The testing for the newly created Intercontinental Teleportation Array continued.
So far, everything worked.
That did not mean Lootwell trusted it blindly.
Every route was tested again and again.
Short-distance transfer.
Long-distance transfer.
Single-person transfer.
Group transfer.
Cargo transfer.
Forced shutdown.
False-entry rejection.
Unstable item rejection.
Hostile mark rejection.
Each test left another line of confirmation across the control records.
The arrays were fast, stable, and clean.
But public use was different from internal use.
Public use meant strangers.
People with honest reasons.
People with hidden reasons.
People who wanted to travel.
People who wanted to run.
People who wanted to smuggle, spy, steal, threaten, or carry old grudges across continents that had not seen each other properly for too long.
Lucien welcomed the world.
That did not mean he trusted every person in it.
So the public arrays were not simple gates.
