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The A.R.D.

Chapter One

Lieutentant Colonel John Shepherd had to ask the obvious question on his mind with the newest addition to the George Hammond. Which was, "Didn't I say this thing was a bad idea when we saw it on that other Daedalus?"

"One, I said that I could fix the mistakes the other McKay had create. Seeing the end result of his experiment. We have made corrections. The first is not hooking it up any kind of subspace capacitors. We are using Naquadah generators we know how to work, plus we have both electronic and manual shut off devices. Literally, you can unplug this thing if it over charges." started Doctor Rodney McKay as he continue to explain his reasoning.

"The I.O.A. agreed with the decision to make the Alternate Reality Drive, based on the possibility of finding more resources and technology unknown to us. I was able to find some information on the Ancient's own experiments with alternate realities, including co-ordinates of some of them which might hold ancient tech."

Shepherd added his own input, "Of course the I.O.A. would be interested in getting more goods if they could. Not seeing how Homeworld Security agreed with this."

"General O'Neill was of two minds on this. He said it was better to have this thing and not need it, then need it and not have it. He also mentioned something about want to have us do it, because he was afraid the I.O.A. would try to create one on their own and 'screw it up'. His words. He figured between you, me and all of the men and women on the ship... we could keep it from become a mess." said Rodney as he worked on the drive being hooked up.

Shepherd had seen the design. McKay had decreased the amount of radiation the machine used, till it was in acceptable units. Still special radiation suits and shows would be used and Dr. Keller was here to keep on eye on people's heath. As well as make kissy face with Rodney when no one was looking, which still surprised the Lieutentant Colonel. McKay had also used the technology databases of both the Asgard and the Ancients on Atlantis, now on Earth, to tweak and improve the design of the drive had had memories from the parallel universe. He also had help from most of the brillant scientist with the Stargate program.

McKay was also right as they had multiple failsafes devices placed into the new design, which did include something which was no more then a more advance plug which could be pulled to avoid powering things up. He had also included an emergancy jump home switch which would jump home at a moment's notice. To provide power for the whole thing, more naquadah generators which were also the most advance models to date were added. To provide a seperate power system to the system then rely on the ones which powered the ship. Which were Asgard power cores which were upgraded to the George Hammond along with an Asgard computer core from the specs on the Odyssey.

Yet it seemed like command wanted to make sure this worked by providing the genius of Colonel Samantha Carter, of SG-1, to double check things. Which is why Shepherd looked at her to ask, "Is all of these procautions going to work, or our we getting into the same mess the Daedalus had?"

"Trust me, we all know those mistakes. We have made sure it is unlikely to happen, even going to extent to make sure our emergency protocol has multiple back ups and using the solutions you guys used on the original A.R.D. equip ship. It still could happen the same way, I admit, but it is so unlikely as it be next to impossible. Not to say using a jump drive to travel to another universe is not without it's own dangers. Let's face it, anything new is going to have bugs and dangers to it. Which is why the both of us are here." said Carter as she went over her calculations for the experiment.

Carter took a big breath and move to the centre of the bridge. She looked over to McKay, as he moved to a computer to start to put in the required data for the jump. She gave the orders, "Power up the drive, prepare the co-ordinates. Set Alpha-001, and prepare to engage."

"Drive at 50 percent and climbing, sixty-eight percent, ninty-two percent and one hundred percent. Ready to engage." said Rodney as he prepared to see if he had gotten right what another McKay hadn't.

"Okay. Engage drive!" said Sam, as they felt a minor jolt as they ship rumbled and shifted. Then nothing.

"Power disengaged from drive. Drive power at zero point three two percent. Okay, we're here and now what." said McKay as they shifted in universe but not space. Which was just behind Neptune and close to Pluto, with hopes most Earth sensors would be hard to pick them up. Yet have them close to a safe place to abandon ship if need be.

Author's notes:

An experiment with a different method of starting a crossover within the world of Stargate without the use of a Universegate or the Quantum Mirror. Curious what you guys might think on the idea. As well as the worlds which might be able to crossover with. So enjoy and comment.

HVulpes