Talk:Sunbeam/@comment-213.233.192.101-20170701072503/@comment-71.219.103.58-20170704220656

The Aurora is a much larger ship, it could have been making communications or had a larger heat signature for the QEP to lock onto. The Sunbeam is much, much smaller, and the QEP may or may not have been accurate enough to shoot it down in orbit. Shooting a large target in orbit might be easy, but something that small would be risky.