Chapter III: Reunited

There's a signal at the door that someone wants to enter. After Cass gives permission, the door opens and Darcy steps inside, a datapad in her hand. "I just got the report back from Lt. Namnac. He was unable to decypher the Four's communications." She hesitates for a moment, then she adds: "Namnac is a good officer but inexperienced. Under different circumstances, I would have asked Lt. Comm. Borealis to do it. I haven't talked to him since the operation but if he's willing and able to take a look at these communications, he might be able to spot some patterns that Namnac missed."

Marbo arrives in the medbay shortly after Cass says his name.

"Commander. Lt Commander. Moira. Belka. Interns Bones and Pulaski. Zlam." He states as he walks in. The introduction is longwinded, but genuine and friendly.

"Medical diagnosis have been run, Lt. Comm. Borealis is showing good recovery rates. Could work from here with the commanders permission. Marbo is not allowed to return people to any duty, no matter how light," he says, shooting a glance towards belka and Cassano."but that is okay, Much too busy. Still unsure what put the captain into his comatose state."


"How can Marbo assist?" he finally asks, realizing he had sort of drummed in straight to his own points without seeing what the crew needed.

Moira, you've looked over the biofilters briefly but not too much yet. The computer keeps track of everything so the parasites' biosignatures still have to be in there. The difficult part will be to extract all of them and nothing else. You feel like you should be able to rematerialize the parasites but you can't guarantee that it'll be successful. And you will only have one shot at it.
If you had some DNA samples or bioscan results of the affected parasites from before they got filtered out, that might increase your chances of success.

Zephyr, whichever kind of encoding system the slugs are using, you are unfamiliar with it. The task gets even harder since you do not have much experience with their language and especially not with past codes they have used before, which would be a valuable resource in understanding this one.
You are able to grasp some basic information from the communications. They seem to be reporting about the attempts at diplomacy with the Potential and about the prisoner exchange that has been proposed. The Four is telling whoever they were messaging to hold off with "merging the prisoner" and not to further disassemble the robot while these negotiations are ongoing. There is also repeated mention of what you assume is the name of one parasite. You are unable to determine any further information than this from the intercepted messages.