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 appeared 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 Destroyer of Worlds to manipulate those he had earmarked for his service. The seemingly subconscious monologuing of the Guardian 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 they might penetrate this outer defense. When the hero was eventually able to enter the Cube, they found a strange labyrinth of bridges and magical traps, and were subject to the Guardian's constant taunts as they worked toward the construct's center to dismantle it. Eventually, they emerged victorious, and were able to shatter the generator and retrieve the small cube-shaped Prism from within it.

Armed with this miniature cube, the Avatar was able to coerce the Guardian's discipline 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.
 * 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.