Talk:Aurora/@comment-2001:5B0:45D3:DEC8:9045:572B:B0DF:A85C-20191124223926/@comment-33235220-20200305071423

Well for one, Ryley is not the only one to survive the crash, just the only one to survive the ocean for very long. There are several drop pods that are launched and several of them safely land. One of the earlier broadcast messages from the Warpers states that 9 new targets were acquired, meaning at that point there were still at least 9 people alive. We hear many, many voice logs from people who survived the crash, giving us the details leading up to their deaths at the hands of the Warpers and other dangers of 4546B. There are 10 pods that make it safely, including Ryley's, and 4 of these pods have at least 2 people in them, which means there were at least 14 people to make it to the water alive, not counting any pods that may have landed out of range of the radios or whose radios were damaged, as there were at least 19 pods on the ship. It also largely depends on where the ship was hit. If the crew quarters were hit, then it makes sense that most of the people on board would perish in the initial blast or not make it to a life pod. Ryley was an engineer, so he was likely able to get to the pods quicker than others. And as the other person already stated, explosions across the ship likely caused most of the crew to perish before the ship even hit the water, and those who didn't make it into a pod would've perished in the crash or in the subsequent explosion.