How to read the communication between spaceships in Excession?

Question

In Iain M. Banks's Excession, there are several discussions between spaceships that are in a format that looks like a log file. It looks like this:

(GCU Grey Area signal sequence file #n428857/119)
.
[swept-to-tightbeam, M16.4, [email protected]]
xGSV Honest Mistake oGCU Grey Area Take a look at this:

oo

(Signal sequence #n428855/1446, relay:)

oo

1) [skein broadcast, Mclear, received @ n4.28.855.0065+]:
!c11505 oo

2) [swept beam Ml, received @ n4.28.855.0066-]: SDA.
C2314992+52
xFATC @ n4.28.855.

oo

3) [swept beam, M2, relay, received@ n4.28.855.0079-]:
xGCU Fate Amenable To Change.
oGSV Ethics Gradient
& as requested:
Significant developmental anomaly.
C4629984+523
(@n28.855.0065.43392).

And so on...

Is there a cheat sheet or something that could help me to extract all the information contained in the headers and other sections of those discussions?

Answer 1

It turn out it's all explained later in the book.