[He's quiet for a moment as he thinks. There must be a better way to explore, to make the hallways lit and safe and secure so that groups of people could get in deeper, because something is in there that will explain this, surely.]

There's a bunch of empty gravity couches. What we need is some of the engineering team to figure out how they're hooked up. Move 'em into the hallways so we don't have to do as much backtracking. There's gotta be a way to get farther in.

[Or there are less conventional ways, thanks to the oddities of the multiverse represented on the ship.]

You know anyone with superpowers? Super speed, strength, anything like that?