diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Entity.cs b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Entity.cs
index caaccbb55..ad645add4 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Entity.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/Entity.cs
@@ -1244,6 +1244,9 @@ public abstract class Entity
             foreach (var reveal in pair.Value.Values) freshest = Math.Max(freshest, reveal.Time);
             if (Zone.Time - freshest >= memory) _agedSubjects.Add(pair.Key);
         }
+        // A record of a subject that left and holds no book (a quiet ship, never seen to act) has no entry to age: it goes now.
+        foreach (var subject in _seenDestroyed.Keys)
+            if (!entities.Contains(subject) && !_reveals.ContainsKey(subject)) _agedSubjects.Add(subject);
         for (var i = 0; i < _agedSubjects.Count; i++) EndReveals(_agedSubjects[i], null);
         _agedSubjects.Clear();
     }
diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/FireControl.cs b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/FireControl.cs
index e2f23dd29..9724f5975 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/FireControl.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/ServerShared/FireControl.cs
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ public static class FireControl
     // book holds a reveal of it (Entity.HasReveal: it saw the item act) and the item is still fitted to its ship and
     // not destroyed. The book says what was seen; the live item says whether it can still be aimed at. Derived on
     // every read, never cached; watching a ship reveals no gear. Any aiming choice that reads an item's class or
-XX
+    // stats (Combat's target-item choice, its dps) asks this; it is the item gate of Entity's aim slot (TrySelectTargetItem,
+    // ResolvedAim). A mount is aimed by TrySelectMount, which reads no item at all.
     public static bool IsRevealed(Entity observer, EquippedItem item) =>
         !item.EquippableItem.IsDestroyed && item.Entity.Equipment.Contains(item) && observer.HasReveal(item.Entity, item);
 
diff --git a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/MountCycleTests.cs b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/MountCycleTests.cs
index 662606cc8..8bd45133f 100644
--- a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/MountCycleTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/MountCycleTests.cs
@@ -153,6 +153,28 @@ public sealed partial class ContactRevealTests
         Assert.False(observer.TrySelectMount(reactor.Hardpoint));
     }
 
+    // ---- TheSeenDestroyedRecordGoesWithTheSubject ----
+
+    // The record is the observer's memory of one subject: when that subject has left the zone and the observer holds no book
+    // of it (a quiet ship, never seen to act), the record is dropped at the observer's next Sense, not held for the sitting.
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("remove")]
+    [InlineData("warp")]
+    public void TheSeenDestroyedRecordGoesWithTheSubject(string how)
+    {
+        var (bay, observer, reactor) = Identified();
+        var sense = SenseOf(observer);
+        reactor.EquippableItem.Durability = 0f;
+        sense();
+        Assert.False(MountsOf(observer.AimCycle(bay)).Any(m => ReferenceEquals(m, reactor.Hardpoint)), "fixture: recorded while the ship is here");
+        Assert.Empty(observer.RevealsOf(bay));
+
+        Leave(_zone, bay, how);
+        sense();
+        observer.EntityInfoGathered[bay] = 1f;
+        Assert.True(MountsOf(observer.AimCycle(bay)).Any(m => ReferenceEquals(m, reactor.Hardpoint)), "the record went with the ship");
+    }
+
     // ---- ADestroyedClaimedMountIsNotSkippedUnderALie ----
 
     // The known gap (follow-up perceived-destruction-under-hull-lie): perceiving a destruction reads the true item, and the