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Clara is very moved and distressed. She insists tearfully, listening to the woman's voice on the distress transmission as she replays it over and over again:
-We have to help them! Help her! She sounds so alone and afraid... Maybe they are refugees. Or scientists! Look, I am plotting a course to the station now! Imagine a rubber sheet, stretched taut, with a cannonball set in the middle and a heavy bullet near it. The cannonball pulls down the sheet, making a big distorted curved pit dent, and the bullet makes a smaller dimple next to it... but near where the cannonball crater dent and the bullet dimple ridges meet, are some stable points, these are the Lagrange points at 60degrees ahead and behind it, the trojans. They form an equiangular triangle, see. I am scanning them now.
Move to Lagrangian
>L1
>L2
>L3
>L4
>L5
Maybe if you hide behind the malevolent looking red dwarf star, your starship will remain undetected?
>Try to plot a trajectory that keeps the ship hidden behind the star. Will this stealth approach work and make you undetectable?
>Tell Clara: I don't like this. It sounds like a trap. We're leaving
>Ask Clara: won't the librations of that space stations erratic orbit bring it directly into those cryolava eruption plumes? Why would anyone place an orbital station like that?
>Ask Clara: is that... debris there? At the trojan point? What is that - another ship?
>Something else...?
