I was exploring data-packets around the web, seeing the kind of shit that gets bundled up with people’s sites, when I ran across a completely empty page—no 404 or anything—absolutely chock-full of junk data. I was close to switching off, but I recognised a pattern from COM-SCI class nestled within the rubbish. It was all LZW compressed data—English text. I figured I would unpack it and see what it said. Here was the first section I uncompressed:
Deep space relay signal-boost code into the void attempt #51^7
We are a species deep in the stages of societal decomposition, living on lonely planets in a death-spiral system vast distances from the universal filaments. An anisotropic accident. The acoustics of the cosmic web afford us incognate refuge from the Fermi Paradox, but it has isolated us. When intelligent life developed, we were allowed meteoric social expansion, utopianism, and—upon discovering we were gurt by unchartable desolation—subsequent social decay. We—a zombie-race of malcontents—and a society that rewards them. Much like myths and tales of those who escape or otherwise overcome the throes of death itself, and become corrupted and inhuman by it: here on a galactic scale. Imagine it: a galaxy of resources, all directed towards one goal, as society putrefies with every passing millennium. We have been aware of you for some time, sapiens, and we are coming for you.
pretty freaky, huh? Reminds me of warhammer a little bit. I translated some more of the preamble, but I still have not found any indication of who wrote it, nor why it was stored so unusually ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ here, have some more:
We have dedicated a significant portion of our scant time translating sacred texts for your consideration, which has required of us a deep understanding of sapien culture. This understanding we have cultivated over centuries of deep-space observation, and heated arguments over your level of consciousness. We decided to award you the status of “sentient” likening your social and neurological structure to the other fungi of your planet. As such, the translation and delineation of spiritual texts is a moral requirement, transcending life or death, a mission you seem you have understood at times throughout your history. Read carefully, absorb the universal truths, and in return for this gift, we will make you our martyrs. Sit tight, sapiens, our spirits are faster than our rockets only for now.
There are some interesting texts contained here, though I fail to see some of the significance of these cultural references. I will upload more as I, too, “translate” them from code to plaintext. Enjoy, and let me know if you have any idea what it means lol
