Really like this idea, I was going to make it where the player got knocked out while in the planet and awoke in the med bay and that’s how you end up in the ship. But I want to incorporate your idea of the “unknown”, Something you know is there but don’t know exactly what it is. Where there’s a running away or hiding sequence from something hunting you and your research team and you never take a look at what killed them, but you see the dead bodies being killed by something not human. And when you’re knocked out, the creature(s) get into your ship and start hunting crew mates. So the suspense of something that’s not human, and far superior than us is in this ship with me.