User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-26380066-20150807120949/@comment-4616231-20150808005056

As convenient as it would be for the ship to blow up completely and take our bad guys down with it, I doubt it'd be that easy. I mean, could be damaged, sure, and maybe it even would crash, but as long as Locus and Felix survive that's really all that matters to the plot at the moment. Oh, and I guess the Counselor was on there, too, but he hasn't been particurally helpful this season, so... eh.

So Locus and Felix probably survive due to some stupid shit. If so, Locus is probably gonna have to suit up into the Meta pretty damn soon. Hopefully, when he dies we don't have a billion people debating wether or not it actually happened...