Artificial intelligence takes many forms in the future. Some AI's are friendly, some are hostile. Some are philosophical, some are pragmatic.

And some are just plain jerks.

A manufacturing error at a massive automated factory sends the crew of the small personnel boat, Sheila, rocketing out after a robotic cargo vessel, hoping to stop it before its load of faulty mechanical parts gets shipped out. The company will be on the hook if they can't catch it. It's a liability nightmare!

Oh, and if any people use those parts? They might, you know, die.