Jess was certainly not a [i]bad[/i] pilot herself. Above average, by any definition, but that just meant she had a better appreciation for what it took to make it look as easy as Light did. She probably could have handled getting a ship into position close to the star herself, but there was a world where she could have made a mistake. With Light, she had a feeling that would [i]never[/i] have happened even on his worst day. 

Now that the ship was out of FTL and heading steady, Jess unstrapped herself from her seat so she could move around the cockpit. Already, she floated around behind Light so she could get a better look at the sensor readouts. The mechanics of FTL meant that inertia was not too much of a problem while traveling in it, but when moving at sublight speeds, a ship’s crew had to be ready to handle acceleration. When moving at anything other than a steady motion, loose objects had to be contained, and any crew members could not be far from somewhere they could be strapped down if the pilot was planning any maneuvers. 

“Okay, we’re looking for any trace of the ship. If it was damaged here, then there’s plenty it could have left behind. Debris, radiation trails, whatever we can find. Also need to keep watch for any other scavengers in the system. I know they frequent this place for the same reason we are, but hopefully the fact that we know our target’s exact flight path means we’ll still get to it first. The star’s radiation beams are pretty and impressive, but also very predictable. I doubt even our freighter’s pilot would have been stupid enough to plot their course through them. No, it probably wandered close enough to get clipped by some other emission, or maybe it’s magnetic field. Neutron stars can put out a lot of energy.” Jess said.