Talk:Aurora/@comment-26075006-20161225135628/@comment-31541346-20170122212944

The Sunbeam is much smaller and faster, the Gun detected it, loaded up and shot it. The Aurora is MASSIVE (about a quarter of the planet right now) and is probably slower, it was also orbiting the planet, and if you didn't notice, things that orbit generally get closer to the planet they are orbiting, as our Moon on earth is getting farther (It goes forward then backward after a while I assume). The gun probably detected the Aurora (It had a massive power source and it was unautherized) and, even if the Aurora wasn't going to land, it had to shoot. It was going to land, after the orbit to steady things to research the remaining Degasi crew and a possible rescue. They appointed that ship soley because of how huge it was and how much technology it had on board.

As for how the gun and the mountains,

The gun is taller than the mountains. Believe me, I terraformed my way up to the height limit and the gun is still higher than the mountain. Even if it wasn't, literally, this thing hits METAL. These are an intelligent alien race that designed this gun. It probably went through the mountain.