Talk:Degasi/@comment-30393085-20180324180427/@comment-38500437-20190224124222

Why wasn't the Aurora instantly destroyed by the weapons array? Didn't hit the drive core directly I'd presume. Any number of factors could contribute to result in one ship being hit dead-on by a blast while another copping a glancing blow that causes a hard landing. The Aurora was performing a sling-shot maneuver. The Degasi might have been performing a orbital scan. The Sunbeam was on a slow approach to land on the Mountain Island - a perfect scenario for a clean shot even for an extremely ancient piece of technology which for all we know might not have been in perfect working order and suffered from imprecise targeting.