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[thebruce]

[Day One] Sargasso Planet

[Lovek]

Re: [Day One] Sargasso Planet

[Kandiman]

Okay, I'll bite. I'm in. For both ARG and show. Any show with Xander Berkeley and Carly Pope: Win.

[Abraxas]

the Zazzle store he tweets about

He says, some of his products have been removed. I guess by "some" he means "all of them"?

Interesting image at the top there.

Edit@thebruce: I suspect it's a user contribution, since it's stored in the contributions directory. I don't know if that increases the chances for it to mean something.

[thebruce]

yes indeedy. The filename is 'mantle.png'.
It may just be a zazzle template with no meaning, or it could be a custom template.

[danteIL]

Re: [Day One] Sargasso Planet

[Asphodel]

The "Me" page on sargassoplanetfan.com links to NaNoWriMo. When I follow that link, though, the page title and URL bar "stay behind" as "Greetings Sargassoids!" and http://sargassoplanetfan.com/ respectively.

Also, I can't find Alan S. Corey as an author on the NaNoWriMo site (I tried it with the weirdness-through-link in case I would thereby see a subtly altered version). I've tried searching on 'alan', 'corey', and 'sargas', and I haven't seen any promising entries.

('alan' yields too many entries, so I filtered by SF authors because he says he writes speculative fiction.)

[thebruce]

First, the url and title don't change because the sargassoplanetfan site is loaded in a framset - open the nanowrimo link in a new window (also it is only a link to the main page)

Alan S. Corey to me feels like a pen name. Anagram? Another related name possibly to be made from it?

His email is enabrantain@ - Enabran Tain was the head of the Obsidian Order in ST:DS9 / link

No hits for Enabran either, or the chaodai name where the fan site is located.

[Varin]

Found something interesting on the Day One website -

[Asphodel]

ALANSCOREY yields too many suggestive results to be conclusive: alone scary, coy arsenal, only Caesar, sole canary (warning of an information leak, perhaps? a "canary trap"?), Sara Ceylon, Sara Conley, lacy senora, nary solace, Carey Sloane, Carson Yale.

Enabran Tain just gives me "inert banana", and Chaodai is "chao aid" (where chao is the singular of chaos). :/

So yeah.

[Abraxas]

Calcios...hehe, I like that.

The artwork on the Sargasso video game cover looks like a scene from the trailer, when these pillars of whatever (seaweed?) have shot out of the ground.

This whole thing appears like a parable, if you read the story page. The aliens is us and the sentient race in larvae phase might be what we need to discover in order to help us fight off the "Insectillians".

Sargasso is derived from sargassum, which is seaweed. Who knows, maybe it is seaweed from space, we are being seeded with by the equivalent of the Insectillians.

Drifting off a little...
If the parable holds, we would have to befriend the weed. If that's what the "larvae" is. Now, how does that sound like to you?

[Asphodel]

Do you think the Sargasso Planet canon is based on reality, then? I had the impression we were dealing more with a corporate conspiracy and crimes against art than with visitors from another world.

[Abraxas]

[danteIL]

So I was bored and searching around and came across a reference to Sargasso Planet on the Middleman LJ blog: http://themiddleblog.livejournal.com/

[Randomeis]

The Middleman Connection