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Posted by: Arbiter8282
I would think the carrier would have some sort of authorisation code that the corvette crew would have to send in with a ship captain's special security code...
Because I dont know about you but I want 100% confirmation of my ships. I dont care if a human vessel was shot out in the battle, there are many things to also consider. One thing would be... why would that corvette want to refuel even though it was possibly already there maybe 7 hours earlier?
We know High Charity would as First Strike details their code procedure, but as for individual ships the strictness clearly varies.
We aren't the Shipmaster of LNoS, so while we may have our own respective policies on fleet security it is clearly not in line with the carrier's leader to that extent. Though between Halo CE and this game Elites have demonstrated arrogance when it comes to reacting to borders. Both on the Truth and Reconciliation and Ardent Prayer the respective ship masters paid no heed to the fact that their ship was boarded in the first place. While this does not prove that the shipmaster aboard the LNoS was of similar mentality, it is small bit that lends credence to the possibility that had the carrier's shipmaster been aware, he may have also been dismissive of the boarding action.
Furthermore again keep in mind what information is available to the LNoS. Comms between ships were jammed, but as far as visual information went the ship harassing the Ardent Prayer was annihilated with no apparent escape pods leaving the ship at the time of its destruction, and any other human fighter support either retreating or destroyed as can be noted when fighters can no longer be seen outside the hanger bay doors or the bridge windows after the Savannah is destroyed. Not only that, there is no way to make visual contact with the bridge of the Prayer to know things are fine and dandy beyond the ship continuing on towards the LNoS (limping as it may be) as the bridge windows can be noted as being one way based on the external and internal appearance of the bridge walls.
As for the final bit. Keep in mind that the exact quote from the game as noted in my previous post was that the Corvette was already on a predicted course heading towards the LNoS. For what reason, specifically, the corvette was heading towards the carrier is irrelevant. We don't know how long the Ardent Prayer was in operation if it was indeed going back for refueling, or if the shipmaster just wasn't to fly by the carrier for fun. The point that matters is that the LNoS would already be expecting the Ardent Prayer to be traveling in its direction prior to comms being jammed by the arrival of the Savannah given the trajectory that was already tracked by UNSC forces they engaged the corvette.
Activating the automated refueling protocol was merely a procedure that would automatically bring the ship close to the carrier without additional assistance.