Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20160208023602/@comment-5543592-20160210233156

Howard scratched his neck. "This was not told to the public, but contact with it was lost, for the first time in 2024, when it went out of signal range.  Six years later, it's signal was picked up again.  A single message was sent too the USSA, on this same frequency.  To the surprise of the scientists down at the USSA at the time, it was worded in place English.  Spoken in the voice of a human child." Howard reached across the table and dragged a wireless terminal over to them. He did a simple search, information was not so restricted on the Quetzel, and found a sole audio file in the ship's memory. What appeared was a simple audio file, and Howard played it.

A recording of a young girl's voice began to play from the terminal's speakers.

"You have desecrated our most sacred temple," the child's voice intoned in a flat, inflectionless tone. "For this there can be no forgiveness.  We are coming to kill you all."  The audio clip ended, and Howard turned back to Brody.

"It was determined that the voice was synthesized from audio clips aboard the Voyager that had been downloaded to it's Golden Record in the event Voyager was discovered by intelligent extraterrestrial life.  To the USSA's dismay, this twenty-one word message began to repeat on a continuous loop, hour after hour, day after day."