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Harry Potter and Setesh's Blunder

Note: Harry is going to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown towards the end of the chapter with all that is going on and is going to radically shift directions. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Chapter 7

October 12, 1997 continued...

Tonks settled the Al'kesh over the area where the last ring transporter was located. When it seemed that the Healing device had done all it could do, Mione and Remus cast several magical healing spells on Ayiana in an attempt to make sure she was clear of unknown diseases. They focused on spells that healed the brain because Ayiana indicated that was where her problem had been.

"Tonks, leave the cloak engaged, we are quite out in the open here." said Harry.

"Harry, when I cast the medical diagnostic spell on Ayiana it indicated that she has a magical core at least 4x the amount of a normal witch or wizard." said Mione.

"Really?!" said Harry, and at that Remus eyes perked up too.

"Ayiana, do you know what magic is?" said Harry.

"No, what is it?" answered Ayiana.

"Do you have any special abilities, like can you use your mind to will things to happen like levitate objects and so forth?" asked Harry.

"Oh, yes. So you call that magic? Yes, my people have several genetic gifts such as telekinesis, telepathy, and healing." answered Ayiana.

"Wow!" exclaimed Harry.

"Ayiana, on our world some of us have similar gifts but apparently no where near as powerful as yours are and those of us who have this usually need a special item to focus our intent and energy that we call magic wands. Among us only about 1 in 6000 have these abilities though. Most do not. Everyone on my team here does have magic though. We came from a place on our world where magic users live separately from non-magical humans." explained Harry.

"That is interesting Harry." started Ayiana. "My people, the Alterans, came to Earth millions of years ago and seeded human life on this planet as well as many others. Your race is probably descended from our original efforts to seed life here. It is interesting though, I thought we had taken care not to seed life with our eugenically modified abilities in order to allow your life to evolve without unnatural advantages to the rest of your ecosystem. If you are descended from the original Terrans, you should not have these abilities unless of course you did develop them naturally. Which is always theoretically possible. This is very interesting, something I should study some time." replied Ayiana.

Harry sensing an opening when he heard one asked:

"Ayiana, my small team here recently discovered ancient artifacts from another alien race that apparently long ago found even older artifacts from your civilization, they have been traveling the stars for the last 25,000 years and doing terrible things to humans. We have been reverse engineering their tech which was originally reversed engineered from your tech and we've begun exploring the stars. There is a lot more to bring you up to speed on that's just a simple overview. But, I wonder if you would like to join our small group and help us. We could provide you labs with advanced technology that no one else on Earth can and you can continue your research and also help us out with our research. If you wouldn't mind? Would you like to do that?" asked Harry.

"Certainly Harry, that would be fine. My people are long gone. You said I was in cryogenic stasis for 7.5 million years? I am all alone here now and you rescued me and healed me, so I would be happy to join you and help you. Your people might be the only legacy left of my people. Maybe in time you can help me try to find them?" replied Ayiana.

Hermione spoke up, putting a hand on Ayiana's shoulder. "It would be our honor to try to help you find your people." said Mione.

...

The team briefly explained what they have been doing the past couple weeks, having scanned for and located a number of places on Earth where they have found naquadah based tech or Goa'uld. She was interested in learning more about the Goa'uld at a later time.

The thing that interested her the most was that they were sitting on top of an ancient ring transporter which is tech that originated with her people.

"Harry, I know you have found a number of places where these Goa'uld have used some of our rings for their own systems, and I do have 7.5 million years of missing history. Obviously your civilization and these Goa'uld have changed much just in a recent span of it. But, unless this has been changed, and considering you found me where you did undisturbed in all this time, with our old stargate and dialing device where it should've been. You should be sitting on top of our old defense outpost. So, why don't you take me there with you? I might be able to help you understand what you find better than you could on your own?" said Ayiana.

"That would be great. Thanks. We might as well get started now then." replied Harry.

They rang down from the Al'kesh into a pitch dark space.

Harry, Mione, Remus, and Sirius all lit up a Lumos spell so they could see. "Well, Ayiana, what do you think?" asked Harry.

"This is our old defense outpost alright." answered Ayiana.

"It's power supply must be depleted though or else it would have already responded to my presence by turning on the lights." continued Ayiana.

"Let me see." said Ayiana.

Harry and team watched her go over to a spot on the base of a large chair in the middle of the room and open up a slot, then she removed a crystalline object about the width of a hand length and as long as half an arm's length which was complete black.

"It is as I thought, the Potentia is depleted. Without one of these we cannot supply power to this station. It is a shame too because the control chair there also contains a copy of our old repository of knowledge, if we could get this working, you could have access to our old science and technology." said Ayiana.

"Is there a way to re-charge it or is there no other way to power this outpost? What about the cold fusion reactor in a dialing device or a naquadah generator?" asked Harry.

"No, those types of power sources will not fully power this station. We would not be able to activate it's shields, use it's drone weapons platform, use sub-space communications, or even fully activate the control chair. The most we could do really is turn on the lights and probably power the stasis chamber and the ring transporters. I think it would be feasible to use one of those generators to power the control chair enough to access the knowledge repository and use the hologram projector, but I don't personally know enough about power engineering to devise whatever wiring, adapters, and converters we would need to connect one to the chair and in the process we could damage the chair's power coupling making it unable to properly use a Potentia again, which would defeat most of the purpose of this outpost." said Ayiana.

"I see. I think we need to spell this place secure so that no-one else can stumble across it and use it at least until we get what we want from it." said Harry.

"I think we should hit this place with the full lot Harry." said Sirius. "Notice me not, anti-muggle, un-plottable, un-scryable. Then throw a Fidelius on top of it." concluded Sirius.

"Okay, I agree." said Harry.

"Harry, there is something here that I think you could take with you to learn from without damaging anything. You said you are doing reverse-engineering correct?" asked Ayiana.

"Yes, that's right." said Harry.

"Well, come over here to the drone platform room. You see these devices, there are thousands of these in storage in the outpost. These are the most advanced weapon developed by us. Forgetting just how much explosive energy they possess, they also encapsulate a number of technologies that your scientists could possibly learn a lot from and adapt to your other technologies." started Ayiana.

"These are hybrid energy and projectile weapons that are capable of penetrating most shields and armor with ease. A single drone could destroy a wing of enemy fighters and cause severe damage to a capitol ship back in my day. While hundreds or thousands can obliterate dozens of capitol ships with little effort." continued Ayiana.

"It has an internal sensor for guidance and knows how to avoid enemy counter-measures. One of these can actually make multiple attack runs through lightly shielded and lightly armored enemy vessels. Now I know that these require a Potentia to operate, they make use of a wireless energy transfer technology between the control chair and the drone while it is in flight. If a drone is in flight and the chair loses power, the drone will simply shutdown." continued Ayiana.

"Having said all that and not knowing how advanced your weapons and shield technology is yet. You might be able to learn something and improve your devices based on it's sensor and guidance technology, it's multi-phase shield technology, it's on-board computer, it's neural interface technology, it's wireless energy transfer technology, and so forth. Like I said I have a lot of knowledge about what things are and what they do, even though I don't have the expertise in actually making these things. I am a healer by occupation." concluded Ayiana.

"That is a fantastic idea Ayiana. Thank you." said Harry.

Harry took 10 of the drones and rang them up to the Al'kesh. Then they cast certain security spells within the outpost, then rang back to the surface and cast additional security spells. Ayiana showed them how to lock out the rings so that no one else would be able to access them in the future except for them. Then Sirius and Remus cast the Fidelius spell on the entire complex making Harry the secret keeper. Then he told all present the secret.

Inwardly Harry thought "we are out of our league on some of this technology even with the Goa'uld knowledge, we do need real scientists on our team to make the best use of this stuff."

...

The team returned to HQ. On the way they finished giving Ayiana a basic background on Earth, muggles vs. magicals, how they grew up, then more detail beginning with Harry's story during the summer after 4th year beginning with the Setesh incident, their starting of the Edora colony, business plans, and up until today. Ayiana agreed that their approach so far made sense and that she'd be happy to stay with them and support them. She agreed that it would be for the best to free the human populations of the galaxy from these parasites. After they arrived home they carefully stowed the rest of their findings in the appropriate labs and storage.

"I understand that none of you really have the training of the kind of scientists you might need to make full use of the opportunities with this technology. Can I suggest that you try to recruit some with this new business you are starting and then maybe you can make more progress that way." said Ayiana.

"That is one of the goals of the business. We will begin recruiting soon. One thing we haven't figured out without just using magic we were taught not to use frivolously, is how to make sure any muggle scientists we hire don't turn around and betray us or our discoveries to our competitors or to the government." said Mione.

"I have an idea that might sound crazy to you at first based on what you have told me and shown me of Earth culture so far. But, let me tell you a story about my people..." said Ayiana.

Ayiana told the Marauders the story of Atlantis and how it was really a space ship the size of a city. How it normally rested on the surface, but in dire emergencies, the entire city could be evacuated into space. And how this was how Atlantis departed Earth for the Pegasus galaxy, leaving her behind all those millions of years ago when they discovered at the last minute she was a carrier for the plague.

"So, I have been listening to your other conversations about having your own home-base mother-ship in case things go badly for your group and the need to protect and secure whatever technology findings you discover and invent and so forth...my thought is, why don't you build yourself your own mother-ship? Nothing the size of Atlantis of course, but something really big otherwise that would contain all your homes and your labs and so forth, maybe you could call it a village-ship or something." said Ayiana.

"Anyway, the idea would be, build your entire business and home complex on top of a large ship like this that in an emergency you can protect and even evacuate the whole thing from the planet if you feel the need. The bulk of the ship part of it would remain underground and unseen, and shielded from sensors and the like. The part people would see above ground would appear as however you want your office buildings, and industrial facilities, or hangers and so forth to look." continued Ayiana.

"Then for your hired workers who aren't trusted with all the secrets and the ones you think are a risk for betrayal like you mentioned above have always got to come and go from your secure facilities, and you can establish scanners at exits to make sure no technology leaves the building. The only thing this doesn't stop is the people themselves taking their knowledge out the door with them or telling someone what they saw or what they are working on, but I believe you do have magic spells for that?" said Ayiana.

"Well, Ayiana you Alterans do sure think big don't you?" said Harry.

"It is possible Harry," started Mione. "We can ward the entire complex to prevent our employees from communicating in any way about what they see or do in our facilities when they are outside them. This kind of magic doesn't mess with their minds, it doesn't remove the knowledge or even control them really. It is like a form of Fidelius on the information itself. Protecting it from being communicated in any way outside of the ward zone." said Mione.

"I know. And by concentrating all of this into one big ship, uhm, village-ship? or whatever, then the warding is easier to set and maintain and actually becomes mobile with the ship itself should we actually need to move it. Mione I think you just want your big-honking mother-ship." said Harry.

"Ha, ha. That is also true Harry. I just think this is the best way to do it. We can maintain control of our entire operation in one place. We don't have to go back and forth to remote colony worlds to do most of our work in secret, just ship resources from there. Then when we want to move, we move the whole thing all at once." replied Mione.

"Where would we find a place remote enough that we could dig a hole big enough to conduct such a large-scale ship-building project without being noticed, that we could then later turn into a public facing top-side industrial and business complex that won't look like a stupid place to put such a business in the first place?" said Harry.

"Harry." started Remus. "If I could add something here. I think you are forgetting that we have both magic and technology at our disposal. It does need to be somewhat remote only so we can find enough unoccupied land to do what we want but remember with magic we can hide the entire thing from all muggles and most magicals, plus then we have cloaking and shielding and a variety of other techniques we can leverage." concluded Remus.

"Ah. boy. We keep changing our plans almost as fast as we change our clothes each day. What about the work we have Wendell and Monica already starting on?" asked Harry.

"We could just use the premises they originally set up as our 'public' corporate headquarters. We just won't keep anything top secret there. It's actually another perfect cover, because if we want to invite anyone to meet with us that we don't want to see inside our industrial complex at all, that would be a good place to do it. And other than the money to purchase the land, we don't need money to build this village-ship, we use our shipyard and nano-bot technology and resources we can bring in from off-world." said Remus.

"Next thing you'll be telling me we should just go ahead and bring the Marauder's Den to Earth too and just keep it in orbit here under cloak?" replied Harry.

"That's actually not a bad idea Harry." said Sirius, wanting to interject himself into this conversation. "Our main plan is to be able to protect Earth if it comes down to it. If we keep the bulk of our resources here it will be easier to do that." said Sirius.

"What about our wanting to start a colony on Edora?" said Harry.

"Harry, you had your heart set on starting an off-world colony didn't you?" said Mione.

"Well, I thought it was the right way to go. We did meet some really nice people there. Sirius has a new girlfriend there." Harry replied with a grin to Sirius.

"We can still form a small colony there Harry. It -can- be our off-world HQ, like a back-up location for us if we need it. Heck, there is no reason why the Edoran's and us can't travel back and forth to visit each other through the stargates whenever we want."

"And you know how to build something like this?" Harry looked at Ayiana.

"Well, I know what we did. I can guide you. I think you already have the technology to do it anyway, you just haven't been thinking to this scale. Your ship wouldn't be capable of inter-galactic travel like ours was. I actually don't know how to make one of those worm-hole drives. But, you don't need that if traveling around in your own galaxy is good enough for now." replied Ayiana.

"Ah. Let me think about it for a while okay? It seems like every other new discovery we make we change our plans another 90 degrees. I feel like the moment we decide to do this something else will come along and we'll want to go in yet another direction. It seems like next someone will say let's terraform Mars and move there at which point I will be wondering why I ever moved the Ha'tak in the first place. Oh and we need to come up with a better name than village-ship. I don't know, but that is grating on my nerves." said Harry.

...

Oct 13, 1997.

Harry was puttering around in his lab, working on a new device he had been designing based off of the Goa'uld recon. drone and long range comm. device while simultaneously contemplating his navel on which direction he should take the Marauders.

"You are brooding aren't you Harry?" asked Mione.

Harry jumped out of his skin.

"Oh god, I didn't hear you come in." Harry breathed heavily.

"Don't sneak up on me like that." said Harry.

"What makes you think I'm brooding?" asked Harry.

"Because you've just been standing their poking your sonic screwdriver at that new gizmo you're inventing for 10 minutes, not really doing anything." replied Mione.

"This isn't a sonic screwdriver Mione. Who do you think I am, the Doctor?" replied Harry.

"Doctor who?" replied Mione.

"Doctor... ...oh, damned you got me again." said Harry.

"Well I got your mind off of whatever was bothering you at least for a minute didn't I?" said Mione gently, rubbing his back.

Sigh. "Yeah. I guess I have been thinking a lot about things." said Harry.

"What things, honey?" said Mione.

"All this stuff we're doing. It feels like it's too much too fast multiplied by too much again. Too much change or changing too fast. I don't know. It feels like a combination of spinning out of control and I really didn't want to be in charge of everything. There's too much pressure for me to know the right thing to do all the time." answered Harry.

"I am beginning to think I should just build us the big honking mother-ship you want and just go explore the stars. And just before leaving dump the entire knowledge base and space-ship building specs. onto the internet and say Eff it, have a good time." said Harry.

"I have a frikking ancient Goa'uld system lord known as the goddess Hathor sitting back there in stasis wearing a slave collar to my master ring, doing nothing I might add because I don't know what to do with her next. While I'm working on a hand-held sensor device and thinking about the design of my own space-ships and my new company, and my new colony, and the wizarding world, and a whole list of other things that are sitting idling waiting for me to decide what to do next... Gahhhh." concluded Harry.

"So, sweety why don't we just do that then?" said Mione.

"What?" replied Harry.

"I don't want you to kill yourself with stress honey." said Mione.

"We can have our cake and eat it too. Build ourselves a big mother-ship that is our new home base, give it all the frills we want so we can exist independently as much as we want to, and with cloaking, hide as much as we want to. Heck, our new mobile orbital shipyard is half-done now. We can begin from that, it can be our new mother-ship until we are ready or need to build another one."

"Once it's ready, we move it to Earth orbit under cloak so no one else can see it until we want them too. We gather up all our stuff including all our discoveries, and move there. Make -it- our new full-time home and we can come and go around the galaxy with it as much as we please." continued Mione.

"Once we are settled there, then pick up the phone and dial up the heads of state of the 5 permanent members of the UN security council, which includes 2 of the countries that you already know have Goa'uld stargate tech, you'd be informing the other 3 biggies at the same time which includes our home country by the way so that boogie man will be off your back too...I know you've been worrying about that as well." continued Mione.

"Then simply tell them that we have discovered this stuff, we've made good use of it for our friends and family and while we intend to remain independent of them we offer to give them a database of all the knowledge and the technology we've discovered so far in exchange for full diplomatic immunity, because you want to help Earth deal with the Goa'uld threat that is out there and you still wish to travel to and from Earth to visit friends from time to time. Then we can go do whatever we want. We've met all the obligation we ever intended to meet and we have our own destiny ahead of us to do what we want." continued Mione.

"At that point if you want to hang around and help them we can, or if you don't we don't have to, or if you want to do some of that and some of the other thing you can do that too, and see then the whole thing isn't on you anymore. The leaders of Earth can take care of Earth's overall destiny and if any of our friends want to join us in the stars then they would be welcome also. The magical world can just go stuff itself either way because we won't be living there anymore. Just don't make it a big deal like the whole world or the whole galaxy is on your shoulders or our shoulders." concluded Mione.

"Okay Mione, would you please ask everyone to come together for a meeting, all the Marauders and Ayiana. She deserves to be in on this too since I asked her to join us." said Harry.

...

"Mione would you please summarize for everyone what we discussed before in my lab." asked Harry.

...

"So, that is how I feel. I agree with Mione. That is what I want to do. I don't know if some of you will agree or disagree. I won't hold any of you to anything we decided before. Any of you who want to come with Mione and me on our great adventure you're welcome to. Anyone who doesn't you can stay here and do whatever you want, we'll stay in touch for sure either way. Ayiana, I promised you we would try to help you find your people, we'll still do that if you want to come with us, or else I'll build you your own ship if you want, whatever you want to do." said Harry, solemnly.

"Sirius?" asked Harry.

"I'm going with you pup, no matter what." answered Sirius.

"Remus? Tonks?"

"Harry, I need to discuss with Dora. I think we always thought we'd have homes here as well as wherever in space we might go. We will have a wizarding baby to raise soon." answered Remus.

"Well, it's true I don't know how it's going to work out yet. If our plans don't wreck our relationship with Earth you could still just go back and forth." replied Harry.

"Okay Harry, why don't we leave it at that then, consider us still on the team. But if we end up forced to choose one or the other, we'll have to think hard on that then, okay?" replied Tonks.

"Fair enough. It makes sense to me. It really does." said Harry.

"Wendell? Monica?" asked Harry.

"For right now we'll take the same approach as Remus and Tonks okay? We might not want to leave Earth forever if we are faced with that choice. But I realize that you could be faced with that choice depending on how things go. I think you'll be alright though, so keep us on the team too unless that time comes." said Wendell.

"Ayiana?" asked Harry.

"I will take my chances with you Harry. I have no where else to go. If we obtain the technology we need to look for Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy I would like to go and see. Until then, I will stay with you and Hermione. Also, if this is the route we go then I will suggest that when you get your big mother-ship here that you simply dismantle and take with you all the primary systems of the defense outpost. You can use all of that stuff and over time we will figure out the power requirements to get the chair working and in the meantime you can re-purpose the shield emitters and some of the other tech in the outpost into your mother-ship to make it more protected." answered Ayiana.

"I have one question," said Monica. "How are you going to get the 5 heads of state from the UN permanent security council on the phone?" asked Monica.

"I don't think that will be a problem when the time comes. I'm sure I can think of something to get their attention." laughed Harry.

Mione was just glad to see Harry laughing and smiling again.

"Alright then I have one more thing to add that is a detail we almost forgot about. The new business MASC. Let's just shut it down. We don't need it anymore. When we're done doing what we are going to do, it won't have any advantages over existing companies anyway. I don't need the money, so for the four of you that might still stay on Earth or at least keep a home on Earth, I'll just liquidate it and divide it among you. Half for the Lupin's, half for the Granger's. I still have about 3+mil GBP in Gringotts anyway. I will liquidate that into gold and just keep that for a rainy day. We will build our mother-ship to be self-sufficient and trade for whatever else we want, so we will want for nothing I think." said Harry.

...

Nov 1, 1997.

The Marauder's Den was finished construction on schedule. The team went to Edora to inform Laira and her people of their slight change in plans. They would be moving the station back to their home-world but would keep their mining and refining outpost operating and have regular shipments of their finished materials sent through the stargate as needed.

They agreed to a trade agreement where the Edoran's provided food and crafts and the Marauders provided the Edoran's medicine, books, and some construction assistance when requested as well as built them a shielded sanctuary powered by cold fusion reactors for them to flee into for safety should a conflagration of asteroids come as predicted in a couple years. They would visit regularly.

Harry gave Laira one of his new handheld combination communication and sensor devices that she can use to contact the Marauders Den or Sirius personally, via the stargate network whenever she needs to in the future and was advised to always call first to request the shield to be dropped before trying to enter into one of their gate addresses.

During the recent visit, Laira asked Sirius if he would stay with her so they could get to know each other better. He agreed to visit often so they could do that, so officially now Laira and Sirius were becoming a couple in a very long distance relationship.

The Marauders off-loaded onto the Marauder's Den all of the weapons and materials cargo from the Ha'tak, including all of the Death Gliders, and all but one Al'kesh, then created a crater on the other side of the planet and buried the Ha'tak. This would be another lost ace in the hole should they ever need it in the future. They likewise placed a fully functioning kara-kesh and an Arm Virga in a sealed canopic jar and buried it near the Edoran village so that if one of them came here empty handed they would have what they needed to command the ship. They charmed it so only someone with magic could find it or open it.

Harry commanded the Marauder's Den on auto-pilot and under cloak set it on a course to establish a geosynchronous orbit with the dark side of Earth's moon. Once there, he will gate aboard and pilot it to its destination orbit over Earth. The trip will take 1 month, so it will arrive appx. Dec. 1, 1997. They then gated back to Earth.

During the Christmas Holiday's, Harry invited all of their Hogwarts friends who were in on the secret to a party at Grimmauld Place. At the party, Harry got down on one knee and presented Hermione with a 2 carat diamond ring and asked her to marry him. She enthusiastically accepted and they set a wedding date for Mar 20, on the Spring Equinox.

"There is one more big surprise we have for all of you." Harry started.

"We've changed our plans in relation to our space projects that we told you about at the beginning of the year. A lot has happened and we've decided to change directions on where we go from here." continued Harry.

The Marauders, including Ayiana spent the better part of two hours bringing the group up to speed with all that happened since Harry and Hermione left school and their new change of plans. They were fascinated by Ayiana obviously and for some reason all the guys wanted to touch her to make sure she was real. They also asked her to demonstrate some of her type of 'magic' powers. They were floored.

"So, I know we told you all before that you all are welcome to join in. But, first there won't be a new business here on Earth that we are going to run to become a part of. So, unfortunately that is now out if you were looking forward to that." continued Harry.

"The other thing is you are still welcome to join us, but we could decide to go anywhere at anytime and we could even end up right in the middle of a war with the Goa'uld and we could end up on a journey to the Pegasus galaxy to help Ayiana find her way home. It may often be dangerous, you may often not be able to communicate with or return home to Earth. There won't be an entire world population there, just the few of us who decide to go, so you might get quite bored. If you don't want to mess with advanced muggle technology at all, you will get bored. We are integrating magic with technology more and more all the time though, so some of you might find that interesting. All things to think about but, as I said you are all still welcome to come with us." said Harry.

"What about other people Harry?" asked Neville.

"I know you only told the rest of us because we were all going to school with you that day. But, you have other friends who graduated ahead of you and so forth that know nothing of this. Will you offer them or other people in the wizarding world a chance to go if they want? I know Ron and Ginny can tell you that Fred and George ask about you guys all the time but we can't tell them anything." said Neville.

"Well, we could. I was thinking that once the existence of alien life and space-ships and all that becomes public knowledge and we no longer need to keep secret what we are doing anymore that we would release everyone from their vow of secrecy, then you could talk to whoever you want and pass the word. Mione and I haven't really talked about this but, I don't think we are trying to form a space-based magical colony here. I mean you all can if you want." continued Harry.

"This is one of the reasons I stepped back from trying to orchestrate some kind of grand plan, like I had all the wisdom of the universe or something. You all can do what you want. I will say this though about our own mother-ship, this is going to be I and Mione's and home and we plan to explore and experiment. We are happy to have you join us. This first version had living quarters for 1,000 people so space is not a problem. But, you will need to remember it's our home first and foremost, not an organization, not some kind of colony, we're not going to hold elections to see who is leading the expedition or something. That's the business I wanted to get out of." concluded Harry.

"Harry, if we want to start a magical colony elsewhere in space, would you help us? So, we could be on our own trying something like that but you wouldn't be responsible for us?" asked Luna.

"I don't see any problem with that Luna. As long as we can obtain the resources and the materials you need, we now have the capacity to build more ships, so I'm fine with that; but resources is the issue. Some of them are rare and in limited supply, so if it's not easy for me to come up with you will need to find a supply of the resources we will need. Just make sure you're ready for what you are getting into." answered Harry.

"I only know as much as I do because I got jumped by one of these parasites and absorbed it's memories. I'm not even sure I would've survived that if it wasn't for the distraction that Tom's Horcrux caused when it was fighting both of us to dominate me. I have only been able to share selected bits of the knowledge with the rest of the Marauders via these Arm Virga's I told you about. So far only I have the full scope of it in here." Harry continued, as he pointed at his head.

"I can do the same for you all, make you Arm Virga's, teach you how to use them, transfer selected knowledge to you. But, I don't think I can prepare you for everything you might encounter out there. Heck, even Setesh didn't know about everything out there and keep in mind the knowledge I got from him is 5,000 years old. I would be worried for you all if you venture into dangerous places, but I will do it for any of you if you want me to." concluded Harry.

"You mentioned we could talk to people about this when it goes public, do you know when that will be Harry? asked Ginny.

"Probably by this coming summer sometime, if not sooner." answered Harry.

"Harry, I am curious about this technology. How is it that the technology you are working with works so well with magic when they've always told us that technology doesn't work around magic?" asked Ron.

"Ah, good question. The problem with muggle technology and magic really is the way that magic interferes with what muggles call the electromagnetic spectrum. Things like radios, TV's anything with an antenna or anything that uses EM or RF even over wires to transmit and receive information, sound, or images that the muggles have is interfered with by our magic, magic leaks into the EM and RF spectrum, causing the devices to malfunction or misbehave. All of the Goa'uld and other Alteran technology we use, or are basing our technology off, of is shielded or made with materials that resist the interference of foreign EM or RF." answered Harry.

"I will tell you also that the ministry is aware of methods using runes and special ward stones to dampen this EM/RF leakage from magic in a given area allowing most muggle technology to work satisfactorily within the wards but they don't want that to become widespread knowledge because they want you to remain blissfully ignorant of any advantages or usefulness of muggle culture and technology." concluded Harry.

"Those bastards!" said Seamus.

"Yeah, it's always something isn't it Seamus?" replied Harry.

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