Captain Rithan Velorum

Records

Rithan left one sealed thought behind.
The archive still refuses ordinary access.

Rithan asked the archive one final question.
The answer was never filed in the open decks.

His last command log is twenty-three words.
Velorum has read them ten thousand times.
They do not become easier.

Rithan did not believe in dramatic farewells.
He believed in leaving something worth finding.
The sealed file may be that.

He came from the constellation of Sagittarius.
The planet record is damaged beyond repair.
FURAI believes this was intentional.

Rithan once wrote: the ship is not a machine if it remembers.
That line is still in the open archive.
He did not explain it further.

He wore long hair the color of pearl.
He looked like a sage from Vedic scripture.
He asked questions no one else dared to ask.

The War of the Millennium records are sealed at his order.
Only the timestamp of the final engagement remains visible.
It matches the date of his disappearance.