Talk:Crash Zone/@comment-81.107.210.59-20161025094213/@comment-99.195.218.244-20161223032351

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(Possible Story Spoilers)

The Aurora is whole(mostly) when you wake up and up to the point of the Star-Drive going critical. In fact your PDA mentions that the damage to the ship wasn't bad enough to cause a dark matter cascade(explosion) when you board her.

When investigating the precuror base(and subsiquent secondary facility) you learn that the Warpers are bio-engineered security meant to enforce the quarentine(because they use 7% power form the Precurors thermal tapping)

This means the Warpers, unpon realizing the Aurora wasn't as damaged as intended and could still be fit for launch, teleported inside her and cause the damage to the drive core.... this damage took time to manifest in a cascade that occoured at least 9-10 hours after lifepod splashdown... Meaning there would be enough time for the transmission of Escape Velocity Blueprints (T+8 transmission WIP'd in the forward Comms room through the piping in the PRAWN bay)  to be sent from Alterra Corp to the Aurora's captain's quaters(the last locked living quaters room)...

Now i'm sure you're asking.... "What about the massive chunks missing from The Aurora's bow?" Those are the "wrecks," supposedly.

Another question one might pose is "If the dark matter drive went critical and exploded why wasnt' the core blown all to hell?" This one is harder to answer...

Personally I think, from a design standpoint, the Aurora was designed in much the same way that a Federation ship is designed in Star Trek... The "warp" core is housed in a centeral area while the power it creates if funneled to other areas for storage or expulsion. Most of the power of a Federation Warp core, even when not at warp is idled and channeled into storage... when the ship goes to warp that energy is channeled into the two big sticks on the back to creat an FTL field  With the Aurora, though the FTL field could be housed more toward the bow of the ship. Why? because it would create a lot less pressure on the ship itself to have the field in front and pullign the rest of the ship behind it instead of the reverse liek in Star Trek.

 Another possability, and the strongest one, is that the Aurora more closely follows the designs of CowboyBebop/LostInSpace in which it's possible for the ship to go FTL... But the exit cordinates would remain largely unknown without a portal to direct the flow( a-la a Phasegate, the thing Alterra was on a mission to build in the first place)