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Harry Potter and the Alteran Gift
Chapter 21
PNA avatar (or any artificial intelligence or neural computer interface) speaking with Harry looks like this. Telepathy *looks like this*.
August 3, 1998 ...
0855 in the morning...
.portkey. "OK everyone, here we are." "The shrieking shack Harry?" asked Mione.
"Au contraire, mon cheri." said Harry. "C'est à quoi il ressemble pour moi Harry." To which Saul answered: "Peut-être Harry a caché quelque chose d'intéressant ici Miss Granger."
"Oops I forgot you spoke French Mione." said Harry. To which Ginny added: "OK you guys, will you knock it off for us language challenged?" she said with her hands balled up into fists on her hips with a glare at Harry since he started it.
"Ha, ha. Just having a bit of fun Gin."
"Look over yonder then..." to which Hermione says, "Harry you are watching too much TV."
As Harry points to an open spot in the field and suddenly shimmering into view is a sleek 8 meter long roughly cylindrical shaped muggle thing that looked like a small bus with no wheels.
"Wow!? Harry, uhm, what is that? Is that thing somehow going to take us to Atlantis?" said Mione. Before Harry could reply, Saul said: "It looks like a small muggle submarine ladies, maybe Atlantis really is just sunken underwater around here somewhere and Harry has been playing jokes on us?" Exasperated but glad she finally has one up on Mione says, "Guys, I know what that is. That's a gate-ship. It's what Atlantis uses for space shuttles. I'll bet this one is Harry's personal transport. Is that right Harry?"
"You betcha." "Not fair Gin, you have a head start on us for knowing what things are so far." Laughing all four of them head over to the gate-ship. "Harry," Mione says, "aren't you worried someone will see this?" "Nah, I placed strong anti-muggle and notice-me-not charms on it after I landed it fully cloaked. Right now, we're the only ones who can see it, and when I take off we'll be cloaked." "Very well done Harry," said Saul.
Harry opens the cargo door to the rear of the ship. The crew walks through the small cargo area which contains some extra seating for passengers with Mione 'oohing and aahing' at several interesting looking gadgets. Ginny has seen it all before of course and Saul just keeps a stoic look on his face, soaking it all in. They get near the cockpit area and Harry says, "OK, those four seats up front near the flight console are the ones we'll be using. I'll be taking the one to the front and left. You all need to fight over who will get to sit shotgun with me in the co-pilot seat and then the other two behind them."
"Mione, why don't you take the co-pilot seat this time. I've been in this before, you can see what it's like." Saul says, "wait a minute, am I chopped salamander?" and Harry says, "Saul you'll have plenty of chances let the girls have fun."
Mione is the first to sit down and when she touches the console all the lights in the ship and the console turn on. "Oh boy Harry, is that OK?" "It's no problem Mione. The ship's AI is just responding to your touch because you contain enough of the ancient genes to be able to activate Alteran technology. All witches and wizards have that. At some point we'll need to test the same for squibs. We'll see on that."
Once everyone is seated comfortably, Harry says, "OK team, we're getting ready to take off. Any last regrets before I blast you into space?" Silence. "Nope. OK then, here we go."
As Harry raised the cloak and the ship begins to ascend Mione says, "Harry shouldn't we feel some kind of pressure from the launch like they show in all the TV shows?" "No Mione, actually we have very advanced inertia dampeners and artificial gravity, so unless something goes wrong, you will never feel that or any loss of gravity on any of our ships." "Ah, cool, very nice Harry." "Yeah Harry," says Saul. "I didn't understand much of what you just said, but I'm glad being blast into space doesn't hurt as much as it sounded."
As they get moving, Harry takes a little time to show them what the main console controls are. "First, just so that you know, you won't see me touching the console much because I am just piloting the ship through my neural interface to the ships AI. But, if we wanted to use the manual controls by hand-"That over there is the control for raising and lowering the cloak. This in front of me is for altitude and velocity control. This one will open and close the cargo door in the rear of the ship where we entered."
"Over there with all the fancy flashing lights you see is the Communications console and over here with the other mono-chromatic lights above the velocity controls is the weapons console. Unfortunately this ship does not have shields, but it does have a good complement of our advanced drone weapons. This really cool looking array of multiple rows of symbols in the front and middle of the console is this ships Astria-Porta dialing device. Those symbols are in the Alteran language and they describe mathematical symbols of different points in space. These correspond to the 'addresses' you hear me talk about in order for an Astria Porta to dial and connect to another one to form a connection."
"This ship is rather unique in that unlike any other Alteran ship it is sized to travel through an Astria Porta. This is why it is called a gate-ship. What I haven't mentioned yet is that in addition to the Astria Porta you've seen in the outpost where one can travel on foot from one station to another, we also have these in space in orbit of some planets, for instance I left one in orbit of the planet Lantea in the Pegasus galaxy where Atlantis had been in hiding for the past 10,000 years."
"So guys, what do you think of your first ride in a space-ship?"
Everyone agrees this is amazing and fun and are particularly glad to be able to see they are among the first of wizardkind ever to do this. Their names will go down in history books just for this fact alone.
"You know Mione, I never thought about it but I guess you're right."
"Alright we are now in Earth's orbit, so -now- you can say you are officially in space. You can look through the forward viewport and see Earth. OK, I'm going to maneuver us a bit so you can get a good look. The muggle space programs often describe Earth as looking like a big blue marble from space. "Yeah Harry, I can see that. It's so pretty says Ginny." "What do you think Hermione?" "Oh, it is very beautiful, Harry can you fly us to somewhere really pretty like say the Caribbean Sea, I want to see what that looks like from above too." "OK, girls, a little tour. But we can't spend all day sight-seeing." Harry says with a cheeky grin.
"OK, we are approaching the Caribbean sea from about 1000 km north-east of Florida in the USA, we are cloaked so no one can see us but, I am not going to fly too low to take any chances. "What do you think?" "It is so beautiful Harry, when you look down on the Earth it looks so small, it is strange. You can hold up your thumb to the viewport and make the Earth seem to disappear but instead of making me feel huge it makes me feel so small. The islands and the water are so pretty, like little dots on a soft blanket of pure blue. Looking at this makes me think that we humans should not live the way we do, believing we are so different. On the backdrop of space with the moon glistening in the distance, she looks so small and yet we all exist in the one tiny spot in the universe."
"I think those are wise words Mione, what about you Ginny and Saul?" "Harry, as an old pureblood wizard who has never even thought of something like this, I am pretty speechless. I mean, you know, you saw how it was like for a lot of the old timers during the war. Wizards seem to think the world revolves around us, but when you see it like this, and you realize there is no magic spell that can affect anything on this grand a scale, one has to think that there is a greater magic in the universe. Something bigger than all of us."
"I get the feeling that what you are going to show us from our ancient ancestors is going to open up doors for wizardkind that will change our worldview forever." "Probably true Saul. I just hope those changes are good ones and go smoothly. Some of those old timers as you put it worry me, they always are among the first to feel threatened by anything different from them, anything they don't understand they just treat as beneath them, and if it takes their personal power and privilege away they fight it tooth and nail."
"Well guys, as a bright-eyed almost brand-new pureblood witch, I have to say I agree with Mione. We study the stars from our astronomy towers but forget to look back at our own little pebble. This gives me so much perspective and Harry, it is beautiful to look at from up here, thank you."
For a moment Mione looks contemplative, and she rifles through her bag looking for one of the books she brought. Hey guys, here is a nifty quote I saw last night when I was reading up on the American space program. Saul and Ginny, if you didn't know this is a quote from one of the American astronauts to first walk on the moon:
"If somebody'd said before the flight, "Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the moon?" I would have say, "No, no way." But yet when I first looked back at the earth, standing on the moon, I cried. — Alan Shepard
"Wow, Miss Granger that is a powerful sentiment. You say that American muggles have been to the moon?" "Yup." "Wow, we wizards have a lot of catching up to do." Harry concludes, "Yes, that is true Saul, but I'll get you all caught up and then some, and by the time we're done we'll be teaching the muggles the great arts and sciences from the legacy our ancestors from the stars left for us."
For the rest of the trip they just make small talk or keep in silence with their thoughts to themselves, until Harry says:
"Hey team, I am going to bring us out of hyper-space in a minute to sub-light speed for docking with Atlantis, but I thought you would like to see Atlantis and the rest of our Fleet from the approach. This will be another first, and will probably blow you away because beside being on this little ship you haven't actually seen large space-ships in space before. I know I was blown away the first time, wait until you see this, and none of it compares to Atlantis in my eyes."
"Now normally you never want to look directly at a star, but the gate-ship's viewport contains special shielding that mitigates harmful levels of light and radiation, so you should be able to get a get look at the Alpha Centauri star-system, that Atlantis currently calls home."
"OK, here we go." Both girls and Saul have nothing to say for a few minutes except ooh and ahh. Harry starts chuckling after a while and says, alright let me explain what you are seeing: "Directly ahead you can see two stars that look very close to each other. The larger brighter one is Alpha Centauri A, the smaller dimmer one is Alpha Centauri B. This is the star around which our mining planet, Alpha Centauri Bb orbits. These are what is known as a binary star system. As seen from Earth, the combination of the luminosity of both stars appears as one to the naked eye and is the third brightest star other than our Sun that is seen from Earth." a lot more oohs and aahs. But Ginny had to be a smart-aleck and said: "Harry, you're doing a very nice job of this, you could be a tour director. If you ever decide to retire from your job as High Councilor and Supreme Commander of the Alteran Fleet, you have another career all waiting for you." Everyone cracks up at that. "Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it Gin." Harry says with a smile. "Ha, ha."
"OK, if you look way over there in the distance looking at a sharp angle out of the left side of the view screen you will see another star, that is called Alpha Centauri C, sometimes also called Proxima Centauri, which basically just means in muggle astronomy speak as 'the star closest to Alpha Centauri.' These three stars together are what is usually referred to by the muggles as the Alpha Centauri star-system or star-cluster; and as I've told you before, these are the stars closest to our home star, the Sun. Proxima is actually just a little closer to the Sun than Alpha Centauri AB and so technically is the star closest to our Sun."
"Now I'll head us over to Alpha Centauri Bb, our mining planet where our ships and city's await. The only major planetoid object among these three stars is our planet AC-Bb and it is uninhabitable, but is rich in all the raw materials we need to build more ships and facilities, so for a bunch of reasons I thought this was a good place to start out, but this is not where we will be staying, finding our first real habitable colony world is a project we will soon start in earnest. Right now we are stockpiling materials and performing an intelligence assessment of the galaxy."
As they come around the AC-B star with it behind them, the planet begins to come into view. Harry says, "OK, coming up ahead of us is our planet, from here you can start to see some of our 9 city-ships in orbit of the planet. You won't be able to see all the city-ships from this angle but I'm bringing us in on a vector to Atlantis so you will definitely see her in a minute. Starting from the outermost orbits first the four Asuran city-ships orbit at a distance of 500km from the planet and as you can see are spaced evenly around the planet. These also provide the first line of defense for our fleet with their shields overlapping the entire planet at four different intervals for maximum coverage. In the next orbit at 450 km you would normally see the next four Asuran city-ships which consist of our industrial ships of 2 mining and 2 refinery city-ships-currently these four ships are near the surface performing the mining and refining operations I mentioned before and building up a stockpile. The next and last city-ship you will see at a 400km orbit is our Capitol City Atlantis.
At this point Ginny says, "Harry those are pretty snow-flakes." Well Gin, guys-those pretty snowflakes are our city-ships, they are each 87sq km in size. you see the 6 primary arms of the 'snow-flake'?" Everyone nods and says yes. "Well, those are the main piers off of the central city structures, those piers can dock a total of up to 24 ships while stationary, 16 of the larger Battleship class, and 8 Cruiser, Transport, or Industrial class; or while stowed for hyper-space travel can dock a total of 12, with 8 of the larger class and 4 of the smaller class. As we get closer to Atlantis you will see four Asuran Aurora Class battleships already docked and stowed ready for intergalactic hyper-space flight."
"We're close enough for you to see some details of these city-ships and the docked ships. Do you see what I'm talking about?" a lot more oohs and aahs. "Harry, Mione says, "I'm getting goose bumps. This is just Wow!. This all belongs to you?" "Pretty much yeah, if and as I am able to find any Alteran survivors which is a good possibility on our missions this week, and get some involvement from intrepid exploration and adventurous minded witches and wizards, of course then it won't just be all mine, I'll be sharing it; but for the long foreseeable future I will remain the Supreme Commander of all of this to ensure the vision I have for the renewal of our ancestors civilization comes to fruit."
"OK now, before I take us in to dock I'm going to fly us around the city and the piers so you can get a good look. This isn't a view we get very often, at least in space; because it's normally a lot more convenient to just gate up via an Astria Porta, or even from ship to ship to beam across using the matter transporters. I just thought this way would be more fun for you the first time." "Thank you Harry," says Gin. "and I stick by my previous tour guide comment."
"Alright see these towers on the city? That one there, one of the two smaller towers is what we call the South-East pier and is where the Living Quarters for Command Staff including the Penthouse Suites are located, we will be staying in these Penthouse suites. The other piers contain many other facilities and laboratories, weapons platforms, shield platforms, and so forth. I will tell you more about all that when I give you a...a...OK I'll say it, a tour of the city." Ginny and Mione giggle and that even brings a grin to Saul's usually stoic face."
"OK now, you see those oblong egg-shaped things docked to the arms off the central spire? Those are the four Asuran Battleships. To give you perspective, those are each 3km long. Huge aren't they? Really seems strange when you consider they are crewed by only 384 Alterans or Asurans. One thing I'll tell you about more sometime but I'll let you know now, these Asuran Aurora class Battleships while formidably more powerful than almost anything they will ever come across, are quite a bit less powerful than their namesake the Alteran Aurora class Battleships. It appears that even though the Asurans copied almost to the T the build-outs of ships and city's from their Lantean makers, they did not have the same level of technology available to them. If we do get into any scrapes out there, unless it gets out of hand, we will actually do most of the fighting from Atlantis herself. Frankly, I'm only taking the Battleships for show. The city itself could eat these Battleships for a light snack."
"Enough show and tell now guys? Merlin is telling me that we're running late." "Sure Harry," says Mione. "Thanks for taking the time to show us this way, it was very thoughtful." Ginny can be heard muttering in a sing-song voice, "tour guide." Saul just said, "Thank you Harry it has been awe inspiring and very enlightening."
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As the crew exits the gate-ship in the hanger, Merlin is waiting for them and Harry says, "OK team, you'll get to see a lot more new and interesting things aboard the ship as we get ready to go, and feel free to ask any questions you want, but for now no more tour guide mode for me. Our first mission actually takes us back to Earth, but after that mission we will be heading out to deep space in the middle of the galaxy and then into the Pegasus galaxy. We want to try to get this local thing done today so that we can make sure we get done everything else we want to do this week." Hermione, Saul, meet Councilor Merlin aka Moros which is his Lantean-Alteran name, also my First Officer as Commander of the Alteran Fleet. Ginny and Merlin have already met. "It is very nice to meet you Merlin, I am honored" greeted Mione. "The honor is all mine Miss Granger." "Call me Hermione, please." "I am also very honored to meet you Great Merlin. I know as Harry explained that you are now only the memories and personality that remains of our Merlin, but nevertheless, you or your namesake rather are revered among our people." "I am very happy to meet you also Mr. Croaker. I look forward to regaling you with tales of how my namesake became the legend among your people and the history that came to be." "That honor will be mine Merlin" said Saul. "Wonderful" said Harry, "let's get up to the command deck so we can get proper attire, security and such sorted out and get this first mission underway. Merlin, I know you're eager to give a general sitrep. but we can wait until after we are underway to the Tria since we will have some time to kill then." "Very well Harry."
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A little while later up in the command deck.
"OK, we are going to take care of some security issues first." "Saul, here is the WNA I promised you, please put it on now." Saul does so and Harry takes a couple minutes to help him acclimate to it. "OK, here is what I'm going to do. All three of you now have your PNA or WNA and you will be logged into city security at Level 3 access which will provide you full access to all spaces of the city except military Level 2 and command Level 1. I have included an exception of course so that you are allowed access to this command deck and the adjacent ready room, but you will not be able to give command level instructions to Atlantis. Sorry guys, none of you are ready for that yet. Your PNA and WNA is DNA-locked to you so that even if someone else stole it from you somehow it will not work for them. Keep in mind it is your key to access, if you are not wearing it Atlantis won't know how to properly identify you for security access controls. To finish this, I am going to give voice authorization for each of you in turn, as I do this, after you hear me say your name you need to simply step up beside me and say "Hello Atlantis, my name is ~your full name~ and aliases are ~your aliases~. This will help Atlantis recognize your voice and at that time will scan your DNA and life-sign signature into the database, and scan your PNA or WNA to verify your personal identification."
Standing in front of the security console Harry says, "Atlantis recognize security access authorization Harry James Potter, High Councilor of Atlantis."
"Acknowledged, Harry James Potter, High Councilor of Atlantis is authorized."
Atlantis, add the following personnel to city-wide security access Level 3:
Hermione Jean Granger, alias Hermione, alias Mione, alias Hermi." Harry motions to Mione to come on. Mione steps up and says "Hello Atlantis my name is Hermione Jean Granger, alias Hermione, alias Mione, alias Hermi."
"Acknowledged, Hello Hermione, scan is complete, security access Level 3 is authorized."
Ginevra Molly Weasley, alias Ginny, alias Gin, alias Ginevra."
"Acknowledged, Hello Ginny, scan is complete, security access Level 3 is authorized."
"Saul David Croaker, alias Saul."
"Acknowledged, Hello Saul, scan is complete, security access Level 3 is authorized."
"Atlantis, end security access authorization."
"Acknowledged, security access authorization disabled."
"So, does anyone have any questions about that?"
Gin asks "Harry, why did you put my first name last in the list of aliases unlike the others?" "Oh, I had forgot to mention that the first alias you name in the list is the primary one that Atlantis itself will call you by when communicating with you, and I know you like to be called Ginevra the least, but it needs to have it on record all the same."
"Oh, OK Harry, that makes sense and thanks. That's perfect."
"Anyone else?"
"No," Saul says, "that made as much sense to me as most of what we've been doing so far but I think I'm keeping up."
"Mione?"
"No, I'm good."
"OK then let's go into the ready room. I want you all to change into clothes more suitable for an Alteran. Who knows who we'll meet over the next week, but with luck some of them will be Alterans, or Lantean-Alterans anyway. So, we should look the part. I think the best thing is to learn how to transfigure one set of customary Lantean clothes that you like and just transfigure your clothes whenever you need to dress the part, so that you don't have to keep changing all the time. Or if you decide you like the Lantean style better you can always wear it, that's what I do when I'm on Atlantis anyway. Later on when you get to your suites, and I have a penthouse suite picked out for each of us on the same floor of the command tower by the way, Atlantis will have already replicated a set of clothes appropriate to your size and gender based on the scans she just took of you. Anyway, here are some samples to choose from, for now like I said just transfigure your current clothes and you can get to your real set of clothes later. Is this OK with everyone?"
"Alright, while you're doing that I need to talk to Merlin for a minute."
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"Merlin, for the first mission, if we find a living Alteran, probably in a deep cryogenic sleep if they've lasted this long, do we have the medical expertise to help them recover?"
"Yes Harry, our Infirmary can handle any situation we find. However I also recommend you send for an Asuran medical team to accompany us. During the re-assignment of their personnel among the available ships, I took the liberty working with Niam to have him re-assign and then download all the necessary medical knowledge to form a team of medical officers and orderlies along with all of the proper field equipment and expertise. They of course never had a need for such a team themselves but, since they are now providing all of the support staff for our young re-birth of our civilization. We thought that we needed to do something like this to prepare to provide full support for organics. It was Niam's idea really."
"Really?" "That is amazing insight and forethought. I will need to thank him." "I think that would be a good idea Harry. I think you will find that properly motivated the Asurans are going to be a good resource in our society." "I agree and I know I have been harsh from the beginning, I am just overly-sensitive to operational security right now. Until today, yourself included, for all of this that we are doing, I have been surrounded only by machines and computers, no human or living support at all." "I know Harry, and Niam understands that too." "I think he is trying to prove himself to you." "He's off to a great start." "I agree." "For now, you will find that, while lightly staffed because even with the Asurans we are spread very thin, all Atlantis main support facilities are staffed with the appropriate types of officers, orderlies, or engineers necessary to maintain a skeleton crew and life support." "Excellent!" "Indeed."
Harry returns to the ready room to find everyone decked out in their choice of Lantean attire. Harry has already transfigured his.
"Ha. We almost all look the same." "Well Harry, look at this stuff, it mostly does look the same and it's all tan or beige. It does appear as though they put different cuts to the seams or seams and stripes in different places, I'm going to guess that if these are some kind of uniforms that the differences indicate what type of profession they are in. I don't know." exclaims Mione. "Anyway," Gin continues, "we all decided we would all dress similarly so that if we do run into other people out there we would all look like we are part of your crew, which besides us is rather sparse isn't it?" "Yes, you are right. That is a good idea of course and the outfit I am wearing is the one of High Command rank with this Councilor insignia here see, and over hear this additional stripe around the collar indicates that I am the High Councilor. So, this will all work nicely. I wonder if I should work on getting Merlin to stop looking the part of ancient wizard like he always has? I don't know if he does that for me, now us, or just because that -is- how Merlin last dressed, with the big flowing gossamer robes."
"I can answer that Harry." "Oh Hi Merlin, didn't see you there." "Yes, well you got it right, this is exactly how Merlin dressed the last time he was on Earth performing cheap magic tricks for your muggle and wizard ancestors." "Oh, nice. I'm not sure if I like the way you put that, you cheeky little AI." "Harry! that's Merlin you're talking to." exclaimed Hermione. "Yeah, yeah." "C'mon Merlin, guys, let's get this show on the road." Saul can be see off the side keeping his tongue and just shaking his head in light hearted disapproval.
"Well folks we are dressed the part now, although I don't know what part Merlin is dressed for. Actually Merlin now that I think about it, if we meet any Lanteans on this trip, they will recognize you as Moros right? But will they recognize you in those clothes or could you switch to something they would be more used to for you? I mean you are officially a Councilor here and my First Officer, Second in Command of the Alteran Fleet?" Sigh. "I suppose you are right Harry, I will change my appearance to how I used to look when I was last among the Lanteans. Do you want me to put that nice collar piece on too indicating I am High Councilor again as well?" "Ha, ha, Merlin. If you were the real living Merlin I -would- say yes you know." "But under the circumstances?" "I know, I know, just checking."
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With everyone gathered on the command deck, Harry says, OK here is the plan.
"We are going to fly Atlantis to a very high Earth orbit maintaining cloak. They should not detect us. Then the five of us plus an Asuran medical team and an Asuran engineering team will beam to the surface where Atlantis has detected the life-sign. This is Antarctica so as you know it will be cold. We will wear the standard Lantean cold weather gear and the engineers will set up a temporary shelter and work-space to perform this recovery operation from with some warmth and protection from the elements. However, I don't expect us to be on the surface too long. If we do find and recover a living Alteran we will beam them directly to the Atlantis Infirmary and allow the medical staff to treat them and so forth. Does anyone not want to go to the surface for this mission? You don't have to. As excitement goes, this might be the least since we're still on Earth, just let me know."
Everyone says they want to go, it's part of their first mission on this adventure and they don't want to miss anything.
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"OK now that everyone is gathered and ready, Atlantis transport us to the designated surface coordinates." ~bright flash of light~
"Gin, just to let you know, this isn't far from where you found the Astria Porta for us."
"Harry, it looks like we will not have to search long to find our life sign, they are not that far from the surface. It appears that whoever this is, is buried 10 meters directly in front of us in a block of ice about 13 meters below the surface."
"OK, you men get the shelter and work-space set up, and the rest of you follow me and lets see about recovering this person."
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1 hour later...
"Commander, we have reached her." "Her?" "Yes the life-sign appears to be a young Alteran woman and scans indicate she is still alive in a very advanced form of cryogenic sleep." "OK, let's get her out of there then." "Medical team let's get her to the shelter to see what we can do for her."
A little while later inside the shelter, the lead medical officer says, "Commander, I need to ask all of you organics to stay outside. Actually sir, it would be better for you all to return to Atlantis." "Why doctor?" "Because this woman is not a Lantean, she is an Alteran who must have never made it during the ancient Alterans original evacuation from Earth to Lantea on Atlantis, she is probably 7.5 million years old if she dates back to the final exodus of Atlantis, and she has the deadly ancient plague that nearly wiped out all the Alterans."
"Oh, my! Yes, I agree we will all return to Atlantis. Will you be able to free her alive from her cryogenic sleep?" "Yes, we can do that here or on Atlantis." "Doctor, beam her to one of the quarantine pods in your Infirmary. When she is recovered enough for you to perform any other work on her, administer the cure for the plague to her. When she is medically fit for visitors including being blessed by no less than three verifications that she is free of the plague, let me know and we'll come to the Infirmary to debrief her."
"He turns to the rest of the team. Wow! I didn't expect to find one of our ancient ancestors from the original line of Alterans. This is huge. Guys, Merlin knows this of course and you only know the overview I gave you regarding the plague. But, the Lanteans eventually discovered the cure for the plague while in Pegasus. I'm sure if they knew this woman was alive they would have come back for her. Anyway, it is our duty to help her survive I think?"
"I agree Harry" says Hermione. "We're all behind you Harry" says Gin and Saul says "Well, if this is true, this woman is going to prove a lot of people wrong about a great many things. Wow is right Harry."
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Back on Atlantis, after the woman is cured and verified by the medical team for human contact, the team makes a visit to her in the Infirmary.
A/N: we will make use of the name Ayiana because her real name was never revealed in the series. and 7.5m years to take the average of the age they give us.
Harry is the first to approach her and attempts to address her in his best imitation of what he thinks is the ancient dialect of Alteran,
"Hello, my name is Harry, what is your name?"
"Hel-lo, Har-ry, my name is Ay-iana."
"Well, Ayiana, do you know how long you were asleep for?"
"No Har-ry"
"We are aboard your old city-ship Atlantis and if you were among the Alterans who did not manage to escape the great plague with the city during its final exodus, you are 7.5 million years old, placing us from your memory very, very far into your future."
"Atlantis? Good. Atlantis survived this long? Very good."
"Yes, I will explain more about ourselves later. But, please let me welcome you back and to say how happy we are that you survived this long. We were able to develop a cure for the plague millions of years after Atlantis left the galaxy and we have cured you of it. You are perfectly healthy once again."
"Thank you Harry."
"It sounds like you are getting a better grasp on our language and dialect. I take it that you have the same Alteran gift of rapidly learning new languages that I have?"
"Yes, Harry, that is correct."
"Good, because right now we have several people in the room who can only understand you through a universal translator."
"Is it okay if I give you the gift of our new primary language called English so that you can speak freely with all of us?"
"Yes, Harry, I would like that very much. Thank You."
Harry goes over to stand in front of Ayiana touches her shoulders and slowly and gently leans his forehead toward hers until his forehead is touching hers. This is a very intimate action and the girls let out a ~gasp~ of surprise wondering what is Harry doing with this woman, but they remain silent because they don't understand and are sure that Harry will explain.
Harry backs away and says in English again, "OK Ayiana, do you understand me now? and in perfect English in an imitation of Harry's own accent answers, "perfectly Harry, thank you."
"OK, everyone come on over let me introduce you." "Alright Harry," Ginny whispers to Harry as she walks by him to get closer to the table, "but what was that you did with that woman, it looked like you were getting ready to kiss her?" Ayiana with very acute senses heard her loud and clear and let out a little ~snort~ of laughter but tried to hold it in. "Ah, that is nothing dear, that is the customary Alteran way of transferring learned knowledge directly from one Alteran to another. It isn't done very often actually and is considered rather intimate in their culture, but given the circumstances I thought the exception in this case warranted it." "OK Harry, but are you going to start hitting on every pretty Alteran woman you meet?" At this Ayiana let out an even louder ~snort~ of laughter, with a grin, she couldn't contain herself any longer. "Do you really think I'm pretty?" Ayiana says. With an ~eep~ Ginny backed up a step. "Uh, yes ma'am you are beautiful." Harry and Mione both let out a quick laugh and Harry said, let me introduce everyone OK? Ayiana these two very beautiful young women are my girlfriends," taking Ginny's hand and kissing it, "Ginny Weasley, and this," taking Mione's hand and kissing it, "is Hermione Granger." "This gentleman to your right is Saul Croaker a friend and colleague, and further to his right, is Councilor Moros, my First Officer. I am Harry Potter, High Councilor and Supreme Commander of the Alteran Fleet; or for your sake I should say, the New Alteran Fleet. Team, this is Ayiana, of Terra, one of our original Alteran ancestors."
"It is well to meet all of you" says Ayiana. "I would not say that I personally am one of your ancestors High Councilor, as I myself never reproduced."
Ayiana continues "I thank you very much for finding me and coming to my rescue and curing me of the plague. I am grateful to you. I would very much like to hear the story of what happened to our people, from what you have said it is implied that while some have survived there is not many."
"Your welcome Ayiana and as I said before welcome back. We would like to sit and talk with you and bring you up to date. You have quite a lot of history to catch up on. And then we need to hear from you, what you want to do. We know that the people from your time are long gone and we will do whatever we can to make you feel at home and comfortable among us in this time. At least Atlantis itself will be familiar surroundings for you."
"Doctor, is she cleared to leave medical? We can take her to get something to eat, get her assigned quarters, and discuss any next steps?"
"Yes, Commander, she is released from the Infirmary."
"OK, then everyone let's return to the command deck and ready room for a bit."
On the way to the command deck, through his neural interface he commands Merlin to dispatch a team from one of their city-ships in orbit of AC-Bb that is not participating in this expedition, to take a team with a gate-ship under cloak to return to the surface where they found Ayiana and sterilize the surrounding area and any ice or source of water that might have been contaminated by exposure to Ayiana before she was cured.