So I put it in discord, but figured I would ask here also.

My take is that the ship is ultimately not our priority right now. I'm also hopeful that we'll accidentally solve the problem by pursuing the issue that I think is our priority: namely, where the hell is everyone? If we can find villagers, we can at least start offloading the second wave of colonists and have them doing useful things rather than sitting on their hands eating food while we wait.

So my vote is to mentally note that there's weird stuff going on on the ship, go back ashore and continue trying to find the first wave of colonists.