Smooth Shell

A portal!

A portal had appeared in the testing chamber!

Ves and many other Larkinsons became incredibly attentive as they observed all of the samples disappearing in place while a small portal emerged in their place.

This was a completely unprecedented phenomenon that none of the Larkinsons had ever dealt with! How could they know that bringing together all of these special materials together would produce such an improbable result?

What happened could not be explained by conventional human science!

None of them would exhibit as much surprise if the portal showed up after piecing together all of the parts of an alien machine.

Yet what actually happened was that the Larkinsons put many pieces of raw, unprocessed ore together without putting any thought into the sizes, shapes, proportions and other properties of the experimental materials!