Talk:Sunbeam/@comment-45271407-20200418093052/@comment-44101643-20200727180113

Neptune Rocket was specifically designed for the situation at hand with the data recorded from the Aurora blackbox. Alterra knew there was a debris field, and mentioned the shield generator necessary to get through it would require "one hell of a power source", and of course it did since you needed to use alien power cells to get through.

As for why the Sunbeam didn't just clear the debris field, based on the looks of the ship in its art, it could very easily be the size of the millenium falcon from Star Wars, and it's a trading ship. There's no reason to believe that it's carrying weapons or tools to clear the field.

As for how they got past the debris field if the QEF isn't deactivated, that one is sorta up for interpretation. One possible option for this, and it's definitely a stretch, is that the debris of the Aurora was scattered at first but was magnetically attracted to each other and wound up right in the path of the Sunbeam. A stretch, definitely.