A/N – Short chapter, but I want to draw out those scenes and have time to prepare chaos to come.
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"I think that we should not accept the Tau'ri into the Alliance," the Alteran Ambassador said. "They are advancing quickly, but you should all agree that they are still primitive by our standards and it will take them some time to achieve the level of technological advancement to be considered as a Fifth Race."
Thor looked at the Ambassador of the Alterans and, due to his race's lack of strong emotions, he resisted saying something. Instead he focused on an Ambassador of the Furlings, tall and graceful as the rest of his race with unusual violet eyes. From what he remembered she was more of a cautious person.
"The Furlings are neutral and we think that it would be best to watch the Tau'ri as you call them before reaching any kind of an agreement. Such decisions cannot be rashly made and we need to be sure that we are making the right one." She paused for a moment, her eyes slipping over the faces of every single person in the room, even over faces of those that weren't on this plane of existence, but were watching it. Thor could feel their presence in the room, one needed to be completely blind not to see them. "We would also like to hear from our allies, the Asgard, why they deemed the Tau'ri worthy to be named the fifth race."
Thor looked at Penegall and, receiving a nod from the leader of the council, he raised his hand. "We watched Earth, as they call their homeworld, keenly for many centuries and since their discovery of the Stargate more than twelve years ago they advanced quickly. Then they had crude forms of spaceflight that limited them to their solar system, now they are able to travel between galaxies and are starting to explore the Milky Way and Pegasus."
"How did they get hyperdrive in five years?" the Alteran Ambassador asked. "It took my people many centuries to develop and perfect our design and even after that it took us even more time to develop one that allowed us to travel between galaxies."
"They salvaged technology from various Goa'uld ships they had destroyed and we gave them the intergalactic hyperdrive as they needed it to supply Atlantis. It was our way to repay our debt to them as they helped us in destroying the threat of the Replicators that almost obliterated our race. When we needed to disappear out of the universe we had given them our computer core with all of our knowledge and as you can see they are using it well."
"They also destroyed the Goa'uld threat to their home galaxy and are steadily developing," Janus said as he appeared in the room. "No matter what you think, I suggest that even if we do not bring them into the Alliance that we share our technology and in a few decades, or perhaps centuries, invite them. They are brilliant and capable of achieving things beyond their technological level, but they also make small mistakes that with our help can be prevented."
"You were banished," the Ambassador of the Alterans hissed.
Janus didn't pay any attention to the diplomat, instead looking at a spot in front of the raised dais occupied by the High Council of Asgard. In that spot appeared a glowing form made out of pure energy, it swirled in place before forming into an image of a human being. "Yes, he was banished, but he was accepted into our ranks."
Thor blinked a couple of times as he looked at the being, she was one of the most powerful ascended beings and those beings rarely paid any interest to how mortals worked.
The Ambassador looked as if something had fallen on him and was visibly shocked. "I apologize, Councillor Melia, I wasn't aware of the fact that he was accepted into your ranks."
"He was, so let him explain what he has to say."
"Thank you," Janus smiled towards Melia and looked at everybody gathered in the room. "As I was saying, they are advancing quickly and even without our interferences they will reach the level attained by Asgard in a few hundred years, so the milk was spilled by Asgard and we can't do too much about it. Our stray brothers caused even more havoc than our interfering is going to cause. So I suggest that we help and support them , but let them discover the universe on their own and when they are ready we will invite them."
"He speaks wisely," Penegall said. "Asgard supports the idea of offering our knowledge and technology to the Tau'ri, we would also like to bring them into an Alliance, but we will agree to whatever you will decide."
"We also agree to it," the Furling Ambassador said. "Since there are three votes for aye, who will travel to Tau'ri and inform them of our agreement?"
"I will," Thor said. "I'm one they are familiar with and they will accept my explanation with the least amount of worries and issues."
"I will join you," Janus said, making everybody look at him.
"Why would you even do that?"
"Because someone needs to help them with unlocking the secrets of the Arkadia and there are not many that know it as well as I know it."
"Very well," Thor nodded and looked at Penegall. "With your permission I will travel to the Tau'ri with all haste and inform them of our agreement."
"Permission granted."
Thor nodded and was beamed away from the hall and onto the bridge of the Gungnir, the moment he looked around he saw Janus already waiting for him.
"How did you get here sooner than I did it?"
"Ascension," Janus smirked. "We don't want to spread it around, but if need be we can be at many places at the same time and can travel instantaneously, while your transport beam needs time to save you in a data crystal and after that read from it. Which takes precious parts of a second."
Thor nodded and walked to the control panel, he moved a couple of rune stones and his ship accelerated into the hyperspace. She was the swiftest ship he had flown.
"Impressive speed," Janus said, breaking the silence. "Faster than our ships, and there is still room for improvement."
"Yes," Thor said and looked at his temporary companion. "Power was a limiting factor in our previous designs, now we have solved it and our engines are faster and more powerful than they were in the past."
"Also this ship seems a different design compared to your previous hulls."
"War with the Ori taught us that sometimes we need a bigger ship than the rest of our neighbors to be safe," Thor said and moved stones on a control panel as the Gungnir sped through space, each moment bringing it closer and closer to Earth.
Janus nodded and looked out of the window and into the flow of hyperspace. "How should the Tau'ri react to the things you will reveal to them?"
"Mostly shock and surprise, as well as a lot of suspicions and questions," Thor said and looked at Janus. "They will have a bigger issue with you returning to take part in the events of the galaxy."
"Bad experiences with some Lanteans?"
"Among other things, yes, that group that threw them out of Atlantis, not even giving an explanation of why."
"Arrogance was always our flaw and while some learned their lessons, the majority is as arrogant as we were during the War and that's why we lost it."
"Where are you going to settle?"
"Probably on Mars as they call that planet on Earth, we won't on Earth as it is their home and we want to leave it to them. Displacing natives from their world is not a good start to diplomatic relations."
"Also they grew up and are quite dangerous in their own right," Thor said as the Gungnir left hyperspace above Earth. "Their sensors shouldn't see my arrival, I will beam one of my friends from Earth and I want you to hide for a moment."
"So that he doesn't get scared to death?"
"Exactly," Thor nodded.
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Samantha Carter walked through the shipyard level of the thing they had discovered and had troubles believing it was real, there were dozens of hulls in various stages of construction. There were hulls of Aurora-class battleships and smaller ships placed on slips between them.
"And to think that we have issues building a ship or so per year," Daniel said as he joined her. "This was their main production center and from what I learned it could build hundreds of ships if need be."
"It will solve our issue with ships, but will cause another one."
"Lack of people to man everything?"
"Yes," she said and looked at him. "How do you know about it?"
"That's the most common issue for navies through history, you either lack hulls or people to man them. We had the first one, but with the capabilities of this shipyard we will have second."
"Not that Jack is going to mind," she said as they climbed onto a catwalk and could see a full Aurora-class in all of its glory below them.
It was a huge ship and all of its lines screamed technological superiority and advancement, as well as showing the signs of a predator. There was not a single element that was without purpose, everything was placed in or on the hull because there was a reason for it. As she gazed at the hull she could tell that it was a ship that was more than capable of stopping almost everything that was hurled at it and that nothing would be able to be a threat to it.
"I wonder when we'll be able to get one of them fully operational," Daniel said, breaking the silence.
"The ones that are completed are a matter of getting the crew for them," she said, indicating some that were finished. "The ones that are under construction will take time, plenty of time to get finished. We need to get this shipyard working and then figure out how to deliver enough of resources for it to produce whatever is needed to make those hulls."
"I get it," he said. "It will take time, at least I will be able to dig through the database before this place gets invaded by the military and engineers that don't allow for peaceful research."
"There are enemies that would happily enslave or kill us."
"I know, it's just that my soul of a researcher wants to scream in joy when it sees something like this. There are going to be all kinds of artifacts to study and even hundreds of other things that are important for an archeologist."
"Jack will try to keep the IOA away, but even if they don't move to get it, our dear government will do it as someone needs to be in control."
"I know," Daniel said and shook his head. "It's just that sometimes I wish the world was ideal."
"It never is," she said as they stood on the catwalk and watched the hull below them.
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Jack was sitting in front of his cabin in Montana and preparing for fishing when he was enveloped by a silver beam of energy. When he looked around he saw that he was on the bridge of some sort of a ship, one with almost unmistakable Asgardian decor.
"Asgard was destroyed, wasn't it?" He said, looking around the room. His eyes slipped over the walls and a large window showing the Earth below them before coming to stop on some sort of a creature. "Who are you?" He asked, pointing a finger at it.
"Thor. Asgard was never dead, O'Neill. We just hid really well."
"Why did you fake your death?" O'Neill asked walking to Thor.
"We needed time and peace, away from the events of the universe, as well as a place where we could regrow our civilization in peace and in safety."
"What about your cloning issue?"
"Solved," someone said.
To be continued...
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rice2999 – Answer is here, some might be happy and some unhappy, but my hand was kind of forced by the show and reality. Thor or Asgard named Tau'ri the Fifth Great Race, which is nice and all, but when you look at the technological advancement of Earth and Asgard, Earth is leagues away and it needs to catch up.
Guest – I try to fix as much as I can, but sometimes things slip and I'm not a native speaker.
