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The message is picked up by Offworld scanners. The best hacker of Glitchers, unit 64, is sent to investigate. He easily cracks the binary code as he's an android.
"Curious. We should send a scout to the Orion constellation."
U64 takes off sunglasses, trench coat, turns off the 2nd and 3rd monitors, unplugs 4 additional keyboards and stops filtering the last monitor in plain green text on black background. He picks up a transmitter.
"Councillor?"
"This has something about constellations."
"Right. I require a scout to be sent into Orion constellation, third, uh, planet? Elaborate? Yes, uh, this says SS, so I suppose we're searching for nazis? Ah yes, the full message. I'll proceed to your office if you do not mind. No, I will not plant three cameras to watch over your janitor, why would I?"
U64 leaves his secluded, Internet-connected house somewhere in the rural areas of Offworld and proceeds to the Citadel on his magboots of about 40 km/h speed along a road of some magnetic alloy, before setting up a few traps in the house, wearing sunglasses and the trench coat and carrying three levtops, basically laptops but hovering and golden, or simply Offworldized.
He arrives after about 10 hours.
"Here is the message."
"I'm sorry?"
"It is right here, Councillor."
"This screen is completely and fully cyan."
"Indeed, there's a text in a slightly different shade by about 3 points of blue on the RGB scale. I could not detect the diffe-"
"Very well, what is the message?"
"Slash slash Ehm Wee Slash Slash Orion Slash Slash Es Es Slash Slash Third Pi."
"..."
"So you want a scout to the Orion constellation?"
"Yes."
"Sigh, go on. Code ORION."
"Acknowledged."
U64 leaves off to the bottom of the Citadel and screams ORION in the air. A young man that looks like he's only 16 comes up to U64.
"Ey, you need a scout?"
"You should probably have a spacesuit, a Glitcher would be preferable, however."
"Uhh, no. Someone assigned me to be the scout."
"Fine. Then you probably know what's up, I'm leaving."
"Wai- ugh."
The scout equips the Orion Belt, which is a belt with two pistol holsters. Why would a young man that is also a scout brandish two pistols when civilians can't even have a knife, not even for cutting paper, is unknown.
Offworld sends a scout to the Orion Belt by personal FTL transportation. The Scout is wearing a sleek and tiny spacesuit with a tin can-shaped hardlight helmet and no visible life support whatsoever. The hardlight seems to absorb UV light somehow, even the scientists could not explain it. Still, the scout is protected from dangers of the outer space better than a man in a spacesuit of about 2018 on Earth, in the dawn of the space exploration.
