I'm sure the deciphered message from today has been posted elsewhere by other CMDRs, but here it is for those following who may be following this thread:
o7,
CMDR Therion Cygni
The partial cipher provided by ACT was correct this time. The cipher was similar to yesterday's, with the same vowel amibiguity. The inverse cipher is:
4BCD4FGH4JKLMN4PQRST4VWXYZ = AKJHEGFDICBZYXOWV(T|TH)(S|SH)RU(Q|QU)PNML
The deciphered message received from the Zhao Jin Communication Beacon on 6 Feb 3308, with decapitalization and punctuation added for readability, is:
"This is Torquatus. Colonel Brock, our agents mithin [sic] (within) Imperial Intelligence have warned us that ACT is making progress on (or in) accessing our network. You are ordered to transfer cryogenic pod "e-16" (plain text, not enciphered) from the Summerland complex to an alternate system as soon as possible. This must ke [sic] (be) be our top priority. If we lose Arissa, the project is finished."
Two typos here. M in place of W, and K in place of B. From all messages so far, that's NENMK erroneously replacing SISWB by my reckoning. I think our conspirators are just getting sloppy. We're easily deciphering their secret messages, after all! Also, other language variants have totally different errors, so I'm not suspecting any hidden messages in the typos.
The plot thickens. I'm off to Summerland to investigate, but I doubt I'll find the Emperor still there.
4BCD4FGH4JKLMN4PQRST4VWXYZ = AKJHEGFDICBZYXOWV(T|TH)(S|SH)RU(Q|QU)PNML
The deciphered message received from the Zhao Jin Communication Beacon on 6 Feb 3308, with decapitalization and punctuation added for readability, is:
"This is Torquatus. Colonel Brock, our agents mithin [sic] (within) Imperial Intelligence have warned us that ACT is making progress on (or in) accessing our network. You are ordered to transfer cryogenic pod "e-16" (plain text, not enciphered) from the Summerland complex to an alternate system as soon as possible. This must ke [sic] (be) be our top priority. If we lose Arissa, the project is finished."
Two typos here. M in place of W, and K in place of B. From all messages so far, that's NENMK erroneously replacing SISWB by my reckoning. I think our conspirators are just getting sloppy. We're easily deciphering their secret messages, after all! Also, other language variants have totally different errors, so I'm not suspecting any hidden messages in the typos.
The plot thickens. I'm off to Summerland to investigate, but I doubt I'll find the Emperor still there.
o7,
CMDR Therion Cygni