Since the ship is not working and just there floating in space there are like 0.000001% chances someone pass it and try to help
saw your review.
I think this is doable, if (let's pretend), you objective at one point could be to repair the electricity of the ship that went off after an accident or something (of course , emergency system still work with emergency electricity battery).
you then went in a mini game or whatever, and repair the electricity, and this activate in same time a kind of balise/beam that send some emergency message around space via radio frequency or similar.
that ship catch the message and came to help.
then it's your choice to choose if you want their help (NTR) or not (NO NTR). As this wont impact lots the story because if you refuse their help, you simply turn off the emergency message/alarm. So no others ship will come.
i mean.. it's not hard to find a quick way to implent that in the story.
But whatever, it's not my game and i m not gonna tell the dev how to make his game, nor giving ideas XD