From the moment that they arrived in the uninhabited star system, things aboard Terminus began to get busy again.
They had found a suitable asteroid in the outer reaches of the system, a type C asteroid made of a loose amalgam of silicate rocks and clay. The great advantage to these otherwise worthless rocks was that they often weren't really solid the way that a metallic or semi-metallic asteroid tended to be.
That saved them from having to break it up into little bits with specialty tools. The technicians had crumbled a large pile of gravel for the tests with a simple hammer and had a great amount of fun doing it.
Max made his way to the test lab to see what they were up to and observe the tests firsthand, equipping his armor in advance since it doubled as protective equipment for lab experiments.