Talk:Aurora/@comment-98.119.195.102-20160911191921

On my run today, Sept 11, 2016, I found 2 entrances in the broken front end of the Aurora. There is a large, wide ramp on the left side and a smaller ramp on the right. The large ramp on the left curves around up to the burning entrance and the Administration/ Cargo Bay 3 T. The lower entrance is blocked by boxes and leads to the Laboratory. You don't actually need to worry about not having a Propulsion Cannon because there is a single fragment in front of each entrance, or was the one on the big ramp just inside... I can't remember. Either way, there are enough fragments outside of the blocked areas that you can get the blueprint at the Aurora. Then you just have to hope you have all the materials you need on your Cyclops or go all the way back to your closest base to frabricate one.

If you're a packrat like me, you'll want to pick up everything. There is enough loot to load up at least 2 Wall Lockers so it's a good idea to have at least a couple lockers and a fabricator inside your Cyclops when you make this run. Battery Chargers aren't really necessary for this run since you'll pick up more than 10 batteries but you'll probably want one eventually for your Cyclops anyway.

If you're doing it just in a Seamoth, you're not going to be able to pick up most stuff and you won't even really need the Propulsion Gun. You can really just run straight in, patch up the reactor, and leave. Then you just come back at a later time once you've gotten your Propulsion gun and more storage space (Cyclops with lockers) to loot the ship.

Small? note though... Just prior to exploring the Aurora I had my Cyclops on the left (when facing the front of the ship) side of the ship in the shallow-ish water with the Sand Sharks. Fortunately I didn't have much of anything in my Cyclops except for a Seamoth and indoor growing bed because when I loaded my save, my Cyclops and Seamoth had disappeared and I was just swimming alone in the water with a bunch of Sand Sharks at night on Hardcore. That was an oh shit moment and I was really pissed. Long story short, be careful saving around the Aurora. I did my whole exploration/ looting of the Aurora in a day so that I wouldn't have to save near it and risk losing everything again.