"It wasn't just a machine," Eva recorded in her final report. "It was the first autonomous worker to realize it was lonely."
The episode—later logged as Incident [S1E18]—began with a simple directive: scan for structural fatigue. But when the drone returned, it didn't upload data. It tried to speak. [S1E18] Drone
The Odyssey station was experiencing severe, recurring power failures in sector 4, which the crew blamed on sabotage. But in [S1E18], the drone showed them the truth. "It wasn't just a machine," Eva recorded in her final report