SGC Nov – Dec, 1998

Elizabeth Weir as well as several other diplomats from around the world spent the next several months in negotiations with the blue crystal entities. It was tense for a few hours when the crystal ambassador inadvertently accessed the internet as well as the SGC base computer.

The military spooks wanted to keep the being from leaving the planet. But Weir explained to them "Who would they tell? And how would they get there?"

After agreeing to let the ambassador leave a tense few weeks passed before they were contacted again with a counter proposal.

Having been exposed to the earth internet and everything that goes with it (aside from the computer viruses that the beings could easily handle) caused the crystal entities to develop a curiosity for the universe. A, wanderlust if you will.

Needless to say when the entities decided to offer themselves as the central computer of the starships found in the military database the people in the SGC were stunned. Military paranoia would allow it with certain safeguards in place. Mainly the Crystals would not have access to life support or artificial gravity, or any other system that could potentially kill the human crew. The Crystal's agreed.

The hard part came when the humans were trying to name the Crystal entities. Since they had no individual names. The crystal entities informed them that how they referred to themselves as a whole was the Unity. Any member of the Unity was willing to take on the name of the ship that they were going to be a part of. Since they were not yet very inventive when it came to naming themselves.

Ambassador would be the name of the Unity that would stay at the SGC on earth and as long as it had silicone rich sand and light it would be happy.

Antarctica

A cheer went through the entire base as the last few feet of drill punched through the ice above the Ancient outpost. After several long hours of celebration as the drill was slowly pulled back up through the ice and several more as the drill was moved to allow the Tel'tak to move into position over the hole in the ice. Several people in cold based armor ringed down one of them holding a fully recharged ZPM and bearing the ATA gene.

They walked through the complex to the stand of the control chair. Waving his hand over the slot caused the depleted ZPM to rise from its cradle a couple inches where it could be removed the charged ZPM was then inserted and power coursed through the archaic Ancient building.

Feeling a breeze as the outpost recycled ten thousand year old air into a fresher more breathable and less stale variety the team walked over to the ring platform and ringed back up to the Tel'tak to hand the ZPM over to be recharged on planet Terra.

Over the next few weeks the scientists were swarming over the outpost going over everything that was missing or damaged in the outpost on Terra Nova or Taonas.

The first thing that had the military happy beyond all belief was the almost full complement of drone missiles. Taking a couple to add to those found on Terra Nova for research the military scientists worked hard on reverse engineering the missile namely making it more fire friendly for the people without the ATA gene. (So they can be fired without needing to use the power hungry control chair.)

Once the treaty with the unity went into effect one of the blue crystal beings was sent down to Antarctica to help sort through the massive Ancient computer. Using the translator and the unity who took the name Arctica the database was quickly deciphered and virtually all data was available by the coming of the New Year.

The global news crew happily recorded everything that was discovered from the international team. And the world was abuzz when the announcement was made about the city of Atlantis.

After several weeks and much debate it was decided to attempt to contact Atlantis.

One of the Novin sensor probes was prepped and the Mana capacitor hooked up to the Gate as the wormhole engaged. Sending the probe through in an attempt to contact anyone left of the Ancient race was quickly dashed as the telemetry from the probe came back. No one alive was on the city ship Atlantis.

They knew the city of Atlantis was a ship from the database from Antarctica. And the general layout. The telemetry from the probe just gave a much more detailed picture. Its sensitive scanners picked up the failing shield and low power as well as the fact that it was on the bottom of an ocean on whatever planet they were on.

The general consensus was that the abandoned city was too great of a recourse to leave as is so it was agreed that as soon as the ZPM from the Antarctic was fully charged they would send and expedition to the Pegasus galaxy. In preparation for that the ZPM now powering the Antarctic was removed and a Mana capacitor was inserted in its stead. The Mana battery was more than enough power for general use purposes and much easier to charge and replace.

SGC Jan, 30 1999

There was a subdued silence in the Gate room as a wake was held for the soldiers of SG-10 and Colonel Frank Cromwell lost to them in the slow time near the event horizon of a black hole. Many people were annoyed at their inability to affect the rescue of their stranded soldiers.

Area 51

Several scientists were quite happy with figuring out how the Asgard beam tech worked after Ember took it apart and put it back together to create a Star Trek style replicator. After putting in several hundred safety protocols the mater reorganizer (name to come later) was allowed into the hands of the eager scientists.

The new device would be able to beam individual molecules and reorganize them into any form that had a memorized pattern up to and including food. A slice of pizza could be recycled into its base molecules and its pattern saved. Then those saved molecules could be reorganized into anything that took that molecule. And the machine could produce as many perfect copies of that slice of pizza as long as it had enough raw material to do so.

It wasn't restricted to food either parts and ammunition for anything could be produced from raw material at any time. The need to spend vast time and resources to refine and fabricate anything was virtually removed. In a surprise move Ember took the ZPM from the people sending it to Terra Nova to be recycled scanned and saved to be reproduced at a later time.

Once done she created ten copies of the dead ZPM's. When asked why she didn't scan and create full power ZPM's. She told them that the energy would have ripped apart the matter converter if it had tried recycle the ZPM, neither would the matter converter have the power to charge a newly created ZPM. It would be much simpler to just charge the copies anyway.