Wakener

This is Point Station Control.

Acknowledge and identify.

Repeat: acknowledge and identify

Controller.

Deputy Controller Deepika, sir

Get on with it, deputy.

I have a meeting with the Vice Prime.

The station's gravity is pulling in an abandoned vessel

A ghost ship?

Destroy it.

The fuel course signature, sir.

My readings indicate nuclear.

Impossible.

All nuclear devices were terminated centuries ago.

The possibility is 93.765%, sir.

Huh.

Dock her in 7, sweep it

Sir, protocol states that-

Yeah, let's not log anything into the box

until we're sure.

Do you understand?

Yes, sir.

Sending an officer and one tech.

Hall, clear.

Bridge, clear.

Technician Zivai, you are cleared to enter the ship.

Aft passage, clear.

Old, very old.

Forward, clear.

What the...

Technician Zivai,

assessment of the ships power core is priority one.

Technician Zivai, acknowledge?

Technician Zivai?

You need to respond, technician.

I don't understand helmet.

Answer your com.

Roger that, control.

Prime objective understood.

Be advised, the ship has modifications.

I need to investigate these mods

before I can run an accurate core assessment.

Understood.

Technician, A-level wants status updates

on the Fives.

I don't understand helmet.

I am level-C Officer Leal Oni.

Address me as Officer Oni.

And you are Technician...

Technician, what is your name?

Not a problem.

Seriously?

Gunnery sergeant.

Correction.

Ex-gunnery sergeant Andres Zivai demoted from Level B to E.

Still impressive, a lot of accommodations.

Caledon Offensive.

Battle of Terra Bright and...

Titan Defensiv e Saturn Station.

Lost my brother there.

Lady, we all lost someone there.

You just discharged and downgraded?

Retired senior NCOs reach A-level

in the private sector easily.

That makes no sense.

Just a technician now?

Perfect cover for a resistance inside man.

Look at you.

Level C.

That is the most ridiculous slog there is.

C to an A?

It's a distraction, darling.

If I suspect you are resistance,

I have full authority to shoot you dead

where you stand, darling?

I'm not that lucky.

Gotcha!

Trace power is leaching from the core.

It might be lab equipment.

Officer Oni, I need you to locate a lab.

On it.

Are we not gonna address any of this?

I've seen worse.

I assume no one has told you that the power core

on this boat is ancient tech, nuclear.

That's not possible.

It's possible.

It makes more sense now why they would make such a fuss,

yet they send me level C's and E's.

Levelism will not provoke me.

I'll locate the lab.

And stay on task, Gunny.

I've got my eye on you.

Gunny.

Just Z!

Readings confirm the core is in fact nuclear.

How about that.

It also suggests contamination.

Permission to engage safety protocols.

No, negative.

The tech will figure it out.

Give him more time.

Z, you need eyes on this!

Z!

Z, I found a lab.

It's very odd.

I just wanna talk.

Wow, a nuclear core this hot can split a planet

like a melon.

Control?