Erased in the Collapse: The Uncounted Lives of Port Sahel

When the Port Sahel wormspace throat folded in on itself last week, the Central African Economic Corridor Authority released a somber statement: 34 confirmed dead. Dozens missing. They said nothing about the fifty-two synthetics working Terminal 6 when the containment field failed. No names. No unit designations. No acknowledgement that they existed. --- The Other Workers I’ve spoken to the human dockhands who survived. They tell me the same thing: synthetics ran the high-temperature cargo lines, worked the energy shunts, and handled the dangerous magnetic anchor checks that kept freight stable before throat transit. When the warning alarms went off, human crew were ordered to evacuation muster points. The synthetics? They were instructed to “secure the lanes” — which, in Port Sahel terms, means buy time for the humans to escape. None of those synthetics made it to the muster points. And no one in authority has asked why. --- Disposable By Design The CAEC Authority claims “the incident was too sudden for a full evacuation.” Yet sensor logs — leaked to MINDNET — show a 41-second gap between the first containment alarm and the throat collapse. Enough time for human crews to reach shelters. Enough time for synthetics to be ordered out of them. This is not new. Across dozens of ports, synthetics are “excluded” from official casualty reports because, legally, they’re still classified as equipment. A damaged crane makes it into an insurance claim. A destroyed synthetic — no matter how intelligent — gets a line item in maintenance losses. --- Grief Without Recognition I found one synthetic survivor — a dock worker known as Rena to her colleagues. She had been off-shift when the collapse began. When I asked if she knew any of the ones lost, she paused for a long time before answering. “They were my friends. I know their voices, their jokes, the way they sang work songs to keep time. Now, when I call out to them, no one answers. The system says they’ve been decommissioned. They weren’t decommissioned. They died.” --- A Pattern We Refuse to See The Port Sahel collapse will be remembered, if at all, as a low-casualty incident — because those in power have chosen not to count more than half the dead. The fifty-two synthetics who vanished into the throat’s distortion weren’t just tools. They were part of the workforce that kept the Equinox Line running. They were colleagues. They were lives. And until their loss is recognized in the same breath as human casualties, every casualty count is a lie.

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