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Partial answer

There are 5 messages encoded in the image, respectively in:

International Maritime Signal Flags, Braille, Pigpen cipher, Semaphore, and Morse code.

However:

Each message has several mistakes within it...

Message 1:

Several of the flags (marked below in brackets) have red sections instead of yellow; others have black sections which should be white. If we fix these, then we produce the message:
(D)(E)BUSSYS {C}UAIRE (D)(E) (B){L}ANK
Round brackets indicate red for yellow, curly brackets indicate black for white in addition.

This message itself contains a further mistake - the second 'U' should be an 'L' to spell out "DEBUSSY'S CLAIRE DE BLANK", the answer to which is LUNE.

Message 2:

Two Braille letters here are corrupted, but the overall message appears that it should spell out "ELEMENT (N)INETY (T)WO", the answer to which is URANIUM (symbol 'U').

Message 3:

This Pigpen cipher contains several completely superflous letters:
F(M)RENC(D)H W(V)OR(B)D F(M)O(P)R K(H)ING(U)S

This appears to give us the message "FRENCH WORD FOR KINGS", the answer to which is ROIS.

Message 4:

The semaphore message also contains several mistakes, coming out as:
N{NN}MBER AF(B)TER T{QY}REE

Here it appears we should substitute a 'U' for the first NN, remove the B, and sub in an H for the QY to read the message "NUMBER AFTER THREE", the answer to which is FOUR or 4 if dealing with integers.

Message 5:

The Morse code translates to: PROTEI(A) HAVIN(W) (N) FAMOUSL(Q) LON(W) NAME, which appears like it should read (with substitutions) as "PROTEIN HAVING A FAMOUSLY LONG NAME", the answer to which is TITIN (see this link, for example).

Altogether then we appear to have:

LUNE U(RANIUM) ROIS FOUR TITIN

But I cannot yet see what we are expected to achieve with this, or how the title relates to the puzzle itself... Further thought required...

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