After saying goodbye to The Ancient One, Kraft returned to his New York laboratory for the first time in ages and began developing the black technology from his dreams that could be used in space.
As for school, Angela no longer needed to control a dummy to impersonate him. Martin simply handled the paperwork to withdraw him.
Quantum communication technology wasn't particularly difficult, and Kraft successfully worked it out within a few days. Spatial jumps, however, proved much more troublesome.
Without the special material known as psionic crystal, the Terran and Protoss warp technologies performed far worse than the originals. The farther the warp, the longer the preparation and subsequent cooldown took, and their maximum range was greatly reduced as well.
Another transit technology, from the Gallente Federation, required structures called Jump Bridges or Stargates. Put simply, they were Portals specifically for spaceships.
But according to the information Riot provided, the Marvel Universe already had spatial jump technology that required no Stargates. Aside from the recommendation that carbon-based life-forms avoid making more than fifty consecutive jumps, it had no particular restrictions.
Unfortunately, none of the creatures Riot had inhabited possessed this technology, and Kraft couldn't fully reconstruct it just by dismantling the Symbiotes' spaceship.
Riot also volunteered that they had originally had more than one spaceship, but every ship that jumped directly into the solar system had been blasted to pieces by the Asgardians using the Bifrost.
Only their ship had escaped Asgard's notice by disguising itself as a meteorite and drifting all the way in from outside the solar system.
"So, if you knew Asgard was guarding this place, why did you still want to invade Earth?"
Kraft was deeply puzzled by the Symbiotes' stubborn recklessness.
"Plenty of star systems have so-called guardians. We can't just stop invading because