The VSGE has investigated the automaton instead of the stranded PMC. The entire mission has been a failure. Worse, the Vamperial warp tracer technology has resulted in this planet being auto-targetted for a tau neutrino bomb response from the defense systems. A tau neutrino bomb is warped directly to the gate's location!!! The bomb is capable of vaporizing the entire planet four times over. The PMC swears in promethean and begins attempting to disarm it. (roll for success.)
Impossible. It leads to a small planetoid outside of the Panastros exclusion perimeter, to a facility monitored regularly. The transponder will be traced to a copy the PMC will have to build now. Hopefully, instead of the other automaton.
Can it lead to Eden on Elysion?
The portal can only remain active for a minute or so.
The machine first has to be taught where the coordinates are relative to the machine and given a scale of reference to align itself. When ready, the PMC has had to build another transponder and throws it through the portal.
It has a small pad to do so.
The gateway operates by entering the x, y and z coordinates of the desired location. It will then generate a portal to the desired location.
This is why the PMC is only an officer. The mistake may ruin chances of being recovered from this planet. The PMC orders another automaton to reach inside and pull the first one back if possible, and begins calculating the nearest location for a new gateway. The gate itself will need to be studied for a while to determine how to enter the complex information in a way it can understand.
The automaton appears in the middle of space still functioning. It appeared in space due to no navigational data being entered so a random place was chosen.