03-20-2025, 05:36 PM
==Qi==
There did not appear to be a transporter signal, but such a relatively low-energy system would need the Yeager to either be closer or to be utilizing active sensors to detect. The same was true of any special technology; at this range the passives could read engine emissions and transponder signals, but not much else.
Active scanning would reveal much more information about the system, but would also broadcast the Yeager's presence and risked spooking the Wairara.
==Chertstone==
Any hope of survival was wishful thinking; the racer had been moving at impulse velocity and collided with a solid object. Even if the pilot had realized their mistake, there would have been no time to correct even for an onboard computer.
It highly likely that the pilot hadn't even realized they were dead until they were a smoking crater on the comet's surface.
There did not appear to be a transporter signal, but such a relatively low-energy system would need the Yeager to either be closer or to be utilizing active sensors to detect. The same was true of any special technology; at this range the passives could read engine emissions and transponder signals, but not much else.
Active scanning would reveal much more information about the system, but would also broadcast the Yeager's presence and risked spooking the Wairara.
==Chertstone==
Any hope of survival was wishful thinking; the racer had been moving at impulse velocity and collided with a solid object. Even if the pilot had realized their mistake, there would have been no time to correct even for an onboard computer.
It highly likely that the pilot hadn't even realized they were dead until they were a smoking crater on the comet's surface.