Netapp Naj-1501 Manual -

The Manual slipped from her fingers. On the display, a new message blinked to life, written in the machine’s own cold, efficient script:

The NAJ-1501 was their only bargaining chip. The colonial remnants back in Sol system would pay a fortune for intact memory. But the unit had been damaged in the asteroid field. Its cooling loops were shot. Every hour, it leaked a little more heat, a little more of humanity’s last hope. Netapp Naj-1501 Manual

The archive was salvaging them.

Voss laughed, a dry, broken sound. “We’re sitting in a ship whose life support is failing at a balmy 15 Kelvin above zero. We’re already in failure.” The Manual slipped from her fingers