— Meanwhile - Riverine Containment & Research Facility —
Back at the Portal Containment Zone, the facility and all the equipment used to monitor the portal were operating at full capacity. Both General Richard J. Colt and Dr. Eric Steiner remained inside the secure control room, closely monitoring the situation.
General Richard placed his empty coffee cup onto its saucer. It was the third cup of coffee he had finished in the past hour. He was both nervous and anxious about the current situation.
They had already compared every recorded parameter from before and after the bomb test. The only difference was a few minor changes in the portal's parameters after the detonation, yet those small changes had somehow allowed them to establish a response from the portal.
It was almost as though God Himself had guided them.
