Chapter 10: Chief Warrant Officer Gabriel "Gabe" Li Gabe sat hunched over his console, his fingers moving in precise rhythms as he navigated through layers of environmental data. Pressure graphs pulsed across the screen, each compartment represented by shifting lines of green and red. The biocontainment module's readings flickered slightly, a 0.6% deviation marked in yellow. Atmospheric integrity logs streamed beside them, comparing past and present trends, highlighting inconsistencies that shouldn’t exist. The ship’s atmospheric regulation was his responsibility, and while everything appeared to be functioning, the pressure discrepancy Aurora had flagged wouldn’t leave his mind. It was small—just a slight variance—but it hadn’t been there before. He’d seen variances like this before on other missions, minor shifts that seemed harmless until they weren’t. A slow build-up of pressure discrepancies once led to a coolant system failure that nearly cost a crew their lives. Sp...