Ugendoit carefully mixed moon dust, mars sand, and earth gravel with potion 42. Given how frequent and common interstellar vacations are nowadays, the offplanet ingredredients are relatively cheap. No, they really are cheap. They can even be bought in bulk from space hawkers.
It is the potion that gave him trouble. It took him 41 failures to arrive at the final formula. It was at trial 23 that he realized that it had to be him to chew the bubblegum. His assistant, Blurry D. Nami, chewed for around a dozen trials and the rest by random volunteers, but none of those produced usable results.
"Nami, Nami, finally!"
Nami just stared as usual, not really caring as usual.
Ugendoit coughed to cover his ... uhm, never mind. He continued lecturing about the wonders and benefits of his newly invented gumdanium alloy. She was not just his assistant. She was also his student, his only student.
"... . Along with the surge of new kinds of information, and the database, wow, wow, s80oon we will see the rise of the mecha. Gumdan IT!"
Nami noted but did not give a rock.