Over the next week we set up intervals to check the terminal. We tried desperately to not obsess over that data. But everything seemed to be going according to plan. The path of the asteroid was changing at a regular interval. It looked like it was going to work. This started to set our minds at ease.
I still didn't know if I was right about a matching asteroid in our universe, but if it did exist I could only hope that our actions here would be enough to move it as well. I spent a lot of time trying to understand the computer models and documentation about the layered universes. It was very complex, and I didn't have enough time to check all of their work, but for now I could only assume they were correct.
I tried to set my mind on the problem of where all the people disappeared to. From what I understood the machine could only transport objects within our solar system. Which would mean there was only a few places they could evacuate to that could be considered even remotely habitable. It ultimately came down to their moon or mars. Our early probes to this universe had visited both of those locations and showed no signs of life.
It didn't really make sense that they would go to either anyway. A mass evacuation on this scale would take up a large amount of time. They wouldn't have had time to build the necessary cities to house the population. They had to have gone somewhere else.
But where?
