beyond the scope of the fic, but it was a combination of genetic evidence (we share some of the "universal genes" to do with DNA replication with Astrophage, Adrian life, and Erid life) and handedness of amino acids, plus a lot of statistics…