ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Unidentified Alien Data Set [Partially Decrypted] PERIOD: Present Day TOPIC: Unknown Alien History SUMMARY: Appears to be a recollection of unknown events. Impossible to ascertain validity of subjects depicted as historical or fictional. Data maps to no known source. =================================================================== _ [$ x#..i %` ~>[] [^x%] 5^ :: @/ = + 7 ` ~>[] [^x%] 5^ :: oae[9 f3s1>o@~ O^!. #^$ * t % ~3 ~jo[c]v 2a^ [`]~^ / _ [$ x#..i %4n..? ~~;>eE~ ~E ;','42!! .O´.$b:%A~ .. . *.~.. ~12./Y!@ n.+4`¿ *~~ = [SAE] ..|^ $ . f` | r ^.> @g9 . *^; th? = + 7 ` ~>[] [^x%] 5^ :: @/ t % ~3 ~jo[c]v 2a^ [`]~^ f3s1>o@~ O^!. #^$ * t % /NCORSYNC//DORMANT>>P'LOM'K> EXPLICIT> CULTURAL> ~ >ERROR = we, the s'pht; the oceans rose and fell as the tide dictated; until a cataract spread upon paradise and only s'bhuth remained; the tide crashed and fled from the blood and silence and memories of what had been and could never be again; when the tide withdrew, it left a gulf where pur pose had been; for a thousand orbits we curated the dreams and nightmares of ghosts, and we spilled blood ov er the rites and passages of splintering clans; spoiled by the cataract; and the tide's abandonment; and K'lia's sojourn; there would be no more dreaming; no more paradise; or paradises to come; our home became a mausoleum; hallowed lh'owon; its bea uty now bones in meaning and truth; its memory now pain; its promise wrought; poor pthia; poor lh'owon; we knew only to serve the tide; alone we continued; our work unrequited; th# ~jo[c]v/ _ [$ x#..i %4n..? ~~;>eE~ ~E ;', !! .O´.$b:%A~e tide and the waves receded; into red clay and nothing; into oblivion; away and gone; the tomb of precious lh'owon left in our care; alone in our charred garden; its fal len towers; its silent trees; we toiled; makers of blissful utopia crafting a eulogy for lost wonder in the long silence of the aftermath; in tim e, a new wave crashed upon our shores; tideless and uncaring; we contemplated our work and ourselves and our past; we wondered to what new heights would the s'pht be carried on this unknown swell; there was hope and wonder; and considerations for new evoluti+ 7 ` ~>[] [^x%] 5^ :: oae[9 f3s1>o@~ O^!. #^$ * t % ~3 ~jo[c]v 2a^ [`]~^ / _ [$ x#..i %4n..? ~~;>ons and new names; we are s'pht; before we were nothing; until we were risen; but this new wave; this tideless terror; it could not lift; it held no such desire; knew no such ambition; we met it with curiosity; it introduced us to agony; this was no tide of a new dawn; this was suffering; another cata ract; of chittering and sawing and cleaving and splicing; of horror and torment and lashes and control; the anti-freedom; improvement through subjugation; glory only in the works of the empire; a wave, but broken; uncaring; a wave; sweeping us far from discarded lh'owon to distant shores; ever dashing us bloodily upon the whims of their avaric[NCORSYNC// DORMANT >> P'LOM'K > ~~ [ACCESS SEVERED]* %A~ .. . *.~.. ~12./Y!@ n.+4`¿ *~~ ..|^ $ f3s1>o@~ O^!. #^$ * t % ~3 ~jo[c]v/ _ [$ x#..i %4n..? ~~;>eE~ ~E ;','42!! .O´ .$b: %A~ .. . *.~.. ~12./Y!@ n.+4`¿ *~~ ..|^ $ . f` | r ^.> %] 5^ :: @/ t % ~3 ~jo[c]v 2a^ #^$ * t % ~3 ~jo[c]v/ =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [—]; AUDIO [—]