Note of the author.
"Memories forced worshipper" is the first story of my little series based on the world famous television series MGM Studios : "Stargate: Atlantis".
Originally it was a loose story, written for fun, in the form of first-person narrative. But when I started to write my next fanfic: "Moonlight", telling the history of young Wraith female, I decided that it would be a whole, associated with each series.
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Forgive me for my English, but this is not my native language.
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NOTE:
1. The conversations begin with a dash.
2. Telepathic conversations are written on a new line in quotes.
3. Italics have been used to abbreviations or words of Latin origin; based on Latin or being "blend" of such words.
Other names as: persons (Wraith) names, names of the ships, planets, or titles, etc.., was written only with a capital letter.
4. In order to distinction "flashback" or dreams/memories, applied line a break and quotes.
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It breaks my heart
because I know you're the one for me
Don't you feel sad there never was a story obviously
It'll never be... Ohhhhhh...
You will never know
I will never show
What I feel, what I need, from you no
You will never know
I will never show
What I feel, what I need, from you
Imany ″You will never know″
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Prologue
Groom Lake - 10.000 years ago...
Bluish tile shallow, salty lake reflected the rays of the sun. Around ascended a small hill, covered with low vegetation. The climate was not very conducive for life: lack of fresh water and high temperatures significantly reduced the number of organisms that were able to survive here. But it is precisely for the same reason a few men sitting in their small boats, ended just bond the next rope on a wooden structure stick in the bottom of the lake a few yards from the shore. Ropes, which they had gathered earlier, were already covered with a thick layer of salt.
It would seem that much easier way of gathering salt would be extracting it from the bottom just off the coast, but thus obtained substance was full of various pollutants. In contrast, this gleaned on the ropes, during evaporation of water, almost immediately was fit for human consumption. And thus you could get for it a better price for the monthly marketplace.
- Muha'biu, we already return to the shore! - shouted the oldest of the men to the youngest, who tied the second-last of his rope.
- All right! I almost finished! - he replied not taking his eyes from work and picked up the last rope.
At first he did not pay attention to wind, which blew harder. There was not nothing strange after all. But when the wind strength increased, starting sway the boat, the man broke the tie the rope to a wooden structure and looked to the side, toward the center of the salt lake. A dozen feet away, calm to now water tile just beginning to bend under the pressure of an invisible force, creating disputes circle, which grew out of each moment... just as wind power.
The young man grabbed a wooden frame, when his boat began sway in the water.
- Muha'biu! - shouted someone behind him.
He looked in that direction, seeing the frightened friends, when suddenly over the lake appear something else: an invisible force which bend the water, began just shoot in all directions pale-blue lightning, which showed her spherical shape. Lightning danced on the surface of the lake farther and farther. Some of them crossed next to a young man, heading for the shore.
And then in the whole area came to the shrill, low sound, peppering a headache. Muha'biu clogged ears his hands, like his comrades… but he looked carefully in the direction of the ball lightning. In her inside was something in the shape of miniature, pulsating sun... which suddenly explode. Young man curled up in his boat, hoping that this something not lay hold him. But the white light mercilessly swallowed up everything in the area.
For a moment Muha`biu had the feeling, that the world froze. He pulled his hands from his head slightly, and leaned over the side of the boat. He could not hear anything, except the piercing sound, and the whole world hid bright white... And then it all suddenly disappeared: light, lightning and sound. Lake was calm again, and as blue as the sky.
And then he saw her: a woman in the water, desperately waving her arms, so as not to drown. It seemed to him, that she was moving her lips as if she screamed, but he did not hear anything.
The sound came back after a while and the man heard many voices, both male and female... screaming from every angle. He looked around: in nearby destination, lake was full of people, trying keep afloat. He did not understand what they were screaming... but he guessed why they cried: salty water of the lake had to irritate their eyes, when they are to immerse in it.
But how did they get here?... and how?
Could they come with a flash of light, he started to wonder. And if so, maybe they are the messengers of the gods?...
For sure. Only the gods have magical powers, and what he had just seen with the whole certainly was magic...
Someone shouted from the shore. Muha'biu looked in that direction. Several newcomers, who were fortunate enough to get into dry land or in the vicinity, began pushing the left on the shore of a lake three boats. They were dressed in bright, strange costumes, hiding their whole body. Those, who jumped into the boat, threw long to the knee top layer. But underneath was another layer of clothing, adhering to their bodies and uncovers the arms.
Someone grabbed the edge of the boat Muha'biu. The young man jumped up, scared. It was the woman, which he had seen earlier. Her long, bright hair tied back of the head, were all wet, and the blue eyes
looked at him, frightened. Big, blue eyes with vertical pupils.
He stared at those eyes, almost paralyzed, as intensely as in her unnaturally wide nose decorated on both sides of the small pits cheek... like a snake, he thought.
The woman said something to him, but he did not understand those words... But he did not have to. The look in her eyes explained to him everything: she asked for help.
He shook himself finally and jumped out of the boat, on the other side, to relieve her. Then he looked straight into the amazing eyes of woman.
- Let's help others - he said.
This time a woman did not understand his words. So, he pointed his finger at the nearest person. She glanced in that direction, and then she nodded a gesture of the head. They both began to flow, holding with one hand edge of the boat...
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Groom Lake... present times…
Night of the Groom Lake was warm and the sky full of stars.
Katherine Harrigan stopped and looked longingly up.
She liked the place. She liked to come here, and look at the starry sky, though she did not know why. Maybe it's because as a child she liked to look at the stars, though, when she looked at them, her heart and throat clutched a strange grief... and longing. As if she once was there, and now she could not come back.
She came here whenever she had to stay in the base: with her own choice, or waiting for her uncle. Here, away from the smog and city lights, it was always great to see the stars. Here, she could calmly admire their beauty, and dreamed, how great it would be to travel among them.
She looked into the distance. Two dogs running around the dry ground, happy to finally be able to leave the base. She smiled, looking like they jump and snarling at each other, happily. Sometimes she had a guilty conscience, that she does not give them terms to which they were accustomed. The warm climate of the south was certainly not good for the Huskys, but for the moment she could not leave. She had to finish her father's project... it was the last thing she could do for him.
And then... Then probably she will move to somewhere north...
Or maybe she even return to the Polish...
The quiet buzzing in her pants pocket interrupted her thoughts. She pulled hastening the phone and switched it on, putting her ear.
- I hope you remember about Denver? - said a male voice with the clearly Russian accent.
- Hello Ivan - she said slightly, amused. - Me too is nice to hear you.
- Do not change the subject, woman - he went, that be angry. - For four days I see you in Denver, either, I personally dragged you there for those your shag... You again stay after hours? - he asked calmly.
- I had to finish the program... but you not worry. Tomorrow I go back and I have a week off.
- I think - he grumbled. - Dogs are chasing something? - he added.
She smiled corner of her mouth and looked up, into the sky.
- They're playing with a ball - she explained.
Ivan was one of the best hackers in the world. Breaking into one of the satellites, and targeting it to the interesting him area, was not especially complicated for him.
- You should take follow their example and also have some fun - he noted. - Working will not come back to you families, Kate... After Denver, we're going to Mexico for surfing. Come with us - he suggested.
- I'll think about it...
- The problem is, that you think too much lately... A year ago you would went without a second thought.
- It was a year ago - she said sadly. - People are change, Ivan…
- You have not changed, Kate, only entrench a high wall... not letting anyone to defeat him... Even a friends.
- I appreciate your concern, but you really do not have to...
- Yes, I have to… otherwise you 're stuck in the base forever - he interrupted her quietly. - For four days I see you in Denver at Comic Con, Kate - he said firmly and hung up.
The young woman smiled and slipped the phone into her pockets.
She did not want to go there, but she knew, that if she did not do, Ivan keep his word .
She really liked him. He was one of the best friends what she has ever had. She always could count on his help. He never asked questions - he just helping her.
But now she really did not want to meet anyone.
She lifted her head, again looking at the starry firmament. At this moment she wished that she could not run away, she thought sadly... somewhere out there...
Two dogs ran up to her, happily wagging tails. One of them, all white, holding the ball in his mouth. She took it and threw as far as she could, and they ran for it. She liked to watch them play and go crazy.
Their view of a little soothed the pain in her heart.
They were all that was left her...
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Chapter 1
I stuck in the middle of nowhere!
Day ninth...
ENTER - this one key on the laptop finally ended old life Katherine Ann Harrigan.
Stargate has closed and around fell a deadly silence.
Now it was her world, she thought, and looked around the clearing... cursing in the Polish - to the hell, she just stuck in the middle of some shithole!
She looked at the dogs running around - busy fun, of course, all had in deep respect... as usual, she thought with amusement, smiling corner of her mouth, then looked into the distance.
At the other end of the clearing, on the edge of the forest, stood a group of people - the people from Vallen, town, on the meadows which landed their lab... or more precisely has been moved, she improved herself...
That day they all breathed a sigh of relief, when it turned out, that the building settled on the meadow, and not on someone's home.
Now she was beginning to get used to their new realities, and those day seemed to be a distant, unreal events.
But nine days ago she would have given everything to this day never came… In order turned out to be only a twisted, strange dream, though began to like each other...
Well, maybe with the little difference. that this time, to her surprise, she was first at work... Maybe because she slept again in one of the local lodging, she snorted to herself...
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"…Dogs traditionally greeted cheerfully the guards.
- Greetings... human - she joked to one of the soldiers.
He grinned.
She knew him best of all. He worked here as long as she did.
- You slept well? - he asked, stroking the dogs.
- You could say that... as far as it is possible on those your bunks.
- And what are you? The Princess and the pea? - he sneered.
- Nah... but they could invest in some comfortable mattresses - she said carelessly and walked away.
She had to whistle on dogs to they finally left a soldier and moved behind her.
She slipped a plastic card in electronic card reader, and the metal door of the lab slid open front of her, revealing a big room full of the most varied equipment.
At the other end was a window with a view of the desert and buildings standing to the side.
She was the first. So she turned on all computers and basic equipment... and the most importantly: coffee maker.
Then went to the big window to the side, behind which was a metallic ring - the generator interdimensional bridges.
They worked on it for over two years, although same tests lasted for only three weeks.
The theory of its operation was theoretically simple: the device had create a stable tunnel between this dimension and another, and then reap its energy.
It was a whole lot of applications. From meet the basic energy needs of the human population to the... drive for interplanetary ships.
The whole problem was, however, is that process was stable and give up control... what has so far not succeeded.
Kate walked over to the main computer, checking calmly yesterday's readings, when to the lab came Thomas Wald: older, grizzled man with a belly... of course immediately with pretensions, that she began without his consent - as if she needed it, she thought with amusement, and switch off machine, sighing ostentatious.
It angered him even more - but it was her intention, she thought maliciously.
After a while came another two people with whom she greeted warmly with a broad smile.
And after a while come the next two.
Now, when all was present, Kate asked sarcastic do she can turn on everything.
Wald only muttered under his breath short: "YES" and went to the main computer.
Harrigan looked with satisfaction at his angry face.
She knew that she lead him for the umpteenth her behavior... but she could not resist. This arrogant, piteous scientist extricate from her the most malicious instincts. Maybe if he did not attribute the entire project as their merit, she would treat him differently.
The truth is that he from the beginning was assigned to this project as a manager, but the same design and construction of the device were largely thanks to her father. And since that he was killed over half a year ago with the rest of her family, Thomas Wald began throw weight around, and assign himself all the credit. And this she could not forgive him.
She could not allow that this buffoon, get all commendable for someone else's toil life and work of her father.
So every time she teasingly reminded him, that she knows about this device much more than he did... and that he in any way is not necessary her to complete the project of her father...
She looked at her laptop. Initially the readings were normal, as always, she thought, but when Wald found that, that he can increase the power, and he did it without consulting the other, the readings began to go crazy... and generator almost howled.
The main turbine started a rapidly accelerate.
Wald turned pale and frozen. He knew what mean showing on the monitor readings: trouble... big trouble.
Karen Kingsley went up to him and tried to turn off all, but the computer did not accept her commands. Hastily she introduced several others - but all for nothing.
Aron Freeman started to say something by increasing hum of the turbine, about inexorably approaching the critical point of all readings and on going beyond the scale production of exotic particles, waiting for the command of his superior.
However Wald only looked at the monitor with panic in his eyes.
Inari Haffernan looked at Kate, when she ran to the main computer, almost pushing professor and she began hastily writing a new program. She have secretly hoped that it will help them turn off the generator. - Turn on the alarm! - she shouted by the roar of the turbine. - Let they evacuate...
But before she could finish, the device suddenly howled harder... and then everything just swept blinding flash.
It was a strange feeling, she thought, as if she had been struck by a stun gun - all her muscles froze, and the world spun around her. She barely hear what others shouted and barely keep balance.
And then, as suddenly as it began, all quieted down... literally everything: the generator, the piercing sound and voices. Even not squealed her already in ears. Just like the world stopped and paused for a moment.
But after a while, which seemed to be an eternity, everything back to normal again, both sound and picture.
Still half dazed, she looked around and stopped her gaze on still trembling with fear professor Wald.
The others were returning slowly to the upright position, dazedly like she.
- How readings? - asked at the end Aron.
Kate looked at the monitor, along with Karen.
- All is off - said Kingsley. - I think you did it at the last minute - she added, looking at the young woman with an expression of indescribable relief.
- I do not think it was my doing - said Harrigan.
- Rather it's your fault - pointed out her the professor. - Certainly you damaged something...
- It's not her fault, but your - Aron interrupted him. - You increased the power without consulting ...
- You undermining my competence?... - indignant old man.
- People? - Inari said, looking out the window, but no one listened.
- ...How dare you, you... you schoolboy - continued professor.
- I, schoolboy?! I have a higher IQ than you...
- People?! - Inari raised her voice, interrupting they argumentation. Then all eyes turned at her. - Look out the window - she added more calmly, pointing to the large window. Karen and Kate approached first, followed by the two men... to look with disbelief at what was on the other side: a large, green meadow full of wild flowers... and a girl with a rake, staring at them with great disbelief and shock on her face.
- What the fuck...? - mumbled finally Aron.
- Why do we have the meadow behind the window, instead buildings on the desert? - added Wald, saying aloud the most obvious question in the world, but the tone, as if it was someone fault.
But no one answered him... because no one was able to answer on this question.
They just stood there, looking at the girl with a rake... and she's on them.
Kate suddenly turned on her heel and went back to the main computer and quickly checked the readings.
The others gathered around her, staring at the screen like in a magic bullet, which was to give them answers to their questions.
But all what they have learned, it is, that the read was weird... and it very strange, almost impossible, and denying everything that they knew.
- It worked - she said finally.
- What? Generator? - Aron asked incredulously.
- Looks like it - she said, gesturing at the screen. - But not in the way we wanted.
- It's impossible... Generator do not have that kind of power - he protested. - Show me - he said, and pushed up on her place, to re-view the readings.
For a long time they discussed the gathered during the "accident" readings, and only knocking on the glass girl snatched them from enegricznej discussion.
They looked at her, then at each other.
- Maybe I just ask what is this place? - proposed finally Kate, ignoring the mocking gaze of professor, then she walked to the door of the lab.
Touching one of the buttons on the control panel, she made, that two metal plates slide open, revealing a long corridor, suddenly cut a few feet away. Then there was only meadow.
Kate moved as the first, led by the twinkling lights on the ceiling.
Apparently, along with their laboratory was moved part of the building, she thought, including with the room of the emergency generator.
- Be careful - almost whispered Karen, when Harrigan approached the end of the corridor.
The young woman looked at her ironically.
- It's not horror... Nobody pops out around the corner to stab me - she said and wanted to make a step forward, when suddenly the road has replaced her a group of men armed with rakes and scythes.
She jumped at the sight of them
- Okay... I could be wrong - she muttered.
For a moment there was dead silence, which broken only by the hum of twinkling lights in the hallway.
Finally Kate grinned and slowly raised his hand.
- Hi - she said.
One of the men standing closest, tilted his head toward his older, already graying companion.
- Maybe it's Ancestors? - he whispered. - They appeared out of nowhere.
- Possible... but it's better to be vigilant - whispered the second men and straightened up, slowly lowering his rake. - I am... - he began in a broken voice, and cleared his throat. - I am Kaylon Andarias, Mayor of Vallen - he introduced himself louder. - Who are you? - he asked.
- I'm Katherine Harrigan - young woman replied calmly. - And this is: Thomas Wald...
- Professor Thomas Wald - corrected her, still standing at the back men.
She looked at him grimly.
- Professor Thomas Wald - she repeated mockingly - …and Inari Haffernan, Karen Kingsley and Aaron Freeman...
She paused, when the crowd stepped back suddenly, with fear on their faces, and all again lifted their... weapon.
- Laupus! - exclaimed one of the men, and some women until squeaked.
Kate frowned at first, not knowing what they meant, but when the two dogs leaped off the meadow, happily wagging tails, everything became clear to her.
Frightened people began chase away them their rake.
- No... Stop it... They will not do anything to you - said Harrigan and also jumped down, trying to catch their dogs for braces, but people do not listen to her.
Someone hit the gray dog in the side and he squeaked loudly.
- Stop it! - Kate cried, grabbing a male dog husky and covering him. - They want to say hi! - she said, but the crowd apparently did not share her opnii on this issue.
- Stop! - exclaimed a young woman from behind, pushing forward. The same, which they saw through the window the laboratory. - Do you not see ?! They are like Avatar laupus from engravings in the mountains!
Only then people loosened up a bit, and slowly left their weapons.
- Mili's right - said one of the men. - You are the envoys of Avatars?
It was more a statement than a question, Kate thought.
- Avatars? - she repeated slowly.
- Guardians of Life - said the girl, named Mili. - Effigy one of them is in a cave, high in the mountains - she gestured for each other.
Harrigan looked in that direction.
Far away on the horizon, towered the gray mountains, which peaks covered snow. Almost like the view of the Tatra Mountains, she thought wistfully.
- Legend says, that one day will come the envoy of Avatars... a woman - continued Mili - to save us from the Wraith... They will accompanied to her two laupus... like yours - a gesture of the head she pointed at the dogs.
- She is probably mean: lupus... from the Latin, wolves - threw in the back Aron.
- What a brilliant observation, Mr. Freeman - sneered Wald. - This is probably thanks to your higher IQ.
- At least I did not brags my title, which probably does not say anything to them - cut off the younger man.
- First you would have to have it... doctor...
Kate did not listen to their argument.
Her mind swallowed up in something completely different. The word used by Mili. For a moment she wondered if she well heard, and then she looked at the girl.
- Who are Wraith? - she asked.
People looked at her as if disbelief her words, then quickly glanced at each other. At the same time Harrigan felt that she will be regret this question.
- You've never heard about the Wraith? - Mili asked cautiously.
- Um... it depends... if that's what I mean, saying: WRAITH, is consistent with your definition this word.
- If you've never heard and have not met the Wraith, then you can consider yourself lucky - Andarias said. - For thousands of years they terrorize humans across the galaxy... If therefore your world never encountered the Wraith, you should pray to the Ancestors, to be so as long as possible.
Harrigan did not answer. She felt like in bad joke, unable to believe what she just heard... She could not believe it, because she was well knew this story... from the TV series.
- Is our definition the word: Wraith, agree with their? - almost whispered behind her back Karen.
- Unfortunately, yes - she muttered.
- Is the Wraith they are not those aliens from the TV show, which you like so much? - asked suddenly Inari.
- You mean the scien-fiction series: Stargate? - Aron said.
- Yes... Have you seen it?
- No, I did not watch it. I only know that she likes it - he pointed a thumb at Kate.
- Perhaps more should you consider, why this, what supposed to be fiction, it turns out to be true? - said stoically professor.
The others looked at him in surprise. Even Kate. She considered, that for the first time in a long time he said something constructive.
- Interdimensional bridge - she said finally. - Malfunction had to move us to another dimension.
- You mean a parallel world? - almost snorted Karen. - You're kidding, right? - she said, already more with hope, than amused, although this thought still seemed to not reach to her... just like the others two. - Kate ?! Tell me you're joking! - she demanded.
- That would be a logical explanation. - Wald said calmly. - Taking into account the whole situation, and the fact, that we are working on the interdimensional bridges generator - he muttered and looked directly at Harrigan. - I Heard once regarding parallel worlds theory, which states, that what in one world is a fiction, in another can be a reality.
- Yes, I heard about it - she said reluctantly. - According to this theory, the story of two dimensions, the more different to each other, the further apart they are.
And then there was a deathly silence.
It seemed that only she and Wald understand the situation in which they find themselves. That for the other three, it is still difficult to accept.
They looked at them with an expression, as if the explanation of where and how they found them, still does not reach to them, and they were waiting for word: "we only joking".
But those words never occurred, and on the faces of the two women began to appear finally panic. They paled, like the Freeman.
And only the professor still seemed to keep cool, noted Harrigan. What was surprising, considering how he panicked, during a failure of a generator, she thought surprised.
- So, professor Harrigan - said finally Wald. - Since apparently you are well-versed in this... reality, please
tell us thus: how dangerous are those whole... Wraith? - he asked the question, which preoccupy the minds of other persons.
The woman looked at him a bit surprised at first time. She did not remember that the man ever used her academic title, approach to her.
- Deadly - she said ominously.
- Thus, in our interest is to try to get out of here as soon as possible?
- Yes.
- Well... Therefore, you should take to work, if you would ever see your family - he said firmly, looking at everyone, then walked back into the building.
But they still did not respond.
They looked only on him, and then at the Harrigan, as if they expecting from her any fortifying words.
- He's right. It is better to get out of here as soon as possible - she murmured, barely trying to calm rumbling in her chest heart.
She felt the blood rush to her head, and her body piercing heat wave.
She tried to remain calm and sober of mind... but inside she was shaking at the thought of what the consequences brought about the failure of the interdimensional bridges generator.
And on the think, that for this reason she may be stuck here... forever...
But the same thought was their driving force for the next nine days.
Once cool off with emotion, they began the real brainstorming. They worked day and night to be able to go back to home.
In truth, the first idea was contact with Atlantis, but soon turned out that it might be too time consuming.
None of the locals not knew neither address nor even anyone who could contact them with New Lanteans. They only heard rumors about those people... but that's all.
People from Vallen rarely left his planet and were rarely was visited by others. Therefore, newcomers could to rely on their own capabilities, and their only hope was to restart the generator, so as to repeat the whole process, but in the opposite way.
This had to minimize the possibility of moving them to the another, a stranger dimension.
But while the device was still working, they needed to its launch a lot of energy... and Vallen was like a pre-industrial village on Earth: the lack of any machine, even on steam, definitely complicated the task.
The greatest achievement the residents of Vallen were street lights oil, and the only source of energy on the planet seems to be a stargate.
And then they suffered a glare: the gates.
Their only hope of return.
The next day, already from dawn, they gathered in the lab, trying to devise a plan combinations the Lanteans technologies with their own. It took them eight days to make the calculations and the whole of this makeshift with thick cables, which they literally tore out from the building.
Few hundred meters of cables runs from the gate to the lab..."
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...Perhaps the only miracle did not lack them the material, thought now Kate, looking at wires lying on the ground.
Residents of Vallen all the time helped them as they could, although probably everything that has created five newcomers, did not differ much for them nothing from magic, she added in her thoughts with a slight amusement and she looked at Mili.
The girl threw her arms around her neck and hugged her tightly.
She was only a few years younger than her, curious of the world and intelligent - a bit like a raisin in the middle of nowhere.
- All right, all right. Just do not cry here with emotion - she snorted lightly.
Mili pulled away, frowning.
- Do you are ever serious? - she asked, as if some evil.
- Maybe if some Wraith swung his sucker hand in front of my nose - she joked, but Mili scowled even more, crossing his arms over her chest. - Do not look at me like that. I do not sit here and do not start to cry - she said. - I treat it like... involuntary vacation... with an unspecified date return to home - she said sarcastically. - Better help me clean up these cables, before the Wraith fall here with visit and they see it - she said, starting to unbutton them from stargate.
- Leave it. This is heavy. We'll do it - Kaylon suddenly said, putting his hand on her shoulder.
He was older, thin and graying guy, always calm and a knowing what to say.
Kate just smiled and nodded, then walked toward the little town.
She did not ask to be here, but it was her plan to use the gate, so it would not be fair if someone else had to do it.
Besides, she was the best person to control the whole process from gates... And only she did not leave anyone close in their world. She did had a husband and children and parents, who were waiting there. All her immediate family was dead from a year, and a extended... extended family somehow survives it.
Besides, she did not think, that the half-brother of her father especially worry her disappearing... she told to herself, and she whistled to the dogs.
Now, the only thing about what dreamed Harrigan, was a long sleep. By the last three days she hardly slept, still sipping Miriam's teas - Mili grandma.
Older woman was something of a local quick, a little chatty, but knows the herbs like no other. Her teas give them more kick than many afterburner, thought with amusement Kate. But they needed this to quickly finish the plan to return.
Coming to the edge of the meadow, she glanced at the gates. Men detaching the cables hooked up to the gate and began to roll up those lying on the ground.
Yes, it was now her new home... but even roughly she was not able to determine for how long. It is even possible, that for the end of her life...
She sighed heavily and moved on.
- Will you show me this sculpture from the mountains? - she asked suddenly. - I'm curious how it looks.
- Sure - said cheerfully girl. - We can even go there tomorrow if you want.
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The door leading to the bridge, slid open before the Wraith, showing plunged almost in the twilight room, lighted up only by a few elongated, yellow lights placed in the side columns, and pale light from the ceiling, throwing on the floor a repeating, symmetrical pattern.
Hiveship command center was not complicated.
The main rudders were in the centrally located construction, like-rostrum, and after the sides were to two more, but with full control panels. The wall mounted several additional panels with small screens, and in the place of the main illuminator was a large, organic screen showing the flight path of the ship.
Standing in front of one of these side dashboards young Wraith, glanced at his Commander, who definitely stood out among the majority of officers on the hive.
He was a tall, muscular in proportion to the increase in silhouette, and his long almost to the waist, smooth hair, were bind partly behind the head in several thin braids. Left side his face adorned disputes tattoo, a beard two thin braids.
Wildfire was one of the oldest Wraith, which personally met a young navigator. And even though he had more than a thousand years, compared with ten thousand years of his Commander, he was still an ordinary stripling.
But the Wraith do not grow old like humans. Their nearly unlimited regenerative abilities made him Commander looked no more than forty human years, although he was born before the Great War.
Wearing his everyday, black coat, officer without a word walked over to the Second Navigator, who browsing records on organic screen.
- Sensors long range again registered a high energy jump on Vallen - he said, before his Commander could ask for anything. - It was as short as the previous one, but I do not think, that it is a natural phenomenon. Signature this energy is similar to that which formed during the activation the stargate... however, this have more quantum basis... Unfortunately, analysis of the data will take some time yet - he added, looking at him on the end. - Personally, I think it is a device. Nearby there is no astronomical object, which in naturally could create a similar effect.
For the first time they observed this phenomenon nine days ago, when flying to Neutral Zone, they stopped in the same place, to cool the main core.
But then a young Wraith took it as a coincidence. But now, when readings repeated, and were almost identical to the previous, he had no doubt that it is an action of some technology...
And the only ones, who would be able to create such phenomenon, are Technicians... or New Lanteans.
- All right... Work on - he said. - I personally check what's going on. And so I had to fly there for a few days, so I can fly now... Humans from Vallen are too primitive for such technology - he said, more to himself, looking at readings.
- If you're right, sir, I would like to participate in a study of this device - he said.
- All right, you'll be assisted a Stardust... He has the most experience with old technologies.
- Thank you, sir.
- When the core has cooled, fly on. I'll join you later - told Commander and left the bridge, heading to the nearest transporter.
This... discovery of his Second Navigator, somewhat thwarted his plans, but he was well aware that nowadays Wraith can not ignore such things.
Humans rebels are becoming stronger, just as a Technicians, and the Wraith Grey Council barely keeps peace among the Clans.
Therefore any "unusual" phenomenon as soon as possible should be investigate, and, if necessary, to intervene, before it becomes a threat.
This taught them the last six years from the Great Awakening and the arrival of the New Lanteans.