Well, she didn’t try to kill you this time, by shutting down the ship. So, I’d say that’s a step up!

Some sort of overlay (over the game, like on the screen’s side) with a AI image of the speaking character’s face could be a simple way to make this more engaging. Because I thought they were meant to be the ship’s AI, but they are crew instead.

What tools/models did you use for text-to-speech?