Talk:Communications Relay/@comment-69.142.51.153-20160614025346

About the 9...9...9...9...9 hours message. Basically once you repair the communications relay it supposedly broadcasts an emergency distress signal to any ship it can reach in range.

I see a lot of people saying that this is because the maximum waiting time has been reached for your rescue, and people seem to think that the signal was actually recieved somewhere that could rescue you. But I'm pretty sure its because the signal was transmitted to the Aurora, because the message says its an automated bounce back from the ship.

I suppose that when the signal gets transmitted, nearby ships send an automated bounce back depending on the ship's status and position and tell the reciever that the message has been relayed to command and give the estimated hours until rescue.

Basically the reason that it says 99999 hours is because the distress signal was recieved by the Aurora, which given the fact that it is completely unsalvageable and has no crew left would never actually be able to rescue the broadcaster of the message, hence the maximum wait time.