SORRY IF YOU DIDNT GET THE COMPLETE CHAPTER EARLIER, EITHER I SCREWED UP ON FANFIC DIDNT TRANSFER ALL OF IT.
NOTE: Sorry for the short chapter, but i just wrote this quickly to introduce Vala (thanks Zippy for the suggesting, i was trying to figure out how they would find Olympus and you gave me the perfect opening).
THANKYOU very much for all the reviews guys.
Zippy: vala makes her appearance in this chapter. The puddle jumper has Ancient enhanced Asguard shields (since the puddle jumpers powersource is a miniture ZPM, its even more powerful than the Asguard shields).
WBH: if they removed Kryon particles from a cylon body it would become human, but it would loose its cylon identy since the cylon conciousness is stored in the Kryon particles (the particles act like a neural network, which is how six infected Baltar).
Andrew: Olympus is still fully powered, these ancients dont use Zero point modules, they have perfected the device from the Atlantis episode, its a version that sucks zero point energy directly from our space time instead of requiring miniture unvierses.
Carter was seated at the puddle jumpers primary control console, she was currently revising plans for the conversion of the Galactica's weapons turrets into Rail guns, and revising equations for the conversion of their tellium into naquidah for enhanced nuclear warheads.
She was engrossed in the science when a random window appeared displaying information from the sensors array. It was displaying a group of Cylon raiders that had just jumped outside of Galactica's scanning range, but there was more.
Her eyes went wide and she immediately opened a channel to Galactica's bridge where Jack was currently stationed. 'Jack, I'm picking up three raiders just outside of the Colonials sensor range, but I am also detecting a data transmission originating from Galactica's bridge…' she yelled.
Jack pulled out his scanner and strode around the bridge scanning, and then it popped up, a Kryon energy signature. He pulled out his stunner and fired.
Vala found herself standing in front of a stargate standing on the center of a ring transport platform, but something was wrong… The last thing she could remember was using a cargo ship to stop the formation of a supergate, she had run to the transport rings and activated them, expecting to emerge back on the Prometheus. But now she was standing before a stargate, on a strange planet. She approached the DHD and figured, oh well I'll just gate to the Alpha site, but she froze, the symbols were all wrong.
That's when she noticed it, a structure far off in the distance. She stood there in shock, and whispered to herself 'this is impossible'. Off in the distance, floating several miles above the ground, was a city, a very large city. She had heard about the Alterian city of Atlantis from Daniel, mostly during his insistent whining about how she had made him miss the Daeduelus, and she had peeked into classified data in the SGC's archives. This city was defiantly one of the Ancients, but it couldn't be Atlantis, Atlantis was in the Pegasus galaxy.
'Now how the hell am I going to get up there?' she asked herself before skipping off towards the floating city.
'You're telling me that lieutenant Gaeta is a Cylon?' Adama fumed as he stared down at the unconscious form of Geata secured in a cell.
Carter picked up her scanner and handed it Adama 'It looks like he's a full blown Cylon, unlike Giaus the Kryon particles extend throughout his entire body' she informed pointing at the pin prick blue dots that filled the entire scanner 'But there's something worse'.
Adama looked up 'What could be worse?' he asked, thrusting the scanner back in to the Earthers hands.
Carter took the scanner and recalibrated it 'when we first came aboard I was working with Gaeta, he was very interested in the stargate and the stargate element' she replied 'The transmission he sent out contained information on how the stargate works, and the properties of Naquidah, some of it got through before the General managed to immobilize him'.
Adama's eyes went wide, this Naquidah material was the stuff they used to enhance their nukes. 'Exactly what information did get through?' he asked, attempting to remain calm.
'From what I've decoded, it looks like the atomic structure of Naquidah, however the stargate information was incomplete, I doubt they have enough to figure out how it works… but it may be enough to convert Tellium into naquidah' Carter replied.
Daniel had brought Starbuck to the puddle jumper, to give her a private tour, she was currently sitting in the pilots chair. 'Normally you need the ancient gene to work the controls, so the Asguard reworked some of them to be operated by us' he explained.
Starbuck looked at the control console, she wondered how crystal platelets could be used to pilot a ship 'Will you teach me to fly this thing?' she asked.
Daniel stepped up behind her and placed his hands on her shoulders 'Why don't you give it try right now' he stated with a grin.
Starbuck searched the controls for a button that could power up the ship, but it was impossible, all the crystal platelets looked identical 'How do you power her up?' she finally relented.
'Close your eyes, and concentrate on the ship powering up' he replied.
Starbuck was surprised, in the early days of the first cylon war, there were experimental ships that could be piloted through neural interfaces. But the interfaces were very bulky and required a physical connection to the pilots brain, which ultimately lead to the abandonment of that technology as the Cylons were capable of infiltrating the pilots minds. She closed her eyes and concentrated on powering up the ship, in that exact moment she heard a hum as the entire console lit up. She opened her eyes as the crystal platelets now had strange patterns scolling across their surface. 'Wow' she shouted.
Daniel smirked 'Just don't fire the weapons' he half joked just as a blinking red platelet caught his attention.
It had caught Starbuck's attention also 'Whats that?' she asked.
Daniel leaned forward and touched the crystal causing a holographic window to appear on it carrying a familiar face.
This is Vala Maldarez to stargate command… hello can you hear me? Anyways I think I found something you might want to know about. Daniel, if you're still out there you better get your ass over here I've found a way to make up for the whole Atlantis mess… the image smiled then blinked away. The screen now showed statistical information about the transmission.
'Daniel… who is that?' Starbuck asked.
'Oh, just someone I cant manage to get rid of' Daniel replied then activated his com link 'Carter, Jack it lookd like we've got company'
Jack, Carter, Adama, Starbuck, Apollo and Daniel gathered in the conference room.
'We lost Vala in the Milkyway how on Earth did she end up here?' Jack stormed.
Carter perked up 'I think I can explain' she replied activating a holo emitter that now sat at the center of the room. The image of the micro singularity they had used to come to this galaxy popped up. 'This is the singularity the Ori made and that we used to power the stargate to reach this galaxy' she explained 'It is also the singularity that Vala disappeared from'
Sam tapped her scanner causing the image of a swirling vortex open up in front of the singularity. 'It would appear that the singularity formed just as Vala activated the ring transporter. Now the matter stream doesn't have enough energy to overcome the gravitational field generated by the singularity so it was pulled towards the singularity. It would also appear that the time dialation effects of the singularity preserved the matter stream until we activated the stargate. The matter stream then piggy backed on the extra-dimensional conduit…' she tapped the scanner once again and the image changed to a map of the current galaxy showing a yellow line as the path of wormhole. A bright purple ping originated from one of the stars on the yellow lines path near the outer edge of the galaxy. 'that ping shows where the transmission originated, I would venture a guess that the planet it came from has a set of rings. The matter stream would have sought out the rings and materialized Vala' she concluded.
Daniel looked at the image 'If the wormhole carried the matter stream out of the singularity, why didn't she materialize on a planet in the milkyway galaxy, surely one of them would be closer'
Carter looked at him for a moment then tapped quickly on her scanner and pulled up an image of the milkyway galaxy. Like the previous map a yellow line outlined the path of the wormhole. 'The rings have an effective range of about 10 light seconds' she stated, 'as you can see, there were no planets within 10 light seconds of the wormholes course in our galaxy… not until it arrived in this galaxy'
Jack looked thoughtful for a moment 'This is a subspace signal isn't it?' he finally asked 'How on earth did she find a subspace transmitter in this galaxy?' he then continued not waiting for an answer to his previous question.
Daniel perked up 'She did say she found something that could make up for the Atlantis mess, maybe she found Olympus?' he stated.
Carter tapped on her scanner causing windows to appear before everyone 'Guys, we have another problem' she stated 'It looks like Gaeta also managed to transmit information about subspace, it was only basic data nothing that would allow them to manipulate subspace but it maybe enough for them to track a signal'.
Adama looked to Sam 'If they detected the signal it could lead them to Olympus, we can't let them get hold of the city, and its technology' he stated flatly 'How long would it take for our fleet to reach the source of the transmission?'.
Carter quickly calculated the answer in her brain 'The transmission source is on the edge of this Galaxy, you're looking at over 2000 jumps using your current equations. I'd say 9 months of continuous jumping' she replied.
'The Cylon jumping equations are much more advanced, they could reach there in 1/3rd the time' Starbuck piped in.
'The equations for 1000 light year jumps should be completed by the end of the week' Sam announced 'Sir I think our best bet is to convert their trillium power generators into naquidah based generators… that should provide us with enough energy to make the 60 jumps required using the new equations… it'll take about 2 days once everything's in place'.
Jack considered things for a moment before replying 'Okay Sam you get on that, in the mean time Daniel and I will head for Olympus, see if we cant bring the city online'.
'But sir, im going to need the Jumpers synthetic fabricators to build the generators' Carter interrupted.
'What about the stargate?' Starbuck suggested.
Her suggestion surprised the Earthers and they all looked at her 'actually now that we know where the signal originated, we could extrapolate the address using the constellations on the gate, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes using the Colonials star maps' Sam replied.
Jack, Daniel, Starbuck and Apollo stepped through the stargate and exited upon another world. There were recent footprints in the soil and Daniel went over to examine them while the others looked back to watch the Stargate disengage, and then promptly froze as the visage of the floating ancient city appeared behind the stargate.
'Jack, I think this is the ring transport platform that materialized her' Daniel shouted as he began to exhume the outline of the platform. He was expecting Jack to say something sarcastic, but it never came. 'Jack…' His voice trailed away as he turned to see what had captivated the others, then in a flash of light all 4 vanished.