Gale - The one who REALLY doesn't make sense. I mean REALLY REALLY. First, he tells you that he's surprised your alive. "Last time I saw you, you were lying in a crucible's worth of blood; an intellect devourer nibbling at your ear." WHAAA??? When did THIS happen? Ever? Maybe if I screwed up the fight with the intellect devourers in the nautiloid just after leaving the beach, I might have been lying in a pool of blood, but otherwise, no. Makes no sense. At no time was I ever in this scenario.
Uh, the implication is that this is something that happened at any time between the insertion of the tadpole and when you woke up on the ground of the Nautiloid outside of your pod.
Not sure what's supposed to be so outrageous about it.
to tell me their story about how they survived the ship, how they got away, and what they've been doing all this time.
Allegedly, more or less like you did? And "all this time" is supposed to be a few hours at most after the Nautiloid crashed. The crash happen in an unspecified moment of the night and you wake up on the bitch at morning (which could be as likely one, two or six hours later, for what you can tell).
I mean, you make some fair point in your summary, but these sound like arbitrary nitpicking.