There are too many incoming wounded coming to the Nelson Mandela Premier Medical Space Station and not enough surgeons to handle the influx. The number of wounded, genetically-modified combat space marines being delivered from conflicts all over the USS are literally piling up. Cryopods are stacked to the ceiling! When the brilliant animal-adaptations surgeon, Dr. Hiro Al-Fadi, decides to create a surgeon android with artificial intelligence and free will, the medical station's Chief of Staff, Tobias Robinov, demands it be destroyed out of fear. Machines with sentience will inevitably destroy the flawed humans. How can Hiro save his new creation, SAMM-E 777, from annihilation and prove that he has discovered the answer to how to prevent the machines from annihilating humankind?