User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-2250460-20120719024024/@comment-4953843-20120719035859

in light of this "new" information i've taken the time to replay the cutscene for myself and saw a couple of things that clarified stuff a lot but opened a couple of other issues in return.

space ninja's ship -did- go to the horsehead nebula relay (or an approximation of it based on location) before continuing to horizon. BUT...

if the trace was time-lagged, the pit stop should still have registered however delayed (it -is- a -trace-, right?). or there would be a couple of things: interstellar tracking methods are as accurate as plot demands (so it tracks relay-to-relay jumps but not FTL?), or we would be accusing traynor of sloppy handiwork (so if traveling to anadius in FTL speeds takes time traynor should have picked up on the disproportionate time the ninja's ship spent in that particular relay before travelling to the next and narrowed the search there). whatever the matter, i withdraw my case of this as a proper hole (and reclassify it as an idiot ball).