Episode 2.5: A Call of Winter
Feb 5, 2017 1:34:22 GMT -5
Post by Skirmisher on Feb 5, 2017 1:34:22 GMT -5
Episode 2.5: Week One, Day 4: Location: Bouyetova Island: Region: Antarctica: Shuttle: Delta-Six: Time: 1520 Hours
Transmitting continuously on a programmed loop, a triple-encrypted distress call sought out any available Autobot forces on the planet. Having finally found a means through the compacted layers of snow and ice, a transmission many millennia old called out to any friendly forces as the only means to flag the location of a hull buried far beneath the compacted layers on an uninhabited island several thousand miles from the nearest landmass and host only to an automated weather station near one of its coves. Deep beneath in a semi-lifeless hull with only auxiliary power remaining, rested the single occupant responsible for programming the beacon in the first place had remained in a slumber undisturbed. The ship's heaters had staved off the cold from creeping inside the confines of the shuttle, and had kept the cold from affecting the occupant's systems. While the constant cold with the hundreds of fierce storms a year had left the island uninhabitable and unsustainable for humans, the only life present had been in the form of a myriad of birds and species of fungi capable of existing in such a forbidden place.
The distress call had mainly included elements ranging from coordinates to the shuttle’s designation and other such information that may have been deemed relevant as per wartime protocols. The coding on the distress call had reflected that very same nature including the inclusion of false coding in order to force any Decepticons that may have intercepted it to have spent more cycles and valuable energon attempting to decipher it only to find their attempts filled with nonsensical information. The shuttle’s designation, with the assigned squadron with the assigned port of call had been encoded, and intermingled with the nonsensical junk codes. The presence of such measures may have seemed overkill in a more peaceful era beyond the memory of the Great War, but the added security measures had proven the paranoid and even militaristic mindset of the War.
Transmitting continuously on a programmed loop, a triple-encrypted distress call sought out any available Autobot forces on the planet. Having finally found a means through the compacted layers of snow and ice, a transmission many millennia old called out to any friendly forces as the only means to flag the location of a hull buried far beneath the compacted layers on an uninhabited island several thousand miles from the nearest landmass and host only to an automated weather station near one of its coves. Deep beneath in a semi-lifeless hull with only auxiliary power remaining, rested the single occupant responsible for programming the beacon in the first place had remained in a slumber undisturbed. The ship's heaters had staved off the cold from creeping inside the confines of the shuttle, and had kept the cold from affecting the occupant's systems. While the constant cold with the hundreds of fierce storms a year had left the island uninhabitable and unsustainable for humans, the only life present had been in the form of a myriad of birds and species of fungi capable of existing in such a forbidden place.
The distress call had mainly included elements ranging from coordinates to the shuttle’s designation and other such information that may have been deemed relevant as per wartime protocols. The coding on the distress call had reflected that very same nature including the inclusion of false coding in order to force any Decepticons that may have intercepted it to have spent more cycles and valuable energon attempting to decipher it only to find their attempts filled with nonsensical information. The shuttle’s designation, with the assigned squadron with the assigned port of call had been encoded, and intermingled with the nonsensical junk codes. The presence of such measures may have seemed overkill in a more peaceful era beyond the memory of the Great War, but the added security measures had proven the paranoid and even militaristic mindset of the War.