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I still find it doubtful a single signal, sent out from earth, would be sufficient to do anything to a colony world, let alone even a run down rock hopper. I’d think that kind of attack would require a local agent in a sustained attack. I would expect ships and colony worlds to be fairly hardened against electronic warfare, especially important subsystems, which I would imagine might be set to not accept remote commands at all. Yeah often in the real world security is lax, but messing up doesn’t usually prevent us from breathing
I think the observation tech locked all other crew out of ship controls and then blew the ship by overloading the drives. Maybe I’m misremembering. I though kern only got through and released the monkeys and virus because he had neglected the coffin
I just find it unbelievable that the first terraformed world, which must be heinously expensive, would be used as an experiment instead of a colony
I thought the signal at the end was from the world from the next book, I didn’t read it though so idk
I swear they mentioned military personnel distinct from security personnel during the failed initial rebellion, but could be misremembering