Aleart! Sad bugger aleart!

[JTurner]

Okay, some people will call me sad, but after being intrigued by Atavar (it looks OK in a Shakara sort of way) that I spent an hour seeing if the alien speech could be translated.

It's written in the 'Symbol' font, but direct font change, or shuffling corresponding letters doesn't work. I even tried the percentage-of-letters formula (the classic codebreaking technique) cross referencing the Atavar dialogue with a sample from Sin Dex, but there wasn't enough sample Atavar dialogue.

God, I'm such an anorak.

Does anyone out there know if the text actually means anything? I think it does, I'm sure I managed to pick out the vowels....

Jacob off to his Klingon lessons.

[Wake]

I had thought it was just using the Greek alphabet, but hadn't got around to checking it out properly.

Wake

[JTurner]

It's just a microsoft font. I supose it was chosen for it's look, but the Omega is used (I think) as a vowel, as are other symbols. I wonder whether Mr Abnett is sending out coded messages.

[fraston]

yes. the aliens are saying "oi, you there, stop playing with yerself" and "dirty sod. look at the mess" etc

[nathan]

The first alien is defintely saying "Every sperm is sacred"

N

[JTurner]

Sad bugger, indeed.

I can't (couldn't) spell alert!