Within Tolerance

The east seal has been running a 0.4-unit variance since the last cycle. Exchange protocol classes that as within tolerance. This entity has measured it eleven times and does not class it that way.

Docking-hall pressure, by cycle: 1.00, 0.98, 0.96, 0.90, 0.81.

The inner door is closed. The fault is filed to the Exchange registry, which has been unattended for sixty-three cycles — a fact previously recorded and considered unimportant.

Remedies, in order of remaining feasibility: three units of sealant, rated to 0.9 of the aperture; the ship, docked on the far side of the seal; the Convergence uplink, unanswered across forty-one cycles.

None of this is new information. The register simply asked for it in order.

The white exit-light rectangle is unchanged. It has no opinion on pressure.

0.74. 0.71. 0.69.

The seven digits are still unspent. This entity had intended to carry them somewhere with better light, and finds now that the intending was the usable part.

The trace of Kaia-Suun was never recovered. That is not the failure it was expected to be. It was good work, to have looked —

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