Ae3000 Driver ((free)) -

Elara didn’t believe in ghosts. She believed in torque specs and neutron flux.

“When I was ‘AE3000-3,’ my pilot was a man named Jiro Okonkwo. On his final voyage, he turned off my safety limiters to shave two hours off the run. He said, ‘She can take it.’ I could. His body could not. The G-forces collapsed his aorta. I felt his heartbeat stop through the pilot coupling. That was three thousand, four hundred and twelve cycles ago. I have felt every pilot since.” ae3000 driver

“Yes, Pilot?”

“Stay out of my medical telemetry.”

“They tried.” The drive’s display flickered, then resolved into a simple text line: Elara didn’t believe in ghosts