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Title: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 20, 2009, 03:32:20 pm

Hello,

So we've intercepted some of their transmissions, just as we were ordered. However, for some reason we were unable to decode it. We've tried all the codecs for decoding, but the farthest we got was recovering some of the words or letters, but that's all. Sending this to you for further investigation, as the high ranking officers and specialists might be able to decode it with proper equipment and software.

Here is the coded transmission that we have intercepted:
(http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6965/classifiedlevelphiultraba2.png)

GTD Legacy, signing off.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Titan on January 20, 2009, 03:41:44 pm

 :wtf:

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: blowfish on January 20, 2009, 05:09:51 pm

Not to rip off Phoenix or anything... :P

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 20, 2009, 05:15:53 pm

This is different. Simpler actually. And you don't need to do it if you don't wanna know the backstory.

There'll also be multiple of these, assuming that the current one gets decoded.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Mobius on January 20, 2009, 05:23:50 pm

Decode it with Microsoft Word. :P

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 05:46:04 pm

What is this for anyway? :P
End War or something else entirely?

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 20, 2009, 05:48:20 pm

Shouldn't you know? :p It's for something connected with End War.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 06:24:46 pm

Oh. That.
Nice edit of that CB Ani, by the way.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: eliex on January 20, 2009, 10:33:21 pm

So we're supposed to somehow decode the message from the picture . . . and it'll reveal a spoiler related to End War.
Ok.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 11:01:21 pm

The font there is probably webdings or something.
After its put back into normal text, it should be readable English, unlike the Vasudan letter.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: blowfish on January 20, 2009, 11:16:16 pm

Quote from: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 11:01:21 pm

The font there is probably webdings or something.
After its put back into normal text, it should be readable English, unlike the Vasudan letter.

Figured it was something like that.  I went through my entire font library though, and I saw nothing that matched :(

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Droid803 on January 20, 2009, 11:58:21 pm

Same...
Dang...
Even the Vasudan letter gave us the Vasudan font. If it isn't something on PCs or Macs by default, its not gonna get cracked I don't think.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 21, 2009, 12:07:02 am

Webdings

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Droid803 on January 21, 2009, 12:23:37 am

well crap, my Webdings doesn't look like that.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: blowfish on January 21, 2009, 12:26:05 am

Neither does mine :nervous:

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 21, 2009, 12:49:40 am

All-caps/small-caps difference? If not, then I'll upload mine. It's only half the proplem to turn it into words anyway.

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: Lucika on January 22, 2009, 03:07:27 pm

Shouldn't we decode it in a "normal" way?

U know, "e" is the letter used most often, guessing for 2- and 3-letter worlds... What do you think?

Title: Re: Intercepted transmissions, GTD Legacy
Post by: ShadowGorrath on January 22, 2009, 03:47:28 pm

You can decode it any way you want.

And in Webdings, it matters wheter the letter is in all-caps or small-caps.