Either this is something I don't know about, or some sleeper agent just got a message to kill the President
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Guarijio is an Imperial system, but none of our powers control it. I don't think they're probably getting orders to kill the President, I mean its very Fed-like to think the galaxy revolves around you, but its probably Granny Torval or the Emperor, though everyone's favorite bluehaired whippersnapper is the power that's closest.
I was decoding The Trial 1/3 and made it to line 7 before accidentally deleting the message.
The last line I got was:
Dslhv hglirvh xlmgzrm z gdrhg
Is it possible for me to go back to the listening post to retrieve the message again?
If not, does anyone have the rest of it, and if so can you pm this information to me?
Thank you
The last line I got was:
Dslhv hglirvh xlmgzrm z gdrhg
Is it possible for me to go back to the listening post to retrieve the message again?
If not, does anyone have the rest of it, and if so can you pm this information to me?
Thank you
I haven't made it out there yet but if nobody else beats me to it, I'll PM it to you
Thank you. I just found a screenshot of the message that I forgot I had taken.
Probably revealing my stupidity here, but how did this follow? I tried just a simple Excel mapping with letters to (English) alphabets, and then tried all the different offsets (overflow going back to start) and didn't get such a string. See image below. Something more sophisticated mapping, or maybe my formulas just are screwed up?
EDIT: Well, it seems that first Googling result brings a site that produces that result: https://cryptii.com/pipes/alphabetical-substitution. Apparently it substitutes "first-to-last, second-to-second-last" etc. So (slightly) more sophisticated then my attempts. Stupidity proven
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I decoded everything with this Arbash CIpher Tool
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Atbash Cipher (online tool) | Boxentriq
This is a complete guide to the Atbash cipher and the tools you need to decode it. It’s one of the simplest ciphers to decode – once you’ve worked out that its Atbash that you’re looking at.
It's a Beaufort cypher with key of "Z" according to smarter people than me. This is an issue I have with the puzzles, I'm not sure how one came to that conclusion, besides brute force.Probably revealing my stupidity here, but how did this follow? I tried just a simple Excel mapping with letters to (English) alphabets, and then tried all the different offsets (overflow going back to start) and didn't get such a string. See image below. Something more sophisticated mapping, or maybe my formulas just are screwed up?
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EDIT: Well, it seems that first Googling result brings a site that produces that result: https://cryptii.com/pipes/alphabetical-substitution. Apparently it substitutes "first-to-last, second-to-second-last" etc. So (slightly) more sophisticated then my attempts. Stupidity proven