When I read this I understood _cracking_ in its sense of software piracy aka "hacking." A mental subprocesses spawned to predict whether the cracking was _of_

When I read this I understood _cracking_ in its sense of software piracy aka "hacking." A mental subprocesses spawned to predict whether the cracking was _of_ the systems on the station—possibly inspired by that movie trailer I saw for the thriller about a new cold war in space after a nuclear war—or _from_ the space station, by bored occupants, either of their own systems or of some system they interact with on the ground. A bit deflated by the reality, tbh.