Complex sentence: Bringing scientists from all over the Eastern Bloc and around the world together, they set out to work on an "Omni-sphere," a techno-mental device that would be able to cut through space and time and see into the future.
Split into simpler sentences: Bringing scientists from all over the Eastern Bloc and around the world together, they set out to work on an "Omni-sphere". The Omni-sphere was to be a techno-mental device that would be able to cut through space and time and see into the future.