Jonathan_S wrote:
But if RFC wanted to tie those together better it would have been so easy to mention in passing, during those scenes in TEIF, that Honor's fleet knew to keep a sharp eye out for such readings because they'd been identified during the post-attack analysis after the Yawata Strike. Then it at least looks like they took some lessons learned from that to apply to keeping the fleet safe.
Oyster Bay was a *sneak* attack. Other than possibly the Junction forts; and the outer shell of detection buoys; I suspect most *active* military sensors would have been shut down when in a known "safe" system.
And there's no mention as to whether "real time" data was relayed to some backup station on the ground.
But even if it was; it's doubtful that the space stations mounted that sensitive a set of detection gear. What would be the need; after all? And the Junction fort's *primary* focus was on things coming *through* the Junction; not from entities suddenly materializing *outside* of it. Plus; the "bow wave" phenomenon was not all that strong... ...a sensor drone or a ship with military sensors had to be very close by to detect it. By the time it propagated to the other side of a star system (where the shell of sensor buoys might be able to "see" it); it might have faded into something below their detection thresholds.
Remember; it's a *bow* wave; so any platforms *behind* it likely couldn't detect it; even if close.
So it's problematical at best as to whether the GA fleet would know to expect it.