Interesting that you have done away with death saving throws for 9 rounds of bleeding out, seems very lenient, most can be got to in 3. In my last campaign my char only died as took area damage then rolled a nat 1 on death save. Also rolling death saves in secret between player and DM is cool as means player tried to heal my dead cleric, and getting to sadly say “no effect” was heart breaking.

Don’t forget the money hungry selfish plotters suddenly on a suicide mission

In the last scene it did seem odd that m’benga was absolutly fine yet chapel was still in effectively ICU

I think it would have been better as a comic moment towards the end of the episode, as they leave to come home… In the tense moment of stealing the ship and answering distress call it felt very forced.