Ununited States of Eurasia

This page will provide a running commentary and record on the progress of the PROJECT EURASIA treasure hunt

Following Matthew Bellamy's Twitter posts from Saturday 4^th July 2009, the Ununited States of Eurasia microsite was launched alongside the new Official Muse website on the Monday 13^th July 2009, after the completion of a countdown on a holding page that replaced the older Muse website on previous Friday. This hunt is to unlock access to song "United States of Eurasia".

On the day it was revealed, the following text was displayed on the page, on which fans could register.

PROJECT EURASIA

FLASH BRIEFING DECLASSIFIED AND APPROVED FOR GENERAL RELEASE
PREVIOUS CLASSIFICATION: INDIGO ALPHA SHARD

GEOPOLITICAL EVENTS NOW NECESSITATE ACTIVATION OF THE STANDBY
PLAN BRAVO NINER PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS GRAN AJEDREZ.

MARKERS INCLUDE REALTIME ASSESSMENT OF POLITICAL AND PUBLIC 
SENTIMENT AT -2.57 (KNIGHT INDEX), SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS AT 
[REDACTED], ENERGY STABILITY INDICATORS AT [REDACTED], GLOBAL 
MARKET VOLATILITY MARKERS AT [REDACTED] AND SOVEREIGN STATE 
MILITARY EFFECTIVENESS AT [REDACTED].

FOR GRAN AJEDREZ TO BE FULLY ACTIVATED, APPROVAL HAS BEEN GRANTED 
FOR WIDESPREAD MOBILISATION OF INITIATED NON-CONVENTIONAL HUMINT 
RESOURCES.

GRAN AJEDREZ WILL BE ACTIVATED IN A PHASED PROCESS. SUCCESSFUL 
ACTIVATION OF EACH PHASE WILL RESULT IN THE UNLOCKING AND 
DECRYPTION OF AN AUDIO BRIEFING. THE FULL PROJECT EURASIA / GRAN 
AJEDREZ AUDIO BRIEFING WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD UPON 
SUCCESSFUL ACTIVATION OF ALL PHASES.

PLEASE STAND BY AND COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING FOR PRE-APPROVED 
HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILISATION.

After registration the following text was displayed.

YOU HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY RECORDED AS AN ACTIVE HUMINT 
RESOURCE FOR PROJECT EURASIA / GRAN AJEDREZ. PLEASE STAND BY FOR 
ORDERS. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTINUE RECRUITMENT EFFORTS.

In an official email the purpose of the microsite was revealed:

"Not only are we launching a new website today, but we're also taking registrations over at http://ununitedeurasia.muse.mu for :something pretty special that will be starting in the next couple of days. Those of you who have been keeping up with Matt's :comments on Twitter will have an idea of what this is all about, but let's just say... if you want to be the first to hear a new :song from The Resistance, then get yourself registered today. It's going to need a whole lot of fans all around the world to make :it work so tell your friends and stay tuned!"

The advancement of the project therefore seemed to be determined on the number of registered users.

Phase 1 of 6

On Tuesday 14th July 2009 Phase 1 began. The map of Eurasia was updated and text on the front page of site was change to:

PROJECT EURASIA

FLASH BRIEFING DECLASSIFIED AND APPROVED FOR GENERAL RELEASE
PREVIOUS CLASSIFICATION: INDIGO ALPHA STEREO

PROJECT EURASIA / GRAN AJEDREZ (BRAVO NINER) IS NOW ACTIVE.

WIDESPREAD MOBILISATION OF INITIATED NON-CONVENTIONAL HUMINT RESOURCES IS APPROVED.

STAND BY FOR PHASED ACTIVATION OF GRAN AJEDREZ STATIONS.

STATION//FUSE IS NOW INITIATED.

STATION FUSE became active and the following text was displayed on the site.

STATION//FUSE

PROJECT EURASIA INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION
ACTIVATION SCENARIO 1/6

THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO AMAZON ZENITH.

STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE ONE ACTIVATION IS GO.

HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILIZATION HAS DEPENDENCIES ON USB ARMING 
KEYCODE ACQUISITION FROM DROP LOCATION. KEYCODE UTILIZATION WILL 
PROVIDE DECRYPTION INFORMATION FOR SECTOR ONE AND RAISE LEVEL TO 
AMBER.

PROTOCOLS FOR USB ARMING KEYCODE ACQUISITION FOLLOW.

STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE 
AGENTS, ONLY ONE AGENT WILL BE RECOGNISED.

FOLLOW PROCEDURE TIMATION, CARTESIAN CHI MARKING TO DETERMINE 
DROP LOCATION GRANDCREW. ON ARRIVAL AT DROP LOCATION GRANDCREW 
PROVIDE THE VERBAL AUTHENTICATION CODE BILDERBERG GROUP TO 
DESIGNATED AGENT 978-0465027262.

VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY 
PROTOCOLS.

AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION 
FUSE. UPLOAD PHOTINT TO DESIGNATED PUBLIC REPOSITORIES FOXTROT 
AND YANKEE.

PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION GRANDCREW:
[flash audio file]

STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE 
AGENTS, ONLY ONE AGENT WILL BE RECOGNISED.

STATION//FUSE WILL BE ACTIVE TO 20090715:1000-1200 LOCAL STATION TIME.

FLASH NOTICE TO AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN STATION UNLOCK.

SUCCESSFUL STATION UNLOCK AND PHOTINT WILL RESULT IN PERSONAL 
DEBRIEF WITH PROJECT EURASIA ARCHITECTS AND 2X ADMITTANCE TO 
PROJECT EURASIA (MIKE UNIFORM SIERRA ECHO) RALLY OF AGENT'S CHOICE. 
PROJECT ARCHITECTS WILL CONTACT SUCCESSFUL AGENT. DEBRIEF AT 
ARCHITECT'S DISCRETION.

ACTIVATE STATION//FUSE:
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

The FOXTROT and YANKEE despositories lead to a Flickr Project and YouTube Channel respectively.

The audio file on the site was a female voice over some distorted audio, that read out the following message:

"four eight delta five one hotel three nine point eight seven mike november

zero two delta two one hotel three nine point two three mike echo"

Which can be read as the following:

48d51h39.87mn

02d21h39.23me

This leads to the coordinates 48°51'39.87" N 02°21'39.23" E, buildings 7-13, Rue du Perche, Paris, France.

From this it seems that once there a fan will meet there with the "BILDERBERG GROUP" to someone knows as "DESIGNATED AGENT 978-0465027262" and receive a USB flash drive. 978-0465027262 is the ISBN for the book The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzeziński, from which the song "United States of Eurasia" draws its inspiration. They will have to take a photo and/or video there and upload it to the depositories. The flash drive presumably contains the "USB ARMING KEYCODE" to be entered into the text box on the PHASE 1 site. This will upgrade the status of PHASE 1 to AMBER.

From this it seems that the "AGENT" involved in the completion of PHASE 1, will receive two Muse tickets to a performance of their choice, plus get a chance to meet the band themselves, as well as being responsible for the successful entering of the code.

Muselive.com member willytarno is known to be attempting to retrieve the USB drive and will update on twitter.

In addition, the text on the main page was change from "PREVIOUS CLASSIFICATION: INDIGO ALPHA SHARD" to "PREVIOUS CLASSIFICATION: INDIGO ALPHA STEREO". It is unknown if this is a correction or is significant to the treasure hunt.

See also

• PROJECT EURASIA

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