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Sable Reclamation - Salvage Manifest (Magellan claim) Draft

An in-world prop from Shackleton Magellan’s background. The boarding crew’s own inventory of what they stripped off him. The moment his life came apart, itemised. The cold twin to the anomaly log: that is what he saw, this is what they took to make sure no one else ever would.

The document (in-world)

SABLE RECLAMATION
FIELD RECOVERY MANIFEST — CONTRACT WORK
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JOB REF ...... withheld per client instruction
VESSEL ....... independent survey craft, one, small
CREW ABOARD .. one (1). Non-combatant. Left able.
POSTURE ...... clean strip, no casualties, no talk.
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RECOVERED TO CLIENT
  · Claim instrument and all supporting survey
    data — PRIMARY OBJECTIVE. Complete. Verified
    no field copies retained. (See note.)
  · Primary survey log and sensor records.
  · Reaction drive core and nav primary — vessel
    left mobile on backups only, per instruction
    (debtor to remain able to travel, i.e. able
    to keep running and keep paying elsewhere).
  · Saleable hold cargo, tools, spares.

NOT RECOVERED
  · A secondary rig of the subject's own make.
    Non-standard, would not read on our inventory,
    not on the target list. Left it.
  · Any personal backup the subject may hold. We
    do not chase what we were not paid to chase.

NOTE TO CLIENT
  Objective was the claim and its data, not the
  man and not the ship. We were paid to make the
  find un-findable through him, and it is. What
  the find IS was not our contract and we did not
  look. You paid for that too.
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Sable Reclamation. We recover what is owed,
and only what is owed.