The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #23 October 2014 | Page 12

in nearly a year, had hit a deadend and funding for the project
was rapidly weaned by the
ACIO. After 2 more months of
unsuccessful efforts, it was
decided that the technology to
access the disc was simply not
available. The optical disc and
all of the artefacts and findings
would be carefully placed in
secure storage until the
technologies were available to
unlock the disc and harvest its
content. It was presumed that
the disc held star charts,
translation indexes, glossaries,
and all the answers to the
various mysteries of its creators
and, perhaps more importantly,
their intentions for earth.
While the optical disc was
considered to be the key to
unlocking the meaning of the
time capsule, the ACIO had little
choice, but to place the project
into storage and await the
arrival of technologies that
would permit them to unlock
the disc. However, there were
two scientists from the research
team who theorized that the
disc could be unlocked by
understanding the meaning of
the wall paintings in each of the
23 chambers. In their minds it
was not a complex,
technological solution, but

rather a language or translation
solution that would unlock the
disc.
After much persuasion, the
ACIO agreed to allow the two
researchers to assemble a
replica of the time capsule's
contents. The replica time
capsule consisted of detailed
drawings and photographs of all
the artefacts from each of the 23
chambers, including detailed,
high-resolution photographs of
the wall paintings. The two
scientists would be allowed to
continue their research on their
own time provided they
maintained utmost secrecy and
reported all of their findings
directly to the ACIO division
head and project director. The
optical disc was securely stored
away in a vault within the ACIO.
The project was officially put on
indefinite hold, and all
personnel associated with the
project were reassigned (with
promotions) to different
projects. The Ancient Arrow
project was not to be spoken of
again until which time the
technologies or some other
means provided a way to
unlock the optical disc and
access its contents.