Have you fallen into the airlock state trap? That has to be deliberate on the part of the designers.

(For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: Normally, the ships you're assigned to break arrive with the hull still pressurized. What you're supposed to do is board through the airlock, then frob the atmosphere control unit(s) inside the ship to vent the internal compartment(s) before proceeding. But when you vent the compartment that the airlock goes into, the airlock automatically cycles behind you, so now the ship isn't pressurized, but, unless you manually cycle it again, the airlock you just came in through is! Which you may not notice until you cut it open.)

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