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Relationships: Xander/Dawn/Willow
*Starts in Season Two of BtVS during the Halloween episode
*Starts in Season 3of Stargate SG1 between "Seth" and "Fair Game"
*This is AU and there is no balance between "Good" and "Evil", no "Powers that Be" and no "First Evil"
*Alteran*
"English"
'Thoughts'
Chapter 6:
The last six months of Xander's self-imposed exile to the Phoenix system with the help of Orion, the first of the new Alteran AIs, was extremely productive. Over the previous six months, Xander loneliness started to grow and cause Xander to throw himself into his work. He was able to finish the last three major designs and several small projects.
The first of the major designs was the Civitas Class outpost. It was designed to be placed on worlds that were going to have an Alteran presence and was based on the Atlantis city-ship class with an intergalactic hyperdrive. It was designed with a 15 km diameter version of Atlantis with several major improvements. Due to the smaller size of the Civitas class outpost, it was designed to be powered by two Potentias instead of Atlantis's three but also included 28 neutrino-ion generators and 2048 Furling Power Spheres. The hull of the Civitas was made from the same mix of adamantium and the naquadah/carbon/trinium alloy (NCT alloy) and the shields were designed to be the tri-layered design used in the capital warships. The transporter systems included the Furling Transport Arch, Asgard Transporters, Alteran Short-Range Transporters and an Astria Porta. The weapons were also upgraded and included 7 of each maxed out Alteran Beam (MAB) and Asgard Plasma Beam (MAP) weapon and 1,024 of each of the 80% powered Rapid-fire Alteran Beam (RFA) and the 80% powered Rapid-Fire Asgard Plasma Beam (RFP). It also contained 40,000 Alteran Drone (AD) and 2,000 Alteran/Asgard Super Drones (AASD).
Since the Civitas Class outpost might be placed on planets where it might not be a wise decision for it to be obvious that the outpost is there, it includes a cloak. Due to the six piers, the Civitas class has six Gladius class ships attached as protection along with 10 Porta Traba class ships and 100 Proeliator class fighters. The computer core contains a copy of the Great Races databases.
The second major design was a larger version of the Civitas Class outpost design for planets chosen for permanent colonization. It was called Civitas Aedes Class city. It was designed to be twice the size of the Civitas Class design and everything is doubled except it is powered by five Potentia instead of four.
The last design of the ships Xander created was the flagship of the Alteran fleet, the Praelium Luna class flagship. The Praelium Luna class or the Battle-moon class is a spherical ship with a diameter of 150 km with a city similar to the Civitas Aedes Class city but only 25 km in diameter. The city was built into a 50 km bio-dome inside the Praelium Luna with a large park, lake and forest. In the Inner City there is also an Astria Porta and a backup bridge. It was designed to be a home away from the Phoenix system and support a maximum crew of 100,000 and 20 Gladius, 10 Gladius Maximus, 40 Traba, 20 Porta Traba, the Unity and 10,000 Proeliator ships.
The Praelium Luna Class was powered by six Potentia (3 for the Inner City), 1080 neutrino-ion generator (56 for the Inner City) and 14,336 Furling Power Spheres (2,048 for the Inner City). The FTL (faster-than-light) systems included an intergalactic hyperdrive along with a wormhole drive. The tri-layer shields were upgraded to the maximum level where any more power added to the shields would no longer cause an increase in shield strength. The hull was formed of 10m thick Adamantium under 30m thick NCT alloy. The weapon system included 200 MAB and MAP weapon and 61,440 of each of the 80% powered RFA and the 80% RFP. It also had a complement of 500,000 ADs and 100,000 SAADs. With the addition of the standard transport systems, a cloak, 10 particle emitters, a hybrid computer core with the full Great Races Databases, 10 hangers and 16 massive nanoforges.
The Inner City of the Praelium Luna was designed with the same shield design as the Praelium Luna class ship allowing it to survive the destruction of the outer shell. It also had an intergalactic hyperdrive. Both of those two systems were designed to only be used in case of an emergency. The bridge of the Praelium Luna is located under the bio-dome and the city could be used in case of emergencies. The ship is controlled by the Neural Interface along with specific genetic scans. The Praelium Luna class was designed for two AIs, one for the Inner City and the other for the rest of the ship. The Outer Shell of the Praelium Luna contains the hangers for the support fleet, quarters for more crew members, laboratories and workshops for various projects, the power systems, and the other various systems..
The Praelium Luna class was designed to provide an advantage over all the various enemies that Xander was to face. It was designed in the spherical shape to allow the numerous weapons to fire in any direction and to change firing arcs with incredible speeds. Xander had decided that the size and number of weapons would offset the disadvantage that having only such a few members of the Alterans race. As Orion mentioned when Xander said that it still might be overkill that the Wraith outnumber the non-Ascended members of his race millions to one which is even worse than the Alterans faced the first time around.
In-between his designing of the various ship and city designs, Xander had been working on several other projects. The first of the secondary projects that was completed was a life-extension treatment that was superior to the other methods previous used by the Asgard and the Alterans. The treatment was designed to work for Alterans, Asgard and Humans. It combined several different parts to decrease cellular degradation causes over time and to improve healing. The first part was a genetic manipulation process which removed any genetic diseases and conditions from the whole genetic code and replacing another part of the code with a synthetic gene which increase the immune system, decreases the rate of cellular degradation, increases cellular repair and increases overall healing rate. The second part of the process was the introduction of nanites to repair any cellular degradation, to improve the rate of cellular repair, improves the immune system, increases the overall healing rate, repairs any current damage to the body based on the genetic code, to enhance the overall strength of the body and senses and lastly to provide a virtual interface allowing a user to "download" data into their nanites to be able to access later. The nanites were encoded to prevent any tampering with the base code and the treatment was designed to be self-propagating into future generations.
The next project was a multi-tool/personal weapon system. Xander decided to call it the Universal Tool and it was designed to be able to be upgraded based on user preferences. They are in the form of one or two arm gauntlets. The features provided in the standard tool was a personal computer based on Alteran/Furling designs (the Furling were the best at miniaturizing their technology with one of their specialties being nanotechnology), an energy-matter converter of Asgard design, a personal shield which could be turned on or off by mental command or by the situational awareness program included into the design, scanner, communication system, healer, short range transporter, cloak and stun gun. In the designing of the Universal Tool, Xander had been forced to use a lot of Furling nanotechnology and Alteran technology. It could be designed to be customized for engineering, science, military, ship command or everyday use.
The last of the secondary projects that Xander finished besides the Asgard cloning problem h was working on a satellite that would be used to scan whole sections of the galaxy and to relay data through a communication system similar to the Defero Calx (communication stones/ quantum entanglement) while being undetectable. It would be used to createa virtual net where data stored on other systems and a real time sensor reading of the whole galaxy in real time can be accessed anywhere which could be accessed either through the nanites from the life extension treatment or through the Universal Tool. It was also designed to completely self-destruct if a ship without the proper codes tries to capture the satellite.
Throughout the whole year in exile, Xander had been working on the Asgard cloning problem. He had decided that repairing their DNA would be nearly impossible as they had nearly completely destroyed it by cloning for so long using the previous clones' DNA and the flawed genetic manipulation from thousands of years ago. Xander predicted that they had probably less than a hundred years at the current rate. From this understanding, Xander decided to work on a hybrid form for the Asgard. Taking the most up-to-date DNA profile, Xander worked on mixing Asgard, human and Alteran DNA together. While most of the new DNA profile was based on the Asgard's original DNA which was unable to support the current Asgard minds, he used the Alteran genetics to work on improving the neural pathways and the human genetics to re-introduce the male and female genders back into the Asgard along with the average size and strength of a human size form. The genetic manipulation was designed to allow for natural reproduction and to be passed on to the next generation. Xander then next worked on mixing nanotechnology of the Furling to design a way to increase the neural capacity of the Asgard's brains. The nanotechnology was designed to be self-replicating in future generations and was locked to prevent any future tampering.
Now that the one year in self-imposed exile was over Xander was preparing to leave the system and activate the thousands of construction drones. He would also leave Orion to double check the progress and to scan the ships as they were constructed to correct any errors. Once he left the system, he would turn up the time dilation machine he had constructed earlier during the year 100,000:1 ratio at which he would wait the 10 minutes. After the wait, he would deactivate the time dilation field.
… Return to present time….
'Wow, it has been an incredibly productive year…' Xander thought has he left the system.
*Orion, are you ready for the time dilation field to be activated?* asked Xander.
*I am as ready as I will ever be,* replied Orion. *I will work on designing the other AIs for the ships and cities.*
*Thanks, Orion. Activating time dilation field now.*
Xander sat back against the control chair and watched on the viewholo. 'Wow, it is amazing to watch the construction of these ships though I am looking forward to returning to Terra.'
As Xander watches the viewholo of a huge ship is being built by the thousands of flashes of white and golden light as the various construction drones powered by a Potentia build the ships using the Asgard transporters to build one huge piece. Xander stares at the view screen for the ten minutes watching as the ships were built.
Xander sees the flashes of light die down, he starts to prepare to deactivate the time dilation system. As he does so, he directs the Unity toward the Praelium Luna class ship.
'I guess it is time to name these beautiful ships,' thought Xander. 'I did decide to name the Praelium Luna class ship 'Gladius ex Altera' (Sword of Altera)… now I just need to name the other ships. I guess I will name them later but now to name the Civitas class outpost and the Civitas Aedes class city.'
As Xander directs the Unity towards the hangar of the Gladius ex Altera and prepares to activate the transporters, he looks back and watches the sun come around the gas giant as the transporters come on.
*That's it. The Civitas Aedes class city that will be place on Altera will be called 'Astrum ex Altera' (Star of Altera) and the Civitas class outpost will be called 'Ex Terra' (Of Terra)* says Xander as he steps on the bridge.
*Orion are you there? How did it go?* asked Xander once on the bridge. As he talks a hologram of a 20 some year old, dark haired man with bright blue eyes appears on the bridge.
*It went quite well. The other AIs have been introduced into their ships including the new AIs for Astrum ex Altera and the Ex Terra. Let me introduce them to you, * as Orion spoke three more holograms appears, one a stunningly beautiful 20 year old red head with emerald eyes and the other two looked to be about 20 year old one with golden haired blond with sapphire blue eyes and the other with hair near black with eyes identical to the blond.
*I am Ayiana and I am the AI for the Inner City of the Gladius ex Altera,* the red head introducing herself.
Next the raven haired one steps forward,*I am Lilith and I am the AI for the Ex Terra.*
The blond was last to introduce herself, *I am Eve. I am the twin sister to Lilith and the AI for the Astrum ex Altera.*
*It is a pleasure to meet all of you. I hope to get to meet the rest of the AIs on our way back to Terra but we first need to make a round trip dropping off the satellites we have built. It should take a couple of days. Though first thing is first we need to place your city on Altera, Eve. Is there any particular area on Altera you recommend?* asks Xander.
*I would recommend in the western ocean around here,* she points on a viewholo as she speaks, *it allows for development of a bridge to the main land of one of the continents while still being deep enough for the city to land.*
*Wow, I didn't think of that,* states Xander. *I agree with your placement. I will use the Arch (the Furling Transport Arch) to stop by and visit, but you can always visit once the VI (virtual interface) net is up.*
*I look forward to you visiting and I will come by to bother my little sister,* comments Eve.
*I am older than you,* Lilith yells back, *if anything that makes you the little sister.*
*But I am in the bigger city ship,* Eve replies as she returns to her descending ship as she sticks out her tongue.
Xander burst out laughing with the others. *Well it is time we start dropping off the satellites and then return to Terra.*
The Gladius ex Altera activated its cloak and jumped to hyperspace.
The specs for the ships are below:
Praelium Luna (Battlemoon) Class
Role – Flagship
Shape - Sphere
Size – 150 km Diameter
Minimum Crew – 2
Maximum Crew –100,000
Inner City Area – (Same shield as the outer Praelium Luna Class Powered by Inner City in Emergencies only)
50 km diameter biosphere
25 km diameter city – Alteran/Asgard/Furling design
Outer 25 km radius includes
Large park
Lake
Forest with animals
Faster-than-light Drive(s)-
Asgard/Alteran Intergalactic Hyperdrive (Inner City also has the same hyperdrive in case of Emergencies)
Wormhole Drive
Power Supply-
6 ZPMs (3 for Inner City)
1080 Neutrino-Ion Generator (56 for Civitas Maximus Class city)
14,336 Furling Subspace Power Spheres (2048 for Civitas Maximus Class city)
Engines – Asgard/Alteran hybrid Gravimetric Sublight Engines
Shields – Tri-layered Maxed out Shielding (Asgard, Furling, Alteran)
Hull – Adamantium, naquadah/Carbon/trinium composite
Computer-core – Asgard/Alteran/Furling core – Contains GRA databases
Controlled – Neural Interface with genetic scans (matching individual users)
Transporter Technology-
Asgard Transporters
Alteran Transporters
Furling Transport Arch
Stargate
Weapons –
200 maxed out Alteran Beam Weapons (360o firing range)
200 maxed out Asgard Plasma Beam Weapon (360o firing range)
61,440 x 80% powered Rapid-fire Alteran Beam
61,440 X80% powered Rapid-fire Asgard Beam
500,000 - Alteran Drone Weapon
100,000 – Alteran/Asgard Super Drone
Additional Systems –
Phase-Cloak
10 Particle Beam Emitters
10 hangers
16 Nanoforge/ Energy -to-Matter Converter
Support Ships-
20 – Gladius Class ships
10 – Gladius Maximus Class ships
40 – Traba Class Transports
10,000 – Fighter crafts
1 – GRA hybrid ship
20 upgraded Porta Traba Class (Gate Ship)
Civitas (City) Class
Role – Outpost/
Shape – Mini-Atlantis shape
Size – 15 km Diameter
Minimum Crew – 2
Maximum Crew – 25,000
Faster-than-light Drive(s)-
Asgard/Alteran Intergalactic Hyperdrive
Power Supply-
2 ZPMs
28 Neutrino-Ion Generator
2048 Furling Subspace Power Spheres
Engines – Asgard/Alteran hybrid Gravimetric Sublight Engines
Shields – Tri-layered Maxed out Shielding (Asgard, Furling, Alteran)
Hull – adamantium, naquadah/carbon/trinium composite
Computer-core – Asgard/Alteran/Furling core – Contains GRA database
Controlled – Neural Interface with genetic scans (matching individual users)
Transporter Technology-
Asgard Transporters
Alteran Transporters
Furling Transport Arch
Stargate
Weapons –
7 maxed out Alteran Beam Weapons
7 maxed out Asgard Plasma Beam Weapon (360o firing range)
1,024 x 80% powered Rapid-fire Alteran Beam
1,024X80% powered Rapid-fire Asgard Beam
40,000 - Alteran Drone Weapon
2,000 – Alteran/Asgard Super Drone
Additional Systems –
Phase-Cloak
4 Particle Beam Emitters
6 Piers and 2 hangers
8 Nanoforge/ Energy -to-Matter Converter
Support Ships-
6 – Gladius Class ships
10 – Porta Traba Class ships
100 – Fighter crafts
