Talk:Planet 4546B/@comment-35482937-20180914001334/@comment-16664348-20190712095638

Old thread, but 4546B is much smaller than earth. It's possible to see the aurora and both islands from orbit in the ending sequence while you're about to go into hyperspeed. As earth has a surface area of around 200 million km, observations indicate 4546B may actually be smaller than the moon.

Of course, if you factor in the Aurora being visible from orbit as artistic license, it's probably around the size of Mercury or something.

As for the gun making you land in the crater, that was ultimately due to the sacrifice of the Aurora's captain bringing it down on a sand bank, as well as plain dumb luck. The Sunbeam is destroyed completely outside the bounds of the map. The location of the gun doesn't matter, as it can bend the laser around the gravitational pull of the planet to hit any target in orbit.