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[NEVEC][TRAILHEAD] NeoVenus Construction
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Wiser
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[NEVEC][TRAILHEAD] NeoVenus Construction
"Lost Planet" ARG

In short, two new trailers for Lost Planet went up on Xbox Live Marketplace. At the end of the first one, the text "111" flashed up. At the end of the second one, the text "neovenusconstruction.com" flashed up, leading to Neo Venus Construction.

Reading through the site a little bit brings up a link to Tourbit Aerospace

One other VERY interesting thing that I found:
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"Tourbit has already launched 10 flights to EDN delivering the supplies and machinery necessary for establishing a colony on its surface. The 11th flight is planned for early next year and will deliver the final and most important element to EDN, the human element. A crew made up of both NeoVenus Construction and Tourbit researchers, as well as a small contingent of experts carefully selected from the private sector, will make up the crew of 111 lucky pioneers trailblazing the new Frontier Project."
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Last paragraph at http://neovenusconstruction.com/sp_fl2.html

Edit: de-spoilered quote. yanka.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:22 am
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Dolar
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There is more then one location on the site asking for a username and password, nothing I have tried has worked so far.

It looks like it may be an arg, but considering all the broken links i think it is not yet ready for primetime.

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colin
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Very interesting, looks promising Very Happy

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There's now an article about this on IGN.

Edit: added article link. yanka.

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I noticed that the job ID numbers (on the Neo Venus Job Opportunities page) were rather odd, so I googled for them and found that 92.843, 4.869, 35.02, and 6052 are Venus' volume, mass, orbital velocity and radius, respectively (plus a few 10^x, of course).

Also, I wonder if this bit of news on the Tourbit site
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SAN FRANCISCO , Calif. - Nov. 20, 2006 - NEVEC , a leading worldwide technology corporation, today announced a new partnership with Tourbit Aerospace to develop a program for the transportation of terraforming and colonization supplies.
means that something will start on the 20th?
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well, this definitely seems like it's an ARG to me.

OK, strike that, lemme rephrase it. This is an ARG. Where it's gonna go... who knows. I'm gonna follow it, though... the launch seems similar to ilb. (website flashing on screen, etc.)

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Not sure if this has been noted anywhere else, but I found the following at the end of the source code for the "http://www.neovenusconstruction.com/sp_fl2.html" page.

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Nice, you found it. Come back soon as there will be a lot more to come

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angelo wrote:
Not sure if this has been noted anywhere else, but I found the following at the end of the source code for the "http://www.neovenusconstruction.com/sp_fl2.html" page.

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Nice, you found it. Come back soon as there will be a lot more to come


Good find... I guess this means the ARG has some potential to become something big, no?

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I don't know how big it's gonna get. It seems almost TOO much like the ILB's launch. The web address at the end of the commercial, crappy web site, and now embedding clues in the source.

Hopefully it's just the start of something that will get much deeper. I guess we'll see.
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I wonder when this is going to really take off?
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Well the Video game lost Planet is set to ship end of the 2nd week of Jan.

I would take a guess that the date on that press release that yanka found, 11-20-2006, would be a good guess for the start date. Gonna be checking the sites monday for sure.

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Hate to burst some bubbles, but the date on the article is 2005. Not that it probably makes a big difference, but this Monday may not mean anything.

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SAN FRANCISCO , Calif. - Nov. 20, 2005 - NEVEC , a leading worldwide technology corporation, today announced a new partnership with Tourbit Aerospace to develop a program for the transportation of terraforming and colonization supplies.


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I found one image that doesn't appear anywhere on the site. It doesn't look important, but I thought I'd post it just in case.

http://neovenusconstruction.com/images/NeoVenus_C3_18-20.jpg
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stingray wrote:
I found one image that doesn't appear anywhere on the site. It doesn't look important, but I thought I'd post it just in case.

http://neovenusconstruction.com/images/NeoVenus_C3_18-20.jpg


Apparently the text above is something called "Lorem Ipsum." The text is usually used to demonstrate the graphical elements of text, rather than the content of the words. Although it looks like it has meaning, it is not intended to have any meaning. Lorem Ipsum closely mimics the distribution of letters in English, hence it's popular use to display fonts and layouts. The text quoted in the picture is the most common Lorem Ipsum text used.

Yeah, so I know I just said that Lorem Ipsum words have no meaning, this most popular lorem ipsum phrase is actually from Cicero's On the Ends of Goods and Evils:

Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit (Translation: "Neither is there anyone who loves pain itself since it is pain and thus wants to obtain it")
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