You (Tanis Richard) are a TSF Colonel and MICI officer known as the Butcher of Toro.

You have an AI named Angela embedded in your mind, helping you get the GSF Intrepid to The New Wden Colony.

Bob, the ship's Multi-nodal AI, wakes you up from stasis because the ship is on a collision course with a red dwarf star and losing power.

Angela emits a pulse of urgency and says: "Ship's core failing. Path to red dwarf imminent. Solutions?"