Every time I write I stray a little further from Celestia's light.

Plissa shrugged. A little red blob drifted past the window in the background. Yes, it's a crewmate. Yes, they were sus. No, they weren't the imposter. They were the brake system. Amogus crewmates are incredibly massive for their seemingly-diminutive size, you see, and so by Newton's Third Law, which states that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction, a sufficiently-massive crewmate being ejected even at a low acceleration will result in an acceleration in the opposite direction, thus acting as a momentary acceleration that acts to slow the spacecraft.

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[Reactception]

The light shall vanish before this day’s end.

[ShiningBeacon]

You could also go with:

Amogus crewmates are incredibly dense for their seemingly-diminutive size, you see,