>>5505777central responds fast:
>Haumea!? aliens?! go get her, full speed! tow her back into orbit, conventional engines only! no warp drive!in the background on a hot mic you clearly hear someone yelling "it fucking broke!" and the beginning of a very volatile and active argument with scientific and military types clearly yelling at each other.
over the comms you ping Amanda and get back:
>(static) -earing you. orbit is dec- (static) -central body- (static)before the comm signal cleanly cuts out. you have a rough idea where Haumea is, even if its a very obscure planetary body. very far out though, so this is gonna be tricky to locate in astronavigation
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you get within sight of the dwarf planet. no sight of the ship from here. no radio signal. it's really hard at this distance to spot anything that might have crashed on any of the three planetary bodies.