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While at Baijini Station, I learned that the Carrack Exodus had gone radio silent during a long-range exploration mission, with a fellow Pathfinder aboard. There was no distress call, no insurance inquiry, and no missing-ship report — the kind of silence that feels deliberate rather than accidental. What unsettled me most wasn’t the disappearance — it was that no one seemed interested in asking why.