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[1][2] from Saturday 4th July 2009, the Ununited States of Eurasia microsite was launched alongside the new Official Muse website on the 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".
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.
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 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: <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 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 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 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, 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 1 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 oh PHASE 1, the STATION FUSE page was changed to read:
STATION//FUSE :: PARIS
PROJECT EURASIA INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION: STATION//FUSE
ACTIVATION SCENARIO 1/6
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
BRUSSELS AT GUARDIAN LEVELS. ALL BRAVO CLASS ENTITIES HAVE
ACQUIRED QUASI-LEGAL STATUS UNDER COVER OF ACCREDITED LOBBYING
ORGANISATIONS.
52 BRAVO CLASS ENTITIES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ACTING AT ELEVATED
LEVELS, REQUIRING UPGRADE TO NIGHTMARE CLASS.
NIGHTMARE CLASS ENTITY CORRUPT AUGURS HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS
ARCTURUS GROUP.
=== TAC OP IN PROGRESS 20090714:0523 ZULU
NIGHTMARE CLASS ENTITY MANDRAKE STEW HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS WEST
DENMARK.
=== 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
FOLLOWING 50 NIGHTMARE CLASS ENTITIES.
* A BENIGN CULT SOP
* A BOGUS RAP
* A CRISPY LIME LION
* A DENIZEN HELL
* A LOUT OVERREACTING
* ACID ROSE
* AFTER TENTH ROW
* ALCOHOLIC SNEER
* ALE GROUPIE
* AUNT QUIPS
* BAIL ORDER
* BECKONS FROZEN FISH
* BERRY WOMAN
* BIG THEATRE CAREERS
* CLEAN RAP
* CONE
* CORRUPT AUGURS
* EAGER PENCE
* END SO POOR
* ENHANCED SIRES
* GRIM ALOE
* HELP REASON
* HID A DRY SIN ABROAD
* I RUE EPIC FOE
* I SCRUB SILTY COFFEES
* I SLUNK INTO FAUNA
* IRKED LUNATICS
* LICENCING NUTTY RIOTS
* LONE
* MAKE LOUD IRE
* MANDRAKE STEW
* NECROSIS
* NEUTRAL
* OOH YUM TURF
* OTHER NINJA
* POPE HIRES YOU
* PRIM RUNIC OATH
* QUOTED MAD RANT
* RECOUP A FEE
* ROGUE CHINESE WALNUTS
* ROPY VEAL CUT
* ROUGH PETALS
* SADIST NIGH
* SEACOAST SPIN
* SHAMROCK OOZED IN POI
* SIR LONGHAIR
* SWEET DEANS
* TEAR UP SEXY OPERA
* TWO SHY CHICKS
* VAGUE
* VALENTINE WAR
* WALK ON NINTH DOLL
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 disappears.
Phase 2 of 6
Whilst Phase 1 was primed, Phase 2 became active.
PROJECT EURASIA INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION ACTIVATION SCENARIO 2/6 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 KEYCODE ACQUISITION FROM DROP LOCATION. KEYCODE UTILISATION WILL PROVIDE DECRYPTION INFORMATION FOR SECTOR TWO 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 KERABATSOS. ON ARRIVAL AT DROP LOCATION KERABATSOS PROVIDE THE VERBAL AUTHENTICATION CODE ANTARIS DOT COM 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 CHARLIE. PHOTINT SHOULD BE UPLOADED TO DESIGNATED PUBLIC REPOSITORIES FOXTROT AND YANKEE. PLEASE FIND AGREED DROP LOCATION KERABATSOS: [flash audio file] STATION MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED BY ONE AGENT. IN INSTANCES OF MULTIPLE AGENTS, ONLY ONE AGENT WILL BE RECOGNISED. 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 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//CHARLIE: ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
STATION CHARLIE was then updated to instead read
STATION//CHARLIE :: BERLIN PROJECT EURASIA INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION: STATION//CHARLIE ACTIVATION SCENARIO 2/6 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
References
- ↑ Twitter / musewire (2009-07-04). Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-14 from twitter.com.
- ↑ Twitter / musewire (2009-07-04). Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-14 from twitter.com.
- ↑ willytarno. (2009-07-15). Twitter. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-15 from twitter.com.
- ↑ willytarno. (2009-07-15). Twitter. Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-15 from twitter.com.