In Chapter 3, we should be able to mine... (spoiler)

From the moment we jump in, we're surrounded by bodies. So many bodies. Bouncing off the hull, driving down morale, creating a stunning but unsettling vista. Every dismembered and far-flung segment of the Etemenanki has its own accompanying cloud of former crew, making it inadvisable to linger in their vicinity for any longer than necessary.

But what if we could kill two birds with one stone, turn a disadvantage into an advantage... or rather, a resource?

From another, less sentimental perspective, each of those debris fields represents literally tons of (mostly) carbon, floating around in convenient vacuum-dessicated lumps, free for the taking. We should be able to send in the ships and start gathering it up for processing. (We already have the option of doing this aboard the Tiqqun; this is just thinking a bit further outside the box, or the hull, as the case may be.) As a further bonus, once a location has been partially or completely "mined out", it should no longer inflict a penalty.