He nodded sedately, not getting excited, the hole in his chest finally starting to close. "Yes, though only possible because it isn't 'technically' in the MPV. I believe I made a portal, then, INSIDE that one, made a second portal, and made the pocket dimension for that paradox to exist there, inside that second portal. It exists because it is in a universe where it isn't a paradox, but a normal. If it gets here, that is a different story, but the first thing it does is destroy the portal and the person or persons holding the portal open, so it can't spread further and collapses in on itself."<br/><br/>He glanced at the design, and frowned as if something was triggering his memory, and then laughed softly. "Clever, Barid, very clever. So he did find a use for that little side project of ours after all.<br/><br/>This is based on something he and I came up with in our first life, but was abandoned because we couldn't make it big enough to cover more than a single planet without it imploding and destroying everything inside it. Very difficult to defend something that its defenses kill. The maze is something else, and the constructs are going to squee at a chance to assault areas through it, as they will be on the back foot regardless of what we are doing, as I suspect Barid can redesign it on the fly to link to different hubs. We think we are assaulting a lightly defended food supply world, when instead it dumps us out in the middle of a fortress world."