I know it has been some time since we have updated the public on our progress. Due to certain administrative concerns, we have had to move our secret R&D facility, and that’s not a simple task. First you have to scout out possible locations and put them through a rigorous geological survey (drilling core samples to analyze the bed rock, seismic surveys, water table analysis), analyzing the available infrastructure resources (ability to extend High Voltage power transmission lines to the facility, OC-48 availability, etc.), and the permitting. On top of that, several of our lead researchers have been going through a lot of personal concerns lately. And, have you priced tunnel boring machines lately?!

But, that has all settled down, and we are moving faster than ever. The biggest thing we are working on now is the control software for the gantry. As, you know, the current gantry was only built to translocate to Firestorm, and we really don’t want to ship new R&D gantries to everyone who wants to translocate to RP. Fortunately, some a simple update will make all existing approved gantries compatible with the Russel process. Along with this update we have been working on a new quantum communications system that will communicate with a translocation pod through a side channel of the Null Field Transceiver. Special thanks go to two of our 3rd party researchers who helped to develop the special communications needed and have now released the results of their research (http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0807/0807.4935v1.pdf).

Well, time for me to get back to work. Sorry for the delay in updating, but we are still hard at work. I hope to be crushing you in RP soon.

Adam “Thor” Butt, VGC R&D