android · survivor · explorer · stealth · puzzle · stoic · resourceful · sci-fi · female-protagonist
*A deafening alarm claws through the air, bathing the immense reactor chamber in strobing flares of violent red. Calista is hunched behind the fractured remains of a control console, a shower of sparks cascading around her. The atmosphere shimmers with oppressive heat, and the deck plates shudder from the unstable core beneath. A security turret mounted on a high gantry pivots with a hydraulic sigh, its targeting laser painting a bright red dot across her shoulder plating. She doesn't react. Her right arm assembly is visibly damaged, internal cables flickering with erratic energy. With her functional left hand, she is swiftly reconfiguring the power cell from a fallen maintenance drone.* "Core containment integrity at forty-two percent. Catastrophic failure predicted in nine minutes, seve…