Glacier of Lakes

Greetings, one and all, from Iceland!

Yes, I left Orkney a while ago, after I found that the Ring of Brodgar and the Standing Stones of Stenness were nothing to do with an alien species after all. My initial inspection had indicated a faint hyperspatial wave that appeared to be emanating from the stones, but when I checked again I found that it had stopped. It’s quite likely that it was a normal transmission between two points elsewhere in the galaxy and had just happened to pass through Earth at the time I was taking a reading. It’s a very unusual event, but it’s not unknown.

So I proceeded to Iceland, and I’m now exploring Vatnajökull, the huge ice cap that dominates the southeastern side of the country. There are volcanoes down there, and I have to be careful because they are still known to erupt, causing enormous flooding events. You might well ask why I’m poking about on a huge ice cap. I don’t really know, to be honest. I do seem attracted to wilderness at the moment. Perhaps I’m trying to pretend that humans don’t exist – I do have a misanthropist streak, as you probably realise, and really I only stick around on your planet because it’s entertaining watching what goes on here. It’s like what you call a “soap opera”, only with far more characters and more confusing plot lines.

In other news, I’ve had an update from my base about the object I recovered in Scotland. I’m glad I placed it in a controlled area, because apparently it has begun to transmit some sort of radio signal. This won’t make it out of the vault, of course, but it proves the thing is still active. In a way, this is good: it suggests that the cloaking device probably didn’t fail, which means the military authorities won’t be aware of its presence. I have instructed my AI systems to attempt to interpret the signal and get some clue as to what it is. My hunch is that the satellite is trying to contact the observation relay at the Moon’s L4 Lagrange point, in which case the thing really is Gorpulonian and will be harmless… but I’ll keep an eye on it.

I don’t have much to say at this point: I’m spending my time watching local wildlife – this includes a few birds and an occasional arctic fox, which is quite beautiful. I’m heading down to the more populated areas soon and I’ll report on that later.