Transmatter portal

A transmatter portal is a construct that is capable of immediate transportation between any two points in the universe. With the usage of breach technology, a transmatter portal can also be used to travel to any other universe in the multiverse.

History

Slavers' moon

Roulette began working with Maaldorian slavers to kidnap human subjects. They used a transmatter portal located under a fake health clinic to transport humans from Earth to Slavers' Moon in order to sell them into the galactic slave market. Kara Danvers and Mon-El investigated a string of missing persons and discovered their plot. They both went through the portal to rescue the kidnapped humans. When Alex Danvers led a D.E.O. strike-force to the portal, J'onn J'onzz recognized that it was a transmatter portal and tasked Agent Winn Schott to get the portal working. He activated it allowing Alex to lead the D.E.O.'s team on a rescue mission to Slavers' Moon. When they returned with the rescued human captives, Winn reactivated the portal allowing everyone back to Earth. Kara then used her heat vision to fry the control pad on the portal located on Earth to keep anyone on Maaldoria from following them.^[1]

Daxamite invasion

"This is just one portal. Don't we need one on the other side?"
"No. Apparently, the other portal acts as more of a beacon."
"So, as long as you have the exact coordinates of where you wanna transmat, you only need one gate?"
"Mmm-hmm. Yes. One gate...and one, you know, flawless calculation of the ship's location as it hurls through space relative to us as we spin on the Earth's axis at about 1,000 miles per hour."
"And if the calculation's wrong?"
"You'll transmat directly into the cold vacuum of space."
"Let's hope it's not wrong."

—Kara Danvers, J'onn Jonzz, Alex Danvers and Winn Schott discuss using a transmatter portal to get to Mon-El's parents' ship.^[src]

The D.E.O. kept the Maaldorians' portal on Earth and later repaired and reconfigured it to transport them onto Lar Gand and Rhea's spaceship. J'onn, Kara, and Winn used it to rescue Mon-El and used it again to transport themselves back down to Earth.^[2]

A short time later, Rhea went to Lena Luthor with a proposal to build their own transmatter portal. Lena thought the portal's possible benefits would greatly help the Earth and Rhea claimed that she wanted to use it to return home. Lena and L-Corp built a giant prototype outside National City but there were having problems stabilizing it. Whenever they turned it on, it caused Phorians in National City to go berserk and unleash their psychic powers out on everything and everyone around them.

When Lena managed to stabilize the power, Rhea revealed that the portal was being used to bring all the scattered Daxamite ships across the universe to Earth. Supergirl tried to destroy it but it was self-sufficient and had a barrier to protect it as hundreds of ships came through it into National City.^[3]

Battle for Earth

When Alura takes Kara to Zor-El's lab where she finds a transmatter portal. Using the holo-Alura on Earth, Kara sends a message to Winn to help get the D.E.O.'s portal linked to theirs. Before Winn can activate his portal, the dark Kryptonians attack the D.E.O. wanting Purity and Pestilence's blood to restore Reign with. Kara uses the holo-Alura to trick a dark Kryptonian into activating the portal. Kara, Mon-El and Alura rush through to join the fight.^[4]

Lex Luthor's plot

While trying to stop Lex Luthor and the Children of Liberty, Nia, J'onn and Brainy traveled to a black site Lex's underlings had been using as part of Lex's schemes. Lex's plan; drain the aliens' powers (thereby killing them) to convert into energy, some of which would be used to power a weapon to destroy Argo City; where Superman was at the time.^[5] When Brainy and Nia were captured while attempting to sneak inside, J'onn, having come with Brainy and Nia to the location but separated from them for a moment to do recon, saw that the many other abducted aliens that had been brought to the site were being transported to another location^[6] (which they later learned to be an Amertek energy refinery at Shelley Island)^[5] via a transmatter portal set up in a building they'd been brought to upon capture. While at the black site, Brainy was electrocuted while being tortured by Lex's lackeys; this caused Brainy's mind to reboot, making him more like his emotionless ancestors. As a result, he betrayed Nia and J'onn, allowing them to both be captured and sent through the portal with little regard for their safety, though he claimed to have a plan to free all the alien captives once they knew where they were being sent to be used as batteries for Lex's weapon.^[6] His idea; have Nia astral project when she got to the other side, alerting the rest of the Superfriends to the location where the captives were being sent. This proved a problem at first, due to the fact that Shelley Island is surrounded by alien power-dampening pylons, which J'onn and their alien friends had to disable before Nia could astral project to send Brainy, Kara, Alex and Lena a message.^[5]

Anti-Monitor Crisis

When an antimatter wave was detected moving through Earth-38's universe, it was decided that the best thing to do for the time being was to try to get all of the denizens of Earth-38 to Earth-1; knowing that Earth-1 would be the last Earth that the antimatter wave would reach. Being fully aware that an interdimensional extrapolator wouldn't be able to fill their need, on J'onn Jonzz's urging, Alex reached out to Lena Luthor, asking her to construct a gigantic transmatter portal to get as many people from Earth-38 to Earth-1 as possible.

To pull this off, J'onn contacted every alien refugee he knew; knowing that they'd all come to Earth on some type of ship, and that the ships could be loaded up with residents of their universe to transport them all to Earth-1 more quickly. Meanwhile Superman and Supergirl, along with several of their allies from Earth-1 (Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Barry Allen/The Flash, Kate Kane/Batwoman, Ray Palmer/The Atom and Mia Smoak), fought to protect the quantum tower that had risen to the surface in National City from the shadow demons that had come to destroy the tower, as it had stopped the antimatter wave; causing the wave to disperse. Ultimately, of the 7.53 billion citizens of Earth-38, three billion made it to Earth-1, with one billion making it to safety due to Oliver's refusal to give up; even when the Monitor told him the battle was lost and that they needed to retreat, though this ultimately resulted in Oliver being killed fighting to buy more time to evacuate the Earth's residents.^[7]

Transmatter portal watches

At some point, Lex Luthor invented transmatter portal watches. These gadgets serve a similar purpose to interdimensional extrapolators and time couriers; with the device creating a small portal for the user on the spot, allowing instantaneous travel between different locations.^[5]

When Lex Luthor expected a weapon he'd built that harnessed aliens' powers as energy (killing those aliens in the process) to fire upon Argo City in order to kill Superman (who was off-world there), and the satellite failed to activate (due to J'onn J'onzz using his powers to overload the machine in an effort to stop it), Eve Teschemacher informed him that there was a problem at Shelley Island (from which the weapon was being powered). When Lex learned that this was the reason for the inactive weapon, he donned his Lexosuit and used his transmatter portal watch to create a gateway to go there.^[5]

When James Olsen took his sister Kelly to Calvintown to keep her safe from Malefic J'onzz (due to the fact that Kelly had accidentally gained the ability to identify Malefic even when he's shape-shifted to look like somebody else; putting Kelly in danger as this meant that she posed a threat to Malefic), before James left with Kelly, Kara gave him one of Lex's transmatter portal watches to allow James to instantly return to National City if he needed to.^[8] A short time later, after seeing visions of things Malefic was doing back in National City, Kelly realized she's actually connected to him. Knowing that Alex and the others were in danger, she made James use the watch to get them to National City to aid the Superfriends in their fight against Malefic.^[9]

Later, after Supergirl first encountered Rama Khan, an alien with the power of geokinesis, needing to research what she was up against, Kara went to the Fortress of Solitude, with Lena accompanying her, to find out what she was dealing with, and how she could stop him. While they were there, feeling betrayed that Kara had held the truth from Lena about Kara's identity as Supegirl for so long, Lena secretly turned the Fortress's defense mechanisms against Kara, trapping her. This enabled Lena to steal Myriad to use with Project Non Nocere, a program she was working on to make humanity less violent. Against Kara's objections, Lena took the machine, using a transmatter portal watch to leave the Fortress.^[10]

After the multiverse was destroyed and reborn in the Anti-Monitor Crisis, various refugees from miscellaneous universes in the old multiverse found their way to Earth-Prime; an amalgamation of the original multiverse's Earth-1, Earth-38 and Earth-TUD5. After Nia tried to stop Brainiac 5 of Earth-TUD17 from trying to release his Earth, which he'd bottled to save its inhabitants from antimatter (with Nia attempting to keep him from getting a hold of a tool he needed to open the bottle), as releasing his Earth would likely destroy both his Earth and Earth-Prime, she called out to her Brainiac 5 (Brainy) for help. Brainy and Supergirl then arrived on the scene, with Supergirl using her heat vision to destroy the device Earth-TUD17 Brainiac 5 was trying to use to open the bottle. Forced to retreat, Earth-TUD17 Brainiac 5 grabbed a transmatter portal watch that had been lying nearby, using the watch to teleport himself away.^[11]

After users of Obsidian Platinum's virtual reality contacts ended up getting pulled into comas, Alex Danvers contacted Brainy, believing Lex Luthor to be behind the users going missing. Lex insisted that Leviathan was behind those disappearances; as he'd been informed by Gemma Cooper. Lex suggested Brainy help Alex and the rest the Superfriends find the Obsidian Platinum users. Brainy then inquired how he could help them, as the D.E.O. didn't have any equipment capable of tracking Q-waves, which Obsidian Platinum utilizes. Lex then suggested Brainy ask Supergirl; confident that the Fortress of Solitude must have something that could be helpful in executing that task. Later, when J'onn stated that he was able to psychically scan for the missing users, he found them. However, he couldn't connect with them; like how he was unable to connect to his brother, Malefic's mind. Brainy then arrived and stated that the reason for that was because Obsidian Platinum lenses work by utilizing Q-waves to connect with the user's brain, which operate on a similar frequency to Malefic's Martian brain. Brainy then told them that it would be possible to connect with the Obsidian users by using Myriad. When Lena had taken Myriad, she'd wanted to use it to disperse her Q-wave mind control using Project Non Nochere. However, if it were to be turned on in reverse, it would compress the Q-wave signatures in the atmosphere; making it possible for J'onn to connect with the missing users. Kara agreed to do it, although she didn't like the idea. When Kara tried doing as Brainy suggested, it interfered with Lena's trials with Project Non Nocere. Lex claimed to know nothing about that, and offered to go to Fortress to turn Myriad off; Lena would just have to tell him where it was. Lena insisted on going there herself, so Lex handed her a transmatter portal watch, which she then used to go there. Unnoticed by Lena due to the creature's powers of invisibility, a Morae followed her through the portal. After a brief argument at the Fortress over whether or not it was okay to use Myriad, Lena used the watch to leave. The Morae, sent there on Leviathan's orders, then attacked Kara, releasing a Sun-Eater confined at the Fortress, per Lex Luthor's plans to distract Supergirl. Later on, Lex used the same transmatter portal watch to trace the last destination it had been used to travel to; the Fortress, which the watch revealed to him was located in the Arctic. He then used the watch to go there.^[12]

When Lex worked with Lena to develop Project Non Nocere, they traveled to Stryker's Island Penitentiary and got permission to test it on willing inmates. Ultimately, the program ended up backfiring, as the program can't impact a person's free will; thereby causing a riot in the prison. When the prisoners tried to break into the room Lena was running the program from, Lex used a transmatter portal watch to transport himself to different points in the hallway the inmates were rioting in to buy her time to fix the issue. After resolving the uproar she'd unintentionally caused, she decided to abandon the project all together. Lex then informed her that he knew it'd fail all along; but that she needed to personally see it fail to accept that fact. He then revealed to Lena that he intended to use Project Non Nocere for his own ends; he'd been using her the whole time. This prompted Lena to attempt to make amends with Kara and the Superfriends and seek to atone for her betrayal.^[13]

Having learned that Eve Teschmacher kidnapped William Dey, after tracking Eve's location, Kara (as Supergirl) used super-speed to get there, blocking a bullet Eve had fired at William, with Eve having already shot him once in the shoulder. She then knocked the gun out of Eve's hand. Lena arrived on the scene a moment later to help Kara, having gotten there via a transmatter portal watch.^[14]

After Brainy bottled Rama Khan, Sela and Tezumak (having sneaked aboard the trio's ship and uploaded a code to shrink them in order to bottle them, so that he could eliminate the threat they posed without killing them), Brainy was left severely weakened due to the protective raidoactive field he entered when he came aboard their ship. Lex then used his transmatter portal watch to go to Brainy, with the former shielded from the radiation by a special pin Gemma Cooper had given him when he "agreed" to work with Leviathan. Lex then scolded Brainy for not following through with the plan Lex had for defeating Leviathan; wait until Leviathan had killed Supergirl and her team, then kill Leviathan and "save" Earth from its alien residents. Brainy then stated that he couldn't allow Lex to hurt the former's friends. Lex then took the bottle from Brainy that now contained Rama Khan, Sela and Tezumak, planning to kill Supergirl himself, leaving Brainy to die. Lex then used his transmatter portal watch to travel to an unknown location, meeting up with his mother, to whom he handed the bottle, saying they should get to work.^[14]

Appearances

Supergirl

Season 5

Gallery

Trivia

Zor-El had been working on a transmat portral - a teleportation device that could work across interstellar distances to send the people of Krypton to another planet.
Winn is able to track the Transmat's terminus by following the ionization trail.
The transmatter portal works by synthesizing poly-electronic anions. If the energy levels aren't properly set when interfacing with a breach device to allow the portal to be used to travel to another universe, something that tries to move through it will disintegrate when it makes contact with the portal rather than being teleported.^[7]

Behind the scenes

In DC Comics, the Transmatter Portal is a device utilized in the 31st century by a great many species throughout the universe, as well as the coalition of the United Planets.

References

↑ "Supergirl Lives"
↑ "Distant Sun"
↑ "City of Lost Children"
↑ "Make it Reign"
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 "The Quest for Peace"
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 "Red Dawn"
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One"
↑ "Blurred Lines"
↑ "In Plain Sight"
↑ "Tremors"
↑ "The Bottle Episode"
↑ "Deus Lex Machina"
↑ "The Missing Link"
↑ ^14.0 ^14.1 "Immortal Kombat"

[1] "Supergirl Lives"

[2] "Distant Sun"

[3] "City of Lost Children"

[4] "Make it Reign"

[:2-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 "The Quest for Peace"

[:3-6] 6.0 ^6.1 "Red Dawn"

[:0-7] 7.0 ^7.1 "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One"

[8] "Blurred Lines"

[9] "In Plain Sight"

[10] "Tremors"

[11] "The Bottle Episode"

[12] "Deus Lex Machina"

[13] "The Missing Link"

[:1-14] 14.0 ^14.1 "Immortal Kombat"

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