Ch: 13-14
Chapter 13- 2000 Season 4
From studying the constructor that he had captured on Thor's ship he learned that the programming had been completely modified. It still had it's ingenuity that it was originally designed for. Apparently all of the safeties had been deemed unnecessary by the being that reprogrammed them. There only appeared to be one being the replicators were programmed to be loyal to. The individual constructor didn't have all of the information that would give Harry a clear picture. They were designed to work as a team and therefore shared their information.
Harry would have to be on the lookout for the being that controlled the modified constructor code. Harry decided he would use the term replicator to differentiate between the corrupted constructors and the original design he contained. He decided to start mass producing a drone package that contained 10 drones each. He didn't expect to find any ships that would have more than 10 neutrino-ion reactors.
Harry made them with illusion fields on the packages and the standard runes that kept their design from being discerned on them. He didn't want to tell the Asguard how he was so easily able to destroy their ships. It would feel good telling advanced races that refused to share technology with them that they weren't ready for this level of technology.
It was good that Harry had started production of the weapons because just a few days later a much better looking Thor requested that SG-1 come help stop the advancement of replicator
controlled vessels (formerly Asguard vessels) on one of their planets. The Asguard had no ships to spare so they went through the gate. Harry transported enough drone weapons through the gate to destroy 50 hostile vessels.
These were only the visible weapons that he took. He had his PJ (puddle jumper) travel through the Star Enterprises gate to an uninhabited planet in the Ida where it traveled to the planet that Harry was going to. It was cloaked following Harry's life signs just in case it was needed.
When SG-1 got to the planet they were shown the newest ship being constructed, the Evans- O'Neill. When it came time for the actual battle it was rather short lived. There were about 5 replicator controlled Asguard vessels. Harry fired off 5 of his weapons and all 5 ships blew up just as the Belisinger did. Harry left the remaining weapons with the Asguard after showing them how to target the enemy vessels. He told them if they ran out they could call him for more.
This wouldn't win the war for the Asguard because not all of the replicators were on ships. They were spread throughout the galaxy. But this new weapon would hold the replicators at bay.
On their next mission through the gate the team met a rather small group of people waging a war against another faction on their planet. Apparently they had achieved a fairly advanced level of technology. With the stuff Star was selling on the general market none of the technology was too enticing. They apparently had a good part of their people in stasis.
When Harry saw the people in stasis he got suspicious because they all looked like poster children for Hitler's great race. Using telepathy he discovered that these people were waging war because they were racists. Harry informed the others and they immediately left. Harry transported the gate to the right side of planet using a portkey after they left.
The next excitement for SG-1 came in the form of a rather good looking Tokra scientist named Anise/Freya, (Anise being symbiote with Freya as host). She wanted SG-1 to test out some armbands that she had located that would use a virus to give it's wearer increased abilities. Harry figured out that the effects were only temporary and non-harmful to the wearer, unless in a hostile situation. He did this by subjecting a chimpanzee to the virus under a time dilation field, which was the only reason he allowed the Tokra to use SG-1 as guinea pigs.
Harry actually had to allow the infection wards to let the virus through. No matter what he did the band wouldn't work on him because his natural healing ability would get rid of it immediately. He ended up having to simulate the other's abilities using his zpe powers so that it wasn't suspicious that the bands didn't work on him. The only one that was difficult to simulate was the advanced speed that they could travel at, but that was solved with a localized time dilation field tied to his body that allowed him to move at much greater speeds.
After the appearance of Anise/Freya the girls decided that they had a new mission, to seduce the Tokra. They explained to Harry a long time ago that even with the four of them he could still
wear them out (being veela and with draconic stamina). If they were going to live forever they should take in lovers.
It turned out to not be very hard to seduce her at all because she ended up doing all of the work. Her host grew up on a world that had low cultural inhibitions about sex while symbiotes tended to apparently be very sexual beings (they live long lives and get over shyness by the time their 100). Harry found this out when she approached him to proposition him for sex. The girls had a good laugh at his expense when he informed them over the mental connection of the proposition. Harry agreed as long as she was willing to involve his wives.
Symbiotes could inhabit either sex so they tended to be bisexual, and Freya grew up very uninhibited sexually. The orgy ended up going something like the following scenarios.
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Harry had recently perfected a device that he had been working on in his free time since figuring out how to synthesize the philosopher's stone. Basically it was an armband that could only be removed by the wearer or someone they trusted enough to be keyed into the wards on it. The band used a lot of Alteran technology including a small pocket dimension.
The bands purpose was to detect what dosage of the elixir of life was needed to maintain the persons current age indefinitely or a later age if they wanted. It used an EM that injected the liquid directly into the blood stream without piercing the skin so the dosages required were lower and painless. The band also had the feature of being able to inject the wearer with the correct dosage of ptel mixture when they were injured.
It basically simulated both of Harry's abilities to maintain an age indefinitely (but not any younger ones) and heal any physical injury that was sustained to date, short of blowing up the wearer's body (time travel was employed then). The band, witch Harry called the age band, was invisible to anyone but the wearer and those keyed into the wards and also irremovable.
All of Harry's wives and their families got an age band along with all Star Enterprises employees and their families. Also the now married Littlefields (Ernest and Catherine) got one. Harry and the girls decided that their lovers would get one, so Anise received one. Harry was able to calibrate the device to freeze the age and heal both the symbiote and host, so Jacob and Selmak got one. The rest of SG-1 and their families got one along with General Hammond and his family.
With the aforementioned people taken care pretty much all of Harry's friends and family were now immortal and near invulnerable. He would wait a few years to decide whether or not to release something similar to the public. Harry didn't tell SG-1 and Hammond the age freezing feature, just the healing feature, it would be a pleasant surprise when they figured it out in a few years.
When Anise/Freya admitted to there being an ulterior motive for testing the bracelets now and that it was because one of the system lords was building a new superior Hatac vessel that would give him a distinct advantage over the other system lords Harry just smiled and told her he would take care of it. To outside appearances it appeared that the next day that prototype ship spontaneously exploded just after the stargate activated. In reality Harry sent a number of the invisible multiphase drones through the gate and into the power core room of the ship and blew it up.
Another thing that Harry gave his off world friends was an emergency communicator that had similar protection features on it as the age band (which Harry gave to Bratac along with the communicator). If they were ever in trouble they could contact him and he would be able to track them anywhere in the galaxy using his rapidly growing pnet satellite system and mount a rescue very quickly using the growing fleet of PJs.
After the bracelet experiment was concluded with it eventually falling off and only leaving the former wearer weak for a short time Anise/Freya ended up concluding it was a failure and returning to her duties, but not without a device that enabled her to access the Star Enterprises gate. She was spelled to secrecy about it's existence along with anything she saw while at Star. She was invited back to visit her new lovers and often did. There was a surprisingly significant increase in breakthroughs in whatever project she was currently working on after she visited Star (it pays to have genius lovers).
The next mission for SG-1 again involved the Tokra when one of Tealc's old friends, a Jaffa priestess named Shau'nac claimed that her symbiote communicated with her and expressed a desire to defect to the Tokra ranks. Everybody was highly skeptical about her ability to even communicate with the symbiote until Tealc was able to duplicate it. At that point everybody was very skeptical about it's sincerity.
The Goauld genetic memory forced everyone to be skeptical. The genetic memory could be overcome of course but it would take a being of great strength of will to do so. The last person to do it was the queen of the Tokra, Egeria. In any case the ability to feed whatever system lord the symbiote would serve false information was invaluable. They ended up putting the Goauld, Tanith, in a volunteer host.
A short while later Shau'nac was killed. In actually a golem copy of Shau'nac was killed. The real one was safe on earth where Harry had set her up with an age band and infection ward set like Ryac had. This time Harry decided to spell Tealc for secrecy so that he could be told about the fact that his friend was alive and only that specific secret. Tealc was very grateful to Harry for saving his old friend who would now be living under a new identity on earth working at Star.
The next excitement for the team came in the form of assassins who had their memories reprogrammed while captured by the system lords. Anise (from now on you can assume I mean
Anise/Freya when I talk about either one) called these people Zatarcs. Harry helped her with building a Zatarc detector; the Alterans had a long history of memory modification.
When their first detected Zatarc broke her restraints when she was discovered Harry was able to stun her before she apparently was successful in self destructing. After she was stunned they easily removed the programming. With the impending formalizing of the alliance between earth and the Tokra coming up it was important for everybody to be checked.
Harry noticed that Martouf was subconsciously emitting emotions of anxiousness so Harry quietly asked Anise if he had been checked. When she realized that he hadn't Harry stunned him and they checked him. The programming was quickly removed from Martouf and the formalization went off without a hitch. When the alliance was formalized a nice round of verbally taunting the captured Hathor, Apophis, and Seth ensued to the pleasure of the Tokra delegation.
On their next planet the team traveled to they encountered an archeologist studying an Alteran device that was built as a last ditch effort against the plague that decimated their race. It had the ability to relive the same 10 hour period over and over again. It was originally intended to act like a time turner but with everything within the field that the device generated (which was quite a huge volume of space).
The device never worked like it was intended so was abandoned. The problem was if the device was used for longer than 6 months to a year outside of the field it would cause a massive destabilization and explode, probably wiping out half the galaxy. It could be useful if used less than that to avert a disaster by turning back time 10 hours and doing what was needed to be done to stop the disaster. Six months to a year was available to those outside of the field to prepare to deal with the cause of the disaster.
Harry was thinking about having multiple copies of the device built so that the entire galaxy was able to be covered. That was a future project that would be put off until he got time. Harry used telepathy on the archeologist when his empathy told him the man was hiding something.
It turns out the man was planning on activating the device in an effort to save his wife. He apparently didn't know the Alteran language well enough to figure out that it didn't work like intended. Harry felt bad for the man and after getting the details of his wife sent a probe out to nearby realities until it found one where his wife was still alive but he wasn't. It wasn't hard to find realities like that because of the fact that there were an infinite number of realities for every conceivable situation. The probe retrieved his wife and they were very grateful to be reunited. Harry warded the device so that only he could access it and they left the planet.
During some downtime that SG-1 was supposed to have Daniel ended up going on an archeological mission where he was abducted by what was apparently an unas. By the time Harry was able to get onto the planet and locate him using the pnet satellite system he had
apparently learned to communicate with his kidnapper who was called Chaka. They were slowed down by having to remove a Goauld from one of the men who got infested by the creatures from a local lake. When they finally got to him Chaka had apparently taken over leadership by defeating the former leader of his pack and made friends with Daniel.
On their next offworld mission SG-1 went to P5S-381 to celebrate with the Enkarans the new home world that the SGC had just helped relocate them too. Harry hadn't been on the mission because of some research he was running at Star so had never before been to the planet. When the pnet satellite informed him that there was an advanced ship terraforming the environment heading toward the village Harry informed the others.
Harry and Sam went to see if they could communicate with the ship while the others went to tell the villagers. When they got there it wasn't too difficult for Alice to initiate contact upon which the 2 were transported by matter stream to the ship. They met a biomechanical being that was engineered by the ship to simulate the Enkaran physiology called Lotan. Lotan informed them that the ship was terraforming the environment to that of the dead race called the Gadmeer to bring them back.
He informed them that he didn't have enough resources to start again on another planet. Harry figured that if worse comes to worse he could provide the additional resources necessary. They eventually discussed the list of planets that the ship searched for before finding the current planet. Through this they were able to locate the original Enkaran home world.
It was 2 days later that a brand new stargate manufactured at Star Enterprises was delivered to the original Enkaran world. It was delivered by PJ with the gate in pocket dimensional storage. Harry just told the SGC that it was transplanted from another planet. If it became known that he was advanced enough to replicate stargates then it would raise suspicions. The Enkarans were safely able to move to their home world through the stargate after which the terraforming recommenced.
The next planet the team traveled to appeared to be in the middle of an ice age and the city they arrived in was contained within a giant dome. They appeared to be advanced in some aspects and not so advanced in others. Harry didn't trust the ruler of the domed city the minute he met him. His emotions were dishonest and greedy. Harry used telepathy on the man after reading his emotions.
What he read in the man's mind made his blood boil. Apparently the man didn't want the people in his city to know they had the option of going to other worlds because he would lose control. He had a group of virtual slaves working under the city to maintain the power systems for the city above without even knowing of it's existence. The man wanted to wipe SG-1's memories and enslave them under the city.
Harry immediately stunned the man and his guards. He had Alice highjack the news network for the city and informed them of their leader's actions as well as the ability to travel offworld. A select few officials in the higher parts of their government knew about the slaves, whom Harry immediately freed. He helped them recover their memories and then helped the city engineers rework their power systems so they were more automated and would run more efficiently so the people didn't have to leave if they didn't want to.
SG-1 was sent on a mission on earth to find out how a man named Martin Lloyd was able to find out about the stargate. Lloyd had called up the SGC and asked for O'Neill after a long rant that made him sound insane. The man turned out to sound like a conspiracy theorist who claimed to be an alien. O'Neill went to meet him at a diner and then stalled him by letting him show him his ship, while the others searched the man's house.
What they found at the house was even stranger and made Harry start to believe there was some truth to the man's story. Inside an alien head figurine Alice's sensors detected a video camera that was broadcasting it's video. Alice recorded the frequency and used the pnet to track where the signal was going. The signal appeared to be going to a warehouse with 3 life signs in it.
Harry immediately had Alice send a wolf security team from Star to stun and apprehend the 3 life signs for questioning. He then told the other's what was going on. O'Neill soon returned with Martin where Harry used telepathy on the man to find out he was telling the truth. The man's psychologist was actually a fellow alien that was using drugs to suppress Martin's memories.
Tanner, the fake psychologist, was rounded up and taken into custody. Eventually the drugs were able to be flushed out of Martin's system and he remembered that he and the others were deserters from their planet's fight against the Goauld. Martin was allowed to go through the gate with SG-1 to see what was left of his planet, which wasn't much. Martin and the others would be allowed to seek sanctuary on earth but they would be watched closely. Their transport ship was taken to area 51 for study. It wasn't as advanced as the Goauld Hatac vessels that earth had access to.
Harry was able to use the transport ship and the remotes recovered to track down the larger ship. It was parked in the Kuiper belt to avoid detection. Like the transport it wasn't as advanced as the Goauld vessels so he decided to leave it there. Besides it never hurt to have a spare ship lying around hidden out of range of detection.
SG-1's next mission consisted of observing Jack and Tealc flying the new X-301 fighter interceptor craft. At first the area 51 engineers wanted to use salvaged death glider parts in it's construction until Harry quickly disabused them of that notion. They didn't know how all of the systems on those gliders worked completely; therefore they shouldn't play around with them. Plus Harry ended up finding a recall device in the salvaged parts that would have left Jack and Tealc heading off into deep space.
So Harry followed the old saying if you want something done right you should do it yourself. Harry watched all of the designs the engineers came up with and helped them improve them. Harry ended up designing the propulsion systems, life support, inertial dampeners, and a cloaking generator. He let the engineer's do the weapons systems.
Thanks to the tritium mining operations the hull was made of that substance so it could dissipate a lot of energy. All of the systems Harry built for the craft were self powered (zpe) so there was a lot more power available from the naquadah generator. This enabled a small hyperspace window generator to be installed. It wasn't super fast but it would make Abydos in an hour. This would give this craft a big advantage over Goauld death gliders.
Because the craft was propelled at sub light speeds by Harry's grav drive it didn't need to be very big or built for aerodynamics. Therefore it was small enough to fit through the gate. This would make it a good response fighter for bad situations on other planets.
It would also be a great craft to defend the sol system. The weapons were supped up ordinance from normal earth fighter craft with the addition of rail guns instead of machine guns (inertial dampeners are so handy) and staff canons like on a death glider. This meant they would match death glider weapons plus some. The invisibility generator made the craft a deadly little machine. Harry liked to think of the X-301 as a much less sophisticated PJ.
The test flight ended up going off without a hitch, even though Harry did keep a PJ in orbit handy in case of problems. The watching general was most impressed with the maneuverability of the vessel. The controls and computer systems installed were a watered down version of Alice's systems, so they could compensate for things that previous earth technology couldn't, like the PJ.
The team was given some leave while Daniel went to attend the funeral of his old teacher and mentor Dr. Jordan who he distanced himself from 5 years before so Daniel's unpopular (but true) theories wouldn't drag him down. He caught up with his old girlfriend, Sarah, and an old classmate who ridiculed his theories, Steven.
Daniel ended up finding a stasis canopic jar that contained the dead Goauld symbiote of Isis because the seal was broken. The Osiris jar went missing from the artifacts and the team realized that there could be a Goauld on the loose. When Daniel suspected Steven they tracked him to the temple where the jars were originally uncovered.
When they got there they found out that Steven wasn't a Goauld it was Sarah. She tried using her hand device on them but Harry's shield protected them. They had brought tranquilizer guns but Osiris kept sending out force waves to banish the darts. Harry realized that with both of them having shields that without overpowering hers he would need to physically take her down.
He started fighting the Goauld hand to hand. He used his martial arts skills he learned in Tibet. He knew from when he fought Kowalski that it would be unwise for a normal person to fight a Goauld in hand to hand combat. Luckily he wasn't normal. To cover that fact he simply moved faster than she did so it looked like he never got hit. He got his hand past her shield and shot her with his stun gauntlet until she went down.
Harry engaged the autopilot on the way back so he could remove the symbiote from Sarah. It took him his usual five minutes. The symbiote was stored in the same facility as the other Goauld. Sarah and Steven ended up getting clearance to know about the stargate. It was a rather smug Daniel that accepted apologies and you were rights from Steven who used to ridicule him. Sarah and Steven would become archeologists on one of the SG teams eventually.
A few weeks later General Hammond announced his retirement, citing reasons of "too old for the job" and was replaced by a hard ass new general that was pushing for harder policies to obtain new weapons and technology, so Harry and Jack paid Hammond a visit. They drove to Hammond's home where they got him to admit that several men had picked his granddaughters up from school in order to threaten him into stepping down since he refused to be more aggressive in his policies.
Harry convinced the general that he would take care of the problem. Hammond's family already had age bands which should keep them safe baring complete disintegration of their bodies. They soon got bands that tied personal wards to them like the ones every Star facility had around them that wouldn't allow anybody that wanted to harm them to find them. Hammond and his family's houses soon got a whole set of wards that should keep anybody who meant them harm off their property and not even able to find it.
Using telepathy Harry was able to get the faces of the men from the girl's minds. Alice was able to extract the memories from Harry's mind and run them through a database of pictures. When the men's names were found the pnet located the men through the same charms taken from the marauder's map. When they were found the men were picked up by a wolf pack security team and interrogated.
Harry normally would have turned the men over for arrest but these men threatened children. The bodies were sent to their bosses as a warning. The fact that the bodies got past all of their security in the middle of the night should keep them on their toes. Their bosses were the heads of several large corporations and would make a lot bigger splash if they died. That didn't mean the bosses didn't get the same set of charms that Harry used to put on the DEs that allowed him to kill them at will if they stepped out of line in the future.
On their next mission the team arrived on P4C-970 where they met a race called the Aschen that was apparently pretty advanced. They were on course to broker an alliance with the Aschen when Harry used telepathy on the delegates. Apparently their plan was to slowly kill off the
earth population by making them all sterile. They wanted to dominate the galaxy and were very patient about doing it. Harry found the exact location of the Aschen confederation solar systems.
When the team went back to earth to discuss the terms of the alliance with their superiors Harry told the people at the SGC exactly what he had learned of the Aschen's true plans, saying that he had learned it while hacking their computer systems. Hammond immediately ordered the Aschen confederation worlds listed as hostile worlds never to be traveled too.
Luckily they did not give the delegates any stargate addresses. Harry didn't want to take the risk that the Aschen would be able to discover addresses by continuously dialing through a list of the possible permutations or that they hadn't put monitoring devices to discover the address to earth when SG-1 dialed home.
He immediately ordered 7 PJs, from his currently 10 PJ Star fleet, to the 7 Aschen confederation controlled star systems. Each of the stargates in each solar system was collected into pocket dimensional storage by the remote transporter system that the Alterans had taught the Asguard how to build. Harry had decided that it would be a nice addition to the PJs so had ordered them upgraded.
Each PJ then dispatched the same type of bomb that was used on Natu to destroy Sokar and that whole solar system to an orbit around the main star in each Aschen system. They were undetectable because of the sun's radiation and the cloaking fields they employed. Harry would use the bombs if the Aschen ever waged war on the rest of the galaxy. He didn't feel the need to commit genocide on the entire Aschen race unless it was warranted. The minds of a few delegates didn't represent the mindset of the entire race.
Daniel, Sam, and Harry were going to return to P4X-347 to study a weird light show generator in an abandoned Goauld palace. Before the gate could finish opening properly Lt. Barber from SG- 5 who had been to the planet previously rushed toward the unstable vortex of the forming wormhole. Luckily Harry had picked up on Barber's emotions with his empathy and caught the Lt. before the man was disintegrated in the vortex.
The man was immediately taken to the infirmary where he was scanned in the medical bed. It turned out that the man was showing neurological symptoms of withdrawal from addiction. The other member's of SG-5 and Daniel who had also been to the planet were showing the same symptoms. The beds were able to treat the effects.
After they were treated it was determined that the effects were from the light show generator. It appeared that the team had spent countless hours observing the device. Hammond ordered the planet off limits to gate travel.
Harry sent a Star team through with precautions against looking at the light and their infection wards set to block any sign of the brain altering radiation (it wasn't previously detected as
harmful by the ward). They found a boy there named Loran who had apparently had his parents commit suicide when he was younger from withdrawal symptoms from the light generator. The device was brought back to a specially warded room at Star and was later determined to have very little value. Loran was also brought back to earth and was living at Star with a surrogate family.
A few days later O'Neill and Tealc were babysitting some scientists at a research facility on M4C-862, a moon that was being considered for a permanent research base. They weren't enjoying their assignment very much, mostly because they had to deal with the complaining scientists who wanted to bypass established protocols to get their research done earlier.
Daniel was on an archeological project on another planet during this time. Sam and Harry were giving a lecture on theoretical astrophysics at the air force academy. Actually Sam's was on that subject while Harry's was on graviton detection. He was still keeping a tight lid on the secrets behind his most profitable technology. Anybody that was privy to those secrets was spelled for secrecy.
Harry had suggested putting a small error in Sam's equations to see if any of the students were smart enough or brave enough to point it out. One such student, a cadet Jennifer Haley, came up after the lecture was over to point it out. The supervising academy professor was starting to berate Hailey for questioning such an accomplished physicist when Harry and Sam stopped him. They informed him that they had intentionally put the error in to see if anybody was intelligent enough to detect it or brave enough to point it out.
It turned out Hailey was having discipline problems but was a brilliant student. To keep her on track for the SGC Harry who was authorized as the British SGC senior officer/liaison gave her clearance to learn about the stargate. They ended up taking Hailey to the moon where Tealc and Jack were currently on mission.
They ended up arriving on the moon to a situation where some energy bugs for lack of a better description were starting to attack the base personnel. After getting sensor readings of the beings from the ptel satellite in orbit Harry erected a ward that kept them out of the perimeter of the base. Harry gave enough personal ward watches to the base personnel so that none of them would be harassed by the beings when they were off base. Hailey appeared to be a lot more motivated to get to the SGC after that mission.
The next planet that was visited by the SGC was an address of which Harry entered from the Alteran repository. Harry just told the SGC that he had retrieved the addresses from an archeological dig somewhere in Britain. Any information he had on the planets was from millions of years ago so couldn't be held as too accurate.
When the gate was dialed and the MALP sent through the MALP sent back video of some advanced looking architecture. The MALP started making movements that weren't directed by
the SGC controller. The MALP wasn't very advanced in it's systems and Harry hadn't yet sent a pnet satellite through. All of a sudden one of the techs pointed out that there was a signal being carried back through the gate using the MALP signal.
Hammond ordered the gate shut off immediately. Ever since the Asguard and other advanced races had started bypassing the iris Harry had been employing counter measures to prevent that. The Asguard did it by hijacking control of the base computer system. Because of this the computer systems were upgraded by Star and housed at the local star facility. They were isolated from all outside systems.
The system was of Alteran design like the Star mainframe with several of the computer entities like Alice. Harry would be very surprised if the Asguard could hijack the computer system now and the Tollan devices wouldn't penetrate the multidimensional iris now.
The new system was easily able to shut off the gate and Alice informed him that the signal transmitted back carried a very sophisticated program similar to one of the consciousness programs like Alice herself, yet not quite as sophisticated. The other more sophisticated entities were able to subdue it and isolate it for further study.
That later study turned out to be rather short lived when it was discovered that radio waves killed the energy. This was most likely why the entity was transmitted in the first place. When Hammond was informed of the entity and what had killed it that planet was locked out of the dialing computer.
SG-1's next mission was to a planet they had already helped to liberate from the Goauld. It had apparently been reclaimed by Cronus. SG-1's mission was to liberate the planet once again. This time Harry was going for a more stable situation for the planet. The team snuck onto the planet and made it to the ring platform that would take them to the Hatac in orbit. Harry had his PJ in orbit, cloaked, to provide support should it be needed.
They managed to get up to the Hatac after Harry activated the rings. The ease with which they were able to gain access to the rings was facilitated by the fact that the team was invisible thanks to Harry saying he had miniaturized the cloaking generator when in reality he just used an EM on the team members.
Harry convinced the team to let him sneak to Cronus' personal chambers alone which he did. Once there he stunned the Goauld and replaced him with a golem to impersonate the system lord. Harry made the unconscious Goauld invisible with an EM and floated him back to the others using telekinesis. He told the others the telekinesis was actually an antigravity field he could generate using some technology he carried on his person (they learned to just go with it).
He told them he had replaced Cronus with an android double that was under Harry's control, which was made with the help of Harlan. In this way the people of the planet Juna, the planet
they were on, and countless others under Cronus rule would suddenly find their "god" rather benevolent. With the territory Scara now controlled for them under Chlorel's name and the new territory they gained from Cronus the SGC now controlled a rather large portion of the formerly Goauld controlled galaxy.
There was still no guarantee of victory if the other system lords united against them and in that case there would be many deaths. This lead to the SGC continuing in it's current practices for the foreseeable future. It also lead to Cronus sharing a cell block with the other former system lords. Tealc took particular pleasure in spending his free time verbally tormenting Cronus. Apparently he murdered Tealc's father.
Chapter 14- 2001 Season 5
On their next mission SG-1 was exploring the ruins of a civilization that appeared to be on par as far as technology goes with earth, except for one piece of technology. It was a rather old Alteran designed energy cannon. Somebody had removed the power core of the device probably thinking that would disable it permanently. This showed the typical arrogance of more advanced races, underestimating all others.
Harry stepped out of the room that he and Sam were in working on the device to go have a word with the rest of the team. He was trying to decide how to destroy the device permanently without arousing suspicions. Alteran technology such as this shouldn't fall into the wrong hands. As far as Harry was concerned any but Alteran hands was considered the wrong hands, at least for the moment.
It was during the middle of the conversation that the pnet satellite detected a massive zpe burst coming from the room Sam was in and he heard her mentally cry out as her shield flared. Harry raced into the room and threw up a ward at the door, quickly, to keep the others out. Anything involving zpe would just get them hurt.
He arrived to see Sam staring at what appeared to be an energy being. Alice's first scan of the being instantly alarmed Harry. Harry was probably the most powerful EA. On a scale measured by the energy contained within one zpm Harry contained about 1/4th of the energy in a zpm in his core. When he used the techniques taught to him by the founder's portraits to draw energy from the surrounding environment he could reach control of about 1⁄2 of a zpm.
This being contained such a high energy density that it had the energy of a whole zpm and that was without it drawing energy from the surrounding environment, which Harry assumed it could do. Harry was considering his options. In a fight the best he could hope for was to stall the being by himself while the others made for the gate.
Another option was to have Alice send the panic signal back to Star. The panic signal was a measure that any Star employee could call upon. Depending upon the degree of emergency sent
by the signal more or less help was sent. One of the truly great things about the panic signal was the response time. Using PJs and the short term time travel fields (a week) they were capable of generating the team could arrive anywhere in the galaxy the instant the signal was sent.
Harry suspected that to take down this being it would require at least 5-10 Star EAs. The Star Enterprises EAs had the best equipment available and the best training, including the techniques taught by the founders. Most of them were about 1/5th of a zpm core density and 2/5th of a zpm when using the founder's techniques. Granted power wasn't everything but in this case it certainly was a big advantage when there was this much of a discrepancy.
Harry didn't want to think of what he would do if this thing had friends. Since the possibility was real and the being had shown no further signs of aggression Harry decided to try talking first. Besides, if the being had really wanted to attack Sam Harry doubted that shield would hold for long.
"What and who are you?" Harry picked up the emotion of shock with his empathy emanating from the being. The being winked into visibility and replied, "You can see me?" "Yes I can see you perfectly well as well as your zero point energy density." "I'm sorry, I'm just shocked that you could detect me." "Very few races could ever detect my kind." "Yes, probably only the Alterans, the Nox, and a few others," was Harry's reply.
The being who finally identified himself as Orlin showed more surprise but not as much shock anymore. "You know of the Alterans," Orlin questioned. "Yes I am quite intimately aware of a great many things about the Alterans up until they disappeared a few million years ago." "The real question is why were you attacking my wife?" Orlin looked both surprised and dismayed. "I am sorry if that is how it appeared but I was attempting to perform a sharing of essence." "I had not realized she was your wife."
Harry was both relieved and pissed. A sharing of essence was something very intimate and something only done between lovers. "You know that performing that without knowledge on another being is tantamount to rape." "In fact it was illegal without consent by the Alterans." He again looked ashamed. "I apologize to both of you, I've been alone on this planet for the last several hundred years."
Harry and Sam both accepted the apology realizing that they would be slightly crazy alone by themselves for that long. "I'm curious as to how you know about that rather obscure Alteran law," Orlin asked. "Well I happen to have one of the knowledge repositories left behind by that race downloaded into my mind."
Again Orlin seemed surprised by that statement. Harry figured he could share a few secrets with this being in the interest of peace and friendship. Harry had been able to sense Orlin's telepathy but was not offended. It didn't bypass his illusion ward and he did the same thing on most
planets they visited. "I sense you are telling the truth but how is it that I sense no hint of that knowledge in you?"
"Like you I have learned what to allow others to see." Harry dropped just enough of the illusion ward to show he possessed the knowledge but nothing else. "To answer your original question as to what I am I'm an ascended being." Orlin then went on a little bit to explain what an ascended being was but didn't go into too much detail.
"You said you shed your physical body and became pure energy." "My question is what were you before," Harry asked Orlin. Sam was sitting by listening to the entire conversation with rapt attention. "Well since you possess a good deal of information about our race I suppose I can tell you I am Alteran." At this proclamation Harry got really excited.
He let the illusion ward drop enough to show his zpe core. Orlin again appeared to be struck dumb. "That shouldn't be possible," Orlin stated. "What shouldn't be possible," Harry asked in response. "During our research into ascension we discovered that our brains could either be devoted to retaining our fantastic mental abilities, which included the knowledge you possess, or to developing zpe manipulation powers that you also possess but not both."
"I'm assuming you know something about soul energies." At Harry's nod Orlin continued, "Well simply put our souls weren't big enough to contain a balance between both quantities." "To figure out a balance we would have needed to experiment with a living beings soul, which would have horrible errors along the way." "The cost was deemed too high and the research was abandoned." "What I don't understand is how you could have achieved that balance." "To get to the point where we could maintain power and the knowledge we had to shed our physical bodies." "We could not keep our bodies, power, and mental abilities contained in the flesh."
Harry then explained about Voldemort and his Horcrux that Harry was able to erase and absorb into his body. Orlin was horrified that such an event occurred and then stated, "Then it is a complete accident that you are alive and the way you are." "I doubt it could be replicated without the research I mentioned before." "I also suspect that it has something to do with the fact that you were so young when it happened."
Harry learned about the others and their restrictive rules. Apparently Orlin wasn't allowed to say much more at all. The only reason he was allowed to interact to this point was because Harry revealed that he was Alteran. Harry could understand the others rules even if other races couldn't. With that kind of power they had to have strict laws or they could have Goauld mentality ascended beings.
When Harry questioned Orlin about the whereabouts of Atlantis Orlin apologized but said he wasn't allowed to say. Harry was able to get some useful information out of Orlin. He learned that Atlantis was in the Pegasus galaxy. He did this by asking if Atlantis was in this galaxy or that galaxy. He went through a list of local galaxies. Even though Harry couldn't use telepathy
on Orlin he could still sense the being's emotions. This was how he determined the galaxy Atlantis was in.
Another useful bit of information that Harry obtained was that the Alterans did eventually discover a cure for the plague that drove them from the Milky Way. Orlin said he was pushing it but he did give him the method to make the cure. Or rather he programmed it into Harry's healing bracelet. This was a sort of loophole, because he didn't give the knowledge directly to Harry. Orlin doubted he could get away with it again but would do it to make sure the plague never returned. Harry could duplicate the cure in other Alteran healing devices should the plague ever reemerge.
Their discussion turned back to the planet they were on. Apparently Orlin's sentence of exile was just about up. He would be able to return to the others soon but Harry made him promise to completely destroy the weapon before he left. Since he was going to do it after they left they wouldn't be implicated in doing it.
When Harry and Sam got back to Star he informed the other employees of what he had learned. Just because the others had laws against interfering in the lower planes, as Orlin had called them, that didn't mean individuals like Orlin didn't break those laws. Harry would need to find a means of combating rogue ascended beings if possible.
The problem is that he would need an ascended being to experiment on if he hoped to be able to destroy them in large numbers. From the scans he was able to tell that the energy became different between an Ascended being and a flesh and blood Alteran. It apparently became more complex. Harry doubted the connections between the soul "components" could be severed without some serious research and study on an actual ascended, which he doubted he'd ever get to do.
Harry had other ideas that he would explore to combat the ascended. He doubted that they would be ready to take on the others in the near future but one or two rogue ascended should be doable. It was a priority research project for Star.
He also sent out several probes with cloaking generators to the Pegasus galaxy to scan planets in the Pegasus galaxy to search for Atlantis. Harry suspected this method would take many years unless he got lucky but didn't have an alternative method right now. Besides, everybody important to him was immortal. They had the time to wait.
On their next mission to a planet designated P7S-441 SG-1 encountered a being that was apparently something of a shape shifter with the ability to alter short term memories with pheromones it emitted. The shape shifting ability was the only thing that worked against SG-1 thanks to the infection wards. The pheromones were filtered out thanks to the wards. When he tried to impersonate an officer he was promptly stunned and tied up.
Harry used telepathy to discover the being was apparently being hunted by the Goauld because of his abilities. The Goauld considered them a threat and therefore wanted them eliminated. He admitted this fact when he was awakened and told the story of his race being hunted. Tealc was able to confirm the story. Harry offered the being sanctuary on one of Stars offworld bases to which he gladly accepted. This would keep the NID from trying to get their hands on him, be it the legal faction or not so legal.
On their next planned mission the gate would not dial because of the Alteran dialing protocols. It appeared that they would pass through a star, which could end up destroying the civilization they were traveling to if the wormhole picked up something that would destabilize the star. That mission was scratched for a different time when the star was out of the way.
The next big event that occurred at the SGC was Cassandra collapsing from an experiment that Nirti had been performing on Cassandra's village before she wiped them out. She was apparently developing telekinetic abilities that utilized electromagnetic fields that she could manipulate. Luckily the medical beds were able to get rid of the retrovirus that was used because the virus was harmful. They didn't want to travel to Cassandra's old planet because it was very likely that Nirti had sensors in her territory to alert her to the presence of intruders.
It was another reason for Harry and the others to hate Nirti a great deal. Her penchant for experimenting on children was second to none among the Goauld. If there was one thing that pissed the usually calm Harry off it was messing with children. This reaction to child abuse was attributed to the fact that he had been abused himself as a child and wanted to protect others from it at all costs.
In recent years the wolf pack security team that monitored EA criminals had branched out to monitor mundane criminal rings. They employed the help of Alteran computer systems and golems with EM generators. They were still only able to deal with the biggest criminal threats but the world's severe crime rates had gone down significantly. The number of child offender rings that were out there sickened the Star employees and were dealt with rather harshly.
Child sex offenders were castrated on the spot as soon as their crimes were discovered from their minds. Because Harry's fortune was so vast and using the confiscated moneys from the criminals he was able to help the victims in a monetary way. Any type of human trafficking was dealt with very harshly.
Daniel had been keeping in contact with his unas friend Chaka and slowly learning their language. When it was discovered that Chaka was taken prisoner close to the gate when he came to get one of Daniel's overtures (a chocolate bar) Hammond authorized a rescue mission. The video camera that recorded the capture also recorded the address the kidnappers went to.
When they got there they discovered a pre industrial civilization that employed unas as domesticated slaves. When the team observed the locals killing an unas with a staff weapon
because they couldn't break it's spirit the team took action. Harry made them all invisible and then started stunning all of the villagers. When they were all stunned all of the unas were freed and lead back through the gate to the world Chaka was from.
Harry woke the villagers and warned them that should they ever enslave another being again Harry would destroy their village. He demonstrated his sincerity by detonating an explosive he had placed in the distance that was big enough to destroy their village at the push of a button if it was placed right. He then simply disappeared from sight to further put the fear into them. Harry returned to Chaka's world with the others and erected wards that would launch anybody back through the still active wormhole should they exit the gate with the intent to harm the unas.
AN: The episode "The Tomb" will not involve a Russian team because the Russians do not know about the stargate yet.
On their next mission SG-1 was exploring a 4000 year old Babylonian temple. Harry had gotten tired pretty quickly waiting outside for Daniel to figure out how to open the door so he used a silent Alohomora EM discretely to facilitate the process. They ended up finding another sarcophagus. This one had a creature in it that was apparently placed in the sarcophagus to torture the Goauld that was placed inside. Daniel deciphered this much from the writing.
Apparently the Goauld was still alive and had taken over the creature. Harry was able to detect this much with Alice's sensors. Harry was able to temporarily modify the sarcophagus settings to kill the Goauld and creature inside before they opened it. They would send a retrieval team to return for the sarcophagus when they got back to the SGC now that it was safe.
It came as a surprise that the Tollans sent a message to earth requesting that SG-1 come to Tollana to discuss trade agreements. The Tollans had always refused to share technology before but now they were offering ion cannons. Harry's suspicions were aroused so he used telepathy on High Chancellor Travell. What he found pissed him off to no end.
The Goauld had developed a shield to block against the Tokra ion cannon. They were being forced to build weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that could pass through solid matter, like the iris (if Harry hadn't taken precautions to prevent that). What was even more disturbing was that it took a while for the pnet satellite in orbit to detect the upgraded Hatac vessel. When it finally did he understood why.
The shield design was similar to an Alteran design which is what allowed it to remain undetected from the satellite for so long. If the Goauld had somehow gotten access to Alteran technology then it would mean big trouble for the galaxy. When Harry used telepathy on Nareem he was able to tell that only the high council knew about the Goauld in orbit and the weapons construction.
When Harry informed Nareem of what was going on he was horrified. The high councilor's had murdered Omak, Nareem's mentor and the biggest opposition to sharing technology, to keep him silenced. Harry ordered 5 PJs to orbit the planet, cloaked, and to destroy the ship. It appeared that although the Goauld knew about some Alteran technology he didn't know how to shield against all of it. The drone weapons penetrated the ship undetected and unopposed.
Nareem took charge and had the high council as well as the Goauld representative on the planet arrested. Harry provided the Tollan with a habitable world that was off the known gate network (because he just put one of his spare gates there). The Tollan people started evacuating through the stargate. Harry kept the PJs in orbit until all of the Tollans were gone along with their technology.
He then beamed the stargate and DHD into PDS (pocket dimensional storage) and left orbit. Harry knew that the Goauld would have never let the Tollan live for long unless they were sure they were always going to be more powerful than them or they really needed them. Harry hoped it was because they really needed them.
The most excitement that happened for SG-1 for the next several weeks was training some new recruits for placement on SG teams. They ended up passing their tests with flying colors.
AN: Episode 2001 didn't happen in my AU because the Aschen were already dealt with. Neither did desperate measures because the medical beds are capable of curing Adrian Conrad. The ship was already parked out in the Kuiper belt by Harry so Wormhole X-treme didn't take place because Martin is being watched. The episode 48 hours didn't happen for several reasons but mainly because Tanith is still being watched by the Tokra and used as a misinformation conduit and also because the Russians still don't know about the stargate.
The next mission for SG-1 arose when a Tokra arrived through the stargate to brief SG-1 on the summit the Goauld were holding to discuss a new order for the Goauld. The Tokra believed that this is the perfect chance to strike all of the Goauld down at once. Harry had to laugh, internally of course, when O'Neill asked the Tokra, Renal, about the defenses on the space station where the summit would take place. Her reply had been "impenetrable."
Harry's definition of impenetrable was much different than the Goauld or Tokra. He could probably blow up the station with a single out of phase, cloaked, PJ but that would tip his hand. Their plan was to have Daniel go in as the human lotar (highest ranking human slave) of lord Yu. The Tokra had yet to be informed of the replacement of Cronus because it was one of the best kept secrets of earth.
Chlorel was never powerful enough to be considered a system lord. Cronus on the other hand was one of the higher ranking system lords. Through the Cronus golem who was being controlled by the Star mainframe Harry had already learned of the summit. Harry decided to see
how much he could shock Renal. He informed her about the replacement of Cronus and then proceeded to tell her about his plan.
He would go in as Cronus, using a proprietary illusion field (metamorphagi ability), and dispatch all of the system lords while there. Harry then morphed into Cronus, shocking Renal. To simulate the naquadah in the blood all Harry had to do was generate the field with his illusion ward. Renal informed Harry that he would be able to use a new poison that killed all symbiotes and symbiotes only.
Harry probably wouldn't bother to use it when he got there. He would feel much better ripping them all apart with his bare hands, or sword. The rest of SG-1 was going to wait on Ravenna, a Tokra world, while the mission was in progress. Harry left from there in a cargo ship, which was actually a PJ with a hard light illusion field on it to look like a cargo ship. For his lotar he took along Nym, simply because backup was always appreciated and it was easiest for her to be disguised.
The Goauld mostly sat around discussing losses they had suffered at the hands of a mysterious enemy that attacked from anonymity. Harry was willing to bet that it was the same Goauld that had attacked the Tollan. During a break with the summit Harry and Nym went around casting the spells that were cast on DEs that allowed them to execute them on command on the system lords. This would be easier than the symbiote poison.
They were apparently waiting for an extra guest to arrive. Harry had just received word via Sam, who was monitoring the pnet satellite on Ravenna, that Ravenna was about to be attacked by a fleet of Hatac and Alkesh. Harry immediately dispatched all 9 PJs that weren't in use to orbit around the planet to defend it.
When the summit resumed the guest finally arrived. It was Tanith, apparently he had escaped in the confusion that ensued from the impending attack. Tanith finally revealed that the mystery Goauld was Anubis. Wherever Anubis had been the last 1000 years he had apparently discovered some Alteran technology. Harry hoped he wasn't able to manipulate zpe with technology.
Harry had placed the same observation runes in every room of the space station that he placed on the worlds he traveled to. This enabled him to pick up an interesting deal Tanith was trying to make with Yu. He apparently promised that if Anubis was voted back into the ranks of system lord that he would destroy earth before he came back to circumvent the Asguard treaty. This conversation would definitely get some laughs when he sent it to Thor.
During the second break Harry was able to learn that the PJ fleet was dispatching Anubis' fleet that was attacking Ravenna while the Tokra were moving their base to another planet, this time in "Cronus'" territory. When news of the defeat of Anubis' attack fleet reached the ears of the
other system lords they would probably come to regret the decision they made to vote him back into system lord status.
When the time came for the system lords to eat Goauld symbiotes Harry was starting to regret not going with the Tokra's plan, which didn't involve eating symbiotes, but a little wandless EM manipulation and the illusion of him eating the symbiote was projected while the real thing was vanished.
A few weeks later after that successful summit mission the Tokra were settled on their new world without any loss of life except for the Tokra spy captured and interrogated by Anubis. Apparently Anubis used one of the early Alteran mind probes that were used before telepathy was available to extract information out of the Tokra. The Tokra had decided that executing the other system lords would be a bad idea now that Anubis was back among them. Harry was using the Ems he placed on each system lord to track them down one by one and replace them with a golem copy.
About a year ago Harry started a new project in the Tauri sol system. Harry started terraforming Mars into an environment similar to earth. Galactic engineering wasn't too uncommon in the history of the Alterans. They could do some pretty fantastic large scale jobs. Harry created an illusion ward on a planetary scale that should prevent detection of what he was doing by just about any means. It was powered by 3 ZPMs spread evenly over the planet.
At the same time he began the terraforming project he created an extension of the pnet that created a perimeter net around the solar system that would detect any suspicious activity or traffic entering into the sol system. Harry was really glad he took this precaution because the net just informed him that a massive asteroid was heading toward the sol system. The satellites calculated the trajectory as earth.
Scans for the composition of the asteroid revealed that this was a deliberate attack on earth. Apparently Anubis was going to try the subtle approach at destroying earth first. There was no way a naquadah core asteroid would be in the sol system. Anubis probably dragged the asteroid in the hyperspace field of several Hatac vessels onto it's current trajectory.
Harry saw this as a good opportunity for a naquadah deposit to mine. Harry placed a cloaking generator on the asteroid to render it invisible to detection. He had his ten PJ fleet surround the asteroid and drag it into a stable orbit around mars. Harry would now easily be able to begin mining the asteroid without anybody ever knowing it was there (thanks Anubis).
Since Harry decided to terraform Mars he was thinking about changing the name. He thought about the name Lily but it would get confusing if it was the same name as the Alteran battle cruiser that was currently under construction. The terraformed Mars/nameless planet would be a complete paradise by the end of the year.
On their next trip through the gate SG-1 went to meet the Jaffa leader Kytano whose charisma and leadership skills had Tealc and Bratac practically drooling. Alice had taken to scanning just about everybody Harry met to determine their threat level. When Kytano was being introduced to Harry and he went to do the Jaffa forearm clasp gesture that is the equivalent of a handshake Harry stunned the man in the face with his stun gauntlet.
Alice had informed him that Kytano was not Jaffa but a Goauld. When the Jaffa rebels that Kytano was leading saw him go down they all reached for their staffs but Harry just calmly lifted the goauld's shirt to show them the absence of a symbiote pouch. From that day forward a new custom was developed among the Jaffa rebels to lift your shirt and show your pouch when you greeted somebody.
On their next journey through the gate SG-1 found what appeared to be a formerly advanced world but was now decimated. They followed an energy signature to a lab that appeared to have a fairly advanced dormant artificial life form. They wanted to bring it back through the gate but Harry convinced the team that one of the offworld Star facilities would be a better choice, citing the potential risk of the orb incident.
When they started examining the life form Harry discovered that he was right in his assessments. At the SGC they would have likely turned it on to see if it could help them understand it's design. But there were some major flaws in the programming of the AI. It's hardware was based on some pretty advanced nanotechnology but it's programming seemed to be based off of a very nasty 6 year old when it didn't get what it wanted.
The SGC didn't have any Alice class computers capable of examining the AI before it was turned on. Then Harry discovered why the civilization was decimated. This beings creator (who she called father) had given her the replicator schematics as a toy.
The reason most cultures that were more advanced than earth became advanced more quickly but were originally from earth is because they discovered some remnant of technology left over by a more advanced race. If the earth scientific community had known about the stargate years ago they would have advanced much faster. This civilization apparently had found a constructor left behind in an Alteran lab. It must have been missed by an Alteran scientist when they took all of their technology with them. The power core on the remnant was depleted and therefore would have been less detectable.
This android, who called herself Reese, had gone through the constructor programming and stripped out what she considered boring and added fun bits (like replicate at all costs and protect Reese). Without the safeguards in place she had lost control and destroyed her entire civilization.
Then an Asguard research vessel that had been exploring something in the Milky Way came across one of the replicators and decided to study it. When it was beamed up it was quickly able
to take over the ship and discover the Asguard civilization in the Ida Galaxy. The replicators used that ship to replicate and build up their numbers where they lay siege to the Ida Galaxy.
It was actually a godsend that the Asguard didn't know more about the Alterans, especially where any of their technology is. The replicators would have gone for the more advanced technology, which would have been Alteran. Harry informed the others of his discovery and that Reese had created the replicator problem by copying an older technology and stripping it of it's safety protocols. He didn't mention that the older technology was Alteran.
He forbade anybody from activating the AI and in fact took it's power crystal with him. Harry contacted the Asguard and took the android on a grav pad to the Ida Galaxy with him. He didn't think they would get too far with the programming but he would let them try anyway. In this way he could still avoid them finding out he is Alteran.
The next time through the gate was one where Harry went with his wives as back up. Apparently the rogue NID operation that was stealing alien tech shut down a defensive weapon that protected a technologically regressed civilization. The reason Harry knew about it was because the golem that replaced the system lord Swarog informed Harry.
They located the weapon easily enough by the energy it gave off. They had to bypass a force field with a harmonic key that Alice was easily able to override. When Alice finished her examination of the device she discovered that it utilized the zpe contained within a person's soul for power. It was basically an overpowered version of the transporter technology that the Alterans and Asguard used. It targeted the enemy that the operator who sacrificed their soul concentrated on.
The soul would eventually coalesce back together but it would be wiped blank like Harry did with Riddle's soul. So essentially a person was sacrificing whatever existence was beyond the veil as the EAs said. There was actually nothing wrong with the device. It just required an operator. Harry and the girls shadow traveled to the capital city to the office of the civilization's leader as indicated from SGC mission reports.
Using telepathy Harry determined that the device always had a chosen operator that was selected when the previous one died, called the caretaker. The death was indicated when the flame on the leader's desk went out. The flame was tied to a dead man's switch band on the caretaker's wrist. The group traced the signal using the ptel satellite until they found the dead caretaker and a rigged band. They transported the caretaker's body back to the sentinel (the defensive weapon) and fixed the band. Their work done they left the planet wondering if the caretaker's ever realized how much they were sacrificing.
On their next trip through the gate SG-1 was working on negotiations with the people on the planet Kalona. They were currently researching techniques to build a bomb that would be a WMD. Harry's scans of their current process told him they were a long way off from a working
model. The isotope of naquadah called naquadria that a Goauld had managed to discover millennia ago looked interesting. Harry would have to send a team in a PJ to discretely mine some at a later date.
They were taking a tour of the city while Daniel stayed behind to discuss the weapons project with one of the scientists, a Jonas Quinn. Rather abruptly during the middle of their tour the pnet satellite detected a massive burst of energy coming from where the research was being done. They hurried back to the site where they found that an accident had occurred and the scientists in the testing chamber had been exposed to a massive burst of radiation. Daniel's infection ward had kept him safe.
Harry quickly started injecting the scientists with ptel injections and used his healing band to further heal any damage that the ptel struggled against. When the scientists started accusing Daniel of sabotaging their research Harry extracted memories of the incident into a disposable pensieve device that would holographically project the recorded memory. Harry gave the device to Jonas Quinn and told him that relations wouldn't be possible with cowards and liars.
When they got back to earth Dr. Lupin's (Janet is married to Remus) examination showed that there were no adverse effects to Daniel. When Harry examined the data from the accident he was very interested in the energy output of the element. He immediately sent a team to retrieve samples that the Kalonans would never have been able to reach with their level of technology.
Back at the SGC Hammond ordered an attempt by O'Neill to trade for the Naquadria. Apparently the attempt was unsuccessful in some aspects but successful in others. O'Neill's talk with Jonas while he was on the planet apparently left a mark because the man sent the holographic projector to the leader of one of the rival nations and stole as much of the naquadria as he could.
He was allowed sanctuary at the SGC for his actions. He sure as hell wouldn't be allowed back in his nation for a while. He would probably be charged with treason as a spy. Harry set him up with an apartment close to base. It was ok with Hammond as long as Jonas was watched which was easily accomplished through technological means by Star.
The results of testing the naquadria were promising. It wasn't anywhere near the energy levels a zpm was capable of but would be a serious threat to the Goauld. The problem was that only Alteran and possibly Asguard or Nox computers would be capable of utilizing the power because of the elements inherit instability. It would require a superfast computer to be able to counter the fluctuations in the material's stability. The earth level of understanding of nuclear physics wouldn't cut it either. An Alteran time dilation computer core would be able to counter the fluctuations as soon as they occur.
Harry decided that this would provide him with the opportunity to provide earth with more advanced weapons without revealing zpe technology. Harry developed an energy based weapon
that fired a narrow beam laser shot that would punch holes clean through Jaffa armor. It was powered by naquadria which Harry was easily able to obtain from converting some naquadah from his various mines and asteroid operation at mars.
The mars operation was running on progress. The constructors were very good at terraforming the planet. He was running most of his offworld operations out of the mars facilities. Harry made use of the Alteran transporter room technology that didn't have the telltale white flash of light that the remote transporters did. Employees of Star could step into a room at any Star facility on earth and end up at the facilities on mars.
Harry was also able to develop a personal shield based off of the Goauld design but didn't allow lower kinetic energy objects to penetrate. When Harry presented a model of each of these units to all offworld SGC personnel they were very grateful. Harry figured this would require less work for the revival teams.
The laser weapons Harry decided to call a lance while the shields would just be called a shield. Both devices were keyed to their user and could only be used by them. If anybody else tried to figure out how they worked or use them for the wrong purposes they contained the same safety features of disintegration that all of Harry's technology did.
Soon after the technology was presented the Asguard Freyr showed up on earth through the gate. Apparently an incident had just occurred where Thor had been killed while engaged against 3 Goauld vessels. The Asguard were unable to retrieve one of their scientists doing important research in the Milky Way because their ships were either destroyed or engaged fighting the replicators.
The Asguard wanted SG-1 to mount a rescue because they were unable. SG-1 set off for the planet in Harry's PJ. When they arrived in orbit cloaked there was a Goauld Hatac present. Harry located the lab with his scans and proceeded to contact the scientist, Heimdal, over secure communications. To avoid letting the Asguard know that he was capable of transporting down there with his own transporters he dropped the shields enough for Heimdal to get a lock but not scan anything else.
Heimdal informed them that they couldn't leave because they had to mount a rescue mission for Thor. Apparently the Goauld had picked up his life pod before Heimdal could. They contacted Thor who informed them that Anubis was soon to arrive. They developed the plan for Harry, Jack, and Tealc to ring aboard the ship when Anubis did and take down the shield generator. At that point Sam and Heimdal could transport them all out with Thor.
When the time came SG-1 transported aboard the ship. The pnet satellite in orbit was giving Harry some disturbing readings. There was an ascended being on board the ship. Harry realized he couldn't perform any EMs or it would give him away. When Anubis walked by in the halls
where the trio was hiding Harry suddenly realized how Anubis got access to Alteran technology, Anubis was ascended.
The power readings were a lot lower than an Ascended. His readings indicated about 1⁄2 a zpm. This could mean he was stuck somewhere in between Ascension and corporeal form. The Goauld had apparently detected their intrusion because they attempted to knock the intruders out with coolant gas from the hyperdrive. The infection wards filtered out the gas and the trio proceeded to the shield generator room unopposed.
They proceeded to blow the shield generator without any problem. They were promptly beamed out along with Thor. Harry had used his hard light generator to disguise the interior of the PJ to look anything but Alteran. Harry helped Heimdal hook up the stasis pod with the Asguard ancestor that was shown to them earlier to the power of the PJ.
Alice's scan of Thor showed an Alteran interrogation probe, the same one Harry assumed was used on the Tokra spy with the Ravenna attack. The probe had managed to download a significant amount of Thor's technical memories but had yet to get to his consciousness. Harry generated a distortion field that would block the link, so that it could be severed later.
Harry was half attempted to destroy Anubis ship but event though he would have the satisfaction it wouldn't kill Anubis and it would tip his hand too soon. Anubis would take measures to block the multiphase drones. Harry took off and headed back to earth.
When Harry learned about the Asguard's little cloning problem he decided that he would only step in when the Asguard were in danger of dying. If they didn't fix the situation themselves then they wouldn't learn from it.