diff --git a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ContactRevealTests.cs b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ContactRevealTests.cs
index 3bc49037d..83a2b8cd1 100644
--- a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ContactRevealTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ContactRevealTests.cs
@@ -1729,22 +1729,6 @@ public sealed partial class ContactRevealTests : IDisposable
         Assert.Equal(hostile, o.IsHostileTo(e));
     }
 
-    // A failing assertion over a Reveal formats the value for its message: if that walked the Entity graph the message would be
-    // enormous or the host would die on it. Probe of follow-up bearing-markers-test-residuals (2).
-    [Fact]
-    public void AFailingRevealAssertionFormatsBriefly()
-    {
-        var e = Add(float3(30, 0, 40), new[] { "Gun" });
-        var o = Add(float3(0, 0, 0), new[] { "Eye" });
-        Fire(e, Guns(e)[0]);
-        var reveal = Assert.Single(o.RevealsOf(e));
-
-        var text = Xunit.Sdk.ArgumentFormatter.Format(reveal);
-
-        Assert.True(text.Length < 400, $"formatted length {text.Length}");
-        Assert.Contains("Gun", text);
-    }
-
     private static int PaintInbox(Entity e) => ((System.Collections.ICollection) typeof(Entity).GetField("_paintInbox", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(e)).Count;
 
     // A paint still unpublished in an observer's inbox when the observer leaves the zone is gone: it does not arrive as a
diff --git a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScannerTests.cs b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScannerTests.cs
index 219f53eba..7b84fbebc 100644
--- a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScannerTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScannerTests.cs
@@ -399,19 +399,19 @@ public sealed partial class ContactRevealTests
     [Fact]
     public void AFinishedScanListsTheGearOnTheSchematic()
     {
-        var target = Add(float3(0, 0, 100), new[] { "Gun" }, new[] { "Reactor", "Radiator", "SuppressorCold" });
+        var target = Add(float3(30, 0, 40), new[] { "Gun" }, new[] { "Reactor", "Radiator", "SuppressorCold" });
         var s = Add(float3(0, 0, 0), new[] { "Eye" }, new[] { "Scanner" });
-        s.EntityInfoGathered[target] = .5f;
-        s.SetTarget(target);
         var fitted = FittedBesidesTheHull(target);
         var gun = Guns(target)[0];
         var reactor = target.Equipment.Where(i => i.Behaviors.Any(b => b is Reactor)).Last();
         target.Claim(reactor, DataOf("Radiator"));
         target.SetSignature(new object(), SignatureChannel.LaunchFlash, 1000000f, target.EquippedHull);
-        Hold(s, 1, target);
+        Tick(.1f);
         Assert.Equal(target.EquippedHull, Assert.Single(s.RevealsOf(target)).Item); // fixture: the hull is in the book, as a hull class
         Assert.IsAssignableFrom<HullData>(s.RevealsOf(target).Single().Claimed);
-        Hold(s, 14, target);
+        s.EntityInfoGathered[target] = .5f;
+        s.SetTarget(target);
+        Hold(s, 15, target);
         Assert.Empty(s.SchematicRows(target)); // fixture: no row before the scan is done
 
         Hold(s, 1, target);