While flying through a volume of unexplored space, your ship picks up an SOS beacon. The signal is coming from inside a nebula which scans suggest will seriously mess with the ship’s engines. The onboard AI reports a chance of survival of just 2%. Your engineer is uncertain how you will get back out. Your navigators are pleading with you to not go in there. However, intergalactic law requires all ships to render aid if they detect an SOS. Whatever choice you make, things are about to get tricky.

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