[quote=@Techspert]
<Snipped quote by GalaxyRaider>

It should be an emergency-use connection. That’s the same one they use to set off the alarm in case anything is malfunctioning.
*The detailed view shows the beacon periodically polling a body in space with long blips between each connection; red-zone power spikes in the beacon’s grid zone line up with each outgoing communication channel*
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It should be. Yet every time it’s used the power shoots above threshold. Look.