Error cubes and helices

[Mr Evil, Man But Evil]

WARNING: This is all just speculation and a hideous ramble of things I've thought about for a while. I'm sorry if I'm copying someone when I write this.

There are a lot of weird theories around error cubes. What is their purpose? Why are they even in game? What correlation do they have with the helices? When drinking smart stout, the dwarfs mention something about placing 5 error cubes somewhere, but are never able to finish. The achievement "What Are These Things?" seems to corroborate with the statement, as it requires you to collect 5 error cubes, which could be a coincidence, but seems to similar. Also, error helices spawn in groups of 2-5. Say a dwarf were to find a group of 5 error helices. If the entire structure of the helices were mined out, would there be anything that could look like a receptacle? Would you be able to place error cubes from your inventory into the hypothetical receptacle? Or would you just need to place an error cube inside of the helix? Or would you have to find 5 error cubes on the same map as the helices? What would happen? What do the devs have planned? Am I insane? Are all of these theories the products of a diseased mind that should not have access to a source of public discussions? Find out next Thursday at 5!

[Mage Hand, Wizard Brand]

Most things surrounding the cubes are just devs having a laugh. Oh hey it's a mysterious thingy oh hey we smelled it and it smells funny. The 5 error cubes one is specifically poking fun at people who constantly try to conspiracy theory uses for the cubes. At least it sounds like it's poking fun at that.
Otherwise, there's not much lore specifically so things can be kept light. You make your own story, so if you think of a way the cubes are used, then that's how they are used in your telling for DRG

[Jummus Mcnugget]

ok dude

[Mez Koo]

Are you talking about the random black helix things? As a green beard I saw a few of those I guess I didn't know the rarity of them like the random dreadnought spawn that I thought was a normal thing.

[Nosteru]

What Is helices? I only know about cubes so far. Is this a new thing?
NWM, I found it. True I never thinked about theses as special thing, just another map elements.
https://deeprockgalactic.gamepedia.com/Error_Helix

[Carnatux]

were really just in a simulation being harvested for nutrients by the Mollys

[RaindropperinG]

Rumors say that only Karl was able to decipher such a mystery.

https://youtu.be/NzlG28B-R8Y

[Diakoptes]

something to do with karl, there used to be a lore article about it but its gone

[Pierce Hawthorne]

honestly i always thought they would eventually make it so you can forge a matrix core with the only cost being an error cube, but this seems too simplistic for this game. sometimes i imagine Karl is the one dwarf who figured out how to use the error cubes, and one Hoxxes day he disappeared mid-mission. This came at great cost to his team, as they were left to fend off swarms of dreadnaughts with a mere 60 nitra to their names. Being in the salt flats, they knew what would happen to Karl if they left and he suddenly reappeared, so they rationalized their waiting for him, adopting the motto "Leave no dwarf behind." The motto became their epitaph. And to this day, the dwarves of DRG still proudly shout this motto in honor of their great sacrifice, while simultaneously wondering where Karl went and if he might ever return to share the secrets of the error cubes. I have to wonder if Karl truly trusts Mission Control...

[BootsFullOfBlood]

Perhaps their use could be to force an extra mission mutator onto a mission, so you can get mactera plague and ghosts, or exploder infestation and mactera plague