A courier's footage of Lance's Hope draws Andromeda toward what proves to be a trap. The loss of a peer warship is itself evidence that a solo investigation is unsafe. A safer response would alert the fleet, rendezvous nearby, and approach with several cruisers or a battle group. Narvik supplies the comparison: the Royal Navy returned after an earlier destroyer action with HMS Warspite and Tribal-class destroyers to concentrate decisive force.
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Lance's Hope and the danger of investigating alone
A report that one heavy cruiser has been destroyed should trigger concentration and verification, not a second cruiser entering the same danger alone.