“I don’t see any 3-D printer.” “That’s because I didn’t send the parts to build one,” Mark replied. “We’ll deliver those through the gateway when it’s activated.” “And where will you get all the powdered metals and plastics that it will use?” Mark’s face lit up slightly. “We make them. We feed the matter disrupter-synthesizer with rock, dirt, or whatever we’ve mined. The MDS then transforms that matter into raw energy that’s converted into the wave packets that form whatever material we want to produce.”

