>>212074754>>212074949OP asked. One of the character reveals that he worked on the cube, but he had no idea what it was at the time. One of the ladies goes on a sort of conspiracy theory rant that it was all planned by sinister corporate and government powers, but the guy reveals that no one knew what it even was.
The horror is one of a bureaucrat chimerical corpo-state chimera that blindly stumbles into a sort of holocaust by accident, not out of spite or hate or rational anti humanism. The sequels that explain it away as actually being a sinister plot miss this part of the horror and it neuters it.