Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (Gamemaster) in Main Sim-Communication-Alien Ship
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The Third as she had been referred turned to Inola. =/\= Of course, where would you like to start? =/\= She sang and replied. =/\= I admit while my speech understanding is solid, I never expected yet to be interacting with another alien race. Is there a place you would recommend we begin with? =/\= She asked.

GM CockRoach

Inola tilted her head for a moment before replying. “Usually we try to get enough basics for the translator to begin an analysis, but I think we may want to focus on engineering words so that our engineers can better communicate.” As much as she wanted to ask about their culture, she had a job to do.

-Inola, Comms

There was a pause before the Third nodded. =/\= Of course, that makes sense. We would not want either of our teams to blow us to the Abyss and back! =/\= She said with a bit of a nervous chuckle. Turning and pulling up a roller chair for Inola to sit on the Third pulled up a display screen along the wall. The scrolling text of words were typed in manually on a primitive keyboard interface. Then loaded into the display screen by relay of a small square shaped disk loading system. This in turn clicked and whirred before a four way split category display came up. In total for typing and programming and transfer it took about 20 odd minutes for the Third to do her thing.

Pointing to the upper left she showed a series of words, about 40 in total =/\= These 40 words were are references to our engine systems which are currently offline, mainly how we translate from sublight speeds to faster then light travel rates. =/\= She said. Then pointing to the upper right she continued to a list of 60 odd words and phrases =/\= These refer to interconnecting system junctions, relays, and power generations related to the engine system for faster than light travel. With these first two once we can get them translated to a readable format for your translator this should provide a foundation for enginerring crews to work together.....I hope =/\= She said.

Swallowing a nervous chuckle, she continued then pointing to the lower left quadrant. In total it was about 45 odd words and phrases it seems, =/\= This third section outlines secondary systems and their connection pattern back to primary systems. It also includes references to system make up of other life giving systems =/\= She explained, finally pointing to the lower right quadrant she said. This was the shortest section and was roughly 18 odd words and phrases in length. =/\= The last part here I felt was also important, that being temporal measurements, distance measurements, and similar references and usage. =/\= She explained.

Turning then she added =/\= Does um....this help so far? =/\= She asked glancing to the UT with Inola, =/\= I admit I’m amazed your translator is so small and yet capable! Ours are still built into the ship, and only by relaying audio pick up to the ship by a delayed comm system can we uplink data to it live. =/\= Then her eyes came alight with amazement as she seemed to make a connection of some kind =/\= Your translator must already be interacting remotely with our own uplinks! That’s how I can understand you in our own speech tones! Am I right?! =/\= She queried excitedly. With a song like squeal tone.

GM CockRoach

Inola laughed. “The UT contains a database and an advanced computer system. With enough samples, it can extrapolate the correct meaning. Some languages are harder than others, and that’s pretty much what I’m for.” She paused. “I’m not actually sure how it gets the samples. I’m not an engineer at all.” She didn’t want to mention that they had been looking for the ship. She looked closely at the first quadrant that had been pointed out. “So your problem is in propulsion?”
-Inola, Comms