Activate life support in the damaged sections and pump air from the atmosphere into the flooded compartments.

With a momentary directive from you, ancient life-support systems flare to life for the first time in decades. Though massive blocks of control are lost to you, a consequence of the scrambled processor bay, still hundreds of canisters of liquid hypercompressed nitrogen-oxygen mix immediately begin a controlled venting of their contents throughout the Salvation. Combined with multiple life-support regulators pumping atmosphere in from the outside, the canisters increase the buoyancy of the ship one and a half times and force out a substantial quantity of water.

Systems report that your problems aren't over, however. You have no way of telling what the outside atmosphere is like with your current instrumentation, and everything except the command spine and cryostasis is essentially saturated with unknown, potentially toxic gas. The Salvation retains multiple severe hull breaches, and is still taking on water; in roughly three hours it will sink fully underwater and remain neutrally buoyant at fifty feet below sea level.

Start wakeup procedures for surviving engineering personnel and check status on other cryogenic personnel.

The cryostasis-management system registers your command immediately. Heating coils begin firing inside each life support pod in tandem with jolts of electricity to cardiac muscle, forcing each engineer's muscles to twitch to life. The pod doors open in sequence as intravenous needles quickly inject fluids and blood and administer megadoses of amphetamines.

Approximately eight hundred well-trained engineering personnel run down the hallways in organized ranks, checking the integrity of the remaining cryo-chambers (six remaining, four confirmed undamaged) and carrying the bodies of comatose unfortunates and crewmen in cardiac arrest to the command spine. No one said that revival wouldn't have casualties; flash thawing was previously estimated to have a death rate of nearly twenty percent from a mixture of accidentally-induced seizures and tissue damage.

The first black-overalled man reaches your tank, simultaneously checking the function on his arc welder and scanning the systems for abnormal indicators.
'Imperator! On deck! Salute, you sons of ♥♥♥♥♥es!' he yells to the scrambling crewmen behind him.

Devote all processing cycles to planning a way to save the ship, such as reinforcing the hull, making the vessel water tight, etc.

At your order, all available processor cycles are cut to the task of salvaging the Salvation. Trillions of operations per second are conducted as the computer systems continually check and recheck integrity of all systems and simulate fluid dynamics throughout the entire ship's structure. Twenty times a minute, the entire ship is sunk and rescued in thousands of possible permutations.

The system begins approaching twenty percent total consensus on a certain action block. Thirty. Forty.

You are given a series of options that have achieved rough blocks of consensus; the first, with 54.9 percent of independent processor cycles agreeing, advocates quickly and semi-permanently locking down and welding shut all bulkheads between the command spine, cryostasis, and the rest of the ship. This will mitigate the most damage quickly and is probably by far the safest maneuver, but will cut you off from the resources on the rest of the ship, will isolate crew sectors, and will severely slow progress and expansion in the interim.

The second (31.8% consensus) suggests that, instead of spending time and resources as soon as possible on the doors, the armoured hardsuits in Cryo-Engineering Lockup should immediately be retrofitted with containers for cargo and repair equipment and deployed at your discretion. This will enable you to salvage a quantity of food, metal, medicine, and small tools for rapid recovery after landing, which will be threefold.

- One: post-revival personnel require immense nutritive intake to support maximum utility (reports of blackouts, semi-paralysis and impaired mental function abound if these requirements are not met).
- Two: metal (along with small tools, which can be used by untrained personnel) will be needed for urgent repairs and stabilizing critical systems.
- Three: nearly one hundred of your best engineers are currently either comatose or in the midst of seizures, heart attacks, or strokes. Assuming you could retrieve thrombolytic drugs and basic trauma stabilizers, you would be able to immediately save valuable personnel.

However, this may lead to moderate leakage and loss of buoyancy as the suits leave air-filled areas and shuttle back and forth with their cargo. In addition, it's not as foolproof as option 1, and a spell of bad luck might lead to some nasty water damage or the loss of a valuable hardsuit.

Your final option (with 13.3% consensus) is mechanically stabilizing a path room-by-room and setting up a makeshift tunnel directly between aerated sectors and the Colonial Supply, providing a semi-stable route for in-ship cargo haulers to retrieve mass quantities of heavy equipment, exploration vehicles, and bulk metal. This option will enable extremely quick rebuilding, easier future transportation, and give you a variety of survival and/or escape options with reconverted vehicles and gear, but poses a tremendous risk; assuming the temporary tunnel breaches, there will be no way to stop the massive flooding of large sectors of the ship. All sectors would be immediately cut off from each other, with heavy casualties and potential loss of the vulnerable Processor Bay.

The overstressed processor bay, deprived of most of its runtime data, immediately begins dumping waste heat as teams of flash-suited engineers work to maintain its integrity. Minor connections begin melting before they can be doused with chemical coolant. It would not be wise to push your processing capability any further; you run the serious risk of cutting out all automated systems, up to and including oxygen and cryostasis monitoring.

HOLDINGS
Oceanic World
- CMS Salvation [TAKING WATER, THREE TURNS TILL PARTIAL-SATURATION AND NEUTRAL UNDERWATER BUOYANCY]
POPULATION
CMS Salvation
- ~4,000-5,000 Civilians [ERROR, CRYOSTASIS RUPTURES IN MULTIPLE SECTORS; 8,000 CIVILIANS UNACCOUNTED FOR, POPULATION METRICS UNCERTAIN]
-- ~2,500 Unskilled Labor Personnel
--- ~700 (Minimal Military Training)
-- ~600 Corporate Researchers
-- 813 Ship Engineering Personnel
-- ~500 Security/Canis Military Police
-- ~150 Executives
ASSETS
CMS Salvation
- Hybrid Visual/LADAR/Radar Sensors
- Processor Bay
- Armor Bulkheads
- Cryogenics Storage 1-12
- Colonial Supply Reserves
RESOURCES
CMS Salvation
[UNKNOWN/UNACCOUNTED FOR]
TECHS
[UNKNOWN/UNACCOUNTED FOR]