Talk:Data Downloads/@comment-27007757-20160511134625/@comment-28750661-20160614221654

Actually, please check out the  Communications Relay page, and pay special attention to the second-to-last message in the Messages column: As it coincidentally is, "9...9...9...9...9 hours," is exactly 416.625 days, which is a couple months more than a year. I'm simply assuming the devs made a mistake in puttint 461 days, though that could have also been the intended number. That, and the automated message could have also been an easter egg referring to Portal 2, where the announcer tells Chell that they "have been in suspension for nine, nine, nine... nine, nine."
 * "This is trade vessel Sunbeam. Aurora, we've received your emergency transmission and your co-ordinates have been recorded. Wish we had better news for you, but we just aren't equipped to assist you at this time. We're anticipating arrival at the nearest starbase in approximately 461 earth days, that's four, six, one days. We will at that time pass on your emergency message to the appropriate corporate authority. You hold on in there, alright? Sunbeam out."

That, and the Aurora's automated distress signal could have been corrupted in that exact moment, forcing the female A.I. to repeat the last part of that phrase (An emergency relief team will be dispatched to your location. *Static* Estimated arrival time: 9...9...9...9...9 hours), like a broken record. There's also a possibility in which 99,999 is the largest 5-digit number calculated (or still being calculated), or a number too large to be represented in only 5 digits, which could only mean that no help is coming for the player, regareless of it being from the Aurora or any other rescue vessel sent down onto planet 4546B.

And even if Alterra or Torgaljin sent down an emergence vessel, the only thing that will happen to it is the same thing that happened to the other two ships, because whoever (or whatever) shot down the Aurora and Degasi would undoubtedly want to keep any other nosey corporation off of its/their "experiments."