Kelran returned to his cave, and immediately began to plan a repeat visit to the observatory.
He was quite upset at Cody, how was it his fault that humans used a language he didnt understand for alphanumerics, and used a computer system, the only thing that he could possibly easily learn, that was at least 2,000 years out of date.
Of course, Kelran had absolutely no itentions of 'letting the others handle it' They had tried it with him as a member of their little group. It had failed, obviously because he had depended on someone who had no military training. Even a brainless pre-cadet knew that you never held back mission critical information even if it was assumed to be widely known.
'But isnt that what youre doing by not telling them your whole story?' 'Shut up' he told himself, and set about his next project.
He needed some kind of human technological base to work with, so he filched a small hand held computer off of one of the outdoor tables at the gaming course.
Normally Kelran wouldnt do something like this, but he was iriitated not only with what he percieved as Codys inferior arrogance, but at being marooned on an inferior world in general.
Having aquired this device, Kelran spent a few hours tapping in crude binary hacks till he broke its password, then he promptly entered a binary command to decompile everything on it.
It was going to take a few days to build a basic new system for translating binary to trinary and vice versa, but luckily it was nothing like making an operating base-code (operating system) or interface, the human computer would provide that.
All he needed was a simple command prompt that would accept trinary basic and convert to binary, then show the results as trinary again.
The catch was programming the entire system in an odd mix of the two, and figuring out the hardware integration.
