Attention humans! I've decoded the last message from Kadung. It appeared disappointingly simple at first:
[Starting Daily Report]
Ship production on shedual
-Requesting additional construction materials (Mainly chemicals)
All patrols report clear borders, no further infractions detected.
Civilian morale is good.
Requesting following civilian goods: [list of civilian demands, mainly food and useables, but also a surpisingly large amount of medicine...]
-------------------------(Message breaks of here)
Rather boring and standard interhuman communication.
However, the encoding has some odd patterns in it, unusual for such a simple message. So I inspected it closer and found a whole different level of code within the message! I have decoded this level as well. BEHOLD!!!
Protocol 23 Engaged. System lockdown. Code: H7K8D9A9I0D7 234 ...
That doesn't sound overly promising. Apparently "Protocol 23" is a cry for help and some sort of warning to anyone entering the system. Clearly, something BAD happened here. But I am unfamiliar with the particulars of "Code: H7K8D9A9I0D7 234."
I'm unsure how much of this we want to share with the other ships in this endeavor. It might spook them and cause them to back out on us. Perhaps we should keep this information to ourselves.
I would hope that I have proved my worth as a member of this team and I am requesting permission to come inside the ship. If you recall, I'm still strapped to the roof attached to a turret. As this mission sounds by far the most dangerous thing we've done so far, I'd feel much better about the whole thing inside the ship's armor.[/list]