[quote=ASTA]
You solve that issue by fitting your compartments with air-locks I'd imagine. If, for example, two sections of the ship are damage, those two sections can be sealed off and dealt with later should the opportunity arise. This is why compartmentalization is critical in ship design. Or you could separate the depressurized cabin from the rest of the station by having it be its own miniature self-sustaining module that's anchored to the main mass by way of cables or bracings.
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... This sounds oddly like the system we've been using where we locked sections down with blastdoors and such when one became damaged or needed to be sealed off... Come to think of it, blast doors seal over a first set of doors which shut which would presumably be airlocks for the sections

I feel like an idiot, I think I may have been misunderstanding everything that's been said on the issue... XD