:: Ring.  Initiate healing. ::

I silently give thanks to the LORD for sparing me to continue the work that is needed here, and for opening the door for such an opportunity.

And I pray for His will to be done as I investigate whether or not this universe supports portal creation.

For He knows better than I.  Perhaps the aliens would be far more dangerous elsewhere.  Perhaps they are lying, and merely want to gain physical access to me to use me or my technology to evil purposes.  Only He knows if this path is pleasing in His sight.

:: Ring.  Is portal creation capability online or offline in this universe? ::

OOC: IF it says "online"...

:: How big a portal can be made, and how long can it be maintained? ::

The healing starts and then shortly you hear. ::Online.::

::10 feet. 1 hr. 30 min.::

You feel a sense of peace combined with a waiting for something that may arise after you pray.

:: After opening and closing a portal, can you reestablish a portal to the same location?  Or is each new opening of a portal to a completely random location, with no ability to return to a previously opened location? ::

:: How long an interval is required to rest and recharge after opening and closing one portal before a second portal can be opened? ::
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::No, yes, no::

::2 to 4 hours::

I nod quietly, and give thanks in silent prayer.

Then I reach out to the alien captain once again.

:: The test was successful.  Here are our constraints... ::

:: I can open a ten-foot portal to a random universe, and maintain it for ninety minutes. ::

:: You would therefore need to assess whether or not the destination is acceptable, and if acceptable move everyone and everything needed through the portal during that limited interval. ::

:: If the destination is not acceptable, we must wait two to four hours before making another portal creation attempt. ::

:: Each attempt will result in a different random destination, so once a portal is closed, we will not be able to reestablish a portal to the same location. ::

:: Is this acceptable to you and to your people? ::

::Yes. Be at least a hundred....miles....from your Tower in  a week's time. I will send a shuttle.::

Contact is broken.

I reflect, and pray, and then seek out the Wayman again.

If successful, I summarize the conversation with the alien captain.

:: ... so he is to send a shuttle to pick me up in a week. ::

:: It seems we have an opportunity to free the planet from these aliens, such that they may leave peacefully, and that we may stay peacefully.  And it seems that we may even be able to obtain knowledge that could help restore the frags... and that could help restore your crew. ::

:: What are your thoughts, and what is your counsel?  Do you have any advise for how I should interact with the aliens, and what I should prioritize in seeking from them before they depart? ::
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The Wayman grins, and dances about, dragging you into a slapdash song of praise mixed with goofy dancing.

Later, he joins you in prayer before he gives you his thoughts.

::This will bring peace to a war of millenia, and thus should be in the will of the Lord of the Way.  We could request the alien ship, for it seems from your description they must leave it behind.  But from the viewpoint of the alien's Master or Captain, such is insanity.::

He pauses.

::Perhaps it would be best to send us on the ship to a new world as well.::

I blink in surprise at his suggestion.

:: I have been concerned about the potential impact of restored crewmembers on this world.  But do you think your crewmates would want to go? ::

::Some to be sure, but what percentage, I do not know.::

He frowns uncertainly.

::Is there some way to cut up our spaceship and send it thru the gate in pieces?::

:: I suspect that you know more about your ship than I do.  Can your ship be disassembled into pieces that would fit through a ten foot portal, then reassembled on the other side? ::

:: Then again, why go to a different universe?  If you are all successfully restored, and your ships are built to last, then could you not use your own ship in orbit to go elsewhere in this universe?  Would you all not want to see what has become of your own civilization?  Or would you all not want to claim a new world elsewhere in your own universe? ::

::If we could have fuel, and some repairs, this universe would be better.::

:: Does this planet have the means of repairing or refueling your shuttle and your ship? ::

::We need anti-hydrogen, which is usually found at the stellar poles, and primarily a finely layered ten gram chunk of rubidium, which the planet has the metal, but no the ability to make layers tens of molecules thick in an intricate pattern to generate a shielding forcefield in front of the moving starship.::

:: Do we have any samples of the needed shielding material's intricate pattern of rubidium? ::

::Yes, we do.:: The other seems puzzled. :: Ten percent.::

:: Ring.  Given unprocessed rubidium, and given a sample processed into an intricate pattern tens of molecules thick, is it possible for you to replicate the processed pattern by saving the processed rubidium as one of my possessions in one of your six morphing slots? ::

Pause.

Pause.

Somewhere a spinning spinner is spinning.

::Yes.::

:: If your people were able to gather the other needed material, such as anti-hydrogen and unprocessed rubidium, then I believe I should be able to replicate the intricate pattern needed for your shielding force field. ::

:: Other than the intricate pattern replication, would your people (once restored) be able to perform the other tasks need to refuel and repair your ship? ::

And over the next seven weeks, the jobs are accomplished.  Anti-hydrogen is mined, and the ship is restored, with its now dirty, pitted surfaces restored to gleaming mirror finishes, and the rubidium is made available to you.

OOC: Does that mean we are fast-forwarding through the alien departure, and assuming that all went as planned there, and that crew restoration was successful?  Or do we still need to roleplay that out?  :p

Let's fast forward thru it.  Although unexpected, it'll do.

You're able to dump the aliens into three new universes of the six you open.  The last words you  hear from the Alien Captain are ::This is well. Not all flowers grow well together, but all flowers are well. Farewell, Human.::

You've been able to fashion a rubidium shield grid based on physical principles that make no sense to you, and when you ask the conversation quickly degenerates into 'influential radii converging into quasi-demi particles exogenous to the stability of the para-stable tachyonic virtual quarks allows..."

You're at least two scientific revolutions (like Newton and Einstein between you and any sort of true  understanding.)

However they're very impressed and appalled that you have a 'nearly unregulated nanite device'  'why with that thing you could...' and they get uncomfortable looks and s hut up at that point.

Let's fast forward thru it.  Although unexpected, it'll do.

You're able to dump the aliens into three new universes of the six you open.  The last words you  hear from the Alien Captain are ::This is well. Not all flowers grow well together, but all flowers are well. Farewell, Human.::

You've been able to fashion a rubidium shield grid based on physical principles that make no sense to you, and when you ask the conversation quickly degenerates into 'influential radii converging into quasi-demi particles exogenous to the stability of the para-stable tachyonic virtual quarks allows..."

You're at least two scientific revolutions (like Newton and Einstein between you and any sort of true  understanding.)

However they're very impressed and appalled that you have a 'nearly unregulated nanite device'  'why with that thing you could...' and they get uncomfortable looks and s hut up at that point.

OOC: Wow, that was indeed unexpected.  OK... some questions:

(1) What were the aliens like face-to-face?

(2) Is it reasonable to assume that I could successfully touch one of them at some point, and have Ring record their pattern?

(3) If so, what capabilities does the alien form offer?

(4) What skills did I learn from the aliens to restore the crew members and the frags?

(5) What stuff did they leave behind, if anything?

(6) Now that I control their Tower, what do I learn from it?

(7) What capabilities does their Tower have, and how do they differ (if at all) from mine?

(8) Are the crew members already restored?

(9) What can I sense from them when they shut up?

(10) Do I have any reason to be concerned that they may now consider me a threat, and may seek to steal or harm Ring or harm me?

NOTE: I have only revealed that I can replicate the shield.  I have not revealed the means I use to do so...

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Sorry. I'm going to send you to a new world, or a new GM (your choice) soon.

1. They wore body suits with robotic limbs to help so all you know is that under the huge overlayer of protective gear that they are vaguely humanoid.

2. No. They make an effort to avoid this.

3.

4.  You learned how to turn someone's mental age back to a fetal level, and then walk them forward, reintegrating the areas of their mind as you do so.  Its time consuming, delicate, and at the same time laborous work.  At the end you're 1@5, and +1 for Intuition as you now understand the human mind much better.

5. They blew up what little they left behind.  They take their notions of cultural contamination seriously.

6. How to speed up the terraforming of the planet back to the original purpose of the Towers.  How to begin fixing the non-functioning Tower.

7.  ........

And you see a girl with a puzzled look on her face walking up to the Sea Tower....