Dimension Root

The Dimension Root was a device kept in the basement of the Agency, presumably having previously belonged to Douglas Wheatley. It was a very dangerous machine used to shunt planets into other dimensions to save money on solar tax.

Appearance
The Root is about four feet tall, with cool blue glowing lines and panels set into it. It has a large lever extending from one side, and a pool of quantum fluid resting in an upper panel.

About
The Dimension Root was, according to Darwin Archimedes, used for shunting planets into other dimensions to avoid solar tax, or perhaps ice cream tax.

The Root possibly originates from a place called the Daellan clusters, and is banned in over nine hundred civilised systems. Fortunately for humanity, galactic governments do not count Earth as civilised.

The circuitry of the Root appears to be made primarily out of branch-like growths which light up green and blue, emitting whispering noises. The top panel contains brightly-glowing blue fluid which causes the dimensional stability of anything placed in it to unfold. Darwin described it as "quantum fluid". While leaking from the Root, it destroyed a pen and dug several holes through the centre of the Earth.