*It's a reasonable design, and she approves. She's just making certain he can't accidentally attach a portal to the wrong frame of reference and have it not be stationary relative to the ship or planet he's on, gouging out a portal-shaped hole as the object in question moves at thousands of miles per second relative to some cosmic stillpoint. That's exceedingly embarrassing when it isn't done intentionally (and Samus would prefer more people didn't get the idea for a cosmic-stillpoint-PINpoint-supercannon). When she's satisfied that his settings are as safe as a transdimensional aperture lens can ever be, she sets it down on the edge of the table, where Jim can collect it when he's done with his shot.*
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