"I ran a spectral analysis on the portal's energy signature before it collapsed," Kelvin said. He turned the tablet so Noah could see the display—graphs and readouts that meant nothing to him, but Kelvin's expression said they meant everything. "Then I cross-referenced it with every known spatial anomaly in EDF databases going back fifty years."
"And?"
Kelvin swiped to a different screen. This one showed a star map with seven points highlighted in red, scattered across known human space. "I found matches. Seven locations showing the exact same energy signature. All of them in the past six months. All of them dismissed by local authorities as minor anomalies or equipment malfunctions."
