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[destinytobehere]

[The video feed flicks on to show a rather scruffy looking guy with his back to the camera. He writes something on the cement wall in chalk, adding to the array of mathematical formals and proofs covering it. Some of them make sense while some of them have very alien symbols.]

[He turns to look at the camera.Does anyone else understand this? Any

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[escapedpandora]

[He's good at math for his age, but... nope, nothing.]

They're equations?

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[destinytobehere]

Most of them, yes.

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[escapedpandora]

Some of them look like they make sense? But... [He's pointing at the video feed at the alien symbols, although you may have to guess at what he's pointing at from the screen.] Then these make it confusing.

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[destinytobehere]

[Rush figures it out... only one place he guessed most people wouldn't even know where to start.]

Yes, well. I really wasn't expecting anyone to understand that. It's an alien language, you see.

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[whipfist]

... Some of it.

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[destinytobehere]

Which part?

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[whipfist]

The formulas. Some of them look scientific.

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[destinytobehere]

Oh, yes. How very observant of you. But do you understand them?

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[destinytobehere]

Something far beyond your understanding it appears.

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[destinytobehere]

[;-; b-but but]

Ah, recently, yes.

[His attention returns to the wall where he writes a few new equations.]

It's quite irritating really.

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[makes_asteroids]

[Erik holds NV camera to sheets of ivory paper, carefully laid out, everything copies in very neat, almost Copperplate script, in black ink. Some of the equations are worked out in the same handwriting, in a medium blue ink, some of the distance formals worked out dark green ink, and some of the programing code translated and detailed in dark red. What he doesn't understand is in brackets in light blue, with question marks.]

[He turns it back to him] Some of it?

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[destinytobehere]

[Here he was starting to think no one understood anything. It just almost got a smile out of him too.]

Well, well. I'm glad to see someone has at least a basic understanding.

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[makes_asteroids]

If I understood the other language - or languages - there I would understand more. That's not an Earth language, at least not from my world. It's not Shi'Ar, Kree, Skrull, certainly not the Brood or Symbiotes. Nor is it Phalanx. Could be the Beyonders or the Watchers, I don't know enough to identify if, although I doubt it is. If you could prove a translation, I would understand more.

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[destinytobehere]

You are quite right, yet also wrong in a sense. This language-- [He points to it] --is the precursor to nearly every language known to man. The people that created it seeded life in many, many galaxies. Millions if not billions of years ago.

[He looks at the writing thoughtfully.] We call them the Ancients. They left our plane of existence eons ago. They evolved, you see.

Anyway, I can provide a translation. [He flips through his notepad then looks toward the camera] You may be the sort of person I need.

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[bestbadideas]

No.

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[destinytobehere]

...Colonel Young. Am I supposed to believe your appearance here is a mere coincidence?

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[bestbadideas]

I dunno, Rush. You're the genius here. What do you think?

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[destinytobehere]

I can't even begin to speculate, Colonel.