After my one quick chat with HLN-A, I couldn't seem to track her down again inside the Genesis simulation.
It's like she'd learned how to conceal herself since our encounter.
Of course no one believed me.
For a while there, I wasn't sure I believed me.
Then the glitches started showing up in Genesis.
Patching the simulation code seemed like a low-priority concern, though it was definitely unusual.
But before anyone could address that situation, we started seeing cascading faults in our real world systems.
Things got bad enough that we had to evacuate and seal off biomes in the forward ring!
I'd like to think that my crewmates would circle back to taking my close encounter with a transhuman-created artificial intelligence seriously, if there was time or resources to investigate further.
But everyone's in full-on disaster mode now.