Harry Potter: Rise of an Empire
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"Text." - Speech.
'Text.' - Thoughts.
'Text.' - Salem.
"Text." - Goa'uld voice.
"Text." - God voice.
Chapter 10: Base
"Lord Heka, the palace and city have been secured, what are your commands?" Asha'ka asks, coming to a stop before me and saluting.
I nod and survey the area, smirking in satisfaction as I see my forces spread out all over the landscape, Nirrti's remaining forces have surrendered without their goddess and the entire planet is now under my complete control. The Asgard themselves have already left, requesting that I get in contact about the DNA Resequencer as soon as possible.
Overly trusting midgets, they're just lucky that I plan on keeping my word.
'So much work to do.' I sigh tiredly, running through my list of chores.
I have to work on the DNA Resequencer, decipher the Asgard computer core as apparently the Asgard saw fit to keep much of their data in the Asgardian Language and a good amount of it doesn't translate well into Goa'uld to begin with, not to mention my need to find a new location for my most valuable machines and the added work of dealing with the breakdown and reconstruction of Nirrti's territories.
'Far too much work for one person... oh!' I grin as a sudden idea strikes me, this has potential.
"Bring the people to the palace, we shall enlighten them to the truth of the Goa'uld and show them the true path." I command, turning towards the palace itself, which is already being torn down for raw materials. Once that is done, several of my guard will add it to the next supply shipment headed for Raini, where it will be fed to the computer core for future use. "Once they are gathered, contact Surei and station three units on this world, I want my new warriors trained as soon as possible."
"Yes my Lord." She replies, saluting and hurrying away.
I make my way up the palace stairs, preparing to sway thousands of people into worshiping me, just another day in the life of a ruler.
'Psh, and I could be in school right now.'
Three inspiring speeches and a large display of magic later, my empire has grown by another seventy thousand subjects, fifteen thousand of which are warriors that are now in my service rather than Nirrti's. This planet, Shakha, is located near the center of Nirrti's territory, it is her largest world and essentially her main base. With fourteen planets, twenty Ha'tak and a score of Al'kesh, Tel'taks and Death Gliders, Nirrti has quite a large territory, all of which belongs to me now.
Nirrti herself, as per the orders sent through the Imperio mind link, is currently healing her battle wounds. Once shes all healed up, she'll return to rule as a figurehead, enforcing my rule and serving to act as a smokescreen against the other System Lords. I will also be able to use her to gather the minor Goa'uld in her empire, allowing me to either take control of their minds or to strike them down, either way, there wont be a Goa'uld left alive or uncontrolled in this system when I'm done.
Having Nirrti's backing will also make it easier to capture her territories, once the minor Goa'uld are dealt with, I'll have her travel to her current worlds and give speeches in my place before I arrive on the worlds. If all goes well, I'll be able to conquer her territory with minimal bloodshed on both sides. Of course, there are still some difficulties involved, spies for one. I have Surei and Fal'nor, the latter of which is training to serve as my spymaster, weeding out spies in Nirrti's forces but it will be quite difficult to capture them all.
My most difficult task after claiming Fujin's empire was rooting out all the spies, I'd been forced to place all six worlds in a lock down, preventing travel off-world and blocking all forms of communication. City-wide Legilimency scans were also helpful in this regard, I couldn't read minds but I could still detect those with negative intent, allowing my guard to arrest them for a full mind scanning.
I couldn't afford to have word of my existence spread to the System Lords just yet, so obviously those that were spies were immediately put to death if they couldn't be swayed to my side. Considering the fact that Nirrti knew nothing of my existence, I'd say it worked well.
Shakha, being the main base of operations of a System Lord, is likely to have far more spies than all six of Fujin's worlds put together. That's why it was immediately put into a lock-down once I captured it, the Chappa'ai is sealed with a shield, all ships are grounded and all communications blocked. The only way anyone is getting off this planet is with my mark on their body and that still comes with strenuous identity checks, it will take some time to completely absorb Nirrti's territory but it will be well worth it in the end.
With Nirrti's territory and her forces added to mine, I'll have enough strength to stand against the Goa'uld, not a combined force of them but I'll be able to face any one or two Goa'uld in battle. That's not even counting the fact that I now have the Asgard Computer Core, this will decrease the time required to arm the newest members of my army and once I've redesigned some of the existing technology and added a few simple modifications, my spacecraft will surpass that of my enemies.
The Computer Core will be a very important facet in my future plans, with it, I will be able to quickly build up my armada and equip my army with improved weapons in far less time than I could have with my factories. Especially once I use the first Core to create secondary Sub-Cores, each with their own matter conversion device, the Asgard really got the short end of our deal.
Which reminds me, I should probably get to work on my end of the bargain, they're valuable allies and I want to keep them that way. Refusing to cure them would likely lead to the prompt annihilation of my empire, not even their war with the Replicators would stop them from retaliating with overwhelming force if I betray them over something like this.
Besides, I gave my word and I'm not about to break it, not without a good reason at least.
With that thought in mind, I teleport myself away, leaving Surei in charge of claiming this world.
Appearing on Raini an instant later, I'm just in time to see the Resequencer being set up by a team of technicians, the Ha'tak carrying it having made it here hours ago. The Resequencer, despite my misgivings, has been set up inside the refinery as I have nowhere else to put it at this moment, this place may be safe right now but I really need to move my more valuable devices out of here as soon as possible.
Besides working with the Resequencer, I need to deal with another device I looted from Nirrti, a Sarcophagus. With these two machines, I'm well on my way to immortality but it will take some time to study them, I don't want to screw this up. While the Sarcophagus alone can grant me some form of immortality, the degeneration of my psyche is a side effect that I have no wish to experience, I'll likely find a use for it but it defiantly won't serve as my main source of immortality.
Besides, I want true immortality, not the quasi-immortality of a Sarcophagus. All a Sarcophagus does is heal wounds to the point that it can bring back the recently deceased, so unless someone can retrieve my body, revive me and somehow tie my soul to that new body, it would be pretty useless but that is an issue for another time. Right now I have bigger things to worry about, such as my workload, there's much that needs to be done and very few that I can delegate to my subjects.
Set up beside the Computer Core is a separate machine, an Asgard stasis pod that has been modified for human use, within which my mindless clone is stored. The clone, having been a flawed yet perfect copy created by Loki, has all the requirements of a regular human body, the pod keeps it in stasis as I have no other form of life support.
I hadn't really planned to do anything with this clone, not until I can use the Resequencer at least but right now I don't have much choice, there's just too much work to do by myself.
It's a weird feeling, being in two bodies at once, almost like I'm being stretched in two separate directions. When I had the symbiote within me it was less noticeable since I only had to focus on one body, with the symbiote stored within my clone however, it's just plain weird. It's a bit disconcerting at first, being in two places at once but after several long minutes, I managed to get the general hang of it.
That doesn't stop it from feeling weird though, not in the slightest.
Still, it's required.
With two bodies under my control, I can do my work in half the time, using my Occlumency to split my attention and complete multiple projects at the same time. Unfortunately, with my magic being connected to both my soul and mind it's also split between the two bodies, leaving me weaker unless both bodies are focused on the same goal. Having access to only half my power at a time is, to say the least, off-putting but so long as I don't do anything too strenuous, I should be fine.
Luckily, I can recall the other half of my mind and power to either body at any time but it takes some time depending on the distance, the major downside is that moving the entirety of my mind and power to one body will leave the other completely brain dead until I reconnect with it. Despite these few difficulties, I find this split to be a boon.
Right now, it's a race against time to fortify my empire and prepare for the eventual clash against the Goa'uld. Regardless of my precautions, I know that some spies will slip through, informing the others of my existence. Eventually, the System Lords will hear of me and the only way my empire will survive is to show the pathetic snakes that it's too costly to start a war with me.
Should I succeed, the Goa'uld will have to capitulate and form a temporary treaty between our two empires, giving me time to grow in power before I eventually betray them. Should I fail... well, failure is not an option so I'll just have to work hard. All I need is time to prepare, prepare so that I'm able to destroy the Goa'uld when the time comes.
Which is why I'm currently on Raini, devouring every little bit of information I can from the Computer Core, analyzing the basics of Asgard technology so that I can build on it. At the same time, I'm also testing the full capabilities of the Resequencer on a few of Nirrti's human guinea pigs, learning to work the machine by repairing the damage she's done to their DNA, it also helps that I had Nirrti send every little bit of data she compiled on the machine.
I estimate it'll take me close to three months to learn everything I can about basic Asgard technology and use it to supplement my knowledge of Goa'uld sciences, once I'm done with the Core, I can turn my full attention to the Resequencer, which should take roughly six weeks on its own. I'd expected it to take far longer than that but the machine seems to react to my Alteran bloodline, guiding my actions and helping me learn, It was like I already knew how to use it but some how forgot and just need to refresh my memory.
It's a strange feeling but this is simply an example of just what it was that had made the Alteran a legendary race, no machine in the Goa'uld could do the same off of a single gene.
Four and a half months is a lot of time to focus on just two projects, I have to delegate the other none essential tasks to my most trusted subjects. I'm just glad that I have no need to sleep, my meditation allowing me to be fully refreshed after just one hour of rest, the extra hours to work will help me to finish quickly.
-Five Months Later-
With Surei overseeing the restructuring of Nirrti's territory, sending me the odd report and requesting my advice, I'm able to put both of my bodies to work on Raini.
Finally, after months of testing and studying, I have complete mastery of the Core and Resequencer or at least as much of it as I'm allowed. I had been a bit peeved to find that many of the Resequencer's capabilities, namely the ones relating to the brain, are blocked off to me, my attempts to unblock them failing against the superior knowledge of the Ancients. Regardless of the blocks, the Resequencer has the capability to cure the Asgard and serve my needs.
The Asgard were especially gleeful to hear this news, in fact, I'm sure Thor actually smiled at one point, though it was hard to tell. That particular Asgard is harder to read than a Goblin, it actually pleases me that Loki is so… expressive of his emotions. Knowing that there is a cure for their affliction, the Asgard Council decides to send me their next batch of clone bodies to modify and repair, and if I happen to perform some experiments on the bodies while doing so?
Well, no one needs to know, right?
"This is kind of weird." I mutter glancing over at my companion.
"Oh? How so?" He asks, raising a brow in question.
"Well, just last week you were a scrawny little creature, far shorter than I am." I reply with a frown. "Now look at you."
Loki smirks as he looks down at me, his face twisted in smug satisfaction, his new form stands at roughly six feet and is quite human in appearance with long black hair and piercing blue eyes, the slightly larger cranium and grey skin being the only thing that sets him apart from a regular human. It also makes him look like a smug, pretentious ass, especially with the armored robes he wears, though they do look quite nice and it gives me some ideas for my own clothing.
Did I mention how glad I am that the reversion to their natural form has given the Asgard a sense of decency? It's not much by human standards but it's enough of one for them to put on clothes. I would have severed our alliance without hesitation if I'd had to deal with both a naked Thor and a naked Loki.
"Impressive is it not?" Loki asks, smirking down at me. "It feels so good to be back inside a true body, you have my thanks for that."
"Whatever." I grumble, turning back to my work on the core. "Why are you here and how did you even get in here?"
He chuckles, the sound serving to further increase my annoyance.
"You of all people should know the capabilities of the Asgard, it was a simple task to find you and beam down to your location." he replies with that damnable smirk. "I was under the impression that my clone was a failure."
I look up to see him focused on my second body, which is currently disassembling the Sarcophagus with my bare hands, I could have done it faster with magic but Loki is far less annoying when I can shift half my attention elsewhere.
"Why are you here Loki?" I ask once more, ignoring his attempt to gain information. "Being allies doesn't give you free reign within my territories."
He simply smirks.
"The council has come to a decision on your secondary offer." he says as way of explanation, his eyes still locked on the clone.
"And?" I ask, turning to him as he's peaked my interest.
"They refuse your offer." Loki replies, looking far too pleased to deliver that news. "The repository is far too valuable to hand over, we will continue our efforts to decipher it and defeat the replicators."
"Really." I mutter evenly, keeping my rage from coloring my tone. "Technically, as an Alteran, the repository belongs to me."
His eyes turn to me, finally leaving the clones form.
"It was gifted to us by the last of the true Alteran, it is ours by right ." he counters.
Another flash of anger is suppressed by my defenses.
"Very well." I reply, turning back to my work.
A bright flash of light denotes Loki's departure, his message delivered. I'm quite furious with the Asgard, the information on that repository is mine by blood yet they hoard it for themselves, the little bastards will rue this day. A second flash of light draws my attention as my clone is beamed away, only to flicker back a second later and return to its work, Loki is such an annoying bastard sometimes.
'Where have you been?' Salem shouts as I enter the tent, leaping to his feet in anger.
'Working.'
'Working? WORKING! It's been months!' he shrieks angrily, tail swinging wildly.
'I had a lot of work.'
'You little shit, bugger your work! You did this on purpose, leaving me with those demons!'
I smirk at that, my bad mood alleviating as I take in his appearance, nicely groomed and decked out in jewelry, Mina definitely got her hands on him. Despite being a commander with many duties of her own, Mina still finds the time to take care of Salem, much to his annoyance and my amusement.
'Nooo..' I reply, trailing off in a most unbelievable manner.
'I'll fucking kill you!'
Chuckling merrily, I dodge five tons of giant, enraged wild cat and flicker to my study, where my computer is stored. I'm glad to see that I've received the latest report from Nirrti, which includes a list of her many planets and their specific details. One world catches my attention, a small farming planet with a population of just fifteen hundred, it will serve my needs. With Shakha fully under my control, I'm ready to claim the rest of Nirrti's territory but before I do that, I need an outpost to deploy my forces from in that section of the Galaxy, this planet will be perfect.
The planet, Hanaka, has plenty of free space and a small population, it should be simple enough to set up an outpost and eventually a full military base there, especially once Nirrti's spare Chappa'ai is moved there and connected to the network. With that settled, I send the instructions ahead to Surei and take a seat at my computer, I have plans to draw up and a secret base to design.
With my current projects complete, I can now move on to my secondary goals, immortality and expanding my empire. One body is still on Raini, disassembling the sarcophagus in order to study its true nature, as well as working to unblock the locks on the Resequencer. While that body is delving into the different methods to achieve immortality, my second has been tasked with building a secret base of operations, a place when I can hide my most valuable technologies and work in secret.
-Three Months Later-
With one body working on a variety of smaller projects, a majority of the work delegated to the now experienced technicians in my forces, I had plenty of time for my other body to finish his task, building a secret base.
Rather than building the base on an unknown world or in a hidden location on one of my worlds, I've chosen to build it inside the largest of the four moons orbiting Lii, the second largest planet in Fujin's former territory. I've chosen to make these six worlds my core worlds as not only are they at the farthest end of the galaxy from Goa'uld controlled space, they are also my first claimed territory and that holds some sentimental value, that's why my personal base will also be built in this system.
The entire base is hidden near the core of the nameless moon, it's a large sprawling complex but it's buried so deep that even the Asgardian sensors will be unable to find it, not even the energy emissions can be detected at that depth. Building the complex by myself was truly draining work, especially as I only had access to half my magic at the time, luckily I was able to use some of my new technology to circumvent that limitation.
I started construction by using the Computer Core to create a Sub-core for my personal use, that Sub-core was then used to fabricate ten by ten by ten foot blocks of titanium, using the naturally occurring titanium found near the core of the moon as raw materials. Once created, the blocks were immediately beamed directly below the surface by an Asgard transporter while a second transporter beamed all the rocks, minerals and dirt out of the area and fed them to the core. Careful use of the transporters allowed me to basically phase the blocks together, leaving the finished construction perfectly seamless.
With this method, I was able to complete the entire complex on my own in little time, finishing a job that would normally take years with hundreds of workers in just a matter of days. The finished complex is made up of a variety of rooms of various sizes, all randomly spread out and lacking doors, elevators and transporters. Each room is pretty much isolated, my personal method of teleportation being the only way to get around, which should serve as a passive defense if this base is ever discovered.
The first room is a wide open area with simple dividers splitting it into smaller sections, this is my personal lab. The lab is split into main sections, Magic and Science. In the Magic Section, I've set up a series of bookcases and filled them with all of my magical tomes and scrolls, a computer setup beside them containing digital copies as well as my own notes. I've also chosen to store the quantum mirror in this section, a powerful force field serving to block entrance to unexpected visitors from alternate realities. Lastly is the potions lab taking up a majority of this section, I have dozens of different cauldrons made of a variety of metals, a Naquadah shelf and fridge with stasis runes serving as a storage for my small supply of materials.
Over on the science side of the room, I have the DNA Resequencer safely stored away, I still use it from time to time in my experiments but its normally left unused. In addition to that, I have three Sarcophagi that I liberated from the minor Goa'uld that once served Nirrti, they have no use for them now. The room also contains my knockoff version of the Asgard Consciousness Transfer Device, which is connected to a computer holding all of my gathered knowledge, as well as a stasis pod holding a nonfunctional clone of myself. Altogether, this section is devoted to my quest for immortality, with one of my bodies in here on a constant basis performing experiments.
The second room is packed full of several dozen Sub-cores and a handful of supercomputers, this room is dedicated to building whatever I want en masse, hundreds of guns, spare parts, ship parts and vehicle parts rolling out of here on a constant basis. The Sub-cores, created from the Computer Core but limited in ability, have replaced all machinery in all of my factories. Combined together with the finished products created in this room, my factories are now able to outfit several thousand soldiers on a weekly basis, all spare products going into storage for future use.
Next is the third room in my strange complex, the power room. Within this room, I have two large Neutrino-Ion Generators courtesy of the Asgard database, one is enough to power the entire complex but I keep a second on hand in case of emergencies. I'd originally wanted to use the more advanced power core from the database, which would have provided enough energy to power five such complexes, but the device would have released a subspace signal that would reveal the location and existence of my base to anyone with a powerful enough sensor system.
Lastly is the largest of the four rooms, in fact, simply calling it large is an understatement of epic proportions. Stored within this room are three dry docks, each capable of holding a vessel the size of a Ha'tak, complete with the triangle shaped superstructure. Surrounding each dry dock is a series of beam transporters, each networked to one of the three supercomputers in the room. This entire room is constantly filled with bright flashes as the transporters above beam ship and vehicle parts directly into the room, assembling whole vessels in a matter of days, the programmed designs creating the vessels in as seamless a manner as possible.
This same method is also used by the two space docks surrounding the planet my base orbits, allowing me to beam out the completed vessels and add them to my growing armada, hundreds of my newly designed vehicles and starships are being assembled day after day with this method. It takes roughly three days to assemble a fighter craft or an armored carrier, ten days for a scout ship or tank, twelve for a bomber craft and twenty-one for full on mothership, far less time than it would take at a regular dry or space dock. With those numbers in such a small amount of time, I will soon have more vehicles and vessels than I will solders capable of crewing them, enough to challenge one of the more powerful System Lords and come out on top.
This entire base has been a huge drain on my resources, I couldn't just pull away the resources going to my many factories so several of my Ha'tak were scrapped for raw materials, no one would question me on it but there will still be those that are curious. Given another six or seven months, I would have had more than enough materials to divert some from my factories but I don't have the time, the Goa'uld could learn of my existence at any time and launch an attack on my fledgling empire.
Now however, I welcome their attack, my weapons, vehicles and vessels are all receiving upgrades and will be capable of handling what the Goa'uld throw at us.
Knowing that Asgard technology is far superior to Goa'uld technology, I had one of my bodies draw up new designs and plans, which were then implemented immediately. With the Computer Core and the Sub-cores, all of my soldiers will be completely outfitted in just a few months time, a task that would have taken far longer to complete without them.
All three of the guns have been refitted, the Naquadah and Steel components being replaced with the Naquadah/Trinium/Carbon (NTC) composite metal of the Asgard, making all my weapons -Vibroknife included- lighter without reducing their durability. In addition to this refit, I've also replace the Liquid Naquadah power source with an Asgardian Neutronium power source to increase their base capabilities, making them more accurate, powerful and increasing their range. Another bonus with this upgrade is that the assault rifles and snipers can be used for longer periods of time, the new metal takes far longer to overheat so my soldiers can unload at full power without worrying about burning themselves.
In addition to these upgrades, I've also reshaped their casings, making them sleeker and less bulky. The sniper rifle has also bed outfitted with a collapsible tripod, which will help in the aiming and firing of the weapon, especially as there's no recoil with the plasma weapons.
With these upgrades, I'm more concerned with my weapons falling into the wrong hands so I've reinforced the self-destruct system. Each fabricated weapon is created with the self-destruct rune matrix I'd invented months ago, a specially created and empowered wardstone serving to provide the magic to power the runes, allowing the weapons to still turn into dust if handled by someone without my mark. One of the flaws in my previous design was that a intense scan by my enemies could activate the self-destruct system, leaving my soldiers with no weapons or vehicles, a flaw that I've fixed with the new runes.
Vehicle wise, I've replaced all the Naquadah and Steel hulls with the NTC composite metal and upgraded their shields, allowing them to shrug off far more damage than before. The staff cannons have all been replaced with an upgraded version based on Asgardian technology, as they are new inventions of my creation, I've decided to call them Plasma Cannons. The plasma cannons are more powerful and larger than the staff cannons, capable of dealing more damage over a greater distance, the most powerful ones which are installed on the upgraded tanks are capable of downing an Al'kesh in one shot.
While the Patrol Vehicles are left mostly the same, the aforementioned upgrade notwithstanding, the Armored Carriers and Tanks are much different in form. Rather than two main cannons and a third swiveling cannon, the Plasma Tank now has a single, powerful main cannon, six smaller, forward facing cannons and a swiveling cannon on each side of the vehicle. As for the carrier, its been refit so it's sleeker in form, allowing it to move far faster and hover much higher than before, the carrying capacity has also been increased to roughly fifty passengers.
The last addition to these three vehicles is what I call the Vehicle Recall System. When activated by the pilot or remotely from a mothership, the system will send out a signal through an embedded beacon, which is then picked up by the nearest mothership. After a scan to check for harmful materials such as bombs and biological weapons, the mothership will then activate a beam transporter which would beam the vehicle into the cargo bay of the vessel. This allows for the quick insertion and withdrawal of my vehicles, lessening the chance of having them stolen or requiring a self-destruct.
With my current machines rebuilt and upgraded, I moved on to creating new and superior technology for my forces, namely grenades and armor.
In the way of hand grenades, the Goa'uld have a few variants, the Takunitagaminituron which fires small bursts of energy at nearby heat signatures and the Tok'Kal which is basically a flashbang/stun grenade mix. While these have their uses, I wanted something small, light and explosive, a grenade that can be used to handle a large group of enemies or destroy obstructions.
The answer is the plasma grenade, a small item similar in appearance to earths frag grenades, except rather than a pin there's a button at the top. These buttons are built so that they require a great amount of effort to press, effort far beyond a human but well within the range of a Jaffa, this prevents the grenades from activating at the slightest push. Once the button is pressed, the Potassium and Naquadah held separately within the device are mixed, creating an unstable reaction. Five seconds after the button is pressed, the grenade explodes with powerful force, causing a great deal of damage and shooting shrapnel in all directions.
Lastly the grenades are equipped with a warning feature, informing my soldiers of just when they're about to blow so there're no casualties on my part. When activated, the entire grenade begins to glow blue on a sub-visibility frequency, making them invisible to the naked eye but brightly illuminated when viewed with the proper tools.
Which brings me the most important component to my Jaffa's new arsenal, Power Armor.
As the traditional Jaffa armor is quite weak functionally and very distinct in appearance, I've created a new suit of armor for my forces, armor that will be distinct to my empire so we are no longer mistaken for the Goa'uld.
Appearance wise, the new armor is both intimidating and inspiring, it's a sleek design created with a mix of metal plates and reinforced cloth. The armor of the general forces is made up of several plates of the thin NTC composite metal over a black full body suit, the suit completely covering all skin from the neck down to the toes.
Despite looking soft and flimsy, the body suit is formed of a Trinium/Kevlar nano-composite material, which makes it incredible strong yet flexible at the same time. Squeezed between the two layers of the suit is a thin layer of energy absorbing gel which hardens when struck by physical force and is capable of reducing the damage of a plasma bolt, not much but enough to make grazing shots superficial. As for the metal plating, its makeup makes is lighter than the old Jaffa armor but it's far more durable and capable of shrugging off direct shots from a staff weapon.
On its own, this armor is very effective and deadly but what makes it the best however, are the many technological additions. The greatest example of this is the helmet, a full helmet of the same NTC composite metal, with a one way visor made of the thickest glass I could fabricate. The entire helmet comes programmed with a wide variety of visual enhancements, including a targeting system, a highly customizable HUD, a communications device and many others. With the helmet equipped, my soldiers are capable of working efficiently in all sorts of light conditions and are granted a great amount of awareness of their surroundings, enemy and ally positions, and objective awareness locations in battle.
Aside from the helmet, the armor is also full of several enhancements, all of which are powered by a Neutronium power cell, placed directly on the chest of the suit but protected by layers of metal plating. All enhancements, especially the ones in the helmet, are controlled by a neural interface based off of Asgardian tech but modified to work for humans and Jaffa.
This is especially helpful when it comes to the electromagnetic holsters built into the suit, one on the back and one on each hip. When connected to the strips on each of my weapons, the holsters are capable of keeping all weapons firmly in place, rendering them unmovable unless a mental command is given to free the weapon in question. Seeing the effectiveness of the holsters, I've also attached strips to the armors gauntlets, making it near impossible to disarm one of my soldiers.
What I consider the most important components of the armor however, are the Personal Shield Generator and the Force-amplifying Circuits. When deployed, the form fitting shield built into the armor is capable of shrugging off close to a dozen blasts from a staff weapon before being depleted, this is made more effective as the shield can easily recover to full strength after a few seconds behind cover.
As for the Force-Amplifying Circuits, these are a special set of electronic pathways that run through the entire suit, the full circuit is capable of of amplifying the kinetic force the wearer can exert by a factor of two. This makes my already enhanced soldiers twice as fast and twice as strong as the average Jaffa, when coupled with the speed of thought reaction time of the neural interface, this armor essentially creates the perfect super soldier.
The final enhancement is to the suits specifically designed for the Medic division, the Gauntlets of these suits come equipped with an upgraded healing device, allowing my medics to heal civilians and their fellow soldiers with a wave of their gloves. This addition has made the medics one of the most recognized and beloved divisions in my army, the color of their armor allowing them to stand out and their medical skills garnering them a reputation among my civilian subjects.
While each set of armor is nearly indistinguishable, the Medic armor being the only one with a separate enhancement of its own, each division is easily identifiable by its color. Medics are easily identifiable by their white plated armor, pilots and engineers are equipped with red plated armor and the infantry, snipers and officers are all decked in black armor.
Other than the color, there is nothing to set the three armor types apart, meaning no markings or anything that can reveal the ranks of my soldiers to my enemies. The only way to know the ranks of my various soldiers is by wearing one of the suits, a modification to the HUD allowing the wearer to see the names and ranks of their fellow soldiers, which will come in very handy if any infiltrators or spies try to sneak around in one of these suits.
While the suits of the general forces are powerful and a game changer in future warfare, the suits I've designed for my commanders are even more formidable. Rather than the simpler cloth and plating armor of the general forces, my commanders are equipped with a full body exoskeleton, the regular commanders wearing a rust red suit while Surei is equipped in a hulking, white and yellow suit.
In addition to the enhancements of the power armor, the exoskeletons also come with an air filter in the helmets, an oxygen tank on the back and a cooling unit in full suit as the entire exoskeleton is pressure sealed, allowing my commanders to survive diving to deep depths or floating in open space. The communications device and HUD of the suit have been modified so my commanders can speak to large groups of soldiers at the same time as well as track all soldiers and enemies in real time with their sensor arrays, allowing them to manage the entire battlefield to their own discretion. Lastly is the Force-Amplifying Circuits of the exoskeletons, these are the main reason the suits are so much larger than those of the general forces, these circuits are capable of improving the physical capabilities of my commanders by a factor of five, making them far deadlier than the general forces of my army.
To protect the secrets of my suits, I've attached the same self-destruct system used in my weapons as well as the recall device used in my vehicles. These recall devices have also been modified to work in two ways, the first being that they can teleport my soldiers' weapons directly to their person, provided a beam transporter is close enough to do so. The second function works much like the beacons in my vehicles and will transport the soldiers to the nearest starship when activated, allowing me to easily dispatch and recall my forces at a moments notice.
With all these powerful enhancements, these suits are perhaps the greatest creations I can offer my soldiers, they will be incredibly powerful and dangerous in their power armor. There is one major flaw with the armor however, all of the enhancements built into the armor will fail should the helmet be removed or take too much damage, leaving the soldier with a simple but somewhat effective metal suit. While this is a major flaw, it's required because it allows me to utilize the neural interface.
Each interface has one major command programmed into it, "Do not allow harm to come to your creator" with myself programmed into the role of creator. These interfaces essentially stop the wearer from harming or attacking me while the suit is on, meaning that the suits can never be used against me, if I've learned anything from reading so much it's this 'If you trust your minions with anything that can be used against you, it most likely will be'.
My last creation in the way of armor comes in the form of my own clothing, I've replaced my old clothes with a new set of personally designed robes and while I would have loved to create my own super-powered suit of armor, it just couldn't be done. The worship of my people is based on their belief in my divinity, using a powerful suit of armor would dissuade this belief, if I want to continue increasing my worshipers and the power they grant me, I'll need to further the belief of my divine majesty, that means no high tech suits of armor.
My new clothes, a mix of armor and robes, are made in a mix of wizarding fashion and Loki's fashionable style, and dear god do I hope he never learns of that, the annoying shit would never let me live it down. Where Loki has robes of black, silver and green, a color scheme that I once favored but can't stand to wear anymore because of him, my clothes are now black silver, and red.
My new clothes start off with the Trinium/Kevlar nano-composite body suit and over top of that is my black and silver Nundu coat, the powerful magical protection transferring into a slight bit of energy protection in this reality. Next is an armored vest made of a mesh of Naquadah threads, the last of my Nundu pelt and the Trinium/Kevlar material, this mesh is also used to make the gloves and boots of my outfit. The last item of the outfit is a black, hooded cloak with a red lining made of Naquadah threads and the Trinium/Kevlar nano-composite, the chest and upper arms of the cloak are also fitted with a plating of NTC for both style and protection.
All in all, it's a fashionable and functional outfit with great offensive and defensive capabilities, the material and padding offer protection from both plasma weapons and kinetic damage, while the Naquadah threads allow me to focus my magic through my clothes, allowing me to remove the Naquadah in my bloodstream. While I would have preferred to keep the Naquadah in my bloodstream, a permanent focus that couldn't be taken away easily, it's become a bit of a liability. What with the Asgard and their Shock Spears, I wouldn't put it past Loki to try and get some revenge for that Cruciatus on our first meeting, he just a bastard that way.
With my weapons, vehicles and armor complete, I moved on to the one weakness in my empire, my starships. With the Asgards technology at my fingertips, I decide to completely scrap the obsolete Goa'uld technology and improve all my ships, starting with the Death Gliders and moving up to the Ha'tak. However, my first creation is one of my own making, something I will need once the true battle begins, an orbital defense system.
The orbital defense satellites are basically free floating, galaxy-class lasers, the secondary weapon on all Asgard motherships and while they're weaker than their Ion Guns, they're just as effective against the Goa'uld. These satellites are roughly fifty meters long and twenty-five meters at their widest, far too small and simple to require much effort, allowing me to be mass produce them by the hundreds. A single satellite is composed of a galaxy-class laser, powered by a Neutronium generator, linked to a built-in motherboard and sensor array, with eight thrusters pointing in different directions for propulsion.
Several hundred of these satellites can be set to orbit a planet, floating freely with no serious function until the planet comes under attack, activating the satellites and causing them to retaliate against the invading force. Using their powerful sensors, these satellites are able to differentiate between enemy and allied forces and act accordingly, which means blowing the hell out of any enemies they can find.
Once the satellites are designed, I move on to my spacecraft.
For my fighters, the scarab-like form of the Death Glider is completely scrapped, replaced with a more streamline form similar to Earth's fighter jets but still alien in appearance. The small fighters, which are unnamed but referred to as Fighter craft or just Fighters, are built to serve as my main force in atmospheric combat, which means that they'll need to be able to take down enemy fighters as well as deal damage against larger ships.
Powered by an array of Neutronium generators, the fighters are equipped with three, forward facing plasma cannons, as well as four missile pods loaded with Naquadah-tipped warheads. These weapons, despite their small size, are powerful enough to cause noticeable damage to the shields of a Goa'uld Ha'tak and when working together, a group of these fighters should be able to take down said vessel.
The fighters control systems have also been upgraded in comparison to the Death Gliders, the Goa'uld stick controls replaced with a neural interface control system, allowing the pilot to control the entire vessel with their mind alone and making the fighters far more maneuverable than a Death Glider. Aside from the pilot, the vessel also seats a co-pilot and a spare passenger, adding more assistance should the fighter ever find itself stranded, especially if the added passenger is a technician.
As I don't see my fighters or their pilots as expendable, I've expended the little effort required to improve the defenses of my fighters. The entire vessel is plated with the NTC composite metal, improving its basic defensive capabilities and making it light and strong, coupled with a shield generator similar to the ones on my land vehicles, the fighters will be able to absorb a large amount of damage before they fall.
With both its offensive and defensive capabilities handled, I also install an inertia dampener for my pilots comfort, a sensor array for combat and sublight engines for transport. I want these fighters to serve as the bulk of my space fleet, both in space and within the atmosphere, I expect them to be capable of facing off against a slew of Death Gliders and any other vessels that the Goa'uld can throw at me.
The bombers I've created to replace the Goa'uld Al'kesh are much smaller and sleeker than the original bombers, looking like a futuristic version of earths larger vessels. As my bombers are to only serve in a combat capacity, I've created them so they can be easily crewed by three soldiers people using a series of neural-interface computer consoles.
Powered by two small Neutrino-Ion generators, the engines of the vessel have been upgraded to include both an Asgard propulsion system as well as improved sublight engines, allowing the vessels easy movement both within the atmosphere and in space. To assist with combat, each vessel has five galaxy-class lasers in addition to a small bomb bay which can easily hold a hundred Naquadah bombs, each roughly the size of a basketball and capable of destroying a large swath of land.
While the vessel is filled with a slew of technological advancements, such as its holographic communication system and powerful sensor array, the one device that makes it truly superior to the Goa'uld Al'kesh is the beam transporter array. When used in conjunction with the sensor array, the beam transporters are able to teleport their bombs from the bay directly to the target location, their only limit being the range of the sensors. Used properly, my bombers are capable of delivering their entire payload without once flying over the battlefield and combined with their shields and NTC plating, they are some of the most powerful weapons in my arsenal.
It's only a pity that the Asgard already have a device to block this method of transport, teleporting a bomb right into Loki's vessel would have been worth the consequences.
The next vessel to receive an upgrade is the Tel'tak, which has been remade into an offensive transport vessel, the vessels are designed to deal a great amount of damage to my enemies, all while serving as a transport or scouting areas that I cant search through with my sensors.
With the inclusion of beam transporters to my arsenal, I don't really need a spacecraft that serves as a troop or cargo carrier, everything can be easily beamed to its target location. Regardless of this fact, it doesn't hurt to be prepared so my scouts are built with enough space for the crew of two, as well as an extra fifty passengers, in addition to this the vessels also contain a massive cargo bay capable of handling up to forty thousand kilograms of added weight.
Combat wise, the vessel is powered by a large Neutrino-Ion generator and two smaller generators of the same make, all of which provide power to its five galaxy-class lasers, four missile pods and five plasma cannons. The hull is composed of the same NTC composite metal of all my vessels, with a powerful shield projector as an added defense. The inclusion of a interstellar hyperdrive to its sublight engines and propulsion system, allows this vessel to travel anywhere in the galaxy, the self-destruct and recall systems included to serve as a fail safe.
As I plan to also use these vessels in civilian matters, the Transport Vessel is equipped with a state of the art medical facility, a powerful cloaking system to hide from sensors, a stasis bay for medical emergencies or prisoner detainment, and close to a hundred escape pods should the need ever arise. While the bombers may be the most powerful vessels in my army, and the fighters the most numerous, I've designed the transport vessel to have the most versatility and usefulness.
For the legion's motherships, I was glad to scrap the Goa'uld Ha'tak and build my own vessels from scratch, not only is Ha'tak more of a transport vessel than it is a warship, it is also very iconic and known far and wide as a vessel of the Goa'uld empire. I want to set my new empire as far apart from the Goa'uld as possible, this is a great way to do that, with a few other differences helping to solidify the image.
As the average Ha'tak is nothing more than a large, hollow pyramid that requires a massive superstructure to be effective, I've scrapped all knowledge I have on the Ha'tak and designed my new vessels off of the blueprints for the Asgard Bilskirnir-class Battlecruiser, adding my own artistic talent to give the vessel a sleek, sword-like form rather than the hammer-like form that the Asgard prefer.
My new Battlecruiser is a large vessel, larger than even the Asgard vessel it's based on, yet despite its large size, it can easily be crewed by three people using the neural-interface computer consoles, although the average crew is made up of twelve soldiers using the regular consoles. The incredible size of the vessel is due to its design, which was drawn to include a cargo bay capable of carrying up to five hundred thousand tons worth of smaller vessels, a bomb bay with a payload of three hundred Naquadah bombs, and living quarters for the crew as well as around twenty-five hundred passengers.
In addition to all that, it also contains a massive medical bay, transport and receival chamber, and a stasis bay for close to three thousand individuals. All of this is powered by five large Neutrino-Ion generators, two smaller generators of the same make and a single large generator as backup, the backup generator only activating to power the engines and life support in an emergency.
Transport wise, the battlecruiser comes complete with an interstellar hyperdrive and sublight engines like all other motherships, in addition to that however, I've installed a series of thrusters all over the vessel, allowing it to turn much faster than both Goa'uld and Asgard motherships. While the two engines will place this vessel on par with the Ha'tak, it's the intergalactic hyperdrive engines that make this vessel truly great, with these I'll be able to travel to a whole other galaxy should I ever wish to.
That will come in very handy if the Goa'uld somehow manage to push my empire all the way back that fleeing is the only option, I don't expect that to happen but it pays to be prepared.
When it comes to it's offensive capabilities, my battlecrusier is designed to completely outclass the Ha'tak. This is achieved with it's eight galaxy-class lasers, ten plasma cannons and five missile pods containing the most destructive weapon in my arsenal, a small-yield Neutronium-Antimatter Torpedo. While the Asgard database was edited so that this information was removed, I'm smart enough to postulate what happens when a couple grams of antimatter meet an object composed entirely of neutrons, the result is a weapon capable of destroying entire solar systems at full power.
Of course I'm not crazy enough to actually build a planet killer or anything stronger, the coming war has little need for weapons of that magnitude and I don't expect it to ever escalate to that level. Still, my antimatter torpedoes contain enough reactive material that a successful shot will create an explosion powerful enough to consume an entire Ha'tak, heck I could probably destroy a small moon with one of these.
As well as being outclassed offensively, my battlecruisers are also designed to outclass the Goa'uld defensively. The entire vessel is plated in several layers of the NTC composite metal but a majority of its defenses come from the shields, which are a mix of both Goa'uld and Asgard shielding systems. The Asgard shield encompasses the the first layer of protection, a form fitting shield that is able to absorb and diffuse the energy from weapons fire, these shields are so powerful that they can handle the full might of a single Ha'tak without failing.
As the Goa'uld aren't kind enough to just line their vessel up and attack me one at a time, I've designed these shields so that once the first layer is degraded to the point that energy begins bleeding through, the second layer will quickly activate. From my calculations, by the time my opponents manage to destroy the weaker Goa'uld dome shields, my Asgard shields will have recharged to full power, allowing me to drop the second layer and preset a fully powered shield to any opponents that are still alive at this point.
It is my hope that by the time an opposing vessel has defeated the two shields, assuming I come across any enemies powerful enough to do so, they will either be in critical condition and easy picking or my personnel will have already escaped the vessel in the escape pods and transport vessels. It's as close to a perfect defense as I can get, so long as the enemy I face is weaker than the Asgard, the Asgards Ion Guns can easily deal enough damage to drop the second layer in one shot, allowing them to assault the first layer before the shields are full recharged.
I've designed the Battlecruiser to serve a multifunctional vessel, capable of serving as a battleship, transport vessel and bomber at any time, I just hope it lives up to my expectations when the time comes.
In addition to the battlecruisers, I've also designed another vessel that will serve as a true mothership, my own personal flag ship. The Sword of Heka, the only vessel in my empire with a true name, is built in the same fashion as the battlecruiser except it is several hundred meters larger and is equipped with close to a dozen more weapons and bombs. Once completed, it will be the most powerful vessel in my armada and will be capable of striking down any opposition in its path, the Goa'uld will never see it coming.
However, the Sword won't be the most powerful for long. Where the Asgard lack imagination, my mind is filled with all sorts of weapons and starships designed by some of the best fictional writers that the earth has to offer. It's two of those special vessels that I'm secretly recreating far from any claimed territories, both can be considered superstructures in their own right, and I place both vessels on par with the planet killers that I don't see much use in.
I don't expect the coming war to ever escalate to the point that I'll even need one of these vessels but like I keep saying, it doesn't hurt to be prepared.
A/N: That's that for the chapter, hope you all liked it.
All new pics are on my Deviant Art page, I've gone with the best pics I could find but if any of you can find/draw better pics that match the provided description, feel free to let me know and I'll post them.