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5 years, it took.

From the events of the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, it took 5 years to complete the necessary catalysis to have a mass of HL large enough to support new transfers.

September 22, 2007 the Jester Prince became the first such transfer. The JP succumbed to cardiac arrest while watching a race in his retirement town of Cahors, France. Being made of LCFR, he was able to make his journey to the Red Celestial seamlessly. The Jester Prince had intended, as an experiment, tried to bring several Ontium masses with him, but, they were unable to withstand the harsh conditions of outer space and, thus, had to be transferred into the Blue Celestial HL cluster.

This experiment confirmed for the Corporate Prince exactly what he needed to know: Ontium could not be transferred safely to Red Celestial without the proper environment. While I'm sure he would have preferred that his efforts be in vain and that Ontium would be easier to move, I can imagine he was also glad to know that he'd been correct and his endeavors were fruitful.

With the Jester Prince at the ready on Red Celestial, the Corporate Prince was galvanized to get humans there. But, in May of the same year, SpaceX had just had a failure to even reach orbit with their second prototype of the Falcon 1 Rocket. With a payload communication glitch and a roll control glitch, the rocket did not reach its desired altitude of 425 miles from the Earth's surface. And that was only 425 miles out of the nearly 34 million miles they needed to cover to reach Red Celestial.

They'd effectively made it 0.001% of the way to Red Celestial after five years of effort. There was a lot of work to be done. But, fortunately, efforts do not track linearly. Growth can multiply or be exponential, which is good news for us, since we don't really have 500,000 years to spare.