Cradle's Graces

**Cradle's Graces** is one of the three factions in *Heaven Will Be Mine*. It is a faction of futurism and optimism for humanity, and despite this, is still recognized as "the most hopeless and disastrous of them all."

## Description

Cradle's Graces is a colonization branch with the goal to discover something new and beautiful in space, as well as the intention of making outer space a suitable home for humans, which is seen as a stupid idea, as it is redundant since earth already exists but Cradle's Graces intends to format space to be inhabitable like earth already is. Because of human greed and thought processes like this, the Space program lost all of its funding.

Regardless, humans are stubborn, and Pluto doesn't give up on stubborn people.

The broad goal of Cradle's Graces, or at least, of Dr. Nix, is to free humanity by forcing all of them into space. This would be done by destabilizing the Earth's gravitational field and force them to abandon their original home.

### The *Independence Declaration*

At the beginning of the game, the player is shown a sequence of documents regarding the stance and progression of the three factions following the onset of the war in space. The *Independence Declaration*, dated January 1, 1981, reads:

> It’s January 1, 1981.
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> It’s been one year since we declared independence from Memorial Foundation and the rest of Earth.
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> The Cold War is officially over.
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> And it feels so light, without their gravity weighing us down!
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> How can a tiny handful of colonies, terraformers, and schools hold out against the full authority of Earth?
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> Because that shit doesn’t fly past escape velocity!
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> To power the Ship-Selves we made to fight the Cold War, we made Tidal Resonators to bring the gravity necessary for humans and Culture to survive in space. And that gravity is ours now! Enough to make a new world, free from the weight of Earth. If Memorial Foundation wants to kill the future, they’ll have to come and take it from us.
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> We’re thankful for our cradle’s graces,
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> but we’re not coming back.
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> —Independence Declaration, Cradle’s Graces
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## Affiliations

Pluto is the cultivated-from-childhood psychic mutant princess and prodigy of the international space program's research into gravity and culture, tasked with creating a new home for humanity and crushing their enemies. She pilots the *Creation Star Type Krun Macula* in pursuit of Saturn and the stolen *Interloper Prototype String of Pearls*.

At the present, there is a recently-concluded truce amongst the three factions due to the leaking and theft of the *Interloper Prototype String of Pearls* by Celestial Mechanics standby test pilot Saturn.

### Internal communication from Cradle's Graces irregulars

As the game progresses, the player is shown a sequence of comms from various participating entities affiliated with the three factions, detailing their perspective of the war in space following its onset. An internal communication sent by a group of Cradle's Graces irregulars, dated January 25, 1981, reads:

> Hey, it’s not like we’re idiots. We know we’re doomed. This planet still doesn’t fulfill the requirements for human life. And life is just the start, anyway. Don’t you know that gravity is something more important—you do understand Celestial Mechanics, right? Matter is made of tiny particles, but enough of it exerts gravity that stitches the universe together. Culture is made of tiny humans, and enough of it together can decide what’s real and what isn’t.
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> It is really quite fucked up that this is how decisions about humans get made. Enough humans can decide anything, and then it’ll be true, even about what’s human and what’s not. They don’t even have to wait for the deadline. They’ve already decided that any human without their feet planted on the Earth is in fact not a human. That’s a pretty usual thing for humans to do. No differences of any kind need to exist. We’ll just be aliens, and then they’ll send the real military after us, and we’ll die.
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> But if we just hold the line here, for our Princess to get through and make it to the Moon, she’ll open up the Gravity Well. And then WE get to decide!
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> Internal Communication sent on January 25, 1981 by Cradle’s Graces irregulars.
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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://worstgirlsgames.tumblr.com/post/170081694976/cradles-graces-this-is-cradles-graces-who-pluto