We must have spent a dozen sleepless nights leading up to this. Fine-tuning every last detail, checking and re-checking every single calculation. It was such a close call that he was still notching the last few gears on the way over. Both of us were terrified of what failure could mean for the whole endeavor.

[Viktor sighed with a thin smile, looking back towards the Academy.]

...It almost fell apart under the strain, but it worked. A scale model of what would eventually become the Hexgates.