Amber Wing rides its controlled burn toward the next Rim survey system. Avalon dwindles behind them, while all five crew members hold their assigned stations aboard the ship.
A weak relay beacon appears ahead, its transmission broken into narrow bursts. The partial synchronization table matches sectors recovered from the damaged route package.
Lahani
I have the verified vector steady. The beacon is outside our primary route, but its signal overlaps the relay handshake by less than two percent.
Ranuko
The matching sectors could repair the missing data, or contaminate the clean records. I can keep the route cases isolated while Nahuli examines the beacon.
Ranuko brings the beacon feed into a read-only diagnostic buffer. No command channel opens, but the partial table continues repeating through the weak relay.
Kiryati
Weapons remain cold and locally interlocked. If the beacon changes behavior, I can cut its signal path without touching Amber Wing’s navigation bus.
Ranuko
Nahuli, can you determine whether this beacon can safely repair the missing data without disturbing our protected return burn?