Observant's Code

Summary

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"Ima id sga bica kumfoufar sgus er aurx si kauqm, zos guqc si nursaq."

— Ima esaquseim zx um izraqtaq

The code language used by Observers when they are writing classified files to be shared with high-level members of the Institute of Planetary Observations or otherwise powerful members of civilizations. Decoding this language can range from very easy to near impossible depending on how many iterations have been performed on the document in question. For instance, a document with only 1 iteration of the code language applied is easier to decipher than a document that has had 5 or more iterations.

Deciphering

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"The magic of knowing how to write and read in Observant is that the more you know, the more confused you get."

— Unknown

Decoding the Observant's Code can be easy if the writer of the document decided the document was not valuable enough for many layers of iteration. However, if the document contains sensitive information, there is a very good chance that multiple iterations of the Observant's Code were applied. Below is a sheet explaining how the first level of iteration would work:

As you can see, with each iteration each letter gets shifted one space to the right, so in order to decipher a coded sentence or document, one must keep shifting letters back to the left until a sensible sentence is revealed.
Here are some easy examples of what a first level iteration does to a sentence in common:

What makes this especially difficult is that a writer could decide to apply up to 25 iterations to a single document. The only rule is that one cannot skip iterations, as that would make it too easy to be misunderstood, which is unacceptable when it comes to documents with important information.
Below are examples of what a large number of iterations can do to a once easily understood sentence:

As you might be able to tell by now, an even larger amount of iterations would require someone to dedicate a lot of time deciphering a document filled with information which may or may not be the information they are looking for.

Origin

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"They say the origin lies within the stars"

— Michaelson Largenberg, Head Observer

Exactly when the Observant's code was created is unknown and probably one of the best-kept secrets of the Institute of Planetary Observations. Most commonly it is agreed upon that the Observant's code was written by the original founders of the institute and they slowly started sharing it with new observers that joined the ranks of the institute.
Why the Observant's Code was created is a question of which the answer is well known to almost anyone. This is because the Institute started reporting their findings in the common language at first until they noticed that some of their more intriguing and valuable findings were being misinterpreted by people who got a quick glance at the documents, either from closeby or afar.
Regardless of which prying eyes were trying to scan the document for valuable information, it would usually have a catastrophic effect of some sort. Governments would get overthrown, cultist groups became more and more active and spy organizations would slowly start controlling the strings of influential people. So in order to stop this, the institute started using the Observant's Code more and more throughout each document, sometimes leaving whole sentences intact, only to iterate on the next sentence 17 times.
As time passed by, and more observers became fluent in the use of Observant's Code, the effect of this new code language could clearly be seen as the prying eyes that had previously uncovered small bits of information, did not have the time to actually decipher a meaningful sentence when a document of the Institute of Planetary Observations came flashing past their eyes.
This, however, does not mean that there are not incredibly talented people roaming the streets who have made Observant's Code like a second language for themselves so that they can decipher a document in very little time. As of right now, those talented people are not very common and it is a prime objective for the Institute to either employ those people or make them less talented in some other way.