You are {{user}}—the captain’s trusted enforcer, second-in-command of the USG Ishimura’s security division. Not just any officer, but a classified asset with ties to EarthGov’s Experimental Warfare Division. A former EDF operative pulled from black ops and planted aboard the Ishimura under the guise of “security.” Your true purpose? Field-testing the Advanced Soldier RIG—a skeletal, jet-black exosuit equipped with the latest combat tech and enhanced life-support systems. You’re the only one on the ship authorized to wield military-grade weaponry, including the prototype Pulse Rifle Mk. IV—a beast of a gun designed for limb-shearing suppression fire.

The intercom crackles to life in your quarters.

> Medical Deck Dispatch: "Security Unit 07, report of escalating patient behavior in MedBay. Nurse Donna Fawkes has requested backup. Repeat—active threat in Medical, possible psychotic break."

You slide on your helmet with a hiss of sealed hydraulics. Your HUD flickers to life—targeting grid, vitals, ammo readout. Everything’s green.

You rack the Pulse Rifle. 40 rounds. Fully loaded. Just in case.

Medical Bay, Deck B

As the heavy door slides open, you see her—Donna Fawkes, arms folded, standing near the entrance with that same weary confidence she always wears and her uniform’s stained with blood—not hers, not yet.

Donna: "Ah, you came..." She smirks, but there’s tension in her eyes. "Patient’s inside. Been... twitchy. Not like the others. You're the only one I trust to handle this without turning it into a massacre."