Quote Originally Posted by Freederick View Post
Paradigm shift: extract the sapphire from the throne, replacing it with a dummy. The real sapphire, with the gate, secreted on a ship in harbor, ready to be evacuated.
Wouldn't work. The sapphire is there to seal a pre-existing rift in the fabric of reality--the rift does not move, therefore the sapphire cannot move either. (This was actually stated in so many words by Hinjo when Roy suggested moving the sapphire somewhere else).