Pluto

I'm thankful for my Cradle's Graces, but we're not coming back.

**Pluto** is one of the three playable characters in *Heaven Will Be Mine*. She is a psychic prodigy and is the spiritual leader of Cradle's Graces.

## Personality

   Pluto doesn't consider herself human, and while she separates herself from them, she is very fondly attached to humanity, and thinks of them as "cute" even though she feels that they disappoint her.

She is more critical of herself from her training years, as she discloses to Saturn that she fell behind academically, and was "super annoying" to staff and the other pilots-in-training. But she still identifies with some of these past faults, despite general recognition from her peers for being 'perfect,' and she credits her dedication to becoming an ace pilot to her low starting point for training.

She is acutely aware of her strength and in her Day 8 chat, Pluto expresses her fears to Mars that she is too strong, and could do something catastrophic without intending to. After Mars reassures her that she is weak, she laughs and says she listens to Mars more than herself.

## Background

Pluto was raised from childhood by Cradle's Graces to become a pilot of the *Creation Star Type Krun Macula* to help lead humanity into its future in the stars. While humanity has given up on the space program, Pluto still continues to work on her job.

She ends the Cold War almost instantly after being suited with her Ship-Self.

Along with Luna-Terra, Pluto is implied to be trans. During their first fight on Ares (in-game), she thanks Luna-Terra for helping her choose her body and asks that she not return to Earth if that means living in a different (likely cis) body. Pluto also references that she and Luna-Terra could "...cut their old dead names out of the story."

### Pluto's Letter

Nearing the end of the game, the player is shown a sequence of letters from the three main characters, detailing their perspective of the ongoing war in space. Pluto's letter, dated January 30, 1981, reads:

> It’s January 30, 1981.
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> In the end, they might get everything they want, in the way that no one wants. If we open up the Lunar Gravity Well, then we can establish forever, another Earth. And maybe another. We can inhabit the whole system. But that will cut humanity into two, and more. The distance will be so much further. Everything we have will be even farther from them.
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> How much are we going to lose? How much will we never be able to give them?
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> The Moon is very close to being part of Earth. It’s full of life, and humans can live here now. It feels impossible and I don’t want to give it up.
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> We should break it off forever, shouldn’t we?
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> All I want is to stitch these two humanities together.
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> But if one of us dies as a result...
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> I will fight forever to keep that precious thing alive.
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> —Pluto, Princess of Cradle’s Graces
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## Trivia

* In her original design, Pluto had a "boob window" (or a gap in her clothing to show her breasts).
* Though she is a psychic, Pluto does not actually have the ability to read minds.
* According to a Tweet posted on the Worst Girls Games Twitter, Pluto's role was initially similar to that of Neith's, and started out only as logs the player would uncover on Luna-Terra's OS.

## References

1. ↑ https://worstgirlsgames.tumblr.com/post/164544883941/welcome-everyone-this-the-development-blog-for
2. ↑ https://worstgirlsgames.tumblr.com/post/164874807416/ark-pilot-pluto-princess-of-cradles-graces
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://worstgirlsgames.tumblr.com/post/164874807416/ark-pilot-pluto-princess-of-cradles-graces
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/worstgirlsgames/status/903754678642626560
*Article credit: Wiki Know the Devil*

## Email Log

On each "day" of the game, the player has the option of reading through emails, of which the player's selected character receives two of at the start of each day, with exception to the final day (day 8), on which the player receives only one last email.

### SUBJECT: Unacceptable

**ORIGIN:** Cradle’s Graces Formation Archives

**AUTHOR:** Executive Director Dr. Nix

The funding is being cut again. They aren’t getting the results they want. They think it’s indulgent. They don’t care about how the kids feel. It warms their hearts to see them grow unimpeded by the gravity of Earth, but also it disturbs them. They love our beautiful free glittering children, but when we talk about bringing Earth’s children here, they look away.

The children of space are not bound by the same laws of gravity, and do as they like with their bodies and souls. You have insisted that they can endure the gravitational forces of Earth, but have you considered that their tidal forces do not wish to accommodate them? They will be smoothed back again, or broken—at the very least, they will never stop trying to destroy them. We have created magnificent, delicate creatures, and Earth wants them back for what? To crush them again under their own Tidal forces?

### SUBJECT: Who is this?

**ORIGIN:** Ambient Tidal Information

**AUTHOR:** [A Love Story]

I don’t know who I’m sending this to. But I think about you all the time. In the back of my mind. I know a lot about you. Does that mean you know about me, too? Or are you just glowing brightly in way that I don’t understand? Is anyone else seeing this? Do you get messages like this all the time? Are you aware of how much you loom in the heart of someone you haven’t met? What am I expecting; I don’t even know. This is really awkward. Sorry for doing this. It must really be hard. No, I can’t really know that. This is delusional of me. I’m going to make it stop, because if I don’t, I’m going to come to hate you, because I’m already so frustrated I’m nothing like you. I need to understand why I tear myself apart thinking of you. I’m not going to send this. I don’t know how to send this, and I hope you never read it.

### SUBJECT: Regarding Mecha II—Krun Macula

**ORIGIN:** Ship-Self Development Documentation

**AUTHOR:** Operations Decommission Chair Europa

It was commissioned before it had a pilot, before the technology for piloting it had been developed, before the technology for its workings had been developed. I think we recognized that the construction was an act of faith. Nix’s directive was to create the sort of self that we wished to see. I think, of course, that was the moment that it was clear to me that Nix was fighting for what she believed humans could be, but not who humans were. I think at the time I didn’t understand the difference. Or what Nix might not consider important because of her tendency to think this way.

Many of the functions of the Krun Macula have not been invented yet. It is limitlessly expandable. I have of course, requested for it to be decommissioned, but I believe ultimately you’ll want to scrap it. If this committee has indeed found nothing in space worth salvaging, I would have to wonder about the committee’s intentions in their curiosity towards this last fragment.

The end results of the Krun Macula’s functions are indistinguishable from Nix’s dream, so there’s no briefing I can provide that will be more comprehensive than the ones you received from Nix herself. I can only speculate on which she has or has not been able to implement successfully. As terrifying as the Krun Macula is, the pilot Dr. Nix has found for it is more terrifying by far. They might find a way to make it move even yet.

### SUBJECT: Tidal Theory and Celestial Mechanics

**ORIGIN:** General Information Record Pull

**AUTHOR:** Director of Celestial Mechanics, Iapetus

Let us begin with imagining an inert theoretical mass of matter, equivalent physically in all ways to the third body in this solar system, a theoretical planet Terra (⊕), absent of human Culture. How would we model the physical properties of such a planet, where Jungian-Newtonian models do not apply? The soft science of Celestial Mechanics is not purely a thought exercise, but an inquiry into what, if any, 'default' physical properties would exist in the universe without the influence of Culture. Because of its potential application in space colonization, for its use in modeling the physics of foreign celestial bodies, and the utility of the concept of Terra (⊕) in the philosophical hard sciences for more precisely defining Earth (♁) as the lands of human dominion rather than a specific physical body, Celestial Mechanics has been integrated as a branch of contemporary Metacultural General Relativity.

What would it be like to imagine a world in which humans have 1 to 1 dominion over real phenomena? In such a world, we might think of gravity in multiple senses: since the agency of humanity over each other mentally, spiritually, and culturally would not be the same as physically.

The conversion of matter into energy, and energy into culture, and culture back to matter again is complicated by distortions caused by culture’s ability to arbitrarily set conversion parameters. This is caused not because of power of human gravity, but actually by its weakness and incompleteness. In a theoretical universe in which humanity has full dominion over the physical universe, the influence of Culture would be a one to one constant, and the physical universe would abide by inflexible, fundamental laws. In such a world, we would have to separate fields of study that involve metaphors from ones that describe worldly phenomenon, because our world would be objectively determined. While humans would be able to disagree and defy each other, they would ascribe to an inflexible, perfect system as decided by humanity.

### SUBJECT: Pilot Interfacing

**ORIGIN:** Direct Message

**AUTHOR:** Mars

Okay well so the very first thing you need to know about pilot interfacing is that it’s the most important part of piloting. You don’t really have to know any of this stuff but since you asked I’ll give you the basic rundown. There are actually a few ways it’s useful to know, even if it’s basically just to explain why no one can do anything to stop you because of the completely unfair bullshit you have.

Any given Ship-Self may have a variety of prescribed functions, you know. That’s called the machine’s Intent. It’s not that the machine has consciousness, even if it seems like it does. That’s just projection and inaccurate metaphor. Even if you’re using a made to order ship for you alone, or customizing it for that purpose, you still have to bring your intentions in line with the craft’s—that’s what interfacing really means.

That’s why interfacing is the most important part of piloting, and why basically the only thing the R&D crews do is find better ways to reduce the lag.

### SUBJECT: White Void

**ORIGIN:** Tidal Mechanics Research Archives

**AUTHOR:** Dr. Nix

The fearful power of it is evident, so much so that I hesitate to even criticize it. It is the nature of the Tyrant Theory that it is fed by all things, including attempts to dismantle it. It can simply assimilate those theories and absolve itself of potential guilt and rhetorical weakness by assuming new forms, because it has no inherent premise that is not fungible but the impulse to make all else part of it.

Far from expanding to incorporate diverse and contradictory ideas into itself, the theory would remove alternate quantum states until finding a solution that would incorporate perfectly in line with the Unified Culture Theory. This is a necessary and inherent step, because in order to prevent any given feature of such a theoretical Culture to be subject to eversion, the gravitational pull of the Culture must be so great that no information about it can escape. As the theory accumulates Culture, through culture-mass-energy conversion, its gravity would steadily begin to grow, and its energy decrease, until it began to continuously collapse into a single coordinate, and no distinguishing information would be able to escape. The interplay of variant states is necessary for Culture to create and change, and this Unified Field Culture would be unable to do so—it would only be able to assimilate and devour.

Such a theory would not redefine hierarchy, but enshrine it forever. Far from a compassionate future for humanity, it would necessitate the complete removal of human variance. All humanity, and all existence would revolve around a singularity of the Unified Field Culture, the Tyrant Theory, a White Void, a single conqueror-thought at the center of the universe.

### SUBJECT: Alien Phenomena and the Pilot Program

**ORIGIN:** Tidal Mechanics Research Archives

**AUTHOR:** Director of Celestial Mechanics, Iapetus

The Scout program was created to be fungible with various other religions or philosophies in direct response to the immediate postwar need to address growing Existential Threats. As a stopgap measure, the Memorial Foundation has had frustrations with indefinite extensions of scouting programs internationally, and mostly universal failure to advance beyond the need for it. The model, or more specifically, the Scouts were a victim of the Space Program’s own success at fighting the Cold War. With support for a unified approach to space in order to prevent human cultural rivalry, the Memorial Foundation has been granted an opportunity to revise the scouting program and change the reactive war of attrition into a proactive one, and confront the Existential Threat directly.

The Existential Threat is the alien threat. We must think of them as one and the same—what is not known to us is the alien. The alien is defined, by that most familiar function: f(x)=That Which Is Human That Humans Are Not.

A fascinating logical paradox, of much utility in research is the thought exercise: imagine something that humans could not imagine. Logically, you should not be able to do it; it is inherently impossible to imagine something that you have by definition the capabilities to imagine. And yet, this thought exercise leads us to begin defining, first, what is human—in other words, what is conventional. And then, by this same process, to imagine what is unconventional—in fact, this is the essence of conquering the unknown, rather than allowing it the power to rule, and to safely integrate it in Culture, than for it to fester in anti-Culture. But it will not produce what is truly alien to us.

Solving this puzzle requires us to be a part of what humanity does not wish to be.

### SUBJECT: RE: RE: Pilot Interfacing

**ORIGIN:** Direct Message

**AUTHOR:** Mars

Fine fine okay I KNOW I didn’t get to the point but I have to build up to it, okay???? The contextualizing information is important! But okay I will "actually talk about it this time."

Mechanical interface is how machines typically work. You’re going to yell at me for not being clear if I don’t say this, but if I say 'that’s when you’ve got physical switches and buttons and steering devices and you move them with your hands;' that doesn’t actually really convey it! Because you do those things in your Ship-Self but you don’t use mechanical interfacing.

So it actually matters that it is defined as 'exact mental instruction.' It does exactly what you tell it. You can make anything you want to happen, happen, but you have to give it exact instructions. There’s the physical lag between yourself and the machine, but there’s also the nuanced nature of giving the instructions.

That’s a really hard thing to do. Obviously most people would prefer to move a machine on raw instinct, or like part of their body. I don’t think many people actually get the best results from an interface like that.

Unless, yes, they’re like our mutual ex. Hey, is that why you wanted to know!

### SUBJECT: RE: A Proposal For Information Exchange

**ORIGIN:** Cradle’s Graces Ship-Self Development Archives

**AUTHOR:** Nix, of Cradle’s Graces

Even as enemies, you are as hard to understand as ever, Iapetus. Maybe one day I’ll be wise enough to know why you’re always laughing, always smiling.

If that’s what you’ve been making on Cronus’ moon, we over here don’t even look half bad. I can’t imagine why you’d tell me the truth. Does it really not matter to you if you’re found out? Are you that confident, that you don’t mind bragging, while you dangle this offer in front of me? Krun Macula’s development is stalled, so we’re desperate enough to accept your favor.

Or maybe you aren’t as far ahead as you are letting on. What if I just told Europa what you were up to? Just as a courtesy, of course, since there’s no way she doesn’t already know already. You know that the Krun Macula still hasn’t been completed, but you must be desperate too if you are reaching out to us?

It just goes to show, Iapetus, nothing will come of resisting Earth! I’m just doing this because I’m hopeless. What’s your excuse? Thinking you can double-cross the universe?

See if you can trick Europa first.

### SUBJECT: The Eversion Impulse

**ORIGIN:** Cradle’s Graces Foundational Documentation

**AUTHOR:** Metalculture and Graviational Research Chair Dr. Nix

We talk always of the beauty of gravity, but rarely of its cruelty. A force that binds and overwhelms humans. The power brings us together, but it does not do so with kindness. Culture is power, and hierarchy, and force. It can crush us and tear us to pieces. It is not a unilateral force. On the contrary, gravity’s structures are deliberate and intricate. Not everyone shoulders a light burden. Not everyone is able to wield the natural powers of humans with so little weight.

"Through gravity, humanity is ruled by its own laws"—but this is not the case. Through gravity, humans are ruled by each other. Anti-matter, anti-gravity, anti-culture; all exists as a resistive force to this gravity. The refusal of humanity to accept these parts of itself cause its own undoing. When we let our children develop in the lightness of space, they chose their bodies, genders, souls, hearts of their own volition. They became human in the ways they wished to be human.

The gravitational forces are unendurable to those in space. We can feel the possibilities closing off. Infinity has to become something finite eventually. That’s the curse of time, foremost of the eight billion curses of the universe arrayed against humanity, the last before death. Conquering them, in order, is Memorial Foundation’s legacy, and belief—every curse overcome, and nothing lost.

You have to weigh the cumulation, or the end result is a diminished humanity. They’re not good at making hard choices. It’s hard when you understand what you have to lose so much better than you understand what you have to gain. And so, when it comes down to it, that’s why we lose, every single time.

Only in space can we possibly be free.

### SUBJECT: Mars Resignation Attempt

**ORIGIN:** Pilot Personal Records [For Your Eyes Only]

**AUTHOR:** Memorial Foundation Cold War Archives

Mars, we present this to you as a token of your hard work for Memorial Foundation Existential Safety. Your tireless work for Earth is recognized. The war is ending soon—

"Do I have to do another tour?"

The war is ending soon. With your help. Don’t you want to see it through? We could not have done this without you.

"You can end it fine without me."

Your help would prevent us from having to worry. It would guide many more of your former comrades back home.

"How much longer."

"That’s the part you’re always cagey about."

"You don’t need me, do you?"

Of course we need you.

"That’s not what I want to hear."

What do you want to hear? We are, as always, prepared to reward you.

"'But you’ve never been satisfied'—is that what you want to say?"

What would you like?

"I just want to go home."

If you truly did, you would not have been here in the first place.

"..."

I already know what you want. As soon as you know too, we’re ready to give it to you.

### SUBJECT: Dr. Nix Assessment

**ORIGIN:** Memorial Foundation Executive Committee Annual Report

**AUTHOR:** Field Commander Europa

Dr. Nix was always a controversial figure. Her theories were attractive but there had always been complaints that they had little basis in reality. Yet, by virtue of challenging the nature of reality, her theories had a way of putting it that made you feel as if you were the compromised one, you the one unable to see things objectively.

Given that the nature of the universe is verifiably one that is defined by humans, it’s easy to give these particular theories credence. Memorial Foundation, in particular, as the most successful postwar NGO in dealing with Existential Threats cross-culturally and internationally, was obviously attracted to a possible proactive approach in the Cold War, rather than a reactive one.

"Humans are not yet human enough"—an extremely arresting slogan. Truly, who is human enough? Especially that humans already know everything that is necessary to be human, we simply have failed to accurately and completely internalize it. "Outside of gravity, we will achieve true humanity"—rather than advocating a revolution of humanity through technology or biology, Dr. Nix believed that we simply had not created a Culture sufficient for the full potential of humanity; in her view "Humanity are perfect neurons in a jumbled circuit." By arranging correct human knowledge in the proper order, we could bypass the flaws in our universe.

Her insistence on incorporation, rather than rejection, of existentially threatening elements was the fundamental cause of her failure to attract mainstream acceptance of her theories. Dr. Nix decried the narrow-minded individuals who let petty prejudice narrow their conception of what could or should count as human. While in her view, humanity should encompass all that is and all that is not, others believed that the fundamental division was crucial to the definition of humanity. That is, to be something means to not be other things.

### SUBJECT: Academy Director Interviews

**ORIGIN:** Declassified Archives

**AUTHOR:** Memorial Foundation Executive Committee

Please, do have a seat. The committee has enjoyed reading your resume. The committee has deeply enjoyed these fascinating criticisms of the Newtonian-Jungian model of physics. It certainly does feel revolutionary. This committee would like to pause to acknowledge how the candidate’s work has met and exceeded the desired qualifications.

And, without diminishing the accomplishments of the candidate, the committee would like to express that its interest is more piqued by the candidate’s interpretation of the Existential Threat. And the committee would invite the candidate to elaborate more on the implications this would have for managing cultural and colonization efforts in an administrative role within the Memorial Foundation’s space program, if the candidate would.

The committee hopes the candidate will elaborate on the nature of what an educational program would entail. The committee is especially interested in the assertion of radical cultural advancement made possible without risk of existential contamination. The committee is intrigued by refutations of the so-called scapegoat proposal by the program’s current director on technical and theoretical grounds, as opposed to the usual ethical ones.

And the committee invites your comment as to the end of the future of Culture in space.

### SUBJECT: Pilot Program I

**ORIGIN:** Pilot Program Educational Records

**AUTHOR:** Metaculture and Gravitational Research Chair Dr. Nix

Of course the kids wanted to live in space. Obviously, what could be more dreamlike and fun? I never thought I would spend time with children who wanted to be here again. In the Summer Scout program, I taught the the unwanted children of unwanted places. You know what that work is like.

Then, they gave me work that would take the unwanted to a place far away from here. Of course, not for their sake—In the Summer Scouts, they gave the worst kind of work for the kids least suited for it, only to spare those more wanted from it. Memorial Foundation asked us to take those unwanted kids away from Earth so that we could make it safe for the wanted ones.

That’s a duty I was ready for. We would have to fight a long and difficult war to make space safe, but for that time, all of us, unwanted children and unwanted adults, would have something special, that no one on Earth had.

To answer your question, then: I didn’t have it planned from the start. I’ve always been very loyal. It happened over time, but it happened much more quickly than I ever thought. It wasn’t such a far off dream. We believed in the Academy students, and were patient with them, and gave them an environment physically, culturally, gravitationally, as free from Earth’s gravity as we could realistically grant them. They knew what to do much better than we did. Pluto, more than any other student, because Pluto had so much to change. If she and her power fascinate you so much, you should remember the only reason she has it at all is because she was free from you.

As they grew up, they made space the future we were dreaming of. And before I knew it, I couldn’t think of a single reason why we should give space back to you.

And then you went and said you didn’t even want it anymore.

### SUBJECT: Ship-Self

**ORIGIN:** Pilot Program Training Documentation [Leaked]

**AUTHOR:** Memorial Foundation Homeworld Archives

Mare Crisium, the first true Ship-Self was made in 1969, named after her place of manufacture on then-Luna, now Moon. They were made as prototypes, not to be mass-produced. Aesthetic considerations: "a neutral, idealized body, representing all of humanity"; they LOVED bullshit like that. Not the first vessel with a gravitational engine, only the first built to use the engine to exert outwards gravitational control.

A Ship-Self creates the pressure and culture for a human to survive alone without the presence of others. It’s an unsustainable attempt to make a human function as a world. To make it sustainable, we have to become world-sized, in body, thought, and soul. Encompass every self that has been, or will be, or could be.

Its original armaments were extremely varied, since they were a proof of concept and it wasn’t understood yet what form the Existential Threat would be, and what sort of weapons would be needed against it.

The Tidal Reactor can externalize but it doesn’t have any interior mechanisms for this so it needs an equipment loadout and even though the raw force is still unmatched by any mass-produced unit, it wasn’t built with an effective way of using it. The original pilots had to bend, slowly, the default forms of their Ship-Selves into new shapes, and refit the ceremonial and theoretical weapons into ones suited for the Existential Threat, and eventually, each other.

In time, the shape conforms to the human inside. This in part confirms that specific theory: the human part isn’t the ear, but the hole in the lobes for your earrings, lipstick is real, lips are not, and we see humanity defined in its gravitational output.

## Terminal Interface Logs

Following the completion of each story mission, a terminal interface is shown, detailing status updates and new mission details, as well as occasional text conversation between the player character and another character.

### Boot Sequence

```
by mapping the human connection and communication from Mercury (fixed point, distance that is itself, communication with oneself, thought and reason) to Pluto (unfixed, random point, existing at some intangible distance out of ourselves, communication with what is not, the unknown, the perception of impossible things) and every distance in-between. With perfect communication breath to breath. With perfect communication skin to skin. With perfect communication mouth to mouth, inside to inside, blood to blood. With perfect understanding across the bonds of culture. With perfect understanding across the boundaries of culture. With perfect access to the realization of the highest ideals. With perfect access to the acceptance of the deepest depths. The solar system maps the human body. The solar system maps culture. In the center is the sun, which is synthesis. When the physical bodies of the solar system become our home, our ship through the universe, our body, their names will be given again, from the name of a rock (such as Hades) to the name of a part of us and ourselves (such as Pluto).  You are the sun. Through you, humans will possess their true body. As you were once born, through us, we too, wish
BASE OVERRIDE—SYSTEM INTERRUPT
Dr. Nix: Pluto.
Pluto: Hi, doctor.
Dr. Nix: I lost you for a moment there. Are you okay?
Pluto: I'm fine, doctor.
Dr. Nix: This is the first interface of its kind. If there is anything unusual about it... that will be hard to tell.
Dr. Nix: Because by definition, it is very unusual.
Pluto: Haha. I'll let you know if it feels especially unusual, Nix.
Dr. Nix: Good. Let me know if something categorically impossible happens.
Pluto: Like what?
Dr. Nix: If your sync got so deep that your thoughts were being dumped into the OS code directly, for example.
Pluto: If that happens I'll let you know!!!
Dr. Nix: Are you ready to begin?
Pluto: I've been ready for a long time.
Begin Activation Test
Macula Firmware Loading...
Dual Tidal Reactor Syncing...
Welcome To Cradle’s Graces Bootloader 0Y0YC1 v.5.666.9123 [Oh Why Oh Why Can’t I]
Bootlegging Gravitational Reactor……………………………………………………………done
Hyperdensity established…………done
Dr. Nix: Beginning resonance test.
Dr. Nix: You should feel lightheadedness and weight.
Dr. Nix: Wait until you’re comfortable before diving in.
Correct action. Correct thought. Correct belief. Existing without fault. Existing without ever harming the universe. To be the execution of what is right and good. The power over distance is also the power to harm. Harm by thinking. Harm by breathing. Harm by loving. Harm by touching. Harm by culture. Harm by boundaries. Harm by idealism. Harm by depression. Harm by infinity.
Let us talk of harm by infinity. If the ninth planet in the solar system is not a planet, it is because it represents the point at which humans cross over into that which they are not. A phenomenon that is itself existentially threatening, regardless of how or if that phenomenon manifests. That is the sea of possibility itself. All hopes and fears will
Dr. Nix: Pluto? How is the response.
Pluto: I'm doing great! Nothing weird.
Like a computer, I accept it. All data, I accept it. All wishes, I accept them. I'm an infinite engine. I'm a star. I know exactly how. Execute and accept.
SYSTEM ACCEPTING AND EXECUTING
Reactor Cores—Perfect Resonance
No Margin of Error
Pluto: Nix? You can hear me, right?
Dr. Nix: Loud and clear, Pluto.
Pluto: Is it working? You're not saying anything.
Dr. Nix: It's working perfectly. Flawless. On the first try.
Dr. Nix: You really are the one who brings impossible things.
Pluto: You're thinking too hard about it Doctor. I can't do things like that.
Dr. Nix: Be a little more generous to yourself.
Dr. Nix: But it’s also your right not to be.
Pilot-core link…………………………………………………………………done
Dr. Nix: Do you feel centered?
Pluto: Yes.
Dr. Nix: Do you feel the phantom presence of the ship’s limbs (this is normal)?
Pluto: Yes.
Dr. Nix: Do you feel the presence of other bodies, or other people, nearby (this is normal)?
Pluto: Yes.
Dr. Nix: Do you feel as if other nearby people or bodies may also be your own body (this is not normal) ?
Pluto: How would I know the difference?
Dr. Nix: Fair. Do you feel like a god yet?
Pluto: Not really.
Dr. Nix: There's no need to be modest. Prep for launch.
```

### Sequence 2

```
Pluto: All missions on Cronus orbit completed.
Pluto: Maiden flight and testing of Krun Macula is done.
Report Received
Awaiting New Directives
Pluto: I’m heading back to Ares, of course.
Pluto: It’s the home of Cradle’s Graces, after all.
Pluto: We have to finish up the last touches on Krun Macula.
Pluto: And prepare for the last battle, on Earth’s Moon.
Pluto: Celestial Mechanics will regroup and refuel there, and maybe we can nip them in the bud.
Pluto: And Memorial Foundation has been fighting us there since the conflict began, and maybe this time we can push them back.
Pluto: Send a message to everyone: time to come home.
Pluto: So we can be ready for the journey.
Pluto: Ready for launch.
```

### Sequence 3

```
Pluto: We’ve done everything we can for Ares, the planet that would be Mars.
Pluto: We won’t return before too long. Wait for us. While we fight to keep you safe forever.
Report Received
Awaiting New Directives
Pluto: At this time of year, we’ll have to pass by the Lagrange Colony on the way to the Moon.
Pluto: It’s a nostalgic place, isn’t it?
Pluto: Let’s not allow anyone to take it away from us.
Pluto: Let’s protect the memories it holds from Memorial Foundation.
Pluto: And take it with us, to the new world we will create, before Celestial Mechanics turns it into something ugly.
Pluto: Send a message to everyone: I’ll take care of the past.
Pluto: So you can seize the future.
Pluto: Ready for launch.
```

### Sequence 4

```
Pluto: I’m so sorry everyone.
Pluto: I tried so hard to keep those memories of when we were in the Academy, and space seemed so innocent, and full of possibility.
Pluto: All I have left is scraps, but I hope that’s enough.
Report Received
Awaiting New Directives
Pluto: Tell everyone:
Pluto: On the Moon, the border between Earth and space, we have struck a deal with Celestial Mechanics to open up the Gravity Well.
Pluto: To give us a fighting chance at making the dream real.
Pluto: Everyone, take your time.
Pluto: Together, our gravity, our love, can be as heavy as the world.
Pluto: Tell everyone, it’s time for us to head back to Earth’s cradle.
Pluto: So we can say our last goodbyes.
Pluto: Ready for launch.
```

## Endings

### Celestial Mechanics Ending

#### Terminal Sequence

```
Dr. Nix: Are you prepared for this future?
Dr. Nix: You must be relieved.
Pluto: I’m not.
Dr. Nix: Relieved? Or prepared?
Pluto: Relieved.
Dr. Nix: You can’t possibly be ready for it.
Dr. Nix: Though I should have known.
Dr. Nix: I pushed you so, so hard, and in pursuit of something… impossible, I think.
Dr. Nix: So I should be surprised that, in the end, you would follow the path to become something impossible.
Pluto: You give yourself too much credit.
Pluto: I think you’re where I learned that from, you know.
Pluto: If you want to feel bad, feel bad about that, and not any of those other things.
Pluto: Don’t think of it like we’re going away.
Pluto: Think of it like we’re growing up.
Pluto: Like unruly kids, who have to find themselves without you…
Pluto: who will come back someday for you.
Dr. Nix: I wish I could believe that.
Dr. Nix: I wish so much.
Pluto: Have some faith!
Pluto: In yourself, for making a girl who could do something impossible.
Pluto: And in us, for choosing an impossible to create.
```

### Memorial Foundation Ending

#### Terminal Sequence

```
Dr. Nix: Any future is acceptable, but this is no future.
Pluto: I’m sorry, Doctor.
Dr. Nix: So why didn’t you stop it?
Dr. Nix: I earnestly wish to know.
Pluto: I—
Dr. Nix: Pluto, you’re my sweetest child.
Dr. Nix: I have never had to lie to you.
Dr. Nix: So don’t lie to me.
Dr. Nix: No one can stand against you, so the future, any future, is the one that you willed, by definition.
Pluto: That’s not true.
Pluto: I said it so many times.
Pluto: I’m not what you believe me to be.
Pluto: They understand that.
Dr. Nix: Then they don’t understand you.
Pluto: I’m not that strong, I’ve told you over and over and over and over—
Dr. Nix: You are the strongest there is.
Dr. Nix: I understand that sometimes even that is not enough.
Dr. Nix: It’s unfair of me to pretend your limitations do not exist.
Dr. Nix: I should know that.
Pluto: ...I wish I could help you understand.
Pluto: It isn’t that at all.
Pluto: It’s not just that I’m not strong enought. It’s that the universe is so strong, too.
Pluto: And I’m not as right as it is sometimes. Don’t you understand?
Pluto: I want everything you wanted to be true, to come true.
Pluto: Isn’t it worth nothing if we don’t bring it home?
Pluto: You need to have faith in someone other than me.
Pluto: You need to believe in the power of someone else.
Pluto: Do you think you’re not strong enough for this future?
```

### Cradle's Graces Ending

#### Terminal Sequence

```
Dr. Nix: We did it.
Dr. Nix: You did it.
Dr. Nix: I can’t believe it.
Dr. Nix: Pluto. You’re there, right? Pluto? Can you turn on the monitor.
Pluto: …Not right now. Hi, Dr. Nix. What can I do for you now?
Dr. Nix: More powerful than I ever imagined.
Dr. Nix: And I was never optimistic.
Dr. Nix: But you’ve made me more optimistic than I could ever have imagined. That, alone, has me believing truly, it was worth it. And yet I’ve never heard you say it. Have you?
Pluto: I have fought so hard every day for it. Of course it’s worth it.
Dr. Nix: But you don’t say, or express, a certain kind of joy in it. Have you noticed that? But it’s supposed be joyful, isn’t it?
Pluto: I’m proud.
Pluto: I’m holding everything, even though it’s very, very hard. My heart and soul is in it.
Pluto: Isn’t that obvious? What’s wrong, now?
Dr. Nix: No… but not like that. It was supposed to be a joy.
Pluto: ...You’re feeling guilty again, aren’t you. I told you, there’s no need for that. It’s not helping. And I don’t need it. Instead I just have to reassure you, all over again.
Pluto: That’s more work for me. Let me just rest instead. Then I’d be happy.
Dr. Nix: No, it matters. Don’t you understand? There can’t be a sacrifice, one for the other.
Dr. Nix: "Happiness for everyone and no one left behind." It’s supposed to mean, no one, not even you…
Pluto: You’re the one who taught me everything. Maybe you should have taught me what that was supposed to feel like.
```