Once he was sure the ship’s course was true and safe, Light turned his attention to the mammoth task of finding a dead ship in the vastness of space.

They’d had the good sense to ‘sniff’ the system ahead of them while travelling FTL. Light started by pulling up the dump of data and cross referencing it with what they were recording now. Eventually he made an intrigued noise, visualising a zoomed in vector around the pulsar through time on the cockpit’s holo. The accuracy of the data was questionable, but clearly enough he had isolated a sudden and massive burst of radiation at around the time their target would have been passing through.

“That’d be enough to put them in a bad way.” Light mused, looking at Jess and Senjen for validation.

“If my shield took that, I’d be looking to set down immediately.”

After a few hours of plugging and unplugging cables from interface ports, typing on various relief-keyboards and setting dials and gauges all over the place. Light shrieked.

“I’ve found something.” Spinning it up on the holo, it showed some kind of radiation trail deviating from the predicted path towards a barren rock. Light frantically navigated his astrogation systems.

“Its tidally locked…If it were me, i’d set down on the far side.” He gunned the engines and plotted a course to a position where they could ping the dark side.