Wormtalk

How do you keep the ignorant ignorant? You hide knowledge. How do you hide knowledge? You make sure no one can understand what you don't want them too.
This was the goal of wormspeak, a coded shorthand for research papers and notes that the Overni developed to keep their slaves and lower class citizens from being able to rebel.
A brief summery of how wormspeak was created was found shortly after the end of the rebellion ended saying:
"Its was first developed when, following and incident involving a unruly labhand and a group of prototype bioweapons nearly breaking containment, it was realized that there was a possibility of their own knowledge being used against them. In the span of Two-and-a-half planetary revolutions worth of time a group of scientists on the same vessel that the inciting incident occurred invented a solution."
"Wormtalk, named after the long abstract squiggles it is comprised of answered every problem. Its alphabet had no correlation to any known language and its vocabulary was equipped specifically for military and intellectual usage. As a bonus it was only spoken of in the high security bio-engineering lab that scrambled surveillance arrays due to the ongoing experiment inside."
and nothing more.
They created a code so perfect that it can take a decade for someone to learn how to use it fluently. In current times wormspeak is a scholars code, only learned to translate something or to boast about the time you took to learn every minute difference in how a squiggle is drawn.
According to legend it was Nixsommer who taught Everddyne Northwrought and his camp how to read wormspeak and it has been a topic of heated debate among scholars how she may have learned it.

Spoken by

• Overni