Archival Transmission 13-OCT-3303-19-26-33
14 Oct 2017Gmanharmon
New transmission received: Arecibo Listening Post, 18°20'39"N 66°45'10"W
Packet Size: 832MB / Stream Latency: 3995ms / FTL Communication Protocol: unknown
**MESSAGE ENCRYPTED**
Attempting decryption. Allocating hardware memory...
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Resources allocated. Initialising software...
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Decryption bootstrapper v5.4.2 initialised. Executing standard MD5 algorithm.
Parsing...
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Decrypted successfully. Time: 0h16m44s / Returned hash signs: 1 / Retry attempts: 0
Hash: 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6
Encoded value: test
Retrieving signal source...
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Received. Signal source: deep space. Approximate location: Sagittarius Constellation.
Narrowing parameters...
Location received. Parsing...
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Coordinates located.
Right Ascension: α17hr 45min 40.0409sec
Declination: δ−29° 0′ 28.118″
Transmitting: Abraham Lincoln, Sol
ATTN: Universal CartographicsYou've got mail!
SiriOS [Version 5.1.128]
Copyright (c) 3224 Sirius Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\awallis>activate voice promts
'activate voice promts' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\awallis>activate voie prompts
'activate voie prompts' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\awallis>ACTIVATE VOICE PROMPTS
Voice prompts activated. Speak clearly into the microphone.
C:\Users\awallis>hello
Hello, awallis.
C:\Users\awallis>tell me a joke
The Alliance.
C:\Users\awallis>aedftgnr
'aedftgnr' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\awallis>asgoujwnseahguo
'asgoujwnseahguo' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\awallis>your funny lucille
Thank you.
C:\Users\awallis>new emails
(1) new email(s) received. Flagged priority.
C:\Users\awallis>open new
Opening.
C:\Users\awallis>read
Initialising text-to-speech protocol.
TTSMail ready. Read your mail? (Y/N)
C:\Users\awallis>y
Reading...A message from the centre. Distress call? No, it's huge. Exploration data? If this pilot managed to cram a trip's worth of data into a single packet, we'll be out of business.
Wait a tick... This was sent only 2 days ago! It would take years to send information that far, let alone receive something back in a reasonable timeframe!
C:\Users\awallis> nslookup beaconTourist:0082::45.184.76.4
Server: sirius-public-dns-a.sirius.com
Address: 2001:4860:4860::8888
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: Tourist Beacon #0082, The Centre
Addresses: 52.41.96.17
50.112.196.159
52.36.196.57
C:\Users\awallis>tracert beaconTourist:0082::45.184.76.4
Tracing route to beaconTourist:0082 [45.184.76.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.254
2 60 ms 70 ms 29 ms 107-197-216-1.lightspeed.irvnca.siriuscorp.net [107.197.216.1]
3 31 ms 21 ms 20 ms 64.148.105.52
4 22 ms 20 ms 20 ms 75.20.0.248
5 78 ms 77 ms 82 ms 12.83.38.201
6 82 ms 86 ms 84 ms gar1.lsnca.ip.sc.net [12.122.128.73]
7 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms 206.121.6.14
8 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP corrupted. Packet loss detected.
9 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
10 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
11 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
12 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP unresponsive. Systems damage detected.
13 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP unresponsive. Systems damage detected.
14 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
15 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
16 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
17 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP unresponsive. Systems damage detected.
18 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP data transmission corrupted. Repairs needed.
19 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP unresponsive. Systems damage detected.
20 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
21 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
22 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
23 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP unresponsive. Systems damage detected.
24 * * * Request timed out. Unknown interference detected.
25 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
26 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
27 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
28 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
29 * * * Request timed out. Unknown error.
30 * * * Request timed out. Witchspace AP unresponsive. Systems damage detected.
Trace complete.
Oh God. The galaxy is going dark.
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