Alex Mercer is involved in decoding and interpreting alien scripts, which could potentially lead to interstellar communication.
At the heart of the base, in a room shielded from the world’s eyes, Alex Mercer, Jordan Hayes, Taylor Cruz, and Sam Rivera huddled around a bank of monitors. Each screen flickered erratically with the alien script that had become the center of their lives—and perhaps the pivot on which humanity’s future would turn.