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A little bit of rare and possibly expected fluffy teenage angst resolved Alteran style and a mean ass Harry at the end.
Chapter 10
The beginning of Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts was somewhat uneventful for him personally. That did not mean things weren't going on. All of his ongoing changes within the Empire were a little past the half way point for the current objectives, so that was going smoothly. The Earth Avalon Alliance, which had been renamed simply the Earth Alliance, was stabilizing itself and making decent progress on their Prometheus project. One American Senator, Kinsey was found shot to death with 47 bullet holes. Someone really wanted to silence that bastards dissent. Oh, well. Problem solved.
There had been some political disturbances on Javabli because they were far and away the most populous human world in the empire with over 3 billion citizens, whereas the 71 other major populated planets had barely 10 million between them. With the Capitol world of Eskal numbering only 250,000. Therefore, many were lobbying that the Capitol of the Empire and the home of Atlantis should be moved to Javabli, as it represented the true heart of the empire.
Harry thought they had a good point and went on the Galaxy News Network (GNN) to announce that he was considering it and would most likely announce his decision after the successful galaxy wide elections in six months.
Where did the GNN come from do you ask? Well, ever since the liberation from the Goa'uld became public knowledge with the announcement of upcoming elections, as well as inter-planetary free trade. The more technologically advanced planets began launching commercial satellite television and communication networks, and markets began opening up for public access to news and entertainment systems in their homes. The Avalon era of the couch potato had begun. One by one planets within the Empire were coming online.
Another aspect of freer or safer space travel for civilians and an opening economy is that entrepreneurs from a variety of planets in the Empire had begun conducting licensed private exploration and development of some of the hundreds of other known habitable planets within the empire that had not been thoroughly explored or exploited before. The Empire began selling old Al'kesh with heavy weapons and cloaks removed (and secret nano-tech tracking transponders added) to entrepreneur's and other civilians who wanted to convert them to commercial vessels for exploration or light cargo hauling, etc. Thus small settlements had already begun popping up on dozens of other Empire worlds, and a space-faring merchant class was beginning to develop.
In one such exploration, one of the entrepreneurs reported to the Imperial military that one of his expeditions failed to make contact or return, with three small explorer ships presumed lost. So, the Grand Admiral dispatched a unit of three Ha'tak to investigate the situation. What they discovered was one more independent Goa'uld who claimed to be Anubis, apparently in the process of building several large shipyards. The scanners indicated ten thousand Jaffa and the one Goa'uld with unusual or intermittent life signs, no completed Ha'tak but hundreds of Al'kesh and Death Gliders and large stockpiles of refined ore.
Whoever this was they were in the beginning stages of developing a force to someday begin a military conquest. But fortunately the Empire discovered them before they could make much progress. Based on standard ROE they beamed away the planets stargate and placed the planet under blockade so that no ship could launch and enter hyperspace. Intelligence indicated that Anubis had been banished millennia ago, but never recorded as killed so, they presumed this was really him.
The Grand Admiral arrived in force with a fleet of thirty Ha'tak and began an assault on the planet, committing the forces of twenty of his Ha'tak, while the other ten remained in reserve and helped to enforce the blockade. The Jaffa forces quickly surrendered to such overwhelming force and the Empires' ground assault teams managed to storm Anubis' palace unabated. As the troops approached Anubis, believing themselves about to take him captive, he turned to face them in his black flowing robes with nothing but darkness where his head and eyes should've been. Then to make his escape he let the personal force field generator fall that gave his energy form the appearance of substance on the material plane, and with a mad cackling laughter said in an eerily echoing voice that the galaxy had not seen the last of Anubis and that he would return to rule the all someday. Then his empty robe and force field generator fell to the floor and he whisked away in a glowing cloud of white and disappeared.
All present gaped and exclaimed "what was that?"
Following that, a few days later as Harry reviewed the visual recording of the report, he mumbled to himself, "egad, what was that?" and then Harry fumbled to his waste instinctively looking for a special gun he invented a long time ago for certain special occasions, then remembering it is always with him in his expansion pocket.
This year also marked the first year that Harry had some graduates from Club Potter who wanted to follow him to the stars. So, Fred and George Weasley, along with their girlfriends Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, and their best friend Lee Jordan, moved to Atlantis and became the first to begin using a special training lab with simulators that Harry had designed to train his new witches and wizards on the use of Alteran technology as well as the history and state of the galaxy and the empire. They would spend a year in such training, beginning to specialize half way through for whichever professions they wanted to enter into.
To facilitate the movement of his people to and from Atlantis and Earth, Harry purchased an unplottable spot of land adjacent to Hogsmeade and had a small building erected and protected by Fidelius that contained little more than a secure bidirectional stargate from Earth to Atlantis. In this way his people could come and go as they please.
The year seemed to fly by and Harry had more time to spend at Hogwarts with Hermione than the previous years.
Another side effect of spending more time at Hogwarts was more people seeing him around socially, which led to certain teenage girls who couldn't keep their eyes off Harry even knowing he was spoken for, circling closer and closer like cats sniffing a can of tuna.
At one point during the year, one very enterprising Club member named Romilda Vane just brazenly came up to him and kissed him and asked if he would like to go out with her to Hogsmeade. He just stuttered for a moment and after getting his composure said, "huh, what... no... I'm going with Hermione," and just stormed off. Hermione witnessed the entire exchange from the other side if the room but said nothing.
Not wishing to be outdone nor last in line should Harry's resistance actually crack, Ginny who had become friends with Hermione over the years had a private conversation and broached the subject of their future plans, someday. Had they made any? Hermione said they had not made any official plans yet but they love each other and she hopes that Harry will ask her to marry him someday.
Ginny said. "Hmm, that is good. But, I was wondering if you and Harry ever considered the possibility of a harem?"
Hermione made to snap off a reply, but Ginny held her hand up and said, "wait... let me explain."
Hermione seemed to pause so Ginny continued.
"Well, I was thinking that with Harry being Emperor and all, as well as the only true pureblooded Alteran now, that it might be worthwhile for Harry to father as many children as possible, beginning any number of new family lines that could increase the chances for the more advanced genetics of the Alterans which only Harry possesses now to spread farther in future generations. Rather than just limit that potential of just one line, and Merlin forbid if for some reason you can't have children. Do you see what I'm getting at?" concluded Ginny.
Hermione pondered for a moment and said. "Hmm. You are smooth Gin, I'll give you that. And sadly you may have a point. But that only really matters if Harry agrees with you." she exclaimed with a sigh. "But, I will broach the matter with him as I am sure the matter has never even occurred to him. It may be important to him so I will ask." concluded Hermione, as she got up in a huff and quickly left, muttering under her breath, "the nerve of some people."
...
Hermione wasn't going to sleep very well until she got that conversation with Ginny off her chest with Harry to see how he reacts to it. "Damn that Ginny and all." she said to herself as she made her way in the middle of the night to Harry's secret hideout where he sleeps away from the rabble of the dorms.
After she woke Harry up and explained what she was doing there. No, it wasn't a booty call, maybe next time. He immediately defended against the thing with Romilda and said he's sorry, it wasn't his fault, he swore. She said, she knows she saw the whole thing, this is more important so hush. And she repeated what Ginny had said to her, then waited for Harry's reaction.
She got worried when Harry appeared deep in thought for a few moments. Then when she couldn't take it anymore smacked him on the arm and said, "Haarrryy."
"Oh, sorry Mione. I was just thinking, and no it wasn't about all the girls that are apparently lining up to shag me." said Harry.
"Okay, so first no, I don't want a harem love, I just want you. And as long as you will have me that is the way its going to be." continued Harry.
Hermione interrupted Harry by jumping on him and snogging him senseless. Then she said, "but? I sense a but in there?"
"Well, she raised an interesting point. One that I have an even more elegant answer to. But, it is good she raised the issue." answered Harry.
"She wouldn't know it, any more than the rest of you, but Alteran medical science has a very advanced way of solving this problem. I wouldn't force this on anyone of course, but for anyone who volunteers for it, male and female... There is a procedure that can be performed before any woman's first pregnancy and at any time for a male, that will-to make an extremely long story short, modify ones reproductive DNA (that is eggs or sperm) to that of full Alteran and removing all known genetic defects, while retaining the unique aspects of the parents traits that are not affected by the Alteran upgrades. This does not change your own physiology to full Alteran, but any offspring you have will have the new DNA. For men this is one simple and quick outpatient procedure and its done. For women, its a series of twelve not as fast outpatient procedures over the course of a year. I won't even explain what's happening there, I'll let you read it yourself." said Harry.
"That is a good solution, it handles the entire population at once and doesn't require little Harry to become dirty Harry. But, why is it always that these things are harder on women than on men?" said Hermione.
"Well sweetie, I'm no doctor but I'm going to assume that it is because you women are just more complicated across the board. And did you just crack a dirty joke about my stuff?" replied Harry, in a fake huff.
Then they both descended into laughter and 'went to sleep'.
So, Harry comm'd the five novum Alteran up at Atlantis and asked them to attend the next Club meeting at Hogwarts wherein he explained the concern one member of the club raised to him and the proper solution for it, strictly voluntary of course. Many of the girls just sighed as apparently Ginny's solution had been on the minds of a number of girls. Ginny kept her reaction reigned in because she knew Harry was doing her a favor by not mentioning who suggested it, saving her the embarrassment. She also had to admit, his was a good solution and she would be signing up to make sure her kids someday have the best life has to offer.
At the end of February the Empire's elections occurred successfully and there was now a proper elected human Governor of each planet along with elected municipal governments, to accompany his appointed human Cardinals, and his appointed HFR Generals. Harry went on GNN to announce the success of the results and to announce that he decided to move the Capitol Atlantis to the orbit of Javabli. Eskal will remain a leading technology and industrial planet dedicated to the functioning and support of the military, and serve as galactic fleet headquarters. The high priesthood would return its headquarters and training facilities to the surface of Javabli where it originated.
Additionally, Harry took stock of his major military assets since the completion of the Ha'tak upgrade program. In addition to Atlantis and Destiny, the fleet consisted of his two custom super mother-ships that serve as base HQ at Eskal and Hasara, and 309 Ha'tak and their full air wings of Al'kesh and Gliders, and a standing active military of 1,000,000; 200,000 of which were dedicated to Fleet Operations, and the rest to planetary security and ready response. With another 1,000,000 trained inactive reservists. There were 3 Ha'tak (considered a single unit) home-ported at each of the 72 protected planets, with the remaining 93 either in home-port at Eskal, on other missions, or on patrols throughout the galaxy, or other various ports of call such as Hasara.
With that done he issued orders for Fleet HQ to start mass producing and then deploying his self-healing planetary satellite defense grid to each of the primary protected planets and outposts.
After that was in place he planned to take a fleet in force to visit the Aschen and have a little discussion about the dark information about them he received from the leaders of the 'Pack' whom the Empire recently assimilated, which his own intelligence had recently confirmed. But not until the summer. He would let things stabilize a bit and make a push for deeper intelligence on them. While he likewise began to consider what if anything he should do in the Pegasus galaxy.
Their sixth year ended with little fanfare. You would think it was just an ordinary kid going home after another year at boarding school, if it weren't for the fact that he turned around, apparated to his secret stargate and went home to Atlantis half-way across the galaxy.
Meanwhile, back at the Earth Alliance. They launched the Prometheus, which for all its new bells and whistles was still just a system-ship, not made for inter-stellar travel. They gave the command to Col. Jack O'Neill, with now Maj. Carter promoted to XO. Lt. Col. Kowalski was given command of the Enterprise, which was relegated more to a test and training platform now, as well as performing some logistical duties that are necessary to maintain the Moon and Mars from time to time. The BC-101 Prometheus became the new flagship, but it was decided not to begin mass producing these until they could achieve hyper-space. There would be no worthwhile ROI as far as the bean counters were concerned.
In any case, the Prometheus was built for much more comfortable life in space, had double the size crew and had a wider range of weapons and shield capabilities, much faster sub-light engines, as well as onboard hangers and laboratories for other missions. So, the Prometheus was sent on an exploratory mission of the rest of the solar system. And they deployed additional four-satellite networks to each of the other planets. Meanwhile they made very detailed maps of the system and all the planets and attempted to explore, hoping they might find more alien goodies laying around. Plus they ran many theoretical experiments and fine tuned the practical applications of their new ship platform; and performed many tests and trials of their new X-302 Combat Shuttles. (The X-301 project which was a planned Thorium power upgrade to the old US Space Shuttle model was scrapped in favor of the latest tech.)
The most difficult part so far was getting the eclectic crew consisting of all the original alliance members plus some Russians and Chinese who were assimilated into the program, all working together under one command and playing from the same rule book. This would be another part of the experiment that they would learn lessons from on this voyage. Which is why this deployment included a small diplomatic attachment led by Ambassador Elizabeth Weir who specialized in just that sort of problem, namely getting egos from disparate cultures and governments working together. Fortunately, the food was much better on this new ship as well, and they also had a small common entertainment area where they could watch movies and so forth.
...
During the summer Hermione accompanied Harry, along with Fred, George, Angelina, Alicia, and Lee who were now permanent fixtures on Atlantis-for a mission to Aschen Prime to 'meet' the Aschen and confront them about their use of biogenic weapons to conquer other worlds by sterilizing them.
Harry briefed his 'command crew' (and he thought it was cool that he really finally had a living breathing one of friends he liked and trusted and that wasn't comprised of machines or his enemies). This was another one of the life goals he set for himself when he decided to return to Earth and attend Hogwarts for his childhood. Things were sort of working out.
"The Aschen currently hold five planets, Aschen Prime, and four planets they have allegedly conquered through this method of genocidal expansion I told you about and turned into farming planets. They have some inter-stellar space ships but, do not explore outside of their small confederation. Their weapons, shields, and numbers are no match for the Empire but, we are going in force to ensure they know we mean business and that we have the means to conduct the business, and also so that we can blockade all five planets simultaneously when I speak with them. The ultimate conclusion of this discussion might be the beginning of war, so I won't sugarcoat it. You've all seen the background on these people. They will either accept quarantine the easy way, the hard way, or find themselves conquered and assimilated. That is assuming that we can find any among them to be redeemable. We shall see." said Harry.
"You know. I'd like to be able to say we would be going in there to liberate the people they conquered but there are none. They murdered them all with their biogenic weapons. The more I think about what these people have done and what they live to do, the less I want to talk to them and the more I just want to crack their planets in half. But, I am advised to at least begin level headed and to show 'some' restraint, so I will try. But, I can't promise they won't push me too far, because I suspect they might." concluded Harry.
"That's okay. I am of two minds about this as well. I hate killing for any reason, it just seems so awful. But these people, don't seem like people at all. They act like fire ants just shaped like humans. I wouldn't have any problem with you exterminating a nest of fire ants. So, you do what you have to do." said Hermione.
"George, Fred, Angie, Alicia, Lee, are you all comfortable with this or do any of you want to sit this out?" asked Harry.
Fred answered for the group when he said: "Nah, we're good with it Harry. I mean I think we are all glad we don't have to make these kinds of decisions. But, we want to learn. I think we all can just think of these people like a whole planet full of Voldemort's and it is easier to understand."
"Alright then, we will embark on the Destiny as our flagship, and we will be flanked by both of my custom super-mother ships, just in case for some reason we do need any backup. Along with us will be ninety upgraded Ha'tak. Ten each will go to their four farming worlds to blockade them, while the other fifty will accompany us as the main fleet, under command of the Grand Admiral, to blockade Aschen Prime." said Harry.
"The operation is set to leave space-dock from Eskal tomorrow morning 10am. So, let's get a good night sleep and come back tomorrow ready to kick butt." concluded Harry.
...
The next day the fleet arrived at the Aschen Confederation, with their arrival timed perfectly such that all five planets came under blockade simultaneously.
Immediately upon arrival Harry used his over-rides to lock down all of the Aschen Confederation's stargates.
Within moments, dozens of smaller Aschen warships were heading toward their main fleet and hailing the intruders.
"Attention unknown vessels. You have entered Aschen Confederation space, too close to one of our protected planets. Please increase your distance to one standard light-year and state your intentions." stated the emotionless voice from the approaching ships.
"Aschen Confederation, I am Emperor Enki of the Avalon Galactic Empire. We are the Alterans, the ones you call the ancients or gate-builders, who have returned to this galaxy to restore peace and order." began Harry.
"I have come to address your leaders to discuss a matter of grave importance. It has come to our attention that your civilization has engaged in genocidal war crimes in your expansion. We have disabled all stargate travel to and from your planets and sent fleets in addition to the one you see before you to blockade all of the planets of your confederation. We will discuss the terms of your surrender and your permanent cessation of these genocidal practices." continued Harry.
"You have one standard hour to have your leaders in front of me explaining why we should leave you in peace." concluded Harry.
...
Ten minutes later, Harry's three command capital ships and fifty Ha'tak mother-ships were being surrounded by twice as many if not significantly smaller Aschen warships. Harry assumed there were some warships on their way if not already preparing to encounter his smaller fleets at the other four planets.
"Grand Admiral, what is the status of all five fleets and what opposes them?" asked Harry.
The Grand Admiral gestured to the holographic war room table and said: "Here sir, you can see the Aschen are attempting to surround us with just over a hundred of their smaller warships. And over here, at each of the other four planets, they have only been able to meet our squadrons with an equal number of warships, about ten each. Apparently they did not have as many ships deployed to their smaller planets, as we expected. The other four planets defenses pose no threat to our ships at all, they can just sit there and take fire and not respond and successfully thwart any attack by those forces without doing anything." said the Grand Admiral.
"And frankly, their one hundred ships here will be no match for us either. I mean we might need to take about four shots in total to destroy their current numbers, without taking any casualties. So, essentially we will have to raise our voice. But, I doubt we will get so much as a sore throat from it." concluded the Grand Admiral.
"I like your combat metaphors Grand Admiral. Thank you. Well, I guess we'll just wait out the hour and see if they respond to us. If they open fire before that time, immediately engage as planned and as you said, four-shot their fleet and bring them to their knees." ordered Harry.
"Harry, I don't understand why would our fleet need to use four shots to take out these smaller ships even with their version of shields?" asked Fred.
"Well because we will not deploy any air wings and we won't use our drones. Just our primary plasma beam weapons. The resources frankly aren't needed and in any operation that size mistakes can happen and friendly's can get hurt by accident. As for drones, we try to save them for when they are truly needed more or less so as not to show off or give our enemies out there ideas about the kind of weapons they ought to be developing." answered Harry.
"Oh, okay. That makes sense then." replied Fred.
For the next ten minutes the opposing ships just maintained station keeping. After about a half hour into the time limit a hologram appeared on the command deck of the Destiny, with three Aschen leaders appearing, one standing in front of the others readying to speak was clearly the leader.
"Hello Emperor Enki, Greetings from the Aschen people. My name is Councilor Mollem, I will speak for the people today." said Mollem.
"We are sorry that we are meeting for the first time under these circumstances. Clearly there has been some misunderstanding. In all of our travels, which have been few, we have only ever offered the people we've met, peace and help by sharing our technology and science. It is unfortunate that in these circumstances the people we tried to help misused our knowledge and harmed themselves. Therefore we have since sworn to no longer freely offer our assistance to other worlds and do not actively explore the galaxy." concluded Mollem.
"I see." replied Harry. "Our informants and our own investigation indicate otherwise. We met 'the Pack' when we conquered the entirety of the Goa'uld collective and freed the galaxy from them. They told us quite a different story about you, your past conquests, and your recent attempts to bring them into your fold. They are by the way now free, upstanding citizens in our galactic Empire with a new planet of their own to call home." said Harry.
"Next, we stationed cloaked social research satellites around all five of your planets as well as sent investigators in secret to your planets and conducted our own investigations into these allegations and we were able to independently confirm them, especially with a great deal of physical evidence on Volia. My people weep for the poor Volian that you murdered to steal their planet, as well as the others. We will not let this continue." continued Harry.
"Here are our terms. We will remove all of your stargates, which by the way belong to us in the first place. Secondly, we will maintain constant watch over all five of your planets and track your inter-stellar travel by continuously monitoring hyper-space and sub-space in your sector, erstwhile maintaining heavy patrols in your confederation space to ensure you remain in your sector. Finally, you will not be permitted to travel or engage in diplomatic communications or trade with any other race or species in the galaxy without it being supervised and mediated by the Empire. If you accept this, we will go in peace except for the enforcement I mentioned. If you do not accept this, you will be forced to accept a more violent version of the same consequences." concluded Harry.
"Who are you to demand such things?" said Mollen, still expressing no emotion, as is one of the defects of their race.
"Yes, I understand your race is ancient, but what gives you the right to dictate terms by force to all the other races in the galaxy?" said Mollen, evenly.
"It's very simple Councilor. I am Emperor of the vast majority of the known galaxy and we are a benevolent empire. We consist of hundreds of worlds spanning over 80% of the territory in the galaxy and we serve peace and freedom. We've freed all the other human races of the galaxy from the Goa'uld and other oppression, and we will be damned if we let you continue to prey on others. Who were we to free the rest of the galaxy from the Goa'uld?" answered Harry.
"I will answer you in the way that most matters to you judging by your own behavior in such matters. Might makes right does it not? Well then, you and your world and your tiny primitive little warships are just gnats, and we are the inter-galactic supremely advanced in every way, fly-swatter. I would try to reason with you but everything I have learned about your race indicates that you apparently lack the capacity for reason. I don't know how a branch of the human family evolved into you despicable things, but the rest of us, especially me, are disgusted that you even exist. What I am doing is offering you a chance to live and possibly over however many eons it might take you, to change and become good galactic neighbors and maybe just maybe someday this quarantine could be lifted and you could find out what it is like to make friends with other humans without feeling the insatiable need to murder every one you meet." said Harry.
Harry exhaled loudly and sighed.
"If you do not want this chance to live and redeem yourselves someday, then choose to fight and this problem for us will be resolved far sooner. But unlike you, we think it is a shame to needlessly waste life. Thereby, you have your chance. Take it or leave it. You have one more hour to decide. Enki -out-!" Harry abruptly concluded.
...
One hour passed by and the Aschen leaders did not re-appear with an answer.
And their fleet of ships stayed where they were and appeared to be doing nothing.
"Grand Admiral, what is going on?" asked Harry.
"Nothing. Just nothing, sir." replied the Grand Admiral.
Harry scratched his head and stretched his neck left then right than back to the left, letting out a little creaking sound-and started tapping his fingers on the console of his command chair.
Five minutes later.
"Grand Admiral, have I miscounted the time or has one hour passed since I gave them that ultimatum?" asked Harry.
"No sir, you are right, it has now been one hour and six minutes since you terminated your last transmission to them." replied the Grand Admiral.
"Alright then, let's get their attention. I knew we were dealing with lunatics here but god help us. Target their lead ship and have one Ha'tak hit it one time with it's primary plasma beam weapon." ordered Harry.
"Aye, sir." replied the Grand Admiral. "Firing now."
Everyone watched as one powerful beam of highly concentrated blue energy lanced out from one of their lead Ha'tak and struck the lead Aschen warship. The ships shields flickered harshly then fell.
"Sir, the Aschen warship's shields have been destroyed. One more hit will destroy the ship." said the Grand Admiral.
"Good, let's see if that clarifies our intention and sufficiently demonstrated a bit of our power to them, and let's see if they can do simple math as well as they can engineer bioweapons." said Harry.
"Sweetie, there is no reason to be snarky to the Admiral. It's not his fault." said Hermione.
"I know hon, but the assholes I want to talk to won't pick up the phone." replied Harry.
Suddenly, a hologram of the three councilors re-appeared on the command deck, and Harry privately thought, 'finally, getting somewhere.'
This time, the one he spoke to before, Mollen, was standing behind one of the others that had stood behind him before. Harry just shook his head and wondered, 'what now?'
"Hello Emperor Enki, Greetings from the Aschen people. My name is Councilor Borren, I will speak for the people today." said Borren.
Harry could be seen rubbing his head and eyes, then lifted his head and said:
"Have you all made a decision yet?" asked Harry.
"About what sir?" replied Borren.
Harry just began tapping his fingers on the console again.
"Grand Admiral, do you know which ship those leaders are transmitting their hologram from? This guy is Borren me." asked Harry, in full hearing of said leaders.
"No sir. That is to say, they are not transmitting from a ship, they are transmitting from what I imagine they believe is a shielded, secure bunker on the surface." answered the Grand Admiral.
"Very well." Harry replied, the corner of one eye twitching. "Grand Admiral, target the location of their transmission and fire one drone... one drone only." ordered Harry.
"Target locked, firing." said the Grand Admiral.
Seconds later the transmission stopped and the Grand Admiral reported that the target was destroyed, and the buildings next to it. And the buildings next to them as well. And then there was some collateral damage beyond that; and there is a 100 meter hole where all that used to be.
"Ah, well. Thank god, open up a frequency to those ships and the same command frequency those idiots were just transmitting from for me to speak to them all live." ordered Harry.
"Circuit is up, sir." said the Grand Admiral.
"Attention, Aschen. Your leaders were given an ultimate and terms of surrender, and a time limit. They chose not to answer at all. Therefore you have not accepted the terms in the time I gave you and also did not even so much as request more time, simply chose not to respond at all. Therefore, the answer is made for you. We are now in a state of war. Let whatever demonic entity that you worship have mercy on your souls, assuming you have one." said Harry.
"Grand Admiral. Open fire, fire at will at all military targets at all five planets." ordered Harry.
"Opening fire. Fire at will. Orders confirmed. Weapons red, weapons free. All units engage at will." ordered the Grand Admiral.
Within about four minutes all Aschen warships were destroyed in all five theaters. The Aschen returned fire, to no avail. The Empire took no casualties. The ones at the remote planets just maintained their blockade, while thirty of the fifty Ha'tak launched all air wings, to descend into the atmosphere of the planet and targeted with naquadah enhanced bombs all of the military-industrial complexes and assets, especially shipyards. The thirty Ha'tak took up equidistant positions around the globe at low orbit and destroyed all of the Aschen satellites, and lowered themselves into low orbit such that they were easily seen from the ground, to inspire shock and awe.
"Grand Admiral. Leave this fleet of thirty here and the other forty at the four remote planets to maintain the quarantine on these people. When you are finished with the surface campaign to destroy their military assets, recall your forces and beam up all their stargates and keep them in storage. Just maintain small CAP from each Ha'tak to maintain air superiority and then just watch and monitor them." said Harry.
"If they have not contacted you in one week to discuss surrender or to request aid, or anything. I will send a diplomatic team to join you and begin work on ensuring they know the new rules they will be living under for some time, enforcing their compliance to the terms, and we will go from there. Until further notice, the Aschen Confederation is under quarantine. The only exceptions are if another member of the old Great Races Alliance wishes to visit them, that is the Asgard, or the Nox. Otherwise, no one goes in or out." concluded Harry.
"Yes, sir." answered the Grand Admiral, and they terminated their holographic transmission from the fleet.
"Okay, folks, let's go home and let the fleet do their work." said Harry, and he sent the remaining twenty Ha'tak back to Eskal, along with their HQ mother-ship, the other back to Hasara, and returned with his friends aboard Destiny back to Atlantis.
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