I read Cold coffee first, it was too short. And then I read this one and enjoyed it very much, It’s got a space bad cowboyish thing going on, I like it a lot.
I would like to suggest you change His voice rolls into the empty quarters to His voice rolls (through, around, among…) the empty quarters
into makes the ships (living) quarters sound like actual coins or solid quarter slices of some space pie.
32 ^2