In the final conversation between Duarte and Holden in Persepolis Rising, Duarte suggests that the weird alien ball thing is related to the "missing ships". By "missing ships" does he mean the ships that disappear when traveling through the rings if too much/mass and energy is/has gone through them?
I was under the impression that the overload of the rings that causes ships to disappear was a natural consequence of ring gate usage, not some kind of alien sabotage.
Thoughts?