Sorry guys, I admit I've been procrastinating on this and have taken refuge in my testing thread, I return because of guilt and Tir's powers of boop.
...One outstanding question I've got is how and what options do I have in actually supporting the away team. 
And how come we don't have futuristic sensors aboard the ship--it sounds like our ship-board cameras are the 'old style view only' type without sound or otherwise, or that's how my imagination went while reading Boris' turn through my turn.
Point One: If you recall from the original description, the original owner of the Starset was borderline technophobic. The Starset's original monitoring systems were designed to be manned by a minimal staff of people in the tech room and more fully by actual stewards in the halls.
Point Two: Futuristic sensor falls in the uncanny valley of science fiction. It's not so advanced that you can just declare Clarke's law to be in effect and call it day, but (if you want it do something that mundane sensors don't) it becomes too complex to simply declare it an extension of existing technology.
For instance, the ubiquitous 'Vital Signs Detector'. I can think of a couple ways you'd implement one, but they all seem ridiculously overkill for a civilian vessel. Now, the carrier section of the Reunion probably had something reasonably sophisticated in place in case of boarding, but that's pretty much just the engine section and is missing its original computer core.
What I'm trying to say is, if you ask me why you
don't have something, I'm going to respond with Occam's razor. You don't have a catapult because your hangar is from a civilian space station where the ability to rapidly deploy craft is unnecessary at best and one more expensive piece of machinery to break down at worst. You don't have intrinsic super sensors because a resort doesn't need super sensors.
Now, if you explain to me why you
do have something, I'm much more likely to listen. Example being pretty much everything that comes out Sadish's mouth about her lab. She has a way to produce a bizzare kind of amber that puts things into suspended animation. Why? Because she said she did. Likewise, I did mention that there were traps rigged into the gravity plating of the Reunion. Those would have been good things to support Boris with, but it felt rather 'YOU SHOULD DO THIS' to bring it up at the time.
Now, to address what you can do for the away team. You can try to get in to any system. PA, Cameras, etc. Your goal should be reasonably specific: breach the O
2 scrubbers and flood a room with toxic chemicals, make every speaker around [TARGET] emit a screech at maximum volume until they burn out, feed a loop of the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial to every screen reachable, those are pretty valid. Sadly, until you attach a gigantic Anti-material rifle to the outside of the Reunion, you're probably not going to be able to do much direct damage assistance.
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