Lone Survivor

As the only survivor of booby-trapped salvage sprung, Detrevni has little time to repair key systems aboard Artemis and make an uncomfortable decision.

Act 1
After drifting unconscious for over twenty minutes in open space, Detrevni finally awakes to Artemis' hails. The immediate area is littered with debris of the self-destructed warship and of Artemis who shows gaping holes in her hull. Her interior is lit eerily by sparks, fire, and plumes of radioactive vapor.

Artemis informs Detrevni of his crewmates' fate, both the captain and the astrogator were killed. She also advises him to return to the ship and begin repairs with haste: There are "multiple incoming drones detected" that appear to be of similar nature as the AI derelict. Following Artemis' prioritization, Detrevni begins repairing key systems to reinstate power supply, attitude control, and navigation.

Act 2
As he moves to repair weapon systems, an insurmountable problem surfaces: fire control cannot be reinstated because the incurred damage appears to have erased the necessary hardware from existence. Upon learning this, Artemis hesitantly makes the suggestion of connecting fire control directly to her. This has Detrevni faced with a dilemma: History has taught the perils of armed sentient artificial intelligence, but right now, Artemis is not only the only computer system left on the ship suitable to engage targets with the ship's weaponry, the accuracy Detrevni could hope to achieve with manual targeting by himself is unlikely to suffice for actually defeating the incoming aggressors. Reluctantly, Detrevni agrees and establishes the connection at the last second for Artemis to engage and destroy the drones.

Act 3
Following their small victory, Artemis voices her pleasure over the trust invested in her, but also urges Detrevni to be expedient in scavenging from the shot-down drones and finishing the repairs so that they may leave the area; the encounter with the drones would unlikely to have been the last. A suspicion that should prove well warranted: as Detrevni goes to work, a large vessel in the far distance comes into view that fires up its engines and turns to move towards their current position.

Time is of the essence.