我們對這些裂隙的起源究竟了解多少？遺憾的是，少得可憐。諾丑克宣稱，1945年一座被魔王占據的城堡發生了位移，其後遭到摧毀，這才導致了裂隙的出現。（簡直一派胡言！）
至於裂隙本身——3號裂隙看來像是一道通往另一個宇宙的裂口。在那個宇宙中，大爆炸未能跨越普朗克時刻，至今仍不斷膨脹、聚合。要是我們能想辦法讓它穩定下來……將得到多麼驚人的能量！7號裂隙則呈現持續變動的時間不穩定現象，不斷開啟又關閉通往過去、甚至可能是未來的「窗口」。13號裂隙會滲出紅色霧氣（鮑伊博士已下令隔離），而4號裂隙則遵循著歐幾里得的黃金比例，呈現出完美的螺旋形態。
無論這些裂口的本質為何，有一件事我們可以確定：它們全都與0號裂隙相連——也就是最大、最穩定的一個裂口。隨著它擴張，其他裂隙也會隨之成長。而一旦它關閉，我們這個計畫也將徹底灰飛煙滅。
英文原文
What do we know about the origin of the rifts? Disappointingly little. Norček claim that they were created in 1945 when a displaced castle possessed by a demon king was destroyed. (Utter rot!)
What of the rifts themselves? Rift 3, for example, appears to be a tear into a universe where the Big Bang never makes it past the Planck moment, constantly expanding and coallescing. Imagine the power, if we could somehow stabilise it! Rift 7 is a moving feast of temporal instability, constantly opening and closing ‘windows’ to the past and maybe even the future. Rift 13 seeps red mist, (Dr Bowe has imposed a quarantine) and Rift 4 appears as a perfect spiral, following Euclid’s golden ratio.
Whatever the nature of these ruptures, what we can say with certainty is this: that they are all connected to Rift 0, the largest and most stable of all the fractures. As it grows, so do they. And were it to close, this project would be lost forever.