Gu Ding and Liliath patiently waited for nightfall.
Neptune hacked the starport's system and under his control, the canopy at the starport admittance platform began to open. The starport's staff were scrambling to override the command but were unable to do so. In desperation, the system was completely shut down and they prepared to close off the canopy manually. However, they found themselves completely unable to take control of the mechanical contraption.
That was Robert's doing. For him, the complexity of the machines left over from the war on Planet Constlac was child's play. It only took him a few seconds to take over the entire operation, allowing him to remotely control the machine from a safe distance
Robert and Neptune's joint effort had made it so that the starport was unable to control the admittance platform at all.
