One Giant Leap LARP

Survivors of a crash landing on the moon must decide what they should do now for the good of tardigrade-kind. (Inspired by real-life events.)

Setup

(Take turns reading each paragraph aloud.)

ON APRIL 11, 2019, the private Israeli space company SpaceIL’s programmed Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on the Moon at 310-MPH.

The intended research cargo aboard the lunar lander: 1 magnetometer and 1 laser retroreflector.

Added to this by Arch Mission Foundation, a USA nonprofit whose goal is to create “a backup of planet earth,” was a digital library containing 30 million pages of info of human knowledge to document its existence...

AND... an undeclared sum of tardigrades and a sample of human DNA secretly tucked within the center of the library package.

In prep for this mission, you and 3,000 millimeter- long tardigrades had been dehydrated into a torpor-like state and sandwiched between the two micon-thin sheets of nickel within the library, next to the human DNA package.

The sheets were suspended in a resin-based epoxy within the library and possibly this epoxy is what saved some of you and the precious knowledge delivered to the moon.

Though highly unlikely, there’s a wild theory that the crash on the Sea of Serenity penetrated the moon’s surface enough to expose some ice that could melt and rehydrate any exposed smuggled tardigrades.