Solar Warden

Encounter Part 5

"Good morning Dr. Archer," Marc Newman the physicist in his team was greeting.

"Good morning Dr. Newman, did you played a bit with my algorithm?" Samuel asked.

"Yes, I gave them a lot more data we have. To analyze this, it will take quite some time to get results. But more important are the numbers. We need to know what value each symbol stands for," Marc replied.

Samuel was accessing a computer nearby and viewing one of those text pages with symbols, which now were partly translated.

"Well, if you entered a lot more of these cryptic symbol text pages we should get a solution automatically. But if there still is not enough information in it, we have to guess or check the translation by our own to find a possible number we can identify." Samuel was now checking the translation, but what he could read gave him no clue for the values of the numbers. Both were now checking the translations for some clues. It still was not done. So they looked at some of the possible fitting words by moving the mouse pointer over the symbols to see the current possibilities. Only where a single solution was found the corresponding symbols were replaced.

Then Maxima Kelsey the computer expert was joining them. She was looking very tired.

"Hi, Max seems the morning looks not so good for you?" Marc noted.

"Yes, I worked too long and should have sleptlonger. But I got a breakthrough with the new translations. I started thealgorithm like shown from Samuel with the known stuff and used some cloud powerof the NSA. I hope they don't bother. I have been notified that the calculationis done and the solution counter for the numbers I picked says one. There arealso some instructions pages I checked before I went to bed. With them weshould figure out where we can direct interface with the device and get the rawdata out. This means we should be able to find something similar like an ASCIItable. So we can easily verify the numbers," she explained while accessing anothercomputer. The two men were now joining her.