SOLUTIONS

1.1

The bold text on this page refers to a puzzle embedded on the inside front cover; the phrase ‘say their name out loud’ is underlined, next to the name of the Locational Supervisor. When said out loud, “Luke Shipwright” is phonetically equivalent to “look ship right” - coupled with the circled word ‘cover’, you can extrapolate that the puzzle is asking you to look at the front cover, where a number of icons appear around a ship. There are three symbols that appear to the right of the ship, but only two of these are possible options from the set of patches - select these two for use in the next part of the mission. 

1.2

The correct configuration of tiles is shown below. Follow the wire from each symbol, through the grid and back out again to find its associated numerical value; you will need all of these values to complete the final puzzle in this section.

1.3

The complete CAPTCHA is shown below, as well as the total number of instances of each symbol. Multiply the values of each symbol (found on the previous challenge) by its number of instances to get a series of totals; add the totals together for the black symbols to get the answer 1,311,811 and the blue symbols to get the answer 4,152,314. Once punctuated by the dots in fig. v, the black and blue numbers can each be translated into a four letter word:

“MARK DOWN”