[quote=So Boerd]
He just learned about teleportation and the news would have been covering the instantaneous disappearance of Freedom. Foreign ships show up, Fury disappears? It isn't a tremendous jump in reasoning.
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Was your character teleported into those ships when he was teleported? If anything, his past experiences with portals would make it more likely he just entered a gateway then he was teleported into a ship.