DISCLAIMER: not rich, nope my house is not self-sustaining with solar and hydro power underground bunker and solid titanium frame that can shrug off a tank round... so cleatly not jk. just an american ass! :P LOL

AUTHORS NOTE: NOT A FULL UPDATE. been having a really hard time focusing lately bewtween work and personal stuff... anyway this is what I have and i will post another update later today I hope.

Ridicule was dead. Anubus' last great act of evil. then his entire fleet and powerbase had been destroyed by the combined might of the asguard and nox. Now that the battle was over the asguard and nox were being contacted by the SGC asking them questions they did not wish to answer. Arcturus took a breath and pushed down his grief. to survive all these millenia only to die when we woke up. still he was a traitor sooo... thought arcturus referring to the charges his brother had been hit with prior to the plague descending upon them. There is a job to do lets do it. using the neural link he activated his ships sensors and found the command office of the SGC; so he straightened his uniform and activated the holo-transmitter projecting not only himself, but also lya and thor to the office of one General George Hammond of stargate command.

Before anyone could speak arcturus stepped forward and gestured having detected SG-1 still stranded in the outpost in the arctic. They appeared in the office. Daniel immediately looked around, spotted arcturus and spoke in chipped alterren I greet you gate-builder. in the name of earth we welcome your geezer speak. please provide us with mouse gizzard. Arcturus burst out laughing. Daniel looked taken aback and confused as Thor chuckled and repeated what Daniel had just said in english. Daniel's face turned bright red in embarrassment as Carter laughed and even General Hammond had a sparkle shimmer in his eyes and he forced down a smile. Glad that the alien saw it as comical. General Hammond turned to Daniel and asked him, " so who are the gate builders, and why are you so happy?"
"THE GATE-BUILDERS. THE ANCIENTS. THE GREATEST RACE EVER TO INHABIT THE STARS!?" Daniel took a breath, and explained what he knew about the ancients and ascension. after few minutes Arcturus raised his hand and spoke in perfect english, " I greet you in the spirit of peace, I offer friendship and knowledge. if you wish I shall leave" after completing the standard greeting for a lesser civilization he waited.

Hammond grunted, cleared his through and said " ehm yes well. thank you. we graciously accept whatever knowledge you are willing to teach us." Daniel piped back up, in english " and we offer what we have of our culture in fair exchange." Arcturus was impressed. this human apparently knew about standard interstellar protocol. or maybe it was just manners? In either case Dr. Jackson had just endeared himself to the last living ancient.

Arcturus looked at General Hammond and said, " So general, to whom must I speak about propositioning your government in a joint venture?" Hammond looked surprised but quickly replied with " that would be the president, I can set up a meeting immediately." " there is no need. Simply tell me his, err address and i will project myself there is 10 earth standard minutes time." Arcturus deactivated the holo projector and accessed the ships techno-data core. He entered his AlterOPS authorization and brought up the technical specifications for an old armed frigate that his people had long ago decommissioned. He figured it would be a good bartering chip. Different pieces of technology all adding up to the ship in total. He was sure he could get a dozen deals out of the propulsion drive alone. All for nothing more then he was willing to give. he would need the man power to find the former capitol city of the ancient empire. he had the gate coordinates but he would need help accessing the city and searching the computer logs for the coordinates of Atlantis. He could use the humans for man power and supplies until he could access an emergency Pheta Protocol bunker.

As the plague swept through the galaxy, nano-constructors were used to build massive underground and out of phase bunker complexes that had been programmed with tens of thousands of genetic samples, as well as full cloning systems and consciousness transferal technology. To be activated in case the plague wiped them all out. Being a command level operative in AlterOPS Arcturus knew the general location of one such bunker. it was on dakara. the former capitol of the ancients empire. He would need the SGC's help to hold off the jaffaa long enough to re activate the systems there. Once online the defenses would obliterate the jaffa and goa'uld forces and allow him time to find and activate the bunker on emergency mode. meaning under attack need soildiers activated first. flash learning and knowledge downloads, mixed with the best technology of the time led to the ability to grow short term sentient clone troops. they could be used to man and run critical facilities until the bunker could begin cranking out babies that would grow and mature normally receiving yearly knowledge downloads starting at the age of 8 until they were 18 and could choose a specialty to pursue. as arcturus prepared for his meeting with the president to offer the technology of the old frigate in exchange for man power and resources to get to dakara, the president was being briefed and readied to meet the Ancient and next to him stood vice president kinsey, with an odd smirk on his face. Something in his gut told the president this wasn't going to end well.