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Chronicles of the galaxy

 

LEARNING FROM A NEW REBEL

 

Months had passed since the last battle on the remote planet of the Outer Rim Ryloth, between Juakin PLC Walker and the Shadow Iron.

Thanks to the transgu droid, DAV-25, Juakin had been able to travel to the inhospitable planet Geonosis near Ryloth where it was rumoured that the Shadow Iron had begun to make moves to create a base with highly advanced technology.

In a first foray after jumping from hyperspace aboard the Millennial Piston, Juakin detected through the Force that evil and possibly The Silent Blackout were there.

At that time, the planet was inhabited by the geonosians, a desert planet with limited life. What Juakin didn't expect was that as they entered the insectoid planet and passed through a large sandstorm near the surface, the The Shadow Iron would meet him with a strong air defence in which they would damage the forward deflectors and proton torpedo launchers that Juakin had prepared to fire on the industrial infrastructure that the Shadow Iron would be building if the rumours were true.

With his ship visibly damaged, Juakin decided to return to the planet Ryloth, home of the twi’leks, where he hoped that the transgu droid DAV-25 could help him repair his beloved ship, although the Millennium Piston had a slot for an astromech droid, Juakin had not found a fellow traveller with the same desire to help the galaxy and a deep knowledge of vulnerabilities.

When he landed, DAV-25 was waiting for him, as if it were fate, and began to repair the ship even before Juakin pointed out the faults. After hours of repairs, he managed to repair the ship's defences and armament, and even detected several vulnerabilities in the ship's communication system that could have left the Millennium Piston and Juakin at the mercy of the Silent Blackout.

But more surprisingly, behind one of the ship's deflector panels, DAV-25 found a curious image next to the name of the OliumGaseoductum slicer.

Since Juakin, in the beginning of his battles against the Shadow Iron, had stolen the ship from a Shadow Iron commander, he wanted to analyse the image and asked DAV-25 to do a full analysis.

At first inspection, it did not seem to contain any relevant information, but by analysing the text strings that the image might contain, DAV-25 obtained useful information.

The critical information obtained by DAV-25 was as follows: steghide

In general terms, and when talking in terms of steghide or steganography, DAV-25 knew that the file might have more hidden information and used different specific tools to obtain the hidden message and detected a big clue in the image itself as indicated above, the image was of the OliumGaseoductum slicer which could be the password and using a generic steganography decoder obtained the following hidden message:

 

A todos los slicer de los Hierro Sombrío, la base es una distración...

-... .-. .--. ..-. ..- -.-. -.-

NO revelar información

-[--->+<]>---.[------>+<]>--.+++++++++++++.+++++.----.--.[->+++++<]>-.>-[--->

+<]>--.[--->+<]>+++.+[->+++<]>++.--[--->+<]>---.[-->+++++<]>+++.--[-->+++<]>.

[--->++<]>++.>-[--->+<]>---.>-[----->+<]>--.+++++.

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Archivo vital para la guerra...

ATT: Slicer, Apagón Silencioso

 

The message appeared to have hidden information, in what could be Morse, a language common in military radio communications, so DAV-25 used its knowledge of more than 3 million forms of communication to decipher the message:

 

-... .-. .--. ..-. ..- -.-. -.-         ->        Brainfuck

 

DAV-25 indicated with a gesture that he was going to investigate the esoteric programming language in his database and that he would analyse the next sequence detected after applying the decoder to see that the rest of the characters in the message were encoded in Brainfuck:

 

-[--->+<]>---.[------>+<]>--.+++++++++++++.+++++.----.--.[->+++++<]>-.>-[--->

+<]>--.[--->+<]>+++.+[->+++<]>++.--[--->+<]>---.[-->+++++<]>+++.--[-->+++<]>.

[--->++<]>++.>-[--->+<]>---.>-[----->+<]>--.+++++.

 

Juakin didn't have a deep knowledge of strange programming languages, but suddenly, in DAV-25's eyes he began to see a complex code flowing, converting each of the previously decoded characters into clear text:

 

find_matching_open_bracket() {

local start_ip=$1

   local nesting_level=0

   local current_ip=$((start_ip - 1

   while (( current_ip >= 0 )); do

        char="${bf_code:$current_ip:1}"

        if [[ "$char" == "]" ]]; then

        ………………..

        ……………….. PROCESSING………..

THE ANSWER: Ransom Star – R16

 

"By the data stream", Juakin told DAV-25 as he began preparing all his equipment and refueling the spaceship.

Juakin PLC Walker had understood the decoded message, what was rumoured was absolutely true, a new weapon was being built at the coordinates R-16, which corresponded to Geonosis.

In another heroic mission, Juakin PLC Walker was preparing to take off and return to the inhospitable planet to investigate possible security breaches, obtain more information about the weapon and attack the Shadow Iron factory, when DAV-25 positioned himself in the position of the Millennial Piston's astromech droids.

Juakin exclaimed, “What’s going on? Do you want to come? We’re going somewhere very dangerous…”

In a simple yet concise gesture, DAV-25 stated with his perforated robotic arm that he was willing to go and help in any way he could.

This is how Juakin PLC Walker managed to survive the first incursion attempt on the planet Geonosis and how he discovered confidential information thanks to DAV-25.

Now, on the outskirts of the galaxy and facing what appears to be an imminent war, Juakin PLC Walker and DAV-25 embark on a suicide mission aboard the Millennial Piston. Only the power of Juakin's data Force and DAV-25's quantum abilities will be able to stop the Silent Blackout slicer and its lethal weapon, Ransom Star.

 

The story will continue…

 

May weakness fade and resilience be with you.

 

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