President Zogg kept the Surinox Shard in his compound in Meridian City. He used it as the center of the Helios Project; it powered the machine Helios, which was designed with advanced teleportation capabilities to move planets across the universe to safety in the event of supernovas, black holes, temporal rifts and other galactic disasters. The shard's transdimensional abilities were key to making the technology work. When Captain Qwark turned on Zogg and won the presidential re-election; however, things changed.