Near the engine room on the lower deck.
Orange-yellow holographic barricade tape hovered in the corridor, cordoning off a large isolated area.
This was where the collision had occurred.
A lifeboat-class civilian spacecraft had smashed through the hull of the Orion cruiser, with half its body embedded directly in the cruiser's hull.
Even in the relatively short history of human spaceflight, this counted as a spectacularly catastrophic accident.
What was especially baffling was how that little craft had penetrated the deflector shields and breached a hull that was almost impossible to breach.
Fortunately, the damaged area was the gym in the lower-deck residential section. Since the ship had been about to enter a hyperspace route, such recreational facilities had been locked down, and no one had been injured.
That was also why so many people had later come to gawk at it.
The ship safety and maintenance department had immediately shut down the air exchange system in the damaged area and isolated it according to the contingency procedures in the safety manual.
Although only one relatively small compartment had actually been damaged, the safety supervisor had sealed off the entire connected area based on the assessment report from the Fourth Department engineers.
At that moment, engineers in spacefaring exoskeletons stood around the barricade tape, operating the tablets in their hands.
When they saw Luo Yi approaching, one of the engineers stepped forward and spoke.
"Hey, this is a restricted area. You need to put on a spacesuit before going in."
Luo Yi hung his respirator around his neck and showed his Third Department identification.
"My augmented prosthetics can withstand low-pressure environments. Is there any risk of a secondary explosion?"
The engineer turned back and exchanged glances with his colleague by the barricade tape before looking back at him.
"No. We've