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Relay beacons extend communications around obstacles. Echo deploys a series of them to transmit to Earth while remaining behind the Moon.
Deployment
Lieutenant Lucinda Orcana launches the beacons, which require twenty-two minutes to reach their assigned positions before diplomatic contact begins.[1]
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Sources
Simon Evans, The Flaxen Tyranny, first edition (2023). Page numbers refer to the printed pagination of the source edition.
- Chapter 9 · pp. 63–64