potential survival events

• player is defenseless
• leaving the main station to investigate a ship's SOS
• SOS that turns out to have been a warning
• ship room repurposed by alien biology, changing the environment
• acid/hole created through multiple levels of the station/ship
• one character gets infected, argument over quarantine vs treatment, protocol vs compassion
• splitting up into teams to: find a thing, so one team can fix something while the other does another task, one team can observe through tech to advise another team as they do a task
• forcibly separated by events and working to reunite
• having to use a device to assist traversing a dangerous room/path
• saving the cat
• using maps of the station to plan out routes or what to quardan off for safety, including airshafts
• gaining access to station's AI/central computer for answers
• having to do a complex shut down, cancel, or start up ritual
• escaping station via pod in time and to watch it explode
• danger blending in with environment (from alien, but could be robot or evnironmental danger)
• having to quietly do something while danger is in the room
• using the environment to attack danger indirectly
• having to deal with irration npc's
• environments that mess with orientation (up&down, etc.)
• survivors found in precarious situations to be rescued fromj
• moving/manipulating environment pieces in unconventional ways to move on to next room
• using tools/implants to manipulate environment
• accessing new parts of the same environment when new tools become available
• having to choose to bully people to come with you or to leave them behind to die
• sudden environmental changes
• sudden events that permanently change the player's goal
• environmental barrier that chases the player and pushes them to keep moving with urgency
• many ways to gruesomely die
• disagreements on what to do or paths to take and having to make a choice
• characters with conficting objectives to complete and the player must choose between them or even to sabotage both
• disappearing NPC's to then look for
• bringing a group of people through a dangerous environment and possibly losing some or all if not traversed perfectly
• characters intentionally lying about events and/or motives
• characters presenting as friends with the same goal, only to be revealed as having nefarious intentions
• characters trying to present as friendly but either misguided actions or circumstance lead the player and/or other characters to question their true intentions and whether they can be trusted
• using drones/robots to explore or complete a task remotely
• helplessly watching the destruction/death of others
• playing with light
• hearing fighting or chaos through a wall or door before seeing it
• distress calls through implants/or wearable earpiece
• seeing danger (people, monsters?) pass through your space and being unsure if you're in danger of being attacked by them in that moment
• using clutter mindfully, and in places were it doesn't make sense, ensure the floors and walls have a lot of detail
• death cult/cthulthu cult
• in areas with no power, having to use batteries to locally manipulate things like doors, locks, platforms, etc.
• clearing rooms or halls of hazards to release safety airlocks (fire, radiation, vaccuum)
• coming upon npc vignettes that the player then leaves behind (npc's die/dead or insist on staying put)
• "wind tunnel" obstacle hallway
• moving vehicle (on a track?) (slow fast) that is surrounded by danger
• shadowplay in the environment to imply upcoming danger