MOON & MARS-SUN L4—UDACHNYDuring the workup to the Asterian invasion, Academician Sergii Anatoly Borisovich and his team at the Institut Kosmecheskikh had developed a working MERT Portal. Like the Phoenix MERT Portal, their portal locus created a Casimir field that generated a wormhole. But instead of producing a hyper-disk, their locus produced a brick-like device that would establish a MERT Portal back to the locus when activated. It behaved just like a hyper-disk but was more cumbersome and required more power. This additional power requirement limited the range and size of their portals.
Orlov brought Borisovich and his team to the Udachny Moon-headquarters, where they diligently pursued an improved MERT Portal with a smaller hyper-brick and lower power requirement. Simultaneously, Or
