They would be the guild's staff and defense force. If there was a problem, they would remain on the platform and be swapped back with the second teleportation of equipment.
With a flash, the teleportation platform was empty.
The next platform, which was packed with boxes, was moved into place. Five minutes later, it was swapped with an empty one as the teleporter activated again.
A data packet was transferred through with the returning structure, and Matt's AI picked up the data. Most of the message was encrypted and unreadable to Matt’s AI, but the overall message was everything was as it should be. They were deploying the defenses and had detected the republic doing the same. In essence, all was as expected.
Matt and everyone else who had intercepted the data let out a cheer, and the
