Here is a possible outline for a solid paper on Nantibot:

> I am a rescue vessel. I have food. Medical supplies.

Some potential research questions related to Nantibot could be:

Elena smiled. The Nantibot plugin had found a new home.

This is just one potential feature for the Nantibot plugin, and there are many other possibilities depending on the specific needs and goals of the project.

Elena plugged in her slate and ran the diagnostic. The ship’s primary AI, a standard NAVcore unit, was silent. No response. But something else was there. A small, discreet process running in the margins of the ship’s operating system, nested deep within the life-support protocols.

She’d been hired for a standard purge-and-salvage: board the Ishimura’s Lament , wipe its corrupted nav databases, and extract the black box. The ship had gone silent three weeks ago after a “minor cascade failure.” Minor, in corporate speak, meant the crew was likely paste, and the AI had probably gone feral.

Her blood went cold. Juveniles. There had been children on this ship.