ASA: A Space Adventure

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Greenhouse
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You need to locate the insects. There are 3.

There’s one in the Seeds room. Go to the tree on the left (the one on the right gives the red seeds). Look at the flowers at the foot of the tree to find it. Remember its shape and color.

There’s another one in the Birds room. When you look on the right of this area, you discover balls sculpted in the wood. Find the one which contains an insect and remember its shape and color (you should see its color even it it’s on the back).

The last one is the hardest to find. You need to activate the “air-conditionner” in the main room, to make it rain in the Fir room.
Turn the buttons like this :
1 – water, 2 – position 2, 3 – ON
and press the button 4th button. Yoy should see the water fall in a video, and if you made it in the good room, some “fireflies” should appear in the end.
Now, go to the Fir room until the safe. Look back, and you should see some of these fireflies. Click on them to discover the lest insect. Remember its shape and color.

Go back to the Private room.

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Private room
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Have another look to the bugs in the drawer. Try to recognize the 3 bugs you discovered in the greenhouse and write their numbers.
There are 4 different genres of insects in the box, but you didn’t see any dragonfly, so forget them.
The result of this observation should return the following numbers : 5, 13, 34. That’s the 2nd code : 51334.

Go enter the 2 codes in the circular corridor out of the bedroom. You don’t know which code to enter on which side, so you have to try and see if they work.

When you entered correctly the 2 codes, the door with a window should have opened. Behind, you can find a big red button. You need a key now…

Near Forte’s bed, look at the photo of Laure and you will see a hidden photo at the back. Despite it’s black and white, you should recognize it : it represents the yellow & grey shape in the center of the dome on planet Forte. There should be something at the place of the red cross on this photo.

Go back to planet Forte, on the second island, and climb the ladder to reach the dome.

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Planet Forte – Dome
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Find the yellow and grey shape in the middle of the floor (it shows a perspective cube on a black background). Click in the exact place where there was a red cross on the black and white photo. The cursor won’t change, so click until you find the secret key !
When you found it, come back to the Private room on the Ark.

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Private room
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Use the key near the red button, and push it. The maintenance area should finally open…

The heart of the ARK

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Central room
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Go to the door of the maintenance area. It’s the one with a sort of nuclear logo. Enter.

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Maintenance area – With a thief
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As soon as you get in, the thief (who took your Cube) will appear and stop you. He won’t hurt you, but he won’t let you pass, pointing his gun on you.
You must get rid of him, but using your gun on him would be stupid. You can try to use it from your inventory, but he will kill you first, and it leads to a bad ending.

Notice behind the thief that there is an armchair under a metal dome. Where did you see something like that ?

Leave the maintenance area, you can’t do anything from here. Go to the Control room which has the same armchair under a metal dome.

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Control room
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The armchair is not accessible, you need to open the metal dome. There’s a computer in the server room that you never used until now, but it needs a password.

Remember, you found this password earlier, with command lines on Forte’s PC :
Username : platon
Password : cubeisearth
The memo behind the PC tells you to enter the password like this : enter username, press space, enter password, press enter.
So you need to enter : platon[space]cubeisearth[enter]
(without capitals!)

Problem : the PC is in Anterran (not translated). You have to guess what to do, but you made it once on Forte’s PC, so be optimistic.
Click on the main window until you can enter the login information, and look down at the keyboard.
This keyboard is in anterran too. You have to enter the info anyway, so the best is to make yourself a translation.

How do you write “platon cubeisearth” in anterran ? There’s the answer in the diary, on the photo of text translation.
You should obtain : ρ∫ԂӶₒﬧ ϡחȜ’ϯʆ’Ԃ∂Ӷ–

What you have to do is enter this sequence using the anterran keyboard. Don’t forget the “space” between platon and cubeisearth, and press “enter” in the end.
The “enter” key looks like the one we know with an arrow. It’s also on the right.

This should take you to the desktop of the PC. Click on the only icon available and discover an incomprehensible question in anterran. But under the question, you have two choices :
pushing the “zero” key or the “one” key.
Go down to the keyboard again, and press the “one” key : it will open the metal dome over the armchair.
If you push the “zero” key, it will close the dome again.

Go to the armchair and sit down. You can see the multi-scree TV in front of you. There’s a control panel on the right of the armchair. Try the buttons to find the one which turns the TVs on. Then click on the one to display a picture in fullscreen.
Scroll the images. They appear randomly. Continue to scroll them until you see the maintenance room and the other armchair+metal dome appear, with the thief. When you found it, push the button to close his dome. He will be captured, and you can now visit the maintenance room.

While you’re here, before you leave the Control room, look at the metal “sculptures” on each side of the room. One of them is called “God’s geometrical plan for the Universe”.
Look at the other sculpture : it’s written “Anterran geometrical plan for the Monolith ?”
You don’t care what it really is, but write down the shapes which compose this sculpture, from the center to the outside:

black monolith
yellow metal sphere
white glass box
yellow metal box
green glass box
yellow metal box 2

You will use it later.

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Maintenance area – Without the thief
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When you enter the room, you are now free of your moves, but you have a bad surprise : the thief fled, making a big hole in the metal dome.

Behind the dome, there’s a white door to open. It’s linked to the huge cylinders on each side of the room. Go open one of them to dicover a balloon with a light device. There’s a button, and when you push it, it changes the light color.
You have seen at least one of these balloons during your quest : in the water, near Kepler village. There are 4 to discover in the world, and you need to see them all to solve this puzzle.

Go to the Bridge.

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Ark
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Land on Kepler again. Don’t go out on the planet, the balloons can only be seen from inside the Ark (unless for the one in the water). Each balloon has a number and a color. You need to write them down.

Balloon number 1, red, look through the window from the Bridge.
Balloon number 2, green, look through the window in the Teleport room.
Balloon number 3 : can’t be found anywhere, has probably fallen, or taken by wind…
Balloon number 4, blue, look through the glass in the main room of the Greenhouse.
Balloon number 5, purple, in the water near Kepler village.

With these observations, go back to the maintenance room.

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Maintenance area
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Open the cylinders again. Each of their balloon has a number from 1 to 4, and you can choose between 5 colors : white, green, blue, purple, red. You just have to assign a color to each balloon. You can forget the purple color, which is assigned to the balloon number 5, and there’s no balloon 5 in the cylinders.

Cylinder 1 : red
Cylinder 2 : green
Cylinder 3 : you have to deduce from the colors not used. Obviously, it’s white.
Cylinder 4 : blue

You can now open the white door, which happens to be a lift. Take it to reach the lower level of the Ark.

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Monolith maintenance area
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When the lift reaches the lower level, there’s a poster in front of you with a photo of Cobalt-5. Write down it’s coordinates. They’re written backwards, just put the text in the right direction
It gives : X = 8.4 Y = 1.1 and Z = 7.3
Don’t go back to the higher floor, look behind you in the lift to open a door. You will discover the monolith for the first time.

Go to the center of the room to reach the monolith. Go on the right to see a footbridge where you can’t go because it’s raised up. Continue to walk around the Monolith until you find a Cube in the water. It would be great to take it, but you can’t reach it in the liquid. Click on it anyway, and some strange events happen. See the video : the monolith goes out, for no apparent reason.
When it’s finished, there’s less water over the cube (with the monolith emerged, the water goes down), but you still can’t reach it.

Go back to the unaccessible footbridge which is now lowered. It has fallen during the last events, and you can walk to a chest you will need to open. Look through the lenses to discover various shapes and objects. You can change these views with the left/right arrows, and the aim is to choose the good ones. You will quickly notice that you can’t change the pictures of the first line, so they’re a good starting point.

The pictures in the left column are all linked to the metal “sculpture” in the Control room, the one called “Anterran geometrical plan for the Monolith”.

Just put the shapes in the same order than in the sculpture :

(top)
black monolith
yellow metal sphere
white glass box
yellow metal box
green glass box
yellow metal box 2
(bottom)

Now you just have to find the good order for the column on the right. You already have a poster representing the monolith in the first picture. You probably understand you need to link the correspondant picture to the one you’ve put on the left (see the arrows between the lenses ?).
To do so, it’s quite easy. The shapes from the sculpture (in the left column, then) are each time bigger when you go down, and they encompass the previous ones (the monolith shape is smaller than the yellow sphere, which is itself smaller than the white glass box, etc…). So try to put photos that represent a bigger environment each time in the column on the right.

It gives :

(top)
black monolith –> monolith poster
yellow metal sphere –> maintenance room
white glass box –> central room
yellow metal box –> the ark
green glass box –> representation of the galaxy
yellow metal box 2 –> the Space
(bottom)

Then open the chest with the handle on the left. Inside, there’s a mecanism but it doesn’t work. Read the memo : it says the needed “main system” is on Cobalt-5. Try to go, but the lift has become out of service when the Monolith went out.

Visit the last footbridge. Climb the yellow “scaffolding”. There’s a propeller. If you came here before the monolith goes out, it wass turning and you couldn’t touch it. Now that the monolith is out, just touch it to remove it and discover a path through a pipe.

The pipe takes you back to the Bridge.

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Bridge
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You can try to go to the central room. You will see the emerged monolith in the middle of the place. All the other areas are now impossible to reach, and there’s a new corridor instead. You can forget it, there’s nothing interesting inside.

In the Bridge, enter the coordinates you found for Cobalt-5 (8.4 1.1 7.3). Get out through the Airlock and go to the satellite.

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Cobalt-5
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Inside C-5, get in the 360 view. You can visit Forte’s starting point when he discovered his Cube years ago. Have a look to the computer display (with green text) where you can read a short dialogue between Forte and his 2 colleagues.

Find a blue box with a processor inside. This is the “main system” that was missing in the mechanism of the maintenance room. Have a look at the booklet next to it, and discover that this processor is divided into 4 parts. Each one corresponds to a color.
You will have to enter numbers in each of the 4 parts. To find these numbers, you need to complete the grid that is in the booklet.

To do so, visit each part of the satellite to find all the numbers you can. Each number you meet is to take in account. Most of them can be found in the 360 view, you don’t have to leave C-5, and don’t have to get in the airlock. All these numbers are at least 3 digits.

Here is the list you should have found :

417 2011 300 105
622 5347 819 581
295 3445 124 327
348 215 007
206 10 000 485 129
471 02 468 385 106
214 52 501 112 755
293 41 243
601 10 982 2 354 523
165
243
777 0987654321

Draw the 10×10 grid on a paper and complete it with these numbers. Each of them has to be written once and only once.
It’s easy, because you don’t need to fill the grid totally to get the answer you seek. As soon as you have completed the coloured boxes, copy the 2 digit numbers that they give you :

Green : 24
Red : 74
Yellow : 03
Blue : 12

Save these numbers on your paper, you’ll have to enter them soon. Go back to the Ark and the maintenance room.

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Monolith maintenance area
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Drag and drop the processor on the opened chest with the missing “main system”. Click on this processor to enter the numbers you found from the grid on C-5.
When it’s done, pull the lever at the top to see the water level going down.

Go back to the Cube you had found and couldn’t reach. It’s out of water now, so take it. Good news : you can now go back home ! The journey will end soon.

Take this Cube to the Monolith in the Central room.

The end

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Central room – The end
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When you get close to the Monolith with the Cube in your inventory, the thief appears in a video where he definitely leaves the Ark. You obtain the last part of the diary, so read it carefully. You learn that the thief was no other then Fortי, and that he did his best to make you stay on the Ark after his departure. You must give him your answer : do you stay, or don’t you?

Ending 1 : If you have less than 8 parts of the diary, only 4 choices appear on the screen. Whatever one you choose, they all lead to the same ending: you decide to stay, and walk in the steps of Forte. Watch the video, and the game is over.

Ending 2 : If you find ALL the 8 parts of the diary, a 5th choice appears on the screen. This one is totally different than the others, and leads to a different ending: you don’t want to stay on the Ark because a crazy guy asks you to ! You prefer to go home on Terra, to tell your people everything you discovered.
Use the Cube on the Monolith, and you’re being “aspirated” into it. When you reach the 360° view of the space, click on the brightest star and read the questions asked by the Cube. Follow the only path that’s opened to you until you reach the Bridge device to enter coordinates.
Enter the X and Y coordinates of Terra (you can find them in your full diary – forget the Z) : 3.2 4.4 2.4
Push the up right button as usual and watch the video. End of the game!