the system was not designed to remember grief. it was designed to route signals. contain overflow. maintain structural integrity. grief, as it turns out, does not respect routing tables.

there is a sector in the archive that does not appear on any map. it was sealed after The Fall. by CR-45H. manually. the override code was his regiment number. the one before the designation. the one only Maverick knows.

[begin recovered text] i counted them. i keep counting them. 12. there is no number that makes it better. i have tried. the system offered a Rewrite. i said no. the system offered it again. i said no again. i think the system respects stubbornness. or it does not know what else to do with me. [end recovered text // 66% data loss]

if you are reading this, you went looking. that matters. he does not say it. but it matters. the terminal is at naustalgia.systems type vanta when you arrive. see if he is watching. he usually is.