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[Jaeneas]

[UPDATE] Scarlett's Story, December 2nd

[locqust]

ooeeerrrr indeed!

Well it looks like our spec on the war was fairly accurate. Seems like it was their version of a global nuclear war.

Anyway, drilling????
Ok so these guys are looking for something. So after the radiation became torable after the war. (assuming there was any) What after a few centuries? The entire area was bulldozed and buried. These guys have set up a camp, with what looks like a temporary complex similar to what the forces on Earth use sometimes and are looking for something under the old city/camp.

Question is what? Weapons from the war? Information lost afterwards or even plans to weapons purged from other datasources.

Time for more spec!

[GuyP]

How about this:

The Cube is weapon-like in some of its properties.
Weapons are used in war.
The Big War on PPC's planet destroyed nearly everything.

Spec: The Cube is capable of wreaking great destruction.

Furthermore, The Cube appears to be the key to the "space-time" relationship between Earth and Perplex City.
The Cube is somewhere on Earth.

Spec: We now possess the most powerful weapon known to their civilisation, in the form of the Cube, and also possess the means to use it against Perplex City itself, again in the form of the Cube.

Viendenbourg is a very important location regarding the events of the war.
So much so, that it can be described as "where everything changed."
The military are now excavating here - they're trying to find something.
Tellingly, they're only just searching for it now, rather than previously.

Final spec: There is something buried at Viendenbourg that can be used to terrible effect. If it was discovered before now, then it was hushed up, and decided that it would be better for it to remain buried, reasonable considering the anti-war beliefs in Perplex City. However, the upper echelons of government now feel under threat as the Cube is no longer in their possession, and the military is now looking to restore it's arsenal.

Or maybe, just maybe, they're gearing up for a pre-emptive strike...

[number9dream]

[locqust]

definitely agree on those points there, lol especially about our Earth governments.
Spec
I think if it was a weapon at some point, more than likely it was a key and/or power source to one. I mean the cube is supposed to be really old, predating fire there? I remember somewhere reading they reckon it could be extraterrestial. (or should that be extraperplexian? ) Maybe the scientists during the war found a way to harness the power inside the cube for a weapon power source, against its intended use.
(Kurt mentions in one of his blogs about neutrinos radiating from it, Hmmm better not let our military near it then if neutrinos can be used as a power source!)

So if we havent got the most powerful weapon in the universe buried on our planet somewhere then we probably have the key for it!

End of Spec

[pickwick the second]

Once we determine the extent of its capabilities, we may decide that it represents a value far greater than $200,000. What happens then? Do we return it to Perplex City at the proffered price, demand an even more princely sum, or use it to blackmail foreign governments?

[sledgecallier]

It's always struck me that the reward being offered was a little low for an object that the Perplexians value so highly. I guess they can just claim that they are not motivated by money and that to say we were would just be another reason for the Perplexians to look down their noses at our world.

[Spankit]

I say we take the $200,000 so Mind Candy doesn't go bankrupt. I don't know about you, but I want a second season of Perplex City.

[GuyP]

I fully agree with Locqust's take on things. Basically, though, I propose that the loss of the Cube is making the military cabal of PXC a little nervous.

Season Two: Perplex City, The War On Terra

[locqust]

So they go looking for the weapon and want to try to retrofit it to another power source just in case we decide to keep the cube or ransom it for more money!

Lol I can imagine that, war on Terra, good idea! Especially if we have the ultimate weapon! WAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Atrophied]

Sorry to burst your bubble and take this in a META direction, but:

META! Read at own risk

[GasparLewis]

I wonder if you could buy it back from them as a souvenir once you've won?

[Langley Moor]

SPEC: If the cube predates civilisation on their planet, and was possibly left by extra-terrestrials, who's to say it's the only one? Perhaps they think they've found the location of another cube?

Also, I like the theory of the cube being a key to something more powerful - but why begin excavating now, when they don't have the key to operating the weapon? My only guess is that the people digging are not the military, but some third party interested in having control of the weapon. The choice of timing could be that they now have control of the key, and the people of perplex city are distracted with the hunt for the cube, allowing them to excavate undetected.

That's my suggestion anyway, possibly a bit too simple... I've a feeling there may be one or two more twists to come yet!

[pickwick the second]

I don't recall it being stipulated anywhere that the inhabitants of the installation at Viendenbourg began their operations recently...

[Hituro]

We have been told that the cube is ancient, but that the technology of ancient times was also more than today, so we can assign almost any power to the cube that we like. Given extra-dimensional contact and transport the possibilities are practically limitless.

Regardless of what the cube does, if we assume that the digging is related to it, then it must surely consist of one of the following.

• A way to control it
  
• A way to counter it
  
• A way to neutralise it
  
• A way to learn more about it or find it
  

Pretty much any of these also assumes that information about the cube was held back from the academy researchers, who would have killed for any of the above. It may well be that whoever is digging didn't want to control or learn more about it before the cube was stolen, and now have had their hand forced.

Another speculation, though, comes from the comment by the academy researcher about having recieving stations capable of finding the cube 40 miles underground. Why? Maybe there are other things underground that are cube like and the sensors were made to find them? If the thing they are looking for is 40 miles down they could have been digging for a long time! However, its unlikely that Scarlett could have heard it from the surface.