Well that does address some of the plot holes on Malodaar.

(except the bit about landing. Unless they returned to the base there wasn't anywhere else on Malodaar that they could land. With the atmosphere so poisonous they couldn't afford a crash landing.)

Sester is going to have to make a choice, dancing around the way he is, is going to get himself killed.

Poor Vila loved “I’ve got to lie down. Or get a different head.”