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XCOM legacy: ADVENT writing

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Basically a study:

So while working on this, I've been taking further advice regarding ADVENT writing to the point I had to work with someone in getting some ideas, there are several problems with advent WRITING.


1) It has no ground set of rules.


2) there's different variants of the language (with some written similir to lorem ipsum text) 


3) some of it is clearly marked as alien, some being a transition from a human font to more alien. In short there is about three versions of the ADVENT language and for all we know some words can be too similir sounding to cause confusion (ie: rain and rein sound very similir despite meaning two very different things.)

So after some consultation with a friend more skilled in this area gave me this idea to work on:
"take the first letter of the word into advent font and then depends on the word means, if it has anything to do with a person add the advent font for "i" (if the word is directed to the talker) or the advent font for "u" (if the word is directed to others)As for sentences, take the first letter of the first word and then see what the sentence is about. Depends on the meaning, combine the first advent font with another font that would represent that meaning. This sounds complicated but I guess as the advent has an ability of communicating through mind, their language would consist more of symbolic meaning rather than a combination of letters.
The idea of communication through mind is something we brainstormed, would a race that enforce it's authority via psionic (psionic network, chips in troops and of course sectoids) could perhaps extend their influence within everyday commercial and communication?Verbal communication exists and so far humanity still can speak freely but is obstructed from doing that by information given and physical reminders like ADVENT troops." 

Probably looking too much into this but this is the challenge as well as the chips all ADVENT  citizens are given (like tygen) so could there be a subliminal element of psionic influence?

Regardless this is the intended script made following this advice and input.

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ArsenicalLady's avatar
Currently working on an XCOM fic and this'll be extremely helpful for that. Now to figure out how their actual language works...