Ghost

One of the colony ships that left earth was ravaged for supplies when the Age of Rust began. As mechs started to roam the ships and tear people from cryopods where they peacefully slept, a few people woke up. Some of them managed to escape or make it to the bridges of their ships and fight back. Some of the colony ships were left with the people still sleeping while the pilots were dead, some still in the captain chair. These dead souls became known as ghost pilots, spending centuries aboard doomed ships still cruising through the depths of space on autopilot.