🄰🅁 Cluster
A community-driven lore project.
Welcome to the 🄰🅁 Cluster, where high quality art meets the brilliant minds of the NFT community.
🄰🅁 Cluster is an animated collection of non-generative NFTs.
What does that means? Every single planet is unique, 4k, animated and hand-made by our artist. That’s right, no assets swapping, no reskin, no recolor : When you own a planet in the Argon Cluster, you own a unique piece of art with its own unique lore.
And yes… they loop!
Community involvement, supply and rewards
Monthly Lore contests
At 🄰🅁 Cluster, we believe on delivering to the community right away. Every month after release, we will hold a lore contest in which every 🄰🅁 Cluster NFT owner will be able to participate.
Every month, an entirely new planet will be presented to the community on discord. All owners will able to submit a short description of said planet.
The top 3 submissions will be selected by 🄰🅁 Cluster to be voted on by the community. The winner will receive the planet as an airdrop and will cement their place as a lore historian of the Argon Cluster. They will be free to sell it at auction if they so choose.
To ensure that as many people as possible benefit from it, the frequency at which the lore contests take place will increase as more planets are added, up to once every 2 week.
Additionnals Airdrops
Before the release of the second set (Q3–Q4 2022), each owner will receive a special NFT airdrop unique to the Pioneers set.
Supply
Argon Cluster will release in 5 sets, starting with Argon Cluster : Pioneers. Once the 5 sets have been released, the community will be in total control of the supply via the lore contests.
This means that once we hit that threshold, no more than 25 planets will be released every year, ensuring the rarity of the NFTs and letting the community grow organically.
We are also actively working on securing partnerships to allow the work of both our artist visuals and our community lore to spread among the Metaverse. We are excited to eventually collaborate with other big NFT projects.
A multi-tiered rarity system.
Themes :
The first set of planets, 🄰🅁 Cluster : Pioneers, features 100 NFTs. While every planet of the cluster is unique, some can be categorized through 5 different themes, distributed as such :
Monolithic 33/100
Relics of an ancient time, monolithic planets are the legacy of a forgotten empire that spread across the Argon Cluster. Scars of civilizations long gone carve the stone surface of these lifeless worlds.
Minerals 25/100
The heavy presence of argon has caused some planets to entirely mutate into a single rare substance. Precious minerals that are usually scarce on other planets are found in inexhaustible quantities on these peculiar worlds. They are often the target of mining companies and smugglers.
Elementals 18/100
Wild and unstable, elemental planets are ravaged by natural cosmic forces. They act as immense power sources for those brave enough to harness their energy.
Edible 14/100
Edible planets are highly desired, calorically dense entities. They act as planet-sized food reserves and were the primary source of nutrients for the first settlers of the Argon systems.
Organic 10/100
Perhaps the most unbelievable event found in the Argon Cluster was the discovery of self-sustained planet-size living beings. They are by far the most remarkable and rare type of planet, and are long rumored to be sentient.
Visitors ?/?
Some of your favorite projects on Terra might make an appearance on the Cluster. 👀
Theme benching
Every new set of argon cluster will introduce 2 new themes and bench 2 old ones.
This means that a theme that is more common now might not get any additions to it for a while, increasing its rarity in the long term. Benched themes might return in future sets.
Prestige System
But that’s not all! To further differentiate between the complexity of the planets, they are also ranked on a prestige system.
Fabled 55/100
Fabled planets are exemplary model of their themes. They are common among the Cluster.
Legendary 35/100
Legendary planets are resources-rich worlds prized for their rarity.
Mythical 10/100
Mythical planets are entities of extremes complexities and the dream of every planet collector. They are all equally rare, no matter their themes.
This current ratio will be kept throught future set and lore contests.
Who is behind this?
Hi everyone! I’m Jibs, the artist and creator of Argon Cluster.
I have been working on 🄰🅁 Cluster for half a year now as what can be describe as a second full time job. I have poured my sweat and soul into each and every one of those planets.
I customized all of them so that they each stand out as high quality art and made sure that they all had a strong identity so that each owner can be proud to own one.
I am a big fan of the Elders Scrolls games, particularly their lore and open-ended attitude towards it. I want to build a coherent worlds with a dedicated community in which we can all nerd out and come up with an insane universe with infinite possibilities!
And hopefully, spread this community-owned lore to other projects through collaborations.
FAQ
Links :
https://twitter.com/ArgonCluster
Fell free to reach out on twitter and ask any questions!
How much is the mint price : 2.5 Lunas
Here are the factors that led to this valuation :
- The uniqueness of each planet.
- The countless hours put into the project.
- The monthly contests
- The quality and format of the NFTs. ( 10 seconds of looping animation )
- The limited supply (100).
Wen Discord?!?!
🄰🅁 Cluster’s Official Discord launch on March 10th. In the meanwhile we will have a channel on Oneplanet’s Discord to answer your questions.
Wen launch?
March 20 2022!
Wen future sets?
The second set of 🄰🅁 Cluster is planned for Q3-Q4 2022. Set 3, 4 and 5 will release in 2023.
Non generative, high quality art takes times ;) .
Where do the funds for the mint go?
The funds go directly to the artist and founder to cover the expenses of the project and pay myself. I hope to eventually be able to work on Argon Cluster exclusively.
Who are you IRL, why do this anonymously?
I’m a very private person and divulged as little as I can online due to bad past experiences. I fully understand how this can negatively affect the perception of this project and myself.
As such, I have decided to be very upfront about the promises from this project and deliver them as soon as I can so that the community can immediately see their impact.
This is why the lore contests, the main utility of this project, will start a soon as 2 weeks after the launch. I hope to be able to build trust among the community and I pledge to never take it for granted.
