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Old 12-24-2017, 08:56 PM   #15
YankeeGamer
 
Join Date: Dec 2017
Default Clarification on Newope

The device that sent the planet out of orbit was a teleporter. It simply teleported a large object up--it then falls through the gate at the bottom, coming out at the top. Something went wrong; they couldn't deactivate it--and then the mass was moving so fast that disabling the gate would, when the object, now at relativistic speeds, struck the bottom, BOOM!

By the time they were able to jurry rig something to send it out the oppoite pole and into space, the planet was moving...

A different technobabble method would be fine--the point is that the planet slowly accelerated towards deep space, so there was time to prepare, but, due to isolation, no one had a clue what happened.
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