AN; Hello Everyone, here is chapter 2. Its going to be a while until I post more chapters so i help you enjoy this. I am adding several new primary characters to the story now and three new fandoms. If you can guess the references to the who they are you get virtual cookies.
Current Universes; Stargate, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Marvel X-Men
Solan((((July 1982))))
"Hello, my name is Solan. And this is the story of a Lantean teen that ended up stuck on a primitive world that used to be his races former home. And once again became our home. And now I'm stuck on it. Ten Thousand years after they once again left. Damn, I'm starting to sound like a human. This sucks… I'm doing it again. Do you have any idea how bad this reads in Lantean? Ok I need to write in Lantean more often. My handwriting is terrible. Probably because I haven't used handwriting or paper since I was five.
"Anyway, this is my way of remembering who and what I am. I am Solan of the Lantean People. I am from the 12th family of the Southern Pier of Atlantis. I am, and always will be, a Lantean.
"But I am also Solan Carter. The adopted son of Jacob and Debra Carter and the older brother of Sam and Mark Carter. It's weird. My Lantean father, Malak, is a Sociologist who studied the Humans of Pegasus. He studied the behavior of races around this level of development before the Wraith. He tried to tell be about them and I never listened. Now I wish I did. He was badly wounded during the final battle of Doranda. Thankfully however, he ascended before he was killed. I hope he is watching me from the higher plane. And I hope he likes my adopted family. Cause I really like them.
"Damn. Great I'm still doing it while trying to complain about it. I'm letting my human influenced personality mess with my Lantean heritage. I keep getting lost in the joy of writing in Lantean again."
"Ok back on topic. This is to make sure that I remember what I am. This is mostly to keep me in touch with me heritage. Perfect memory aside. I want something tangible to see and touch that shows me what I am.
"So what have I been doing?"
"I'm one of those people that just can't sit still for very long. I have to be on the move. Sort of like Janus when he had a new idea. Probably why he and I are best friends. Anyway, after I learned English I started reading the history of Earth and its many, many, many nations, religions, and cultures. I was both horrified and amazed. These humans had to be one of the bloodiest that I have ever seen. I'm amazed that they are still around.
"But more importantly there were signs that my people had gone through with the rumors of evacuating to Terra if the war could not be won. The Latin language is clear indication of this. How I ended up on the planet that my people evacuated to is a good question. One I am just thankful that happened.
"It's also obvious that my people had a hand, directing the ancient Romans and Greeks. However, there are also signs that another race did as well. The nice thing is that this means that while the Evacuation of Atlantis occurred more than 10,000 years ago my people were still around 4,000 years ago. Not beyond our natural abilities, but still a long life. Not the longest I have heard of but still a decent amount of time.
"Once I realized that my people had been here I tried to see if there was any way to contact my people or any of our allies. But the parts to build a subspace transmitter don't exist on this planet. And probably won't for centuries. Worse, I didn't know where any of the portals to Middle Earth were now. Or even if they were still around.
I am very glad that I love history though. I know that my people left an outpost on this planet. Near what would now be the planet's southern pole. Now all those lessons on how to manually calculate stellar drift coordinates are coming in handy. I could locate where the outpost probably is.
Now how to get there. But I did have a plan I finished the American high school system in two years. I'm considered a genius and prodigy by their school system. I should hope so. You hear that Janus. I'm considered a prodigy somewhere. So, take that. Damn another American slang. I have to stop that.
I'm due to start college soon. On full scholarship to, i almost feel guilty. I must keep reminding myself of the rules to follow when stuck on a planet within Type Zero. Which is to find a way to signal for extraction. The second rule, don't get attached. Too late for that.
However, i have been finding signs of rapid human development of the human genome. I don't yet have the technology to truly study what is happening.
((((o))))
Damn, humans are violent. What are they thinking. I know that humans are developing enhanced abilities. I was going through the old records of the cold war and such when I discovered the Cuba Incident. I decided that this was a good way to introduce my true self to my family.
"Ok, you guys aren't going to believe me at first but I can offer proof, kind of."
"Proof of what?"
"What I am." Solan held up his hand, palm up, and a ball of fire appeared in his hand. He caused the ball to split in half, then again. regrew them in size and caused them to float around. Than he held up his other hand and a ball of lightning appeared.
"I'm not a mutant, as they are so derisively called, I am something else." The four heard in their minds. "Yes, I am telepathic. No, I don't read your minds."
"What are you?" Sam asked. The rest of his family; Jacob, Debra, and Mark were staring at him.
"I'm the same as I have always been. You're just finding out a bit more. But, I am an Lantean."
"Lantean?" Sam asked.
"Atlantis," They all slightly jumped but looked skeptical. "well the first Atlantis."
"First Atlantis?" Debra asked trying to understand.
"I know of two. But that's not what we are talking about." Solan told his story and how he came to be here. He showed them his pistol and a few other devices he had. "I did use my abilities to keep people from seeing my pistol and hand computer. But i didn't see much other choice." Solan said to Debra, "I'm sorry but." She realized that he was talking about when they first met. She remembered seeing them but she didn't register what they were.
"I understand. So, where is the stargate now?"
"I'm not sure. Dad, I do need your help, but I can't tell the governments about my people's technology. Imagine what would happen. Earth can't duplicate my technology; it doesn't have the resources. But that pad right there" He pointed to the computer on the coffee table, "has more processing power than every other computer on the planet combined. So, the USA takes it and tries to understand it. Than Russian spies find out and they try to steal it. They fail and then a war erupts. Than imagine what happens if they find out about me. Or my gun."
"My lips are sealed." Jacob said understanding what he meant. Jacob knew what Solan said was true. That would happen.
"So, where is this outpost you mentioned? Can we see it?" Sam asked bouncing in her seat.
"It's in Antarctica. I think I know where it is. But I didn't put it on paper. I did all the calculations in my head."
"So school was really just?" Jacob asked.
"It was harder than you think, I did have to learn the incorrect theories that Earth has now. I had to hold back from correcting the teachers all the time."
"So, Antarctica." Debra said, "How are we going to get you there?"
Potter Family
((((Mid 1983))))
"James, how is everything at home?" Crouch asked his friend. After Bangalore was thrown out of office for sending Sirius to Azkaban after a farce trial Crouch Sr was elected into office. He almost resigned when his son was discovered to be a Death Eater but James used his influence as Harry's father to keep Crouch in office.
"Its good Minister, Percy is settling in ok. He's 8 months old now. He's getting along good with Harry and Jean. But Lily is getting stir crazy. She hasn't been able to safely leave home since the attack 6 months ago. It's that damn Boy-Who-Lived idea, I'm just glad that idiot Lockhart is behind bars. I can't believe he wrote those books."
"Yes, sending him to Azkaban was very satisfying. Do you think Lily would like to visit my home and spend time with Alexis?"
"I think that would be wonderful for her." James answered gratefully. Changing the topic he asked, "How are things going as minister?"
"It was rough at first, my son's actions cost me dearly. I owe you my position James."
"Minister, please, I love credit and praise. But I only told the truth."
"We cannot afford to put the sins of the son on the father. Nor the sins of the sister, mother, father, or son onto others. If we do that we will push the innocent into becoming the guilty." Barty quoted James from memory. James had said that while in Diagon, a reported was asking James about himself running for Minister. However, James had turned down the position and recommended Barty himself as minister.
"I also hope that Lily can help Alexis as well. She is taking our son's betrayal very hard."
"I'm not surprised. I can only base what you are feeling of Peter's betrayal. It's hard, I can only imagine what a son's betrayal would be like."
"How bad are things getting when you try to leave home?"
"We can't even take Harry into the magical world. Diagon is completely closed to us. We all have to go under heavy glamor."
((((o))))
"James," Lily cried in alarm, "are you ok?" James was haggard looking.
James's eyes were dull as he looked up at her. "We have to move." He said quietly. He walked into the kitchen and grabbed a glass, he started randomly opening cupboard Lily watching him with a sense of alarm as he walked about listlessly. He was speaking quietly, "I was trying to get from Gringotts to the cauldron to apparate home. Before I could even leave the bank I was swarmed by people wanting to talk to me." Finally he found the bottle of Firewhiskey. He poured himself a glass and was about to take a drink when he scowled and threw it into the fire. The flames flared blue for a moment as the alcohol ignited. James fell into a chair and Lily walked over behind him and rubbed his shoulders. "I only managed to get away because I was still in gringotts and guards broke apart the vultures. The Goblins allowed me to leave before the horde. But I was warned that if this happened again I would not be allowed to enter the bank."
Lily hugged him gently as James took several deep breaths to calm down. Lily continued to rub his shoulders and back as James slowly let himself relax. "We can't stay here Lily." Lily took a closer look at James, she had seen it for a while, but his hair had a few flecks of gray in it. The stress of this life currently was taking its toll on him. He was drinking a bit, not enough to get drunk but it was taking its toll.
"I know." She replied, "Something else happened today." James looked at her, a sense of dread forming in his stomach. "I just got a letter from Petunia. She is demanding that Percy be handed over to her custody. She doesn't want our normal nephew to be raised by freaks."
The dread that James and feeling evaporated. James loved his wife, but she was very naive when it came to legal matters. James smiled lightly, "We can deal with that easily Lily. We can bring Percy to Petunia and let Perc play with some water. Petunia may not believe us, but it won't matter. Sally wrote a will, Percy was left to our care if she died. Petunia can rant and rave all she wants. Nothing will come of it. You know that when I married you, I made sure I had an identity in the non-magical world. And my identity has a wonderful job, a clean record, and a stable financial record. There is nothing Petunia can say or do, that can take Percy away from us. In fact, Petunia has damaged her own case by waiting 8 months before she even tried to contact us to see him."
"You're sure?"
"Positive. In fact, tomorrow we will go to a lawyer who knows about magic and get this dealt with."
"So we can't move until this is dealt with?"
"No. But this won't take very long. However don't tell anyone that we are going to be moving. I wouldn't put it past the ministry to try to slow down or stop the judge."
"Ok."
((((1984))))
"So, what can I do for you?" Charles Xavier asked them. Charles was living in his rundown mansion drinking a glass of whisky. James and Lily weren't impressed with him, but Albus did warn them that Charles was very depressed.
"Our daughter." Lily began, "She is a mutant, telepathic and telekinetic, her abilities activated when she was fifteen months old. When my sister died right in front of her."
Charles gained a look of sympathy and nodded, James and Lily saw some life re-enter his eyes, "I'm very sorry. I will do what I can. May I see her?"
James nodded and handed Jean to Charles. He set her on his lap and looked at the power of her mind. He fell back in astonishment; she was the most powerful child he had ever met. Her potential was limitless.
"I am amazed. Your daughter's power is incredible. She will be amazing. Not that she isn't now." He added quickly, "You both are welcome to say here as long as you want."
"Thank you." James said.
"Would you mind telling me how you heard of me?"
"Albus Dumbledore."
"Ahh yes, Albus. So, the two of you are magicals?" Charles said with a small laugh. They nodded and he asked, "But why have you moved to the United States?"
"Well, it's complicated." Lily began, "Are you aware of our son's fame in the magical world?"
Charles nodded and said by way of explanation, "Albus. He and I are old friends. He and I met during the Cuban Missile crisis. We have stayed in contact. Partly as friends, but also as part of his role in the ICW."
Lily nodded and continued, "Well, things got bad in Britain. The magical public began to believe that they had a right to know every detail of our lives. Some reporters even tried to sneak into our house and go through our belongings. James and I couldn't even go shopping without being swarmed by people wanting to know everything about our lives. A few people even tried to have the high court remove Jean and Percy from our home so that we could give our son the attention he needs." Lily quoted sarcastically, her voice dripping with anger at the memory.
"We didn't want to leave, but that isn't a good environment for children."
"Of course not. What happened next?"
"My sister Petunia tried to take Percy from us. I am one of three sisters, Sally is the youngest, I am the middle child, and Petunia is the oldest. You know what happened so I won't rehash it. But Petunia sent me a letter, she was threatening to take Percy away from James and I. I confronted her and told her what Percy is."
"What is Percy?"
"Percy is a Demigod."
Charles nodded understanding. "An Olympian parent I take it?"
"How do you?" James didn't get a chance to finish as Charles explained.
"How do I know? I am a telepath; I can feel The Mist. I have known about the Olympians since I was 15."
"What don't you know of?" James asked, throwing up his hands.
"Everything I don't know." Charles replied jokingly, to Lily's amusement and James' frustration.
"Anyway, Petunia freaked out and started screaming about Percy being a demon and needed to be killed. I snapped at her and demanded to know where God demanded that those who were born different were to be killed. I knew the answer he didn't. And the passage of not suffering a witch to live, well that's referring to those who summon demons for power. Which I don't do. Dad taught my sisters and me all about God while we were growing up.
"After I finished dealing with Petunia I went home. I wasn't up to doing anything after dealing with my sister. But, I didn't get the chance. On my way, home a single magical saw me. Within 15 minutes I was swarmed by magicals. They were shouting and screaming for my attention. I started to panic and I apparated home instinctively. Unfortunately, some people were grabbing me so they were pulled along with them. They were splinched. Meaning some parts were left behind. A few arms, a leg, some hair or a finger. Everything was fixed, but that changed things. A reporter started bad mouthing us in the papers. Calling us reckless and a danger to our children.
"She also accused us collusion in the dark arts, claiming that was the reason we had refused all interviews and were isolating ourselves."
"Well than," Charles said, "Little Lady, would you like to go back over to your mommy and daddy?"
Jean was wide awake and looked up at Xavier. "You feel weird." She said.
Xavier's eyes rose in confusion. James and Lily looked horrified at Jean's lack of tact, Charles raised his hand signaling for them to stop and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Mommy and Daddy's mind looks different than yours. You have light that protects your mind. It's weird."
"And your mommy and daddy don't have a light?"
"Nope, they have a big wall. It's supposed to keep people from going into their minds. But it can't stop me." She said proudly. James and Lily looked at Jean in astonishment and checked on their occlumency. They couldn't find any signs of a breach.
"Young lady, it is very rude to simply enter people's minds. Especially your parents minds."
"Then, why can I do it?"
"May I call you Jean?"
"I don't know, can you?"
Charles suppressed a laugh, "I am asking your permission to use your first name, rather than just calling you Miss Potter."
"Why?"
"It's a sign of respect."
"Why?"
"Right now is not the time to teach you the full history of social etiquette Jean. We would be here all day and night."
"Ok, but why can't I look at people's minds?"
"Because it's rude. It's not nice, a person's mind is there place of safety and privacy. Don't you have thoughts you want to keep hidden in you minds that you don't want anyone to know?"
"But Harry knows."
"Really," Charles sent telepathically, Jeans eyes went wide as she heard him in her mind.
"How?"
"You aren't the only one with gifts like yours." James and Lily were glad that Charles was broadcasting the conversation to them.
"You can read minds to?"
"Yes, I can. Do you want me to teach you?"
"Yes Please."
Within a week the Potters had moved into the school. James and Lily were both hired by Xavier, despite not being mutants, James and Lily had the knowledge to help students learn to control their abilities. And magic was very good at repairing the damage done to the practice rooms for the students with more violent powers.
It was a month after moving into the mansion that Lily got an extremely cruel letter from Petunia. Petunia was gloating and obviously happy about what she had found.
When Petunia was a child, her parents Violet and Clark had separated for a short time. While separated, Violet had met a man and Lily was the result of that short-lived affair. Petunia ended the letter by remarking that Clark only cared for Lily to avoid a scandal.
Lily was very broken up over Petunia taking pleasure of her pain at discovering this. It was clear from the tone of the letter that Petunia liked being able to lord this over Lily.
When Charles saw the letter, he was shocked to learn that he knew the name of Lily's father. Erik Lehnsherr.
Xavier held back giving all the details of Erik, instead he told Lily that he knew who Erik was, but that he had lost contact with Erik.
Lily did want to know about Erik, so Charles used Cerebro to locate Raven.
"Raven."
A few moments later he felt Ravens response, "Charles, what do you want?"
"I need to speak to Erik."
"Why don't you just call him yourself?"
"Erik and I haven't spoken in years. You are my only link to him."
"What is this about?"
"His daughter." Xavier then closed the connection and Raven went on her way.
A week later Erik arrived at the mansion with a young girl. "What do you want Charles?"
"Who is this Erik?"
"My daughter, what did you want to talk about involving her?"
"Erik, i didn't know about this girl. Who I wanted to discuss is her." Lily made herself known and Erik was frozen for a moment.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Lily. My mother is Violet Evans."
After a blood test, Erik was assured that Lily was his daughter. He had no idea what to do with an adult daughter and her two children. However, he knew what to do with Wanda.
A short time later, Magneto left, leaving Wanda behind. Lily was beyond furious. Her magic was arcing out ripping apart the room she was in. After she could control her magic, she set up a place for Wanda to sleep in Jeans room. Jean didn't mind, in fact, she loved sharing her room with her new sister, who was, actually, her aunt. Not that she knew that.
(The Next Day)
"Charles, I need to talk to Magneto." Lily said.
"Lily, I know you are very angry. I am as well. But letting anger rule your actions is not the way."
"I am not letting my anger to control me. But I need to speak to Magneto."
Charles nodded, "All right."
((((o))))
Lily took a deep breath; this was one of the strangest feelings she had ever had. She was standing inside another body, the body of Raven Darkholme. After adjusting to the body, she tapped into Ravens mutation and assumed her own form.
Lily looked up and saw Magneto. Thankfully he didn't have his helmet on. "Hello, Father." she said mockingly, followed by a resounding SLAP as she brought her hand across his face. "How dare you abandon Wanda like that. HOW DARE YOU. SLAP. I will never consider you my parent, it takes more than blood to be a parent. You may be my and Wanda's father, but that is it. My Dad is the ordinary man who raised me, who never treated me differently than his biological children. He isn't a mutant or a wizard. He is superior to you in every way. James and I are going to be raising Wanda. James will be Wanda's father. As soon as I leave here I am going to be petitioning the American Magical Council for custody of Wanda. The reason you couldn't teach her to control her powers is because she is a witch. I never want to see you again, never contact me, never contact my children." Lily had Xavier break the connection to Raven and she was back in the Cerebro chamber.
"Feel better now?" Charles asked. He was concerned but he also felt a sense of dark amusement at Lily giving Eric a what for.
"Much." Lily said, she was still shaking as tears started to form.
"Lily, there is very little point in hating him. Erik is highly driven. He will do whatever he deems necessary to ensure the survival of mutants. Unfortunately, that means abandoning his children. It is somewhat amusing that Erik has had three children and their mothers are all normal humans." Lily smiled lightly.
"I need to go talk to James, would Ororo and Hank mind watching Harry, Jean and Percy?"
"I will ask." a moment later he said, "They don't have a problem watching them."
Solan Carter
((((1995))))
Finally, im here. I'm in Antarctica. The former home of Atlantis. It took a while, I'm Twenty One now, but I managed to get here. After I finished college, took me a year by the way and i graduated with a 4.0 GPA, I was given a full scholarship to a university of my choice. I was guaranteed a place at any. Which is how I turned up here.
This expedition was meant to collect ice core samples. I managed to get the team to drill just a few miles from the location of the outpost. After using a sonar rig i modified, i confirmed the location of the outpost. I was a few miles off but I was able to locate the outpost.
I was able to get to the outpost three years later. I bought a private plane, the airfoil and thrust air vehicles, and flew back to the outpost. While at the university I built a Laser powerful enough to drill down to the outpost through the ice. I had to sacrifice my pistol for a power source, but it was a worthy sacrifice.
"Done, now to get down their. Winch, Winch, winch their it is. Ok now, tie myself in." The plane was sitting near the hole and after tying myself in Dad began to lower me down.
"Ok, here we go. Remember what i taught you."
"Yes Dad."
"Ok, im at the bottom. Come on down." I said into the radio. I started walking into the outpost, behind me Sam arrived a moment later along with Mark, Mom and Dad coming down last.
"Solan, what is this." She was looking at the intact architecture.
"Alteran engineering at its finest."
"Alteran, that's the name of your race, before they became Lanteans."
"Right. And that is the centerpiece of our technology. Not the most famous or iconic, but to us, the most important." I pointed at the control chair.
I stepped forward and sat down. I immediately realized that the potentia was dead, but thankfully the emergency naquadah reactors were still functional. "What's wrong?" Sam asked.
"Main power is dead. I'm activating the secondary power plant." I walked over to the nearby wall and opened the manual control console hidden behind what looked like a blank wall. I tried to activate them and realized that they were so dead they couldn't even start on their own. I muttered and reached down and opened a compartment lined with crystals and pulled out a crystal and moved a few around. I closed the compartment and went over to the chair.
Sitting down I drew on my powers and and sent a steady stream of energy into the chair. Once enough power was stored in a buffer If shot into the backup reactor. The reconfigured crystals allowed to happen without endangering the sensitive primary crystals. When the reactor came online the outpost was restored to partial operating capacity.
The chair immediately leaned back and came online.
"Wow." My family said stepping back at the chair and platform glowed. "Amazing," I said a few moments later. "I'm running a scan of the planet looking for any other Lanteans. I found one. She is buried in the ice a few miles from here. My Word, she is an Alteran. She's been buried for over Five Million years. But she's still alive. Ok, good I'm not alone. Well sort of, she is Five Million years old. At least I know how to cure her with the Stasis Chamber." I gave a huge sigh of relief. Unknown to Solan, locks in the software kept some things from being located by the outpost.
"All right, I need to get her out of their but I can't yet. Now." I stopped talking and focused on controlling the outpost systems. 'Run scan for Alteran Technology."
"WOW. Ok I know were two stargates are, holy crap a potentia." 'Damn, more culture references, I have to stop that.'
"What's a potentia?" Sam asked.
"The main power source for this outpost. Ok, what else, A hyperspace capable ship based on Alteran tech, both dialing devices, and what in the world. How did that get there? A computer core with a site to site transporter. Well might as well use it. "Access computer core." [Link established] "Take control of the transporter systems" [Control granted] "Lock transporters onto the potentia. Relocate it to my position." [working]
I am so glad that I found the outpost first. The chair systems can take control of almost all Lantean Technology remotely. The transporters locked on and beamed the potentia to the outpost just in front of me. I turned off the chair and installed the potentia then returned to the chair. "System Status." [Potentia at 3% entropy. Weapons at 100%. Shields at 100%] "Reconnect to remote computer core. Save link as 'Transporter'. Lock transporters on Primary Stargate and dialing device. Relocate it to Cargo Bay 1." [Transport complete.] "Lock Transporter on the Alteran frozen in the ice. Beam her to the Stasis chamber. Activate the Stasis Chamber and raise forcefield around the chamber." A force field snapped up around the stasis chamber and the chamber activated and the Alteran was beamed into the chamber. "Begin Medical Scan of subject." [Scan complete. Plague infection is at 89% status.] "At least I know how to cure her." I then sent my knowledge of how to cure the plague into the outposts computers.
Off to the side of the room the Carters watched in shock as a depression in the wall was surrounded by a forcefield and a woman was beamed into the stasis chamber. "Stasis chamber." I told them, "I'm programing the system with the cure to the plague. After the abandonment of Avalon my people continued to research the cure. After another 1,000 years of work the cure was developed. The cure was taught to every Lantean Child in school.
[Cure application in progress.] The computer told me.
"Continue scanning for Alterran technology. Start around the former location of the potentia."
[Alteran Gate Ship located. Alteran derived hyper capable ship. Refined naquadah sources, scans reveal Plasma Based Weapons.]
"Beam those items to Cargo bay 1." [Transport Complete] "Empty the transport buffer into cargo bay 1." [Complete.]
I had enough for now so I decided to check on what I had in the Hangar bay. "Want to go see a spaceship?" I asked. Sam jumped up and the rest followed me to the cargo bay.
"Janus." I said a few minutes later after examining the added device on the gateship.
"What?" Mom asked.
"This ship is a time vessel. It was built by my best friend. His name is Janus. Unlike me, Janus is a true prodigy. What I am to you, Janus is to my people. He built this device, probably looking for me. I guess that means I never get back."
"How do you know it was built by Janus?"
"Because of this." I pointed to a marking on the Time device. "I designed that mark for Janus. Sort of like the 'Made in' mark on products. This means Made by Janus."
I sat in the pilot's seat and felt that the energy core was depleted but slowly recharging thanks to the ZPM. I could feel that the power ship was in ok shape but had taken some damage. But it was repairable.
I than moved over to the other hyper capable ships.
"Barbaric." I said after just a cursory glance. I was examining the hyper capable ship and after just 10 minutes I was deeply insulted.
"What?"
"This ship, it's like someone looked at an Alteran hyperdrive and just copied it without actually trying. They didn't even try to do the work properly. From the era this ship was copied from, I would say about 12 million years ago, ships of that era could reach 70/Ly per hr. Well, civilian ships, which this vessel was copied from. This ship would be lucky to reach half a lightyear in an hour. Like I said, barbaric. Not even the most desperate human would build a drive like this if they were copying an Alteran drive."
After the I checked the ships i moved on to what was in the Pattern Buffer. Lots of gold and jewels, I think i found Mom and Sam's birthday and Christmas gifts. I had a good laugh about the book, it was a decent telling of my people's history from a fictional standpoint. But what I found truly interesting was the long-range communication pedestal and data terminal. Both were valuable and quite useful. What was truly incredible was that the terminal existed in two phase states and could shift its use into a different molecular frequency.
"Solan?" mom asked questioningly looking at the gold and jewelry.
"Huh?" I was too busy with the long-range terminal and the data terminal. I looked up and saw them looking at the gold. "Sure, take what you want. Just remember that you must answer where you got it." Sam and Mom both smiled and picked out some rings and such.
The weapons were a bit of a disappointment. They were large, crude, inaccurate, and slow. After taking them apart I was somewhat impressed. The Liquid Naquadah was a boon. So they were good for parts to build a better gun. Not that I needed it now. Since i was in the outpost i could repair my pistol and recharge its power cell.
I let Dad take one to a makeshift firing range and tried them out. He liked it at first, but quickly realized what I had. They were terrible weapons.
After finishing my inventory, I returned to the Chair and started a deep level scan of the planet. There was a large collection of Naquadah near Seattle, two deposits in South America, and a small sample in the Atlantic ocean. Once the scan was running I got up and grabbed a neural interface relay and told my family I would be right back.
Than I beamed myself to the cave with the Computer core. After I located the core I used telekinesis to move the core, which contained the entire transporter system, to the Ring Platform. "Connect to the ring platform directly in front of me and activate." I sent to the outpost. Sensing my will the outpost overrode the safeties activated the rings and transported the core to the outpost. "Return me to the outpost." Seconds later I was back in the outpost thanks to the Core. Than I beamed the ring platform to the outpost.
"So what now?"
"Now, im going to find out what is going on with the mutants." I sat in the chair and broke into the satellite communications and the several private databases. After a short time, I sat up, "Wow. I had no idea that mutant abilities were so varied."
"What did you do?" Dad asked.
"I broke into pretty much every computer database on the planet and learned all I could about Mutants. I have some thinking to do. I have access to my people's legacy now. But I also have more laws to follow and I'm far more restricted in what, legally, I can do. The Lantean have very specific laws regarding dealing with races with varying levels of development. However, because of something that my people did even before my time, i am a bit freer than normal. I have a bit more to do, feel free to look around, I need to check some things."
I leaned back and activated the dimensional sensors. The space around Earth was twisted from so many pocket spaces and dimensional gateways it was a miracle that the weight of it had not destroyed space around Earth. Of course, Lady Gaia wouldn't let that happen in the first place, but it was still amazing to look at the mess that was the various dimensional planes around Earth.
I then looked at the progress of the deep scan of the planet. There was quite a bit of technology scattered around the planet. Most of the technology was based on my own people's technology. However, there were several instances of other races.
There were a few examples of Skrull technology and a few Shiar pieces. I beamed those to the vault in the outpost to be examined later.
What interested me was the technology based on a material with an atomic weight of zero. A quick scan of the computer system connected to the material revealed some interesting things. I downloaded the database on her personal computer device. My mind scanned through all the data and it revealing some interesting things. I decided to hold off entering her mind and accessed some of the data I downloaded about mutants.
The most interesting example to me was the work down by Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy. Xavier had opened a school for mutants in New York and he had an extensive library of information. Charles also had files on the magical world which correlated with what I learned from the SHIELD and UNIT databases.
I stopped for a while and I showed my family where they could sleep in the outpost. There were several rooms and living areas that were locked down without a full activation of the chair and intentionally unlocking those areas. I was glad that the outpost was fully space capable and that life support could keep us warm down here.
While they were sleeping I was still in the chair reviewing the data I recovered and going through the file locks and access restrictions to gain access to the hyperlink to Atlantis. I was slow going but I was going to do it.
I did find a few other interesting things including some artifacts from a race that had been thriving in my time. According to the computer data I was able to access i learned that they had died out. But i also found a living example over the race. This would be fun.