>>5535588You begin to feel overwhelmed as you realise how much you need to do in so very little time. Noone ever said being the Captain would be easy. You stand up, breathing deeply to calm your thoughts, and act.
“Bridge crew, on me.” You lead the way down the stairs to the observation deck, searching frantically for a solution to your many problems. Your wounded crew, your lifeless ship, the backup security surely needs against the boarders. In your distracted state you almost don’t hear the warning.
“Sir, look out!” Lieutenant La’afette pulls you to a stop as you are almost bowled over by black spherical object rolling across the deck. You recognise the runaway orb as a WEAVER. You always assumed the name of the robotic maintenance drones was an acronym of some kind but whatever meaning it once had has been lost to time.
“Whoah there,” Cleo jumps forward and wrestles the two foot wide orb to a halt. “Hey, it's WEAVY!” She exclaims in surprise.
The normally hovering WEAVERs are ancient pieces of artech that possess rudimentary AIs giving them some intelligence and autonomy. Not normally seen so far from the void core, they are the only “crew” aboard allowed to service the beating heart of the ship. Not even the captain has access to delve so deep. Just another overly paranoid security feature of the original Teran Protectorate to safeguard their live void core technology.
This particular WEAVER, however, is well known to you and your bridge crew as it seems to have been shunned and exiled by its counterparts, spending its time instead performing other maintenance tasks away from the core. Affectionately dubbed WEAVY by the crew, the drone often lurks around the observation deck while you perform your training simulations, simply watching.
Staring at the now motionless orb you realise you may have just found a solution to your problems. The nano-mats WEAVY uses to perform its maintenance tasks are very similar to the medical nanites used by the ship’s doctors. If you could convince it to reconfigure them as such, you could potentially patch up your bridge crew, and maybe even wake up some of the others still lying around you on the deck. Not only that, but the WEAVER technically still has a direct line back to its counterparts in the void core. Surely you could order them as Acting Captain to override the safety procedures and kickstart the ship back to life.
