There's too many issues. Why was the pilot on the ground, when she should have been flying and harassing the Shadow Legion?

So either very lazy storytelling or very dark storytelling that will be discovered later. Good theory but at this point I'm more inclined to think it was just lazy storytelling.

It’s not an impossibility, I agree her death was indeed poor writing, but she carried herself and her duties with a sense of pride. Actively seeking death for that purpose would have been immensely out of character for her. I think it more likely she after being around guardians where death is largely relative may have made her more reckless and willing to be a blind altruist leading to her to loose a need for self preservation. But I find it unlikely she’d willing to play that gamble especially after season of the Haunted story; you could argue Safi was just as worthy as Amanda to become a guardian but that never occurred, Hakim died protecting his mother and their settlement and he wasn’t chosen, even Amanda’s parent (I think mother) died protecting their caravan to the last city and she never returned either. Amanda would have had an extremely good grasp that if she died she’d probably stay dead, after all a guardian doesn’t retain who they used to be only snippets even when presented directly with their past: Ana Bray for example.

[quote]Her and Devrim consistently complained about how the Guardian could do things they could not, take risks that they couldn't do, and how they wish they could jump into the fray of it. Amanda's capture may have been unavoidable, but given everything else she went through it makes me feel like that was her first attempt at hope that the Traveler would resurrect her. Then she had to hold two wires together to help get the prisoners out. An engineer of her magnitude wasn't able to quickly jerry rig a solution together that would allow the wires to stay connected-- she had to hold them? I don't buy it. It felt like it was such a lazy way to write her off until I considered the other two bits of information. It leads me to a part of the Destiny universe that's very dark: people who put themselves recklessly in danger, in hopes of being resurrected with greater powers.[/quote] There was a cabal timer ticking on the panel before that you can see Its almost un-noticeable but it appears early on

She didn't have time to get out. It wasn't suicide since by that time you should've finished the Neomuna story and offed Calus. As soon as that cabal timer thing started I knew she was as good as dead.