When doing some practice the other day something occurred that I'd like to head off as a potential point of contention. As we aren't killing the guards before Jones now (speed strats), there are other Retros around when you kill Jones. If one of them happens to be sending you a comm message when Jones dies (say you eat some asteroids and they decide to taunt you), the avenger comm message will be delayed a few seconds before playing. Seeing seconds could be the difference between a record and not, in this event the ending split will be timed to the destruction of Jones' ship provided there is video evidence of the Centurion destruction, avenger ship arriving or avenger comm message playing immediately after the blocking comm message.
That seems completely reasonable to me.
The run ends when Mordecai Jones's ship explodes. The sad retro message is one way to confirm this, but there could be others - like seeing his ship explode onscreen. Or even if he was target-locked, and the cross disappears from the radar.
