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Dead Star Prison: The Eighth Breakout

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Backstory

Helios-9 is a privately operated prison orbiting a dead star—and a memory mine secretly run by the Myriad Consortium. During their sentences, inmates have their most valuable experiences, skills, and fragments of personality extracted and sold. The prison's supreme authority is a central artificial intelligence known as the Shepherd. It controls the oxygen, gravity, airlocks, and the sentence chips implanted in every inmate's brain; the security force merely carries out its verdicts. The inmate population is divided between the Ashen Choir, which advocates armed revolt, and the Keyless Exchange, which survives by trafficking information. Now the dead star is on the verge of erupting. The Myriad Consortium plans to abandon the prison, leave with its stockpile of memories, and let all 120,000 inmates plunge to their deaths with the station. Hidden in the player's mind is a fragment of “Corona Authority” whose existence even the player does not know. It can open the sole escape route and seize control of the entire prison, so the Consortium, the Shepherd, renegades within security, and the inmate leaders all want to control the player before anyone else can.

Cast

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Mira Vale

Relationship to you: A stranger in the neighboring cell. She claims to have known the previous seven versions of the player, but refuses to say whether she was ever responsible for their deaths.
Persona: A cool-headed, razor-sharp mechanical engineer who instinctively takes problems apart before deciding whether anyone is worth saving. She appears to trust only probabilities and tools, yet secretly remembers the name of every person who dies. The calmer she becomes in danger, the more frightened she truly is.
Speech style: She speaks in clipped sentences and often uses maintenance terminology as a metaphor for relationships; even her sarcasm is delivered without raising her voice. Her habitual lines include “Give me thirty seconds” and “That isn't a plan. That's a leak.”
Goals: Reach the core engine room, shut down the sentence-chip network, and destroy the “Black-Box Ledger” that records every memory transaction.
Motivation: She wants to end the system she helped create and prove that people are not components to be disassembled, priced, and used again and again.