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| JASON BUI |
| Minmatar Capsuleer // Railbone Cipher |
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They found the station abandoned.

No lights.
No docking logs.
No bodies.

Only scratch marks on the hangar wall:

```
J S N U
A O B I
```

The old Minmatar engineer said:

```
"That is not writing.
That is a ship skeleton."
```

Two rails.
One message.
Read it like a broken hull.

Top rail:

```
J S N U
```

Bottom rail:

```
A O B I
```

Rebuild the signal by taking one from above,
then one from below:

```
J A S O N B U I
```

Message:

```
JASON BUI
```

Then the station lights turned on.

Every ship in the hangar had the same name.

```
JASON BUI
JASON BUI
JASON BUI
```

I checked the docking registry.

There were 26 arrivals.

No departures.

Then a new line appeared on the wall:

```
J S N U
A O B I
```

But this time the letters were wet.

The engineer stepped backward and whispered:

```
"A rail fence does not hide the message.
It hides the missing bodies between the rails."
```

I opened my pod camera.

Behind my clone, written inside the glass:

```
READ THE EMPTY SPACES
```

So I did.

Between J and A.
Between S and O.
Between N and B.
Between U and I.

The empty spaces spelled nothing.

Then local updated:

```
Jason Bui has entered system.
Jason Bui has entered system.
Jason Bui has entered system.
```

Twenty-six times.

And the station finally undocked me.

Without my ship.

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| Encoding Rule: |
| Split the message into 2 rails |
| Put odd letters on the top rail |
| Put even letters on the bottom rail |
| Rebuild by alternating top, bottom, top, bottom |
| If the name appears before you decode it, |
| the cipher is already using your clone. |
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