[ WP ] War has been raging for years upon years now . You are a reporter embedded in a famous military unit among your newest allies in this war , humanity .

**OFFICE FOR THE UNITED HUMAN PLANETS NAVY** 
 
 **June 12, 2568** 
 
 **To: All servicemen O-4 and higher** 
 
 **From: H. Wester, General UHPN** 
 
 Gentlemen: 
 
 Our crypto experts have manager to get a broken, but usable, 
 understanding of the Falkryian written language, and we've 
 begun applying it to the data traffic we've been seeing 
 from the Falkyrian units. While looking over these messages, 
 we've found the writings of a war-journalist, and are 
 forwarding them to you now to help give you an understanding 
 of how our new'allies' think. 
 
 **Attached: Intercepted message from subject Jay to `` Republic Deep-Sky News'', translated by The Department of UHNP Cryptography** 
 
 *Byline: Jay Plunge, Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha* - The official description from the government office on our new tools in the war was that they were short, pink-white, and mostly featherless ( except for their heads, which had only a collection of thin feather-shafts, and no smooth vane ), leading many to opine that the human's did n't sound very intimidating. The one was I was looking at now was none of those things; black-white** [ 1 ] **, with no feathers whatsoever, and very tall inside a crude machine-suit; and, having just been eviscerated by a plasma cannon, he was also missing a cow** [ 2 ] ** leg and half of his belly. 
 
 The chest of the human's suit flashed in a cheap imitation of our species' complex chest-bioluminescence, shouting `` Hhalp! Ded. Hhalp!'' ** [ 3 ] ** The childish display mixed with the carnage was confusing to the soul; a soldier nearby looked over and chuckled, saying `` I doubt these guys are going to last half as long as the Caldars** [ 4 ] ** did,'' while another soldier had to glance away in disgust. Comic as was suit, the dead human inside still seemed perturbing. 
 
 As before with the Caldars, there is a strong curiosity from our troops about our new war-grunts, resulting in the numerous rumors, the most popular of which is that the human female's ( their sexes work much like ours, with a penetrator and a receiver ) reproductive entrance was sideways, an odd vertical slash instead of a beautiful horizontal line. I am, as of yet, unable to confirm this. 
 
 With the exception of this unfortunate grunt, the humans appear to be good fighters; they've proven 13 % more efficient than the Venuvians** [ 5 ] ** at killing the skyless shit-burrowers** [ 6 ] **. As a reporter for the Republic Deep-Sky-News, I will make sure to keep you, my glorious brothers in the Deep-Sky Republic, up to date as more information comes in. 
 
 [ 1 ]: The color-word used here is untranslateable, as it is 
 a combination of black in the human visual range and 
 reflective in the UV. It's been confirmed that, like the 
 animals they get their name from, the Falkryians can see in 
 UV, in which all humans are reflective. 
 [ 2 ]: The animal mentioned here is a beast that was 
 husbanded on their planet similar to the way we 
 used to use cows, and to which we are apparently 
 similar. It seem to be used as a pejorative in some 
 contexts, though probably not here. 
 [ 3 ]: We've picked up the appropriate visual pattern changes 
 required to correct the'grammar' for our suits, and will 
 have a patch out within a week. 
 [ 4 ]: The now-extinct species that the Falkryains brought 
 us into the fight to replace. 
 [ 5 ] Not sure; possibly another enslaved fighting race. 
 [ 6 ] Closest translation; a jingoistic pejorative used in their media for the Bugs
