"Aside from the risk of someone turning off the environmental controls or opening a hatch somewhere they shouldn't, we were far too close to a dying red supergiant star," she explains, thinking back to the day nine years ago. Ten years by now. She's been in the village for about that long already. "By the time I made that cure, most of the ship was infected and someone in Engineering had completely disabled the ship's engines. We were dead in space and if our medical team hadn't come up with a cure that would work in time so that someone could put the engines back online, we would have blown up with the star."