do you want a breakout S ? <| sep |> Midichlorians are the bullshit of the cell . <| sep |> I ' d pay to have this hanging in my room <| sep |> As you and Mav 12222 speculated it was two events that spawned at the same time , that just happened to choose each other as destination worlds . In the end they played out as the even does , with both of them wanting to establish a colony on different planets and those rebelling as well . Then I cut off communication ' cause it was getting a little stupid <| sep |> Ok , you ' ve changed my opinion . <| sep |> Quite simply , the software was never specced to cope with invalid data from the IMU and it was never tested . Maybe it never occurred to them that the IMU might fail , or they deemed it as too unlikely of an event to bother worrying about . I suspect it ' s more likely that they designated the IMU as mission critical , as in they accepted that an IMU failure during descent would lead to the failure of whole mission . Even if the software did know that the IMU was sending faulty data , it ' s not like the software could correct for it and land anyway . The craft wouldn ' t have any idea about it ' s orientation or position and would have no idea how to land . It might have avoided doing stupid things like jettisoning its parachute early , but the mission would have failed in some other way . Instead , they didn ' t even try .