John Henry Irons had been studying something incredible for days and having cracked the code to use it the engineer entered the room with a large suit of what looked like golden glowy winged alien power armor on a mannequin tethered to a dolly with the right gauntlet which was on John’s arm in place of his own gauntlet, a bit of a Frankensteined rigging of a battery and a crude converter made from a Seinken crystal, some wires and a small power pack of human design - it was very rudimentary but it was working.
“He gave me more than details on the ring. He lent me his actual battle armor to study and use to access the ring’s core internals.” It turned out that what Jon had been fighting with the whole time he was here was like a dress uniform with some basic power regulators, this suit though, it was impressive, on par with Thanagarian and Kryptonian tech - and way more advanced than anything Earth had. He held up the gauntlet pointing the palm at the ring and said some words he learned from Jon. “Ixis Rei.” The gauntlet bit his forearm drawing blood but Hope had told him it would do that and after the gauntlet accepted his override command the Gate started to light up and screens appeared around Steel. “The Seinken used these gates to colonize and travel across vast distances. This one is the prime gate and on loan, but he’s already confirmed that we’re gonna get another one once his old man recovers enough to make it for us.”
He had full network access, status, locations and a FULL starmap of the galaxy and beyond that was way more detailed than anything even he could have imagined. “Wow, so many habitable worlds...this is massive. Here’s us.” He pointed out Earth on the map and then pointed to the hidden planet Mithra out past Pluto but still in their solar system. “Fascinating...Pluto is a remnant of one of their moons.”