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Long Live the Confederation!
Anybody play Secret Ops when it was released episodically? Each one ended with a password based on your performance which changed the fiction on the website. All the codes were nerdy references: here TALOS IV is the planet from The Cage, ACHERON is the moon from Alien.
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Episode 2 is two 2001: A Space Odyssey nods. AE-35 is the Discovery's antenna that doesn't need to be repaired and TMA-1 is the formal name for the Monolith on the moon (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One).
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Episode 3: this is the one I don't know! LAUMER is most likely SF author Keith Laumer... but I do not know CAIDEN! Anyone have an idea? [Chris: Maybe a misspelling of author Martin Caidin?]
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Episode 4: LEONOV for cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (or the Soviet ship from 2010!) and KASPAROV for chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
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Episode 5: BISSETTE and VEITCH are Stephen Bissette and Rick Veitch, horror comic creators (and frequent collaborators).
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And finally episode 6 is superstar comic creators Frank MILLER and Alan MOORE.
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash12t.jpg)
Episode 7 didn't end with a password but it did have a final splash screen with an add for Prophecy Gold.
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash13t.jpg)
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Original update published on June 27, 2024
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![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash2t.jpg)
Episode 2 is two 2001: A Space Odyssey nods. AE-35 is the Discovery's antenna that doesn't need to be repaired and TMA-1 is the formal name for the Monolith on the moon (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One).
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash3t.jpg)
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash4t.jpg)
Episode 3: this is the one I don't know! LAUMER is most likely SF author Keith Laumer... but I do not know CAIDEN! Anyone have an idea? [Chris: Maybe a misspelling of author Martin Caidin?]
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash5t.jpg)
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash6t.jpg)
Episode 4: LEONOV for cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (or the Soviet ship from 2010!) and KASPAROV for chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash7t.jpg)
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash8t.jpg)
Episode 5: BISSETTE and VEITCH are Stephen Bissette and Rick Veitch, horror comic creators (and frequent collaborators).
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash9t.jpg)
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash10t.jpg)
And finally episode 6 is superstar comic creators Frank MILLER and Alan MOORE.
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash11t.jpg)
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash12t.jpg)
Episode 7 didn't end with a password but it did have a final splash screen with an add for Prophecy Gold.
![](https://cdn.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/secretops_chaptersplash13t.jpg)
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Original update published on June 27, 2024