Chapter 120: Atlantis

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"Atlantis? Like, the city that sunk into the ocean...?" Daniel articulated whilst the rest of his team and the general listened on.

"Yep. I received the coordinates as a reward from my last mission." I smirked towards Anna as she checked her fingernails for dirt. She was tired of all the talking and wanted to do something fun, it was easy to see on her expression as her lips pouted outwards a smidge.

"And you’re inviting us... for...?" He drawled out, curiosity and caution lining his tone.

"Fun...? I mean, I could just go there with my ladies and just take everything for myself. I figured you’d like the chance to look at it and perhaps document some stuff, perhaps their language and some copies of their mathematics, physics and chemistry."

"That, is actually really considerate and kind." The archaeologist murmured.

"I am willing to issue a mission to this, city, so long as your give me a guarantee, Drecarios, that they won’t be harmed..." Hammond stated in an attempt to bridge the gap that had just been made moments prior. He still looked frustrated and weary to me, but he was entitled to those emotions since Jack went all A-wall and shit.

"I mean, sure, I invited them. Of course I’m going to look after them while they are there." I pointed out before shrugging in the direction of Samantha, who was turning positively giddy at the idea of getting her hands on advanced technology and science.

"Good. SG1, you are to escort our... our ally... here to this city of the ancients and gather strategic information and any possible research that he allows you to take. The check in time will be in ten hours from now..." he paused to look at me. I simply nodded. "God speed people. And for what it is worth, I was only concerned about the disregard of my orders and the potential security threat that was dropped into my hands." The old general firmly apologised, in his own way, before walking out of the room.

"Great, now let’s go see Atlantis!"

"Yay." My goth girlfriend cheered in monotone much to Barriss’s amusement; she was chuckling into her hand at Anna’s antics.

"You better give me access to all of their information Elsa..." Sam warned me with her index finger pointe at the tip of my nose.

"Sure, sure... Now let’s just go get this done already. I want to devour all of their knowledge and tech." Everyone shook their heads as I walked out of the conference room towards the gate-room.

We moved through the base at a fairly quick pace, walking down couple stairwells into the command centre before exiting into a long hallway that lead directly to the gate room. Daniel, Sam and Teal’c broke off towards an armoury a few doors down, Anna and Barriss following them whilst I simply entered the gate-room.

My plans for Atlantis were complex and sophisticated. Rimecrest could only fit 10,000,000 people inside of it at its current capacity, meaning that more torus-rings would need to be made around the station... This would increasingly risk the station gaining too much mass and causing gravimetric problems for further development. Anti-gravity was a way to fix that issue, but the power requirements would exponentially increase with the current generators we had. The Death Star used anti-gravity plating and systems to stop internal compression due to its mass and the majority of the planet-killer was made of support systems to ensure it functioned properly. I didn’t want that problem to creep up on us...

Which is why I was planning on getting the designs for Zero-Point-Modules; ZPMs, and using them to mass effect; heh. The ZPMs would get rid of this issue almost entirely and are far more sustainable and trustworthy than fusion reactors. Atlantis itself was also a benefit here because I could integrate the design of the city-ship into the exterior hull of the station and expand the liveable space by several orders of magnitude. There was also the ’drone’ weapons that could phase through shields and were several times more powerful than thermonuclear warheads; theoretically.

Add nano-technology, terraforming satellites, defence satellites, the experimental wormhole drive and thousands of other technologies... my new nation would be greater than the Roman Empire... It would colonize worlds, it could see an end to famine, to homelessness... No child would ever need to starve or live on the streets again.

I wistfully looked at the Stargate as my companions walked into the room in their tactical equipment. Teal’c sported a staff weapon and a dark green uniform with the usual black Kevlar protection, Samantha had a P90 and a female version of the same outfit and the only thing Daniel had that was different was the floppy hat that was slapped sideways on his head.

"Ready to go loves?" I questioned Anna and Barriss as they walked in after SG1.

""Yes!"" They both said at once, which lead to them looking towards one another and laughing.

"Great, let’s go explore shall we..."

I turned to the Stargate and pulled on the dark red energy within me, the power source that had somehow moulded itself to me ever since I was struck with the reality stone. A crimson mist softly slithered from my palms as I channelled it throughout my body and outwards towards the gate.

Everyone watching me reacted in shock as they witnessed a blood-like spear of power flash through the air and then sink into the exterior of the gate. My girls watched in fascination and in attraction, as was Anna’s prevailing emotion. Daniel and Teal’c were as shocked as they could be after the day they had already had... And the personnel all had their mouths agape, all of them gobsmacked.

And then the gate whirred raucously, the chevrons screeching past as the gate coordinates locked themselves into place within seconds. Each locked chevron glowed an ominous red that contrasted completely with the usual orange hue that the Milky-Way gate-network used. Five seconds passed before the point of origin was locked and the gate didn’t even create a wave, the wormhole merely snapping into place within the interior gateway.

"Let’s go." I strut forwards, my girls following behind me, whilst the people in the command centre were going crazy about readings or whatever.

I was the first through the gate, the long stretching tunnel of space-time conveying itself to me through mental flashes before I stepped out into a large room of stained glass, aesthetically sculpted metal floors, walls, doorways and of course the central staircase that led upwards to the control room of Atlantis’s central tower.

Lights hummed into power as the city detected my, copied, genetic marker. A few sounds of splashing water sounded behind me as Anna and Barriss stepped through, both of them shivering as they adapted to the frigid temperatures of travelling so far through a wormhole.

"Fuck that’s cold." Anna complained

"Yes, it feels like it’s colder than Hoth..." Barriss commented idly as she ran her hands up and down her shoulders in an attempt to warm herself.

Looking towards the control room I quickly climbed the stairs two steps at a time, my journey punctuated by the activation of several sights built into the steps themselves. The lights were Lantean text but that intrigued me very little when I had problems to fix with the city at large... Apollo’s knowledge was really helping me here.

’Ah, now that I think about it.’ I tapped my watch and sent a thought through the device towards my AI children.

Not waiting for a response, I veered off to the right once I reached the top of the stairs and grasped the closest panel. The effect was immediate... The console alit in a soft golden colour as streams of information prodded at the edges of my Technopathy before eventually connecting with it and conveying the state of the data core, the city itself and the power levels.

"Shit, only 5% power left and it is quickly lowering as the atmospheric systems are being turned on by our presence." I sifted through multiple maps of the city at the same time, my neural enhancements making short work of the strenuously detailed blueprints within my mind’s eye.

"That doesn’t sound good..." Barriss said ominously.

"Don’t worry, I know where the power grid is and all I need to do is scan a working ZPM and I can get it all working again." I touched another console and easily cleared away some of the transporter blockages between the central tower and the power room... Being a technopath was a godsend, I swear!

`Dad, you called?` Hermes poked his head, metaphorically, through the watch and looked towards me from within his servers.

`Oi, get your brother and sisters. I need you all to copy as much information and data as you can on this side just in case this goes horribly.`

`oh... Ohhhhhhhh... Shit, yeah, lemme go grab ’em real quick...` Hermes vanished from the watch and I felt him kicking up a huge stink on the other side of the network as I started sprinting towards the nearest transporter station, SG1 coming through the stargate just as I dashed out of the room.

"Do we go with you, or...?!" Anna yelled in exasperation.

"Stay there, I’ll be back."

"You quoted Terminator?! Really???" Anna jokingly questioned as the transporter snapped open and then snapped closed behind me, my mind already feeding the location into the controls before the doors closed.

With a flash of light I was now standing in front of a raised dais with a control chair nestled upon the zenith. I extended my senses as I moved further into the room, my molecular powers feeling a distinct vibration of power below several hexagonal panels of the floor.

"Bingo." I hurriedly knelt next to the one with a trickle of power left and examined it using my powers.

The ZPM felt expent, or near to it. If the ZPM was a battery that operated off of chemical reactions than this one was nearly out of chemicals. Crystal lattices bled into molecular arrangements, which connected to the individual orbits of bonded atoms around one another, and down unto the level of protons, neutrons and electrons.

It took me a minute to fully copy the entire device, using the information I had scraped together from the Rakatan knowledge and of course my studies into the mind stone, I created a new ZPM based upon what I understood one should look like at the start of its battery life.

Opening my eyes I watched as the amber crystal casing of the newly created ZPM glowed a bright golden, several patches of red and dark green spiderwebbing over the top of the zero-point-module before uniting at the very bottom of the crystalline formation.

"Woah, we’re going to make so much cool shit with this dad." Apollo intoned from a few metres away as I fluidly swept over to one of the powerless ZPM and removed it, placing my newly created module in its former slot.

"Power levels?" I asked seriously as I firmly pressed the ZPM into the slot.

"Current power levels are at 20% dad, I think the city itself is run off of these four ZPM slots and the rest of the slots are backups that can be siphoned into in case of emergency or conflict." The sun gremlin informed as I drew on the left over power of the nearly depleted ZPM to create a new one.

This was why I loved ZPMs, their creation cost in energy wouldn’t be massive since the technology within literally sucked energy from pocket dimensions of space. I was essentially using the crazy amount of energy from a depleted ZPM to create another ZPM that was at max capacity. In other words... I’ve found a cheat-code and I intend to abuse it.

"Here’s, another one... and, another one..." I said in my best imitation of the popular meme’s original voice as I created another two fully operational ZPMs from the fresh one I had created... Which I then used to make three more... and then another five... then ten... Yeah, I was getting carried away.

"Dad, the city is at full power and all systems are activating. The Shield is expanding to the city limits and has expelled all of the ocean from internal chambers on its way through." Apollo announced as I created several FR2s to carry the ZPMs to the other energy chambers throughout the city and place them in their slots.

"Father I have accessed the entire database of the Ancients, would you like to have it transferred to you?" Artemis suddenly emerged next to Apollo, the sun gremlin jumping a few metres away from her as if he was startled and couldn’t feel her emerging through my watch.

"Oh... Fuck yeah, today is a great day!" I exclaimed as I rushed to up to the chair like a kid in a candy store.

"I assume that is a yes..." Artemis sighed before vanishing into the incredibly sophisticated computer systems of Atlantis, her super intelligent quantum processes running hundreds of different consoles all at once whilst she programmed the chair to transmit all of the information to me in a sustained burst.

"Of course I would want that Arti! Imagine the robots we could make, the awesome ships we could produce..." Apollo was drooling as I spoke, his eyes glazing over slightly as he imagined the stuff he could design.

My daughter simply rolled her eyes and initiated the process.

’O-oh, damn. This is a lot.’ I thought as streams of information flooded into my brain as if I were a dam holding onto water run-off. This was going to take a while.

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Anna and Barriss were walking alongside Hestia as they explored the central tower of Atlantis.

"The views are insane..." The former X-Man commented as she looked out over the superbly complex metallic landscape of Atlantis, the light from the surface dappling darkly over the very peaks of the distant skyscrapers.

"It must be shaped like a snowflake." The other two turned towards Barriss as she spoke. "The city I mean." Barriss explained quickly, her gaze slowly scooping across the distinct arms of the city-chip as lights started sparking into activity across the seabed and eventually further up the entire hull, creating an aquamarine glow that diffused into the water held back by the sparkling shields.

"We will recover everything we can from this ship and then this can be the personal ship of my father. It will certainly have enough space for his shenanigans. Although I am sure he will want to upgrade the security features and armaments." Hestia casually commented as they wandered further down the walkway, heading towards the aid-station segment of the tower.

"Huh... our boyfriend is rich..." Anna whispered to herself, as if she was finally coming to terms with how far her life had changed and the sheer scale that Drecarios was working on.

"Ah-huh, even the richest of the galaxy back in my universe would find themselves salivating at a ship like this." Barriss scanned the room as they entered it, several scanning bays and beds drawing her attention away as she started comparing the technology to Bacta Tanks.

"I see... Perhaps I will have to speak with Discordia again..." Hestia murmured to herself once her father’s lovers were distracted with the room.

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Samantha, Daniel and Teal’c were standing in the control room as Athena started copying a large portion of the basic knowledge in the Ancient database into the original USB that her father had used to transfer the Jedi Archives.

"This USB holds the collective knowledge of Ancient Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Ascendance, Chemistry, Strategy, Tactics, Chronology and numerous other more specific topics." Athena listed off before handing the USB to Samantha, the blonde-haired scientist positively jumping in place as she watched the entire control room hum to life and sensors flicker to life.

"Awesome..." She said in awe.

Meanwhile Athena furrowed her brow at the sensor display, the image enlarging until the scene of an alien species raiding a primitive human colony was displayed in full 3 dimensional detail. Teal’c and Daniel immediately focussed on the footage whilst Athena gained a malevolent countenance that was accented by the howling audio of the Wraith darts scooping people up for harvesting.

"What are those...?" Daniel asked in trepidation.

"The enemy that wiped out the Ancients in this galaxy... The Wraith." The AI responded.

"That doesn’t sound good..." He nervously stated.

"It’s not." Athena started pouring through the database and found classifications for each ship the Wraith were using, their strengths and weaknesses as of ten thousand years ago, and the estimated population of them based upon the satellites still in operation and the extensive spy-network that had been hidden across the Pegasus galaxy.

’Over 4 billion Wraith, that can be detected. That’s not even mentioning those in hibernation and the ones that are on worlds that we can’t check on.’ Athena pondered the problem from all angles before she considered scrapping the Geneva convention and simply creating a virus that targeted wraith only.

"Is it possible to save them...?" Sam asked as she watched another batch of humans be vacuumed up into a Wraith dart.

"Maybe... We would need to contemplate what warfare in this galaxy would look like, then run calculations on how effective a human evacuation of this galaxy could be and if we have the space to house them all. Then we have to consider the Ancient ruins throughout the galaxy and the potential of the Wraith running into a Zero-point-module and gaining the ability to traverse outside of the Galaxy. Then we also need to factor in the value of controlling this galaxy and whether it would be more valuable for us to simply wipe out the Wraith so we can expand our nation economically and colonially." Athena rattled off before stopping and tuning into the final cycle of her father’s knowledge consumption.

"We should probably let them focus on the Wraith and humans in this galaxy Daniel, we have enough problems with the Goa’uld..." Sam suggested whilst the man himself nodded softly.

’Great, he’s received the entire database... Wait, he got more?’ Athena thought as she watched her father have a conversation with this Universe’s version of Morgan Le Fay.

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"Your presence is disturbing the evolution of the Human race." A woman in a sparkly outfit said as I finished consuming all of the knowledge of the Ancients, including the gate-building-ships and the more experimental knowledge from their secret databases; the benefits of having technopathy.

"Your presence is disturbing my enjoyable day... Now, who are you and what’s your agenda?" I drawled out as I stretched my neck.

"Do you have no idea of the irreparable damage you have caused to the Human species by introducing this information to them without hardship, without struggle, without a need to strengthen their morals and work towards a better future together?" She postulated in her glowy manner, her form hazing slightly as if she were a force ghost barely holding herself together.

"What bullshit."

She blinked at me before scowling slightly.

"How is this ’bullshit’, as you so eloquently phrased it?" She asked in a clipped tone.

"Your own species fucking fought against one another. The Ori broke away from you because you refused to believe in spiritualism or the existence of higher beings than yourselves... Your pigheaded stubbornness caused them to become militant and then you fled and decried their actions despite the fact that they were outcaste from the beginning."

She blanched but I continued.

"Then there was the fact that your own people disagreed on whether ascension was the answer. Add onto that the nearly catastrophic experimentation casually made throughout numerous planets that caused catastrophes that wiped all life away from some of those worlds and I believe you have little to no fucking room to speak to me about ’moral high grounds’ and ’working together’."

I finished aptly and started stretching my back.

"You! That is completely separate...! War between us was completely erased, there were no conflicts that could not be solved through deliberation and counselling. Our efforts towards ascension or otherwise were a natural response to a cataclysmic predator that was solely focussed on erasing us from existence!" She boomed out, her aura blaring through the room, causing the particles and atoms in the room to enter an energetic state.

"And yet you claim superiority when in fact you were just as scared as the Humans are about their existence in this universe. Why did your people deserve any technology they scavenged and the Humans don’t?" I lightly rebuked before leaning backwards on my right leg with my arms crossed across my chest.

"That... That’s different! We invented our own form of faster than light travel before we discovered other species’ technologies." She defended herself verbally.

"Technically the Humans did the same by discovering the Stargate on Earth, which your species put there. So technically they are just following in your footsteps... Now, if you would politely fuck off with your power displays before I banish you back to the force?" I requested forcefully, my own force presence flaring to engulf hers and push her back from whence she came.

"This isn’t the end of this conversation......!" Her voice faded away as I cast a Sith spell that banished force ghosts and spirits back to the force for at least a month.

"Yes it is....!" I cheekily rebutted before huffing in annoyance and turning towards Apollo, who had been watching the talk from the sidelines.

`Time to get to work son.` I spoke to him mentally.

`Yes dad! That was really cool by the way.` I coughed into my right hand before giving him a thumbs up and walking towards the transporter once again.

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