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no this about comm can't be true, unless i'm not seeing a part of the picture... when a ship blows out in space, there are no soundwaves at all sent around, so even if you're 2 feet away from the explosion you can't hear a thing. neither can your comm because it picks up electromagnetic waves that are created by another comm system by what's called modulating a digital signal (a stream of 1s and 0s) into a carrier wave. but when a ship blows up, so does it comm system, so it can't possibly tran…

maybe MAYBE it's not a wizard (*gasp*) what if the on-board computer calculates the distance of the explosion, in which direction it is, how strong it is, you know lots of parameters and then creates an artificial sound of what the explosion would sound like in normal atmosphere, to help you navigate a bit and so... edit: and then we all turn off the 3D sound and all explosions sound the same