"From Homeworld?" Peridot smiled a bit. "We had warp pads set up anywhere in the universe that we'd ever been. You could step onto the pad, and..." She waggled her fingers around a bit. "Woosh, they'd take you to any one of a number of destinations. Earth used to have a bunch, at least in my reality, but they... they've seen better days."

And Earth was better off for it, too.