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[rose]

Help me with the science here please. What sort of thing would be "drowned" by EM waves?

[ixalon]

I suppose in the literal sense it could be he finds it hard to breathe when he's "fuzzy"? Also, as you can be bathed in radiation (e.g. EM) then could go as far as saying you could drown in too much of it.

[Macavity]

*lightbulb*

We are thinking that Major Maine is now an EM-based lifeform yes?

What if . . . he was the controller of the Cube?

Also, perhaps we could find someone (Von, maybe? Or perhaps one of the cabal?) who could go to Hobb's Island and, I dunno, build some kind of MacGuffin from the various bits of equipment that would allow us to talk directly with Major Maine!

Just a thought . . .

[xnera]

Some snippets from #syzygy / PM:

[Mico]

[Crane]

Fair point. I'm just saying that since TINAG, CT can't look too abnormal, or he'd have been Noticed.

[eeeqz]

[WARNING: Stating-the-obvious post ]

Is there any way we can get one of our esteemed collegues to check the military records, somehow? It might help solve the "Is this now, or 300 years ago?" issue if we found a 'Thorpe', 'Jackson', 'Choi', 'Stephens' and importantly 'Major Jake Maine' missing-in-action (is that the correct term?!)?? Or even if they weren't registered as missing, but their names were there on the list... they do have lists, don't they? Like a roll-call, or something, so they know who's died, and things.....? I'll email. Garnet would probably be useful if he wasn't so EEEVIL - as it is, I don't think I'll ask him. Kurt and Vi it is, then!


Of course, if they are associated with Viendenbourg, all traces of their identities have probably been completely erased... which is ironic really, considering their untimely ends... oh well, it's worth a try I guess *hoping Kurt can work some computer hacking magic...*

[rose]

is he 300 years old or he is not so old

[ampetrizzo]

Maine said "the 487th" and Violet immediately jumped on the number because it matches Special Project 487. However, I think Maine was talking about a division, not the project itself. He talks about people we assume were comrades of his, and says "No here, away, there, the 487th." The 487th sounds like a classification, like how EZ Company was the 101st Airborne here in the States. My father was USMC and they would always talk about the place a division bunked as if it were the division itself: "The 31st is on C Street," etc.

To me, this means that the 487th division or whatever it's called in PxC was involved in studying the Cube. I think it's possible they were involved in the original operation 300 years ago (military personel in war time = sense) OR it could have been more recent. I don't think it's part of the current operation, if only because I agree with Rose that I don't think Sente would put his daughters in danger.

My spec for the evening is that the 487th was involved in the original experiment, and that 3P picked up on that and named their project 487. (If some sort of time travel may be involved, it's possible that CT came to Earth an buried the Cube at a time other than now. As in, perhaps it hasn't happened yet?)

Anyway, my point is this: if we're having someone try to track down just who Jake Maine was, I would look for the 487th division first. The existence of such a division might prove to place the major more effectively than searching for a name on a roster.

::edit:: emailed Kurt about a 487th division, we'll see if he responds::

[Mattie-Liz]

I've been thinking about what connection Garnet might have to whats going on. We know that he has military connections and that the military was involved at Lancewood and is currently involved at Viendenbourg.

Way back in the Salklogs (June 16th 05, 5.46pm) we're told that someone matching Garnet's description was keeping an eye on Monica Grand. (See http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Salklogs#The_Minder)

We know from Kurt (tpolt Sept. 8th) that Garnet has taken control of the data link, and that he's keeping an increasingly tight watch on the CRT's activities.

I'm not sure what all this is leading up to, but it seems that his name has been appearing a lot recently and I can't help thinking this is more than just coincidence.

[filmguy1013]

While a lot of things would make more sense logically if Maine had been transported there recently (i.e. if he's been there for 300 years what does he do about food?) but what makes me think that he must have been there for a long time is how there was supposedly a ghost there terrorizing anyone that went to the island. I know Violet does not buy this theory:

[filmguy1013]

Just had another thought to explain this:

What if there have been several people inflicted by the same condition as Maine over the years, and this is what the locals have thought of as the ghost?

[eeeqz]

My current line of thought: the legends of the ghosts came from the first Cube tests, and Maine and co. are victims of a new test-regime from the material mined at V'bourg, a NEW Cube or probably a pre-Cube that they haven't refined yet - hence strange fuzzy men, people transporting into walls etc.

NOW Violet and Scarlett are on their merry way to the place where the eeevil scientists (or, possibly, misunderstood/bullied scientists working for an eeevil ruler - ie Daddy) are refining a new Cube, and they'll get captured and about to be tested on when Caine and Kurt burst in brandishing AKs and raze the eeevil facility to the ground! Hooray!


Just where I am at the moment

[rose]

My only question about Maine is why did he end up at the lab there in the lighthouse? Very strange as no experiments have been done there for years . Maybe it was just dumb luck that he happened to be there, maybe it was the only place he could hide from the drowning effect of EM and also aviod people.

If Sente knew about experiments ending up near there, would he have let Violet and Scarlett go? Or are they part of his unofficial investigation team?

About Sente -I'm still not convinced he is evil. I do think he is smart enough to decide to try to construct a new Cube (maybe he is a Reconstructionist? I know it is a bad pun ) Maybe the experiment is about to make a new, possibly upgraded version, of the Cube.

[Jaeneas]

Sente and 3P have realised that it must have been the Cube which had the capability of transporting people to Earth, previously it had been thought impossible. So it makes sence that if they are to return the original Cube to PXC (what is the planet called?) they will need another Cube, or similar effect, to get here.

So have 3P constructed a new cube or just replicated the effects?