This all looks great! The suggested uses for the conduit are excellent and we can potentially incorporate them into future settings for exploration and events, if you don't mind. We remember when you first brought this to our attention and it's exciting to see it coming to fruition. As for your questions:

The natives would be very wary of anything that would tamper with the gods' power and the barrier especially. Any prototype they bring to them will be taken temporarily by the science and research centers so they can examine it and how it works. They'll conduct independent tests on it and then return it to the characters in the same condition it was given to them, and upon seeing that it functions as promised, be very interested in this tech and seeing what it can do. The temples and priests, on the other hand, will be vehemently opposed to anything that tampers with the gods' powers and may give characters involved in this development the cold shoulder for awhile, branding them as heretics or meddlers in affairs they have no right to meddle in.

Please just let us know when you plan to bring the prototype to the natives and/or begin using it so we can adjust things like the World Status page, for example.