Chapter 6: New Life
The world was nothing but darkness as his body weaved around the blades of the assassin droids parrying when he had to, the force flowing through him, guiding his every movement as his eyes were covered by a blindfold and ears covered. He could feel the air being cut as he dodged their vibroblades and felt their every movement, the force became his senses. He didn't know how long he had been going, having stopped paying attention around nine hours the force sustaining him pushing his body beyond what it should be capable of the force cascading around his form as his connection to it widened more and more time meaning nothing. Nothing mattered, the world was a void and he was the only occupant feeling nothing, his mind blank thoughts not needed.
He braced feeling the droid's shielded arm connecting with his lightsaber as he flew through the air flipping and landing against the training room's wall with a crouch pushing himself off feeling the wall dent as he jumped. He brought his blade up feeling it cut through the droid with enough force he was sure it had flown into the wall, denting it maybe even going through it. The force shouted and he ducked the droids blade catching his blindfold and he could see in the darkness around him played around a hundred droids most of them damaged and deactivated with thirteen still activated in various states around him preparing to attack channeling force lightning through his lightsaber he rushed forward his movements a mere blur the world at a standstill as he darted to the droids cutting through them dancing between their strikes that moved at a snail's pace aiming at their shatterpoints the lightning infused strikes making swift work through their shields. The force trance he was in fading as the last of the droids remains fell to the flow his body covered in sweat armor all scrap his robe shredded and smelling of blaster fire from the first wave of droids he'd taken on looking at the holographic timer on the wall seeing that he'd been going for seventeen hours his body shaking as the adrenaline left his body the force was the only thing keeping him standing as he walked to where he kept water in the room downing three bottles before his shaking stopped and he fell on his backside taking deep breaths to get his erratically beating heart under control.
"I have to say I'm impressed you added another hour to your time," he heard Egeria say turning his head to the now transparent wall looking into the observation room he's added at the request of Lya in case he was seriously injured during training. He could see Egeria who after two months like most Tok'ra was still getting used to having a body with only one consciousness sitting on one of the couches picked up from Earth during a trip. Her red hair stood out in the white room with Lya sleeping on the opposite side of the couch head in Egeria's lap as her fingers ran through her hair. His attention was taken from them as the door to the training room opened and Ayla the Lantean woman he'd found in the ice rushed in eyes full of excitement as she pulled him into a hug the force flowing from her healing his aches and pains his body feeling refreshed in seconds as she pulled back a slight wobble in her step before steadying herself a happy but tired smile on her face.
"That was amazing." he could hear the awe in her voice as she looked at all the destroyed droids before turning back to him an inquisitive look on her face, "How did you get the electricity to flow through your lightsabers?" she looked at his lightsabers with excitement. He chuckled, patting her head poking her forehead.
"I thought I told you not to heal me," he said with a serious tone sighing at the brief look of hurt look in her eyes "Not that I don't mind the pick me up but it tires you out pretty quickly doesn't it?" he stood stretching feeling refreshed smiling at the happiness that returned to her eyes. "Also I used a force technique called force lightning and channeled it into my lightsaber through the kyber crystal," he smiled as her eyes widened.
"But wouldn't that make the lightsaber's power source explode?" she looked at them as if trying to find any damage.
"You've got to control the amount and power of the lightning just right," he raised his hand letting lighting dance over it "It requires quite a bit of training and a lot of patience...my friend Alec could never master the technique," she looked at him with curiosity in her eyes as he smiled at her "He went through about eighty lightsabers before he finally gave up saying it was a waste of time," she let out a laugh as they made their way out of the room to the hallway joining Egeria and a sleepy-looking Lya.
"You know you really shouldn't push yourself so hard," Lya said yawning at the end of her sentence as they walked through the ship passing groups of Tok'ra both human and symbiotes, Asgard, Vanir, and Nox getting greetings and well wishes. "I know you're still trying to assess your limits, but could you go about it less dangerously?" she yawned again, Egeria looking at her with a little concern.
"Maybe try training up some of your force abilities?" Egeria joined in the discussion joining arms with Lya who smiled lovingly at her. "I know you've been training using force storm to create a more stable wormhole but why not try explaining more like using force Dopplegänger it could help with recon," he looked thoughtful as they continued through the ship Ayla pulling him from his thoughts.
"Where's Eresh? Doesn't she usually watch you train?" she looked around towards the Eresh copies that were going about their business.
"I think she's working on something private," he reached out through their link, feeling her through it but unable to communicate with her. "She's been very secretive about it," he looked thoughtful for a second before letting out a small laugh "Knowing her it will be something we'd never expect but is completely necessary," he got a laugh out of Lya and Egeria both nodding with Ayla giving a small chuckle.
"I saw her chatting with Jolinar," Lya said with a smile mentioning her former symbiote, "from what I hear her and Lantash may be expecting a child," her smile widened at that.
"I take it that they're not going to pass their memories onto the child?" Revan asked as they arrived in the room Eresh had taken for herself that looked more like a lab mixed with an entertainment room with one wall covered in bookshelves full of books picked up from Earth and the other three each having their own kind of entertainment with the center functioning as a lab.
"No they wish for the child to be just a child able to enjoy their life without knowing the horrors either of them endured during the fight against the goa'uld," Egeria said as Revan walked to the door that was on the farthest wall knocking on it hearing Eresh let out some Lantean curses and the rustling of cloth before she pushed the door open with just enough space to squeeze through which she did closing it behind her.
"Hey Rev, Ayla, Egeria, and Lya, how are you doing?" she asked, pulling Ayla into a hug who was smiling despite her feeble protest Eresh having adopted her as a sort of little sister.
"Just finished training and Ayla was curious about where you were as you usually join them for what she calls 'Revan watch'" he smiled at the embarrassment on Ayla's face. "So I take it your secret project is still secret?" he said looking at the door receiving a nod.
"Just for a little while longer it's almost complete," she said with a longing smile on her face before wiping it off her face smiling at them looking at Revan in the eyes, "besides, you have secret projects as well, don't you?" She said bringing up a hologram of two files with all information redacted the only legible words being their project names one being called 'Outbound Flight' and the other "Sun Goddess' he smiled at Eresh's playful tone.
"Well I was about to announce what they were, but if you want them to still be secret," he trailed off smirking at the curiosity burning in Eresh's eyes and the curious look in Ayla's. With a mental command, the files opened the redacted sections becoming eligible to everyone their eyes widening as he explained his projects.
"Outbound flight is something I've been thinking about since downloading the repository," he pulled up a representation of a giant Lantean ship "this is the Destiny a ship created for the sole purpose of tracking the background radiation created when this universe was born," he pulled up all the data available on the ship. "The Lanteans of the time discovered what could be proof of intelligent life before the big bang. It was sent off using the auto-pilot with plans for Lanteans to join once it was far enough away, however that was near the time the plague-ravaged across our race resulting in it being unmanned."
"But, wouldn't it be completely out of reach using a stargate even with eight chevrons?" Lya asked looking over the data on the background reading that was picked up before looking at the ships' designs.
"Normally yes," he pulled up an image of a massive stargate "But, the Lanteans planned ahead creating a planet that would eventually have enough deposits of natural naquadria to power the gate allowing it to dial nine chevrons though it could only dial one way," he pulled up a report sent by Helia. "One of Helia's crewmembers rediscovered it when going through the archives while on break,"
"But, it's still only one way not to mention the damage it's probably gone through," Eresh said of possible scenarios running through her head. "It could be destroyed for all we know," Revan simply smiled as they were teleported from Eresh's lab to Hades's gateroom, their eyes widening as the gate was in the middle of dialing seven chevrons locked in.
"That's what I thought so I decided to check," the eight chevrons locked stopping on the ninth chevron which locked the ground shaking a bit as the wormhole formed a reconnaissance drone comprising out of nanites raising out of the floor going through the gate with the wall becoming a display showing the inside of a ship with readings showing it to have an atmosphere to the other fours shocked looks. "With the amount of ZPMs running this ship dialing the nine chevrons was the easy part," a hologram of the ship appeared showing the damaged sections were being repaired. "I sent some spare raw materials with a small number of nanites enough to go unnoticed to repair major systems while devising a plan for the ship,"
"I knew from the blending what you were planning, but I didn't expect you to have started already," Egeria said looking at the display.
"With the upgrades provided by the Asgard and weapons development, the Hawk should be able to handle anything short of the Surik and even then it would be a pretty even fight using the force," he changed the display to show one of their storage rooms raw materials being teleported to the Hawk. "I'll use the stargate to send nanites and enough spare ZPMs to power the upgrades I plan to make to Destiny including upgrading their stargate to be able to dial the Surik. Then using control I have over the ship from the nanites I've already sent I'll drop the ship out of FTL somewhere in the void of space where it'll be safe. I'll then take the Hawk with all the raw materials I can fit in it and use the force to open a stable wormhole to Destiny's location docking with it and depositing its payload." Eresh looked at him with worry.
"Don't worry I'm not staying till all the upgrades are complete. I'll focus on setting up the ship to draw power from the ZPMs and upgrading the Stargate to dial the Surik it should only take around six hours," he turned to Eresh "With your help, I can lower that to at least three maybe two and a half," he nodded to Lya and Egeria "I was hoping you could compile a list of possible crew members for the Destiny, preferably couples as the destiny even with upgrades could take centuries and I figure some people would love to establish lives on the edges of the known galaxy,"
He pulled up a display showing all the upgrades he planned for Destiny, including the already discussed ones it numbered in the hundreds with one of the most noticeable things being added were the components of a seed ship much like the ones used to spread humanity to Eresh's wonder.
"I know that the Lantean people are low in number and with the current amount of people we could never reach the numbers at the peak of our expansion," he brought up all records the Lanteans seeding of the galaxy "but, we can continue their work spreading humanity through the universe," he could see the surprise and sheer happiness in Eresh's eyes. "With genetic samples created by the Asgard, we can have the destiny seed viable planets with the hope that one-day humans will live on them seeing sight never thought possible...I know it's not bringing back the Lante-," he started to apologize only for Eresh to tackle him onto the ground in a tight hug he could feel her tears on his neck.
"Thank you," she said, voice full of nothing but complete and utter happiness as he rubbed her back, receiving smiles from the others in the room. They stayed like that for a few minutes before Eresh got control of her emotions again wiping her eyes before standing up offering Revan a hand up which he took, accepting her help to his feet with a smile. o take over for Lya's medical duties," she nodded having gotten an equivalent of a medical doctorate using the repository to download all knowledge of the medical field. Nanites kept moving through the gate at astonishing speeds as he took all the holograms of Destiny down leaving only project sun goddess up.
"At the rate that raw materials are being transported to the Hawk we have an hour left so I'll fill you in on project Sun Goddess," the file opened to wide eyes, the heading being called Ishtar Station. It was reminiscent of the Surik but with the bottom being round and with one central tower instead of the multiple the Surik possessed. He enlarged the image showing that at the base of the tower there were a hundred rooms each with its own stargate leading into a central plaza.
"It will be called Ishtar Station," he highlighted the tower portion "the tower in the center will be called Avalon where representatives from planets can gather to trade knowledge, technology, or resources,' he pulled the image back showing the area around the tower to be a lush forest. "After seeing the Nox turning that floor in the Hades into a forest I was hoping that they'd be willing to do the same to the area outside the tower and maybe one of the floors inside," getting a nod from Lya who smiled.
"Through the Nox, we've established talks with the Tolan," he pulled up blueprints for a device that had them turning to him "this disables all weapons after passing through it, though what weapons it lacks knowledge of continue to work, but I think I've found a way around that weakness," he gestured to Eresh "we can have scanners running constantly due to you increased processing capabilities meaning you can monitor any foreign energy sources that aren't natural to the race and contain them in," the hologram moved down showing the lowest area of the station "the station's prison where they'll be contained in a force field capable of withstanding an all-out barrage from the Surik",
"But, what about planets that have no unified government couldn't they take any advanced technology and use it against their neighbors?" Egeria asked as Lya scrolled through her Nox datapad picking possible planets to use on the station with Eresh improving the hologram with her ideas.
"The stargates scan their locations constantly to keep up to date due to stellar drift it'd be pretty easy to set them to scan any incoming and outgoing comms communications especially as most planets don't possess a means to scramble their communications from Lantean sensors," he pulled up the data gathered using the stargates to look for the Asgard ship. "We've already tested them to pick up Asgard energy reading changing that to pick up comms will be easy,"
"What about the system lords? Wouldn't this give them the perfect opportunity to attack?" Ayla asked worry in her tone. Revan gave her a small smile.
"This is a project that will take years to make feasible," he removed the hologram of it "At least five years till we can gather the needed raw material, not to mention the time for construction," he smiled at them. "Even with nanites, I don't see this being done for at least ten years," he got nods from those in the room with him being notified that the Hawk was now at capacity with raw materials. He gave Lya, Egeria, and Ayla a nod before he and Eresh were teleported onto the Hawk, giving the nanites a mental command to drop Destiny out of FTL making sure he had the coordinates.
He double-checked the coordinates to make sure before closing his eyes once again centering himself in the force feeling following his will filling every inch of his body as he raised a hand eyes still closed focusing on the Destiny's location feeling the force bending space and time itself a wormhole forming in front of the Hawk his eyes still closed and with practiced ease holing the wormhole open using his second hand to nudge the ship forward Eresh raising the shields to full power as the weightlessness he associated with wormhole travel overcame them for a few seconds before it was gone.
He could feel the force calming as he opened his eyes smiling as Destiny came into view slowly letting go of his hold on the force the wormhole dissipating into nothingness. Eresh took control of the ship docking it with one of the airlocks while materials were being teleported onto Destiny with a nod Revan and Eresh were teleported into Destiny's gateroom most of the nanites sent through already gone to do their jobs around the ship. Eresh walked to the stargate nanites rising off the floor as she laid her hand against it the nanites covering it completely
"The stargates going to be an easy part of the plan," she said moving her hand off the nanites before turning to him, "the ship's power systems have some serious wear and tear even with the nanites you sent before focusing on them they lacked the needed resources to do anything other than stop further wear," the nanites on the gate fell off before sinking into the floor. "I am relegating all nanites to focus on the power systems and implementing the ZPMs," she turned to him.
"But, that is not the only problem," she said as the ship shook. "Three ships of unknown design have dropped out of FTL and are now firing on Destiny." she slowly sunk into the floor "I need you to keep them off the ship I'm going to work on fixing the power myself with the resources teleported onto Destiny," he gave her a nod teleporting himself back on the Hawk disengaging it from Destiny opening a communication on all comms channels having the ship send it in all known languages.
"Ships firing on Destiny," the ships continued firing, "I am Revan, leader of the Lantean people...if you continue your assault on Destiny then I will be forced to use deadly force," he primed all the Hawk's weapons giving HK permission to fire on his command. "I repeat I will be forced to use deadly force," the ships stopped firing as Revan looked at his display keeping weapons primed waiting for a response.
He got his response as he was notified of multiple ships dropping out of FTL numbering in the fifties and growing Eresh's panicked voice coming through their link.
"Rev I'm detecting over a hundred ships," the display changed to show Destiny's repair status "Power is at fifty percent and I'm devoting that to shield...but they're not going to be able to hold up prolonged attack from so many ships and the ZPMs are being tricky I give it thirty minutes till Destiny can draw power from them without catastrophic failure to its systems," he looked out at over a hundred ships receiving a single worded message from them on comms.
"Surrender," he whispered reading the message closing his eyes letting the force calm him, opening comms to the Destiny "Eresh devote all power from nonessential systems into the shields," he let the force flow through him sliding into the command chair resolve in his eyes "I'm leaving the Destiny to you," he pushed his worries into the force letting it fill him feeling its encouragement as he surrendered his sense to it giving HK one command "Fire"
He jumped to light speed dropping out behind the ships firing on their flanks pushing the Hawk to its absolute limits inertia damper's straining as he was pushed back into the command chair dodging fire from ships the force guiding him as he fired on the ships shatterpoints. The enemy ships started to release fighters from their hangers increasing their numbers, but Revan simply pushed his unease into the force feeling it cascade around him the world slowing down to a crawl much like his training. For what felt like hours he dodged and returned fire hearing HK's yells of excitement every time he hit a ship he pushed his control of the force to the limit using what he'd learned from Bastila of battle mediation to lower the enemies fighting capabilities. Their numbers seemed to never end but he fought on pushing the Hawk to its absolute limit shields at sixty percent splitting his concentration between weakening the enemies with battle meditation while pushing his perception to its limits as the world showed down, even more, his body straining to keep hold while using so many different force techniques.
He was brought out of his trance as his drone supply ran out jumping into and out of hyperspace to dodge weapons fire that the size of the ship would make it impossible to dodge conventionally. He switched to using the Asgard ion guns and his turbolasers cutting his way through ships, the force showing their shatterpoints ripping them to pieces.
"Rev jump to the underside of Destiny's hull. I've lowered the shield there!" Eresh shouted through their link with Revan following her command quickly jumping into hyperspace before dropping out under the Destiny it shields shimmering as it came back up covering the Hawk. He let out a deep breath relaxing in the chair letting go of his tight grip on the force Eresh teleporting into the Hawk's bridge with a smile on her face. "Destiny's power systems are now fully operational and drawing power from the ZPMs," she brought up the nanite's current progress showing that while the ship still had many damaged areas she'd managed to repair power, shields, and weapons.
"They don't have the firepower to crack the shields now that they're powered by ZPMs?" he asked, receiving a nod from Eresh as he had them teleported onto Destiny's bridge looking out as the ships kept firing on them. "They can still follow Destiny if we jump to lightspeed," he got a sad nod from Eresh as he let out a deep breath. "Engage all of Destiny's weapons. I want them locked onto their main ships," which she did as the enemy ships stopped firing scans showing that they were engaging hyperspace engines.
"Fire!" he ordered, the ships being decimated by the ZPM amplified blast as the smaller ones jumped to hyperspace though at their speed it would take years for them to get back to wherever they came from he looked to Eresh. "I take it we can dial home now?" he asked, receiving a nod from Eresh as they were teleported to the gateroom he found himself staring at the stargate as it began dialing. "Then let's get to work," he said, having the Hawk dock with Destiny again.
The next couple of hours were spent making sure all the damage to the ships hull had been repaired finding some repair drones in storage which Eresh hacked to improve their repair time as he sat in the bridge transferring all the data gathered by Destiny through the stargate to Surik while Lya and Egeria sent more raw materials as the ship had more damage than the original scans indicated. They had found what seemed to be an antiquated command chair much like the one on Hades that had a repository of knowledge, but it lacked a buffer and required the information to be sent using electric current directly into the brain through two screw-shaped devices.
He'd also had Eresh back up the ship's A.I. into electric storage then had her uploaded herself onto Destiny's computers implementing a long-ranged communication stone to allow for instantaneous data transfer to and from Surik. With communications to Surik now being up, he also filled Egeria and Lya in on the attack and that after the upgrades were done he was going to have Destiny jump to FTL using its upgrades to mask its energy signature till it reached the next galaxy hopefully losing anyone who was tracking them as the ship's antiquated hyperdrive was leaving a distinct energy signature.
He also started up the hydroponics lab with Lya giving him instructions and sending seedlings as well as crop growing plants through the stargate. It wasn't the best job, but she said when the skeleton crew they were making arrived they would fix any problems. They would be replaced by the actual crew once the ship's repair and upgrade were completed though they brought up something interesting about adding humans from Earth to the team if they proved to hold no agenda, it could help show the other races that maybe they were getting closer to being the fifth race.
"That would require the U.S. to disclose the fact that they have a stargate," he said as he toyed with one of the round levitating probes he'd found in storage. "I don't see them doing that even if the benefits outweigh the cost"
"But, it doesn't hurt to ask," Egeria said as Eresh notified him the ship had been repaired enough to jump to FTL and the engines now gave off no signature, and with a nod the ship took off. "Besides I believe Jacob wishes to speak to Sam once he returns from his mission, we can kill two birds with one stone," he sighed before agreeing to, watching as a skeleton crew comprising of ten Eresh duplicates, six Nox and Tok'ra, and four Asgard walked through the gate with supplies. He had Eresh give them a brief rundown of the current status of the ship as well as notifying them the Hawk would be staying there till Destiny's systems were fully upgraded as the shuttles were to be the last things to be upgraded.
It took an hour for the skeleton crew to set up with Revan bidding them goodbye as he used the gate to dial back to the Surik. Upon arrival, he was called to the bridge by a worried Egeria pacing around the room with Lya trying to calm her down. He was told that Jacob and Selmak had been discovered during reconnaissance on Ne'tu with Jacob taking multiple staff blasts and Selmak sustaining a head injury though they managed to avoid capture by using the shields of their combat suits to hide in a crevice covered by a flow of lava. Their suits protected them from most damage, but the suits were struggling to maintain their atmosphere, their power now in the low fifties with an estimated ten hours left before their shields failed and the extreme heat from the lava killed them.
He quickly called Thor to the bridge ask him if he'd be willing to provide extraction while Helia distracted Sokar which Thor agreed to Revan giving him control of one of the Aurora-class battleships and a crew comprising of Nox medical personal and Tok'ra with Egeria demanded to be a part of Revan reluctantly letting her go. With a nod from Thor and Egeria, they were teleported to the ship with Revan establishing a comm channel between Helia and the rescue crew leaving the operation to them, cutting off his connection looking at the still tired Lya who had taken a seat on one of the many recliners in the room.
Using a mere gesture in the force he lifted a chair sitting it down across from Lya before sitting before her a small smile on his face pushing out a feeling of calmness in the force getting a grateful nod and smile from her though he could sense worry from her. He sent a quick message to the mess that was now manned by Tok'ra, Nox, and Asgard waiting a few minutes before a cup of hot chocolate was teleported on the ground next to him and he handed it to Lya.
"You know stress doesn't suit you," he said watching as she seemed to call down after taking a small sip a look of contentedness on her face "and it could be really bad for the baby," he smiled at her gasp catching her cup with the force before it could spill waiting for her to take it again after a few seconds she did, looking him in the eyes.
"How do you know?" She asked, putting a hand on her stomach with a big smile on her face " I haven't even told Egeria yet," she looked to the display showing space ." She knows I've started the Nox procedure but she doesn't know that it finally worked..I've known for the past two months," he could feel the happiness from her the force around her singing.
"I can feel them in the force," he looked at her getting a nod before putting his hand on her stomach, closing his eyes, feeling the force around the forming child in her stomach, a smile on his face. "If you want I can try to tell you the sex," he said opening his eyes looking at Lya who hesitated for a second before giving him a nod as he closed his eyes letting the force flow through him and into her feeling it sing just like Lya's letting himself get lost in it the force filling him before the got brief flashes of a child held in Lya's arms, a young girl painting the halls of Surik, him standing in front of the child their hair cut short as she held a newly constructed lightsaber the hilt was a mix of wood and metal, her blade a dark purple as she relaxed into the first saber form Shii-Cho. He opened his eyes letting the force go slowly as he pulled his hand back.
"It's going to be a girl," Lya's eyes sparkled with unwashed tears as she pulled Revan into a hug which he returned having a table form to put her cup on letting out a chuckle in her embrace, "and it seems like I'm going to have to come up with a training schedule for when she's old enough," he felt Lya's hug tightened as she whispered a quiet thank you. After breaking the hug Lya went back to her hot chocolate with Revan being notified that the extraction was a success though apparently, Apophis had killed Sokar using their distraction as a cover. Thor was on his way back with Selmak and Jacob's injuries being healed in seconds using the healing devices that had been reverse-engineered from the Lantean healing device which had its power source removed due to the danger it could pose.
He stood to let the nanites on his body take the form of his battle suit minus his mask before having a quick meal with Lya waiting for Thor and the others to return. Once the ship had returned and Jacob and Selmak were checked over by Ayla they were released with Jacob heading to his quarters to change to Earth clothing and Selmak moving to speak with the High Council minus Egeria who from what the Surik's onboard cameras told him was currently being told about the little bundle of joy.
He thanked Thor for his help though Thor just shrugged it off saying that he could never pay back the debt of the Asgard to the Lanteans. He also asked Revan to say hello to Jack for him before going off to meet Neir and spend time with their child who was named Odin after the former leader of the Asgardian people.
"You know I never imagined that the Asgardians would increase their population so soon," Eresh said as she and Revan walked to the hangers stopping to greet Ayla who was off to check on another Asgard child who had the Asgardian equivalent of a cold. "I mean, I know that the typical Asgard pregnancy lasts for three months with a month after the birth being when they can conceive again," she nodded to one of the few Vanir and Asgard couples the female showing various signs of pregnancy, "But, didn't expect them to start at it so soon!" Revan let a chuckle out at that.
"I'm just glad that we had records on Lantean schooling techniques," they arrived at the entrance to the hanger Revan inputting a code "And on child-rearing as it's been centuries since there have been Asgard children," the door opened and he smiled looking at his temporary replacement for the Hawk.
When he had regained all the knowledge lost to him from being one with the force he had seen a great many things, some full of horrors he thought impossible and others that made his heart leap with joy. He had also seen the change in ship technology as well as the new models created long after his defeat on Yavin IV he'd decided to make his replacement based on one of the ships he saw. The ship was based on the YT-1300 series outfitted with the latest in Lantean and Asgard technology making it a little more bulky than a traditional design. Unlike the Ebon Hawk, it was designed with a more homely feel functioning as a heavy hitter as well as a possible home away from home should he need for it. The ship could be flown either the more traditional way or using a mental link without the need for a command chair.
He and Eresh made their way onto the ship Jacob messaging them in the comms he'd be joining them in thirty minutes as they settled into the cockpit, Eresh at the co-pilot's chair and Revan prepping the ship for take off.
"You know I half expected the Asgard to want the replicators back after the first few births," Revan chuckled, remembering the panicked look on Thor's face when he'd barged into their meeting holding a crying Odin who had only needed burping.
"Yeah, thank the force for the Nox, or else I think the Asgard would have been beaten by child-rearing." they shared a laugh that led to a relaxing silence broken as Eresh spoke again.
"Do you ever think about your child?" she asked looking at him the relaxing atmosphere broke and Revan looked at the controls of the ship before looking to Eresh.
"When I was being held prisoner by Vitiate all the time," he fiddled with the controls "but now? No," he looked to Eresh with a sad smile "When I regained all my memories from being one with that the force I realized fretting about things that will never be does nothing but hurt those in the present...I still love him and Bastila but I can't let them blind me to the present," his tone that had started sad turned to determined "I have people here counting on me here and now," Eresh smiled as a peaceful silence returned as broken with the control panel notifying him the ramp was closing the Jacob joined them sliding into one of the back seats.
After making sure everyone was strapped in, Revan opened the hanger doors activating the ship's cloak as it left the hanger on course for the SGC.
"This is an interesting design for a ship," Jacob said looking at the controls. "It doesn't match anything I remember from my time with Selmak," Revan smirked and with a flick of his wrist the wall lit up and a holographic display appeared above their heads.
"You could say it's alien," he smirked as the image dissipated. "Also it has a name," he turned his attention back to the ship watching the clouds pass them by as he made his way through the sky the mountain housing the SGC coming into view. "It's called the Kriea," he had the ship hover in his usual spot giving Eresh control of the ship as they were teleported down into Sam's lab finding her tinkering with the new prototype generator that she'd created implementing the Lantean designs as well as the designs of the Orbanian's the prototype now being used to power one of the Earth's motherships.
Jacob let out a cough making Sam jump the generator falling off the bench only for Revan to catch it in the force lifting it back onto the bench Sam pulling Jacob into a hug Revan giving them a nod as he walked out of the lab to Hammonds office using the force to cloak himself till he was at the door dropping it and knocking being called in.
After waiting for Hammond to get over his shock Revan brought up Egeria and Lya's idea of possibly having some people of Earth take part in a larger exploration working alongside the three of the four great races and of Apophis's rise to power with Hammond rushing to pick up his red phone sending Revan out of the room. He waited for about an hour before deciding to head to the mess where Eresh was telling him, Jack was bumping into Sha're along the way who asked him to thank the Nox for healing her before she headed off in the direction of Daniel's lab.
He spent half an hour with Jack trading stories about traveling to other planets before an airman came to collect him and he found himself with sg-1 and Jacob in the briefing room Hammond asking for more details on the possible joint project with a mental nudge Eresh had a handful of datapads beamed into the room with everyone taking one reading up on the project Revan answering any questions asked. In the end, Hammond took one of the datapads for the president and said a decision could take months which he said was okay due to the fact they still had to form a crew from their own personal.
Revan yawned standing up from the chair only to stop as everything faded away and he found himself on a lush planet.
"Hello?" he took in his surroundings, finding himself staring at a woman dressed in the traditional garb of a Jaffa priestess, a child held in her arms being forced to walk by two Jaffas with the symbol of Sokar on their heads. He watched the woman break away from her captures his eyes widening in horror as she was shot in the back falling into shrubbery while the baby went flying only to float in midair his eyes widened as he saw what appeared to be an ascended being immersed deeply in the force enough that it felt like a hurricane bring lightning down from the sky burning the jaffa to ash looking to him and muttering one word before heading into the forest the vire fading away.
"Kheb"
Revan let out a gasp leaning against the table, everyone's attention turned to him as he regained control of his breathing looking to Sha're.
"Kheb," he took another deep breath "your baby is at Kheb," her eyes widened as Jacob handed Revan some water which he graciously downed the force settling around him telling Eresh over their link not to worry that he was fine.
After Daniel made a quick search of his book collection of ancient civilizations he found out more information on it finding it to be a sacred place, Teal'c remembering something similar that Bra'tac had once mentioned. Revan found himself tagging along with sg-1. Jacob and Bra'tac as Bra'tac identified the gate address for Kheb and they found themselves on a planet that matched Revan's vision. After searching through the forest and finding bodies they found themselves outside what appeared to be some kind of temple where they were greeted by a monk talking about ascension and a woman named Oma who Eresh told him was a member of the Lantean race before her ascension.
Leaving Daniel to speak to the monk Revan closed his eyes letting the force flow through him breathing in and out slowly letting it guide him as he made his way through the temple. He found his body pausing as he opened his eyes staring at a wall reaching a hand out only for it to go through pushing his way through the fake walling finding himself staring at a crib a baby sleeping peacefully.
"So you came?" His eyes widened as he turned around finding himself facing a woman wearing an old Lantean uniform of a science officer, the force running through her very being.
"Well more like I was called..wasn't I?" he asked, watching a small smile form on the woman's face.
"The others view you as an outsider though there are those that wish to thank you for your destruction of the Ori," she walked around him looking him up and down "then there are some that wish to destroy you," she stopped to look him in the eyes "they feel you're too powerful and a threat to use...are you?" he looked at her tilting his head before looking to the baby.
"I may not like your little group," he turned to face her again "But, so long as you don't harm anyone innocent I see no reason to start a fight with you," his eyes took on a yellow glint Oma taking a step back "But if you think you can get to me through hurting those precious to me," the force gathered around him like a raging storm making her brief show of power look tame by comparison as she took another step back, "I will not show mercy," the yellow faded from his eyes as the baby let out a cry and he walked to him picking him up letting the force soothe him as Oma regained control of her emotions a small amount of fear on her face before she nodded to him.
"So will you take the child?" she asked as he checked the baby over making sure it was completely fine before turning to her.
"It's not taking if it wasn't yours, to begin with, is it?" he asked with a smile as she simply smiled back reaching a hand out to ruffle the child's small amount of hair.
"You know what will happen to the baby if he is returned to his mother," she said with sadness in her tone as the baby closed its eyes falling asleep. "He will retain all the knowledge of his goa'uld parents, the horror and atrocities...it will shape him into something worse than a goa'uld," he simply smiled, setting the baby down gently then turning to her.
"Then he'll have to forget," he explains more as she gave him a curious look, "While they aren't as advanced as the three great races the humans of Earth have come across Dargol a drug that wipes the memories of the user and regresses their age," he nodded to the baby "With the technology of both the three great race I'm sure we can find a means to only affect his memory so he can live as any normal child would," he already had Eresh talking to the Nox and Asgard using the information on the drug taken from the SGC database. Oma smiled looking at the baby then looking towards one of the walls of the room a frown on her face before seeming to come to a decision the baby being raised back up in her arms before handing them to him, her body becoming energy as she moved through the walls the sound of thunder booming outside the baby sleeping through it all as he made his way out of the temple to shocked looks from Daniel and Carter.
After filling them in on his little talk with Oma they joined Jack, Teal'c, and Bra'tac watching as Oma destroyed Apophis's fleet with lightning before making her way through the stargate. After making sure there weren't any survivors they made their way to the stargate and back to the SGC. Eresh was waiting with Sha're and Jacob handing him the improved drug and with Sha're's permission he injected the child before handing him to his mother a look of pure and utter joy on her face as she held her baby for the first time under her own control.
After having Eresh make sure the baby was healthy and the drug had worked receiving multiple thanks from Sha're Revan and she was teleported onto the Kreia leaving Jacob to take some time with his family as they made their way back to Surik Ereshinh informing them that Egeria was basically bouncing off the walls and Alya was right behind her.
The days turned into months as Revan split his focus between Destiny, helping Egeria and Alya with Lya who's pregnancy was now showing, helping Sam with her new prototype, and pushing himself to his absolute limit both physically and in his force powers with Eresh constantly redesigning his sparing droids as his capabilities increased.
Egeria and Lya had managed to compile a possible crew for Destiny with only two of the picks rejecting the opportunity due to prior obligations. The other choices all jumped at the opportunity with there being twenty of each of the three races the Tok'ra volunteers being a mix of humans and symbiotes though Revan was surprised to see Jacob Carter's name on the crew manifest. Egeria was spending most of her time dotting on Lya who seemed to enjoy the attention while she worked on what was now called the forest floor of the Surik adding plants native to Ida to her growing collection. With every passing week, their excitement at being parents grew with Lya having an almost permanent smile.
Eresh, when she wasn't improving Revan's sparring droids, was working with the Asgard to gather enough raw materials to start construction on Ishtar station getting most of her raw materials from Ida and Pegasus as the possibility of goa'uld attack there were nigh impossible. She also had discovered through her duplicates that she had created to interact with the people of Pegasus that there was a world ruled military dictatorship close to creating nuclear weapons due to their paranoia that the Wraith would return even discussing to use it on other populated planets as a test no cost too big to them. She had quickly had their prototype beamed onto a ship and destroyed all their data and after determining that their planet possessed enough resources to sustain their population she deactivated their stargate till further investigation.
Alya had taken really well to being the ship's main medical professional being a quick study and learning most if not all medical information on the other races occupying the Surik having to step up due to Lya requiring more rest because of her pregnancy. She had also had her first meeting with the SGC curing Melburn, Sha're's child who was named after Daniel's father of his cold much to their astonishment. She had also had Revan take her on an impromptu trip around the world to see all the major sights much as he had when he'd first come to Earth with Lya and Eresh. It was partway through their little trip they discovered that Alya was talented at gambling able to count cards faster than a human due to her advanced Lantean mental development resulting in them being banned from most of the casinos they had visited during their little stop in Nevada.
The Asgard had started taking a more serious stance against the goa'uld now pushing back when the goa'uld tried to enter Asgard protected areas destroying any ship that would not surrender. Though the fight against the goa'uld didn't just involve their ships being destroyed as the Asgard had managed to start the development of the now improved tretonin using cloned symbiotes from Setesh's D.N.A. keeping the symbiote in stasis when not extracting cells for cloning purposes. They had received an unexpected test subject in the form of Shau'nac, an old flame of Teal'c whose symbiote had reached maturity resulting in her need for a substitute.
When they had delivered it to the SGC they'd also taken custody of the symbiote called Tanith who Shau'nac said wanted to fight the goa'uld and join the Tok'ra though it was found to be a ruse after he was transported into a clone body and Revan used the force to get honest answers and they found out he was a spy for Apophis. After imprisoning Tanith they used his role to their advantage, having Eresh take his form to send false intel to allow the Tok'ra and Helia to work unimpeded in Apophis's territory.
The Nox had started using the Jedi meditation techniques shown to them by Revan, their capabilities in the force increasing slightly such as being able to heal one person from close to death with only two Nox as opposed to the three usually required. The forest floor of Surik had become the home of the Nox living on the Surik with many from Gaia coming and going just to see the forest that Lya had started impressed by the variety of plant life. They had also helped immensely with the increase of Asgardian pregnancies and births reteaching the Asgard how to care for children and helping with the creation of lesson plans for the children once they were out of infancy.
The Tok'ra at the behest of both Egeria and Jacob had decided to formalize their relationship with Earth to establish greater trust and maybe help convince the president that becoming part of the Outbound Flight project would be worth knowledge of the stargate being known to the other countries of the world. He had left most of the diplomatic discussions to Egeria and Lya leading to them being representatives of the Tok'ra high council meeting at the SGC to discuss with a representative on the upcoming presidential visit and writing up the formal agreement with some help from the Asgard and Daniel with Revan there to provide the SGC with a couple more cases of the newly developed tretonin for Teal'c and any jaffa who wanted their symbiote removed, Revan had also decided to give them a couple of the new medical devices as he knew how often the sg teams got injured getting a grateful thank you from Jacob,
"So how do these work exactly?" Janet asked examining the palm-sized device that looked similar to a goa'uld healing device though it was black in color and the back had a holographic projector that displayed the current vials of the subject.
He smiled grabbing the device from her and sliding it onto his hand and after a nod from her, he pointed his palm at her pushing the back of the device causing it to scan her, bringing up a holographic representation of her body and listing off all her vitals and listed any medical anomalies indicating it on the holographic image.
He chucked at her wide-eyed expression before reaching for a scalpel offering it to her nodding to her finger which she made a small cut on and he scanned her again the medical device picking up the cut on the display which he pressed while he pointed the device at her, the wound healing in seconds.
"It can also follow mental commands like a hand device, but that could take a while to get used to so we've added the option to use the holographic display to choose what to heal," he said taking off the device the hologram fading away as he handed the device back to her standing up from his seated position and stretching looking at the room's clock.
"I'm going to go check on the others, see how the meeting is progressing," he got a nod from the distracted Janet who was examining the device. He walked through the SGC making his way to the briefing room the force seemed to be worried as he increased his pace breaking into a sprint as he felt it scream in his head slamming through the door of the briefing room the alarm sounding through the base as he found it in a state of panic with the airmen guarding the room dead along with a couple of members of an sg team.
The sg team pointed their palms at Egeria and Lya armed with what appeared to be concealed weapons the world slowing down as he pulled the force into himself grabbing his lightsaber as they fired becoming a blur as he was between them in a flash deflecting their blast back at them hitting their outstretched hand the weapons being destroyed as they fell to the ground screaming in agony as he used the force to force them into unctuousness. More airmen came in pointing their weapons at Revan as he kept his lightsabers in a guarded position in case of another attack. Hammon quickly ordered them to stand down Revan only lowering and deactivating his lightsabers once they'd stood down turning his attention to Egeria who was letting out curses in all the languages she knew some of which Revan didn't even know.
"They're Za'tarcs," she said as he pulled her up, "they've probably been ordered to kill anyone who is supposed to take part in the alliance between us and Earth," she looked to Lya eyes widening in panic as she let out a hiss of pain holding her stomach a scared smile on her face.
"I think the baby felt all the excitement," she tried to stand only to fall being caught by Egeria, "I think she's coming," she let out another groan as Revan picked her up looking at the panicked Egeria using the force to send a small shock through her.
"Egeria!" he fixed his hold on Lya carrying her bridal style "We're going to have to use the medial area here!" The airmen getting out of his way as he used the force to sprint to the medical wing the sounds of Egeria struggling to keep up with his force enchanted speed fading as he made it to the medical wing Janet already had a bed ready that he sat Lya on.
Egeria joined them not a minute later taking the healing device from Janet as she dressed Lya in a hospital gown, scanning Lya with a worried expression on her face.
"She's already started contractions," she looked at the medical display "but it's too soon the baby wasn't supposed to come for another two months," she studied the data as Janet pushed sg-1 out of the room moving to do the same to Revan only to be stopped by Lya who called him close pain and worry on he face.
"Can you feel it?" she asked gesturing down to her stomach as she winced in pain "the baby it's not strong enough yet," tears in her eyes "I'm trying to heal it but.." she looked down her face pale eyes closing in pain as he could feel the force around her being pushed into the baby trying to speed up its development..but she'd never done anything like that before and it was draining what little strength she had her breath becoming ragged.
"Lya you have to stop," Egeria said, her worry obvious in her tone, "It's killing you.. you're losing blood and I can't heal you while you give birth," her tone was filled with frustration as she focused on the device.
"But it won't be able to heal the baby," La said her eyes full of determination "It can heal even the most grievous of wounds, but speeding up the development of a baby was never thought to be needed," she said her words punctuated by gasps and deep breaths as he could feel her struggling in the force. "I won't lose our baby," he could hear the determination she had Egeria giving her a pained look.
Revan looked to Lya then Egeria feeling their hopelessness the force pushing him to do something, he closed his eyes cutting himself off from everything letting the force become his sight, his touch, his taste, his everything, He could feel Lya weakening in the force desperately trying to heal the baby, but he could also feel the baby, even before it was born pushing back trying to heal it, mother, in an endless loop neither giving.
He could see his body moving a hand reaching towards Lya's stomach as his focus was brought to the baby it's heartbeat punctuated in the force he could feel the imperfections in its body, the imperfections and shock brought on by the attack, he could feel fear from it the world fading away.
He dodged to the left the purple blade of a lightsaber grazing his robes as he raised a hand pushing her back forcing her to backflip in midair to land on her feet. He rushed forward red blade brought up to strike at her blindspot as she pulled herself up only for his second saber to be called to her free hand catching him off guard as he was brought to the defensive blocking her strikes a smirk on her face eyes that looked very much like Lya highlighted by Egeria's cheekbones.
"Wow uncle Revan getting predictable in your old age," she said, increasing the speed of her strikes as he dodged and parried. She pulled a hand back vines coming out of the dirt floor wrapping around his body as she went for his bound hand only for her eyes to widen as lightning formed around his body burning the vines and he dodged back to bring a leg up kicking her in the chin stunning her causing her to drop the sabers in her hands calling his own to himself activating it as he held his blue and red blades to her neck a smirk on his face.
"What have I said about overconfidence padawan?" he asked, smiling widening as she used the force to maneuver her deactivated lightsaber behind him against the back of his neck.
"To only let it show when you're certain you've won," she said with a tone full of pride, her face morphing to shock as he held up a purple kyber crystal releasing the hold the force had on her lightsaber causing it to drop to the floor. "How!?" she asked in shock as he deactivated his lightsabers clipping them to his belt using the force to pull her lightsaber to his hand holding it up and hitting the igniter her eyes widening as a purple blade sprung from the hilt.
"It doesn't hurt to have backup kyber crystals," he deactivated her saber handing it back to her "force knows how many Alec went through building his first lightsaber," he said sliding the crystal back into his robes as she pouted.
"You cheated!" she said, turning away from him as he chuckled, ruffling her hair much to her annoyance.
"There is no such thing as a fair fight padawan," he pulled her chin so she was facing him "always remember that and I'm sure you'll eventually beat me," he ruffled her hair again "now that we're done with sparring now it's time I teach you something force related," he could feel her excitement through their master and apprentice bond.
"What's that master?" she asked using his title knowing that he was going to be teaching her one of the few techniques usable to the dark side and light side though he'd taught her that in the end there were no sides just the whole that was the living force. As he sat down in the grass as she joined him looking at him eagerly.
"Dark Transfer," he said bringing up his hand now covered in lightning "It a powerful healing technique that requires control over both the force and your emotions," he cut off the lightning "you imbued yourself with the force letting it fill you," he released his hold on the force then re-established it to show her the process "then you focus on an emotion you have to really feel it, it had to be almost tangible," he opened himself up more in the force to let her feel his emotions a feeling of protectiveness washing over her "then you gather it in your hands pouring that emotion into them," lightning formed in his hands again stronger this time the crackling filling the field they were in before he cut it off his emotions fade from the foreground as he pulled them back into himself. "Then you use the force to will your desired effect; it can be used to heal just as well as to kill," he gave her a serious look at that getting a hurried nod from her as the world faded away.
His eyes opened, finding himself in the medical wing hand on Lya's stomach, small items floating in the room as everyone stared at him. The force was filling the room drawn by his will...but not just his he could feel the child drawing it in as well his eyes widening as he felt a connection between them a feeling of worry overshadowed by a need..the need to live flooding through it a smile forming on his face as he looked to Lya's hand still resting on her stomach as the floating object fell.
"Don't worry," he said reaching into himself grabbing ahold of his emotion...more specify the emotions he felt for Lya and Egeria, but not just them but everyone he'd come to know Eresh and Alya, Thor and Neir, he reached deeper into himself pulling that emotion through his body and pushing it into the force gathered around his hand, the sound of electricity filling the room. He looked into Lya's eyes, the force cascading around him his emotions open to her letting her feel his determination and the love he felt towards the people he now considered family much as he had with the crew of the Ebon Hawk. "I won't let either of you die,"
He laid his hand on her stomach hearing Janet let out a gasp Egeria looking wide-eyed at the hologram as the force reached into Lya healing any damage done to herself before focusing on the baby the force around it joining Revans as the lighting filled the room then he cut off his hold on the force slumping against the bed. Lya let out another loud gasp as Egeria and Janet quickly turned their attention back to the coming baby, the room filled with its cries as Janet delivered it, Egeria having moved to holding Lya's hand who looked less pale.
He smiled from his position hearing Lya and Egeria's gasp seeing their baby for the first time as Janet handed her to them winching slightly as he stood up having Janet join him, leaving them to their family time.
After leaving the room he was meet by Hammond who had congratulations for Egeria and Lya and hoped what had happened wouldn't jeopardize the alliance with Revan waving him off saying that what happened was the goa'ulds fault and he knew Ly and Egeria wouldn't hold it against Earth. Their conversation was interrupted as Eresh and Alya teleported in rushing between them and into the medical wing he let out a chuckle at the excitement he could feel from Eresh. He was also notified that a Nox healer had arrived through the stargate and had checked up on the team finding that the programming was removable through the use of the healing device which was being done as they spoke.
After everything had calmed down, talk about the meeting continued after a brief scan for more possible assassins with Lya's father and Selmak taking over for Egeria and Lya. Revan had the Kriea brought down chuckling at the SGC member's faces when they saw the ship appear out of nowhere. After giving them a brief look of the ship Revan's group headed back to the Surik with the still-unnamed baby and after a brief party thrown by the Nox, Tok'ra, and Vanir they found themselves seated in Lya and Egeria's shared living quarters Lya sleeping on their bed as Egeria held their baby Eresh reading while occasionally sneaking peeks at the baby and Ayla was asleep leaning against Revan letting out soft snores much to Egeria's amusement.
"You know I was once hosted by you," she said looking to Revan "But, I don't remember that technique in your repertoire of force powers," she quirked an eyebrow at him, the unasked question obvious as he moved Ayla into a more comfortable position against the couch.
"If I dig deep enough into the memories I got back I could probably find it," he said leaning back looking at the child nodding towards her. "But that would have taken weeks, I got it from her," he said with a look of confusion on Egeria's face before realization appeared on it.
"Like when you told Lya her sex," Egeria said looking to her child before turning back to him "Did you hear her name?" he could hear the curiosity in her voice giving her a shake of his head.
"No, I just called her padawan in my vision," he looked up to the ceiling, "though she did call me uncle Revan" Egeria let out a chuckle.
"I take it that you don't have a problem with that?" she asked, receiving a shake of his head as he smiled back.
"I don't mind...though, just because I'm her uncle doesn't mean I'll hold back once we start her training," he smirked as Egeria gave him a brief nod to the room falling into a comfortable silence occasionally broken by Eresh turning a page.
"Would you be willing to give her a name?" they turned to see Lya sitting up in bed a smile on her face, Egeria got up handing her the baby then joining her an arm wrapped around her getting a grateful nod from Lya. "We've been trying to think of one, but we can't seem to decide on it," she held the baby closer he could feel the force curl around them protectively.
He gave them both a look, getting smiles and small nods in return as he looked up one name came to mind, a small smile coming to his face.
"How about Meetra?" He asked seeing recognition in Egeria's face "I mean if you're going to ask me to come up with a name that's the first one that comes to mind," he scratched the back of his head as they whispered to each other before they seemed to come to a conclusion.
"We think Meetra would be a beautiful name," she gave him a radiant smile "it would be an honor to name her after someone who meant so much to you and was truly a wonderful person to their end," she settled back on the bed still holding the baby eyes closing slowly "I'm sure you'll be amazing my little Meetra," her voice becoming a whisper as she fell back to sleep Egeria taking the baby and giving Revan a nod which he took as his cue to leave picking up the sleep Ayla and leaving the room with Eresh.
After the door closed he had Eresh teleport them to Alya's room dropping her off in her bed covering her up before they went their separate ways with Eresh heading to her room and Revan going to the Kreia sitting in the cockpit remembering the feel of the kyber crystal from his vision closing his eyes and letting force fill him. He could sense his connection to Meetra much like a thread, a smile on his face from the sense of calm and peace he could feel from her before pulling away from it not wanting to disturb her as he put his focus on the feeling of the kyber crystal.
The makeup of it...the feel coming from Meetra's saber after every clash with his, reaching out in the force letting it blanket him as he searched for a match reaching his senses out much like the ancient sith of old did to chart hyperlane courses. He let his senses expand further than ever before reaching out feeling all the life force from Earth billions of people and reaching beyond letting go of his body time becoming irrelevant letting his senses wander across the milky way and when that wasn't enough he reached father to Ida and Pegasus stopping in Pegasus shifting through all the now billions of lives through every planet and their moon till he found it hands moving to Kreia's controls putting in coordinates in its nav computer.
Then he was back in his body, eyes opened wide as he released his hold over the force looking to the coordinates he'd put in and running a quick check with Eresh. The coordinates were to a planet at the very edge of Pegasus that while it had the capability of housing life it didn't have a stargate. He looked over all the information Eresh sent to his console before telling her he was going to be going on a short trip leaving her in charge as the ship left the hanger waiting till he was a bit away from the Surik before jumping to FTL with him being notified it would take two hours to reach the planet a huge improvement over the old Lantean engines mostly thanks to a mix of Asgard and Lantean technology.
After making sure the autopilot had everything under control he went back to his room on the ship lifting open a hidden compartment and pulled out his third secret project a Holocron closing the compartment then sitting on his bed using the force to align the inner-workings of it watching as the dodecahedron shape reorganized itself into a pyramid the top opening to reveal a hologram of himself.
"Greetings I am the gatekeeper of this Holocron for there is no death," the hologram looked to him.
"There is only the force," he said the holocron's pyramid shape opening as a list of different force teachings appeared a mix of Sith and Jedi techniques and where they inter lapped. He smiled as he spent the three-hour journey inputting more of his knowledge into the Holocron feeding the force into it as he did so the gatekeeper would take on his traits and personality.
He broke from his work as the ship notified him that he was now in orbit of the planet sliding his Holocron into its compartment before heading to the cockpit finding himself staring at a planet that his ship scanners said was very much like Kashyyyk. After checking for life signs and finding no human life he piloted the ship down to the planet weaving between trees as he tried to find somewhere to land feeling the force guiding him in a direction which he followed and after ten minutes came across a clearing landing the ship and running scans for anything resembling kyber crystals and finding an entrance to a cave network within walking distance of his landing site.
Grabbing his mask and sliding it on feeling it lock into place as it connected to his combat suit pulling the hood of his robe up he left the ship letting the force guide him as he made his way to the cave entrance. As he made his journey he could feel eyes watching him letting the force reach out and finding it to be a kind of gorilla at least that the closest match the hud of his mask could find as he let the force shroud him vanishing from their sight.
Finding himself at the entrance to the cave he activated his mask's built-in night vision walking into the dark cave letting the force guide his direction making many turns and coming across multiple branches in the path, the force building him through them as he walked deeper into the cave network. After what seemed to be an hour he found himself exiting into a kind of chamber wide enough to fit the Hawk illuminated by flowers lining the ceiling of the cave, their light being reflected off the many different colored crystals that filled the cavern the force singing through them as he reached out touching them with the force.
After exploring the cavern for half an hour he nodded reaching into his pocket and dropping a transceiver so the next time he could have the ship teleport him into the cavern he had the ship beam him back to the entrance of the cave walking back to the ship unnoticed by the wildlife. Entering the ship through the ramp he opened his connection to Eresh.
"Hey Eresh are they any claims on this planet?" he slid into the pilot chair checking long-range scanners.
"Not to my knowledge, the only ones who could have laid claim would have been the travelers, but they were nomadic during the Wraith controlled era and even now they're barely starting to settle on planets last I heard a group had established a settlement on the Athosians planet trading labor and some basic technology for food and clean water." there was a pause for about ten minutes before she started speaking again "One of my duplicates was in the middle of teaching the Athosians and the travelers advanced farming methods," a map appeared on the ships holo-display marking four planets each near more populated parts of the galaxy "they were willing to provide me a map of current traveler settled planets this planet having no claim," he nodded to himself.
"Then with the power granted to me as the Lantean High Counselor, this planet is designated Je'daii and access is to be restricted to all, except those given clearance by me," he prepared the Kreia for take-off. "I want ten of our upgraded Aurora-class ships cloaked in orbit each crewed by ten of your duplicates," he could feel Eresh's humor through their link.
"They will be there within three hours and have sent a message to all our allies marking that planet as off-limits," she let out a chuckle "you know it's been so long since you're used your power as a Counselor I thought you'd forgotten," he heard her chuckles turn in laughter as he rolled his eyes the ship jumping to FTL.
"You know with my power I could put you on cleaning duty for the foreseeable future," he slid back in the pilot's chair humor in his tone as he said the mock threat.
"You know you like me too much to do that," he could just imagine her flicking her lekku over her shoulder "besides I can control the nanites on the ship at any time...so technically I already am," he chuckled cutting off their connection before returning to filling his Holocron with all the force teachings he could remember from both his time as a Jedi and Sith wanting to get that done before moving on to the information he learned from his time being one with the force.