Was nach oben geht...

We prepared for a long, grueling fight and then I think what happened is we accidentally crashed our very heavy metal ship directly into multiple hitboxes of the Herald at the same time. It doesn't respawn so one take only, but it was still actually pretty fun. Once we pick up the data core the quest also clears, but that happens later since I didn't immediately grab the data core as our ship was drifting away.