Author's Note: The 365 Project is an experimental multi-fandom project to write and post at least one short every day for the next year, not including my semi-regular bi-weekly updates. For more details, see the relevent section in my profile. This is The 365 Project, 3 December.

In the immortal words of Samuel L. Clemens... "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR."

Disclaimer: Don't own Ranma 1/2 or Stargate Atlantis, don't make money off of them, don't sue me please...


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"Genetics At Work"
'Third Fragment'
By J.T. Magnus, 'Turbo'

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Atlantis' scientists were still like kids in a toy store - eyes all a-glow and running around as though they weren't sure which aisle to go down next because every one held inestimable treasures - ever since the Expedition's newest 'Civilian Contractor' had done something that they would have previously considered impossible... a word that just didn't have the same impact in the Pegasus Galaxy years after the Stargate Command was formed as it once had in the Milky Way Galaxy before Earth's Stargate was activated. The CivCon, one Saotome Ranma, was one of several ATA-Positives discovered in the Orient - specifically regions of China and Japan - whose high Gene levels manifested not in superior intuition and instincts like those whose ancestry could be traced to the Ireland/Scotland region, but instead in a better understanding of their body and the ability to manipulate it and their own life-energies to do things that would be impossible for anyone else. Some of the SGC's scientists back on Earth had already been dispatched to the Bayankala Mountains to study in greater depth the Jusenkyo pools that Ranma had told them of, to see if they could determine how the pools and related 'curses' worked and what the Ancients might have used them for.

More important to the Expedition at the moment, however, was what had happened when Ranma had channeled his life-energy - ki, as he referred to it - into a panel he had found in his quarters and the 'Lost City' had experienced a sudden - albeit minor, compared to the amount the city would have in an ideal situation - increase in power levels and activity from Atlantis' computer systems. It had led to a breakthrough in Zero Point Module research and an understanding of one of the Pegasus sayings about the Ancients; that they put themselves into their creations. At first it had been thought merely metaphoric, relating to the time and effort anyone puts into creating something, but Ranma's actions revealed the literal meaning of it, providing the first step in learning how to recharge ZPMs, despite the fact that how to create them in the first place remained a mystery.