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Concerning the alien ruins discovered in Zone 67, we continue to find evidence of an advanced culture with a superlative grasp of mathematics and astrogation, WITH some possible artistic representations that suggest a space-faring race (see attached digital images of onyx carvings).
Their numerous hieroglyphics, while at first glance comparable TO ANCIENT terrestrial AZTEC VARIANTS, ARE, IN FACT, NOTHING AT ALL LIKE THESE PRIMITIVE EARTH COUNTERPARTS . SEVERAL LAYERS OF SYMBOLOGY SUGGEST A HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO THEIR LANGUAGE, IF IT CAN EVEN BE TRULY THOUGHT OF AS WRITING OR LANGUAGE IN ANY HUMAN SENSE .
Translation continues to elude all experts, human and AI.
Recommendation: Increased funding and excavation will undoubtedly yield hitherto unknown technologies.
Additional Note: No further information has been discovered REGARDING THE GLOWING SPHERE DISCOVERED BY BETA COMPANY trainees. The subsequent detonation of the sphere obliterated all clues of its origin.
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/attached file 5 OF 9/
September 2, 2517 (Military Calendar)
ONI Field report C384409
Classification: TOP SECRET, CODE-WORD
Subject: Status of ruins in Zone 67
Reporting Officer: Commander J. G. Ortega, Office of Naval Intelligence, Section Three/ UNSCMID: 7631073
New facilities went operational as of 0500 hours today. Smart AIs functioning in tandem as per specifications with some prelimianry success on some of the simpler, low-dimensional hieroglyphics.
Continued excavations of millions of cubic feet of earth in Zone 67 yield ruined buildings, carvings, and tablets, but as with the other REGIONS NO DISCOVERIES OF A technological nature discovered (or if there are, we lack sufficient understanding to discern their function).
Carvings depicting the inhabitants of Onyx still not found . Whatever these creatures looked like, for the moment, remains A mystery .
The senior staff now believes that a sudden cataclysm claimed the inhabitants of this world. Unknown if pathological, sociological, or radiological in nature. This may, however, explain the higher-than-normal background radiation levels.
Recommendation: Increased staff and funding. The ruins are so extensive they could take several lifetimes to unearth them ALL. This entire world MAY be covered in similar ruins. New technologies certainly must have survived and await discovery.
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/attached FILE 6 OF 9/
March 6, 2525 (Military Calendar)
Order 276.8.91.848
Subject: Zone 67 Funding
Issuing Officer: Admiral M. 0. Parangosky, Office of Naval Intelligence, Section Three/ UNSCMID: 03669271
Gentlemen, I'll be brief. After almost fifteen years of continuous and ruinously expensive research without a single new useful technology discovered, the budget of the Onyx initiative has been reprioritized.
Although the alien artifacts and hieroglyphics continue to be of interest, recent rebel activities in the outer colonies demand that we face realities and reallocate our finite ai and military personnel to counter this new threat.