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- Exalted Heroic Member
"What do you hear?"
"Nothing but the rain."
"Then grab your gun and bring in the cat."
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Shown a hologram of an "object" - or at least a piece of an object.
This is very frustrating.
Wasn't even told what branch or group within ONI this came from, much less its point of origin - which is imperative for my complete analysis.
Curiously, the object, embedded in a stone fragment, shares many of the iconic language/code forms we discovered at the xenoarcheological site under SWORD Base.
From this supplemental data (which I couldn't copy and had to replicate from memory), I've hypothesized that the language/code, and hence the object, derives from predecessors of the Covenant, or from an unknown, more ancient alien culture. Deciphering the message on the object however, eludes me for the moment. A more definitive analysis certainly requires the actual object and all relevant etiological data.
I only shared this with my undisclosed ONI counterparts because I knew it would get back to Ackerson and "inform" him that he possesses an authentic alien artifact...one that he would need me to decipher.
If so, I'll get everything he has.
There's the entry. I have no problem copying certain segments of the journal here to provide proof.
Posted by: StealthSlasher2
A) The object in question shown in the journal is indeed the very same artifact from Sigma Octanus complete with some sort of semi-recognized coordinates thus still giving it importance and B) The vital data from the from Sword Base's artifact (considering the canon presented in Reach supplemented by the extended universe) is simply a language key in which Cortana would be able to decipher the coordinates from the Sigma Octanus artifact?
...you nailed it. That's exactly what Cortana was doing. Brief bit that proves the point.
Cortana (parts of her anyway) continues to learn and decipher the alien protoculture language, code forms, and hopefully technology.
She picked up a language key, picked apart the data from the artifact at Sigma and found the star map.