aurobraking is for braking and a slingshot manouver is for speeding up so no they where not aurobraking when they flew allong and aurobraking burns a ship too, the theorie about the damaged navagition system sending the ship into the atmosfhere seem…
the aurora was clearly not made for re-entry nor landing and a for a slingshot manouvere (what the aurora was doing) the woud not be close enough to a planet to touch it atmosphere or it should have corrected it earlyier also i think that the aurora…
my first (and only) encounter with a reaper was by the engines of the aurora, i was looking if i could find something there and i was admiring the size of the engine nozels. i had just arrived there and i was looking at the first engine al while hea…