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Harry Janus Potter, sometimes aka Enki, Lord Enki or Overlord Enki; or Enki, God of Wisdom and Magic; and Supreme Commander Enki of the Avalon Fleet
Chapter 8
Later that evening, Harry and Hermione met with the Inner Circle to go over the progress they've made to expand their club. At a previous meeting they decided that each of the 10 would try to recruit 5 more people each, in an effort to expand to another 50 students in the 'club'. Harry modified the ward on the entrance to the room to let them discuss just enough that they would need, to try to feel out other people's interest. Harry also knew that at this point, word of their club and some general idea of what Harry was doing would get back to the faculty and to the Headmaster. This is a big part of why he has allowed Dumbledore to believe he trusts him enough to tell him things (under the oath of secrecy at the risk of his magic of course). He will only be teaching members of his club some of his advanced knowledge of wandless magic, and knowledge of his science and technology. What harm can that do? He's only attracting and accepting good upstanding members of light side families anyway.
Harry noticed that members of his Inner Circle had begun pairing off like he and Hermione did. Terry Boot and Lisa Turpin were now dating, as were Sue Li and Kevin Entwhistle, Padma Patil and Seamus Finnegan, Parvati Patil and Dean Thomas, Justin Finch-Fletchley and Hannah Abbot.
The group had success in their endeavor as it turned out that there were students already queued up with interest in the original Harry Potter fan-club that sprang up when he first returned; and a number of other students were becoming jealous that the 10 monopolized all of Harry's time and went off to secret study groups together and didn't include them. So, they got their 50 more students who were interested. Mostly Gryffindor's and Ravenclaw's, with some Hufflepuff's. No Slytherin's ever expressed an interest which was fine by Harry because he wasn't about to trust them anyway.
Some of the more notable new students interested in Harry's club which so far is only euphemistically known as 'Club Harry', who will begin attending as of the next meeting include: Ginny Weasley (of course), George Weasley, Fred Weasley, Lee Jordan, Colin Creevey, Dennis Creevey, Romilda Vane, Jimmy Peakes, Katie Bell, Alicia Johnson, Luna Lovegood, Orla Quirke, Stewart Ackerley, Rose Zeller, Ernie Macmillan, Susan Bones, and the list goes on across all year groups. Having started this now he missed out on some of the older years who were around when he first started, but the new younger years that come behind them will remain a fertile ground for them to recruit from for some time...or forever if Harry has his way. If the school never gets around to banning his club once they see so many of them eventually leaving the wizarding world and the planet on the whole in the future, after he 'graduates' his plan is that he will appoint a new 10 to be the Inner Circle leaders of the club from the upper years, replacing them as needed each year as people graduate, and they would continue to recruit 50 new members each year, rinse and repeat. This is his way of getting what he thinks will be the cream of the crop of trained wizards and witches starting with people who have a genuine interest of their own. Harry has no plans or intentions of trying to recruit the whole or the bulk of the wizarding world to his cause. He doesn't want to make the effort nor does he want to get involved inside their politics.
Anyway, with his Hogwarts 'Club Harry' plans beginning to form a recurring process, and while Harry was busy being a teenager for a little while and pretending to be a student at Hogwarts, the galaxy continued to spin on. Hathor and company made good progress bringing all of their holdings under one banner, the Caduceus and the Enki priesthood; and lives were improving for everyone. No Jaffa in the empire required Prim'ta anymore and were slowly integrating back in to human culture. Of course much of the galaxies former Goa'uld human culture had many trappings of Jaffa culture anyway since they were the elite class of slaves under the Goa'uld. In any case, they were merging into one culture and Jaffa in the empire soon began reverting to thinking of themselves as ordinary humans, just ones with a Jaffa history, and for their part the more numerous humans in the empire (thanks to the large population of Javabli), were beginning to accept the former Jaffa as humans. The Enki priesthood taught non-discrimination.
The curing of the Jaffa did not go unnoticed by the Tok'ra or the Council, as word had made its way back there too. Harry's empire had grown too big to keep all sources of leaks bottled up. Elements of his empire had dealings with the shady independent Lucian's, who in turn had shady dealings with Goa'uld and Tok'ra.
The Tok'ra see this as a positive development along with the intel. the began receiving that this new Goa'uld Enki was trying to rule as a benevolent leader, even providing education to the humans and not treating them as slaves, which was a major blasphemy to the Goa'ld. The Tok'ra sought to discover his motives, and members of the Council wanted him to stop his activities with the Jaffa and some were lobbying Ra to allow him to join the Council as an official System Lord, to maintain the general peace among them, and to impress upon him their rules.
It was nearing the end of the school year when Harry received a communication from Hathor, relayed from Morrigan, that a small diplomatic fleet of 3 Ha'tak sent as an envoy from Ra to Magtireth wherein she was contacted to relay an invitation to Lord Enki to attend the next Council of System Lords to be officially recognized and inducted.
"So," Harry thought. "Ra has learned of my conquest and knew enough to contact me at Magtireth so he knew Morrigan was now part of my domain. Interesting." Sending a communiqué back to Ra, through Hathor and Morrigan, Harry accepted the invitation to attend.
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At his next and last meeting of his Hogwarts Inner Circle for this school year Harry told them:
"Well, if things go to plan it looks like I will be Emperor of the entire Goa'uld collective by my 15th birthday." said Harry, as he proceeded to tell him of the invitation he just received and the high level outline of what he plans to do at their meeting.
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There was time for a quick visit with Hermione and her parents after school before Harry had to go attend to the business with Ra and the Council.
Hermione brought up the issue of being able to go out and see this stuff with Harry at some point and her parents said, "maybe after Harry finishes this last big phase of his plans with the snake-heads, then it might be safe enough 'out there' for them to let her travel some with him."
By the last week of June Harry was back on Eskal with his flagship, finishing plans for his attendance at the Council.
This is the big move. The chessboard is set. But it's also personally the most dangerous move he has made to date. He is expected to walk in there alone coming in one small shuttle no larger than an Al'kesh, with only one human Lo'tar servant. Of course that's not what he's going to do. Only what it will look like he's doing.
First, his human Lo'tar will actually be a fully weaponized nanite human form replicator that will only pretend to be a Lo'tar. Harry's personal (visible) backup. Aboard his Al'kesh will be another 14 of the same HFR's wearing phase-shift devices rendering them invisible. After Harry and his Lo'tar Hank enter they will follow invisibly behind him and take places out of phase behind each of the System Lords as they are seated.
They will debate a little while, he will ensure they are all relaxed in casual routine conversation over the matter, just to catch them as much off-guard as possible. Then with his neural interface to his HFR's he will command them each to collar their respective Goa'uld targets.
Additionally, it will only look like Enki came in a lone small Al'kesh, whilst his flagship hovers in station keeping over their pathetic little space station fully cloaked with a transporter lock on him at all times.
As Harry reviewed his plan over and over again, he could find no flaws in it and continued to wonder to himself just how stupid, arrogant, and gullible these Goa'uld were. The model of complacency. Of course it doesn't hurt that he has the deus ex machina relative dominance in science, technology, and magic on his side and a Machiavellian streak a mile long. But still, they've made this so easy.
Harry arrived in his flagship a day early, cloaked near the Hasara space station. He wanted to watch them arrive and count the number of ships and get a good final estimate of how many would be attending in case he needed to make any last minute changes to his plans.
Over the course of the next twenty-four hours he watched the 14 different Al'kesh and Tel'tak arrive. The Tel'tak are small and would carry little, probably only the Goa'uld and their one Lo'tar. Any Al'kesh could carry more and he wouldn't risk scanning them to verify occupants, just to make sure his cover stays secure. He is too close to blow it on a technicality now.
Finally, all had arrived according to his reckoning, so he flew his uncloaked Al'kesh with his retinue to the station and docked. Harry double-checked to make sure he looked like a Goa'uld impersonating Lord Enki of Sumerian legend would look, and made sure he was appropriately Goa'uld enough to fool this crowd.
So, Harry as Enki was introduced by his Lo'tar Hank to the Council. "My lords, please allow me to introduce my Lord Enki, God of Wisdom and Magic." said Hank.
"So, this is the infamous Lord Enki," greeted Ba'al. "You are shorter than I had imagined." which led to several guffaws of laughter around the room.
Harry replied, "and you are just as ugly as I imagined," Lord Ba'al.
Which only got a stupid grin from Ba'al as a reaction. Ba'al just loved taunting people to see how they would react. If he didn't get a suitable reaction, he would try to dig his claws in deeper.
"Enough!" commanded Ra. "Sit, Lord Enki, let us discuss your arrival in the galaxy. Prior to your recent incursions and apparent quick work in dominating a few of the lesser domains, none of has had ever heard of you. I would have you explain yourself before we begin with what I asked you here for today.
"Certainly, my Lord Ra." Harry had to suck up for a little bit until it was time to make his play. "I am the son of Tiamat, who as you know met her demise at the end of the 1st Dynasty. I had been secreted away due to the subterfuge that my mother caused and her rightful ultimate death for her betrayal at the hand of your ashrak Marduk by your order Lord Ra. So, I stayed hidden and made a small place for myself in a far away corner of the galaxy. While I studied and learned and experimented to make advancements in technology, so that I could build a domain for myself one day. I was finally ready to return and take my rightful place among the System Lords, which I have done." answered Harry.
"I see." said Ra. "That does add up then. We were unaware that Tiamat had spawned but that is neither here nor there. You have shown yourself very capable to rise in power as quickly as you have. Yet, my brothers and sisters have come to me with a quarrel against you for the rumored way in which you free your Jaffa from dependence upon Prim'ta. In exchange for granting you official status as a System Lord and a seat at this Council, we will have you cease that blasphemy at once and resume use of the Prim'ta ritual to enslave your Jaffa; and as penance for your having done so I command you to share the secret of your new powerful plasma weapons that our informants have told us about." said Ra.
"I see that you are well informed. I originally took this policy with the Jaffa because I had no queen to spawn new Prim'ta for me to grow my domain. But, I now have both Hathor and Morrigan in my service, so I have no problem reverting that policy." Harry lied.
Before he could continue, Ra interrupted. "This cannot be true. First, Hathor is dead, long ago perished on the Tau'ri home world. And, Morrigan is no real queen, surely you know that she has only adopted the persona of the so-called 'Phantom Queen' for her guile in behaving like one in the former court of Dagda."
Harry was beginning to feel like he had them all lulled into enough of a casual conversation to pull the trigger on his plan. Just another moment.
"Well, I can tell you that the myth of Morrigan having done so is the most successful of her lies. She hid her lineage from the beginning. She is a true queen, has only been waiting for an opportunity to rise high enough that her spawn would rise as rulers in their own right. And as for Hathor, well you see the story with that is that I..." Harry trailed off, while he mentally commanded his 14 invisible HFR's to execute the plan. "Now."
Suddenly, 14 duplicates of Lord Enki's Lo'tar appeared out of nowhere behind each of the System Lords, including Ra, and snapped a slave collar on their necks. While at the same time, their loyal Lo'tar screamed a cacophony of, 'Shol'va,' and other curses and tried to defend their Lord's only to have the faux Lo'tar's with their superior strength disarm literally or figuratively each of the wanna be attackers.
"That I..." Harry continued...
"Want you to all shut up now and bow before me, your new Overlord and Master, Enki, Emperor of the Goa'uld Hegemony."
As the few Lo'tar who had not fully gotten the message that the shit had fully hit the fan continued to squirm in the arms of Harry's HFR warriors.
The 14 System Lords, led by Ra-rose as one and bowed, saying "Your will is our command, master."
"Very good. Let's make this official now shall we, I nominate myself, Lord Enki to become Emperor of all Goa'uld domains, henceforth to be called Overlord Enki, and the empire will be called the Avalon Galactic Empire. The symbol of the empire and my priesthood will be the Caduceus, and all of you will adopt the Caduceus in your domains and merge your priesthoods and governorships under the rule of my Prime Minister Hathor, and your forces under command of my General Mot. Who will second this motion?" asked Harry.
All 14 System Lords rushed to second the motion.
"Excellent, said Harry. Lord Ra, as the current ruler of this Council, if you would please call the vote?" said Harry.
"Of course my Lord." answered Ra.
A minute later, the Council voted unanimously to appoint Enki as Overlord and Emperor, and to follow all other commands. Not that they had any choice, but Harry thought it would be amusing and perhaps even useful in the grand scheme of things to follow proper forms. This way it is on the record for any and all to see, done by their own hand as it were.
"Overlord Enki, this Council has voted unanimously to appoint you Emperor and ruler of all Goa'uld domains. I resign from my post as head of this Council, and we await your further orders, my Lord." said Ra, who managed to make all of this sound like it actually was his idea.
"Excellent. You all have done well."
Harry called to his flagship which his current leadership team occupied.
"Hathor, gather my council and all of you beam aboard this station at once." ordered Harry.
"By your command, master." said Hathor, who was accompanied by Mot and Morrigan.
Lords, you will all remain in service to the Empire as appointed Governor's of your current domains, at my pleasure. Your domains will be assimilated into the Avalon Empire. All of you will report to Hathor for routine governance, as she is my Prime Minister. Your forces will report in a dotted line fashion to yourselves and to Mot, my General. These as well as Morrigan will stay here and work with you, to give you instructions and to assist you with assimilating your domains into the empire. Hathor has final say on any questions or disputes, unless I over-rule her.
Now, to expand the purpose and role of this space station, I am going to leave my flagship in station keeping here and will leave instructions for my personal warriors to being adding onto, upgrading, and augmenting this station to serve as a more comprehensive Galactic Headquarters for the Empire. In turn, each of you governors will station permanent representatives and staff here, along with my stationing of a significant military presence and fleet. The Empire Executive Branch will rule and operate from this station. To this end, I will also soon place several stargates here to make that more convenient, as soon as my people finish the upgrades.
"Lady Hathor, other Lady's and Lord's, I leave you to it. Hathor, report with status weekly. I want to know how this is going. I will return at my convenience when the work has progressed enough for me to move on to grander plans." ordered Harry.
"Yes, my Lord." answered Hathor. The rest of the Lords bowed to Harry as he beamed away back to his flagship.
From there Harry gated back to Atlantis to sit down in his ready room with his thoughts and to update his personal status of the galactic map and the progress of his empire. He would get full assessments from Hathor in the weeks to come, but he knew from his intel. the basic gist of what he just accomplished.
To him, this was the hard part, and it was over. It is certainly not all he planned to do in the galaxy. There are other fish to fry. This was just the Goa'uld, but they were the biggest and most widespread pains in the neck. He would reign in the rest of the malevolent worlds later. Then there would be the Pegasus galaxy to attend to.
Harry's Avalon Empire, now officially controlled all Goa'uld space in the galaxy. He would have them sweep up the rest of any independent none Council aligned Goa'uld that might be lurking about. But the bulk of it is done. He is safe to begin maneuvering more openly now as a power in the galaxy without having to watch his back in well, 14 other directions at the same time.
Today, he added the following major resources to his empire. From Ba'al 6 planets; from Yu 7 planets several with very large populations; from Cronus 9 planets; from Heru'ur 6 planets and 4 more mobile shipyards; from Sokar 6 planets and 1 more shipyard, from Pelops 6 planets; from Ra 16 planets; and then 21 more planets from the combined Nirrti, Apophis, Olukon, Kali, Camulus, Svarog, and Bastet.
All total, now 73 major planets and hundreds more minor ones that just had outposts or were simply controlled but not occupied or utilized yet, some were not even fully explored-they just fell within their controlled space. There are something like 23 or 24 major Goa'uld underlords, governors or specialists he keeps track of and over a hundred other minor underlords or specialists who work for his major underlords. As for forces, beyond what he had already, today he gained another 250 Ha'tak, 124,000 Death Gliders, 26,000 Al'kesh, 500,000 Jaffa warriors, 2,500,000 Jaffa civilian population, plus another 5+ million humans gathered from almost 60 newly assimilated planets.
Less than a month from Harry's 15th birthday and getting ready for his 5th year at Hogwarts, he was now the Emperor of the Avalon Galactic Empire. Not bad. If only his third grade primary school teacher could see him now, and she said he wouldn't amount to anything.
Harry returned to Earth and visited with Hermione to tell her the good news.
"Well Mione, it's done. My scheme worked. They invited me right into their head Council and gave me the opportunity to ensorcel them all in one go."
Hermione ran over to Harry and gave him a great big hug and a peck on the lips.
"Congratulations Harry. That is wonderful. You have liberated the galaxy from the Goa'uld." gushed Hermione.
Ahem. They heard Wendell clearing his throat. "What is all this then?" asked Wendell, as Monica joined him from around the corner.
Hermione and Harry jumped apart and blushed.
"Oh, Daddy, I told you that Harry and I are dating now didn't I?"
"No..., yes. Wait a minute. Honey, did she tell us that?" asked Wendell.
"Well, she told me dear. I don't think I got around to telling you yet." replied Monica.
"Oh, well. Uhm, okay then. Watch where you put your hands there Napoleon." laughed Wendell.
"Daddeee!" exclaimed Hermione.
"So, what is this that I hear, Harry has conquered the universe now?" continued Wendell.
"No sir, just the galaxy, not even the whole, just the majority of it." answered Harry.
"Alright then. But, you need to stop slacking off, if your going to ask for my daughters hand someday you need to be top shelf Emperor, conqueror of the whole galaxy. Not just part of it." continued Wendell, teasing both of them.
"Daddeee! stop it, you're embarrassing me." continued to exclaim Hermione.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha." laughed Wendell out loud. Even Monica joined with a little chuckle.
"It's okay Mione dear, he probably isn't ready to hear about the baby yet then." said Harry cheekily.
"What?!" both parents and Hermione screamed.
"Ha, ha, ha. Gotch-ya." said Harry.
"Oh, you." said Mione as she reached to slap Harry lightly on the arm, Harry evaded and started running. Mione chasing after, right out the front door, around the back, all around the outside of the house, chasing, slapping, grabbing, running, chasing, tickling, laughing.
As the kids ran off to play chase or whatever the heck they were doing, Wendell turned to Monica and said, "He was joking right dear?" Monica just rolled her eyes and went back to making dinner.
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After dinner they all just sat around and Harry brought them up to speed with some detail. It was obvious he felt like he really had accomplished something now, they could all three tell he seemed to be more relaxed and some weight off his shoulders. He still had plenty more to do, but the most dangerous stuff at least with the Goa'uld is done. He had not elaborated on his other plans yet but they knew he planned to face these other bad people like the Aschen, the Lucian's and then the Wraith and Asurans in the Pegasus galaxy someday.
Wendell and Monica often discussed how difficult and strange it must be for this boy, going from an abused kid of 9 to teenager now about to turn 15; with the knowledge and memories of two adult men in his mind, one a 10,000 year old ascended ancient scientist of the most advanced race in the known universe, and another of an evil wizard. He seemed to be able to go from being a kid to being a scientist to being a dictator from one breath to the other with no difficulty. But to an outsider who had a chance to witness the transition in progress, it was strange to witness. They knew Harry didn't adopt the evil of the wizard, just the knowledge. But still, he clearly learned adult language and mannerisms from both sets of memories that he drew upon whenever he needed to, however he wished to.
They resigned themselves to the likelihood that Hermione would end up paired up with him because that's what it seemed like she wanted. They wouldn't stand in the way of that so long as he didn't turn into evil wizard. So far, while he has been tough and underhanded in his imperial dealings, they believed that his motives were true to long term liberation and benevolence for the enslaved humans out there in the galaxy. They just hoped all the pressure didn't make him snap someday and the Mione manages to stay out of danger.
Harry spent the rest of the summer hanging out with Hermione and even went on vacation with them again. All the while getting his weekly status updates from Hathor regarding the assimilation and stabilization of the entire empire. As it turned out, all he had to do was suggest to her that she have the governors seek out and bring any other unaligned and independent Goa'uld into the empire and they were all to eager to do it. They had always known who they were, but just left them alone as long as they abided by the rules and didn't get in the way of any of the system lords, but it was easy to sweep them up now that it was important to do so.
The job was big, and would take quite a long time. The work they did in previous phases of the campaign set the groundwork, the scale, and the experience for their people to do this. But, now it was just a sheer numbers game. A lot of different worlds and complexity. But, it was all coming together, no problems yet or foreseen.
So it was that Harry made plans to meet with the Tok'ra next year sometime. He made a short visit to Eskal and had Hathor transfer the prisoner Sholred from his flagship which was still at Hasara facilitating the expansion of the station, to Eskal.
Once he arrived, Harry took Sholred into a private conference room and explained why he held him and what he now needed him to do. Nothing more than he was going to do anyway, except it had to be at the right time and the time is now. An he also needed him to deliver a specific message to the Tok'ra Council.
He explained his real identity as an Alteran, or as they called them the Ancients or Gate Builders, and the work he did to conquer the Goa'uld collective in order to liberate the enslaved humans and genetically engineered Jaffa sub-genus of humans. He did not reveal his Earth or wizard background, nor that he used slave collars to make quick work of deposing them and ensuring their obedience. That secret would also come out, but also at the proper moment. He explained that he wants to meet with them sometime early next year, to discuss some proposals he has for them and to enlist their assistance in the solution for the final status of the Goa'uld. He let it be known that he supported the Tok'ra and their way of life as opposed to the Goa'uld, so they had nothing to fear from him. He would explain more at the meeting. He gave him a sub-space communicator that can reach him anywhere in the galaxy and sent him on his way to whatever planet he wanted to go to, to gate to the Tok'ra home world.
Then he returned home to Hermione to enjoy the rest of the summer and prepare for next year at Hogwarts and while all that was going on in the galaxy...
Back at the Avalon Alliance on Earth...
During the third year of the Avalon Alliance, they began launching and assembling their big shipyard in space, in geosynchronous orbit over Baker Island in the Pacific.
Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about 3,090 km (1,920 mi) southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, 42 mi (68 km) to the north-northwest; both have been territories of the United States since 1857.
This tiny unassuming island became the primary Earth station for launch of their rockets into space because of its equatorial location making it most efficient for the task, it's long held ownership by the US, lack of native population, and general remoteness. The island was not a particularly good harbor for large vessels either until the Alliance maritime engineers sculpted large sections of the reef out and dredged it... now it was beginning to look like a minor naval base, with structures being built on the island for that purpose.
The non-allied powers of the world began to take notice but this operation didn't violate any treaties anyone was aware of so their was nothing to be said for it officially. Nevertheless Russia, China, N. Korea, et al. began concerted efforts to aim their intelligence apparatus at finding out what was going on - and now they knew it was really some kind of secret space program when the island kept firing rocket after rocket into space, rendezvousing with a mysterious 4th space shuttle that no one knew about before that seemed to remain in space for months at a time, intercepting cargo from these rockets and assembling some kind of space station in very high orbit out of accident range of any earth satellite systems.
Russia and China formed a small joint intelligence operation focused on studying this mysterious alliance. They knew from the class and flag of naval vessels that went in and out of Baker Island seemingly non stop which 9 countries were actively participating in this and they didn't like it one bit. - They expanded their intel. ops with focus into each of those nine powers using their deep cover apparatus and from that they learned this Alliance called itself the Avalon alliance and their program's unclassified name was also Avalon, and the conclusion was that they are working on building some kind of space ship, in orbit. They just didn't know why. But they knew it could be dangerous for them.
With the amount of nuclear power this ship will have available to it, the designers were able to conceive of solutions for safer space travel that they didn't think feasible before with the old ideas of having to build something on the surface and with all it's weight and mass, achieve escape velocity to launch it.
Without those limitations they designed very high powered omni-directional spread spectrum EM emitters that would form a protective magnetosphere shield around the ship protecting it and it's occupants from cosmic rays and other exotic particles in space. This would become Earths first recognized native designed energy shield. It wouldn't stop directed weapons fire from a focused particle beam, but it would prove an effective first effort suitable to its purpose.
Knowing that what they faced out there came with real military threats which is why they were doing this, the Alliance adapted their most advanced experimental terrestrial high powered land based laser designs that tended to be the size of semi trucks into this ship design, because weight and mass wouldn't be a launch issue and they will have far more power than any mobile land based system they ever built.
The first model, a 13.4 KW gamma laser cannon was taken directly from the existing land based designs. They hope to scale it up to much more powerful cannons since they will have much more raw power available however, they will still need more advanced capacitors and emitter diodes capable of handling more power without destroying the cannon itself. They will see how these perform in space on their first prototype ship first and go from there.
For this first go, they designed the hull a little like the old Iowa class battleship, with three large turrets each with three of these gamma laser cannons, like the Iowa's big guns, except the emitters looked like giant bass drums not giant rifle barrels. For the ships main primary long range weapon given the power and scale they had available to work with they designed a high powered magnetic rail cannon the length of the ship, that will fire a 7 pound shell at Mach 7 or 2.4 km/sec. The ordinance consisted of two variants, a hardened spent plutonium tipped tungsten load for conventional fire and a thermonuclear tipped shell that would only arm itself once it got 1 km beyond the ship for the ships own safety. Either mode could reload and re-fire once every 2 seconds, for 30 rounds per minute of continuous fire.
The design of the ship aimed to eliminate reliance on rapidly expended fossil fuels thus the reliance on nuclear powered electricity. However this wasn't practical for all applications. Since this is first prototype is an explorer craft and test platform, the ship was given a sizable shuttle bay, fit to hold 3 standard shuttles, it would only commission with two, with room and spare parts and tools sufficient to build a third on site if needed. The idea really was to keep their complement of two in good working order and enough machine tools to make an honest effort of it without support from Earth for extended periods as necessary. These would of course rely upon their standard fossil fuel sources, therefore large supply holds were built to store some of this as well as small drilling and refining equipment which could be used to manufacture new fuel in the field as it were if they could find the raw materials. They do plan to design a new Thorium Salt reactor shuttle in the future, but they don't want to hold up the launch of this prototype to design and test those prior to this. So, they will just re-deploy two standard space shuttles.
The ship was given the Earths finest communications capabilities and radar computer and tacking tech., even a rudimentary but limited voice interactive AI that could help the crew obtain ship status, perform basic commands and perform shipboard logistical functions. Part of the design for this prototype is to eliminate as much human error in operation of it as possible.
The first mission is to perform full flight tests, including testing the experimental ECR engines and weapon systems. Fly to the moon and place a permanent thorium reactor powered communications and radar listening outpost along with 4 linked satellites that will monitor the entire moon and the space around it 24x7. That is a warm up, then for the final test of the maiden voyage a trip to Mars and back, an estimated 3+ month round trip, where full social research will be conducted with logs of crew living and operating on this trip. They will spend 1 month in orbit of Mars performing deep scan research with radar, sonar, magnetic anomaly detection, and all other advanced deep scan research that Earth is currently capable of. As with the moon, they will leave 4 satellites in orbit linked to a Mars thorium reactor powered communications and radar listening outpost. The entire shake down and test flight for this prototype ship is estimated at four months from launch from the shipyard until it returns. Except for the rigors of space, a wet navy ship would be lucky to have a cruise that short. So all in all they consider this feasible. As long as everything works to plan.
The Alliance was ready and launched their prototype on its shakedown cruise on September 1, 1995. The ship, dubbed the AES CC-101 Enterprise. (Avalon Earth Ship, Cruiser) was commanded by Colonel Jack O'Neill, United States Air Force, Advanced Technology Program. His XO was Major Charles Kowalski, and Science Officer Captain Samantha Carter was third in command. The rest of the military support consisted of two small 6-person special operations teams that doubled as ships security and two 6-person bridge crews to man various command consoles, such as navigation, communications, weapons, etc. O'Neill, Kowalski, and Carter would take turns at 8 hour shifts as Officer of the Deck. The rest of the crew were 100 civilian support from medical to cooks and supply personnel to scientists and engineers from all the Alliance member countries, including one Doctor Rodney McKay from Canada. For a total crew complement of 127 souls. In command of the Baker Island Earth Station and Ground Control was General George Hammond. The base also had a small alliance Naval fleet detachment in addition to their small air wing, in case certain foreign powers got too nosy.
Harry had just returned to school with Hermione, starting their 5th year. This might've been the first year he actually showed up on the first day, so he was enjoying the sorting feast when the Destiny AI contacted him via his neural interface and let him know that the Earth Avalon Alliance appeared to finally be launching their ship. As they were tracking the AES Enterprise slowly leaving it's space dock.
Harry of course knew all about their ships mission plans and design capability. He was quite interested to see how it all turns out. He knew the whole plan was going to take them four months. But he planned to keep an eye out for them in case they needed any help in an emergency. This is one reason he secreted over to the Enterprise one day last week and planted a high-powered yet otherwise undetectable (by them) sub-space transponder on their hull, so he could keep track of them.
After dinner, he told Hermione what was going on with the Enterprise. Until now he had not shared too much of what he knew of the Earth space program because he didn't want to be the source of any leaks on their behalf. But, now he gave Mione a little more detail and she made him promise to keep her up to date on how its going.
One day the following week he excused himself from Hogwarts (again). He decided to reward their efforts with an Easter egg, if they can find it. If they successfully transit to Mars and can get to and from the surface the way they plan, then they will have proven themselves capable of the next step in his book. So, he stripped the old Osiris Tel'tak of its hyper-drive and buried it underground in one of Mars less interesting looking craters, very near to one of the locations he new they were planning on landing and working.
He left a message written in Alteran that said... "Congratulations, you've accomplished much with just a little information and a gentle nudge. This old low tech shuttle from one of the medium tech races in the galaxy that was left abandoned 10,000 years ago ought to be decent research material for you. I've removed this ships interstellar flight capability (hyper-drive) so don't bother looking for one. But, the computers for hyper-drive navigation are still there and functional. I've even updated the star-maps on it for you, just so you don't start off driving in the wrong direction if you ever to decide to try to use those maps for anything." wrote Harry.
"If you ever want us to help you with interstellar flight you are going to have to bring the rest of your world powers into your alliance, share, and go public with your knowledge of the galaxy and your space technology. If you wish to join us in the larger galaxy we will welcome you in peace and justice if you come justly and in peace." concluded Harry. /Signed, Emperor Enki, Avalon Galactic Empire, Supreme Commander of the Avalon Galactic Fleet./
A/N:
-I know that the real Hasara space station only had seating for 8 lords at one time, and only could dock nothing larger than a Tel'tak. I upgraded its capability a bit to fit my plot.
