Cube Generator

The Cube Generator is one of the three colossal blackrock structures which the Guardian's followers erected in Britannia to prepare the realm for his coming. It appears in Ultima VII.

Description
Constructed sometime after the founding of the Fellowship some twenty years prior to the Astronomical Alignment, the Cube Generator functioned to broadcast the voice of the Guardian to the people of Britannia, allowing the Destructor of Worlds to manipulate those he had earmarked for his service. The seemingly subconscious monologue of the Guardian's voice within people's consciousnesses eventually wormed its way into Fellowship ideology, with officials claiming that this "inner voice" helped adherents gain their full potential.

Located deep within the caverns of the island containing the Meditation Retreat, this generator was protected by a piercing wall of sound, which rendered injury and death to those approaching it without adequate equipment to shield themselves. After being informed of this device by the Time Lord, the Avatar worked to construct helmets of the rare mineral, Caddellite, that this outer defense might be penetrated. The hero was eventually able to enter the Cube to find a strange labyrinth of bridges and magical traps, and became subject to the Guardian's constant taunts while working toward the construct's center to dismantle it. Eventually emerging victorious, the generator was shattered and the small cube-shaped prism retrieved from within it.

Armed with this miniature cube, the Avatar was able to coerce the Guardian's disciples into speaking the unvarnished truth, and was thereafter able to extract information as to the location of the elusive Hook.

Trivia

 * The shapes of the three generators (a cube, sphere, and tetrahedron) form the logo used by Electronic Arts from 1982–1999.


 * The Cube can technically be accessed without Caddellite helmets after completing the Forge of Virtue add-on. The generator's defense inflicts 31 points of damage, normally sure to exceed the standard hit point limit of 30 for any party member and cause death; however, the Avatar's maximum can be raised to 60 by Lord British upon the expansion's conclusion, sufficient to withstand the deadly sound unprotected.


 * In the SNES port of Ultima VII, the Cube Generator is located in the dungeon Undertaker. It has no defenses aside from the barrier of sound, and may be dismantled by removing the cube prism from its nearby pedestal.