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Three Moons is indeed greater than Flower. I'm going to tentatively go with my guesses of 4, 6, 8, 11, 13. That would make the five symbols written in the hologram equal 56. There is also the question of what to do with this knowledge...oh, hey, the holo-book has new information? Chapter 2...Oh balls. The cards with multiple symbols aren't additive; they're multiplicative.

Actually, never mind, that makes this really easy, because it also says they represent the numbers 0-12. Sun was already determined to be smaller than everything but Wind, so that's 1. Two Moons and a Human was biggest, so that's 12, and everything else lines up with that anyway--Moon showed up so frequently because it's equal to 2. Human is 3, Star is 5, Flower is 7, and Birdman is 11. I honestly forgot there was a Two Humans card, and sadly, it wouldn't have helped me clear up my misunderstanding because it would've fallen between Flower and Birdman anyway.

So now the five symbols in the sky become 11^3*7*3. 1331*21=27951. There's something else in the holobook...oh, it's just a place to input what I just figured out about the cards themselves. Solving this unlocks two new chapters. 3 merely summarizes what I just told it I knew, and 4 tells me that to operate the machine, 4 cards must be placed on the sensor. The alien society has two methods for expressing numbers, though, so I must convert the number displayed by the nucleus to a second format to determine which cards to place. So I need to convert 27951 to this new format? A new monitor comes on...oh, now the cards are being turned into a wheel for the 3D printer. Wait, they're decagon reels...aha. So now I input the number. Or, no. I put the decagon reels on the horizontal axis of the weird machine, but I can't turn them until I have something to put on the vertical axis. I assumed that machine would tell us which cards to put on the sensor. Oh, wait, more reels. Tridecagons! I wonder...it looks like when I hit the crank after setting the five reels to 2, 7, 9, 5, 1, it changed it to 12, 9, 5, 1. Is C951 the proper base 13 expression of 27951?

...If I put everything into my calculator correctly, C951=27726. Awfully close, but not quite right. ...But I didn't. As I suspected, the two numbers are the same. (I accidentally multiplied the 9 by 12 squared instead of 13 squared.) As soon as I saw the tridecagon reels--nay, as soon as Diana said "it's a bit different" to what was on screen--I realized that the machine was a base 10-base 13 converter. And that's all for this room's puzzles. But the PA says that Phi's a casualty, along with all of Q-Team and Carlos and Junpei. And Akane has already escaped through the X-Door! Diana feels Zero has tricked them, and Sigma refuses to believe this is true. They look all over, and when they get to the incinerator room, Diana suddenly remembers the timeline where Phi was incinerated. Wait, this is probably that same timeline! Sigma and Diana were injected with the drugs again. I check back to that one...yeah, that was along a line where Q-Team died at 13:30. But all of C-Team was alive after that, so the game continued. Diana wonders why Akane left alone. Sigma says they can't know what happened in Ward C, but they know how Q-Team died. And furthermore...if Q-Team was executed at 13:30, it means C-Team didn't vote as they said they would in the note. Sigma says that means Carlos was the betrayer. It's 1:25, almost time for another injection, but Sigma says there's no time to waste. Back to the transporter room. Sigma wants to transport. This is the treeform timeline. He wants to escape this history and go to one where Phi exists. Decision game. I choose to transport. Also, when I looked back to my own post about the incinerator, I realized I was wrong. "Medallion". That's nine letters. It's the six-letter word that's still at large.
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