She kept meaning to get out her transmitter and ask what had happened to the last generation, but in the end decided against it. She could do that once she got time away from Dust. If the pegasus decided that she wanted to destroy James's communication equipment this time, it might be a far more arduous task to get her a replacement. Delivery drones with solar coating could make journeys of nearly indefinite length with satellites to guide them, but when those journeys might also involve being detected by native creatures who could fly, then whatever was being delivered had to be worth the risk incurred by traveling there.