He is investigating Tau Ceti for the same reason.Įridians "see" using passive sonar instead of light, and their language consists of chords. The alien astronaut (" Rocky") is from a planet (" Erid") that is dealing with the same problem regarding their star, 40 Eridani. There, Ryland comes across an alien spaceship. Presumably, he there to find out why Tau Ceti has resisted infection. In present day, Ryland finds that his spaceship is headed for Tau Ceti, a star located in a cluster of other Astrophage-infected stars, but unlike the others, it has not dimmed. The data suggests that Astrophage have infected many stars and will affect any star within an 8 light-year radius. Then, because they need carbon, they go searching for carbon dioxide (which Venus is largely comprised of), where they breed and then return to the Sun with their offspring. They get their energy from stars such as the Sun. They can then expel that energy as light, the force of which they use as momentum to move around. It is discovered that Astrophage can store enormous amounts of energy as mass. Eva Stratt, who is given nearly unlimited authority worldwide. Due to his prior academic research, he is brought on to the research team, run by Dr. Ryland is a junior high science teacher who formerly worked in speculative extraterrestrial biology. Ryland eventually recalls his research into these particles (" Astrophages"). Hail Mary's mission is to figure out how to stop this. It's predicted that it will lead to a 10-15% decrease in the Sun's output. This has potentially apocalyptic implications since it means the Sun is effectively dying. These dots appear to feed on the Sun, and their trail forms an arc between the Sun and Venus (which scientists refer to as a "Petrova Line"). Scientist Irina Petrova had first observed an astronomical anomaly that later turned out to be a single-celled extraterrestrial life form. As Ryland investigates his surroundings and his memories slowly return, Ryland realizes he's in a spaceship named Hail Mary with his dead crewmates, sent to investigate something called the Petrova problem. He doesn't know where he is or why he's there. The book opens with Ryland Grace waking up next to two dead bodies. Ryland sends Earth what it needs to stop the Astrophages, and he also decides to gives up his chance to go home in order to save Rocky and his alien species. (As Ryland's memories return, he learns that he was sent here involuntarily and given a serum to wipe his memory.) But on the way home, they both run into trouble. Together, they find a solution, and Rocky has extra fuel so Ryland can go home.
He comes across an alien ("Rocky") from a planet ("Erid") that is faced with same problem with their star. His mission is to find out how to stop the Astrophage and send the data back via unmanned probes. Meanwhile, John's older brother, also a monk, convinces him to force local gang members to leave the teenagers alone.The one-paragraph version: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor of a suicide mission to stop an alien organism that feeds on stars ("Astrophage"), which is causing the apocalypic scenario of the sun dimming. It is revealed that Scott has two children. Mills forces Sergei to smuggle the Team, Yuri and Tatjana to Finland. However, Christina Hart deduces Brant Pope, a Divisional Director, to be the mole, luring him into confessing.
The Team deduces the presence of a mole in the operation, believed to be Gretchen Lareau, Yuri's supervisor, after John and Faaron break in her house and find incriminating files. Tatjana is revealed to be pregnant from Yuri. They rescue Tatjana just as Sergei suddenly arrives and engages Bryan Mills, who overpowers him and escapes with the others. After two CIA agents are killed in the failed extraction, the Team heads to St Petersburg, where they capture Yuri, who tells them about Tatjana. Plot Ī CIA asset named Yuri fails to convince his girlfriend, Tatjana Kuznikov, also the wife of SVR officer Sergei, to defect to the U.S. Hail Mary is the sixth episode in the Taken television series.īryan and the team are on a mission to extract a Russian defector.