Orbiting Worlds

The Sydney Tryler’s files – also known as the Orbiting Worlds series – are a modern archaeological mystery.

Recovered as a radio signal in the early 80s they were buried in an analogic magnetic tape and classified as a prank made by some local amateur teenager: a young boy recollecting memories from his years in the space, which were obviously unreal.

What the voice recordings didn’t show then however, was the hidden code that punctuated the lower frequencies of the main broadcast.

The first attempt to decode the file occurred only some 20 years later, when a kid pioneering the Internet hacked a data repository in the developing web and spread his findings in his small community of hackers.

The dataset was analysed and scanned thoroughly, only to recover some patterns arranged according to an algorithm not invented still.

The files went back to the deep web and named after a Sydney Tryler, the recording’s author according to the vocal signature that ended the original radio transmission.

Only lately the grown-up kids that had first discovered the files attempted an AI interpretation of the message. The shocking revelation come all at once and unforeseen: along the voice recording that is now known as the Premise or the rise of the Star, there was a second layer of data, namely a space-traveller’s log, afterward called the Prologue.

Processing this new recording with the same technology, a full writing emerged, lately catalogued as the Seven-Days Crisis file.

A further in-deep examination of the text based on the same analytical model then produced three further recordings, curiously named after some Walt Withman’s writings. It is however possible that these stories are hiding other still unrecovered documents and data.

The collection of records has been filed as Orbiting Worlds, and it has been anonymously sent for editing for publication

It is unclear whether the Orbiting Worlds's stories are made-up or are true. What it's known is that they have been authored by a very young and talented kid, who hasn’t been born yet.

Although most scientists consider the “Sydney Tryler’s files” a false, the only logical explanation available at the moment is that the original radio signal was broadcasted to us from the future, probably in the first try to send data in the past.

This isn’t unexpected. If time travel will be possible someday, it will be likely attempted. Even if theoretically plausible people can't be sent in the future or in the past. As per Sydney's words, this is simply impossible.

But what about impulses, signals, data?

If this is the case, then some very distant descendants could have sent what was probably a classic in their era, to the first people in history that would be technologically advanced enough to decode their message.

This is the story behind the Orbiting Worlds series and – you see – it is very likely.

Suggested and chronological reading order

A Clear Midnight

Youth, Day, Old Age, Night

To The Sun-Set Breeze

Suggested reading order (if you acquired A Clear Midnight as two separate e-books):

A Clear Midnight - PART I: The Seven-Day Crisis

A Clear Midnight - PART II: The Battle for Cambridge

Youth, Day, Old Age, Night

To The Sun-Set Breeze