STARPWN-2026-Writeup

Strange Holos 1

Category	Misc
Points	478
Solves	113

Description

A holographic sign appears on the wall of a rain-soaked Glittercity alley. The glyphs are unfamiliar, but something about the writing system feels oddly familiar to anyone who grew up watching a galaxy far, far away.

Attachments: space1-glitter.png

Solution

Steps

1. Identify the writing system

The glyphs on the holographic sign are written in Aurebesh — the Star Wars fictional alphabet used to write Galactic Basic. Each Aurebesh character maps 1:1 to an English letter (A–Z), with additional single glyphs for digraphs such as CH, AE, EO, NG, OO, and TH.

2. Note the tricky character

The ≡-looking glyph in the sign is not an equals sign — it is H (Herf) in Aurebesh. The two horizontal bars stacked on top of each other make it easy to mistake for =.

3. Decode the inscription

Reading the Aurebesh glyphs left to right gives:

NERF HERDER

4. Read the flag

The decoded Aurebesh inscription is the flag itself.

Flag

NERF HERDER