CLASSIFIED INCIDENT REPORT

Interaction: Ship operators can use the terminal to disable turrets or landmines and open/close secure doors to assist those inside the facility.

Immediate Effects on Ship Operations

Crews have reported the following symptoms after the buffer fills:

II. INITIAL CONTACT

At 0400 hours, the creature (Designation: Entity-7) breached the cargo hold via the ventilation system. Unlike previous encounters, Entity-7 did not display immediate hostility. Instead, sensors indicate it was drawn to the low-frequency hum of the ship's gravity drive.

Prepared by: Incident Response Team (onboard)
Timestamp: March 23, 2026, 13:00 ship time

Progression: The story branches based on your exploration of items during "waking sequences." Missing certain items can lead to different paths or endings, rewarding patient players who investigate the dark environment thoroughly.

They tried seals. They tried calming protocol, the old naval thing where you sing a nonsense song until your voice trembles and fails. They tried reason—cataloguing every movable object, every supply manifest, the names of every cargo crate stacked three decks down. Reason ran like a lantern in the dark and left them with a ledger of absence: there had been no recent manifests of lifeforms, no biological scans that suggested company. Yet the sensors, the ship, and some small coalition of human nerves insisted on one truth: the ship was full.