Mika nodded. "It makes sense. You can blame the old man if you want, but he and I have bonded more than once over a love of some very old stories. Call fiction ridiculous if you want, but it's usually less strange than reality," she said, "someone wanted you dead, and they knew that actually blowing up the relay would have sent the entire system into a full on panic in short order. Had that ship blown up the relay, automated alerts would have summoned the system patrol and caused the biggest ruckus this system has seen in 50 T-years. Instead, ITC just has one relay that, as far as they know put itself in a maintenance cycle and a missing repair ship that could have suffered a mechanical failure for all they know," she shrugged. "And if you ask me, it's an inside job."