The surface custodian asked for the missing page before agreeing that the public technical set was complete.
Sera checked the packet against her photographs. The page had not been lost. A load-path sketch occupied its reverse side, and the transmission list had counted the sheet once where the review required both faces.
“Hold the completeness mark,” she said. “Second face coming.”
The operator repeated the instruction. Above them, engineers waited on a record that had survived years of concealment and almost acquired a new omission through ordinary counting. Sera sent the reverse, received its identifying marks back, and amended the inventory.
Eli held the lamp while she worked. He wanted the suppression order beyond reach of anyone who could lock the scene away again. That urgency did not make an incomplete set complete. A wider audience needed enough of the sequence to test it, rather than another authoritative summary asking for trust.
The protected identity material traveled by a separate route. Community representatives would help check names and contact families before publication. The technical sequence, the evidence of withheld reporting, and the present limits could circulate more broadly without attaching a crew member’s private details to every discussion of a broken support.
