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this is worth sharing again, someone rewrote sections of Andy Weir's The Martian, but if Starship was in use instead of the slightly improved Mars Direct approach in the original story.
>https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/the-martian-starship/

>I’m pretty much fucked.
>That’s my considered opinion. Fucked.
>Six days into what should be the greatest month of my life, and it’s turned into a nightmare.
>I got loaded up at the departure night celebration. 550 days on Mars, time to head home. Took the rover for a spin around the base to get one last look at the Martian horizon, homed in on the Starship that will take us home, crawled into my bunk, and went to sleep.
>Next morning I woke up and realize that I’m not in space. Well, I am in space, in the sense that everything is in space somewhere, but I’m still in a Starship that’s parked on Mars. Did we delay our launch for some reason? No.
>No we didn’t. I looked out the window and on the other side of the main drag saw a blackened spot where the other ERV Starship launched, oh, 6 hours before. It didn’t wake me.
>It takes a while to make the 1200 T of fuel needed to fuel up one of these bad boys and fly home, so in the meantime I’m apparently stranded here on a planet with nothing but 5000 T of cargo for company and a 300 day wait until the next crew arrives.