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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

there aren't a lot of scenarios where having fewer people in vacuum will help save someone. You'd have to have an event where someone has an emergency that's bad enough they're not able to return, but slow enough that there's time for a second person to come get them through an airlock cycle.