The Intolerable Clock: A Non-Canon Hexarchate RPG

"That seems fairly accurate," Alaric agrees. "From our perspective, shortly after exiting a rift into the relative past, before the hexarchate's current calendrical system was implemented to permit the use of the mothdrive, we noticed subtle changes in the drive's operation - noises, mostly. I jury-rigged a method for using the diagnostics to send and receive signals from the Cantata-the-moth itself, which I used to do some basic first-contact protocols involving math and eventually developed into the current automated translation system. I would expect we should be able to adapt that easily, although we can't expect instant results since there may be differences in language or dialect just as there can be with humans from different times and places."