Chapter 15- 2002 Season 6
AN: In the original episode Drayac dies in this episode but because she is on earth in a healthy environment with an infection ward and age band she doesn't get sick. Also the episode descent doesn't occur because Thor's mind was never fully downloaded into Anubis' Hatac computer.
Jonas was settling into the base studying as much of Daniel's archeological books, engineering texts, and physics books as he could. He seemed to have a particular penchant for the weather channel.
SG-1 along with Jonas went to see the new X-302 fighter/interceptor. The only difference was that it had lancer cannons built in as well as a shield that was powered by the naquadria core that Star developed. It performed brilliantly when it was taken for a test flight by Harry and Sam; Jack refused to test it for some strange reason.
When they got back to base after the test it wasn't long before an incoming wormhole was established. Nothing was scheduled and when the wormhole stayed open for longer than 38
minutes Harry had a suspicion about the cause. Sure enough the gate computer in Star detected a low powered energy signal coming through the gate. It appeared Anubis was using another old Alteran weapon to try to destroy earth again.
There was a defense against it of course but this gave Harry the opportunity to test out a theory he had thought up long ago. Harry informed Hammond of the situation and recommended that the gate be taken to the outer edge of the solar system, temporarily. Hammond approved and the gate was fastened to the bottom of a PJ and flown out of the mountain. Harry extended the cloaking field around the active stargate and proceeded to speed to the outer edge of the system. Once there he deposited the gate and took off for the planet that the Star computer informed him the wormhole originated from.
When Harry got to the planet he was relieved to see that it was unpopulated except for Anubis' Jaffa, it was off the portion of the gate network that the other goauld knew about. He had theorized that putting up an anti-apparition field around a stargate will cause the energy designed to be channeled into the wormhole to feed back into the gate, which would explode with the force of a several hundred megaton nuclear blast, much like the weapon Anubis was using was designed to do.
Harry placed the field around the gate and then turned the PJ shields on full, went out of phase, and watched from a high orbit as after barely a minute the stargate exploded and lit the planet's atmosphere on fire destroying the weapon. Anubis wouldn't bother building another one when it was countered so easily. He would probably think it was a flaw in his weapon that caused a malfunction.
When he got back to the sol system the gate he left in space was shut off and fine. He picked it up and delivered it back to the SGC. He just told Hammond that he had taken care of the problem and the man just shook his head with an amused smile. Harry was starting to wonder if there was a point where SGC personnel would ever bother questioning him. They seemed to just have gotten used to the fact that he was an eccentric genius.
A few weeks later Sam informed Harry that one of the research scientists that she oversaw in Antarctica reported that they had found someone buried in the ice that appeared to be millions of years old. After finding the gate there Harry had financed a research project to see what else they could dig up. Apparently his investment had paid off.
It was during some SG-1 down time so Harry decided to take Janet (since she was in the know because of Remus being EA), Sam, Nym, Fleur, and Hermione. They took a PJ up to the research camp. The clothes they wore were actually just a hard light illusion because they all wore temperature regulation fields. Harry knew that since the person they found was likely Alteran based upon her age she could be carrying the Alteran plague.
The 3 doctors that worked at the station, Michaels, Woods, and Osbourne weren't in the know about Star's true secrets. They were all 3 mundanes that worked for the company but didn't know much about it besides the fact that they pay their bills and report to them. They seemed quite nervous to meet their famous boss, James Evans, but they greeted the team warmly.
Michaels had named the frozen woman Ayiana, which Harry found he liked. As soon as the new arrivals settled into the complex Harry's infection ward confirmed his suspicions regarding the presence of the Alteran plague. Ayiana did indeed carry the plague. All of the new arrivals were immune thanks to their wards but the 3 doctors were most certainly infected. Harry decided it was time the 3 were briefed on the true nature of the company they worked for. He had Nym go brief them and EM them for secrecy.
All of his wives had an Alteran wrist healing device like Helga left behind for him. Nym would take care of healing the doctors. The rest of the group went into where Ayiana was still frozen in the ice. They started using heat EMs to melt the ice until she was soon out of ice. Harry immediately started in with the healing device while Fleur slipped an age band onto Ayiana's arm.
The formerly frozen Alteran responded immediately and started waking up. She would have probably come out of it on her own but this would help her a lot. When she was fully conscious and rid of the plague Harry started talking to her soothingly in Alteran. She was amazed that she was with Alterans and alive. She started crying happily when she was informed that she was free of the plague. Harry had to use a calming EM when she was informed that roughly 5 million years had passed since she went to sleep.
Ayiana was introduced to Harry's wives who she hit it off with instantly. They all had learned to speak fluent Alteran when they learned of their heritage. Harry suspected the girls were planning ways to seduce Ayiana already because she was quite beautiful. Soon the 3 scientists came back amazed at what they had heard as well as seeing Ayiana up walking around. They were given all of the standard Star equipment (age band which was now standard for all star employees, infection ward, and temperature regulation field). Harry decided to get them better scanning equipment for when they came back next season.
They all ended up traveling back to Star in the PJ. Ayiana was very happy to see the PJ because she never thought she would see Alteran technology again when she was left behind with the other infected. Her memories were a little fragmented but Harry was sure they could help her get them back and organized. The other Alterans that left in Atlantis didn't tell any of the infected where they were going for fear that they would follow and bring the plague with them.
Ayiana was very pleased with the facilities at Star after her tour. She was settling in fine with the population there. She was even more taken when Harry showed her the facilities on Mars or as Harry had renamed it Altera Prime (AP, I know I'm lazy). Ayiana approved of the name. The only people with access to AP were Star employees and their families.
In the case of an attack on earth the new procedure was for everybody to be evacuated to AP until the situation was resolved. The transporter rooms were the best method to get to AP but portkeys worked too if the rooms weren't able to be reached. All of the people who had access had emergency portkeys to take them to AP.
The field that hid what was truly going on from outside observers also regulated the radiation that was allowed to reach the surface and the climate. Mars was actually starting to look a lot like earth but with much more greenery and tropical spots. There was no pollution to mar the beautiful landscape. Harry was turning it into a perfect vacation place and a refuge for those who were persecuted.
The best part is that Harry could fly freely without having to be invisible or worry about being seen, whether with his flight harness or his dragon form. The flight harness was one of the preferred methods of travel on Altera Prime. There was a modified version that drew zpe from the environment instead of the user's zpe core that was capable of being used by mundanes.
This model also had to include a small inertial dampening field to compensate for the EAs instinctual inertial manipulation. It rather amazed Harry that the EAs didn't realize sooner that it would have killed a lot more mundanes before with the way EAs zipped around on brooms or sometimes fell off. Their instinctual inertial manipulation helped them a lot more than they realized.
AN: The episodes Nightwalkers and Abyss never happened because Adrian Conrad never needed to clone a symbiote and O'Neill was never a host to a Tokra because he wasn't infected with the Alteran Plague.
After everything was settled into the SGC with business as usual efficiency one of Jonas' old professors came through the gate spouting stories of conspiracy by the government. Apparently he wanted SG-1's help to stage a coup to stop a civil war from breaking out.
Harry sensed the dementia from the man's emotions and used telepathy on him. They got him into a medical bed and found that he was suffering from dementia because of his research with naquadria. The medical bed would be able to repair the damage after a while.
Jonas' relationship with his home world was on much better terms. This could have been because of his message to the other foreign powers on his world where he informed them of the naquadria bomb research and the stargate. It could have also been because Harry threatened to take their stargate and give it to the other foreign powers. The risk that Harry would give their rival nations dominant weapons technology was too great so they shaped up very quickly.
It was decided that Jonas would help Daniel out and would learn from him. On their next mission SG-1 was to allow themselves be captured to gain information from a deep cover Tokra operative in Anubis' ranks. The mission went south really fast when 2 of the scientists they were
babysitting when the faked capture took place followed them onto the ship they were taken too. The two were taken to a hiding spot by one of the free Jaffa loyal to the Tokra operative after they revealed their presence to SG-1.
When they arrived on the planet where they were to meet the Tokra operative they were brought before the head Jaffa only to learn that he killed the Tokra because he knew of the operatives true allegiance. Jack made a token effort of resistance at the news and got hit with a torture weapon for his effort. When they were back in their cell Harry disabled the force field by having Alice interface with the ships computer.
Harry told the others where the 2 bumbling scientists were by tracking their life signs through Alice (her sensors weren't as far reaching as a satellite but they would cover a good bit of distance). Sam and Harry went after the body of the Tokra operative while the others went for the scientists. When they found the body Harry used the new method of revival that he had thought up recently.
When he activated the revival method the first thing that happened was a signal was sent to a recovery team that was always waiting at Star for this purpose. Thanks to his research in the AR into time travel the PJs could go back in time further and further. The current limit was at just over a year. Consecutive jumps were not a good idea at all with the current level of knowledge Harry had in time travel.
The signaled team received the information they needed about the subject they were to recover from Alice and they traveled back to the correct time. They recovered their subject either by reviving them immediately with Necromancy or replaced them with a golem right before they were killed which was the preferred method, depending upon the method of death.
They kept the subject unconscious and then traveled back to the correct time just before Harry sent out the signal. Harry then completed the revival by casting a strong enough lumos EM to block out the switching EM performed by the recovery team that replaced the golem body with the real unharmed subject. So Harry only had to send a signal through Alice and cast a light EM for the whole revival. This method allowed him to revive people that he couldn't before (or at least reveal that they were revived to those not in the know about Harry's true might) because of secrecy concerns and people who had been dead too long for conventional means.
With the 2 scientists and the Tokra recovered the team was able to make it to the gate by using their lancers and shields to take out the Jaffa in the way very quickly. Those 2 scientists would be on probation as far as going offworld was concerned for disobeying direct orders and almost compromising a mission.
The next time SG-1 went through the gate it was to help the Tokra when they came through to the Alpha site gate. The alpha site was on a planet that was unknown to the Goauld, at least ones who didn't possess all of the Alteran knowledge. Harry assumed Anubis didn't have all of the
Alteran knowledge but only some of it. The alpha site gate had the same protection wards to launch beings who meant harm to earth or it's allies back through the still open wormhole. Apparently one such being tried to follow the Tokra through.
Harry felt the wards flare alerting him to the now deceased spy among the Tokra. After the Tokra did a count, confirming that all were accounted for, Harry concluded that Anubis must be giving cloaking technology to his assassins and spies. There were several dead Tokra brought through which Harry revived. The Tokra were amazed that their formerly dead members were returned to them.
Harry didn't know all of the Tokra base locations for security reasons so he could not ward all of their gates, so attacks were likely to still happen. Tension was a little high between the newly arrived Tokra and rebel Jaffa that had been at the base a while. To resolve the tension Harry relocated the Tokra to a world he had recently terraformed and installed a gate at.
Harry had started sending out teams of golems and constructors to start terraforming different planets that were previously uninhabitable. They installed the same protection field that Altera Prime had around it. They also had the added benefit of having the entire planet under the fidelus charm with any Star employee being in the secret keeper group. The ward scheme was powered by multiple ZPMs hidden in multiple secure and hidden locations on the planet. The newly installed gates were specially warded for maximum security.
These worlds were inaccessible by ship unless it was made by Star. One of Harry's newest security features for these planets was a sort of call forwarding system on the gates. If the correct code wasn't sent through when the gate was connected any matter would be directed to another gate. This made it so an iris was unnecessary. It was one of these worlds that the new Tokra base was relocated to. They were very grateful for the amazing security features. Harry didn't tell them about terraforming the planet because that level of technology would be difficult for even the Asguard or Nox to replicate if they could do it.
When SG-1 next went through the gate it was to a planet called Pangar on a diplomatic mission to introduce the Pangarans to the galactic playing field. The civilization was about 1940's earth level of technology over all but with very advanced biochemistry techniques. They showed SG- 1 a drug they developed called Tritonin, which they claimed kept them disease and illness free.
When they wanted to trade it for gate addresses to known Goauld strongholds Harry knew something was suspicious here. It appeared that the drug was manufactured from symbiotes which they obtained from a queen they found in stasis. Apparently she was dying and they needed another queen or the 20% of their population on the drug would die because of their dependence.
Daniel, Jonas, and Tealc were off in the ruins of a Goauld temple helping the archeologists decipher the Goauld writings. Harry told Jack and the others about the drugs origins with which
they then confronted the Pangarans with. They admitted to wanting to obtain another queen. It was eventually decided to call in the Tokra to see if they could come up with an antidote.
Harry knew he could synthesize the drug from the scans Alice took of it with an e to m converter but didn't want to intervene until it was the last resort. Having to provide 20% of their population with synthesizer bracelets like what was used for the age bands wasn't an enticing proposition. It would increase the chances of his true tech level being discovered by an advanced race.
Not long after the Tokra had hit a stonewall with their work on an antidote, because of something Harry was sure the queen had done intentionally to her young, Daniel and the others brought a startling discovery to their attention. The queen was Egeria, the queen of all Tokra. This would go very badly once the Tokra were informed. They immediately demanded she be released once they found out. The problem was she would die anyway without some extraordinary intervention (intervention the Tokra and earth were not advanced enough to provide) and her freedom would cause the death of 20% of the population. Right when Harry was about to make the offer with the synthesizer bracelets Alice informed him of zat gun fire going off nearby.
The pnet in orbit showed him that one of the Tokra was making her way to the queen, probably in some attempt to save her. She would just be sacrificing her life because the queen couldn't be saved through that method. Harry knew of only one quickly accessible way to save the queen with any chance of her ever recovering enough to spawn more Tokra.
He shadow traveled to her before the Tokra could reach her and took Egeria into himself. An age band in a new host would probably keep Egeria alive but she would never be able to reverse the damage enough to spawn again. Harry could probably clone her body and transfer her consciousness but that would require quite a bit of research to adapt the technology (it would also reveal that he could clone beings). Harry had been experimenting with his ability to change his age at will with his metamorphic abilities. He had yet to discover how to replicate the process into another being that wasn't in his body but he was pretty sure he could do it with a symbiote.
Harry would have to do it slowly over a long period but he was pretty sure he could reverse the damage and Egeria's physical age. When he came to after Egeria entered him it was to see the Tokra who tried to free Egeria kneeling before him. Harry allowed Egeria to take control upon which she told the Tokra to rise because she was not her servant.
Harry conjured a fake dead symbiote body to simulate Egeria's death. It would pass for a dead Egeria. He then modified the guards that had been stunned memories to not remember the attack. Harry and the Tokra went and told the other Tokra scientist what happened. Egeria ordered them to tell no one while she recovered. If it was known that Egeria was alive and on earth the full force of the system lords would come for her (which was mostly just Anubis and minor goaulds because the rest were replaced by golems).
SG-1 was also left uninformed as to Egeria being alive and in Harry. This would keep the NID or other similar factions from trying to abduct Harry. Egeria was amazed at the changes earth had gone through. She was even more amazed at Star, and it was a little unnerving at her excitement in having a host that is a gate builder as they referred to the Alterans.
Harry found that he could completely control a symbiote with his zpe core if he wanted to. She could not take control of him or do anything against his will. He found that he was also able to hide information from her as where she was not able to keep anything from him. He kept all of the technical aspects of Star from her but she knew his general abilities, of which she was amazed. He did upgrade her general understanding of science quite a bit. It would make it a lot easier if the leader of the Tokra race understood things a bit better.
The only other Tokra that knew about Egeria being in Harry were Selmak and Anise. The first time Anise visited for sex was a little awkward but they both soon got over it. The Tokra symbiotes didn't hold familial conventions like humans or other similar races did. They only had one parent which was Egeria and all of the other Tokra were their brothers and sisters.
The only familial conventions they held were between their hosts if they had any (and those taboos weren't really followed away from earth), because if they did otherwise they would probably never have sex. It wasn't often Tokra could have sex with normal humans on worlds where they were trying to hide unless they went in disguise as a human. This probably had something to do with the reason Anise visited Star so frequently.
Not to long after their return to earth Sam was approached while leaving work by a reporter who was trying to get a statement out of her about the Prometheus project. She had a sample of tritium and a source that leaked information about the ships construction. Hammond and the president asked Harry to investigate since he had such success in finding and plugging leaks in the past.
Using telepathy and a healthy dose of his veela charm, which just made women more susceptible to telepathy, Harry found out the source of the leak. It turns out more rogue NID elements were trying to get aboard the ship in order to commandeer it. They had a copy of the ships plans and wanted to use it to acquire technology offworld. Harry spelled the reporter to prevent her from revealing anything she learned about the stargate or Prometheus projects in any form.
He was able to plug up her sources and prevent the attempted hijacking. Harry had been helping the Prometheus engineers at area 51 since the project started. They incorporated all of the technology that the X-302 does but with stronger shields. He couldn't give them the best Alteran shields because those required 1 zpm at the least for power (Anubis' shields were not the best Alteran shields ever designed). They employed anti grav engines so no thrusters were needed.
Harry helped them with designing a much faster hyperdrive than what the engineers originally were able to design. The shields were at least as strong as the Asguard's shields. Originally they
had the bridge raised up out of the top of the ship but that just left it vulnerable to attack. Harry convinced them to put it in the center of the ship with it's own shield around it. The hull of the ship was riddled with sensors so that the walls of the bridge showed a 360 degree view but could also be rotated to show a sphere around the ship to see in 3 dimensions.
Harry had designed the guidance system (using Alteran star maps of the Milky Way) and communications system so the ship should be able to navigate and communicate from anywhere in the Milky Way. The ship also had a cloaking generator and an illusion generator (not a hard light type). The illusion generator created a field that when looked upon or scanned told the scanners that the ship was much more inferior than it really was. It would let their enemies get overconfident and let their guard down. The X-303 was the most advanced ship the mundanes of earth could manage.
Around the same time that the X-303 project was started Harry started building his own ship. He named it the Lily. It was a modified Aurora class Alteran battleship. The ship had everything the Prometheus did except better. It did employ the best Alteran shield possible with 2 backup generation systems. The hyperdrive was of the fastest design the Alterans were capable of building before they left the Milky Way.
Along with it's cloaking generator it carried it's own illusion generator. The one on the Prometheus was just a scan proof hologram. The one on the Lily was a hard light generator that would withstand physical touch exactly like on the PJs. The ship could go out of phase as well as place itself in a fidelus (artificial pocket dimension). The best part about the pocket dimension was that the opening could be made wide enough for drones to be fired out of or a beam weapon but would be very hard to shoot through for the enemy.
The weapons just didn't include the multiphase drones but also several beam energy weapons that put the lancers to shame. They could be focused to multiple widths to hit different targets. The Lily was powered by 3 ZPMs that worked in tandem to provide power greater than the sum of their parts. The backup power generation included 10 neutrino-ion generators that Harry managed to replicate based off of his scans of Asguard generators. The Lily also had the same remote transporter systems that the Asguard currently used (which the Alterans gave them).
The ship included the technology to travel to ARs and travel through time up to the current 1 year capability that Harry could manage. The ships shields were also multiphase to prevent weapons like his drones getting through. The ship was about 1.5 kilometers in length and would carry all of the EAs in pocket dimensional storage if needed (about 3 million EAs). The computer system was one massive Alice class computer controlling many watch type Alice computers that controlled the various systems.
If any one of the computers were to go down the others would be there to take over. The multiple consciousnesses employed in all of the systems should make hacking the ship's computer impossible (there is no such thing but it would be damn near impossible). As far as
repair went in case of damage there was a battalion of constructors ready to take on repairs at a moments notice. The medical facilities were the best that Star could offer even though all Star employees wore age bands that would repair most damage (except that done to the soul which the medical facilities could in most cases).
The fighter bay was filled with a second fleet of 10 PJs that Harry had constructed just for this ship. The ship could be controlled by an Alteran control chair that allowed mental interface with all of the ships systems by a single user or Harry could interface through Alice. The ship truly was one of the most impressive things Harry had ever created. It's true power could not be revealed until he was ready to announce to the local galaxies (Ida and a Milky Way) that Alterans were back among the stars.
For this reason the ship would stay docked on the surface of Altera Prime until it was needed. The PJs should suffice for all other needs. It was not long after the reporter incident that the Asguard came calling. They apparently lured the replicators to their old home world in the Ida galaxy as a trap using a command code found in the android Reese.
They wanted SG-1 to go fix the trap which didn't work that they set for the replicators. Apparently they tried to trap them in a time dilation field but it didn't work. Harry knew that it was only a temporary measure because the constructors would eventually overcome such a measure as they were designed to do, but there was no way around it.
The Asguard were watching the planet like hawks so would detect if he used a disruptor weapon to destroy all of the replicators. They would have to go fix the time dilation field device. It was kind of funny because the Asguard plan hinged on the Prometheus and it being an inferior ship so that the replicators didn't want to integrate it's technology into their own. Apparently the illusion generator worked with the Asguard sensors too, which meant it would most likely work with the replicators as well since their technology wasn't much more advanced than the Asguard.
When they got to the planet on which the replicators were located Thor told them they had modified the ships systems to their maximum potential. In reality the Asguard scientist had modified the illusion field to their maximum because their scanners never penetrated it. Harry diverted all of the Asguard e to m converter beams, which were being used for the modifications, to an artificial pocket dimension. When they entered the time dilation field they were scanned by a replicator controlled ship. They got through but if anything funny would have occurred Harry had loaded multiple rounds of the anti replicator torpedo system he gave to the Asguard into the ships arsenal.
When they landed on the planet they discovered that the entire planets surface was covered in a several miles thick layers of replicator blocks, which Alice's scans told the true extent of. This also shot down the plan of detonating the planet because the replicators would absorb anything short of a zpm implosion (which would serve to reveal Alteran technology was at work, the
Asguard were not present for the destruction of the Natu system). When they got inside the only structure on the planet that they could detect Harry and Sam went straight for the device.
It would take them quiet a while to interface with the device using methods known to most of earth or the Asguard because the control mechanism had been reengineered but it would only take about 30 seconds for Alice or Harry himself to do. It was about that time that several beings approached and attempted to stop them messing with the device. When they revealed they were human form replicators Harry knew it was time to act.
Harry instructed Alice to begin altering the device to it's maximum potential time slowing capability (they could tell the Asguard the replicators enhanced the device). He then had her generate an anti replicator field at the human form replicators and the conventional ones around them. Luckily the Asguard wouldn't be able to detect such a small field because of the interference the time dilation field would cause for their sensors. Harry simultaneously hit the rest of the team but Sam with a mild confundus spell so they wouldn't understand what was going on.
Harry threw up a ward that would prevent the rest of the replicators from reach the device until it was activated. They would be able to overcome anything else and learn about zpe in the process if he made it last longer. The team made it back to the ship and blasted their way out of there at full sublight (thank god for the awesome inertial dampeners Harry installed). They made it out without interference thanks to the cloaking field.
Once they made it outside the radius of the field Alice sent a command to activate it. They were met by Thor who congratulated them on a mission accomplished. He agreed that as a small repayment for their invaluable help Asguard transporter technology would immediately be installed on the Prometheus. Harry modified the illusion field enough to guide where the transporter systems were beamed to (a cargo hold) and he installed them himself on the trip back to earth, so that he never had to reveal the true capabilities of the ship to the Asguard.
The Asguard were still battling their cloning problem but had a few more years thanks to Heimdal's work. The replicator problem still needed to be dealt with but now the Asguard would hopefully have the time to rebuild their civilization enough to deal with the threat on a higher level.
On their next mission SG-1 came across a device built by the Alterans that was meant to allow the user to see creatures in an AR, but only a specific one. They followed protocol and diverted it to one of the off world research bases. They activated the device but when it started showing the rather gruesome creatures that inhabited the targeted AR Harry shut it down for them. It was rather harmless so he left them to study it.
AN: Smoke and Mirrors never occurred because Kinsey is still in jail.
Jack got word that Maybourne had something to offer in exchange for a presidential pardon. Harry decided to go with him to see if the man was being truthful. The man wanted to string them along on a tail about a weapons cake so that he could get offworld to what was actually supposed to be a paradise and safe haven. The man had a key to activate a transporter arch.
Harry had one of his teams retrieve the key from where Maybourne stashed it. Harry told Jack and the others Maybourne was lying but he did convince them to give the man a commuted sentence in exchange for other information he provided about his former contacts. In exchange he would be moved offworld to keep his former colleagues from achieving revenge.
Harry sent a team from Star to examine the arch. It was built by the Furlings. Harry didn't know much about their technology but he was able to figure it out fairly easily with Alice's help. It appeared to be of completely solid state design. They employed fake circuit patterns on the surface to keep people from discovering the actual circuit designs. Eventually Harry was able to discover that the arch transported the user to a nearby moon. Scans with a jumper revealed no life signs and no technology, just dead Goauld symbiotes, so they headed back to earth.
A few days later an SG team came across an apparent victim of Niirti's latest experiments after she let him go for questioning her methods. He apparently returned to his village to find everyone dead. The team took him to an offworld base, as was protocol. Unfortunately it appeared that he died from her experiments by turning to liquid in a rather violent death.
Harry had a revival team retrieve him where they placed him in stasis and kept him unconscious. Scans showed that his DNA had been altered to a point where it was unstable. That wasn't the most disturbing part; it appeared that he was advanced enough to where he had a small zpe core. If Niirti was able to discover zpe it would be disastrous.
The SGC was organizing a mission to the planet Niirti was said to be conducting the experiments but when they tried to dial the planet their computer told them the destination world's gate wasn't working. Harry had shut down the earth gate after ordering 3 cloaked jumpers into orbit around the planet the experiments were being performed on to wait for Niirti's arrival. Sensor scans showed that almost all of the people in Niirti's base had small zpe cores.
As soon as Niirti's Hatac came into orbit and she transported down with rings Harry took off with his strike team. They went in invisible and in full stealth mode (EMs to silence their movements and mask their smells). All of the experimented upon people, Niirti, and Jaffa were unconscious and subdued before they knew there were intruders. Harry examined the machine Niirti was using to conduct her experiments and just as he suspected from the description of the experiments it was Alteran.
The problem with rogue scientists with secret labs is that they tended to leave their equipment lying around when they had to leave in a hurry. That was most likely the source of all of the Alteran technology lying around the galaxy because the Alterans would have removed all the
technology that the ruling council knew of when they left except the earth outpost and the stargates behind.
Niirti may have been an unethical scientist but she was at least good enough to take detailed recordings of all of the changes she made with the machine. The machine also kept a record of it's recent changes. Using this information the villagers were reverted back to their pre-Niirti days one by one until they were whole again. They were transported back to their village still unconscious where they would wake up in their own beds. When they regained consciousness again they would find the supplies they needed to survive comfortably in storage throughout their village (it would be enough to live off of until the SGC sent somebody to follow up on what happened to Niirti and helped the villagers out).
Niirti and the device were transported back to Star where she would be used for experimentation after a lengthy interrogation. Harry had been harboring a grudge against the Goauld ever since the Cassandra incident. Niirti's ship was captured without much trouble by a strike team which ringed aboard. It would be taken to one of the planets Harry owned and upgraded as part of the growing fleet Harry controlled.
A few weeks after the Niirti incident Harry and the rest of SG-1 were attending a very important meeting. The attendees of the meeting were SG-1, Major Davis, General Hammond, and the ambassadors to Russia, Britain, China, and France. The purpose of this meeting was to disclose the stargate and the galactic situation in general to those who didn't know. It was a pretty good time to do it because earth controlled the combined fleet of the Goauld system lords, except Anubis. So there was no imminent threat of attack to blame on the governments of the United States and Britain.
At first Major Davis was going to be the one giving the briefing but it soon became apparent that he was inadequate for the job. Simply put, they didn't believe him. It took James Evans (Harry), a man they all knew quite well, bringing out a hologram projector with memories of several situations SG-1 had found themselves in over the last few years to convince them. After that Harry took them to the bridge of the Lily in orbit with a PJ. Of course, the hard light projectors showed only a small fraction of the Lily's true size and it's features once on the bridge.
At first the Chinese ambassador refused to keep the secret from his people but Harry was able to persuade him to do so by making his own proposal. Harry currently had 10 worlds terraformed and cloaked so that they were unable to be found by ship without being in the know. He revealed to the ambassadors that he had 3 such worlds that he wanted to colonize with earth's population. He told them that he was currently capable of transporting 1000 people a month through a secondary stargate while still maintaining stargate operations at the SGC.
Thanks to the technology that Star was putting out the world population was at the point where it was not required to work very hard to maintain a comfortable life style. This meant fewer hours had to be worked by the general population so that nearly everybody who wanted a job had one.
All of the basic necessities were either provided for free or at extremely low cost. Housing, food, and medical care were among these extremely low cost necessities (they were completely free if you couldn't afford them).
On the 3 terraformed worlds houses were already built to house the population by the constructors. They would easily be able to keep up with increased population growth. It was suggested to do it this way because they would only have to inform 1000 people a month of the stargate program over the period of many years so that mass panic was not started when the news was revealed to the world at large. The first couple years of transplanting could be done for orphans and other small families and groups with no ties to very many people.
When the ambassadors expressed disbelief that the world wouldn't notice large groups of people disappearing and the secret being kept Harry assured them he could accomplish it. Twelve thousand people a year wasn't very many compared to 6 billion and Harry was reasonably sure his people could handle secrecy EMs on that many people.
Harry pointed out to the group that this would also provide a contingency plan to preserve mankind should something unforeseen happen to earth. He quoted the old saying that it was best not to keep all your money in one bank or something like that. James Evans (or more precisely his golem) knew every single one of these dignitaries and their presidents quite well. James Evans had developed a reputation that he was somebody you never wanted to go up against.
The reason for this was because he could read your mind and emotions. If something was important enough and it would save lives or better humanity Harry wasn't above using his powers to influence politicians. He figured he couldn't do any worse than Riddle or any other EA would have done to them. He wanted to better mankind and prevent suffering if he could. That was one of the biggest goals behind Star (and if he just happened to make a hefty profit along the way so be it).
This reputation really showed when the ambassadors quickly agreed with trying his proposal. The governments on the planets in question would be made up of a combined government between the member nations of the new stargate over sight committee. The laws would be enforced by Star Enterprises (just like they were in secret on earth now).
The SGC would receive many new teams made up of the new member nations. The new international committee (IOC) would have their own armed forces to enforce their laws on earth and defend the planet. The IOC forces would use the X-series spacecraft to defend the planet, but they would still be kept secret until a significant portion of the planet knew about them. Harry decided to tell the ambassadors about his capability of only allowing those in the know to discuss or disclose their knowledge about the particular secret to others in the know. He explained it as a technology he invented that was proprietary to Star.
This allowed him to have a Star representative on hand to EM everybody who found out about the program to silence. The planets would receive an even distribution of the transplanted group. Upon their arrival each family would be assigned an adequate house that would be theirs to keep. Homes big enough for single individuals as well as couples and groups of various sizes were being built by constructors. The constructors worked at night and with invisibility cloaking fields so they would not be observed.
On their next trip through the gate SG-1 was doing standard recon when they came across a downed ship. It appeared to be rather small from outside appearances, no larger than an Alkesh. They soon were interrupted in their observations by 3 of the apparent survivors. When they identified themselves Harry became rather suspicious by their emotions and used telepathy on them. He discovered that they were escaped convicts who had killed most of the ships crew in their escape. When they dropped their weapons from pointing at SG-1 Harry quickly stunned the 3 convicts.
He walked over to the edge of the woods and addressed the real ship's crew by calling out and telling them that SG-1 meant no harm and knew that the 3 he just stunned weren't the ship's real crew. The 2 surviving crew members stepped out of the woods and a first contact was established with the planet Hebridan. The captain, Warrick, gladly accepted Harry's offer to repair his ship, the Sebrus.
The ship was easily repaired with a naquadah generator and Warrick left with his prisoners for his planet. Harry had given Warrick a subspace communicator to contact him if he wanted a Stargate brought to their planet. It appeared that they didn't have faster than light (FTL) capabilities but were sufficiently fast with sublight speeds and stasis technology to make interplanetary travel within their system feasible.
A few days after that mission SG-1 had some downtime. Tealc was offworld going to a rebel Jaffa meeting with Bratac (which was never ambushed because it was done so by a Goauld that is now a golem), Jonas and Daniel were researching in their lab, while Jack was fishing. Harry and his wives were about to perform something a lot more important than any of these activities.
The device recovered from Niirti's planet was one not in the Alteran database because it was specially created by the Alteran who ran the lab it was found in by Niirti. That was all they could tell because nothing else had survived from that time. It was mainly used to correct genetic defects and research genetics but the device was capable of something much more significant.
From all of the tests Harry had done with the device Harry figured out that it could turn a mundane into an Alteran. The Alterans had to choose between power or the ability to keep the entire Alteran knowledge repository in their minds at all times but not both without sacrificing physical bodies. As far as they knew Harry was the only one capable of doing both while in a physical body because of a lucky fluke.
Harry was going to take Ayiana's genetic structure and activate the genes that his other wives had that allowed them to have such massive zpe cores and have such versatile control over said cores. In his wives he was going to activate the genes that enabled the strong control that Alterans had over the few abilities they manifested (touch healing and increased brain power without storing mass knowledge banks). They would become full Alterans like himself and Ayiana instead of the part Alterans they were now (which Harry labeled EAs).
Sam would now have her own powers instead of using a spell generator in her computer watch unless she wanted to. The procedure was successful so they decided to do the same for immediate family that was in the know, like Hermione's parents.
During their downtime Harry and his wives (and their various lovers, Ayiana now included) preferred to stay on Altera Prime in their home. Almost all of the structures on AP were built after the design of Atlantis with massive spires that were simply beautiful and awe inspiring in their magnificence. Harry had built a home for his wives and lovers that was the size of a castle out in the wilderness of the planet. It was quite beautiful.
The air was clean and the surrounding forests were quite green. They were starting to thrive with a carefully selected wildlife population that Harry had transplanted from various planets or revived from their genetic structure stored in the Alteran database.
As far as Harry's research into reversing aging went it became unnecessary when he decided to use Alteran cloning technology. Alteran cloning technology didn't have the flaw that the Asguard equivalent did. All of the species that were recorded in the Alteran database that had been able to manipulate zpe had only been able to do so after they evolved to a point that they could manipulate it with their bodies first, before their technology.
It was a very difficult type of energy to detect without being able to study it's effects first. The Asguard race had chosen to use immortality through cloning, but started doing so without knowing about the soul. Their technology did not take into account that the new body that was cloned from an old design that never grew wasn't "synchronized" with the soul which grew as a person aged.
Over the course of the many millennia that the Asguard cloned themselves the "errors" that resulted in that soul as a result of the incompatibility started to manifest itself in the breakdown of the clones genetic structure at a faster rate. Eventually it would get bad enough that a virus of the soul would manifest similar to what had almost wiped out the Alterans. The difference is that the Alterans eventually found a cure once their research into the soul was advanced enough.
When the situation got bad enough that Asguard would start dying and there was no other alternative Harry was prepared to step in and fix their cloning technology as well as repair the damage done to their souls. If he did it too soon they would not learn from their mistakes as well as reveal himself as Alteran, because the Alterans and the Nox were the only races that revealed
themselves as being zpe capable to a non zpe capable race in the GRA (Great Races Alliance if you have forgotten by now). Harry was clearly not a Nox, so the Asguard would assume Alteran.
AN: Episode 20 Memento never occurred because Harry had given the ships technology to compensate for the naquadria instability.
On their next mission SG-1 came across a planet that apparently was forced into mining by one of Baal's subordinate Goauld. The problem with this was that Baal didn't know about it. It was becoming obvious that the minor Goauld never told their masters everything. This was one of the reasons why the SG team's exploration of the galaxy was very beneficial. Harry had the Baal golem take care of the minor Goauld and stop the forced labor of the people who were very poor.
Aid would soon be sent to these people to help them rebuild their lives as well as receive an education equivalent to high school on earth. Jonas became ill while on the mission and passed out. He didn't appear to be in too dire a situation so he was taken back to the SGC for treatment. He apparently had a brain tumor that allowed him some minor seer abilities. He was healed in a medical bed without problems. It was either because of something Niirti had done to Jonas or as a result of him being from a different planet that the tumor developed. Harry suspected it was exposure to minor levels of naquadria radiation before joining the SGC.
About a week after that mission Harry got an alert from his pnet satellite over Abydos that Anubis was in orbit in his mother ship. Harry decided to make this an official mission in case any part of the situation got back to the SGC through the Abydonians. When they got to the planet they were approached by an ascended being named Oma Da Sala. She informed them that Anubis was after a device called the Eye of Ra that was hidden within the pyramid they were currently in.
Harry had informed the SGC of the major history of the universe, like Ascended beings and the GRA and such. He explained it off as archeological digs, his contacts throughout the galaxy, and other similar sources. When Harry asked Oma why an ascended being like Anubis was allowed to rampage around the galaxy her emotions spiked to extreme guilt. That was more than enough answer in itself for Harry's empathic abilities.
Apparently the others didn't descend Anubis all the way but he wasn't allowed to use his ascended powers or any knowledge he gained while ascended (which he was obviously pushing). Apparently they had stripped him of much of his ascended knowledge but not all. Harry had done a great deal of research on the ascended in his quest to find a defense against them.
They gave off the appearance of being all powerful and all seeing but they were no such thing. Their "higher planes of existence" were nothing but the natural higher dimensions of this universe that mundanes could not perceive. It was like a 3 dimensional being stepping into a 2 dimensional world. The 2 dimensional beings could perceive a cross section of the 3D being but
when the 3D being moved in the third dimension that the 2D beings couldn't perceive it appeared as if they vanished by magic.
The ascended could move into the higher dimensions (there are 11 in each reality or universe). Mundanes couldn't perceive higher dimensions at this stage in their evolution and could only travel through them with the aid of technology (stargate, hyperspace, etc.). EA or physically bound Alterans could only access them through apparition, shadow travel, portkey, the previously mentioned technologies, etc.
The Alterans could move in these dimensions and explore them for longer periods of time. As far as their power goes they were not infinite in their power, even though it was quite large. Harry had managed to come up with a defense against them. Without serious research with actual subjects Harry didn't know how to kill them outright but could do so through a process.
Harry had developed a suit that fit over his skin and conformed to it with color and texture identical to normal skin. This suit allowed the wearer to channel zpe from a zpm that was stored in Alice's artificial pocket dimension in her watch. This ability would only put him on par with an ascended opponent, power was not everything. An ascended being was basically power and will.
As Harry had learned during his time of fighting DEs and other EAs a stronger opponent can be taken out by superior numbers or superior strategy. Harry now had matched power and his new system allowed him to match or surpass in the will department. If Harry was to get in a fight with an ascended he could detach the zpm from his watch. Unlike normal ZPMs these ones had a few modifications with them. They had a version of an Alice class computer tailored to specifically fight Ascended beings. This is where the superior numbers came into effect to surpass the ascended opponent in the will department.
Alice class computers had multiple consciousness built in. These multiple opponents that could counteract any situation nearly instantly thanks to time dilation field cores would distract the ascended being by engaging them in battle while the last component of the system kicked in. The last component was based off of the tech Harry had used to wipe the Horcrux fragments blank, only it worked much faster thanks to more advanced computers.
Once the ascended was wiped they would not remember anything and therefore would not know how to use their powers or be a threat. They were the equivalent of brain dead. The downside to the system is that the suit couldn't be used by anybody who didn't have at least Harry's power without them being burnt out. But the ascended defense system could be used because it could be separated from the suit. In this mode the person wouldn't be able to actively combat an ascended on their own. They would need to either activate the defense feature or get help.
Harry carried 3 ZPMs around in Alice for this purpose but could only use one through the suit at a time. Each of Harry's wives also carried 3 systems around. Harry had decided that the suit
would be worn anytime he left the house, just in case. It was funny about the legends of the Moody's paranoia. He didn't hold a candle to Harry in that department. If Moody was so paranoid he wouldn't allow anybody to know that he was prepared because that would cause people to be prepared for him. In Harry's opinion secrecy was a better approach.
From Oma's emotions when asked about why she was helping Harry concluded that she was one of those renegade type ascended that didn't follow the other's laws to the letter. She had probably been tricked into helping Anubis ascend and the other's left him halfway as punishment. Harry felt even more vindicated in creating his anti ascended being system (AABS) if punishing an entire galaxy for one person's mistake was the other's idea of justice.
Harry thought it wouldn't be a good idea to get in a fight with Anubis over Abydos unless he had too so he would wait for another day if possible to try out the AABS. He and the rest of the team went down into the passageways in the base of the pyramid to search for the Eye. Using Alice's scanners he was able to locate a section of wall that had a hidden chamber behind it. She located the lock to access the door. It was an infrared mechanism. Instead of wasting time with it Alice just overrode the mechanism while Harry pretended to play with that section of the wall and his diversionary pad computer.
The door opened and showed a hidden chamber. While the other's continued to look around inside the hidden chamber for the Eye Harry just used Alice's sensors. He found another chamber which didn't appear to have any ready opening mechanisms. Harry just walked up to the wall when Daniel called everybody's attention to a tablet he found and through up a notice me not field while he phased his hand through the wall and grabbed the Eye.
Harry tore down the field and walked back to the others with the Eye. Apparently Daniel had found a tablet that referred to Atlantis and got the others all excited. Harry had long ago taught Daniel Alteran (or ancient as he knew it), Asguard, and Goauld. It didn't make any reference to an address but it did serve to excite the others.
When they left the room they were confronted by Anubis' Jaffa. There were a great many Jaffa but SG-1 probably could have fought their way out. Harry signaled them to stop. The Jaffa leader demanded the Eye. Harry quickly had Alice materialize a duplicate eye that wouldn't work but would put off the fields the regular eye would to Anubis' scanners. He would have to actually try it out to find out it was fake. Harry showed the others the 2 Eyes behind the wall where the Jaffa couldn't see it. They gave the Jaffa the fake Eye with a block of C4 strapped to it with instructions not to remove it until SG-1 was through the gate or they would blow the Eye to pieces.
They got to the other side of the gate back at the SGC and they all just broke out laughing at the stupidity of the Jaffa. The Eye was actually an Alteran focusing crystal for a beam weapon. It was part of a set, so Harry wasn't worried about any SGC scientists or those at area 51 making it work so he gladly handed it over for them to study.