Chapter Four: Status and Preperation
Harry's POV
He groaned softly as his hands rubbed against his forehead. It wasnt even a few moments in the meeting with the Governors and he already wanted to smash his head against the table in front of him. It made sense that it was going to be a Holographic meeting, considering they couldnt leave their planets for fear of being missing during any possible event. He leaned back as everyone stopped talking over each other and stared at him. He kept his eyes closed for a moment letting their thoughts invade his mind for a moment to get a better idea of the problems.
"Alright, I have a fair understanding of the issues between Sirius and Alpha Centauri. The Sector borders were established with the best probable dividing of the nearby space. With both your planets being on opposite sides of Earth's System it made sense to allow you each one of the two halves." He explained getting a small nod from the two. "Still, the systems with heavy Mining area's are mostly swallowed up by the Sirius Sector." Governor Gregory stated getting a little weak near the end. He continued the small glare at the man that he had started the moment the man opened his mouth.
"Listen, I'm not even two days out of supposedly a Medical Coma that was extended via Cryogenics, In those two days I have been dumped with both the complete control and governance of a space empire. Within two hours of first stepping down on Earth I am dragged into a conference with my Governors and instead of explaining the situation of your systems in a simple matter you are squabbling and whining over who has what." He said getting a long silence as he took a deep breath.
"I understand frustration no doubt has a hold over you all since you now have a way to resolve small issues, but these problems are pointless, what if we get into war? Will who has control of what area matter? Will that extra planet keep you safe? You all belong to the same Empire so what does it matter?" He asked getting a small sigh from the two. "Yes, that is true, It is sometimes difficult to see the bigger picture having been left outside the galactic view for as long as we have been." Governess Jane said with a small sigh.
"In a few days I will be told any sensative data that needs to be sent to me, on top of that considering how out of date galactic data is I am putting forwards a few orders to the Naval Admirals to mobilize the fleets. I asked to meet with all of them tomorrow." He said getting stiffening from the Governors. "Should we raise alarm? We can have the planets on lock down." Governor Price said stiffly the small scar down his face twitching in the hologram. He blinked in surprise and looked around. He could see the tension everyone looked ready to jump to action but were waiting back for him.
"No, but keep ready I guess, I have no clue what will happen once the fleets move, and I am a small bit nervous of how the galactic view on us being so active will be." He said before sighing soflty and laying his head down. "Man so many issues, why was it me?" He asked aloud getting a small laugh and smile from Governor Price. "If not you then who?" Price asked making him snort softly. "Right. well at least this isnt as difficult as I thought, Honestly I thought it was going to be extremely complex like having to watch money and materials and getting contant updates daily." He said getting a small silence.
"Please tell me that isnt how this is all going to be." He said getting a small smile from Jane. "Most of the monetary issues are self contained and materials will be managed by us and other administrators all you have to worry about is doing what you think is necissary, we will worry about the little stuff. Besides once you have become fully integrated with the network it will be even easier for you to do what you need to. Or even get updates and find out information you want to find out." Jane explained making him nod slightly and sigh as he slouched over in his chair.
"So are we done?" He asked getting a small nod from the five. "Alright if any more issues that actually need me pop up send a message I will attempt to address them as soon as possible." He said getting nods from all before the holograms winked out and he moaned slightly laying his head back down. "Who knew this was going to be so difficult." He said getting a small laugh from the door and turned his head to look at the person. He say Miyuri standing there a small amused smile on her lips and nodded slightly to her. "I think you handled that pretty well for someone just jumping into it." Miyuri said making him laugh nervously.
"Yeah I kind of cheated, I may have used the implants to keep calm and looked up most of what I was saying as I was in the meeting." He said scratching the back of his head only to get another amused smile from the woman. "I expected it as did everyone else, you are still young, we dont expect you to know everything or be able to do everything, eventually you'll get to that point but for the moment you are right where we need you." Miyuri explained making him nod slowly and sigh in small relief.
"So food?" He asked getting another small laugh. "Food stores were always constantly kept we did plan ahead, I can have the chef's make something and have it brought to your room as soon as you are finished using the restroom and getting comfortable, I will need to ask you some things during the dinner if you would be alright with that?" Miyuri asked making him nod slowly and follow her back to the lift. "Yeah sure." He said a little uncertain. "Things seem to be going easily." He commented looking around a bit.
"Yes they are, did you expect anything else?" Miyuri asked as the doors closed to the lift. "Well, life is never that easy on me, fate certainly does get a kick out of pushing me around." He said with a small smile getting a low laugh in response. "You really shouldnt tempt fate if it is so used to pushing you around." Miyuri said with a small shake of the head and smile. "Well if I hadnt done it now, I most likely would have by accident later." He said getting a sigh. "Anything in particular you would like?" Miyuri asked her hand dancing over the completely see through holographic displayed 'tablet'.
"I dont really know, whatever works, something with beef I suppose." He said getting a slow nod and watched the holographic display vanish in a small blink of light. "So that hologram. is that part of you?" He asked getting a surprised look. "Yes, For synthetics they are implanted in whichever arm is considered dominant. For nonsynthetics its built into their dominant arm." Miyuri explained just before the doors opened. "I dont seem to have it." He said with a small frown looking at his right arm.
"The few implants the research vessel had on hand was what they were able to give you, something more streamlined like this is something you would need to be in one of the implantation labs on the planet for, or a medical wing in one of the larger ships since military grade equipment of the same sort is available for implantation in bases or ships." Miyuri said making him drop his arm and rub the back of his head.
He sighed as he had left the bathroom, he wore some sweats hoping to relax and stared at the table in front of him. He almost felt the urge to slam his head into the table come back, the amount of food available would have fed several people and it seemed they left all of it for him. 'You'd think they'd know I can only eat so much.' He thought before taking a seat and cutting through the medium cooked steak. He froze as the foods flavor burst through his mind. "It seems you are enjoying your meal." Miyuri called from behind making him nearly choke in surprise and cough a little into his hand.
"Please dont do that." He said getting a smile and nod. "So what was it you needed?" He asked lifting some more of the steak. "A request was forwarded through military channels from the Admirals and Generals of your commanding division." Miyuri said making him slow down and raise an eyebrow at the uncertain look that came over the womans face. "And?" He asked nervously trying to focus a little bit on the food and push the anxiousness down. "Both Divisions have their own request but both follow the same idea." Miyuri explained simply before scrolling through the holographic display.
"The Admiral's want to have you go through their forces Boot Camp, after that they wish to fast track you through a several month long class in command of space vessels and fleets that multiple of your current admirals would serve as teachers for." Miyuri said making him blink in surprise before leaning back. "Wouldnt that move take time from their own commands?" He asked getting a small shake of the head. "It would be holographic instruction, only two admirals would be capable of meeting you in person without interfering with their duties." Miyuri explained making him nod.
"The Generals have the same Idea, they would like you to go through their Basic Training, then take a few months crash course on ground command and leading troops of veriable sizes into combat, Two Generals would be able to meet with you face to face during instruction, and several would be meeting via holographic communication." Miyuri explained. "Whats the difference between the two? Basic training and Boot Camp that is." He said getting silence for a moment.
"Basic Training for the Army has more to do with a ground combat and function of weapons in environments that have weather change patterns and possible unique weather patterns not native to earth. Naval Boot Camp has to do with repelling boarding parties, functions and stations on a ship as well as zero gravity training on the chance that you end up spaced or the artificial gravity functions on a ship become disabled." Miyuri explained. "I see, any reason why." He asked nervously.
"With command over an entire fleet and their ships, it would be in their best interest if you were prepared for all sectors of combat. Further than that intelligence has started to be gathered from old probes, its not the most reliable source but multiple civilizations have grown fairly large and tensions are rising, their is possibility that our controlled systems could end up a warzone for others to fight in, and we need to be prepared for that possibility, in that regard we want you trained up." Miyuri said seriously making him sit back for a second.
'I get out of one war, and I might end up in another.' He thought closing his eyes and sighing softly. 'I cant ask them to fight everything for me, I might as well take the training, I was good at fighting back then, maybe I'll be better now.' He thought before rubbing the back of his neck and breathing through his nose. "Do both, it would be best if I got a handle on everything, I doubt I wont see ground combat if my fleet is involved, and I know if my fleets involved I'll need all the naval training I can get." He said getting a small nod as the request was put through.
"The request will be put through, I'll get an agreement from both sides on a structured time table for each segment of the training." Miyuri explained making him nod. "I'll let you eat your food, you should get as much sleep as possible, the next few days are the only real free time and easy days you may have." Miyuri said making him nod and watched her leave. "For what it may be worth, we all thank you for agreeing to all this, it may seem so big and impossible, but we will do our best to help you." Miyuri said before the door closed.
He finished the small amount of food on the plate and turned to the massive panoramic view outside the window looking at the city. 'Man what I wouldnt give to have some of you guys here with me.' He thought feeling the slight chill of the room. 'I'll have to ask about heading over to London, see diagon alley, I wont like what I see, but I cant ignore it forever.' He thought. "Nothing is ever easy huh." He mumbled aloud. He let his hands lay against the top of the desk he was given and flinched back for a second as it flashed blue and a holographic keyboard and screen.
He stared in wonder for a second before pressing into one of the keys for the keyboard seeing the finger go through and even so it appeared on the screen. 'Dont these things normally come with a mouse?' He wondered not seeing anything like it. He reached out to a button on the screen and saw his hand ghost over where it was only for whatever program it was to come up. He figured out the system fairly quickly after that and sighed as he ran a hand through his hair missing the familiar feeling of his wand in his hand.
His mind couldnt help but wander to what teaching he had before getting sent to this time, and everything revolved around the wand. 'How am I supposed to use any spells without it. I know they said I have some Psionic Implant but what does that do? Does it replace a wand?' He wondered silently looking over his hands before looking straight at the screen. His hands ghosted over the keyboard as he looked up everything he could on psionics. He felt a small frown take over his face, psionics seemed to be more raw and powerful magic but it wasnt as finely tuned.
He looked out the window for a second and thought about how to contact Miyuri. He heard a small knock on the door and raised an eyebrow before opening his mouth to respond. "Come in." He said seeing the door open slowly and saw Miyuri standing in the doorway. "You called?" Miyuri said softly making him blink in surprise. "I was just wondering how to do that, I didnt think that thinking about how to do so would have gotten your attention." He said slowly getting a small amused smile. "Your Network interface allows some freedom in interpreting what you want, if you need to get in contact with a singular person it can help set up a secure line of communication." Miyuri explained making him slowly nod.
'I understood maybe half of what she said.' He thought slightly amused at that realization. "Is it at all possible to take a day to visit London, I'm hoping to find something there." He said getting a slow nod from the woman. "If its about the magical area's in London, we've searched those area's quite a bit, ever since Magicals came out and joined the world in a more permenant setting and slowly started refering to their magic as Psionics." Miyuri said making his mouth open in surprise for a second before he closed it with a soft click.
"Right I forgot about that detail, What information do you have on wands then? What I was able to look up on Psionics didnt help explain how to use the power in the form of spells." He said getting a small amused smile. "Sadly it seems wand making had fallen out of style mear years after the change to Psionic's, your best option at the moment is to simply hone the power and test the waters, we arent very well versed in the power, considering we ourselves cannot harness it." Miyuri explained making him nod slowly.
"Alright well thats a bust on heading to London then, if you guys have managed to run yourselves as well as you already have, what was the need to bring me in?" He asked getting a small surprised look. "You have already been given multiple answers before, but the main reason being since most choices we make are uniform we are more of a think first, deliberate, type. That type of move can end up taking years and in attempting to make quick choices we dont succeed we need someone who can jump into the water feet first so to speak." Miyuri explained making him smile slightly and laugh.
"I cant help but feel that by the end of it all I'm going to be one major headache for everyone." He said with a slight tone of amusement underneath it all. "How do you feel though? It hasnt hit yet has it?" Miyuri asked softly making him go silent. "Knowing you've missed years, been asleep for thousands of years. Knowing your friends have long since been gone." Miyuri commented off hand. "It hasnt really hit yet." He said simply leaning back and staring at the ceiling.
"Part of me simply believes this all to be some big dream, that I'll wake up in the hospital wing at school surrounded by relieved faces. The other part, I think it knows this isnt fake, that everything is too real. I havent had a lot of free time to think on it too much, and I feel like I kind of dont want to." He said sighing softly in the silence and slight darkness. "It feels like I'm moving a million miles a second, and that if I stop its gonna be like running into a brick wall, and everything is just gonna break into a million pieces, so I'd rather just keep moving forwards." He said getting a surprised look.
"Running away like that isnt exactly healthy." Miyuri said making him laugh lightly and smile. "Yeah Maybe. But at the moment I'm in charge of a massive space empire, I have to worry about outside threats and have apparently military training coming up to deal with it, with the amount of time I'd probably need to work through it I'd not be much help, and besides my friend always said I had a saving people thing. So what better than to work on that." He said getting a slow nod. "I see, alright but whenever you want to slow down and try and work through everything just let me know, I can set aside some time for you, even if the other may not like it to much, you are the commander after all." Miyuri said with a small amused smile.
He nodded and watched the woman leave the room quickly. He leaned back and relaxed into the extremely comfortable chair and let himself ease into everything a small bit. 'Day one down, A shite ton more to go.' He thought with slight amusement.
A/N: Recently I got a Review explaining plot holes, and while I see where the confusion came up its technically not there. The plot hole in question is how they dont have a whole lot of information on Harry's time line, back in the 1990's and such, however I was referencing the Magical world, that world was still segregated so virtually none of its information would ever be recorded into the internet and as such into the databanks that would be held for the future. what information that was provided was from second hand account many years later. thats why most of how he got there seems vague. They know the magical world called themselves that, second hand reports explain the conflict and his coma, and with hermione signing him up for the colonization program, that is something the regular world would keep records of, anything in the regular world would be kept as records, hell you can find virtually any game on pirate bay so yes, lots from that time is known and recorded but almost nothing from the magical world, they wouldnt have allowed much of anything to get by unless it was secretly done.