He's fought with the armor in worse shape, and the biofoam's doing its job. Cortana busies herself with making minuscule tweaks to compensate for the damage, but that's just because she's Cortana, not because they're necessary. Nothing here's bad enough she needs to harangue him to Engineering or the Medbay, and she mutes all the techs as well. They'll live, and so will the Chief.

He's the only person who'll get an honest answer from her--have fun with that mandatory session, Dr. Ry'kerr--but even the Chief is going to have to push through some flippancy. The nightmare's over. She's fine.

"Don't know how much you heard yet, but the ship we were looking for got hijacked by some entity calling itself the Faceless that was trying to assimilate everything it came across. Really terrible recruiting pitch--'hope is a lie, everything is doomed, join me and survive.' Some people bought it."

If he thinks that sounds pretty much exactly like the Gravemind...that's because it sounds pretty much exactly like the Gravemind.