They did not wait, they shut the power off and yet the bubble stayed (due to temporal inertia).
Perhaps 5 days in (when panic starts to set in), they get the following coded messages.
ADK = Major Malfunction
LON = Situation Temporary
JTN = Wait for Further Communication
This is perhaps the result of a single Bolthole which "woke up" after only 15 years due to an unexpected power generation issue. While their bubble did not "coast" as long as the rest of the teams, they did see bubble fail to collapse in a timely manner. If you make it a science team perhaps they figured out what happened as an explanation for why no other teams have woken.
The Prime/Bolthole communication system while limited would still be generally functional after a couple of decades. Prime while not fully understanding what happened, realized it was probably temporary.
The basic message listed above, was the last word most teams received.
The random nature of the "coast" allows the GM total flexibility on who wakes up when. One difficulty in storytelling is the canon element of the KFS murdering the sleeping teams in the boltholes they find. As I consider the fields to be impenetrable to matter, simply murdering them is problematic.
Perhaps they booby trap and monitor the exits. It removes the Morrow threat to the KFS, but reduces the amount of captured equipment.
Thoughts?
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