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Two off-road bikers came upon the next D-Shift to the west of the Road although it was awhile before it was discovered that they were first. They were a young couple called Rick and Rosie Stone down from the city looking for some decent biking terrain and west of the Road is quite hilly in places. Their 4x4 was found parked just off the Road on the west side, just married too. Both were into extreme sports, they were also early followers of the D-Shift it said on the back of their 4x4: D-Shifting is the Truth. The cops found tracks leading west and then tracks just vanished on top of a small cliff, no bikes or bodies were found below.
It was a bit of mystery for awhile until a scientist down from the city was testing her airborne sensor package initially designed for investigating D-Shifts. Turns out just to the right of that small cliff where the bikes would have passed through was an invisible D-Shift. The lady scientist's sensor package disappeared into it fortunately for her it had advanced A.I. which allowed it to retraced it steps back through the D-Shift. This was the first of the Teleporter D-Shifts discovered, the GPS telemetry of the sensor package showed that it arrived above the sea of Japan also known as the Devil's Sea. It was discovered later that depending upon what angle you enter the D-Shift depends on where you come out not that anyone was willing to do a manned expedition. That lady scientist was Jane Everfall the now CEO of Portal Industries one of the largest firms on the planet(s) they make Microsoft and Apple look small. It is likely that Rick and Rosie Stone drowned in the sea of Japan that's if they survived the journey through.
These types of D-Shift don't just lead to different parts of the world but other parts of the solar system, it is not just the angle of entry either but the exact timing as well. Get the timing wrong and your goods could end up in the middle of the Sun or orbiting Pluto, Everfall's initial testing showed that whilst living organic matter could travel through the portal it was far from safe. Passage through a portal is like sinking to the bottom of the deepest ocean without a diver's suit on and then coming straight back up within a few seconds. Whilst you won't drown you will suffer from an explosive case of the bends with very messy results, none of the live animal tests Everfall tried ever arrived alive. The portals that were found became transport hubs of non-organic matter, they could ship equipment anywhere in the solar system. Then one bright spark hit upon on the idea of decompression chambers at either ends of the portal, it required several days of decompression but it was possible to send people through the portals. It took an awful lot of money to make it safe and the government boys were always looking over Everfall's shoulders to make sure they didn't destroy the planet in the process but they finally got there. Now we have colonies on the Moon and Mars, this however was not the end of Everfall's discoveries.
During her tests of travel through a portal she discovered that whilst the effects upon organic matter were the similar to violent decompression this was not actually the case. Her sensor telemetry showed extreme gravity similar to if someone tried to descend through Jupiter's atmosphere, perhaps this was that ever elusive dark matter that scientist's have been searching for since they realised that Universe appeared to be missing about eighty percent of its mass. That particular debate however is still going on.
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