Space Ferrets

You're captain of a new spaceship that's just about to launch.

It's the kind of mission you've been working to get for your whole career.

Except for one thing. At the last minute, there was a big budget cut.

Some brainiac came up with the idea that the mission could save both money and weight by replacing most of the human crew with trained ferrets.

(This was an entry to IntroComp, and is thus incomplete.)