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Nimon, also called Linear A or Minoan by those who believed it to be an ancient language from the island of Crete, was the language of the alien Nimon species. The Sword of Aegeus, purported to have belonged to Theseus, had inscriptions in Nimon that acted as a computer program that delivered instructions to robotic bronze Minotaur statues.
Daedalus studied the written Nimon language from tablets he found in a Nimon ship that crashed on the island of Crete in 2000 BC. He was able to decipher enough of the language to write rudimentary instructions for how to create and control bronze bull statues fashioned after the Nimons. (PROSE: The Maze of Doom)