Talk:Second Officer Keen/@comment-38231577-20190120055352/@comment-5008368-20190120222828

"Presumed dead" means there is strong evidence that they were killed and no evidence that they are alive, but the absence of a body or video evidence of an unsurvivable injury so that it cannot be upgraded to confirmed "Dead". Note that prior to someone changing it to "Presumed dead", he was actually listed as "KIA" -- Killed in Action. He and Yu were set upon by a leviathan, and that pod's damage is pretty... substantial. The preponderance of evidence suggests that Officer Keen is most likely inside the belly of a reaper leviathan, in at least two or three pieces, and undergoing active digestion. However, without finding that specific leviathan and cutting it open to find the body, there's no proof of that -- which is certainly not actually a feature in the game.

Out of character, the time capsule is for other players -- during gameplay you might find a time capsule that another player has left behind, but they're probably vetted by Unknown Worlds before they're allowed to spawn (I've found two myself). In character, the time capsule is to provide information regarding of the base structures you've left behind for any future members of the human race who find your settlement, just like the player does with the Degasi.