Encrypted Journals: Imogen Jau

[Imogen Jau]

Wherever Imogen Jau is, she always carries one of several tiny, yellow paper notepads and a small red pen with her. She owns four such notepads – none are ever found in the same place, as much as she is able to keep it that way. One is kept in her quarters at Ismara, one in her quarters aboard Valravn and the third is kept in an inconsistent location. The fourth is on her person. Every time she visits one of these locations, she swaps the one she has with her for the one stashed there.

All the text inside these notepads is written in a relatively simple, albeit original encryption system that Imogen devised herself, the key to which she has shared with no one. Furthermore, the thus-encrypted text is also written in a shorthand alphabet formerly common among Leeds mineworkers before the planet's depopulation. If one were to find and attempt to read a notepad, it would look like gibberish, but anyone familiar with basic cryptography could likely crack it within a day or two if they were truly determined.