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[European Chris]

Or whoever stole it organised the V/Q/K/C team to deflect attention from themselves.

[Daffy889]

[tanner]

i was thinking maybe the cube Never existed -- but we know or at least suspect Zeller got killed while investigating it -- so "we never held it" either means cube was replaced by a fake since Zeller died and it was kept secret or they just Looked at it and never dared touch it

[Rob_Riv]

V killed Monica for a reason, if they don't have the cube then why would he of done it?

[perplexed]

this reminds me of Die Hard III 'whats better than stealing a truck load of gold? Stealing a truck load of gold, then making people think you sunk a truckload of gold' Everyone thinks the cube has been stolen by V but really thats just to throw the heat off some peeps. It also reminds me of The Thomas Crown Affair, maybe we're looking for a bored rich guy? V obviously set about killing everyone to make sure that he hid the trail of the theft and also the fact that there was no theft, it was imperative that no one knew the theft was never really real.

[European Chris]

[Spankit]

[step]

It was in an email - maybe someone should change the tag on this thread. hint hint...

[jsweby]

An email to who?

[uneasyjd]

[Bronnko]

Recall though that Kurt's friend in Academy Security related that the Cube was there - and then gone, neutrino signature and all. Unless Kurt's bud is lying and involved, a Cube facsimile could only work if the security sensors were hacked... possibly by the two insiders mentioned, I suppose. Hmm, then they'd already know it was gone, of course... and the staged robbery could only have been to mask the circumstances of its original disappearance.

But why would they want to do that? Political reasons?

[perplexed]

the cube could have been there nicked less than an hour before and the sensors would be unlikely to pick this up as its only a short time, also the cube is likely to be noticed to be gone after more than a day of the replica, however an hour could provide the perfect water tight alibi for the true thief and this would make a second team extremely neccessary. The big problem is, you would need to have truck loads of money to carry this out (Lecks 40,000,000) and that amount of money would probably require a syndicate or the richest person in PXC.

[Mokey Fraggle]

I'm going to join in the notion that the second team may have been set up as a diversion. For instance, if everyone's focus is on Monica's team of would-be criminals, then perhaps it wouldn't matter that eventually we would discover they never "held" the Cube. Maybe all they need is a little bit of time to get the Cube working... or whatever it is they want to do with the Cube.

This leads me to believe that V may not be the ultimate bad guy after all. V may have been ordered by yet a higher baddie to get this team together. Spec, spec, spec.

Another thought is that money. It would require a wealthy person, or group, of course. But would the wealthy person or group necessarily come from Perplex City? What if we're looking for someone from Earth? Not that I have any idea what the conversion rate is.

[Spankit]

[jsweby]

I've been reading with interest the theory that the Cube was already stolen by the time the (second?) team arrived and waht they could see was a hologram of some sorts.

Then I was reminded of this quote from S Marchant early on in the game.