Summery.
Pretty much a rip off of VexMaster's Galactic Imperuim idea.
Okay so suppose you have a Space/Time/Reality Manipulator, a device that allows you go anywhere in the Multi-Verse, which includes all fictional universes, and you just happen to be a megalomaniac. Well what you do?.
Well I decided to travel to the Multi-Verse and then conquer it, using technology and resources from different Sci Fi franchises. Which combined with an obsessed fan's level of knowledge ought to make the job easy enough.
So come join me on my quest to build an empire, become a god-like being and to acquire a harem full of sexy babes willing to do my bidding.
Should be fun.
Warnings.
Sex, violence and the enslavement of hot women. All the stuff you expect to find in my fics. Also I'm just going to jump right into this story as I just can't seem to write a scene were the character gets the Manipulator. I'll just mention it at some point during the story in passing as well as give a few details on its origin.
Disclaimer. I own nothing in this but myself (I hope) and the idea for the Manipulator itself which can be freely borrowed by other writes if they need a plot device that makes things easy.
Emperor Gothic Book One. Part One.
Anubis's Secret Lab. P3X-584. Stargate Milky Way Galaxy. Early Season Eight.
The AI intelligence that guides the Space/Time Manipulator had brought me to this hidden lab upon request once I had decided how I was going to start my journey towards godhood, multi-verse conquest and a large harem.
I had considered many paths to power before deciding on this one. I could of bounced around the multi-verse acquiring objects of power and used them to create my planned Eternal Empire but I had quickly realised that this wasn't that sensible an idea. After all such valuable objects could be lost, stolen or even used against me.
I'd also considered trying to gain magical powers. But this had its downsides to. For starters I might not be able to use magic, and while there were probably ways to give someone magical powers that whole idea seemed a little to risky to me. After all magic could be unpredictable and I didn't fancy spending countless years studying the subject anyway.
So in the end I had decided the simplest way would be to copy or steal the special gifts of others. But how to go about this?.
Well since I had access to all realities it wasn't that hard, all I had to was to rack my brain and think of when I had seen someone quickly obtain powers that could be considered god like. Well at least god like on the level of the Goa'uld and other aliens who pretended to be divine beings in order to control humans.
Thinking about such things had led me to think about the Goa'uld and of course the Stargate franchise as a whole. I'd then remembered about the science they had here called DNA resequencing which basically allowed you treat your DNA like it was Lego.
In fact in this reality you could ascend into an immortal energy being just by having a very active brain. Which made no sense according to the science of my home universe. The idea that people only ever use ten percent of their brain during their lives is wrong. Actually people only use ten percent of their brain at one time. This is because different parts of the brain do different things.
But in this universe it was actually possible to become an energy being by using most of your brain at the same time. And according to Beta traveling to a different universe didn't change your physical state. Which any meant superhuman powers I picked up would work back home to.
Not that I had any intention of ever ascending however, the idea of spending eternity not interacting with humanity held no appeal to me. I wanted to rule over entire galaxies and have attractive women bowing at my feet eager to serve. That wasn't to happen if I ascended, assuming I even could.
However the steps towards ascension were more appealing to me.
Becoming what was called a Near-ascended human seemed very interesting. Not only could I achieve this state rather easily thanks to the machines stored in Anubis's lab but it was also relatively easy to use the abilities being Near-ascended granted.
No need to spend years learning to use magic when I could gain powers that couldn't be distinguished form magic in a matter of days.
And yes many would call this cheating but quite frankly I wanted to progress my plans as quickly as possible because I knew if I didn't I would only end up finding ways to procrastinate and nothing would ever get done.
Of course I wasn't going to stop with just giving myself a super brain. Since this lab gave me the means to rewrite my own DNA I could also grant myself the powers of anyone who abilities came from having unusual DNA, like Marvel mutants for example.
In fact there was a special mutant I had in mind and he would be my first target as soon as I could safely go after him.
In the meantime however I would have to spend sometime undergoing the 'treatments' this lab offered.
I wanted to become a near-ascended human much like Khalek the Human-Goa'uld hybrid created by Anubis who was currently in stasis not that far from me.
Thankfully getting rid of him wouldn't be that hard as the Manipulator had the ability to break down and store physical objects within itself. How this worked was beyond my understanding but I could understand how useful this was.
There were however limits to what could be stored within the Manipulator currently strapped to my left wrist. The plain looking device couldn't store anti-matter and it couldn't break down a living thing without killing it. This didn't mean I could carry organic things it just meant that they would be killed in the process which seemed an odd feature for the device until Beta explained that it allowed users of the machine to store food and clothing made from organic materials.
So I broke down and store Khalek's body before he could recover from being in the stasis chambers. This killed the dangerous Goa'uld-Human hybrid but kept his body intact in case I ever wanted it to be studied.
This also freed up the stasis chamber for my use.
"Beta prepare the first treatment" I commanded the AI.
"Are you sure you wish to proceed?" asked the friendly female voice. "This process could dramatical alter both your DNA and personality".
Hungry for power I ignored the warning and entered the stasis chamber.
"Yes Beta I am sure".
After twice more assuring the AI who was connected to the lab equipment that I was fine with that. The machine intelligence activated the devices that would accelerate my evolutionary development.
Anubis's Secret Lab. P3X-584. Stargate Milky Way Galaxy. Early Season Eight.
After undergoing several 'treatments' I now knew that I had made a mistake.
I had foolishly rushed into this not truly understood what I was going to do to myself. I partly blamed the TV show for this as it really didn't do a good job of explaining what Anubis had actually done. Or maybe it had and my memory was just incomplete.
I'd not only 'evolved' myself I'd turned myself into an alien-human hybrid
The 'treatments' had added Goa'uld DNA to mine in fact it was reconstructed DNA from Anubis himself. I hadn't gotten to much of it as Beta hadn't allowed me to do so as it risked my mental health. But I'd gotten enough, enough to know how to use their technology in any case.
I knew this because the Goa'uld have what is called genetic memory which allows them to pass on their memories to their offspring. Which explains why all the Goa'uld know how to use their technology despite having no formal education.
This genetic memory could also be inherited by humans if one or more of their parents is a host to a Goa'uld. Or in my case if you stupidly add some of their DNA to your own.
In fact given the right resources I could likely build myself a nice Ha'tak. Which was a big boon really but unfortunately my cravings for admiration and worship were now intensified. Meaning that instead of just wanting to be godlike and have a few girls bowing at my feet I now desired to enslave people on mass and have praising my name.
Okay so not that much difference really but I didn't want to be just another System Lord trying to gain power in the galaxy, it wouldn't work not unless I went somewhere were humans were conquering but it have the technology to match that of the Goa'uld.
Actually now that I thought about it there were quite a few galaxies out there were Goa'uld technology would go along way. In fact I wouldn't even have to leave this universe I could just pop over to the Pegasus galaxy. Or I wanted to go further afield I could maybe try my hand and conquering the Mass Effect galaxy.
In fact I rather liked that idea.
If I stayed here and tried to conquer this franchise I'd have to deal with powerful foes like the Replicators and the Wraith but in the ME verse all I would to deal with is the Reaper, who wouldn't a great threat as long as the technology I now had access to didn't fall into their hands.
Plus I could always come back and conquer this galaxy after all the threats were dealt with. Granted I'd still have to deal with the pesky people at Stargate Command and those Lucian Alliance chaps but that wouldn't to hard once I had a power base set up somewhere else.
Of course I'd need a large power base to build a fleet and army big enough to conquer galaxies like this one. And since I didn't want to spend rest of my life creating the industry I needed, I'd have to take over existing infrastructure and then upgrade it were possible.
Which shouldn't to hard once I got the powers of The Mule.
But to do that I needed to get a DNA sample and he wasn't likely to just sit down and let me draw some blood. I would to incapacitate or kill him. Which in most cases wouldn't be to hard once I learned to use the powers that came with near-ascension if not for the nature of the very abilities I wished to copy.
The Mule had the power to 'adjust' people's minds making them utterly loyal to him. He could even do this to entire groups. And I no idea if my near-ascend status would protect me. The Mule might simply convert me to his cause and then he would have the Manipulator. Which would allow him to traverse the multi-verse and convert powerful humans making them serve him.
This couldn't be allowed as that was what I wanted to do. So I would have to find a way to get the sample without risking myself.
It didn't take me long to figure out away thanks to my more 'evolved' brain. What I needed was a minion to go and fetch for me, someone who could pass for human but was also immune to mind control powers.
Once I thought about it I quickly came up with a few ideas. An android would be best, a machine tough enough to get to The Mule but also human looking enough to seem harmless. A female looking robot would be best as it would give me something to look at and if it could pass for human it might be fun to fuck too.
Perhaps I should get myself a Terminator or go kidnap Rommie from that Andromeda show. The idea of having my own female shaped Terminator to do my bidding was arousing mostly because they'd be willing and able to sex with on demand. Granted using a female shaped Terminator as a high tech sex toy might seem silly but it would do until I got myself a devoted human woman, which would be easy enough once I had the Mule's powers.
So who would I get, and more importantly how?.
Beta could override another AI easily enough as she was far more advanced having come from a culture that had mastered space and time beyond what even the Time Lords could imagine. (Beta had made that comparison herself after downloading the entire internet) so for her it would be child's play to reprogram a Terminator and make it make serve me.
She predicted that it would take exactly fifty seconds.
But there was no way I could contain a Terminator for even five seconds so I had to find a way to disable the Terminator without damaging to much.
Then I remembered something from the Terminator TV show. If you gave one of those killer cyborgs a sufficient electrical shock they went into a kind of reboot that last a couple of minutes. So if I could shock one of this Skynet built assassins then Beta would have more than enough time to do her thing.
Now I just had to figure out how to deliver such a shock.
The answer came from the small of amounts of genetic memory I had inherited from the 'treatments' A zat gun or they were correctly called Zat'nik'tel was fired at the Terminator at close enough range it should deliver a large enough jolt to disable the human looking machine. I doubled checked with Beta as more exact details about the Terminators could be found online and I knew just how powerful a e Zat'nik'tel was.
Beta confirmed that it would work. The zat gun would disable the machine long enough for Beta to override its CPU.
I decided to go for the Cameron Phillips model as Summer Glau was a hottie and she didn't look that dangerous. Her small size and non-threatening demeanour would fool most people making a suitable agent I could use.
All I had to do now was to go out and pick up a zat. Then I could go and collect my prize.
A High School In New Mexico. Terminator Verse. 1999.
Normally when a man in his twenties crouches behind a car outside of a High School checking out the girls someone would come along and arrest him or at least a few students would give him odd looks. But I was invisible thanks to the personal cloaking device built into the Manipulator.
It was actually called a stealth field generator and was meant to allow travellers of the multi-verse to observe the humans of other dimensions without being seen. Which meant that it wasn't a perfect invisibility but I could be seen by the naked eye.
An infra-red camera might pick up which meant Cameron herself might spot me so I had to zat her before she detected me. Hence why I was hiding behind a car looking at the girls exiting the school.
If I had timed things right the Terminator called Cromartie would enter the school tomorrow while pretending to be a substitute teacher. Cameron should prevent this other Terminator from killing John Conner expect that for the fact that I was about to steal her.
This would result in young John's death but for some reason I really didn't care that this would most likely led to mankind being wiped out by Skynet. Not that I wanted this I just didn't feel any guilt about letting it happen.
But then again I could always build a copy of Cameron later when I had more resources and have that version protect John Conner so I really didn't need to feel guilty.
Ignoring my lack of concern for my fellow human beings I focused on the students heading out of the school and spotted Cameron. She seemed like any other teenage girl until I dropped the cloaking device and shot her.
For a second there just before I opened fire her body language changed and she might of even been reaching for a weapon but I got her in time.
The zat firing panicked the student body of this school and sent them running. They had assumed that I was a mad men with a gun and all ran off. I suppose they were right to do so and right to think so. After all I'd call myself sane any more, not after adding alien DNA to myself.
Not wasting any time I ran over to the 'knocked out' cyborg and ordered Beta to do her thing. The AI began to override the Terminator's programming. When she was done Cameron would be my most loyal servant, well she'd be my only servant but a very loyal one.
The rebooting, or whatever it was, seemed to take forever although it actually only took one hundred and twenty seconds.
I knew it would take the police longer than this to answer any 991 calls but I still felt the need to rush this, despite the fact that I was in real danger.
Then Cameron came back online (or from a human perspective she woke up) she got to her feet as I did only to then kneel before me and say.
"How may I serve you, Lord Gothic".
Beta had reprogrammed her perfectly it seemed. Cameron was now mine to command.
Suddenly I heard a distant sound police sirens I guessed but not that close yet. Which meant that my enhanced senses had kicked in or at least it seemed that way. Still even if I'd had all the near-ascend powers perfected there was no reason for me to stay here any longer not unless I wanted to needlessly kill police men.
Which thankfully I didn't as I was able to the Goa'uld given urges to kill suppressed so far. I knew that I'd never feel bad about killing but didn't mean I had to kill just to feel powerful.
Instead of showing off I simply grabbed Cameron by the waist and told Beta to take us back to the lab.
Because Cameron had organic parts to her making her partly a living thing I couldn't store her in the Manipulator, at least not without killing her biological components so I needed physical contact in order to take her with me.
By the time the police arrived I was already back at the lab. I imagined that what happened that day would be quiet a mystery to them.
The City Of Atlantis. Pegasus Galaxy. Early Season One.
The great thing about there being so many different version of Stargate was that it made it possible for me to steal whatever technology I fancied even from different points of time within the show. Normally an action in the past would alter the future meaning that if I went to a later date to steal something else it might not be there due that whole butterfly effect thing. One tiny action in the past could have far reaching consequences in the future.
Many people would see the idea of a time traveller's smallest actions having such large impacts on the present or future as proof that everyone and everything they did was important. I just saw it as further proof of how truly random the multi-verse was.
Still random or not the system was handy for me as I meant I not only a find a Stargate verse where events were happening just as they did on television and therefore things were nice and predictable for me.
Currently I was taking advantage infinite by stealing not one but two Ancient personal shield generators the one seen used by Rodney Mckay during that episode with that weird Shadow Creature.
Speaking of which I'd have to remember to take to the Shadow Creature form this version of Atlantis as well. I didn't care that much if the weird alien ended up killing everyone but it didn't take them much effect to go and break the thing down, storing in the Manipulator. Which was possible with this living thing as it was energy based rather than organic in nature.
Plus an energy based creature could come in handy if I ever did get around the conquering the Stargate galaxies as they might be able to eat someone like Anubis. If nothing else I could use it to attack the Enterprise, they would find a way to destroy creature or at least strand it somewhere it could live in peace.
Actually if I did ever get around to conquering a version of Stargate I would do after Anubis ends up fighting Oma for the rest of time. In fact I'd bring one of those sangrall things and just wipe out them all out. Or at least I'd wipe out the Ori anyway.
Remembering to focus on what was going on around me I poked my head around the corner and spotted the doctor's Mckay and Carson taking to each other. Something about women unsurprisingly.
Not wanting to be subjected to their boring conversion (twice) I simple walked into the room and zatted both Doctors. I grabbed the personal shield and then left to grab the Shadow Creature before I got distracted by my own thoughts again.
Then I needed to go to another version of Stargate and steal myself an Asuran. This really was turning out to be a long day.
Wraith Base. Pegasus Galaxy. Season Four.
Sounds of Wraith stun blasts filled my ears as I waited for Beta to finish reprogramming the Asuran trapped by force fields.
The Wraith had been studying this Asuran in hopes of finding a way to the end war but I was about to mess that up stealing their science project.
I needed this Asuran because not only it construct things for me using nanotech it could also do that whole hand in the head thing and view people's memories.
This was important to me because if the Asuran could copy memories it took from someone it could also insert those memories into someone else's mind, namely me. I hope that if the Asuran took memories form The Mule about times when he used his powers this would allow me to learn how to use them myself without needing to spend months or perhaps even years perfecting the ability to control my minds.
Also if it worked as I hoped it would I could use this method to learn how to use any other mutant abilities that I copied. Maybe it could even be used to rapidly learn about technology.
The memories taken form The Mule would have to careful edited so that it only contained what I needed to remember knowing how to do. The last thing I wanted was more DNA that influenced my thoughts and opinions, it was bad enough that I kept wanting to bring Jaffa into my service.
"Rewriting done!" shouted the machine intelligence over the sounds of Cameron and Wraith shooting each other.
Thankfully for her my pet Terminator was now protected, like myself, by an Ancient shield which Beta had been able to activate despite the gene lock. Now we were both protected by shields. Mine had been integrated with the Manipulator itself which it could do apparently. Later I was going to see if I could somehow install it with a Star Trek Replicator so that I could get food and drink with a simple voice command.
But I was getting ahead of myself again, for now I needed to free this Asuran so it could kill the Wraith who currently trying to overwhelm Cameron with sheer numbers. She'd zatted dozens of the space vampires but they just keep coming.
This did not go smoothly as Wraith technology is biological meaning that Beta was having trouble interfacing with its systems.
Knowing that Beta needed to be as close to the machine she was trying to override I placed my left hand on the terminal and used my right hand to zat as many Wraith as I could but as this rate I'd have to leave without my prize.
Then just when it seemed I'd have to leave the Asuran was freed.
"Attack the Wraith" I ordered and the Asuran calmly walked into fight.
As an extra screw you to the Wraith I'd wanted to overloads this places' reactor but it looked like that wouldn't be possible. Beta just wasn't built to interact with biotech. Ah well I could just come back with a bomb if I really felt the need.
"Cameron were leaving" I told the machine.
She came over to me and once more put my arm around her him. I used the breakdown feature of the Manipulator to store the Asuran as it wasn't organic in anyway. Several Wraith were sucked up to and were now dead but I didn't care.
Then before more Wraith could come rushing into the room I had Beta teleport us back to the lab.
Anubis's Secret Lab. P3X-584. Stargate Milky Way Galaxy. Early Season Eight.
Without a sound my pet Terminator appeared holding a clear plastic tube full of blood.
"I got the sample" she reported in emotionless tone. "And the Asuran extracted the memories you requested before terminating the target".
Completely ignoring the fact that I had just had someone assassinated I took the DNA sample and fed it to one of the labs many alien machines so that it could be analysed. Cameron then took off the Manipulator and handed it back to me.
I'd sent her off to get this sample because it came from The Mule a powerful mutant who influence and subvert the human mind. Had I gone it would be likely that I would of ended up being converted by The Mule even with Cameron there with me. So it made sense to send her alone.
I would normally even thinking of lending the Manipulator to anyone but Cameron couldn't defy my orders. Beta reprogrammed her to such a degree that not even Skynet could reverse the process. So it had been safe to send her out knowing that she would hand the Manipulator back without delay.
As I reattached the advanced human device to my arm Beta once more uploaded herself in the lab's computer system taking control over their operations. This would allow the AI to analyse The Mul's blood and isolate his mutant genes so that they could added to my own DNA.
This had to be done carefully as while The Mule had been a mental giant his body had been that of weak slickly man and I didn't want to become like that. Granted my current body wasn't that great but as long as it was healthy it didn't matter as it was mind that was important when it came to using my near-ascend powers.
"How long will this take?" I asked Beta, referring to the process that would led to the next 'treatment'.
"Less than an hour" replied the AI.
I was surprised that she couldn't give me a more accurate estimate, but it was possible that she knew that humans didn't always appreciate exact estimates when it came to waiting.
Still this meant that I had an hour to kill and nothing to do. I couldn't leave this lab since it was Beta who made it possible to use the Manipulator and she needed to stay in the lab's systems to do her work.
I looked around for a terminal I could use so I could check any information worth reading but everything was written in Ancient and while it wouldn't take Beta long translate it all for me I didn't want to bother her. Asking her to preform other tasks would only slow down the task I wanted done ASAP.
Instead I noticed Cameron standing there staring at the hologram which show a strand of DNA in all its three dimensional glory. I didn't know much about the human genome so I just looked at Cameron. She was very attractive but not dressed very well. I'd have to do something about that maybe dress in leather trousers and a jacket.
Actually why bother having her dressed at all if were alone it wasn't as if had any modesty now was it.
"Cameron, strip".
The Terminator didn't bother to reply she just stripped off right in front of me even taking the time to fold her clothes neatly in a pile.
Her naked petite form aroused me at once as I pleased to note that she had removed her pubic hair which I was grateful for as I disliked it on women.
"Turn around" I commanded her as I wanted to check out her ass.
I liked what I saw her ass was firm and looked like would be fun to fuck assuming she was built to do that. Actually I didn't even know if she could have sex just because her outer layer was living flesh did mean she had anything natural feeling to stick my dick in.
Since I didn't know I asked and she replied.
"Yes my lord, I am capable of having intercourse. It was included in my design in case the seduction of targets was required. I am programmed to please both men and women in every way possible".
That actually made sense. Terminators were about infiltration after all and had to be able to pass for human. Also sex could be used as a method of interrogation when torture wasn't appropriate for whatever reason.
And since her creators had gone to all this trouble to make her able to have sex I might as well take advantage of the work and make use of her.
Lacking a bed or any other furniture for that matter. I simple laid down on the floor using my trench coat to block out some of the chill from the stone floor. It didn't help much but I wouldn't be staying her long. Once I had undergone the next 'treatment' I would break down this lab and store it until I decided to add any more mutant genes to myself. Then I found find somewhere nice to stay and bang my robotic sex toy on a proper bed. Until then she just have to suck me off.
Which was my next order.