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“Possibly.” Kord replied, “But it was something thousands of years ago. Perhaps in passing. It sounded familiar but it wasn’t anything I could make out.”

Kord would recall bits of information that even in his younger days was quite old for his time. The information he could recall from those long ago years mostly was based on third party hearsay and handed down tales and records of the Finite people. What he recalled of their language was it was based on several dialectics which had deep roots in pictures and hand gestures similar to sign language and hieroglyphics. One picture in particular he had run across on some nameless rogue asteroid in the depth of space one time on a stone rock had been of some kind of humanoid like figure holding a silver-blue colored orb like one would a child. As he recalled the meaning that some now long dead alien he had met at the time and had long forgotten their name or race had explained they had believed the picture meant communication and intent as well as protection.

Glen gave the Avenger an update =/\= Captain Rogers. I’m afraid that we aren’t making much progress on the coloured rods. It is similar to something we’ve encountered before but not the same at all. I’m sending what our database shows was the previous meanings of the different colour code combinations, but there is no guarantee yours will be the same. Sorry, I can’t give you better news. I have had my best people working on this. =/\=

=/\= Understood Captain Glen, every bit helps, my XO tells me that some probes she launched has given hints we might have some Orions sniffing around some light years away trying to find us or their missing compatriots we dealt with earlier. If you can send over what you got we’ll do what we can on our end and correlate scans as they happen..=/\= Rogers said. =/\= I’ll comm back once we got more to relay. Rogers out.=/\= He said ending his side of the comm call.

“Sir if we could get some visual and scanning data regarding the color schemes and power outputs we might be able to determine more information as to what they do” William shot out in the dark. Who knew it might actually work. “Worst case scenario we have more details to work with” He said hopefully.

Scans could easily be gotten from their own team by requesting it be sent up, and Rogers was already through the Avenger at work working with the information the Merrimack had sent them.

“I’ll ask Tinga to scan them and send then to you, when they reach that point,” replied Glen. “At the moment they are still speaking with an Orb, and at present it appears to be friendly. I don’t like the sound of the Orions in this Sector. It means we’ll need to pick up the pace a little.”

For now there was very little for Captain Glen to do other than to watch and listen. He wished that he was down there with Tinga and her “away team,” as they were now calling the landing party, but mistakenly or not, he was still aboard the Merrimack. If one day in the future, all Captains would remain behind aboard their ships, while their officers had all the excitement down on the planet, well, he hoped he would be dead before he got that old.

-Glen, CO

Tia’s own silence matched the Captain’s. Though while he wished he was on the surface, she wished she could figure out the puzzle. Without realizing she’d murmured out loud, she started typing her fingers once more. This time her minds in a different direction. “Do the rods have any power of their own? Perhaps is a match of power to power we need to look at. Measure the power of the rods separate from the sockets and see if there’s a pattern there…”

She hadn’t looked up as she spoke. Her mind trying to keep up with her thoughts.

Based on the scans Roger’s team had provided the rods did seem to have some small bit of power, and of course so did the holes they would go into. So this line of thinking was something they could investigate!

Tia CE

Glen wasn’t sure who Tiastri was asking, or if she even meant it as a question, but it surely couldn’t be himself, I’m a pilot not a techie, he thought.

-Glen, CO

On the screen meanwhile a blue colored scan of some sort was being hued over the away team in the pyramid by the Orb. It passed over them twice before speaking again.

OOC: Forgot this part!

A moment later the darker room the team was in lit up to more normal color hues from slits in the stone work wall. Scans also from the team showed the rest of the facility was being lit up within their range and the cooler nature of the facility grew to more normal temperature ranges.

Barely ten seconds had passed with this being taken in when the Avenger was hailing again relaying a call from Roger’s once more!

=/\= Captain Glen, it seems this facility is linked to wherever your team is at, lights just came on and the temperature just got warmer here. Systems also lit up like a Christmas tree around us. I’m having the Avenger scan for some kind of communication signal, could you do the same on your end? It might provide us clues on how they communicate. =/\= He said.

GM CockRoach