I can't just keep running through the same research tasks while my crewmates are fighting an invasive force.
This morning while I was in a trench checking on our irrigation capillaries, I impulsively pried open a hatch and dropped into the drainage and reclamation system.
Below the bedrock, there's a maze of pipes and tunnels that extends throughout the entire ship. I used to sneak down there as a kid and wander for kilometers trying to get lost.
We had to memorize the schematics for these subsystems as part of our training, in case we had to repair some catastrophic failure deep in the network.
I remember resenting all the times I had to draw maps of those tunnels in timed tests, but all that rote memorization may end up saving my sorry life.
At any rate, I finally got a firsthand glimpse of what we're dealing with.
Not sure how I'll sleep again after experiencing it for myself.