Tic Xenotation Translator

Teacher of the Tic Matrix

65 million BC. The K/T-Missile, Pregnant with the Entity, slants in. 16 clicks per second. Professor Barker recalls this moment catching the trajectory. He coaxes it across the Cataplex-map, through intricate cartographic dances, snakings, twistings. Scars and vectors slot-together. It sticks. Irridium stink of the Entity so strong it hisses. Tick iterations. Ticks, scratches, chitterings silt across the Outside. Barker senses its passage stroke him, nerve-tense as the distant twin, weaving through tatters of cored-out schizophrenia, in the habitation blister.

Tick-delirium.

Daniel C . Barker's Tic Xenotation emerged during the highly obscure phase of his life when he was working for ' NASA ' (some hesitation is appropriate here) on the SETI -related ' Project Scar' in Southeast Asia, tasked with designing a 'general purpose decryption protocol' for identifying intelligent signal from alien sources . This project necessitated the formulation of numeric conventions independent of all cultural conditioning or local convention - radically abstract signs.

6::3Tick-deEEliriummmMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. AAA A A. .>A>A< <<AS<AJAK9::0

How can the end be already in the middle of the beginning?

(:)(:)(::(:))

Usage

Decimal → TX

$ tx 10

TX → Decimal

$ tx ":((:))"

Installation

Requires Rust and Cargo. See here for installation instructions.

$ git clone https://github.com/jaspwr/Tic-Xenotation-Translator.git
$ cargo install --path [path-to-cloned-repo]

You will need to add Cargo's bin directory to your PATH environment variable.