Chapter 4: New Friends
Revan yawned, wiping the sleep from his eyes as he stretched in the command chair. Looking around the bridge as he stood up he found himself alone so using the ship's sensors he noted that the crew was in their little area they'd claimed on the ship. Eresh was with Lya, still working with the Vanir to find a way to save their race. Talos and Latos were in a hologram room they'd claimed and started to call weapons development while Trebal was with one of the Vanir named Gemesh studying one of their battle suits.
After teleporting himself a quick meal he checked on current solar activity finding that Eresh's estimation was correct that it was finally settling down meaning it was time to return to the Milky Way. Using the ship's sensors to check on Tria's current location he plotted an intercept course, notifying the crew that they would be leaving Pegasus. After receiving acknowledgment from the crew he deactivated the Surik's cloak then activated the wormhole-drive feeling the brief weightlessness then nothing but the darkness of space.
Checking the ship's sensors to make sure that they were in the correct coordinates he began broadcasting on all Lantean frequencies that would have been in use during the Tria's time of service. Knowing that it could be a few minutes till the ship picked up the signal and stopped he closed his eyes deciding to do some brief meditation. After about ten minutes he could feel a mental nudge from Eresh opening his eyes he could now see the Tria on the main display before he was notified they were being hailed giving a mental command the connection was established and he found himself facing a blind woman in a Lantean captain's uniform.
"I am Helia captain of the Tria," she said with a salute giving him a calculating look "to whom am I addressing?"
"I am Revan," he said, returning the salute "High Counselor of the Lantean people," he said, enjoying the surprise on her face.
"What of High Counselor Morros?" She said dropping her salute.
"How long has it been since your last communication with Atlantis?" He asked
"It has been five years since our last communication," she said with a look of worry "we missed the evacuation so we're heading to Terra using the ship..but lightspeed capability was lost during the last Wraith attack so we've been making do with hyperspace engines...but you should know that if you're the High Counselor," distrust apparent on her face. Revan sighed before ripping off the bandaid.
"It may have been five years for you, but because you were traveling near the speed of light, time was slowed down for you… it has been ten thousand years since your last communication with Atlantis," he said watching the disbelief on her face turn into realization as she sunk low into the chair she was sitting in.
"Then the Lantean race st-" she started to ask before Revan interrupted her.
"As of right now, you and your crew plus for members of mine including myself are the only Lanteans left," he said watching the horror on her face.
"But Moros said we were going to reestab-" she started only to be interrupted again.
"From what I understand Morros underestimated their situation and was unable to re-establish a Lantean government. So of the survivors, some left the planet or ascended while those that remained intermingled with the humans on Terra….we are the last of our race," he said as he sat back in the command chair giving her some time to digest the information.
After about twenty minutes he could see her collecting herself trying to put on a strong face but, the force easily told him she was still reeling in shock and despair. Making a mental note to Eresh to have Lya talk to her, he coughed getting her attention. Using the command chair he sent her instructions on where to dock on the ship.
"I understand that you've had quite a shock if you need to have the ship's counselor talk to you about it," he said as Eresh told him that Lya would be happy to talk to them. "But, I also have a mission to look after the humans of Terra...I'd be happy to have you and your crew on the Surik," he could see her perk up when he said mission smiling as he received an enthusiastic nod.
After teleporting to the hanger and meeting with Helia and her crew she introduced her to Eresh who she seemed wary of due to her being composed of inanities but after an appearance and assurance from Lya that she was safe Helia seemed to relax around her. After introducing Helia to Talos and his crew he saw them off as they headed to the common area to catch them up on everything. Letting out a sigh he activated the teleport and after the brief flash, he was back in the bridge's command chair activating Surik's cloak and setting earth as their destination he notified the crew over the ship's intercom he was going to be engaging the wormhole-drive. Giving the view from the bridges display one last look he activated the wormhole-drive And found himself looking at Earth for the first time in two months.
Deciding to enjoy the view he lay back in the chair as the ship orbited around Earth teleporting himself a drink and having the nanites form a footrest. Though his planet gazing didn't last long as Lya and Eresh teleported into the bridge Lya's eyes glowing gold showing that Jolinar was in control. Eresh takes control of the displays to show a planet surrounded by a fleet of goa'uld motherships as Jolinar talked.
"I was just about to establish contact with the Tok'ra council to inform them of my situation," Jolinar stated as Eresh pulled up more information on the situation "However, I received word on the Tok'ra emergency broadcast frequency that the location of their base and where to escape to had been compromised and they are currently under attack," she said looking at Revan before bowing her head "I humbly request for the aid of the Lantean people to save my fellow Tok'ra," he could hear the desperation in her tone.
Revan stood up from his chair and placed his hand on her shoulder meeting her slowly raising face with a small smile on his.
"Of course I'd be willing to lend the Tok'ra my aid," he said seeing her relax. "After all, I could never turn a blind eye to a friend's problem," receiving a nod of gratitude from her as her eyes glow diminished, Lya, being given control. He had Eresh hack into the mothership's systems, finding them to belong to a lesser goa'uld who was trying to gain prestige by getting rid of the Tok'ra. After getting all the information he could on the advancing fleet he shut off the display turning to Eresh and Lya.
"But, we're not going to be using the Surik on this mission," he said, teleporting them out of the bridge into the hanger where his side project was enjoying the look of shock on Ash's face as she recognized it. "I'd rather use this opportunity to test my little side project and use this situation to our advantage, after all giving our enemy misinformation is key in war." Lya merely looked curious as they were greeted by the second part of his project.
"Greetings Master," it said happily. "Is it finally time for me to fulfill my primary function of eradicating all threats to your master?" The glee apparent in its voice as Lya and Eresh both stared at Revan, a look of complete and utter disbelief on their faces as he simply smiled at them.
"I'd like you to meet HK-M4," he said, gesturing to the droid who was holding a modified blaster rifle recreated using Lantean technology; it had both a kill and stunning setting. Behind him was a ship that Eresh would know from Revan's memories she'd accessed during their first connection.
"The Ebon Hawk," she said, seeing Lya's curious expression she explained further. "It was a ship he owned back in his home galaxy," she said walking up to it and examining it. "How did you-?"
"I used three of the Aurora-class ships as material to build this while I wasn't helping with the Asgard situation," he said having a holographic representation of it appear in front of them," While the look is that of the Dynamic-class freighter Ebon Hawk, it is three times the size and made up of the most advanced Lantean technology available to me as High Counselor, running off four ZPMs making it the most powerful light freighter created by the Lantean race." he gestured to HK-M4. "He's also based on my friend HK-47, though HK-M4 is both a combat and repair droid while HK-47 was purely an assassin droid." he pulled up HK-M4's designs "I used the strongest metal I could to create his casing while his inner workings are comprised of mostly nanites with his programming being a mix of what I learned from the repository and what I could remember of HK-47's base programming"
"And your idea of a friend is a maniacal assassin droid?" Eresh asked in disbelief in her voice as Lya examined HK-M4 giving them a nod.
"He saved my life countless times," Revan said with fondness in his tone. "give him some time I'm sure he'll grow on you," giving her and Lya a nod to follow him as the ship's ramp lowered and they made their way onto it. The ship's internal light came on as they made their way through the ship's central hub into the cockpit where there were seats for a co-pilot and navigator with the captain's chair having been replaced with a command chair.
"Now as I was saying, we could use this as an opportunity to cause some conflict among the system lords," he said sliding into the command chair, Lya taking the navigator's seat, and Eresh the co-pilots. "I don't want to use the Surik, it's too large and I'd rather not risk it being discovered by the goa'uld but, we can use then Ebon Hawk's cloak," he looked at Lya'' and have Jolinar pretend to be a rival goa'uld. Then using the ship's teleporter we can teleport any Tok'ra into one of the ship's empty rooms then destroying the empty base making them think the Tok'ra are dead. Then we can destroy the motherships leaving the survivors to spread the rumor of a goa'uld with superior weapons and cloaking...that should cause some distrust and infighting among the system lords," using the command chair to bring the ship's systems online and running diagnostics and having one of Eresh's duplicates take control of the Surik for their absence.
"That could buy the Tok'ra time to find another planet to establish a base on," Jolinar said, giving control to Lya, "And I find Jolinar's part to be acceptable to the Nox ways," she said, setting the navigation course.
Revan connected to the ship finding HK on weapons as he piloted the ship out of Surik's hanger finding all systems working at peak efficiency raising the shields and activating the cloak. But, before he could jump, Eresh drew their attention as she displayed a mission report from the SGC.
"It's not just the Tok'ra," worry in her voice, "there are some sg teams we'll have to rescue as well,"
Revan nodded and with a mental nudge the new Ebon Hawk's wormhole-drive activated and they found themselves appearing alongside a mothership with Revan forced to make evasive maneuvers to avoid touching their shields noticing them sending some gliders into orbit before piloting the ship to the planet's surface.
He had Eresh use the sensors, finding the planet's stargate active as well as a system of tunnels that Jolinar told them to be how Tok'ra established their bases. He had Eresh scan for Tok'ra and human life signs finding there to be around twenty humans and a little over a hundred Tok'ra and one Jaffa which he was guessing to be Teal'c.
"Can we establish secure communication with the Tok'ra?" he asked as he had Eresh monitor all the goa'uld comms chatter. Lya stands up to operate the comms controls before turning to Revan with a nod giving Jolinar control.
"I have sent an encoded message containing the passphrase I used to establish contact on covert missions," Jolinar said sitting back in the navigation chair. "If they haven't removed them from the database they should try to contact us soon," she said before Revan was notified that there was a communication coming in using the same encoding as Jolinar's message it was only audio.
"This is Garshaw of the Tok'ra High Council is that you Jolinar of Malkshur?" said what he was guessing to be a female Tok'ra. Jolinar looked to Revan receiving a nod then taking over the comms.
"This is Jolinar, I have brought an ally who I think could be a great help in these dire times," she said, voice full of resolve. "We have a plan that should it succeed will leave the system lords to believe you are dead as well as spread discord among them,"
After a few moments of silence which Revan guessed was her talking to the Tok'ra High Council, Garshaw asked the details of the plan with Jolinar explaining it to her as some of the gliders started to fire into the tunnel systems, though he didn't pick up any loss of life he knew it wouldn't be long till they managed to kill someone. After what seemed like hours but was a few tense minutes they got the okay and a briefing on what happened before they arrived learning that there was a spy among them that had been caught by sg-1 and committed suicide and Samatha Carter had brought a host for Selmak. After making sure Eresh had a lock on all friendlies Revan had her go to where they'd appear on the ship to give medical care to the injured and make sure things were under control he turned to Jolinar with a nod who informed them to be ready then cut the connection before establishing one on the mothership's open comms.
"Did you think you could take my prize," Jolinar said as Revan decloaked the ship and started to teleport the Tok'ra and sg teams onto the ship while firing on the base targeting the now empty areas. He smirked at the panic on the goa'uld comms as he dodged fire from the gliders that brought back some memories as he shot a couple down.
"Who would dare oppose us with just a single ship," he could easily hear the smugness in their tone as the gliders broke off their attacks on the Tok'ra base and started to fire on the ship. Revan let the force flow through him as he dodged their fire, smirking as he was informed that all Tok'ra and sg personnel had been teleported onto the ship he destroyed the remaining parts of the Tok'ra base and giving Jolinar another nod.
"Know that in your deaths you've given the great Setesh some entertainment with your useless lives," she said before cutting off the connection Revan a short bow and heading out of the cockpit to help Eresh greet their new guest. Revan dodged fire from the mothership feeling the inertial dampeners do their job as he shot them each down their shields and hulls buckling with just one shot firing at where he knew their power cores to be, watching as they blew then activating the wormhole-drive. He felt the expected weightlessness from it activating before finding himself once again staring at the Earth, he let out a deep breath letting go of his hold on the force and calming his emotions.
After checking ship diagnostics to make sure there were no problems and finding the ship to still be running at peak efficiency he set the ship in low Earth orbit before standing up and putting on his mask to go check on his new passengers. Making his way through the ship he came to the room the Tok'ra and sg members were in only to stop and stare hearing Jack ask what the hell was going on as the Tok'ra bowed to an embarrassed Lya the sg teams and Eresh watching. He could see Eresh trying to hold in laughter mirth in her eyes letting a chuckle of his own out drawing the room's attention.
"You know I expected a lot of things to happen, but I did not expect this," Revan said, watching as all eyes turned to him, the SG teams raising their weapons only for O'Neill to have them lower them and make his way towards the front of the room.
"Hey, laser sword guy," Jack said, stopping a few feet away from him. "You always seem to be there to save our asses, aren't you?" he accused before looking sheepish at the rest of the sg teams moving up to join him as Lya talked to the Tok'ra. "Not that I'm complaining, save all you want. We wouldn't have minded some help the last few weeks," he muttered the last part before Daniel cleared his throat giving him a look.
"Been kind of busy," Revan said the smile on his face hidden by his mask seeing Lya giving him a pleading look as the Tok'ra got more excited as they talked, but he just kept smiling under his mask giving her a small wave leaving her to chat with the Tok'ra while he talked with Jack using his link to the Surik to access all their missions reports. "I'm sure you didn't need my help at all,"
"So how does the work on those two motherships I gave you go?" he asked as a balding older man in camouflage looked at Jack as his eyes giving a quick glow.
"You have two motherships? Why were those not mentioned before?" said the man's symbiote Revan looking at him a second before turning his attention to Jack giving him a gesture to explain the situation. He looked a bit annoyed that the mother ships were mentioned but with a sigh, as Carter explained that one of the motherships had been taken apart to study by their people at Area 51 with now missing its weapons and powers source while the other was on standby in case of another attempted invasion.
"I gave you two ships and you made one inoperable within two months?" Revan asked, a tone filled with surprise and disbelief.
"It was the only way we could study it enough to even attempt to reverse engineer them and give us more knowledge on how they function. I still can't fully understand how the hyperspeed engines work," Carter said, sounding a little offended that Revan was questioning what they did. He simply raised his hand in a placating gesture.
"They're your ships do what you want with them, I was just curious is all," he lowered his arms back to his sides seeing Eresh trying to help Lya with the Tok'ra turning to the man with the symbiote.
"So why aren't you flocking to Lya? I assume you're a Tok'ra since everyone seems okay with you," Revan asked the man what he guessed to be a Tok'ra greeting.
"I am Selmak of the Tok'ra High Council and my host is Jacob Carter," Revan's eyes widened looking to Sam for a second, "He was dying of a terminal illness and with my host dying of old age we decided to take the only available option," Selmak said lowering his head, his body language shifting. Though Jack chose that moment to interject.
"Not that I don't like to listen to you talk about you little snake club but, I've got to contact the SGC and tell them we're not dead," Revan just sighed as Jack abrasiveness having Eresh use her bugs to tap into the SGC's radios and boost Jacks radio to receive their signal.
He enjoyed the look of shock on Jack's face as his radio started to receive a transmission from General Hammond quickly answering before moving to the back of the group again to have a private conversation.
"Um excuse me," Daniel said getting Revan's attention "but when we met last time you mentioned Atlantis"
"Yeah, I had to go pick it up...let the stove on," Revan said, enjoying the look on Daniel's face hearing Eresh let out a giggle through their link as Carter continued the questioning.
"You said it was a city-ship?" she asked as Revan chuckled and gestured to them to follow him walking out of the room and down the corridor to the hub display in the center of the ship. Finding Daniel, Cater, and Jacob had followed him he waved his hand as a holographic display of Atlantis appeared hearing gasp from them.
"Atlantis was the last city-ship created by the Lanteans and served as their last home in the Pegasus galaxy," he watched in shock in their eyes as the holographic Atlantis was sunk, " in that galaxy the Lanteans faced a great threat called the Wraith that while they didn't have superior technology, they did have massive numbers leading to the city being sunk to protect it and the last of the Lanteans to retreat here where they mingled with the human population," the hologram shut off.
"But, a stargate can't travel between galaxies," Sam said as Revan brought up a galaxy map of the gate system across the two galaxies. "The power requirement alone would be-"
"It does require quite a bit of power, but my people did create the gates," he said bringing up a comparison of the requirements between traveling in the galaxy and out of it, "I will admit that it took them quite some time and it was one of the last ideas thought of by my people before their near extinction," he chuckled as she studied the hologram with a look that was like a kid in the candy store he tried out his mental connection to the Ebon Hawk to bring a hologram of the gate's various systems seeing Sam getting lost in the date he could only chuckle. Turning to ask Selmak where to drop the Tok'ra off he noticed Lya heading his way with a red-haired woman Lya moving to speak once they were in front of him.
"Revan, this is Garshaw the council member who we talk to over the comms," she said introducing the woman who bowed. "After introductions were over and Jolinar reported to the council what has happened since their last communication," she said with a look to Garshaw. "I have learned that the new Tok'ra base has been compromised and have decided to give them sanctuary with the Nox till they can recover," she said looking at him.
"I'd be happy to take them there," he said reaching to his connection to the ship and Eresh having Eresh keep Jack's radio connected to the SGC while he plotted a course for the Nox planet looking to Lya who gave him a nod and using the wormhole-drive and finding the ship now just outside the planet's atmosphere feeling the force around Lya calm giving a sense of belonging. He got a grateful nod from Garshaw while having the ship land on an available clearing feeling as Eresh took control and finished landing. He nodded to Lya using one of the comm panels in the room to announce over the ship's speakers.
"Members of the Tok'ra we have arrived at your destination please make sure to collect your luggage and leave your trays in an upright position," he lowered the ship's ramp enjoying the shocked looks on the counselors and sg-1 members' faces getting a reproachful look from Lya. Lya simply sighed at his behavior before heading back to the other Tok'ra with Garshaw moving all the supplies they'd brought with them out of the ship with the help of the sg teams minus sg-1. Jack walked up to him having finished his communication with Hammond while Cater and her father moved towards the ship's ramp to get a private moment.
"So officially I've been ordered to try and capture you as the government doesn't like having someone capable of infiltrating the White House without us none the wiser," Jack said as Daniel and Teal'c gave him a look, "but I have a feeling that if I tried It'd fail spectacularly and a lot of good men would lose their lives," he looked towards the sg members helping the Tok'ra. "So if anyone asks you beamed our weapons away while we one the ship ...and unofficially nice work with Kinsey I got his naked tackle on tape," a grin spread across his face Revan laughed openly.
"Glad I could make your day Jack," he gestured to the leaving Tok'ra, "once they are off the ship and with the Nox I'll take you and your teams back to Earth," he yawned stretching before heading back to the cockpit letting Jack know to inform Eresh when he was ready to go, seeing the obvious question of what she was written on his face.
"Master do you believe me to be defective?" he heard HK say as he entered the cockpit tuning to find him in the co-pilot's chair before sinking into the command chair.
"I take it you're not happy that I didn't let you destroy at least one of those motherships?" Revan asked receiving a message from Eresh that Lya was talking with one of her people to explain the situation and that all the Tok'ra were almost off the ship.
"Do you doubt my capabilities, master?" he could hear the dejection in the droid's vocal processors.
"I don't doubt you, HK, I just wanted to test the ship's capabilities myself," he turned to the droid, "I promise next combat we get into I'll let you have your fun," he could see the droid's optics light up a bit.
"Yes master, please make sure it's nice and bloody," the sound of his steps echoed through the room and hall as he headed back to the turrets. Revan busied himself checking all the ship's systems using both the mental link and the command chair to familiarize himself with the systems. His testing was interrupted as Cater walked into the cockpit a feeling of sadness coming from her before Revan pushed his connection to the force to the back of his mind.
"Lost Captain Carter?" he asked, having the chair spin around to face her, seeing her eyes glued to the ship's holographic displays clearing his throat to get her attention. seeing embarrassment on her face.
"Sorry I've never seen a working holographic interface like these," she said, gesturing to the controls before looking down. "I probably shouldn't be looking at them huh?"
"It's just basic readouts for the ship, nothing worth hiding," he said, smirking as her eyes roamed over the holograms. "If you want something to look at," Revan brought up the designs of an old model of shield generator used by the Lanteans during their testing of lightspeed travel watching as she walked closer to the display eyes wide-reaching a hand up only to pause looking at him.
"It's a touch interface," he gestured to her to continue chuckling at her hesitance using his mental link to enlarge the image showing the makeup of the generator laughing as she jumped back before turning to him with a glare. He tapped his head, "Sorry couldn't resist, used my mental uplink," watching Cater glare at him before turning her focus on studying the designs tentatively touching the display as if she was going to break it.
"How about I explain the components to apologize for my little prank," he said standing up moving to stand beside her the display shifts to show the devices multiple layers.
"Really?" he could hear the disbelief in her tone.
"Sure, it's an older model than the ones we use now I see no harm in telling you," he said before he started to explain the various components of it to her chuckling when she pulled a notepad from her vest as he explained the device answering any questions she had and giving her his opinion on what materials she could use as substitutes for the materials that were unavailable to her. He was beginning to explain what could be made using Earth materials as a power source before they were interrupted by Jack letting out a fake cough.
"Carter I sent you to tell him we were ready to go half an hour ago," he smirked "not to ask him on a date," Revan could see that Carter was annoyed as she let out a deep breath.
"Sir he was telling me about this shield generator's capabilities and how it was possible to make one using materials native to Earth," she gestured to the hologram "With this kind of technology we could create shields around places of significant importance, like say the White House," Jack's eyes widened at that, "or even increase progress on Earth-made ships with shields superior to the goa'uld,"
"Oh so science stuff," he said, letting out a whistle.
"Yes, but I don't think I could even attempt to make it without this display letting me see what a functioning one should look like," she said, letting out a sigh looking at her notepad. Revan looked at her for a second before having a brief mental conversation with Eresh who said she would leave the decision to him.
Revan cleared his throat getting their attention heading to a compartment on the wall beside the co-pilot's chair, a panel opening up as he pulled out a Lantean datapad downloading the schematics for the shields as well as some other devices outdated by current standards but would help out the SGC holding the datapad out to Carter.
"Here I've downloaded the generator's schematics onto this as well as some old designs for medical devices far superior to current technology on Earth," he smirked at her and Jack's wide-eyed expression as he still held out the pad, "Are you going to take it?" he let out a chuckle as it was almost yanked from his hand Carter already scrolling through it.
"It will also let you contact me should your SGC find themselves in over their head," he said with a nod to Jack, "though don't think I'll be a solution to all your problems, I'll just help on those that are beyond your planet's current capabilities," he checked to make sure the ship's ramp was up and everyone was aboard before having the ship take off, activating the cloak and wormhole-drive once they left the planet's gravity.
Jack and Carter's attention was drawn to the cockpit's main display showing that they were now facing Earth.
"Well it was nice having you aboard but, this is where we say goodbye," Revan said with a grand gesture before activating the teleporter teleporting them to the SGC and watching them disappear from the cockpit.
Cutting off the hologram of the shield generator Revan slid into the command chair using his connection to both ships to have the Ebon Hawk dock back in its private hanger. He headed out of the cockpit to the ship's ramp meeting up with Lya and Eresh as they made their way out of the ship.
After sending Eresh to notify the others of what happened as he headed with Lya to the Vanir to continue to help them with the degradation, Lya seemed very excited as she'd received what looks to be a tablet containing all of the Nox's medical knowledge. The next couple of days consisted of trying to incorporate all three races' knowledge to fix the problem and they felt like they were close, however, Eresh was having trouble trying to contact the Asgard in Ida. With the possibility of the Asgard there long gone and Eresh's inability to scan the galaxy's solar activity, Revan couldn't risk traveling there especially with the goa'uld giving a perfect opportunity to strike.
Revan had also had Eresh send a ship to transport the nanites and materials from the satellite construction site to the Surik while calling a meeting for all crew members to discuss the current situation of the galaxy. The crew from the Tria immediately volunteered to take part in any combat with the goa'uld while those from the Aurora wanted to continue weapons development which he agreed to allow. He gave the weapons development group a bigger holographic room in one of Atlantis's towers, while he had Eresh take the Tria's crew to the hangers permitting them to use up to five ships as materials as Eresh pulled up ship designs based on those of Revan's reality as he didn't want any attacks connected to the Lanteans he left them to it.
The Tria's crew had chosen to use the designs of a Foray-class blockade runner outfitting it with many of the same systems as the Ebon Hawk. After he looked over the designs with Eresh to make sure they would work with the design and finding no problems, Revan gave them the okay to start nanite construction. The ship would be complete in a week giving the crew time to get back into combat shape through exercises with the use of a holographic room. Revan took part in both parts of the excesses one being a ship-to-ship battle scenario and the other boarding one. He'd lowered the output of his lightsabers to that of a training-saber and worked them into the ground to prepare them for every scenario he could think of. Over the week weapons development had worked just as hard and managed to create a turbolaser prototype using Revan's knowledge from Eresh, which was tested with the Ebon Hawk proving a working alternative to the drone weapons through both ships would still have drones as they had more piercing power.
Lya with Eresh's help and the medical knowledge of the Nox had managed to halt the degradation which was a huge achievement, however, without D.N.A. from a pre-degenerative state Asgard they wouldn't be able to cure it completely. You could almost see the joy the Vanir felt as Lya came up with a short procedure using nanites to stop the degradation meaning that clones created using the D.N.A. from the Vanir wouldn't degrade with Lya seeming even more determined to repair the Asgards genetic code now that there wasn't a threat of extinction.
Revan personally watched the Foray-class blockade runner now named Mjolnir as it left the hangar. Helia was filled with pride and determination on the ship's display which changed to shock as Revan named her leader of the Lantean navy. After waiting a few minutes for her to regain composure he gave her her orders which were to cause as much disarray between system lords as she could using hit and run tactics as well as gathering information on the current situation of the galaxy. With a firm salute from the newly appointed general which was returned her ship jumped to lightspeed with Eresh confirming with her duplicate aboard the ship that it was running at peak efficiency.
Eresh over the week had also worked very hard as she had managed to finish construction on the construction facility on the ship a week early. With that complete under Revan's orders, she'd manned six Aurora-class battleships with her duplicates before cloaking them and setting them to orbit Earth as they would work just as well as stealth satellites. She had also taken HK's designs and created some training droids for Revan each with shielding discovered in Janus's lab which was micrometers above their bodies surface allowing them to withstand lightsaber blows while wielding weapons. They had also been programmed with knowledge of Revan's lightsaber styles and the ability to adapt to him, giving him access to training partners which he used at least once a day getting himself back into shape days turning into weeks.
"Emotion, yet peace," he said, bringing his lightsaber up to block the droids blade, another coming up beside him to run him through only for him to drop onto his back, shoving them with the force blasting them back. "Ignorance, yet knowledge," the droids feet turned into claws using their nanites and dug into the floor with the other hanging from the ceiling shifting its stance denting the ceiling as it lunged at him as the one on the ground using its clawed feet to bind his legs to the floor.
"Passion, yet serenity," one eye slowly shifted to a sickly yellow as he dipped into his rage grabbed the lunging droid seeing both arms crushed as he tossed it at the droid holding him knocking them both away. "Chaos, yet harmony," both droids rolled in mid-air the arms of the damaged one repairing themselves as landed on their feet both their arms turning into blades that let out the distinct hum of a vibroblade he force summoned the lightsaber he dropped during the beginning of the session red and blue blades coming back to life as both droids rushed at him with speeds matching a master using force speed.
"Death, yet the force," the force flowed through him, gathering around and in him begging to be used, the world slowing down around him to a snail's pace as he let it flow unfiltered through him. He could feel every inch of the training room, the sounds of their vibroblades almost deafening to his force enchanted senses, he could feel every single part of the droids from their circuitry to their power sources, he closed his eyes letting the force guide him feeling the world shift as he pushed his body to the absolute limit barely feeling himself parrying the droids weapon as his body moved to dodge and striking at speeds that would make him a blur to anyone watching. He could feel the vibrations of the blades as they barely missed him and heard the air whistle with every cut. The world devolved into a dance dodging and parrying the room's lights shutting off as he did not need them he pushed his body to the limit letting the force sustain him. Then without warning the world returned as his eyes snapped open his lightsabers moving as a blur ripping through both droids like their shields didn't exist. The room lit back up as both halves hit the floor before their nanites swarmed back together and within seconds both droids stood with their optics off showing them to be deactivated.
Revan let out a deep breath releasing his hold on the force, the world slowing back down to normal and the aching in his arms now being felt even though he could feel the force soothing them, healing torn muscles making them stronger and better.
"You went for five hours this time," he heard turning his head, hand raised catching a container of water Eresh threw quickly opening it and taking some deep sips as he sat down on the floor Eresh moved to join him.
"Nearly back to the shape I was in during the Mandalorian Wars, " he said resting the cool metal container against his head, her eyes winding at that.
"Nearly back?" Disbelief prevalent in her tone even though she knew he was telling the truth, it still was quite a shock. "What was your normal time?"
"Seven hours was my limit and I would feel tired throughout the whole day," he said, moving to lay on the ground, arms behind his head feeling a brief twinge of pain at the movement. "I think six would be the best amount of time without tiring me out," he looked at Eresh with a raised brow who got the message.
"Helia has reported in," a hologram formed in the room showing current goa'uld activity collected by Helia's crew, "she's recently hit a goa'uld mining operation under the system lord Yu," a brief dossier about Yu appearing before changing back to the map, "she was in and out pretty quick blowing the mine when there would be the least jaffa on duty, along with leaving evidence that the attack was the work of Chronos, "
"Only two months after getting her new ship and she exceeds all expectations," he said, knowing that she was putting her all into her mission. "You know I'd feel bad for the goa'uld if they weren't egotistical maniacs with illusions of grandeur, " going over the mission report before giving her a nod as the hologram shut off.
"How're things going with the SGC? I know some things are tense since I wouldn't help with the Salish," he winced at the audacity of their government trying to trick humans protected by an advanced species capable of bringing their destruction. He knew they were desperate for advanced technology, but he'd hoped that giving Carter some would make them less desperate.
"I believe they recently found out that the original gate was stolen and being used by a branch of their government to steal from other races, " a look of disappointment very apparent on her face. "They managed to track it down and recover a stolen weather machine as well as the gate which is now stored with a permanent iris," she seemed to focus on something not in the room before she turned towards him with worry and shock on her face.
"They have an address to a planet with a repository on it," the gate address appearing before them. "It's an older model that contains the bare minimum of Lantean knowledge, unlike the newer ones which possess the whole public knowledge. O'Neill has accessed the repository and if my readings are correct then he had less than a week before the knowledge will overwhelm him," Revan jumped to his feet bringing up all medical information they could access from the SGC's computers finding Eresh's estimation to be spot on.
"I'll take the Hawk and check it out," he said, teleporting his mask to himself and sliding it on feeling it lock in place as his torn and cut battle suit repaired itself using nanites. "With the cloaked ships now orbiting the planet and the Surik being so big, why don't you move Surik to the dark side of the moon?" He asked reviving a nod before teleporting himself into the Hawk's cockpit sitting in the command chair and firing all of its systems up before taking off as the hanger doors opened the ship's cloak activating as he did so.
He piloted the ship through the atmosphere pushing the engines to their maximum speed the inertia dampeners doing their job as he got to the airspace above the SGC leaving his ship to hover over the mountain. He paused for a second as he thought of a fun way to get into the base, a smirk underneath his mask opening the ship's ramp as he made his way to it through the ship.
Once he made it to the ramp he found himself staring at a fall of a couple of hundred feet before letting the force flow through him as he jumped closing the ramp with a thought with the air rustling past him and the force filling every inch of his being. The ground grew closer with the force beckoning for him to release it to let go but he held it letting it fill him till the very air around him felt awash in the force, then within feet of touching the ground, he let go coming to a stop with the rocks and trees forming indents in the ground as he hung in the air suspended by the force before letting the connection go and falling the remaining feet to the ground landing on his feet.
He looked around using both his eyes and the force finding no cameras where he was in the mountains. He checked one last time before the world slowed down as he used force speed running down the mountain stopping once he saw the mountains checkpoint. He smirked using the force to conceal himself as he snuck the rest of the way down the mountain and through the security, the shadows becoming a part of him as the force hid him from both their sight and thoughts.
Once he made it through all the security checkpoints and personnel he found himself in front of an elevator with the carriage having already been called. He simply raised his hand using the force to slowly slide the elevator doors open seeing the empty elevator shaft stopping once the door was open enough to slide through before leaping the opening catching himself on a service ladder before turning back to the doors using the force to shut them finding himself surrounded by darkness. The darkness was broken when with a mental nudge his mask's recently added night vision turned on. After checking to make sure the elevator wasn't coming up on him he started to climb down the ladder of the shaft humming a tune as he did so the sound kept in his mask.
After about ten minutes of climbing, he found himself above the elevator, and with a quick check with the force he found it to be empty so he dropped down onto the top of the carriage sliding open its service hatch and jumping into it finding himself alone as the force told him he would be. With a warning from the force, he backed up against the wall shrouding himself as the elevator door opened and he found himself joined by two airmen as they made their way to what he remembered from scans and schematics of the base to be the gate room's level.
"Hey, do you ever wonder why we're here?" one of them said before he tuned them out as they made their way down. Once they arrived and both airmen had left he made his way out of the elevator sticking to the walls, having his ship hide him from the base's cameras as he made his way through the base. Closing his eyes and letting the force guide him to O'Neill he found himself going deeper into the base cutting the connection as he heard O'Neill's voice though he was speaking in an older dialect of Lantean after checking to make sure it was only sg-1 in the room Revan entered the book-filled room sticking to the shadows before making himself known.
"You know if you wanted to learn the Lantean language I would have added a dictionary to that datapad," he said, enjoying their jump of surprise as they turned to face him, the force concealment ending. Carter was already reaching for what he guessed to be a panic button before stopping as she realized who just spoke.
"Hey! It's the laser sword guy," Jack said, still speaking lantean as everyone in the room relaxed, Daniel gave him a curious look as Carter walked up to Revan worried on her face.
"They're lightsabers," Revan replied in English sitting down on a stool, "though if you're going to keep calling me that I'd rather you just call me my name," he picked up a book that was on Mesopotamia glancing at its contents before setting it back down.
"We didn't quite catch your name," Daniel said before Carter started to talk.
"You know what the colonel is saying," she asked, "does that mean that you can help him?" worry obvious in her tone eyes full of hope.
"My name is Revan," he said jumping off the stool walking up to Jack moving his hand to his forehead using the force to get a feel of his situation. "I don't know if I can help him, but I will try," he could feel the force gathering around him reaching into Jack's head telling showing him that bit by bit he was being overwritten by the knowledge of the repository as unlike Revan he didn't have a buffer to regulate the knowledge. Letting out a deep breath Revan reached deeper into the force finding that while it was overwriting Jack his subconscious was already trying to find a way to save him and though he felt the force could remove the knowledge from Jack. It was telling him he shouldn't...it was telling him to let events happen as they should that this event was a shatterpoint in the fate of the people of Earth and should he interrupts it could cause the deaths of billions Revans eyes widened as he pulled his hand away from Jack breath ragged.
"I can't remove it," he said, trying to calm his rapidly beating heart. "I'm sorry but I can't remove it," he leaned against the room's table.
"But you created the repository!" she yelled at him "Why would you create something that overwrites a person with the entire knowledge of your people!" she finished with a hard poke to his chest.
"It was created for Lantean use, not humans," he pushed Carter's hand away "Lanteans have a more advanced mental structure than humans allowing them to absorb the knowledge of the repository safely, and usually there would be a medical team with a sort of buffer to make the download safer for the individual," he moved to sit back on the stool.
"I'm sorry, but the Lanteans never thought humans would interact with the repositories without first reaching the level of mental development required to access them safely," the atmosphere in the room became foreboding.
"Then why'd you come here?" Jack asked, the rest of sg-1 turning to face Revan to translate which he did.
"I wanted to see if I could help," he pulled another book from the shelves giving it a look before using the force to put it back, face turning towards Carter. "I also wanted to check on your progress using the data I gave you," a small smile on his face as she went into detail about what she was working on.
The next few hours were spent with Revan translating what Jack was saying as Cater explained to him her current development with the Lantean data he gave her. Though they were brought out of an in-depth conversation of potential power sources that could increase the capabilities of the generator by the alarms going off with Jack seemingly in a trance rushing from the room and Sam being called to the gateroom. Feeling the force calling out to him, he followed Jack once again concealed with the force watching him take what appeared to be a roughly put-together power source of Lantean design. Watching Jack hook it up onto the base's power systems before following him as he made his way through the base stopping outside the gateroom as Jack walked in hearing over the intercom eight chevrons locked.
The force almost pushed him to move, he could hear it whispering in his head telling him this was the way that he had to follow Jack through. Watching as Teal'c and Daniel tried to dissuade Jack from going Revan used his mental link with Eresh telling her about the situation and that he would be out of contact for a while. Waiting for Jack to start to step through the gate he gathered the force around him to speed his body up and rushed through the gate with Jack finding himself flying out of the gate turning himself in mid-air landing in a crouch turning to see that Jack landed facedown.
Listening to the force he shrouded himself once again and slipped into a shadowed corner watching as Jack met the Asgard asking for help and having the knowledge of the repository completely removed. A smile formed on his face hidden under his mask listening to Jack's little talk with the Asgards waiting for him to be sent home before releasing the shroud and stepping forward. the little grey aliens turning to face him.
"Hello," he stepped forward hands up to show he was unarmed before reaching up and removing his mask "sorry for popping out of nowhere, but I figured the first meeting between Asgard and humans didn't need a Lantean High Consoler involved," he couldn't help but let a chuckle out at what he learned from the Vanir to be a look of shock. After a small silence, one of the Asgards stepped forward introducing themselves.
"Hello, I am Supreme Commander Thor," he raised his arms in the traditions greeting used for a matter involving the four races which Revan returned to what seemed to be astonishment. "Excuse my hesitance, but we believed the Lanteans to be extinct," Revan lowered his arms as the room's atmosphere seemed to relax.
"We very nearly were," he sat on his knees to be at face height with them so he wouldn't have to keep looking down. "We are in the low thirties, but my race's low numbers aren't why I'm here," he scratched the back of his head. "I'll cut to the point, I High Consoler Revan of the Lantean people would like to meet with your High Council to discuss the possibility of re-established the alliance, I've already met with the Nox and have received their acceptance of it,"
Thor tilted his head before nodding and with a bright light, Revan found himself in what appeared to be the council chambers now on his knees on a circular platform facing a raised platform where seven Asgards were sitting. Thor, the one in the middle of the group stood giving the others a summary of what had happened in the last half-hour before talking among themselves for what felt to be an hour before their attention turned towards him.
"We have decided to accept the reestablishment of the alliance, however, we want it to be known that right now we cannot offer any aid to your people and we will not interfere with matters involving protected planets," a holographic display showed what appeared to be some kind of insect made of metal "We are currently at war with a race we call the replicators, they feed on advanced technology using what they can to replicate themselves and have spread far and wide of Ida," worry laced his tone "we fear it is a fight we cannot win," the displayed showed the insect move around before stopping and zooming on what appeared to be it's inter components Revan's eyes widened in realization as he had seen a similar makeup to the Asurans.
"Do you have any microscopic images?" he asked before Thor nodded the image zooming in showing each block to be connected with a small number of nanites and a form of magnetics with identical designs of the Asurans though they weren't as suffocated. "How do they communicate with each other?"
"They communicate through a subspace communication network, though we can access it we cannot find any way to use it to our advantage," they pulled up a sample of it which after a few minutes of analysis Revan recognized that it was functioning on the same wavelengths as all Lantean communication devices did with the replicator signal functioning as a jammer making it impossible to use any Lantean communication explaining why Eresh was having trouble with scanning and connecting to Ida.
"They're using the same wavelength as Lantean communications," he turned to look to them "they are also very similar in design to Asurans a race created by Lanteans during their war with the Wraith,"
"Do you believe that the Asurans would be able to help with this matter?" he could hear the hope in Thor's voice before shaking his head.
"No, their programming was deemed too dangerous to the continued existence of the Lantean race, so their base code was wiped and nanites were taken over by Eresh my ship's A.I." he could see the dejected looks on the Asgards faces. "But, I think I could help you with the replicators," they stared at him, waiting for him to continue.
"They're using a bastardized version of Lantean communications that makes it impossible to communicate with Lantean devices as there is just too much happening much like using a loud sound to make hearing a lower tone impossible, however, if they are as similar to the Asurans then they must use those wavelengths to form a network connecting every one of them,' he ran his hand through his hair "if I'm right that they're an offshoot of the Asurans than Eresh could hack into the network and erase what appears to be their primary programming using the systems you used to receive this sample."
"And if they are unable to erase it and instead allow for the creation of a smarter replicator?" another Asgardian asked standing up. Though Revan just smirked at them, determination burning in his eyes.
"I would trust her with my life," he looked at the Council staring them in the eyes, "think of it as the first act of friendship between our people," a nod in their direction as they backed away from him going back to speaking mang themselves before Thor turned to him.
"It has been put to a vote with four against three in favor of going along with your plan," Thor nodded to the others as they each disappeared in a flash of white before Revan found himself on a ship with Thor in a chair who turned to speak to him the ship's vire port showing it pulling away from the planet before hitting lightspeed. "At our current pace, we will reach the Milky Way galaxy in three hours,"
The next one and a half hours were spent with Revan sharing some of his adventures with Thor, he was appalled and disgusted by what he was told of the Vanir. Though Thor's emotions were replaced with shock after he was told of their work with Lya and hum on the Asgard's degeneration problem. After finding out that all that was required was a genetic sample of an Asgardian before cloning had become standard he sent a quick message back home to make retrieval of that top priority. Halfway through the journey after Thor had notified him they were out of Ida he was able to connect to Eresh explaining the situation and having her bring the Ebon Hawk to meet them halfway using the wormhole-drive after checking the solar activity of Ida with Thor. After five minutes Revan smiled seeing the familiar shape of the Ebon Hawk as it came out of the wormhole in front of them. He quickly had Eresh beam him on board and after a quick mental discussion followed Thor back to Ida Eresh informing him of the current situation on the Surik and that it was safely located on the Earth's moon he allowed himself to relax a bit sitting cross-legged in the ships common area mediating as they made their way back.
Revan felt the ship drop out of lightspeed letting out a slow breath before standing up joining Eresh in the cockpit as they made their way to coordinates on Othala that Thor had sent them finding themselves in a secured area with nothing but grass with Thor's ship and another ship that looked to be a non-combative model as the Hawk's scanners picked up no weapons. They were quickly hailed by Thor finding themselves being teleported as they accepted the communication finding themselves in what they guessed to be the second ship looking out its viewport to find the Hawk and Thor's ship being joined by Thor a second later.
"This ship has been provided on order of the high council; it's an older model and has been retrofitted with all available communication systems used to pick up the replicator signal," he nodded out the window that went from a beautiful blue to the vast darkness of space within a second. "It was deemed too dangerous to have either of our ships with their advanced technology close to the replicators should our location be discovered," the ship stopped as they found themselves over a moon that looked to have been torn in half. "This should serve as an ideal location," he gestured towards the communication systems which Eresh met with a wink before nodding to Revan walking to a display, her hand sinking into it, their displays becoming a mess of code with minutes passing by before Eresh looked at him with a smirk.
"It seems that they didn't expect anyone to be able to access the network with all the noise they were making," a look of concentration appeared on her face. "I'm having to reroute myself across their network," a map appeared showing the Ida galaxy with red dots that Eresh said indicated replicators, more than three-fourths of the galaxy was covered in it. His study of the map was interrupted as Eresh let out a gasp of pain.
"They know I'm in the network," the map disappeared as the ship's internal lights deemed as the comms systems seemed to hum with power, "I've taken power from any nonessential systems to boost my processing power hopeful-" ship alarms went off with the scanners showing ten replicator ships coming out of hyperspace. "Okay I'm in but it's going to take at least ten minutes before the program will be uploaded," Thor looked worriedly at the ships on the scanners.
"This ship won't be able to withstand an attack from three ships let alone ten," he moved one of the stones on the console a brief flicker showing their shields to be up "I've raised the shields with what little power there was to spare but I fear that it won't be enough we will surely be destroyed,"
Revan looked out the ship's viewport, seeing the advancing ships and feeling the desperation from Thor turning to Eresh.
"How long do you need?" he asked, walking towards the viewport eyes shining with determination.
"Nine minutes and fifteen seconds," she looked at Revan, a worried look on her face. He merely turned to her giving her a nod as he stood inches from the viewport closing his eyes knowing what he had to do.
He thought about all the blood he had shed, the room becoming colder as he remembered the people of Taris feeling their deaths as the planet was bombarded. He remembered the sheer anger he'd felt at the council for not interfering when the Madolarians had started their attacks. The sheer rage he felt at the memory of Meetra one of his closest friends being cut down by Scourge He thought of every moment he'd spent as the Emperor's personal battery the three hundred years of agony, and he remembered Bastila the fact he would never see her again, the fear that what Malek had said was true that there was nowhere he'd ever belong. He reached for every moment of insecurity, for every single negative thing in his life the darkness craving more as he gave it every ounce of his negative emotions.
He could feel his emotions threatening to take control, the dark side filling every inch of him telling him to hurt, to harm, to kill, but he held them tight, they were his emotion to control. His eyes snapped open both now a sickly yellow as he raised a hand towards the approaching ships the space around them distorting and warping as more alarms went off but, he was dead to the world he had only one goal, to destroy them.
"Ship sensors are detecting the change in mass and space..a wormhole is forming on those ships," Thor said astonishment in his tone as the ships were ripped to shreds. Revan raised a second hand the wormhole expanding as the dark side cascaded around him. "Addition ship appear-" Thor started to say as ships appeared behind them only to stare as a second wormhole appeared in the middle of the replicator ships ripping them apart.
Revan kept his hold on the dark side letting every emotion run through his mind and body feeling it strain to hold the force storm but he held strong using the pain his body was feeling to further strengthen his attack for what felt like eternity blood pouring down his nose as his hands clenched at the pain digging into his hand drawing blood the viewport window cracking.
"There it's done!" Eresh shouted, pulling away from the console and rushing to Revan as he severed his connection to the dark side, the wormholes disappearing and falling to the ground Eresh pulled him onto his back. He looked up at Eresh's face that was filled with worry smiling before closing his eyes and allowing unconsciousness to take him.