[That was a pleasant little detail at the end there.]

I already began to suspect that my timeline -- and possibly yours, I don't know -- was doomed when we arrived in this facility with no apparent means of return to the Veil. The nature of my fetch modus dictates that I was to plant the matriorb in the meteor's core, but the excessive length of our detour here suggests that I was not brought here in concordance with the designs of said modus.