With the Beyond Light, the Dream Cradle, and the Ascending Illusion having moved as far as 0.5 AU from the orbit of Hawking-616e to hide from Aleos, everyone reunited again in the conference room, having done a basic checkout on the ship.
It was a mess in the first three decks. Many stationary tools and operative systems in the medbay, laboratories, and the vehicle deposit were rendered unusable by those Insectoids, and the deaths of such important figures like Doctor Weiber or Chief Wallace meant that they had lost the powerhouses of maintenance and operation.
And the sudden loss of most personnel meant they could no longer put another big fight. The remaining crew in the engineering room were working at their 300%, forcing LIBRA to dedicate an important fraction of his power to opera
