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Revision as of 15:49, 20 July 2009
- This page will provide a running commentary and record on the progress of the PROJECT EURASIA treasure hunt
Introduction
Following Matthew Bellamy's Twitter posts[1][2] from Saturday 4th July 2009, the Ununited States of Eurasia microsite was launched alongside the new Official Muse website on Monday 13th 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".
Due to the inclusion of the leaked first letter from Aunt Dora from PHASE TWO in this article, this MuseWiki article in this state was used for the completion of PHASE TWO.
Briefing
On the day it was revealed, the following text was displayed on the page, on which fans could register as "agents".
| PROJECT EURASIA
FLASH BRIEFING DECLASSIFIED AND APPROVED FOR GENERAL RELEASE GEOPOLITICAL EVENTS NOW NECESSITATE ACTIVATION OF THE STANDBY MARKERS INCLUDE REALTIME ASSESSMENT OF POLITICAL AND PUBLIC FOR GRAN AJEDREZ TO BE FULLY ACTIVATED, APPROVAL HAS BEEN GRANTED GRAN AJEDREZ WILL BE ACTIVATED IN A PHASED PROCESS. SUCCESSFUL PLEASE STAND BY AND COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING FOR PRE-APPROVED |
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 |
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, or on the reliance of an evenly balanced, world-wide spread 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 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. |
In addition, the text on the main page was changed 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.
STATION FUSE became active and the following text was displayed on the site.
| STATION//FUSE
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 PROTOCOLS FOR USB ARMING KEYCODE ACQUISITION FOLLOW. STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE FOLLOW PROCEDURE TIMATION, CARTESIAN CHI MARKING TO DETERMINE VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION GRANDCREW: STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE 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 ACTIVATE STATION//FUSE:
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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: <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/StationFuse.mp3%7Crightbg=0x83F52C%7Cleftbg=0x83F52C%7Cbg=0x000</flashmp3>
- "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 seemed that once there a fan would meet there and give the phrase "BILDERBERG GROUP" to someone known 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 had 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 FUSE STATION site. This will upgrade the status of PHASE ONE to AMBER.
From this it seems that the "AGENT" involved in the completion of PHASE ONE, 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, amongst over thirty others,[3] attempted to retrieve the USB drive whilst updating on twitter. He succeeded in obtaining it.[4]
The USB drive contained a PDF file containing the code, which was entered and PHASE ONE became primed.
On the morning of the 15th July 2009, the Ununited States of Eurasia microsite homepage was updated to display the current number of active HUMINT RESOURCES and an RSS feed of current updates. The STATION FUSE page was updated to show a Google Map of Paris.
Following the priming of PHASE ONE, the STATION FUSE page was changed to read:
| STATION//FUSE :: PARIS
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANGEL ZERO IF YOU ARE NOT CLEARED TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR STATION CHIEF FLASH BRIEFING BEGINS LATEST FLASH HUMINT INDICATES 1658 BRAVO CLASS ENTITIES OPERATING IN 52 BRAVO CLASS ENTITIES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ACTING AT ELEVATED NIGHTMARE CLASS ENTITY CORRUPT AUGURS HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS === TAC OP IN PROGRESS 20090714:0523 ZULU NIGHTMARE CLASS ENTITY MANDRAKE STEW HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS WEST === TAC OP IN PROGRESS 20090714:0310 ZULU HUMINT ASSET HAS RECOVERED THE REMAINING 50 NIGHTMARE CLASS ENTITIES. YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO PROCEED TO ACTIVATION. DECRYPT THE
ENDS CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED ENTITIES SO FAR: 0 / 50
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Upon correct entry of a code the page then read:
| CONGRATULATIONS. IDENTITY IDENTIFIED CORRECTLY.
PLEASE WAIT FOR FURTHER CORRECT SUBMISSIONS. |
The text entry box disappeared.
The 50 seemingly random phrases were anagrams of different locations. The correct anagrams and their solvers were finally announced as follow:
| STATION HISTORY
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The MUSIC page then became active with the following text:
| MUSIC
1 STATION IS NOW CLASSIFIED AS ACTIVE: Paris. PLEASE WAIT. SYSTEM GRAND AJEDREZ IS UPDATED BY 1000 ZULU / 1100 BST DAILY. |
On the MUSIC page, before PHASE 2 progressed to amber, clip 1/6 of "United States of Eurasia" could be heard.
<flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/UnUSE_USE_clip_one.mp3%7Crightbg=0x83F52C%7Cleftbg=0x83F52C%7Cbg=0x000</flashmp3>
This concludes PHASE ONE.
Phase 2 of 6
Whilst Phase 1 was primed, Phase 2 became active.
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STATION//CHARLIE
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ABLE YELLOW. STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE TWO ACTIVATION IS GO. HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILIZATION HAS DEPENDENCIES ON USB ARMING PROTOCOLS FOR USB ARMING KEYCODE ACQUISITION FOLLOW. STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE FOLLOW PROCEDURE TIMATION, CARTESIAN CHI MARKING TO DETERMINE VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION KERABATSOS: [flash audio file] STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE STATION//CHARLIE WILL BE ACTIVE TO 20090715:1800-2000 LOCAL STATION TIME. FLASH NOTICE TO AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN STATION UNLOCK. SUCCESSFUL STATION UNLOCK AND PHOTINT WILL RESULT IN PERSONAL ACTIVATE STATION//CHARLIE:
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The audio on the page read out the following message: <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/StationCharlie.mp3%7Crightbg=0x83F52C%7Cleftbg=0x83F52C%7Cbg=0x000</flashmp3>
- "five two delta three zero hotel five one point six six mike november
- one three delta two seven hotal three three point nine three mike echo"
Giving the coordinates 52°30'51.66" N 13°27'33.93" E, leading to the buildings 15-27 on Niederbarnimstraße, in Berlin, Germany.
At one point STATION CHARLIE was temporarily updated to instead read:
| STATION//CHARLIE :: BERLIN
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANTIDOTE YTTRIUM IF YOU ARE NOT CLEARED TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR STATION CHIEF FLASH BRIEFING BEGINS ACTIVATION OF STATION//CHARLIE REQUIRES ENTRY OF HISTORICAL PASSPHRASE DEVISED BY PREVIOUS ARCHITECT OF GRAN AJEDREZ. HUMINT INDICATES THAT PASSPHRASE WAS INCORPORATED INTO SUCCESSOR PROJECTS DEEMED EFFECTIVE BY CONTROL. TRANSLATED AND TRANSCRIBED FRAGMENT OF CONTEMPORARY CORRESPONDENCE IS DISPLAYED BELOW. FRAGMENT BEGINS: 10 August Dearest Ernst, I write this to offer you the very best success with the new theatre and show. I have heard a ditty or two (don't worry, I won't hum to a soul!) from Roma at her last visit and am confident, despite the calamitous rehearsals and cast changes you mentioned in your letter, you have a bona fide smash on your hands! Roma mentioned the playwright has also been difficult, but with such new, dare I say hot-headed ideas, I am not surprised! I have told Charles to expect me for at least a week, as I am sure to want to see your new masterpiece several times and meet the composer who so impressed Busoni. My only concern, and I mention this in strictest confidence and with deepest affection, is that there is talk amongst our friends that you are aligning yourself and your venture with the leftist tide that has beset the city's newest cultural stars these past few years. I know it is the fashion of late to incubate entertainment that will cause the scales to fall from the eyes of so many bourgeoisie nihilists, but one can attract the wrong sort of attention with such lofty goals! Even the neighbor's son, Thus, has come home from The Building School in Dessau spouting fantastic and "dangerous" ideas for which his father has threatened to disown him. What's provocative about office design, I cannot imagine, but it must be delightful! Even so, I implore you to take care and ensure not every production with which you involve yourself be of such an "epic" nature. I fear that the tide is turning (perhaps a response to your generation's brazen attitude?) and soon it will be difficult for money and influence to protect those critical of those in power. I urge you to tread a fine line. Through your support, you are putting your playwright - and yourself - in a position where you influence the masses. As Herr Rilke, may he rest in peace, shrewdly noted, "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger." I submit that you need not call on danger, as she has always found you readily enough without the encouragement of the playwright you now support. Love always, Aunt Dora P.S. Forgive me, but the name of this new production escapes me. Please can you let Charles know before my arrival? CORRESPONDENCE TAGGED UNDER IDENTIFIERS: ERNST, DORA, CHARLES X-REF AGAINST GRAND AJEDREZ AGENTS: FRIGATE, BRIDEGROOM, BRUN YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO PROCEED TO ACTIVATION. ENTER THE HISTORICAL PASSPHRASE: CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED ENTITIES SO FAR: 0 / 1
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This new page featuring a letter from "Aunt Dora" was then returned to its original state featuring the audio message. It is unknown why this page was only briefly displayed and retracted, but it can be assumed to be a mistake as the initial page with an audio message was put into use.
German fans Anne Kieshauer and Tom Zylberszteinattempted to retrieve the USB key in Berlin, but were not successful, as the "two guys" that obtained it were bigger and closer to the agent at the time of his first appearance.[5][6]
The two guys, Burn and Albi, uploaded their pictures onto the Flickr and Youtube accounts, but had intitial trouble over entering the activation code, much like willytarno had in Paris. However, after several tries, with no success, a user called projecteurasia contacted them and revealed that the page had problems after the Aunt Dora letter accidentally got displayed and requested the activation code from Burn to get the page to work again. Burn was skeptical over whether or not projecteurasia was a real website technician and so projecteurasia put the phrase 'Burn and Albi going to meet muse!' in the source code for the Station October phase.
The code was then entered succesfully and STATION CHARLIE went amber and was updated with the following text.
| STATION//CHARLIE :: BERLIN
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANTIDOTE YTTRIUM IF YOU ARE NOT CLEARED TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR STATION CHIEF FLASH BRIEFING BEGINS ACTIVATION OF STATION//CHARLIE REQUIRES ENTRY OF HISTORICAL TRANSLATED AND TRANSCRIBED FRAGMENT OF CONTEMPORARY PLEASE SEE PREVIOUS DOCUMENTS FROM THIS DOSSIER PROVIDE CONTEXT FRAGMENT BEGINS: 21 March 1933 Dearest Ernst, I write to check that you are safe and well. Events are moving so fast and those Do you remember the letter I wrote you after I had heard the ditties from your old I do know, though, that the events in Potsdam today give us final proof that the tide You have done your best to tread a fine line. It is clear that bullies like Hinkel will Love always, Aunt Dora PASSPHRASE IS LIKELY TO BE RELATED TO THE WORK REFERRED TO IN THE ABOVE LETTER. YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO PROCEED TO ACTIVATION. ENTER THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL PASSPHRASE: CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED ENTITIES SO FAR: 0 / 1
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The word "SECURELY" in the phrase "PREVIOUS DOCUMENTS ARE LEAKED AND HELD SECURELY" linked directly to this article, referencing the original letter from Aunt Dora that had been leaked, indicating it too was to be used in the PROJECT EURASIA treasure hunt.
The original letter references the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The ENTITY was correctly identified as "The Silverlake: a Winter's Fairy Tale" within minutes and STATION CHARLIE went green.
With a few hours the audio file on the MUSIC page was updated with the second part of "United States of Eurasia". <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/UnUSE_USE_clip_two.mp3%7Crightbg=0x83F52C%7Cleftbg=0x83F52C%7Cbg=0x000</flashmp3>
Phase 3 of 6
On the morning of 16th July 2009 both Phases 3 and 4 were locked. The Moscow station was revelated to be STATION OCTOBER and its page as read the following.
| STATION//OCTOBER
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANNUL FABLE STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE THREE ACTIVATION IS HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILIZATION HAS DEPENDENCIES ON USB ARMING PROTOCOLS FOR USB ARMING KEYCODE ACQUISITION FOLLOW. STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE FOLLOW PROCEDURE TIMATION, CARTESIAN CHI MARKING TO DETERMINE VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION COFFEEBEAN: [flash audio file] STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE STATION//OCTOBER WILL BE ACTIVE TO 20090717:0900-1100 LOCAL STATION TIME. FLASH NOTICE TO AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN STATION UNLOCK. SUCCESSFUL STATION UNLOCK AND PHOTINT WILL RESULT IN PERSONAL ACTIVATE STATION//OCTOBER:
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The audio message read as: <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/StationOctober.mp3%7Crightbg=0x83F52C%7Cleftbg=0x83F52C%7Cbg=0x000</flashmp3>
- "five five delta four five hotel three one point seven zero mike november
- three seven delta three eight four seven point three two mike echo"
Giving the coordinated 55°45'31.70" N, 37°38'47.32" E. The led the the address of Coffee Bean Кафе on ул. Покровка, Moscow. The password to give the agent is BTC PIPELINE (refering to the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline) and the meeting will place from 09:00-11:00 local time (06:00-08:00 BST).
At 22:24 BST on the night before STATION OCTOBER became active a message on musewire suggested the connection between Berlin and Moscow is "Lotte's Deadly Shoes",[1]. This was a reference to Lotte Lenya who was the widow of Kurt Weill, and was the star of a revival of the Threepenny Opera that was referenced in Aunt Dora's letter. Lotte Lenya also played Rosa Kleb, in the James Bond film From Russia With Love, who had poison knife blades in the tips of her shoes.
Fans Анна Муратова and Мария Федорцова attended but neither were successful. The code was nevertheless entered and STATION OCTOBER went amber, with the following text appearing.
| STATION//OCTOBER :: MOSCOW
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANCIENT FEDERATION IF YOU ARE NOT CLEARED TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT PLEASE REPORT TO LATEST FLASH HUMINT CONFIRMS HISTORICAL IDENTIFICATION CIPHER ECHO MOBILE NINER CIPHER INSTRUCTIONS: WESTERN ALPHABET HUMINT HAS NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN RECOVERING THE ENTIRE ECHO // PLAINTEXT VALUE: IGOR THE ASSASSIN // ACTIVATION SYSTEM REQUIRES ENTRY AS "IGORTHEASSASSIN=222" // PLAINTEXT VALUE: SERGEI TRETYAKOV // ACTIVATION SYSTEM REQUIRES ENTRY AS "SERGEITRETYAKOV=227" // PLAINTEXT VALUE: PAVEL FITIN // ACTIVATION SYSTEM REQUIRES ENTRY AS "PAVELFITIN=139" YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO PROCEED TO ACTIVATION. ENTER THE REMAINING CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED ENTITIES SO FAR: 0 / 99
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The correctly entered listed as the 99 were found, resulting in the complete list when PHASE THREE nwas activated.
| STATION//OCTOBER
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANCIENT FEDERATION STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE THREE ACTIVATION IS GO. UNLOCKED GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE THREE WILL BE AVAILABLE BY 1000 ZULU / 1100 BST.
STATION UNLOCKED BY TWIN ON 2009-07-17 07:16:11 GMT WITH KEY rusted84866-trotting. THIS STATION'S ENTITIES:
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After this STATION OCTOBER became active and the next section of "United States of Eurasia" was uploaded.
Phase 4 of 6
On the morning of 16th July 2009 both Phases 3 and 4 were locked. The Dubai station was revealed to be STATION UMAYYAD and read as following.
| STATION//UMAYYAD
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO AMBIT PROLIX STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE FOUR ACTIVATION IS GO. HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILIZATION HAS DEPENDENCIES ON USB ARMING PROTOCOLS FOR USB ARMING KEYCODE ACQUISITION FOLLOW. STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE FOLLOW PROCEDURE TIMATION, CARTESIAN CHI MARKING TO DETERMINE VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION VIRGIN: [flash audio file] STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE STATION//UMAYYAD WILL BE ACTIVE TO 20090717:2000-2200 LOCAL STATION FLASH NOTICE TO AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN STATION UNLOCK. SUCCESSFUL STATION UNLOCK AND PHOTINT WILL RESULT IN PERSONAL ACTIVATE STATION//UMAYYAD:
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The audio message read as: <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/StationUmayyad.mp3%7Crightbg=0x83F52C%7Cleftbg=0x83F52C%7Cbg=0x000</flashmp3>
- "two five delta zero seven hotel zero four point five eight mike november
- five five delta one two hotel zero zero point nine nine mike echo"
This gave the coordinates 25°07'04.58" N, 55°12'00.99" E. The location of this meeting at the Virgin Store in the Mall of the Emirates, Al Barsha, Dubai, and will occur at 20:00-22:00 local time (17:00-19:00 BST). The authentification ccode is "TWO STATE SOLUTION BASED ON PRE-1967 BORDERS".
The key was found and SATION UMAYYAD was primed.
| STATION//UMAYYAD
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANDROID POLAR IF YOU ARE NOT CLEARED TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT PLEASE REPORT TO GRAN AJEDREZ OBJECTIVE EMEA-AP THREATENED BY MULTINATIONAL RECON CONFIRMS CONGLOMERATE ENTITY HQ AT STATION HELDENPLATZ. REVENUE OF CHIEF SUB ENTITIES (LEVELS 1-5) COMPRISE 1822707 USD HUMINT RESOURCES TO RETRIEVE DATA CLASSIFIED: NET INCOME. ONLY ELECTRONIC DATA RETRIEVAL IS AUTHORISED. NO GROUND RECON IS BRAVO PIPER 1980 YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO PROCEED TO ACTIVATION. ENTER DATA POINTS IN FOLLOWING FASHION E.G. 138 OR -3921. CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED ENTITIES SO FAR: 0 / 100
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The correct entres were as following:
| STATION//UMAYYAD
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ANDROID POLAR STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE FOUR ACTIVATION IS GO. UNLOCKED GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE FOUR WILL BE AVAILABLE BY 1000 ZULU / 1100 BST.
STATION UNLOCKED BY TAMBI ON 2009-07-17 17:04:47 GMT WITH KEY newsmaker7\multiline. THIS STATION'S ENTITIES:
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Hours later that evening, the fourth part of "United States of Eurasia" was uploaded, and some lyrics from the section uploaded were posted on musewire.
Phase 5 of 6
| STATION//DOOLITTLE :: TOKYO
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ASSAY MONARCH. LOCAL STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE FIVE ACTIVATION IS GO. HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILIZATION HAS DEPENDENCIES ON USB ARMING PROTOCOLS FOR USB ARMING KEYCODE ACQUISITION FOLLOW. STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE FOLLOW PROCEDURE TIMATION, CARTESIAN CHI MARKING TO DETERMINE VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION KOKAIDO:
[flash audio file]
STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE STATION//DOOLITTLE WILL BE ACTIVE TO 20090719:1400-1600 LOCAL STATION FLASH NOTICE TO AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN STATION UNLOCK. SUCCESSFUL STATION UNLOCK AND PHOTINT WILL RESULT IN PERSONAL ACTIVATE STATION//DOOLITTLE:
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The underlined text led a PDF file containing a Japanese translation of the text. to This lead to the coordinates 35°40'17.03" N, 139°45'19.87" E and will occur at 14:00-16:00 Japan Time (6:00-8:00 BST). The location of the meeting is Hibiya Kokaido Public Hall, 13 Hibiya Park, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. And the authentification code is "TRILATERAL COMMISSION".
Phase 6 of 6
On the evening (GMT) before STATION DOOLITTLE became primed, STATION BAUHINIA became locked and the following text was displayed on the STATION BAUHINIA page.
| STATION//BAUHINIA :: HONG KONG
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ARENA CACHE STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE SIX ACTIVATION IS GO. HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILIZATION HAS DEPENDENCIES ON USB ARMING PROTOCOLS FOR USB ARMING KEYCODE ACQUISITION FOLLOW. STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE FOLLOW PROCEDURE TIMATION, CARTESIAN CHI MARKING TO DETERMINE VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION COLDSTORAGE: STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE STATION//BAUHINIA WILL BE ACTIVE TO 20090720:1400-1600 LOCAL STATION FLASH NOTICE TO AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN STATION UNLOCK. SUCCESSFUL STATION UNLOCK AND PHOTINT WILL RESULT IN PERSONAL ACTIVATE STATION//BAUHINIA:
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This led us to the coordiantes 22°16'48.88"N, 114°09'20.70"E and will occur at 1400-1600 Local Time (700-900 BST). The location of the meeting is Fringe Club, Hong Kong. And the Authentication Code is GOLDEN TRIANGLE.
The station was activated and the following text was displayed on the page
| STATION//BAUHINIA:: HONG KONG
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ASCENDANT CONSTANT IF YOU ARE NOT CLEARED TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR STATION CHIEF APPROVAL GRANTED FOR IMMEDIATE TACTICAL RETRIEVE PROTECT AND SECURE OPERATION. LATEST FLASH HUMINT HAS SECURED ORGANISATIONAL DIAGRAM OF IDENTIFIED SUPPORTIVE INTERESTS TO PROJECT EURASIA. PRIORITY ORDERS ARE TO ASSIST IN IDENTIFICATION OF THESE HIGH VALUE ASSETS TO SECURE THEIR IMMEDIATE PROTECTION. PRIOR VERIFIED HUMINT HAS SECURED ONE ENTRY: 17.WUERKAIXI YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO PROCEED TO ACTIVATION. FOLLOW THE CONNECTIONS OF THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT AND IDENTIFY THE REMAINING ASSETS. ENTRY OF ASSETS MUST MATCH SYSTEM ENTRY FORMAT (NUMBER.FULLNAME). CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED ENTITIES SO FAR: 0 / 70
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The correctly identified ENTITIES were then displayed in the STATION HISTORY as follows.
| STATION//BAUHINIA
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ASCENDANT CONSTANT. STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE SIX ACTIVATION IS GO. UNLOCKED GRAN AJEDREZ PHASE SIX WILL BE AVAILABLE BY 1000 ZULU /
STATION UNLOCKED BY NICK G ON 2009-07-20 06:47:24 GMT WITH KEY THIS STATION'S ENTITIES:
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This stage, 6/6 united the States of Eurasia on the site, all areas were Green.
Following this, the final shard was uploaded and an unexpected STATION//COLOSSUS was locked.
Phase 7 of 6
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STATION//COLOSSUS
THIS DOCUMENT IS CLASSIFIED INDIGO ARCHIVE QUARTET. STANDBY PLAN BRAVO NINER GRAN AJEDREZ FINAL PHASE IS GO. HUMINT RESOURCE MOBILIZATION HAS DEPENDENCIES ON USB RECOGNITION KEYCODE ACQUISITION FROM DROP LOCATION. KEYCODE UTILISATION WILL INDICATE THAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RECOGNISES NEW UNITED STATES OF EURASIA. RECOGNITION WILL TRIGGER MP3 DOWNLOAD OF RESOURCE MIKE UNIFORM SIERRA ECHO//UNITED STATES OF EURASIA FOR ALL ACTIVE HUMINT RESOURCES. PRIORITY FLASH: FAILURE OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO RECOGNISE UNITED STATES OF EURASIA BY 20090721:1830 BST / 20090721:1330 LOCAL STATION TIME, WILL INITIATE PROJECT EURASIA / GRAN AJEDREZ (BRAVO NINER) LOCKDOWN CRISIS LIMITATION MODE. THE RESISTANCE WILL BE MOBILISED. PROTOCOLS FOR USB RECOGNITION 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 COUNCIL. ON ARRIVAL AT DROP LOCATION COUNCIL PROVIDE THE VERBAL AUTHENTICATION CODE TO DESIGNATED AGENT 978-0465027262. VERBAL AUTHENTICATION CODE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO HUMINT AGENTS MONITORING @musewire COMMUNICATION CHANNELS. THREE MESSAGES WILL PROVIDE INTEL ON VERBAL AUTHENTICATION CODE. VERBAL AUTHENTICATION CODE WILL BE A SINGLE WORD. VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL TO VERIFY SECURITY PROTOCOLS. AGENT MUST PROVIDE A PHOTINT OF AGENT WITH USB PACKAGE AT STATION COLOSSUS. PHOTINT SHOULD BE UPLOADED TO DESIGNATED PUBLIC REPOSITORIES FOXTROT AND YANKEE. PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION COUNCIL: [flash audio file] STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE AGENTS, ONLY ONE AGENT WILL BE RECOGNISED. STATION//COLOSSUS WILL BE ACTIVE TO 20090721:1130-1230 LOCAL STATION TIME. FLASH NOTICE TO AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN STATION UNLOCK. SUCCESSFUL STATION UNLOCK AND PHOTINT WILL RESULT IN A PERSONAL DEBRIEF WITH PROJECT EURASIA ARCHITECTS AND 2X ADMITTANCE TO A PROJECT EURASIA (MIKE UNIFORM SIERRA ECHO) RALLY OF AGENT'S CHOICE FOR THE UNLOCKING AGENT. PROJECT ARCHITECTS WILL CONTACT SUCCESSFUL AGENT. DOES UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RECOGNISE NEW UNITED STATES OF EURASIA? TO ACKNOWLEDGE RECOGNITION, ENTER USB UNLOCK CODE BEFORE 20090721:1330 LOCAL STATION TIME. IF USB ENTRY CODE IS NOT ENTERED BY 20090721:1330 LOCAL STATION TIME, UNITED STATES OF EURASIA WILL NOT BE RECOGNISED.
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This led us to the coordinates [1]in NY and will occur at 21/07/2009 13:30.
Upon entering the correct key code the 'United States of Eurasia' would be recognized, but the message also states that failure to activate the area would cause the Resistance to 'mobilize'. It turns out this is the 'tough decision' the band tweeted earlier in the treasure hunt.
Twitter trending
After PHASE THREE and PHASE FOUR had been locked a news message was posted that said the following.
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WARNING: PROJECT IDENTIFIER IS AT STATUS BLACK AND NON-TRENDING. PLEASE USE IDENTIFIER #USOE TO COORDINATE PROJECT EURASIA/GRAN AJEDREZ. ALL ACTIVE HUMINT RESOURCES INSTRUCTED TO INCREASE RECRUITS AND TO MAKE BEST EFFORTS TO TREND IDENTIFIER. ALL AGENTS ARE ADVISED TO USE DISCRETION. |
Muse fans succeeded in getting #USOE to the sixth most popular trend on Twitter, and additionally succeeded on getting #muse to ninth position,[7] although they were later removed from Trending Topics by Twitter. After this, Muse fans succeeded in getting #granajedrez to trend at number eight,[8][9] before Twitter also removed this trend. The removals were due to fans' attempts to artificially boost their popularity through repeated posting.
In response to the removal of the trends by Twitter the following news update was posted on the Ununinted States of Eurasia site.
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HUMINT COMMUNICATION MESSAGE CHANNEL COORDINATION OBSERVED. NOTE: FLOODING OF COMMUNICATION CHANNELS HIGHLY SEEK TO UNIFY FACTIONS AND AVOID FURTHER FRAGMENTATION. Posted: 2009-07-17 11:25:13 GMT |
References
- ↑ a b
(2009-07-04). [Musewire update]. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-14 from twitter.com. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "tw20090704a" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ (2009-07-04). [Musewire update]. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-14 from twitter.com.
- ↑ willytarno. (2009-07-15). [Twitter update]. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-15 from twitter.com.
- ↑ willytarno. (2009-07-15). [Twitter update]. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-15 from twitter.com.
- ↑ Anne Kieshauer. (2009-07-15). [Twitter update]. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-15 from twitter.com.
- ↑ Anne Kieshauer. (2009-07-15). [Twitter update]. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-15 from twitter.com.
- ↑ Niall. (2009-07-16). [Official Message Board post]. Official Message board. Retrieved 2009-07-16 from board.muse.mu.
- ↑ Citizen Erased. (2009-07-16). [Official Message Board post]. Official Message board. Retrieved 2009-07-16 from board.muse.mu.
- ↑ Meian. (2009-07-16). [Official Message Board post]. Official Message board. Retrieved 2009-07-17 from board.muse.mu.