* Below is a backdated log to tell a story around me creating a program for my use when playing Elite Dangerous. It is for roleplaying flavor only. The program will be shown off on stream when I play and just wanted to tease out some lore about it.*
COMMANDER'S PERSONAL LOG
CMDR: [REDATED] aka MostlyAwol
Date: 3306-03-18
System: Synuefe XR-H d11-102
Vessel: [REDACTED]
I was chasing a scan contract, something left open from a prior run. Didn’t even remember setting the marker. Just another ruined Guardian digsite, like dozens before. Same monolith spines. Same shattered data pylons. Quiet.
Except it wasn’t.
There’s a band — just barely above the noise floor. Faint modulation. Not voice. Not anything structured, at least not that I can parse. But it repeats. Not perfectly. Like it’s trying to — but degrading each time, correcting, miscorrecting.
I isolated the band, pulled a few minutes of waveform. The ship’s sensor suite isn’t made for this kind of analysis, but there’s something embedded in the harmonics. Some echo that didn’t originate here.
Not a voice. Not a signal. A... pattern?
No idea what it means. Could be corrupted. Could be natural. Could be nothing.
Still, I logged it.
Saved it under a null tag — buried the file structure. No reason to call attention to it.
I’ve spent enough time around ghosts to know when one’s trying to talk.
* Above is a backdated log to tell a story around me creating a program for my use when playing Elite Dangerous. It is for roleplaying flavor only. The program will be shown off on stream when I play and just wanted to tease out some lore about it. Check out the progress at https://www.twitch.tv/mostlyawol *
COMMANDER'S PERSONAL LOG
CMDR: [REDATED] aka MostlyAwol
Date: 3306-03-18
System: Synuefe XR-H d11-102
Vessel: [REDACTED]
I was chasing a scan contract, something left open from a prior run. Didn’t even remember setting the marker. Just another ruined Guardian digsite, like dozens before. Same monolith spines. Same shattered data pylons. Quiet.
Except it wasn’t.
There’s a band — just barely above the noise floor. Faint modulation. Not voice. Not anything structured, at least not that I can parse. But it repeats. Not perfectly. Like it’s trying to — but degrading each time, correcting, miscorrecting.
I isolated the band, pulled a few minutes of waveform. The ship’s sensor suite isn’t made for this kind of analysis, but there’s something embedded in the harmonics. Some echo that didn’t originate here.
Not a voice. Not a signal. A... pattern?
No idea what it means. Could be corrupted. Could be natural. Could be nothing.
Still, I logged it.
Saved it under a null tag — buried the file structure. No reason to call attention to it.
I’ve spent enough time around ghosts to know when one’s trying to talk.
* Above is a backdated log to tell a story around me creating a program for my use when playing Elite Dangerous. It is for roleplaying flavor only. The program will be shown off on stream when I play and just wanted to tease out some lore about it. Check out the progress at https://www.twitch.tv/mostlyawol *