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[firefox]

i personaly think 'receda' is a location. whether its to denote a town, city, planet or star cluster- or in fact the location of where it was found-
as some if not most archeological findings are named after their location.

short and sweet

edit: i thing? bah.

[spaceXplorer]

[tanner]

the games has surely got to the point where the PMs are not gonna give us a duff clue -- receda must mean something important -- as IMO does the postcard number and the maze

i think receda as a retreat or a stronghold kinda works -- but -- shrug

[spaceXplorer]

yeh i'm with you Tanner. why bother to keep it a secret to begin with otherwise? (and i don't buy the argument that the PMs have only just decided on a name!)

there surely must be something in the name that is a clue....or a clue to a clue

[jomolungma]

This probably was suggested somewhere a while ago, but I can't find it... any chance that the "cube" is a cubed number? Maybe "Receda" was a mathematician and he discovered some number that happened to be a cube, or cube root, of something else? Maybe this 24-digit number is a key to that number? Although, I don't see how you could steal it.... dunno, probably bogus spec

[Salkunh]

maybe steal it in a prior art or intellectual property sense? *shrugs*

[aleph13]

[firefox]

ok my first real spec in a while.

what if the cube was stolen by religious nuts. and its like their version of the holy grail, or bones of christ, but from a long forgotten hi-tech civilisation

ie their version is the 'receda cube', ours is the 'atlantenean cube'. so what would happen if all of a sudden, they dug up in the ocean, a hi tech civilisation, a sunken city, which predates everything weve known before, and has a certain artefact which seems to give off unknown radiaton, or alter time and space itself? well... we can blow the god theory out of the water, whos to say we werent a genetic experiment of this race of people.
so what happens? turmoil, new belief system has to be instilled for millions of people world wide. we get the cube cults popping up. over the years of study, the cube reveals not only to be a precious discovery but maybe a dangerous weapon, fixating and shaping all of the people that come in contact with it. it is locked up under a state of the art security control wing, gatehouse 24. all of the scientists which have studied it have gone mad, and committed suicide. all but one, and he has just gone missing. he holds the knowledge of the cube, and also how to get it.

boom. cube is a device which allows travel between worlds. its stolen, and brought into another world. where it hasnt been discovered yet. our world. what if all of these worlds have their own cubes, and once linked together, a device can me made to grant the user say.. anything. what if our world isnt the first in which the cube was brought. what if we are the last?


dumdumdum ok most of that is rubbish. but what do you guys and gals think about the thieves' motives, i dunno, a religious cult might fit into everything. but its only spec, i cant wait for the 19th.

[aleph13]

[Lovek]

[erekose]

Couldn't the Receda reference be relating to the cubes abilities. If it means to withdraw, (similar meaning to recede in english) and it is described as a "technological wonder" then the cube is most likely used to withdraw from something. I can think of a number of possibilities.
To recede from sight (a cloaking device)
To recede from time ( which produces interesting possibilities, perhaps the thieves went back and time and changed the future from the perplex city reality to ours.),
To recede from their reality into ours. (Looking at the evidence presented so far, this seems to be the most likely option)
Of course, the cube could have a different purpose entirely.

[erekose]

[edit. double post]

[maxim]

Something still isn't right about this cube... why blank the name to begin with, and then provide a name which appears to carry no obvious meaning and is hiding nothing? Why not give the name to begin with? Why create meaningless spec? Why not just say "The Cube" if they had no name.. since when does something need a name?

The effect of leaving the name blank may have had purpose in making the game more suspenseful from the start, but what in-game purpose was there? Of course, it now means we cannot be sure that Receda was the name... after all, that information came from the article that quoted Sente and was not necessarily written by him. He blanked it out (it seems), but they did not. Did sente leave these messages? Who is controlling the flow of information? I find it hard to understand that the same person that kept it blank happily let it be known. Maybe it was that the newspaper articles lacked the ability to keep it blank... but whatever it was, there is a LOT more to this than we can know right now.

[beano³]

If you guys remember when we first started looking at the 'censored-space' of the letter on the trailhead we estimated that the word beneath it could be 10 letters long. I think and I hope I am right about that.

That being said maybe the cube still has another name? Like Pre-Receda? I dunno, I'm just throwing this in to stop it stirring my own mind and stir yours!

Enjoy.

[Jay]