Life had changed on Atlantis. The arrival of the remaining Asgard, introduced a number of new minds to Homeworld Command. Providing them treatment was the priority that kept them occupied for a while. Loki had taken over role of performing the procedure to the remaining Asgard. Thor had helped initially but left it to Loki, who was training Sol to assist as well. Thor was meeting with the Generals.

"O'Neill thank you for inviting me to this meeting to represent the Asgard." greeted Thor.

"Thor this is Gen Caldwell, he used to work with Heimdale on the Odyssey, this is Mr. Woolsey he is our liason with other nations of the world, and you know Gen Landry." replied O'Neill.

"It is good to see you Gen. Landry under pleasant circumstances. Gen. Caldwell I had heard much from Heimdale about you, it is good to see you. Mr. Woolsey I remember O'Neill talking about you, it is good to see you." greeted Thor.

"Thor let me catch you up. We meet here to discuss our plans when necessary to coordinate our plans. Gen. Caldwell is in charge of our fleet of ships. Gen. Landry is in charge of our teams that travel off world. Rodney McKay is in charge of our science department, and Jenny Simpson is in charge of engineering. Jeannie Miller is in charge of our high energy projects." explained O'Neill.

"Jeannie Miller has spoken to me on the building of the neutrino-ion generator. I believe it is an excellent idea." replied Thor.

"First off we would like you to join us in these meeting in the future, to oversee Asgard affairs here at Atlantis." requested O'Neill.

Thor nodded.

"Now Jenny Simpson is overseeing the building of the N.I.G. we would like for some of your people to assist her if possible. Gen. Landry has teams bringing back materials salvaged from the debris of the city ship that we are fixing up in Pegasus." asked O'Neill.

"I believe we have several Asgard that would be excellent candiates to assist in this endeavor. I believe we could accelerate the construction of your N.I.G. and have it ready in two of your Earth weeks." replied Thor.

"Two weeks?" asked Landry.

"Yes General, this would be larger than any we have built however it is a simple procedure." replied Thor.

"Thor I don't understand why the Ancients didn't use this technology to power Atlantis?" asked Caldwell.

"This technology was known to them, however Naquadria was not known. They relied on the device you call a Z.P.M. that could easily be carried." replied Thor

"Thor buddy, we have put together a list of projects that we would like your help on. Many of them are probably simply for your people but we would like your help, if your willing? In particular Gen. Caldwell here would like your help in designing our next generation of ships. A cross between Ancient Aurora class, Asgard Core design, and Daedalus Class we developed." asked O'Neill.

"I believe I can find suitable Asgard to assist in these projects. Gen. Caldwell I will be honored to assist in the design of your ship." replied Thor, "O'Neill I have a request of you."

"For you Thor anything." replied O'Neill.

Thor stated, "The Asgard are not accustomed to the ways of humans as I am. It would be beneficial if their was a teacher that could help us to understand your language, and customs."

"I think we can find you a teacher. Let me find the appropriate person." replied O'Neill.

Thor asked, "In addition we would prefer if we could setup our own facilities for consumption?"

"You want your own mess hall for your food. I will have Col. Davis work out a space for you." replied O'Neill.

"It has been requested that we continue to have access to the substance you call Jell-O. I'm fond of the blue." replied Thor.

"Blue Jell-o, I knew you were my kind of guy. We can share Jell-O." replied O'Neill.

"What is it with the Jell-O? Freya of the Tok'ra is crazy about the green." asked Landry.

"Master Bra'tac likes the orange." replied Caldwell.

"Maybe we should give out Jell-O to the galaxy and make friends everywhere." replied O'Neill.

Thor grinning, "That would be wise."

The next few weeks proved to be very interesting. With the Asgard working on the N.I.G. the project was completed in two weeks. Thor came back with designs of the BC-306BC-306, entered into the Ancient Database, and the city's shipyard had been prepared to build the new design. A few Asgard volunteered to return to Pegasus to assist on the repairs of the city ship, however O'Neill declined.

A week later Rodney McKay, Jeannie Miller, Gen. O'Neill, Gen. Landry, Richard Woolsey, Gen. Caldwell, Thor, Lindsey Novak, and Jenny Simpson were gathered in the base of the N.I.G. Primary energy conduits had been installed and connected to the various systems, redundancy had been built into the system, these were not currently active. Today was the day the city would switch from the Z.P.M. it was using to the N.I.G..

"Well let's do this. Dr. Miller will you please turn it on." ordered O'Neill.

"Yes sir!" replied Miller, as she walked over to the console. She entered a few commands. The entire tower came to life it was a rainbow of colors stretching the full height of the tower.

Simpson monitoring a console, "Generator is active, power is stable, we are ready to connect to Atlantis."

"Activating connection now." replied Miller, entering a few commands. The primary conduit came to life with a blue glow.

"That it?" asked O'Neill.

"Sorry General that's it." replied Miller.

Col. Davis over the communicator, "Gen. O'Neill, everyone may want to return to operations. Some things you may want to see."

"Everything ok Davis?" asked O'Neill over the communicator.

"I believe so sir. But I think you want to see this." replied Davis.

"On our way." replied O'Neill.

Everyone moved up to Operations, on entering they could see several displays were showing new displays.

"What are those?" asked O'Neill. Thor and Dr. McKay went to work on the Ancient consoles.

Thor was first, "That display is a shipyard that has begun production of an BC-306. That is a countdown showing how long until completion."

"You mean in sixty seven days I'll have an BC-306?" asked Caldwell.

"No in sixty seven days, five hours, forty seven minutes and fifty two seconds you will have an F-306." replied Thor.

"These are displays showing what the automated factories on Atlantis are building. The system is building equipment for an additional DNA Devices like the Asgard need." replied McKay.

"You mean the system determined we needed additional DNA Devices and started creating them?" asked Landry.

"Yes sir. The ancient database, is a complete A.I. that is just coming active." replied McKay.

Landry and Caldwell each looked at O'Neill who was grinning.

"Anything new appearing in the database McKay?" asked O'Neill.

"Let me look." replied McKay, punching away at the console, "How did you know?"

"Just a hunch." replied O'Neill, "So what's there? Z.P.M. details?"

"Yes how to build a Z.P.M. in fact there is special lab that has been sealed for building them. If I'm reading this correctly we can build a Z.P.M. in about a month each, then they just have to be charged." replied McKay looking at O'Neill in disbelief.

"Dr. Miller I'm putting this under your department, unless I'm mistaken you will find a number of things related to High Energy." order O'Neill.

Woolsey asked, "Gen. O'Neill what is going on?"

"Folks, we just proved to the ancients that we are capable of handling their research, by creating a power source more powerful than a Z.P.M., once the Ancient Database detected this, we passed the last of the three tests needed to be given access. First we had to save the humans of Pegasus, our evacuation covered this. Second, we had to return Atlantis to Earth, and third we had to show we could handle their technology and the N.I.G. was the key." replied O'Neill.

"How did you know about this? Who else knew about this?" asked Woolsey.

"The Ancient Repository of Knowledge." replied Thor.

O'Neill grinning, "I took notes the last time."

"No O'Neill, this opened the entire contents of the Ancient Repository of Knowledge in the database." replied Thor.

"Excuse me?" asked O'Neill.

"I think he's right. As large as the Ancient Database was, it's grown and I mean considerably. What we had access to before this was four or maybe five percent of everything now." replied Rodney.

"First things first people we have two remaining projects left that are nearing completion we're not going to drop the ball now. We continue the evacuation from Pegasus. you get back to Pegasus and get that ship ready to fly, we will have Z.P.M.s ready for you. Dr. Miller will start examining this." ordered O'Neill.

People were reporting many new things that started happening around the city. The Ancient A.I. was everywhere providing information, resources as possible. The Operations teams where struggling to keep up and learn everything new, until the A.I. finally asked if they would like training. Two days of training and they had learned how to handle the systems. The A.I. even had detected the command structure and recognized O'Neill as the commander of Atlantis. The Ancient A.I. had reported low on certain resources, Naquadah, and Trinium, two very difficult to resources to acquire.

Mani provided a significant step in resolving the resource issue. Finding in the Ancient database an automated mining device that could mine and refine the resources. He added a few Asgard tweaks, that made use of their transport beams, and was working on a variant using wraith culling beam. He hoped to be able to store resources as energy leaving the device able to stay in the field collecting more resources. Thor identified several planets that were uninhabited that contained good quantities of the Naquadah and Trinium for mining.

Dr. Miller was reviewing the creation of the Z.P.M. it required a resource known as medalon. She discovered this was a rare substance that was used to contain a region of subspace time. Her review of the Ancient Database, showed that P3R-272 was the only known source in the Milky Way. Gen. Landry assigned SG-1 to finding the medalon on P3R-272, as that planet was known to be a small room with no access except via the stargate. Daniel was doing research in the Ancient Database to learn more about the planet.

Teal'c had been to Dakara, meeting with the factions of the Jaffa there. Bra'tac had identified twenty Jaffa from the various factions that he knew to recommend to join the recruits of the Tau'ri. The Jaffa leaders were satisfied, as Bra'tac selected from each faction, those he knew of their honor. This would give them a chance to learn more about the Tau'ri.

Teal'c stood before the Jaffa recruits, "Today you will travel with me to the home of the Tau'ri. You will join in their recruit training program. If you think your training as a Jaffa was difficult this is not for you. Myself and one named Ronon Dex have developed this training program, you will find this as the greatest challenge you have ever faced. For those of you who view the Tau'ri as puny, let me remind you, they were the ones who stood up to Goa'uld, and led the fight to them. It was the Tau'ri that brought an end to the Ori invasion. What ever prejudice you may have set it aside. You will find it will only hinder your training."

With that he led group through to Atlantis. Where they found a group of twenty recruits waiting for them on the other side of the gate being led by Ronon. The scuffle lasted just a minute, before the Jaffa was unarmed. Teal'c stepped through the stargate then.

"I see you were not ready for the simplest of attacks, and were easily defeated by a group of Tau'ri. Let this be your first lesson, you must always be ready for an attack." yelled Teal'c.

Lt. Adams offered a hand to a Jaffa on the ground, "If it makes you feel any better Teal'c and Ronon took down over fifty of us on our first day. You put up an excellent fight I believe we have much to learn from each other. They call me Adams, what is your name?"

"I am called O'vac." said the Jaffa.

"We're on the same team now, and we all watch our backs for Teal'c and Ronon. Those two can strike anywhere at any time. They got me three nights ago asleep." informed Adams.

"I see this will be different training." replied O'vac.

The Jaffa was escorted to the training pier where they received their uniforms and had to give up their staff weapons and armor.