A) The Zombie was in front of the shuttle, so it was overlooked. In fact you mentioned clearly after Sune had left the cockpit.
B) As for Conrad being injured, I have been busy with RL, so I have not had time to deal with it. And all the folks agreed that getting out of the immediate area was prudent.
C) A search of the HX-24 thread does not show any mention of 'hieroglyphs'
D) As for the projects, gee, before we could even get around to that, you had us nearly trampled, and then two of the crew members get a price on their heads, the end result of which we lost the person who mentioned the projects and they have not yet had a chance to make any inquiries. It did not go unnoticed as Sune commented in his message to Hanako about the fact that the dead and forced to work via Parasites.