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In nanoseconds it elongated to a meter length and charged particles jetted out. In milliseconds the slit extended to a kilometre, if the process had stopped at that point then they would have shot by oblivious and impervious. The process did not stop, the growth of the rent accelerated. Particles escaped in a vast sheet into 3D space. Then the Perryman wormhole ruptured.
The Paxcargo liner Gargoyle survived the unique event in human history, but pitched thousands of its complacent passengers and ill equipped crew into their own prolonged survival challenge.