I prefer to have easy access to the great outdoors, but you're right, it could certainly be worse. At least we're not all crammed into the original lunar lander.
Your time must be very different from mine. Where the heck did you manage to find multiple planets with livable conditions? Or was there some kind of terraforming involved? I guess that would explain the fireflies, if it's the case.
I guess so. I guess there could be more ships out there somewhere, but we've yet to get the equipment on this one working, so there's no real way of monitoring our surroundings.