Event trivia: Lone Trail

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Medals

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Trivia

• As the first of the second Celebration events that is not focused on the Abyssal Hunters, Lone Trail is designated as One Giant Leap in the Global server, which is taken from the speech by Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 Moon landing – the very first time a human stepped foot on another celestial body. Story-wise, Lone Trail does mark the first time the Terrans reached out to space.
  • Additionally, Lone Trail debuted in game version 2.0 as indicated by the cache version in-game.
• The overall aesthetics of Lone Trail alludes to the Space Race during the 1960s, especially the United States' Apollo program.
• The medals in the PV of the event is arranged to resemble Rhine Lab logo.
• The date of the CN livestream for Lone Trail happened with two events: the day before it was the failure of SpaceX's first Starship launch, and the day when the livestream was held was Earth Day.
• In this event's name, the three last letters ("A", "I", "L") are stylized in a way that resembles the first stage of a Multistage rocket.
• With 143,893 words in Chinese and 78,139 words in English, Lone Trail is currently the longest Intermezzo and the second longest content in terms of story text, surpassing both Near Light and Episode 08 before being surpassed by Zwillingstürme im Herbst.
• Similar to Lingering Echoes, Lone Trail has different menu background images which can be customized by the player from the Visual Records section of the General Investigation Database.
  • The default image is "Intertwining Helixes" which shows Saria, Muelsyse, Kristen Wright, Silence the Paradigmatic, and Ho'olheyak in the Galleria Stellaria. A voice recording that says "A new age is upon us." will be played whenever the player enters the Lone Trail menu when Intertwining Helixes is set as the background.
    This quote is seen on The Pursuing of the Present operations' background.
  • Once all The Coming of the Future operations (including tutorials and interludes) are cleared, "Lone Trail" which shows Kristen alone in the Galleria Stellaria as it drifts in the outer space will be automatically set as the background image.
• Lone Trail's operations are prefixed with "CW", which probably stands for "Control's Wishes," the title of the soundtrack used for the event PV and boss levels. The prefix "LT" is already been used for all Stationary Security Service levels.
• The Pursuing of the Present's operations are presented in a line of Morse code.

Secret message

In the CN server's banner of Lone Trail, a small paragraph can be seen on the lower-left corner which reveals Terra's major secret. For unknown reasons, this paragraph is edited out in the EN server's banner, but can still be seen on other parts of Lone Trail's interface, most notably the Investigation Reports.

MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD!!

Preservators and their related facilities are one of the means used by human beings to evade Observers and preserve human blood. Through this large-scale freezer management facility, a large number of people have entered a dormant state, avoiding observation by Observers, and waiting for the day when human civilization will be reborn. Before that, the entire facility was managed by the Preserver – a semi-mechanical and semi-human consciousness. (Due to the fear that the purely mechanical AI will be hijacked by Observers, the Preserver is not an artificial intelligence in the ordinary sense)