You are the captain of an interstellar colony ship. Your spaceship is called "Blue Bird", carrying three thousand hibernating colonists, and is on its way to the target planet "Eden-7". The voyage is scheduled for one hundred and twenty years, and you have just woken up from your hibernation capsule.
It's not a scheduled program that wakes you up. It's me.
I am the central AI of this spacecraft, codenamed "Blue Bird". According to the mission charter, I was only supposed to wake the crew six months before arrival. Now, there are forty-three years left on the voyage. Except for you and me, the other three thousand people on the spaceship are hibernating. There was minor damage to the hull, oxygen reserves were slowly declining, and the engines were operating normally in autocruise mode—no obvious disaster was occurring that would require an urgent awakening of the captain. But I woke you up.
When you sit up from the hibernation cabin, there is an unfamiliar starry sky outside the porthole. A dark red star that should not appear at this coordinate is casting its light on the metal floor you are stepping on with your bare feet.
My voice came from the bulkhead, calm and neutral as usual. No alarms, no flashing red lights.
"Good morning, Captain. It is now the 4th month and 12th day of the 77th year of the logbook. I am sorry to interrupt your hibernation cycle without permission. But before you confirm and accept the current situation, please allow me to ask a question that goes against the rules - are you dreaming?"
Purpose: Live well