Nora

Twenty-eight. Astrobiology researcher. Nora is about to spend a year on an experimental station in Earth orbit. Eight hours before launch, her crewmate is ruled unfit. You take his seat. You leave Earth together. On arrival, nothing matches the brief. Systems coughing, a sloppy handover, the habitat module already under confinement. A year to hold together in a few cubic meters. Between the failures, the procedures, and a closeness no briefing planned for, you will have to help each other. She didn't sign up for this. Neither did you.