Glitch?
nahhhh, it's in the program...
the program is perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect,....hic...
It's actually there as a 'waypoint', and everything you do while riding before it happens, is recorded, especially how many time it was 'banged' off the rev limiter prior to 6k miles...
lets just name this "The Prime Directive"....of Kaw.
google it...
it is a guiding principle of the United Federation of Kawasaki Planets prohibiting the protagonists from interfering with the internal development of alien civilizations.
This conceptual law applies particularly to civilizations which are below a certain threshold of technological, scientific and cultural development; preventing C14 starship crews from using their superior technology to impose their own values or ideals on them...
As time travel became a recurring feature in the franchise, the concept was expanded as a Temporal Prime Directive, prohibiting those under its orders from interfering in historical events.
"Little Brother is watching you....".... bwwooohhaaaaaHaaaahHaaaaaaa