Into the Rift
EMPRESS KATARINA...
No one was more surprised than he was at how much weight he'd lost. While the others could help a little bit, he quickly discovered that he was the only one that could disassemble the ASP (Advanced Sensor Package; better than Advanced Sensor Suite, don't you think?) and redistribute it throughout the ship.
He was lazy, didn't like physical activity... at least that had been his perception of himself--one of those self-fulfilling prophecy type scenarios.
With the others' encouragement, having to get the job done, and the ghosts of the base, he'd persevered... and lost weight in the process.
He dove into the sensor system now to find out what had happened. He was mildly surprised and smugly satisfied that the ASP seemed to be working just fine. It had its own diagnostics and schematics, and he'd spent the first three days studying those before redisributing the various components around the ship. Some functions were already covered by the ship's sensors, and he'd toyed between making those units redundant or keeping the duplicates as spares... opting for the latter.
"Harley Snikies!" he said out loud when he saw the sensor results.