Ilon was a sleepy backwater system right on the edge of Imperial Space. Once a long time ago it was right on the edge of the great republic. It was rumored to be the last system admitted to the republic during the great expansion but that was not what brought the team of Archaeologists here. The planet was supposed to be one of the systems at the centre of the great Molkia revolt, the reigning Emperor (a strong one for a change) had sent the team here to find out more about the revolt that helped to bring about the rise and empire. The team knew much about the history of mankind and of all the technology that was lost during the fall, but this planet was backward even by their own standards never mind that of humanity at its height. It had been a tough expedition, however at a dig near the ruins of a settlement they had hit upon an interesting discovery. A manuscript, and they had set there best man to to try and decipher it.
The translation expert studied it for several days and the text made no sense what's so ever. It was in the Latin alphabet but it only used 26 letters, none of the additional letters to mark it out as either an Imperial or a Republican dialect. The letter shapes were also strange as well, it did not make any sense. This dated the text as pre-fall, however pre-fall everything was stored electronically. Either this was a copy of an older piece of work or this was a very old piece of text indeed. The translation software did it's best with the manuscript but the translation was very much incomplete. However enough had been translated to make some preliminary analysis. The translation expert went to see head archaeologist to report.
"This text is very strange indeed, it tells the story of a war, starting a few years before it breaks out. I do not think it is a story but an actual historical record. The text tells us of confederations like the USSR, Germany, Japan. It talks of leaders like Stalin and Hitler. However it is light on details, it is like we are supposed to know who these people are, if at the time this was written these were indeed famous people then this was explain much about it.
The document tells us about this war from the perspective of the USSR. The USSR knows that the war is coming and is making preparations for this. The early preparations for this are divided into three parts. They look to develop better equipment for their armed forces, paying particular attention to land forces. The USSR is also an resource rich confederation so they look to expand their industry in areas known as the Ural and Soviet Central Asia. The USSR also begins fortifying several systems. These are the ones in most immediate danger from Germany, which appears to be the main threat in the opinion of the document, and important systems deeper in confederation, like Moscow and Kiev. The system names they give ring no bells, we can't place this confederation anywhere in human space, assuming we knew what all of human space actually looked like." the translation expert concluded his early report.
The lead Archaeologist listen with great interest. A story of war people new nothing about, a document that was impossibly old. What did this all mean? Could this be the clue he was looking for or was it something else .... regardless the lead Archaeologist needed to know more.
"Continue your translation efforts, we need to know more about its contents. Dismissed." the lead Archaeologist went back to his thoughts.
So many questions. What ever this document was he hoped his masters would be pleased with it.
The translation expert studied it for several days and the text made no sense what's so ever. It was in the Latin alphabet but it only used 26 letters, none of the additional letters to mark it out as either an Imperial or a Republican dialect. The letter shapes were also strange as well, it did not make any sense. This dated the text as pre-fall, however pre-fall everything was stored electronically. Either this was a copy of an older piece of work or this was a very old piece of text indeed. The translation software did it's best with the manuscript but the translation was very much incomplete. However enough had been translated to make some preliminary analysis. The translation expert went to see head archaeologist to report.
"This text is very strange indeed, it tells the story of a war, starting a few years before it breaks out. I do not think it is a story but an actual historical record. The text tells us of confederations like the USSR, Germany, Japan. It talks of leaders like Stalin and Hitler. However it is light on details, it is like we are supposed to know who these people are, if at the time this was written these were indeed famous people then this was explain much about it.
The document tells us about this war from the perspective of the USSR. The USSR knows that the war is coming and is making preparations for this. The early preparations for this are divided into three parts. They look to develop better equipment for their armed forces, paying particular attention to land forces. The USSR is also an resource rich confederation so they look to expand their industry in areas known as the Ural and Soviet Central Asia. The USSR also begins fortifying several systems. These are the ones in most immediate danger from Germany, which appears to be the main threat in the opinion of the document, and important systems deeper in confederation, like Moscow and Kiev. The system names they give ring no bells, we can't place this confederation anywhere in human space, assuming we knew what all of human space actually looked like." the translation expert concluded his early report.
The lead Archaeologist listen with great interest. A story of war people new nothing about, a document that was impossibly old. What did this all mean? Could this be the clue he was looking for or was it something else .... regardless the lead Archaeologist needed to know more.
"Continue your translation efforts, we need to know more about its contents. Dismissed." the lead Archaeologist went back to his thoughts.
So many questions. What ever this document was he hoped his masters would be pleased with it.
