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[Elec]

I can see why the axons would be a good way to locate the crew. Assume that the ship was going down, crash on Earth imminent. The crew would probably head to escape pods or equivalent (to rip off Star Trek: with instructions to find a quiet corner of North America to live out their lives in). Melissa becomes functional again, but isn't sure how much time has passed, so she throws out all the axons in an effort to locate surviving crew.

777 is kind of a stretch from a 40 man crew, but a lot could have happened. Melissa doesn't know how much time has passed, maybe the crew have children now who would help. Maybe they were instructed to recruit others for some unknown (to us) purpose. A lot of the axons are in close proximity to one another, so maybe it was assumed that a single crew member would get everything within 100 miles or so.