Raven hides inside an ice mass more than a hundred kilometres across while hostile ships search the surrounding meteor swarm. Its crew needs roughly another 38 hours and has prepared traps and distractions to delay discovery. The enemy is expected to allow at least a week before help arrives because the next regular communications drone will take four days to reach its destination. That estimate excludes Scorpius, whose existence has been kept within a small circle. The plan depends on physical concealment, delayed communications, and the security of information about reinforcements.
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Raven hides while the enemy misjudges the time for reinforcements
Concealment buys time because the enemy calculates its search around a slower communications schedule and incomplete knowledge of reinforcements.