So, from Sleafar's cracking of the cipher, we now know the cryptic hints were referring to the fact that

aliens have to resort to analyzing energy and heat levels because they can't see.

So, it figures that if the cipher referred to meatspeak in the way we usually process it, and not in a way suited to the aliens' usual way to process raw data, it would be hard for them to get.

as in, the data describes the way we would draw the letters, which the aliens have no way of knowing.

For some extra evidence of this other than the hint, we can look at the fact that an O: 256001056001 looks a lot like two Ls: 2560010, probably because an O can be made with one L and one inverted L.

Deducing what each state actually means is now not that hard:

All letters start with 2 and end with 3, so the meaning of those is probably some sort of start/end delimiter.

0 appears a lot, so it's probably the drawing command.

4 and 6 are clear when you look at S: 205606040401, and realize that an S can be made with two left turns and two right turns (no matter if you're starting from the top or bottom), so 6 must be the left turn and 4 must be the right turn.

This leaves 5 and 1. I had noticed from Gareth's post that there are as many 1s as there are 5s, and furthermore, they are perfectly nested, so they must be somehow related. Turns out 5 saves the current location of the hand, and 1 restores it.

From this, we can gather that the states refer to the following:

0 = forward
1 = load position
2 = pen down
3 = pen up
4 = turn right
5 = save position
6 = turn left

Following these commands, we would get the following message:

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"

So, from Sleafar's cracking of the cipher, we now know the cryptic hints were referring to the fact that

aliens have to resort to analyzing energy and heat levels because they can't see.

So, it figures that if the cipher referred to meatspeak in the way we usually process it, and not in a way suited to the aliens' usual way to process raw data, it would be hard for them to get.

as in, the data describes the way we would draw the letters, which the aliens have no way of knowing.

For some extra evidence of this other than the hint, we can look at the fact that an O: 256001056001 looks a lot like two Ls: 2560010, probably because an O can be made with one L and one inverted L.

Deducing what each state actually means is now not that hard:

All letters start with 2 and end with 3, so the meaning of those is probably some sort of start/end delimiter.

0 appears a lot, so it's probably the drawing command.

4 and 6 are clear when you look at S: 205606040401, and realize that an S can be made with two left turns and two right turns (no matter if you're starting from the top or bottom), so 6 must be the left turn and 4 must be the right turn.

This leaves 5 and 1. I had noticed from Gareth's post that there are as many 1s as there are 5s, and furthermore, they are perfectly nested, so they must be somehow related. Turns out 5 saves the current location of the hand, and 1 restores it.

From this, we can gather that the states refer to the following:

0 = forward
1 = load position
2 = pen down
3 = pen up
4 = turn right
5 = save position
6 = turn left

Following these commands, we would get the following message:

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"

For fun, this is how the message in the hint looks like after it's decoded:

"INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THESE ALIENS CANT SEE ANYTHING THEY FEEL AND THEY SENSE HEAT ELECTRICITY AND ALPHA OR BETA DECAY BUT THEY LACK EYES TO SEE THE WORLD AS WE DO"

So, from Sleafar's cracking of the cipher, we now know the cryptic hints were referring to the fact that

aliens have to resort to analyzing energy and heat levels because they can't see.

So, it figures that if the cipher referred to meatspeak in the way we usually process it, and not in a way suited to the aliens' usual way to process raw data, it would be hard for them to get.

as in, the data describes the way we would draw the letters, which the aliens have no way of knowing.

From this, we can gather that the states refer to the following:

0 = forward
1 = load position
2 = pen down
3 = pen up
4 = turn right
5 = save position
6 = turn left

Following these commands, we would get the following message:

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"

So, from Sleafar's cracking of the cipher, we now know the cryptic hints were referring to the fact that

aliens have to resort to analyzing energy and heat levels because they can't see.

So, it figures that if the cipher referred to meatspeak in the way we usually process it, and not in a way suited to the aliens' usual way to process raw data, it would be hard for them to get.

as in, the data describes the way we would draw the letters, which the aliens have no way of knowing.

For some extra evidence of this other than the hint, we can look at the fact that an O: 256001056001 looks a lot like two Ls: 2560010, probably because an O can be made with one L and one inverted L.

Deducing what each state actually means is now not that hard:

All letters start with 2 and end with 3, so the meaning of those is probably some sort of start/end delimiter.

0 appears a lot, so it's probably the drawing command.

4 and 6 are clear when you look at S: 205606040401, and realize that an S can be made with two left turns and two right turns (no matter if you're starting from the top or bottom), so 6 must be the left turn and 4 must be the right turn.

This leaves 5 and 1. I had noticed from Gareth's post that there are as many 1s as there are 5s, and furthermore, they are perfectly nested, so they must be somehow related. Turns out 5 saves the current location of the hand, and 1 restores it.

From this, we can gather that the states refer to the following:

0 = forward
1 = load position
2 = pen down
3 = pen up
4 = turn right
5 = save position
6 = turn left

Following these commands, we would get the following message:

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"