Error: Visual Database Defying Analysis

by Jetse de Vries

Research nano-swarm employed: spread evenly across the globe; 

Finding: uttermost majority of civilization’s remnants are on land (remnants at sea bottom are mainly transport vessels); 

Second nano-swarm employed: aimed at most promising remnant sites; 

Check: tools, appendages, and similar appliances; 

Filter out: those used for preparing food, cleaning, transport, taking care of non-adults, or other non-confrontational applications; 

Focus: anything resembling a weapon or weapon system; 

Check: databases; 

Types: salvageable electronic ones. Otherwise, ancient methods like scripts, schemas, plans, or pictures; 

Filter out: those handling food preparation, habitation, basic updates, and other non-confrontational applications; 

Focus: anything describing weapons, weapon systems, or support systems of the latter; 

Results: many internal conflicts that drove innovation; 

Results: many weapons and weapon systems, most unsuitable for space warfare; 

Query: what are the suitable space warfare weapons or weapon systems; 

Response: nuclear fission detonators and nuclear fission detonators used as a catalyst for nuclear fusion detonation; 

Query: obsolete systems. Are there any others; 

Response: not that we could find; 

Command: end research if there is nothing of interest; 

Request: no remnants of interesting weapons or weapon systems. Yet descriptions of highly advanced weapons or weapon systems that should be beyond this civilization’s technological reach; 

Analysis: chance of something describing a possible applicable weapon system larger than zero; 

Command: check all possible databases and blueprints; 

Report: all possible databases and blueprints analyzed and uploaded; 

Error: visual database defying analysis; 

Query: location of visual database; 

Response: on a peninsula shaped like a square with a triangle at the bottom; 

Query: time period when visual database was produced; 

Response: during a period of intense conflict on the peninsula; 

Analysis: likeliness of description/depiction of innovative weapon system larger than zero; 

Command: continue analysis; 

Error: visual database defying analysis; 

Query: why is visual database of interest; 

Response: visual database clearly depicting conflict without directly depicting weapons; 

Response: invisible weapons or weapon systems that deform the biological entities almost beyond recognition; 

Analysis: possible highly advanced stealth weapons or weapon systems; 

Command: further analysis of visual database; 

Error: visual database defying analysis; 

Analysis: there were many more of such visual databases defying analysis. Yet this one, with its subject header most likely translating to "city of war” or "location of intense conflict,” should be of interest; 

Query: submit untranslated subject header of visual database; 

Response: Guernica; 

Command: continue analysis; 

Error: visual database defying analysis;