Derelict Shuttle

Derelict Shuttle is a side quest in Prey (2017).

Overview
Hunter Hale, pilot of the shuttle Exalt, sent a mayday not too far from the station. I found out his shuttle was overrun with mimics. He was carrying volunteers.

Objectives

 * Find out what happened to Hunter Hale and Shuttle Exalt.

Walkthrough
There are two ways to find the shuttle Exalt. If you see it floating out there in space on one of your spacewalks, you can just fly over to it. Or you can wait until you explore the Pilot Planning Room as part of the Repo Man main story objective. You’ll pick up Galel Seif’s TranScribe and listen to a message from the shuttle Exalt’s pilot. This will give you the Derelict Shuttle optional objective.

Find out what happened to Hunter Hale and Shuttle Exalt
There’s only one tricky part to this objective. There may be a weaver waiting for you in or around the shuttle when you get there. A combination of nullwave or psychoshock and any other offense will make short work of it. This weaver is absent on some playthroughs, but even on these, its past presence is strongly suggested by the shuttle's envelopment in coral.

When you get inside the shuttle, there are not many clues as to what exactly happened, but the quest is completed regardless. Loot everything and everyone you see. You can repair the panel on the wall to get access to the shuttle's cargo hold, but as there is little to be found inside and it requires 8 spare parts and Repair III, it might be more economical to use the Leverage III skill for this if you already have it.

Trivia

 * Curiously, despite V-071855-21's obviously having been consumed by a mimic, and the possibility that one of the resulting quadruplets may have metamorphosed into a weaver, no living or deceased mimics can be found in or around the shuttle.