Harvey winces a bit at Max's anger but replies, "The things that came through, they took us by surprise and took out a dozen well armed soldiers."
He pulls aside a pair of cabinet doors on one end of the room that reveal an HD monitor. Using the remote he clicks through still images captured by the portal room's security cameras.
A glimpse of a giant mushroom filled vista on the "other side" of the gate.
The crystal that empowers the gate.
A close-up image of one of the alien creatures that came through...white hair, pointed ears, jet black skin, red eyes, holding what looks like a renaissance era crossbow the size of a large pistol.
General Staunton addresses Amy, after the slideshow is complete, "I assure you, Corporal, this is very real."
Turning to Nathan, the General responds, "Your job, Mr. Abrahms, is going to be to figure out how their tech works and figure out ways to use it to our advantage. Barring that, you need to find ways to protect us against it and/or disable it. Those things jumped through the gate right after we opened it, which leads us to believe they knew about it, somehow. I would sincerely like to know how."
Harvey pulls another six of the Recall Timers out of his briefcase in answer to Howie's question, "These are for the hostages. All you have to do is wrap these around their arms. You can manually reset the timer on these babies so if you need to emergency evac all you need to do is set the timer clock to one second."
He then turns to Connor, "I actually need to talk to you privately about that, Mr. Lang. The crystals, and the main crystal down in the portal room, react slightly differently to a certain genetic sequence which seems to come up in only about one person per million. And, uh, you're one in a million, I guess you could say."
