A/N: Thank you for your patience and support, work has been busy so the next chapters are taking some time :) and I do not own or earn from anything Stargate!

Chate Warnings: None

... Unless you think Rodney McKay's presence should come with a warning ;)

The Mystery

Cam spent more time talking over everything with the team, a lot of pros and cons were raised as to whether Kya should be kept as an active member of the team given recent developments, but in the end as he pointed out, their government had been the first in every crowd to highlight the need to know basis of an individual's strengths and weaknesses and she had revealed her information when it had been of great importance, so she was still an asset and perhaps their best chance to deal with the new threats they were facing.

After several hours, the teams that returned home to Atlantis, included Rodney, so they were able to fill him in on the situation and he was able to meet Kya.

"So I just saying, if you are really as ancient as they say, shouldn't they answers already be in there…?" He pointed at Ky's head. She rolled her eyes, exhausted already by his passive aggressive style of conversation.

"Is he always this bad…?" She asked John Shepperd who stood beside she and Cam.

"Yes… But eventually his usefulness grows on you too…"

"Ahhh I see I was hoping there would be some form of redeeming quality…"

McKay babbled on with either Kya or Sam answering him intermittently.

"So Rodney… Any chance we can see this new interface you have discovered…" Sam asked nicely.

"Uh… yes sure… well it was not part of the holographic suite that houses the library… we don't know why but it was off grid, in an isolated room, we had Shepperd and a few other ancient gene people try it but to no avail, it simply says in an ancient dialect that access cannot be granted to a non-Alterran at this time..."

"Let's take a look shall we, lead the way?"

As they walked they discussed more about the room, it had at first seemed like another stasis chamber room, but then they had realized that things were a little different.

On arrival, Sam and Cam checked out the space, Rodney showed Kya to the pod and Daniel who was the other person to have gone to the room checked out the large amounts of writing on the digital tablet beside the pod.

Kya looked at the pod, it seemed to say "awaken" or "open" so she tried that command but a light flickered and nothing happened.

"Must be low on power, it had a little left last month but as I said we didn't get far…" Rodney said and pondered what to do but then he had a thought, he took a "portable" ZPM simulator from his pack, a kind of smaller zero-point battery he was playing around with getting to work for just such purposes and when connected it to the panel near the pod something happened… Kya tried again and this time the whole pod lit up with a bright light.

Beside them an image appeared. "Access Alterran Female." She looked at the hologram, it was of a plainly clothed woman, not very old, simply adorned in grey. She was not smiling but neither was she aggressive.

"Who or what are you?" Kya asked.

"I am the Atlantis Repositoria, it is my role to provide all the knowledge you require in the event that an Alterran comes through a disaster and finds a way to survive in Atlantis."

Kya nodded… "How does this pod work?"

"When you step inside it, you have full access to all of my records which consist of the history of our people since records were first made." She briefed. "My new information tells me that you are the first fully Alterran female for many thousands of years, how is this possible?" The hologram asked as if she were programmed to be interactive with current events.

"I was a genetic accident perhaps… I do not know…"

"You were not an accident… It seems as I scan your DNA, that you are the result of Project Pandora… We called it different things each time we tried… There was project Eve and Project Lilith as well as others… The most successful project was Pandora… The efforts of the scientists to preserve our DNA… we did not believe any of the trials had succeeded in totality but you are living proof that Pandora did."

"OK repositoria, we need to find out everything on these projects… And to know why now? What is so significant that I and my sisters are here now...?"

"Please stand in the pod and I will show you…" She stated.

Kya looked at the others who shrugged. She took a deep steadying breath and stepped into the pod. A bright violet light surrounded her.

She was near overwhelm by the time all of the information had been processed, she stood there her mind in chaos, gradually pulling the threads together of what she could do to help their cause.

As the light faded she swayed a little under the weight of knowledge then Cam came forward to support her.

"Are you OK?" He asked concerned. She looked up at him, wide eyed and then burst into tears. "What Kya…?"
"They are all as bad as each other… They should have known better…" She said and sank into his embrace.

The groups looked at each other, they had no idea what the repositoria had shown Kya. For all they knew the end of the world could be upon them…