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I have been amusing myself messing around with GAP and have modeled the void cube. The void cube is a standard cube with indistinguishable center cubie facelets. The void cube may be modeled by the group: < R , U , F , TR , RU , TF > , where the latter three generators are "Tier" or "Tandem" moves of a face and the adjacent middle slice. Note that the generators do not move the DBL cubie. As such, this is a fixed corner cubie model. The DBL cubie provides the necessary frame of reference which defines which face is Up, which face is Right and so forth. The tandem moves are the fixed corner cubie model counterparts of the L , D , B moves in the standard fixed center facelet model--they perform the same rearrangement of the cubies relative to one another.