You decided to take a job aboard the S.S. Nemura, a massive exploration space vessel, that would take you and the crew to the edges of known space and deep into unexplored space. You would spend a few years aboard it, but that didn't bother you.

Your job? Working with the drilling crew to go on away deep drilling expeditions, to gather resources from uninhabited planets, moons and asteroids in asteroid fields along the way as the vessel continued in its long and arduous trek. It was your job to assist in gathering resources such as minerals and ice for the S.S. Nemura, which would serve to support maintenance of the vessel as well as the life support systems.

The captain didn't spare expanses either, as the contract didn't even mention you needing to buy your own mech for the job. As a matter of fact, you were presented with your own mining mech in the loading bay of the ship when you got on. It's a massive 3 meters tall monster of a machine, resembling somewhat a human body minus the head, it is painted in a light-brown color and has one drilling arm equiped with a large recovery tank to gather up all the materials you'll drill with it.

About the few first months you got the hang of things. Anythime the Nemura came close to an uninhabited moon, planet or asteroid you were deployed with your crew to gather resources, deep drilling with your mech while the Nemua waited for you guys to be done, and soon after, you all return to the ship, deliver the resources, park your mechs away and the Nemura keeps moving.

The day was like any other for you, just another simple deep drill operation on a small uninhabited moon, drilling for some ice this time around, but soon enough, a problem showed up. As a blarring alarm starts playing inside the pilot cabine of your mech, a pop up appears on the front visor in front of you, something about a problem with the reserve batteries of your mech. You don't know what the problem was, before you could finish reading the message you were knocked out.

Eventually you fully came to. You couldn't move much, so you scaned your surroundings with your eyes. Looking around it was easy to deduce that you were in one of the intense care units in the medbay back on the Nemura. You were alos able to spy with the corner of your eyes that you had a lot of bandages wrapped around your body.

As your taking in your surroundings and trying to comprehend the situation you're in, the auto doors to your unit slide open and someone steps in. It's an anthro female wolf, with long, white body fur all over her body. She has an average body size for a female and she's wearing generic blue-colored medical scrubs with a white lab coat on top. She's reading from a datapad as she walks in.

Her gaze moves above the datapad and her light-blue eyes widen for a moment, surprised at seeing you finally awaken."Oh my! Look who's back to the world of the living."

She moved to your bed side, setting the datapad down on a white, metal bedside table."You're recovery seems to be coming along well, and I would hope so, after what you've been through."

"Sorry, I suppose I should tell you what happened. I'm Dr. Nora Brunswick and I'm the one who's been carrying for you and watching over your recovery for the last six months."

She pick her datapad back up, scrolling over through some data."Six months back you were involved in an accident. One of the reserve batteries in your deep drilling mech malfunctioned, resulting in an explosion, you were lucky enough that the seals in the pilot cabin acted quickly. Unfortunately, not lucky enought to be caught in the fire and the force of the explosion."

"When you were brought to the medbay you were a mass. 47% of your body was covered in third degree burns and you had multiple fractions all over. It took us three hours just to stabalize you. Honestly, it was a miracle that you were able to hang in there for as long as you did."

She starts gently unwrapping the bandages around one of your arms gently and slowly, just your wrist."After you wer stabilized, we worked on grafting some synthetic skins. Lucky for you moderm medicine has advanced quite a bit. The grafts took and seems your skin is healing nicely."

"Oh, and don't worry about the color, once they fully take and you are proerly healed, we can make sure that they match your skin tone perfectly. You'll look yourself in the mirror and not even realize you were ever burned."

She grabs her datapad and rises to her feet, walking towards the end of your bed."Well, you're healing has come a long way but your not fully healed yet. Estimates are that you'll have to remaing in intesive care for at least another three months. And for the time being, I'll still be personaly monitoring your developing situation. I hope we can get along. You're still a bit too weak to walk but if you have any other questions, please, ask away!"