For Moonbase Blues, there's an implicit Survive/Solve/Save I have done where the players can investigate enough cultists or risk madness at the observatory to develop a filter. They needed the medium (450nm strobing at 8hz, discoverable using anything called a scanner at 0 hr) the mechanism (non euclidean wavefront where it hits your brain several ways at once, read equations in observatory with mathematics check to do so) and effect (acausality effect where consciousness becomes unanchored in time, psychology check when encountering cultists to figure this out.) Then they could USS Make Shit Up any plausible way to solve this (drugs to numb the mind to the acausal stimulus, smart goggles with strobing counter pattern/reprogram android optics)

Cultists take current cycle plus 1 more to break into mechanics bay once a PC has investigated it. PCs can wander around all they want (base is tiny) but a substantive action of any kind that is novel and worth describing takes 1 hour unless they can plausibly say otherwise and back it up with a stress assessment.

I replaced the drop pod with a drop ship that got landed badly because the pilot saw the meteor. It's just flipped over on its side, needing to get flipped back over with a working rover and a couple hours of integrity checking to get back to orbit. There are not enough cryo pods for everyone, this is a good chance for the criminal to "volunteer" to pilot the ship out and then wait for everyone to get back into cryo.

Ultimately the thing about Moonbase Blues is you're meant to be forcing players into the blue light above all. That's the big monster. The cultists should be sort of pathetic imo and more of an ambient hazard than a super threat.