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Chapter 14- 2001 Season 5
On their next mission SG-1 was exploring the ruins of a civilization that appeared to be on par as far as technology goes with earth, except for one piece of technology. It was a rather old Alteran designed energy cannon. Somebody had removed the power core of the device probably thinking that would disable it permanently. This showed the typical arrogance of more advanced races, underestimating all others.
Harry stepped out of the room that he and Sam were in working on the device to go have a word with the rest of the team. He was trying to decide how to destroy the device permanently without arousing suspicions. Alteran technology such as this shouldn't fall into the wrong hands. As far as Harry was concerned any but Alteran hands was considered the wrong hands, at least for the moment.
It was during the middle of the conversation that the pnet satellite detected a massive zpe burst coming from the room Sam was in and he heard her mentally cry out as her shield flared. Harry raced into the room and threw up a ward at the door, quickly, to keep the others out. Anything involving zpe would just get them hurt.
He arrived to see Sam staring at what appeared to be an energy being. Alice's first scan of the being instantly alarmed Harry. Harry was probably the most powerful EA. On a scale measured by the energy contained within one zpm Harry contained about 1/4th of the energy in a zpm in his core. When he used the techniques taught to him by the founder's portraits to draw energy from the surrounding environment he could reach control of about ½ of a zpm.
This being contained such a high energy density that it had the energy of a whole zpm and that was without it drawing energy from the surrounding environment, which Harry assumed it could do. Harry was considering his options. In a fight the best he could hope for was to stall the being by himself while the others made for the gate.
Another option was to have Alice send the panic signal back to Star. The panic signal was a measure that any Star employee could call upon. Depending upon the degree of emergency sent by the signal more or less help was sent. One of the truly great things about the panic signal was the response time. Using PJs and the short term time travel fields (a week) they were capable of generating the team could arrive anywhere in the galaxy the instant the signal was sent.
Harry suspected that to take down this being it would require at least 5-10 Star EAs. The Star Enterprises EAs had the best equipment available and the best training, including the techniques taught by the founders. Most of them were about 1/5th of a zpm core density and 2/5th of a zpm when using the founder's techniques. Granted power wasn't everything but in this case it certainly was a big advantage when there was this much of a discrepancy.
Harry didn't want to think of what he would do if this thing had friends. Since the possibility was real and the being had shown no further signs of aggression Harry decided to try talking first. Besides, if the being had really wanted to attack Sam Harry doubted that shield would hold for long (in which case it would have portkeyed Sam away).
"What and who are you?" Harry picked up the emotion of shock with his empathy emanating from the being.
The being winked into visibility and replied, "You can see me?"
"Yes I can see you perfectly well as well as your zero point energy density."
"I'm sorry. I'm just shocked that you could detect me. Very few races could ever detect my kind."
"Yes, probably only the Alterans, the Nox, and a few others," was Harry's reply.
The being who finally identified himself as Orlin showed more surprise but not as much shock anymore.
"You know of the Alterans," Orlin questioned.
"Yes I am quite intimately aware of a great many things about the Alterans up until they disappeared a few million years ago. The real question is why were you attacking my wife?"
Orlin looked both surprised and dismayed. "I am sorry if that is how it appeared but I was attempting to perform a sharing of essence. I had not realized she was your wife."
Harry was both relieved and pissed. A sharing of essence was something very intimate and something only done between lovers. "You know that performing that without knowledge on another being is tantamount to rape. In fact it was illegal without consent by the Alterans."
Orlin again looked ashamed. "I apologize to both of you, I've been alone on this planet for the last several hundred years."
Harry and Sam both accepted the apology realizing that they would be slightly crazy alone by themselves for that long.
"I'm curious as to how you know about that rather obscure Alteran law," Orlin asked.
"Well I happen to have one of the knowledge repositories left behind by that race downloaded into my mind."
Again Orlin seemed surprised by that statement. Harry figured he could share a few secrets with this being in the interest of peace and friendship. Harry had been able to sense Orlin's telepathy but was not offended. It didn't bypass his illusion ward and he did the same thing on most planets they visited.
"I sense you are telling the truth but how is it that I sense no hint of that knowledge in you?"
"Like you I have learned what to allow others to see." Harry dropped just enough of the illusion ward to show he possessed the knowledge but nothing else.
"To answer your original question as to what I am I'm an ascended being." Orlin then went on a little bit to explain what an ascended being was but didn't go into too much detail.
"You said you shed your physical body and became pure energy. My question is what were you before," Harry asked Orlin.
Sam was sitting by listening to the entire conversation with rapt attention.
"Well since you possess a good deal of information about our race I suppose I can tell you I am Alteran." At this proclamation Harry got really excited.
He let the illusion ward drop enough to show his zpe core. Orlin again appeared to be struck dumb. "That shouldn't be possible," Orlin stated.
"What shouldn't be possible," Harry asked in response.
"During our research into ascension we discovered that our brains could either be devoted to retaining our fantastic mental abilities, which included the knowledge you possess, or to developing zpe manipulation powers that you also possess but not both in the strength you possess."
"I'm assuming you know something about soul energies?" Orlin asked.
At Harry's nod Orlin continued, "Well simply put our souls weren't big enough to contain a balance between both quantities. To figure out a balance we would have needed to experiment with a living beings soul, which would have horrible errors along the way. The cost was deemed too high and the research was abandoned. What I don't understand is how you could have achieved that balance. To get to the point where we could maintain power and the knowledge we had to shed our physical bodies. We could not keep our bodies, power, and mental abilities contained in the flesh."
Harry then explained about Voldemort and his Horcrux that Harry was able to erase and absorb into his body. Orlin was horrified that such an event occurred and then stated, "Then it is a complete accident that you are alive and the way you are. I doubt it could be replicated without the research I mentioned before. I also suspect that it has something to do with the fact that you were so young when it happened."
Harry learned about the others and their restrictive rules. Apparently Orlin wasn't allowed to say much more at all. The only reason he was allowed to interact to this point was because Harry revealed that he was Alteran. Harry could understand the others rules even if other races couldn't. With that kind of power they had to have strict laws or they could have Goauld mentality ascended beings.
When Harry questioned Orlin about the whereabouts of Atlantis Orlin apologized but said he wasn't allowed to say. Harry was able to get some useful information out of Orlin. He learned that Atlantis was in the Pegasus galaxy. He did this by asking if Atlantis was in this galaxy or that galaxy. He went through a list of local galaxies. Even though Harry couldn't use telepathy on Orlin he could still sense the being's emotions. This was how he determined the galaxy Atlantis was in.
Another useful bit of information that Harry obtained was that the Alterans did eventually discover a cure for the plague that drove them from the Milky Way. Orlin said he was pushing it but he did give him the method to make the cure. Or rather he programmed it into Harry's healing bracelet. This was a sort of loophole, because he didn't give the knowledge directly to Harry. Orlin doubted he could get away with it again but would do it to make sure the plague never returned. Harry could duplicate the cure in other Alteran healing devices should the plague ever reemerge.
Their discussion turned back to the planet they were on. Apparently Orlin's sentence of exile was just about up. He would be able to return to the others soon but Harry made him promise to completely destroy the weapon before he left. Since he was going to do it after they left they wouldn't be implicated in doing it.
When Harry and Sam got back to Star he informed the other employees of what he had learned. Just because the others had laws against interfering in the lower planes, as Orlin had called them, that didn't mean individuals like Orlin didn't break those laws. Harry would need to find a means of combating rogue ascended beings if possible.
The problem is that he would need an ascended being to experiment on if he hoped to be able to destroy them in large numbers. From the scans he was able to tell that the energy became different between an Ascended being and a flesh and blood Alteran. It apparently became more complex. Harry doubted the connections between the soul "components" could be severed without some serious research and study on an actual ascended, which he doubted he'd ever get to do.
Harry had other ideas that he would explore to combat the ascended. He doubted that they would be ready to take on the others in the near future but one or two rogue ascended should be doable. It was a priority research project for Star.
He also sent out several probes with cloaking generators to the Pegasus galaxy to scan planets in the Pegasus galaxy to search for Atlantis. Harry suspected this method would take many years unless he got lucky but didn't have an alternative method right now. Besides, everybody important to him was immortal. They had the time to wait.
On their next mission to a planet designated P7S-441 SG-1 encountered a being that was apparently something of a shape shifter with the ability to alter short term memories with pheromones it emitted. The shape shifting ability was the only thing that worked against SG-1 thanks to the infection wards. The pheromones were filtered out thanks to the wards. When he tried to impersonate an officer he was promptly stunned and tied up.
Harry used telepathy to discover the being was being hunted by the Goauld because of his abilities. The Goauld considered them a threat and therefore wanted them eliminated. He admitted this fact when he was awakened and told the story of his race being hunted. Teal'c was able to confirm the story. Harry offered the being sanctuary on one of Stars offworld bases to which he gladly accepted. This would keep the NID from trying to get their hands on him, be it the legal faction or not so legal.
On their next planned mission the gate would not dial because of the Alteran dialing protocols. It appeared that they would pass through a star, which could end up destroying the civilization they were traveling to if the wormhole picked up something that would destabilize the star. That mission was scratched for a different time when the star was out of the way. A DHD would have bent the wormhole around the star but Harry hadn't put all of the dialing protocols into the earth gate dialing system and didn't feel it was worth it for this one mission.
The next big event that occurred at the SGC was Cassandra collapsing from an experiment that Nirrti had been performing on Cassandra's village before she wiped them out. She was apparently developing telekinetic abilities that utilized electromagnetic fields that she could manipulate. Luckily the medical beds were able to get rid of the retrovirus that was used because the virus was harmful. They didn't want to travel to Cassandra's old planet because it was very likely that Nirrti had sensors in her territory to alert her to the presence of intruders.
It was another reason for Harry and the others to hate Nirrti a great deal. Her penchant for experimenting on children was second to none among the Goauld. If there was one thing that pissed the usually calm Harry off it was messing with children. This reaction to child abuse was attributed to the fact that he had been abused himself as a child and wanted to protect others from it at all costs.
In recent years the wolf pack security team that monitored EA criminals had branched out to monitor mundane criminal rings. They employed the help of Alteran computer systems and golems with EM generators. They were still only able to deal with the biggest criminal threats but the world's severe crime rates had gone down significantly. The number of child offender rings that were out there sickened the Star employees and were dealt with rather harshly.
Child sex offenders were castrated on the spot as soon as their crimes were discovered from their minds. Because Harry's fortune was so vast and using the confiscated moneys from the criminals he was able to help the victims in a monetary way. Any type of human trafficking was dealt with very harshly.
Daniel had been keeping in contact with his unas friend Chaka and slowly learning their language. When it was discovered that Chaka was taken prisoner close to the gate when he came to get one of Daniel's overtures (a chocolate bar) Hammond authorized a rescue mission. The video camera that recorded the capture also recorded the address the kidnappers went to.
When they got there they discovered a pre industrial civilization that employed unas as domesticated slaves. When the team observed the locals killing an unas with a staff weapon because they couldn't break its spirit the team took action. Harry made them all invisible and then started stunning all of the villagers. When they were all stunned all of the unas were freed and led back through the gate to the world Chaka was from.
Harry woke the villagers and warned them that should they ever enslave another being again Harry would destroy their village. He demonstrated his sincerity by detonating an explosive he had placed in the distance that was big enough to destroy their village at the push of a button if it was placed right. He then simply disappeared from sight to further put the fear into them. Harry returned to Chaka's world with the others and erected wards that would launch anybody back through the still active wormhole should they exit the gate with the intent to harm the unas.
AN: The episode "The Tomb" will not involve a Russian team because the Russians do not know about the stargate yet.
On their next mission SG-1 was exploring a 4000 year old Babylonian temple. Harry had gotten tired pretty quickly waiting outside for Daniel to figure out how to open the door so he used a silent Alohomora EM discretely to facilitate the process. They ended up finding another sarcophagus. This one had a creature in it that was apparently placed in the sarcophagus to torture the Goauld that was placed inside. Daniel deciphered this much from the writing.
Apparently the Goauld was still alive and had taken over the creature. Harry was able to detect this much with Alice's sensors. Harry was able to temporarily modify the sarcophagus settings to kill the Goauld and creature inside before they opened it. They would send a retrieval team to return for the sarcophagus when they got back to the SGC now that it was safe.
It came as a surprise that the Tollans sent a message to earth requesting that SG-1 come to Tollana to discuss trade agreements. The Tollans had always refused to share technology before but now they were offering ion cannons. Harry's suspicions were aroused so he used telepathy on High Chancellor Travell. What he found pissed him off to no end.
The Goauld had developed a shield to block against the Tokra ion cannon. They were being forced to build weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that could pass through solid matter, like the iris (if Harry hadn't taken precautions to prevent that). What was even more disturbing was that it took a while for the pnet satellite in orbit to detect the upgraded Hatac vessel. When it finally did he understood why.
The shield design was similar to an Alteran design which is what allowed it to remain undetected from the satellite for so long. If the Goauld had somehow gotten access to Alteran technology then it would mean big trouble for the galaxy. When Harry used telepathy on Nareem he was able to tell that only the high council knew about the Goauld in orbit and the weapons construction.
When Harry informed Nareem of what was going on he was horrified. The high councilors had murdered Omak, Nareem's mentor and the biggest opposition to sharing technology, to keep him silenced. Harry ordered five PJs to orbit the planet, cloaked, and to destroy the ship. It appeared that although the Goauld knew about some Alteran technology he didn't know how to shield against all of it. The drone weapons penetrated the ship undetected and unopposed.
Nareem took charge and had the high council as well as the Goauld representative on the planet arrested. Harry provided the Tollan with a habitable world that was off the known gate network (because he just put one of his spare gates there). The Tollan people started evacuating through the stargate. Harry kept the PJs in orbit until all of the Tollans were gone along with their technology.
He then beamed the stargate and DHD into PDS (pocket dimensional storage) and left orbit. Harry knew that the Goauld would have never let the Tollan live for long unless they were sure they were always going to be more powerful than them or they really needed them. Harry hoped it was because they really needed them.
The most excitement that happened for SG-1 for the next several weeks was training some new recruits for placement on SG teams. They ended up passing their tests with flying colors.
AN: Episode 2001 didn't happen in my AU because the Aschen were already dealt with. Neither did desperate measures because the medical beds are capable of curing Adrian Conrad. The ship was already parked out in the Kuiper belt by Harry so Wormhole X-treme didn't take place because Martin is being watched. The episode 48 hours didn't happen for several reasons but mainly because Tanith is still being watched by the Tokra and used as a misinformation conduit and also because the Russians still don't know about the stargate.
The next mission for SG-1 arose when a Tokra arrived through the stargate to brief SG-1 on the summit the Goauld were holding to discuss a new order for the Goauld. The Tokra believed that this is the perfect chance to strike all of the Goauld down at once. Harry had to laugh, internally of course, when O'Neill asked the Tokra, Renal, about the defenses on the space station where the summit would take place. Her reply had been "impenetrable."
Harry's definition of impenetrable was much different than that of the Goauld or Tokra. He could probably blow up the station with a single out of phase, cloaked, PJ but that would tip his hand to other threats. Their plan was to have Daniel go in as the human lotar (highest ranking human slave) of lord Yu. The Tokra had yet to be informed of the replacement of Cronus because it was one of the best kept secrets of earth.
Chlorel was never powerful enough to be considered a system lord. Cronus on the other hand was one of the higher ranking system lords. Through the Cronus golem who was being controlled by the Star mainframe Harry had already learned of the summit. Harry decided to see how much he could shock Renal. He informed her about the replacement of Cronus and then proceeded to tell her about his plan.
He would go in as Cronus, using a proprietary illusion field (metamorphagi ability), and dispatch all of the system lords while there. Harry then morphed into Cronus, shocking Renal. To simulate the naquadah in the blood all Harry had to do was generate the field with his illusion ward. Renal informed Harry that he would be able to use a new poison that killed all symbiotes and symbiotes only.
Harry probably wouldn't bother to use it when he got there. He would feel much better ripping them all apart with his bare hands, or sword. The rest of SG-1 was going to wait on Ravenna, a Tokra world, while the mission was in progress. Harry left from there in a cargo ship, which was actually a PJ with a hard light illusion field on it to look like a cargo ship. For his lotar he took along Nym, simply because backup was always appreciated and it was easiest for her to be disguised.
The Goauld mostly sat around discussing losses they had suffered at the hands of a mysterious enemy that attacked from anonymity. Harry was willing to bet that it was the same Goauld that had attacked the Tollan. During a break with the summit Harry and Nym went around casting the spells that were cast on DEs that allowed them to execute them on command on the system lords. This would be easier than the symbiote poison.
They were apparently waiting for an extra guest to arrive. Harry had just received word via Sam, who was monitoring the pnet satellite on Ravenna, that Ravenna was about to be attacked by a fleet of Hatac and Alkesh. Harry immediately dispatched all nine PJs that weren't in use to orbit around the planet to defend it.
When the summit resumed the guest finally arrived. It was Tanith; apparently he had escaped in the confusion that ensued from the impending attack. Tanith finally revealed that the mystery Goauld was Anubis. Wherever Anubis had been the last 1000 years he had apparently discovered some Alteran technology. Harry hoped he wasn't able to manipulate zpe with technology.
Harry had placed the same observation runes in every room of the space station that he placed on the worlds he traveled to. This enabled him to pick up an interesting deal Tanith was trying to make with Yu. He apparently promised that if Anubis was voted back into the ranks of system lord that he would destroy earth before he came back to circumvent the Asgard treaty. This conversation would definitely get some laughs when he sent it to Thor.
During the second break Harry was able to learn that the PJ fleet was dispatching Anubis' fleet that was attacking Ravenna while the Tokra were moving their base to another planet, this time in "Cronus'" territory. When news of the defeat of Anubis' attack fleet reached the ears of the other system lords they would probably come to regret the decision they made to vote him back into system lord status.
When the time came for the system lords to eat Goauld symbiotes Harry was starting to regret not going with the Tokra's plan, which didn't involve eating symbiotes, but a little wandless EM manipulation and the illusion of him eating the symbiote was projected while the real thing was vanished.
A few weeks later after that relatively successful summit mission the Tokra were settled on their new world without any loss of life except for the Tokra spy captured and interrogated by Anubis. Apparently Anubis used one of the early Alteran mind probes that were used before telepathy was available to extract information out of the Tokra operative. The Tokra council had decided that executing the other system lords would be a bad idea now that Anubis was back among them. Harry was using the EMs he placed on each system lord to track them down one by one and replace them with a golem copy. He was careful to make them as realistic as possible in case one of them came into contact with Anubis and he was able to sense EMs.
In this case most of these golems were actually mindless clones (no soul) who were being controlled by old Alteran mind control technology. It was similar to the tech Anubis used on the Tokra operative. Harry made sure no zpe was used in the tech.
About a year ago Harry started a new project in the Tauri sol system. Harry started terraforming Mars into an environment similar to earth. Galactic engineering wasn't too uncommon in the history of the Alterans. They could do some pretty fantastic large scale jobs. Harry created an illusion ward on a planetary scale that should prevent detection of what he was doing by just about any means. It was powered by multiple ZPMs spread evenly over the planet.
At the same time he began the terraforming project he created an extension of the pnet that created a perimeter net around the solar system which would detect any suspicious activity or traffic entering into the sol system. Harry was really glad he took this precaution because the net just informed him that a massive asteroid was heading toward the sol system. The satellites calculated the trajectory as earth.
Scans for the composition of the asteroid revealed that this was a deliberate attack on earth. Apparently Anubis was going to try the subtle approach at destroying earth first. There was no way a naquadah core asteroid would be in the sol system. Anubis probably dragged the asteroid in the hyperspace field of several Hatac vessels onto its current trajectory.
Harry saw this as a good opportunity for a naquadah deposit to mine. Harry placed a cloaking generator on the asteroid to render it invisible to detection. He had his ten PJ fleet surround the asteroid and drag it into a stable orbit around mars. Harry would now easily be able to begin mining the asteroid without anybody ever knowing it was there (thanks Anubis).
Since Harry decided to terraform Mars he was thinking about changing the name. He thought about the name Lily but it would get confusing if it was the same name as the Alteran battle cruiser that was currently under construction. The terraformed Mars/nameless planet would be a complete paradise by the end of the year.
When the team next went through the gate SG-1 went to meet the Jaffa leader Kytano whose charisma and leadership skills had Teal'c and Bratac practically drooling. Alice had taken to scanning just about everybody Harry met to determine their threat level (it was a lot easier than using telepathy on everyone unless they were deemed suspicious). When Kytano was being introduced to Harry and he went to do the Jaffa forearm clasp gesture that is the equivalent of a handshake Harry stunned the man in the face with his stun gauntlet.
Alice had informed him that Kytano was not Jaffa but a Goauld. When the Jaffa rebels that Kytano was leading saw him go down they all reached for their staffs but Harry just calmly lifted the goauld's shirt to show them the absence of a symbiote pouch. From that day forward a new custom was developed among the Jaffa rebels to lift your shirt and show your pouch when you greeted somebody.
On their next journey through the gate SG-1 found what appeared to be a formerly advanced world but was now decimated. They followed an energy signature to a lab that appeared to have a fairly advanced dormant artificial life form. They wanted to bring it back through the gate but Harry convinced the team that one of the offworld Star facilities would be a better choice, citing the potential risk of the orb incident.
The PM and President knew about the offworld star facilities and allowed them because of who Harry was. They logically knew that the Stargate program would be at serious risk and only a small fraction of what it was without Harry's help. Plus Harry had saved earth's ass a lot of times.
When they started examining the life form Harry discovered that he was right in his assessment. At the SGC they would have likely turned it on to see if it could help them understand its design. But there were some major flaws in the programming of the AI. Its hardware was based on some pretty advanced nanotechnology but its programming seemed to be based off of a very nasty six year old when it didn't get what it wanted.
The SGC didn't have any Alice class computers capable of examining the AI before it was turned on. Then Harry discovered why the civilization was decimated. This being's creator (who she called father) had given her the replicator schematics as a toy.
The reason most cultures that were more advanced than earth became advanced more quickly but were originally from earth is because they discovered some remnant of technology left over by a more advanced race. If the earth scientific community had known about the stargate years ago they would have advanced much faster. This civilization apparently had found a constructor left behind in an Alteran lab. It must have been missed by an Alteran scientist when they took all of their technology with them. The power core on the remnant was depleted and therefore would have been less detectable.
This android, who called herself Reese, had gone through the constructor programming and stripped out what she considered boring and added fun bits (like replicate at all costs and protect Reese). Without the safeguards in place she had lost control and destroyed her entire civilization.
Then an Asgard research vessel which had been exploring something in the Milky Way came across one of the replicators and decided to study it. When it was beamed up it was quickly able to take over the ship and discover the Asgard civilization in the Ida Galaxy. The replicators used that ship to replicate and build up their numbers before they lay siege to the Ida Galaxy.
It was actually a godsend that the Asgard didn't know more about the Alterans, especially where any of their technology is. The replicators would have gone for the more advanced technology, which would have been Alteran. Harry informed the others of his discovery and that Reese had created the replicator problem by copying an older technology and stripping it of its safety protocols. He didn't mention that the older technology was Alteran.
He forbade anybody from activating the AI and in fact took its power crystal with him. Harry contacted the Asgard and took the android on a grav pad to the Ida Galaxy with him. He didn't think they would get too far with the programming but he would let them try anyway. In this way he could still avoid them finding out he is Alteran.
The next time through the gate was one where Harry went with his wives as back up. Apparently the rogue NID operation that was stealing alien tech shut down a defensive weapon that protected a technologically regressed civilization. The reason Harry knew about it was because the golem that replaced the system lord Swarog informed Harry.
They located the weapon easily enough by the energy it gave off. They had to bypass a force field with a harmonic key that Alice was easily able to override. When Alice finished her examination of the device she discovered that it utilized the zpe contained within a person's soul for power. It was basically an overpowered version of the transporter technology that the Alterans and Asgard used. It targeted the enemy that the operator who sacrificed their soul concentrated on.
The soul would eventually coalesce back together but it would be wiped blank like Harry did with Riddle's soul. So essentially a person was sacrificing whatever existence was beyond the veil as the EAs said. There was actually nothing wrong with the device. It just required an operator. Harry and the girls shadow traveled to the capital city to the office of the civilization's leader as indicated from SGC mission reports.
Using telepathy Harry determined that the device always had a chosen operator that was selected when the previous one died, called the caretaker. The death was indicated when the flame on the leader's desk went out. The flame was tied to a dead man's switch band on the caretaker's wrist. The group traced the signal using the ptel satellite until they found the dead caretaker and a rigged band. They transported the caretaker's body back to the sentinel (the defensive weapon) and fixed the band. Their work done they left the planet wondering if the caretakers ever realized how much they were sacrificing.
On their next trip through the gate SG-1 was working on negotiations with the people on the planet Kalona. They were currently researching techniques to build a bomb that would be a WMD. Harry's scans of their current process told him they were a long way off from a working model. The isotope of naquadah called naquadria that a Goauld had managed to discover millennia ago looked interesting. Harry would have to send a team in a PJ to discretely mine some at a later date.
They were taking a tour of the city while Daniel stayed behind to discuss the weapons project with one of the scientists, a Jonas Quinn. Rather abruptly during the middle of their tour the pnet satellite detected a massive burst of energy coming from where the research was being done. They hurried back to the site where they found that an accident had occurred and the scientists in the testing chamber had been exposed to a massive burst of radiation. Daniel's infection ward had kept him safe.
Harry quickly started injecting the scientists with ptel injections and used his healing band to further heal any damage that the ptel struggled against. When the scientists started accusing Daniel of sabotaging their research Harry extracted memories of the incident into a disposable pensieve device that would holographically project the recorded memory. Harry gave the device to Jonas Quinn and told him that relations wouldn't be possible with cowards and liars.
When they got back to earth Dr. Lupin's (Janet is married to Remus) examination showed that there were no adverse effects to Daniel. When Harry examined the data from the accident he was very interested in the energy output of the element. He immediately sent a team to retrieve samples that the Kalonans would never have been able to reach with their level of technology.
Back at the SGC Hammond ordered an attempt be made by O'Neill to trade for the Naquadria. Apparently the attempt was unsuccessful in some aspects but successful in others. O'Neill's talk with Jonas while he was on the planet apparently left a mark because the man sent the holographic projector to the leader of one of the rival nations and stole as much of the naquadria as he could.
He was allowed sanctuary at the SGC for his actions. He sure as hell wouldn't be allowed back in his nation for a while. He would probably be charged with treason as a spy. Harry set him up with an apartment close to base. It was ok with Hammond as long as Jonas was watched which was easily accomplished through technological means by Star.
The results of testing the naquadria were promising. It wasn't anywhere near the energy levels a zpm was capable of but would be a serious threat to the Goauld. The problem was that only Alteran and possibly Asgard or Nox computers would be capable of utilizing the power because of the elements inherit instability. It would require a superfast computer to be able to counter the fluctuations in the material's stability. The earth level of understanding of nuclear physics wouldn't cut it either. An Alteran time dilation computer core would be able to counter the fluctuations as soon as they occur.
Harry decided that this would provide him with the opportunity to provide earth with more advanced weapons without revealing zpe technology. Harry developed an energy based weapon that fired a narrow beam laser shot that would punch holes clean through Jaffa armor. It was powered by naquadria which Harry was easily able to obtain from converting some naquadah from his various mines and asteroid operation on and around mars.
The mars operation was running on progress. The constructors were very good at terraforming the planet. He was running most of his offworld operations out of the mars facilities. Harry made use of the Alteran transporter room technology that didn't have the telltale white flash of light that the remote transporters did. Employees of Star could step into a room at any Star facility on earth and end up at the facilities on mars.
Harry was also able to develop a personal shield based off of the Goauld design but didn't allow lower kinetic energy objects to penetrate thanks to the extra power from naquadria. When Harry presented a model of each of these units to all offworld SGC personnel they were very grateful. Harry figured this would require less work for the revival teams.
The laser weapons Harry decided to call a lance while the shields would just be called a shield. Both devices were keyed to their user and could only be used by them. If anybody else tried to figure out how they worked or use them for the wrong purposes they contained the same safety features of disintegration that all of Harry's technology did.
Soon after the technology was presented the Asgard Freyr showed up on earth through the gate. Apparently an incident had just occurred where Thor had been killed while engaged against three Goauld vessels. The Asgard were unable to retrieve one of their scientists doing important research in the Milky Way because their ships were either destroyed or engaged fighting the replicators.
The Asgard wanted SG-1 to mount a rescue because they were unable. SG-1 set off for the planet in Harry's PJ. When they arrived in orbit cloaked there was a Goauld Hatac present. Harry located the lab with his scans and proceeded to contact the scientist, Heimdal, over secure communications. To avoid letting the Asgard know that he was capable of transporting down there with his own transporters he dropped the shields enough for Heimdal to get a lock but not scan anything else.
Heimdal informed them that they couldn't leave because they had to mount a rescue mission for Thor. Apparently the Goauld had picked up his life pod before Heimdal could. They contacted Thor who informed them that Anubis was soon to arrive. They developed the plan for Harry, Jack, and Teal'c to ring aboard the ship when Anubis did and take down the shield generator. At that point Sam and Heimdal could transport them all out with Thor.
When the time came SG-1 transported aboard the ship. The pnet satellite in orbit was giving Harry some disturbing readings. There was an ascended being on board the ship. Harry realized he couldn't perform any EMs or it would give him away. When Anubis walked by in the halls where the trio was hiding Harry suddenly realized how Anubis got access to Alteran technology, Anubis was ascended.
The power readings were a lot lower than an Ascended. His readings indicated about ½ a zpm. This could mean he was stuck somewhere in between Ascension and corporeal form. The Goauld had apparently detected their intrusion because they attempted to knock the intruders out with coolant gas from the hyperdrive. The infection wards filtered out the gas and the trio proceeded to the shield generator room unopposed.
They proceeded to blow the shield generator without any problem. They were promptly beamed out along with Thor. Harry had used his hard light generator to disguise the interior of the PJ to look anything but Alteran. Harry helped Heimdal hook up the stasis pod with the Asgard ancestor which was shown to them earlier to the power of the PJ.
Alice's scan of Thor showed an Alteran interrogation probe, the same one Harry assumed was used on the Tokra spy with the Ravenna attack. The probe had managed to download a significant amount of Thor's technical memories but had yet to get to his consciousness. Harry generated a distortion field that would block the link, so that it could be severed later.
Harry was half attempted to destroy Anubis ship but even though he would have the satisfaction it wouldn't kill Anubis and it would tip his hand too soon. Anubis would take measures to block the multiphase drones. Harry took off and headed back to earth.
When Harry learned about the Asgard's little cloning problem he decided that he would only step in when the Asgard were in danger of dying. If they didn't fix the situation themselves then they wouldn't learn as much from it.