Jack stood in the heart of his laboratory on Future Island, his eyes locked onto the shimmering Time and Space Chamber in front of him. The first test had been a success, but that was merely the beginning. He had proven that teleportation was possible, but there was a colossal difference between sending a handful of cockroaches a few meters away and transporting eight billion humans across the galaxy.
The weight of the world was on his shoulders.
The air in the lab was tense, thick with exhaustion and anticipation. Katrina and Emma stood by his side, watching as his team—comprised of the greatest scientific minds on Earth—worked tirelessly. The lab was a controlled storm of activity, with scientists rushing between workstations, computer screens displaying equations and models at breakneck speeds.