{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Sci-Fi Snack Stop Episode 2: Mitigation Translation","description":"Written and read by Kimberly Rockwell Text of the story: Mitigation Translation When the alien transmission arrived, every senior analyst agreed on one thing: it was a threat. The syntax was sharp. The cadence hostile. The verbs clearly aggressive. But the youngest linguist in the room saw the anomaly\u2014a single word that refused to align. \u201cTrixdadhl\u201d didn\u2019t fit. It didn\u2019t match. She reran the translation. Then again.&amp;nbsp; Then, slowly, aloud. The message changed. We apologize if we frightened you. We did not know how loud we were. Weapons powered down. Sirens fell quiet. History exhaled. Later, they asked her how she prevented a war. She said, \u201cI translated fear into regret.\u201d  Music Credits: \u201cMajestic Forest\u201d by Humans Win   Image credits (everything was made by a human): Sci-Fi Snack Stop logo and images by Brian Carroll  All copyrights of Mitigation Translation belong to Kimberly Rockwell. All permission for this production of Mitigation Translation belongs to Sisters of Sci-Fi. No permissions given for reprinting, reposting, recreating, rerecording, using as a prompt or for expanding into another story, or using for machine learning. Contact Sisters of Sci-Fi for permissions to use in all usages and scenarios. ","author_name":"Sisters of Sci-Fi","author_url":"http:\/\/sistersofscifi.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/40226065\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/198959570"}