Translated from the Personal Journals of Doctor Batbayar Minggatu Curator, Great Khagan's Eye Observatory 15th April 2261 - 02:12 UTC Translation Class: 16C (Colloquial Earth English) So it is they who are so very curious of us. Not the people of Isis, their environment differs strikingly. And the Q filament ingression consistently tracks through the Ara constellation, not Canis Major. Yet no evidence of a civilization placed within Ara and in range of QEM sensing. So, where are they? Perhaps Q filaments can convey further than the Yalandin limit. Or, perhaps Ara deploys a chain of Q filaments to reach into the Solar system. Though, support energy for successive filaments would also manifest node instability - Yalandin's limit again. It would also introduce EM noise into the chain – increasing exponentially with every successive filament. Degrading the information from the other end. Nevertheless, looking back through the Ara filament, the image is clear albeit of lesser resolution than normal. Indeed, we are making use of the transitive nature of QEM sensing. They see us therefore we may see them, to put it simply. Of coarse we have to be looking in the right direction and from the correct vantage for a glimpse through the induction node to be useful. And we must be looking exactly when Ara opens a target node in our system. This would be difficult to achieve, 'Ara nodes' open for a fleetingly short periods – less than a twentieth of a second. It is fortunate then that 93% of 'Ara nodes' form near L4 between the Earth and the Moon. Better still, they form at predictable periods of 1231206.2 seconds - approximately fourteen-and-a-quarter days. Under such conditions, it becomes inevitable that someone on our side would catch such a glimpse of the induction sight. That honour fell to my institution. This is much like looking down the proverbial rabbit hole to find “wonderland”. It is evident that they want us to know we are observed. And they must know that we could look back at them. Is this an intelligence test? A test of our technological prowess? Do they encourage us to study them? Dare I speculate that this is their way to initiate dialogue? Still so much to learn of how our neighbours relate to each other let alone conduct a conversation. As for what is seen, both worlds – the near body is likely a satellite of the other – look much alike and subjectively familiar. The colour of the atmospheres is more green and thicker than ours. There are Earth-like weather patterns and even a massive lightning storm on the near body. The EM scan is mostly of the night sides but IR absorption outlines surfaces comprised of two dozen or more large islands dotting a single global ocean. No mighty continents to be seen. The two worlds are so similar that one is tempted to designate them twins. Both bodies appear inhabited, if the surface lights can be taken to be cities. Spectra analysis indicates that they are artificial, tuned narrowly and consistently to mix yellow, indigo and violet. On the distant body, such lights encroach into the polar regions. Detected RF “noise” may actually be local communication even if we can not interpret it as of yet. It is intriguing if true, such advanced societies continuing their reliance upon RF communication. Considering technology, both bodies have spires radiating from the surface. Spires similar to those radiating from the surface of Planet Isis. It may be too early but this may be a common technological adaptation. A popular conjecture is that these spires are space elevators, similar in principle to the hypothesized Minas Anor. Lifts for the mass transport of “people” and materials to and from orbit. Yet unlike Isis, both these worlds are suspended within luminous quasi-geodesic webs. The nature and purpose of these superstructures is hard to discern. They insect with local spires so they are indirectly connected to the surfaces. I would not expect the webs themselves to be constructed of solid or even fluid strands. Though that can not be stated conclusively...