Equipment!
The other three were quicker to shrug the weirdness off. Jilly and Yu-Wu had found a workstation with access to external communications, and were already running diagnostics and hooking up auxiliary batteries and practicing other arcane technical arts. Joe-Bob had found a convenient place to watch the room and the doors, and was now standing guard. They all had pistols rated for vacuum, but from the way Joe-Bob held his, he was more than merely certified in firearms. Which is why you brought him along, Tobias reminded himself. The moon had never been fought over, and the last big war on Earth had been fifty years ago. Soldiers with meaningful combat experience had been rare here.
In the original plan, Tobias and the others would already have climbed five levels down, and working on the likely vacuum-locked doors to get to the spare parts. But since there was power and air, it made more sense to use the elevators. But to do that Tobias would have to get the station’s operating systems back up and running…