Leon didn't mind the directness. He would rather that than playing some weird verbal game where they talk around the issue.

"We'll walk the grid," he answered, but decided to elaborate for anyone who didn't get the term. "The ship will be divided into sections, and teams of two to three will be assigned a section to search.

"With a ship this size, it'll take a long time to search, but we can cut that down if we get some assistance from the crew members with superspeed as well as the more helpful AI's like Cortana and Andromeda.

"While we're at it, we can also take the opportunity to do a more thorough mapping of the vent system, maintenance tunnels, and the like."