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Aital
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What is this text?

Post by Aital » Thu, 10. Nov 22, 03:59

I'm assuming it's japanese or based on japanese. I don't know any kanji. And I'm barely familiar with katakana. Does anyone know what it says?
The first character appears to be the katakana RI but in reverse.
The second character is like CHI.
The middle appears to also be a backwards WO.
The second to last appears to be SA.
The last appears to be like TSU.
In fact the entire ship is coverd in it. https://imgur.com/a/RaEe7iR
https://i.imgur.com/2ULC9n7.png
http://www.marks-iplaw.jp/wp-content/up ... 24x695.jpg
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Re: What is this text?

Post by linolafett » Thu, 10. Nov 22, 09:50

This is a fantasy font for the Terran faction.
All these characters are fictional and are only supposed to look vaguely like katakana.
01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 01110011 00101110 00101110 00101110

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Re: What is this text?

Post by Imperial Good » Thu, 10. Nov 22, 21:49

From other X lore that I can remember it is meant to be some kind of Japanese-English hybrid language that everyone speaks in the future. Everyone speaks your locale language, and all gameplay text is in your locale language for gameplay reasons but for immersion various background text such as the text on some signs is of this fictional language.

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