AN: Hello everyone sorry this took so long to get out. It got away from me a little bit and I sorta blew though the home reality of Cayleb Dyson. I was never going to be there long and I might never go back to it as it's just a fall back reality in case Cayleb needs it. So the chapter after this will be the beginning of the Stargate Universe. Cayleb will be there for a long time and except for jumping to a few other realities to steal a few things he will remain in the Stargate Reality until he has conquered it. So please enjoy the next chapter of the Valteran Empire!
(Earth Prime, Quantum Entanglement Source, The Infinite Crossroads)
Upon arriving in Las Vegas the first thing I did was visit one of the lesser but still respectable casinos, wearing a nice suit and with about $3,000 in hard cash this first stop was a part of my specifically constructed plan. I couldn't just appear money without drawing attention to myself but I had a plan, I started out playing cards and dice at a few different tables making sure to win and lose various amounts of money even losing twice on purpose a large amount of cash. The casino was one of those respectable ones as far as rigging games went, well as respectable as any casino worth its salt in Las Vegas, and between reading a few minds with my new psychic abilities and practicing with my telekinesis when rolling dice by the time I felt like I had kept up the charade long enough when I had doubled my initial profit to $6,000.
I noticed two young girls who couldn't have been older than 21 who were probably college students on a vacation, one was a short red head with freckles across her nose and a tight fit body with small breasts and the other looked Hispanic with long shiny dark hair and a curvy form. Both were fairly beautiful and were sitting at a slot machine, I chuckled when they pulled the lever only to get the most annoying bar rejecting them and taking their money. The red head cursed and the Hispanic one pouted in the most adorable way.
"Mind if I give it a try ladies," I asked walking up to them. They looked at me giving me appreciative looks, I wasn't surprised. Though I looked mostly the same I had given my new body all the improvements I could including a little enhancement here and there on my face. I could now say with confidence that I was a very handsome man.
"Sure we don't mind do we Natalia," the red head asked the Hispanic one.
"Not at all Mila," the girl Natalia with a genuine smile. It seemed like Natalia was the sweet one while Mila was the tomboyish one. A quick scan of both their surface thoughts told him that they both found him physically attractive and they were on a vacation of their own, the idea of hooking up with him for a while appealed so long as he wasn't a cocky dick to them.
"Thank you ladies," I said as I took the seat Natalia vacated and both girls stood at his shoulders. Placing my hands on the slot machine I inserted a few cellular nanites into the machine and took it over, it wasn't rigged but the win rate was very small. I spun the machine twice only winning a few coins each time and the girls seemed excited for less than $300 worth of tokens but it was more than they had won so far tonight. On the third spin however I jacked up the machine at it practically exploded into lights and bells of a Jackpot.
The two girls stood stunned as I waved over an attendant to collect my winnings which totaled about 1.2 million. I had the amount transferred into my account and turned to the two girls who were staring a little miffed at the machine, "wow you two must be good luck charms, how about you come with me and we hit up a bigger casino?"
"Really," Mila asked looked both hopeful and excited.
"Of course," I said smiling. "I can't think of a better way of spending the night than in the presence of two beautiful young women like you."
He heard both their thoughts preen a little bit at his flattery, both of them figured that he wanted to get them into bed but neither of them was exactly against the idea. That and he wasn't acting all high and mighty pulse he could be generous if he wanted their company, "But before we do that if you two are going to be so kind as to accompany me tonight the least I could do was pay for some nice clothes and some jewelry so we fit in with all those rich types in the fancy casinos."
That sold them and they spent the next few hours modeling dresses for him before buying them, Mila got an emerald green strapless cocktail dress that showed off her shoulder with a belt and Natalia got a tight red flowing dress that reached the floor but split up the sides shoring off her legs and which pushed up her chest making her seem even bigger than she already was. Some matching jewelry and shoes and the girls were ready to go along with whatever HE wanted to do.
The sun was only just going down when they hit the first Casino; he set Mila and Natalia up as his lucky charms hitting the cards, dice and machines. At the first big casino he played up winning a little here losing a little there but eventually he won big in the Roulette wheel winning three times in a row when he bet big and walking away with more than 10 million dollar. Suffice the saw the girls were ecstatic given that they had glued themselves to my side and the casino was ticked, but I didn't feel bad. That particular machine was rigged so I had used a bit of Telekinesis to make sure the ball landed where I wanted it to.
The next Casino it was poker with some hard core players and the one after that another slot machine, by the time they had gone through 4 Casinos he had earned just over 50 million dollars. The girls expected him to invite them to a hotel right away but he surprised them again by inviting them to dinner at an expensive restaurant, a few bribes and a few mental pushes got them a seat quickly and he enjoyed eating dinner with the two young beauties as they talked and he asked about them and their lives instead of talking about himself.
Mila and Natalia appreciated his efforts though as desert was winding down they began dropping hints that wouldn't mind retiring to a more private setting. So he smiled and got them a master suite at a very expensive hotel and then put the stamina of his new body to the test, nearly four hours later he sat up in bed with two very sweaty and very satisfied women curled up against his sides. The rest of the week was much of the same, the mornings and afternoons he spent with Mila and Natalia shopping going to movies and eating out and at night he hit the Casinos with his two lucky charms.
They never went to the same Casino twice and with his extra abilities over the next few days he earned just over a Billion dollars. Most of it in a few new accounts and some of it in cold hard cash, he had more than enough startup money and his girl's break was over. Neither one of them wanted to leave and go back to a normal life; especially after all the gifts he had bought the two of them. Not to mention the dozens of times he had fucked both women together and separately over the last week, so after a final nice dinner and an even nicer final night of hard passionate sex he woke in the morning to see the two girls off to their flight.
He surprised them both when he presented them each with an account in their name with 5 million in each as a thank you for being his lucky charms for the week. His gift resulted in a pair of quickies in the single ladies airport restroom while the other stood guard, and he watched them both board their flight with ruffled clothes and glowing complexions. He hadn't asked for their personal information and they hadn't offered though he knew enough about them to track them down if he wanted.
But now he had work to do, he had had his fun but he needed to get serious if he wanted to rule what he was mentally calling this Dimension Earth Prime. There were many technologies he now had access to due to the Janus Key and he had to decide what way he wanted to go about it. He had given it a lot of thought and there were many technologies the world needed. Technologies like alternate forms of energy production and new medical technologies to cure currently incurable diseases, new methods of food production and computer technologies and naturally military technology.
What he really needed was for his earth to unite under a single government and his plans were built around the idea of easing this world into the idea. Once he got back home he went about the hassle of buying a building outside Atlanta that would be the beginning of his company, it was a R&D facility and he put out feelers for some scientists to help him get the facility off the ground.
To make the biggest splash possible and to garner the most attention he decided to go with sustainable fusion technology, the Alterans had long since perfected the relatively simple. It took a huge amount of his profits necessary to get the supplies he needed to build a prototype but the people he had found were in it for the science as opposed to the money. Not that he wasn't paying them well but he wanted people who loved the science above the money or fame, he had to set a president for his future employees.
It took almost six months but they managed to build the reactor under the R&D facility and use it to power the facility and all it required to power it was heavy water in other words Deuterium and isotope of hydrogen. From that they were also able to develop hydrogen/deuterium power cells as well. Over the six months it took to build the reactor he had quietly let out hints that his small R&D facility he was calling the Valaran Institute of Technology was developing a breakthrough in energy production technology. People were doing this all the time but all the politicians, military members, car dealers and energy production companies came when he called.
None of them sent anyone really important but since he was holding a party with free food to show off his secret invention they sent representatives. People like this were always looking for the rare gems hidden in the dirt and it helped that he wasn't asking for donations as well. There were over 40 various politicians mostly form the democratic and republican parties and a few representatives from every branch of the military and about a hundred civilians mingling around.
"Welcome, welcome everyone. That you for coming," I said standing up of the stage and gathering everyone's attention both with my voice and with a very subtle psychic compulsion so they really payed attention to me. "As much as you are all must be enjoying the nice food I offered you all for free for coming today I'm sure some of you are interested in scam I must obviously be leading up too to get you all to give me your money."
There was a spattering of chuckles across the room as many of them assumed this was exactly what this was. "Joking aside as I'm sure you are aware I set this admittedly small R&D facility to explore alternate forms of energy technology for our country, you fine men and women have probably been to dozens of such facilities yourselves across America as such people told you about how they were going to be the ones to give you that technology. They just needed you to give them the money to fund the research into figuring out how to build that technology first."
There were nods around the room and more than a few people were giving him looks of confusion. This was not how this dance worked; he was supposed to be explaining how his theory would eventually lead to the development of a new form of technology they could benefit from. He was acting strange to them by pointing out that fact.
"But I'm not here to ask you to give me your money for something that only exists in theory I'm here to show you what we have already developed," he snapped his fingers and the floor he had them standing on went see-through. Below them a large spherical device with a bright glowing core was revealed causing the people in the room to gasp in surprise. "What you are seeing below you is a fully functional deuterium based fusion reactor, it's not a theory or an idea its whats powering this very small facility at less than 1% of its maximum output. At 100% it could supply 5% of this nation's power requirements."
"It produces no waste and can be scaled up and down to produce more or less at maximum, a dozen of these at about three times the size could produce all of the nation's power requirements permanently. To go along with this technology we have also developed deuterium based power cells that can go in things like cars, which means instead of gasoline all cars would need is a little refined heavy water to power them." The people in the room were staring at him and at the reactor under their feet in shock and he really couldn't blame them, his people were grinning like loons around the room at their reactions and I smiled as well.
"This is part where you call your superiors and tell them what you just learned," I said as though whispering something secret to all of them in a conspiring like tone. It was probably the fastest I had ever seen someone go for their phone, at the same time many people in the dining room were yelling at me and asking questions. Either way it worked like a charm, by the end of the day I was receiving phone call after phone call from the heads of corporations and the leaders of the various branches of the military and hell even the President found a couple of minutes to call him up.
The fact that I had working fusion reactors was no laughing matter and there were people in American who wanted this technology so I was not short on sponsors pouring money into my accounts. Some wanted to buy my design from me but I was not about to allow that and other like the oil companies went into panic mode and tried to have me shut down or at least try to bury me in red tape. But the next day I released the news of my fusion reactor to the world and in an afternoon had the entire American public on my side.
The effect it had on the rest of the world was mixed but it was safe to say no other nation was happy at the sudden advantage the Americans had. I poured all the money I had gained from sponsors into expanding my R&D into a full blown production facility. To begin with I would be building large scale reactors to supply America's power requirements which would be replacing things like coal and nuclear power plants. But the main money maker at least in the beginning was going to be my deuterium/hydrogen fuel cells. The auto industry wanted to create a brand of cars based on my fuel cells and the cells were good for about 5,000 miles a piece depending on the design of the car.
It was a simple matter to replace the fuel cells when they ran dry and once production was in full swing they would not even be expensive. The whole first year saw the rapid expansion of his fledgling company I decided to name Dyson Technologies with the Valaran Institute as the R&D branch. With the production of fusion reactors and fuel cells in full production I decided to release the next step in technology I had chosen.
The crystal based technology from the Stargate Universe was based on organic molecular crystals, a year after the release of his Fusion Reactors he released the first of his hybrid crystal based processors. The amount of data the crystals could run at a time was hundreds of times greater than the next best computer. In a day he cornered the market where any computers were concerned and he swept up the dying competition as the companies went out of business and the employees needed new jobs.
The crystals were incredible but they were primitive compared to even Goa'uld based crystal technology, but he wasn't done there. Into the medical field he introduced two revolutionary technologies, the first was a machine which could clone a human organ or limb in a matter of hours without the side effect of short telomeres. The other was a series of very basic nanites which didn't use any of the exotic elements like Naquadah or Neutronium and were a little larger than normal human cells. Not only could they act as little healers to deal with medical emergencies like life threatening wounds but they could also manipulate DNA but not very much. At the moment the best they could do was remove genetic diseases from DNA, full blown genetic manipulation with nanites was a few generations down the road.
But he did prove that they had some powerful genetic manipulation abilities by creating crops that were insect and disease resistant and had a much higher climate tolerance while requiring less water along with a high grow rate and yield. That certainly got him on the side of the farmers of America and when the idea for producing cloned animals to replace living livestock. It certainly cut down cost since the animals could be grown to maturity without every actually having to be born in a fraction of the time it took to raise a normal animal. Though this method would take years to transition properly.
After five years his company's stock was in the Billions and America's economy had shot through the roof. Thanks to his money he was able to make donations to several politicians whose mindsets were more focused towards the betterment of America as a whole as opposed to their own self-interest and political power. Not that they didn't have those kinds of aspirations just that he was careful to choose people who had genuine desire for a better future. And by this point the government and economy was behind his company 100%.
Other nations were clamoring desperately for his company to expand over the ocean but he had been using the excuse that he was setting the ground work in America before expanding which was driving other nations batty. There was the occasional attempt to steal his tech or data but his computers were centuries ahead of anyone else's and it always ended in failure and crashed servers for the nations that tried it. But there was one more thing he wanted to set up before expanding to other countries. He had spent years developing several military based technologies besides the ones the American's were developing with the tech he had already released.
He then announced Dyson Tech would be opening the Jomer Private Military Corporation (PMC) for advanced military applications. He got the necessary permission to develop the PMC on American soil with the promise that all aspects of the American military would benefit from the technology he developed. It was a simple job to create futuristic weapons like combat armors and linear based kinetic weapons for the infantry and advanced steel/titanium/carbon armor and electromagnetic repulsor lifts for the next generation tanks.
But the biggest inventions he created for his PMC were the Campton Class Land Battleships that used a specialized Scale system to travel over land and the Aegis class Sky Carrier which incorporated his first generation gravity manipulation device to make it fly. As if he was going to make a Helicarrier like from the Marvel Universe, putting big fans on a regular aircraft carrier was just making an expensive target in his mind. And he had a very specific reason for creating his own personal army.
(Southern Mexico)
The sight was one that would go down in the history of humanity as one of the worst tragedies committed by a terrorist organization in years. With the sudden upturn of the American Economy and the infusion of open minded politicians and donations to the police forces or at least the ones that were not corrupt the drug trade in the United States was at an all-time low. On top of that the majority of illegal immigrants in the US were now registered citizens and the process was much more stream lined.
What it all added up to was a sever road block in the drug trade and the cartels in Mexico and South America had suffered massive blows in the 5 years since Dyson Technologies had come onto the scene. Those same cartels suddenly decided to band together after somehow acquiring military grade weapons from China and Russia over the Black Market. But that was not the worst thing, somehow the organization which was calling itself Viper got a hold of and detonated a 20 Kiloton Nuclear bomb in southern Mexico and destroyed Oaxaca City in Oasaca killing all 300,000 of its citizens.
Now the entire southern half of Mexico was in open revolt and the military, what little there was, was in a panic. President of the United States James Mathews was in a video conference with Mexico's President Pena Nieto with both their advisors sitting in with them. "President Nieto though my heart goes out to your people I don't see how America can do anything more than provide humanitarian aid. Sending in our armed forces would only put American troops in control of Mexican territory."
"I understand that President Mathews," Nieto said. "But my country is already lost; these terrorists are too well armed and organized. Soon they will attack and seize Mexico City and form there no one will be able to stop them from taking the rest of the country, it will be like having the Middle East on your door step Mister President. If you don't attack now you will attack later when they attack you, already we are getting reports of rape and murder of the citizens trapped behind enemy lines. But I believe I have a solution to our problem."
"You do," Mathews asked curious.
"Yes allow me to key him into our conversation," Nieto said and suddenly I appeared on a split screen of both Presidents.
"Hello James it's good to see you again though I regret that it is under these circumstances," I said smiling at the American president.
"Cayleb, I mean Mr. Dyson what are you doing here," President Mathews asked surprised.
"I contacted him President Mathews," Nieto said looking grave. "Mexico is lost and the best way to get help to my dying citizens is with American help. So I am proposing the immediate annexation of Mexico into the United States of America."
The connection was silent as everyone on the American side of the connection looked back in shock their mouths hanging open and eyes wide. Everyone on the Mexican side had grim looks on their faces but they already knew and agreed with the Mexican president's decision, their primary concern was the protection of life.
"James, President Nieto contacted me about this with this idea and with the request that Jomer PMC lead the way. If America agrees to annex Mexico the Jomer PMC will lead the way of the American armed forces as a special unit. Dyson Technologies will also support the American armed forces with equipment ammunition and supplies, plus once Mexico has been integrated into the United States Dyson Technologies will move in and begin supplying power and food and more importantly jobs to get their economy up and running. This is the right choice to make," he said in a calm voice.
The American president looked concerned, he obviously didn't want to be seen as an expansionist taking over Mexico. But eventually he sighed and nodded which made the Mexican President sigh in relief, what neither of them noticed was the small smile on his lips. The War for Mexico lasted three years by which a combination of American armed forces armed with next generation technology and the Jomer PMC armed with the most advanced technology on the planet moved slowly and methodically south until they reached South America.
Despite being armed with military grade technology the Drug Cartel terrorists had no chance against the advanced technologies he had developed. But that didn't mean they couldn't cause some serious damage, though most of the terrorists were killed in the war many used civilians as shields which was one of the primary reasons the war took 3 years. In the end though the remaining terrorists fled into South America which was beginning to destabilize, in the end though he got what he wanted.
He needed to unite the Earth of his home reality before he left it for it would serve as a fall back position in the future if he ever needed it. With Mexico won it was folded into the USA as an additional 10 states, while this was happening Canada's economy was suffering more than most as America's neighbor. Especially where healthcare was concerned and with a little persuasion on his part and maybe a mental nudge here and there Canada hopped on the band wagon and requested admission into the United States as well adding 15 new states to the Land of the Free.
But like what many people feared the other nations of the world were afraid of the sudden upswing of the United States economy and territory increase. And really he had no more excuses so with the rest of the world clamoring he announced the expansion of Dyson Technologies overseas, but only the technologies like power generation, medical and food production. That especially appealed to places like China who needed those technologies but that didn't mean the other nations were all that happy with him. He still refused to sell military technology overseas and America was slowly gaining s lead on the other nations as far as Military power went.
So I introduced a new application of primitive nanotech, this version unlike the medical version was designed to break down and convert inorganic and nonliving organic material into base materials that could be recycled into other things. This was designed to completely get rid of the trash and dangerous waste problem the Earth had and with clean energy already dominating the planet would be clean in a matter of decades.
Like his medical nanotech all his nanotech was specifically designed to function a specific way and was hardwired to only what it was programmed. Because of that no one could hack the nanotech he created to get it to do different things, which was why he had no problem releasing it in the first place. And no one could replicate it because if they tried to take it apart to find out how it was made it self-destructed not that people even in American hadn't tried and failed naturally.
Things were running smoothly and his company was all but self-sufficient and spreading rapidly, other than watching it grow overseas and introducing new technologies at the right times there was little for him to do. So he turned his attention to the thing he had wanted to do from day one and that was launch his own personal space program. His first shuttle was fusion powered with a miniaturized reactor, artificial gravity and primitive inertial dampeners and armored with some of his new heat and friction resistive armor.
It could take of like a regular plane and exit the atmosphere as the engines were a fusion ion type that did not require reaction fuel and was fed power directly from the reactor. Cargo type shuttle crafts which were bigger than Galaxy type cargo planes began to carry up pieces of a prefab space station which would be the base of his operations in space.
It was armored and powered by a series of fusion reactors with artificial gravity, once it was finished it was a Kilometer and a half in diameter and 500 meters tall at its tallest point. 12 years after the creation of Dyson Tech I was ready to push the next phase of my plan, the amount of money I had at this point was staggering. Without a doubt I was the single wealthiest man on the planet and to go along with my inventions I was buying up different companies to add to my collection of sorts.
But behind the scenes I was manipulating the world to the point that it would be forced to come together, I could never have done it regardless of how much money I had without the Janus Key. With the computers on board that ship I was able to act in such a way that no one would ever be able to track me online. I could even control the internet if I really wanted to but instead I created an underground organization called Falcon and 12 years after I created Dyson Tech Falcon struck. It was the world's first multinational international terrorist organization and it struck with a vengeance.
Multiple large scale bombings occurred simultaneously across the globe in every major country including America as I couldn't have the US get away unaffected. It was way too easy to get away with and a large part of me hated killing so many people but it was something I was going to have to get used to if I wanted to become a God in my own right. And the bombings mostly targeted military installations and police stations, any form of armed peacekeeping force was a target of Falcon.
For the next two weeks no less than 1500 bombings occurred across the globe and the people were in a panic. A meeting was to be held at the United Nations and I approached the leaders with an offer, standing in the UN meeting room I had the attention of everyone there as I began to speak. "Men and Women of this organization, it's time to cast aside the lines on the map that divide us. Falcon threatens us all and their acts of terrorism grow every day, no individual nation has the resources to deal with an organization that affects all of them at once. That's why I am proposing a new multinational defense force, using my own PMC as a base it will be controlled by a counsel of UN representatives and funded by me. Together not only can we take down Falcon but we can also begin the process of uniting the human race in a way it never has before by creating a sword and shield that defends every man woman and child on the planet equally."
His proposal was met by a standing ovation with the UN counsel, a combination of the fear generated by Falcons attacks and the anger from the many dead victims combined with the mental influence of his Alteran based powers. After that he began building up the United Nations Armed Forces from his own Jomer PMC, in response Falcon upped their terrorist activities which cut through any red tape his military expansion might have enticed. The UN Grand Consul consisted of almost 2 dozen men and women including himself who managed to make sure no one there was trying to use the new UNAF for their own purposes.
Only those who truly believed in what it represented were allowed to be on the consul, everyone who had their own agendas regardless if it was their own or the plan of an individual nation floundered when he quietly released damning information about them to the media. After that they had no chances of getting a seat on the consul, other than that he didn't involve himself much with the whole process only getting involved when he had to and keeping Falcon alive long enough for the UN to get the ball rolling.
It took about 5 years but the war between the UN and Falcon finally came to an end in China with thousands dead, but the framework was set and the UNAF was in the process of disbanding the individual world powers armed forces and the space program and colonization groundwork was set. He personally was on his privately owned colony on the moon preparing to withdraw from his home dimension. He was in his early 30's now and he felt like he had set up a fall back point in his home dimension if he ever needed it, he had spent the last few years constructing a ship to house the Janus Key.
The ship was about 250 meters long by 60 wide and the Janus Key slotted in nicely through the bottom of the ship's cargo hold, the ship had taken up almost all of his supply of Naquadah and all of the small amounts of Trinium and Neutronium. There hadn't been enough to even begin making armor so he had to settle for a Steel, Titanium and Carbon mixture that he called Battle Steel, it was much light and more malleable than regular steel while being more than a hundred times more durable.
One thing he had noticed about the Stargate Universe was that it lack heavily in the armor department relying almost entirely on energy shields, he would have to fix that. But the Battle Steel was a good first generation armor for this particular ship; instead he used his perishable resources on key systems like his Hyperdrive, shield system, subspace detection system and sublight drive. All these systems were nearly the same level as the systems on an Aurora class Ancient battleship which meant he had the make sure they didn't get damaged until he got to the Stargate Universe as none of the elements like Naquadah were in his home reality as far as he could tell and he had taken the Janus Key to the asteroid belt to check.
As far as weapons went he had a dozen Alteran based Ion Cannons spread all over the ship backed up by about 30 small rapidfire plasma turrets for point defense, connected to the port and starboard sides of the ship was a hanger pod each containing 25 small drone fighters armed with the same plasma repeaters as his ship. Not very powerful and shield-less but controlled with subspace transponders and primitive sublight engines they were effective.
The reactor was naturally a Naquadah Reactor and by itself took up nearly 45% of the Naquadah stored in digital space in the Janus Key, he could in an emergency hook up the Janus Key and the ZPM but the energy circuits were not built to handle that level of power flowing through them constantly. Primarily the ZPM was for powering the Reality Jumping device of Janus, but it could also be used to extend the Janus Key's cloaking device around the entire ship which he had dubbed Phoenix.
He had announced to the world that he was going into seclusion on the moon to let the world develop as it did since the UN was finally becoming a real power, at the same time he released a whole slew of next generation tech into the markets and had his company running in his name. He had the world's best scientists working for him and they could take the tech he had given them and take it farther on their own. The company would still be owned by him but since he was actually leaving he created a powerful computer at the center of the moon with a copy of him memories, it wasn't actually an AI of himself but a quantum computer which could access the file with his memories.
If someone tried to contact him they would rerouted to the computer and the computer would access his memory file and use it to answer the question, then it would shut down and reseal his memory file, then it would reset to its base memory. It would remove the possibility of a rogue AI forming and attacking the earth or something, but now it was time for him to leave.
The Phoenix launched an hour or so later with him on board, it was cloaked and holding orbit above the moon. He had spoken with his family earlier to tell them good bye and to make sure they were well taken care of, they were beyond rich now thanks to him. He walked into the Janus Key and accessed the computer using the monitor he created for the Reality Jumping device to search for the realities he wanted. The first reality he wanted to dominate was the Stargate reality and he had a plan to use it for his staging grounds into other universes, he had accessed Janus's computer ages ago hoping to find a device similar to Merlin's anti ascension device. Unfortunately the device to kill ascended beings did not exist in Janus's computer.
However he did work on a device similar to Merlin's with different results, the device Janus created worked by creating a sphere of interference around itself that prevented ascended from detecting whatever was inside or entering the field. The device had no visual effects that could be observed nor could it be detected by normal means without knowing what to look for but what it meant is that when he went to the Stargate universe or possibly any universe with higher energy based lifeforms he had a defense he could use against them. If any ascended tried to pass into a fielded zone a dangerous feedback loop would develop between the point they were trying to enter in the lower plane of existence and the higher plan. In a matter of moments they would literally overload and their energy would be negated and they would die. The more powerful the faster it would happen.
But the most likely scenario is that an ascended being would touch the field and get zapped and then back off, after all when faced with something that could actually kill them their desire to live would kick in. Energy beings or not they would feel death though he would probably have to adjust it to make it effective against the Chaos from Warhammer 40k or the Q from Star Trek.
Building the device had taken up another 10% of his limited resources and it only had the ability to project the field about a dozen meters from the hull of the Phoenix and was actually running off the ZMP in the Janus Key but it would be constantly on no matter what.
With that he felt more secure about traveling to other realities and the first two he wanted to go to before going to the Stargate Universe were the Dragon Ball Z and HALO realities. Witt the monitor her created he could look into the realities before he went to them and established a connection to them, a Alteran neural interface was best for searching the multiverse for a specific reality as he could simply express his desire to the machine and it would use his knowledge of the universe he wanted to go to too find it for him.
He chose the DBZ universe first and finding it was easy, but he didn't want the mainstream universe. He had stored the entire amount of books, movie TV shows anime manga and everything else he could think of in the Janus Key for future use but he also decided to include fanfiction. If he could go to another universe why couldn't it be a fanfiction based universe? Dragonball Z was great in his mind until the end of the Cell saga, what the writers were thinking nerfing Gohan like that and making him a nerd he would never understand.
That's why he only read DBZ fics where Gohan was powerful and not a nerd, his favorite DBZ fic was called DBZ Legacies by a certain ALP113. In it Gohan was powerful and the star and that was the universe he wanted to interact with as far as DBZ was concerned. Finding the DBZ universe was easy, finding the DBZ Legacies universe was a little more difficult, he had to lock onto the universe and then fast forward to see what happened next as he could appear at any time in that universe before he entered it in the first time he could look forward and back with the monitor he set up.
It took him about a dozen tries before he finally managed to lock onto the right universe; he knew it was the right battle because he was watching the future battle between the Super Sayian 3 Gohan enhanced with God Ki fighting with the God of Destruction Set an anthropomorphic female fox dressed in sexy Egyptian garb. It really was quite beautiful to watch, like a highly funded anime but that was not the time he wanted. With the universe he wanted locked into the Reality Jumping Device he reversed time to a point just after the end of the old Dragon Ball anime.
This particular DBZ universe didn't deviate from the norm until after the Cell saga so it was relatively safe to hit the time stream before that happened. He ramped up the device which began to emit a high pitched whine, a rip in the fabric of reality appeared in front of him revealing another earth with different geographical landmasses on it before the Phoenix with the Janus Key stored inside flew though it and into his first new reality.
(Dragonball Z Legacies reality)
On the holographic map the reality jumping device projected a line appeared between two bubbles, the line represented the permanent connection he created by choosing this reality. As he watched the only other bubble with a connection that represented the Stargate Universe also formed a connection with the DBZ universe meaning that he could jump from any universe he was in to any other universe the device had ever been to. That was handy because it meant he wouldn't have to always go back home to his home reality to get to a new reality.
The Phoenix was cloaked in orbit over the DBZ earth while he looked down on it from orbit. "Computer," he asked out loud, "scan the planet for non technological energy signatures."
"Commander," the female monotone computer voice responded as the ship used its sensors to scan the planet. "It appears as though every intelligent being on the planet is emitting low levels of zero point energy, there also appears to be several individuals who are producing several hundred to several thousand times the average amount of the rest of the population."
"Excellent," he said smirking. This proved that his theory was correct; he had long since believed that the Ki used in the DBZ universe was actually Zero Point energy. The ability to do was something he desired greatly, even if he was weak by DBZ standards he would be beyond anything but the ascended beings themselves and it was a good first step in the process of becoming a God. "Locate all of the Z fighters and well as Dr. Gero and Bulma Briefs I will handle the Son family myself. Use the extractor bots to gather DNA samples from them as well as samples from the 1000 most power normal humans you can detect."
"Yes commander," the computer voice said and got to work. The extractor bots were small insect sized bots like misquotes which would fly around and take blood samples from their targets without them noticing. As for the Son family he brought them up on the monitor of the Phoenix's bridge. The Phoenix only had a bridge, bedroom and cargo bay and the rest was taken up by systems so there was not a lot of room, Goku, Chi-Chi and a baby Gohan were all at home.
Goku was outside the house punching and kicking while Chi-Chi sat with Gohan in the kitchen feeding him and watching Goku through the window. Strapping on a remote transponder so he could beam back to the ship he donned what he called his Imperial Alteran Garb. They were nano woven silk like clothes similar to what the Alteran wore on Atlantis except white with silver trim and climate control built in, they were covered in Ancient glyphs and he had a long cape flowing down his back. A simply sliver white circlet with a small emerald gem sat on his head and a green shield projector and anti ascension shield device along with a cloaking device was attached to his belt.
The anti ascension detection device was just a smaller version like the one on the ship but if his theory was correct since these beings used zero point energy to detect other living beings then the devices should block Goku's detection ability. Locking onto a position hidden in the trees around Goku's house he beamed down with the cloak activated, peering around the tree he could see Goku still practicing. He was very weak at the moment since this was well before his elder brother would arrive on Earth and kill him, walking silently out of the forest he had the computer watching in orbit. If Goku gave any sign that he noticed him the ship would instantly beam him back up.
But he didn't and he managed to get within 15 meters of him with no problem. He also had his mind wrapped in mental shields to prevent detection, he knew Goku had telepathy and he didn't want to risk the Sayian detecting him that way. Pulling out a small orb he released a dozen of the tiny insect robots fly to Goku who had paused as Chi-Chi just called him telling him it was time for lunch, without him noticing the tiny robots landed on exposed flesh and pierced it with small needles extracting blood.
It was over in a matter of moments and the tiny bots returned to him and the sphere their job accomplished, but things weren't over yet. As Goku walked into his house talking loudly about food a dozen more bugs flew in and landed on the infant Gohan taking blood from him as well. But that was not all they did, a single bot did not extract blood at but instead injected some of the few molecular neutronium based nanites he could create. They were not replicators per say but they were similar and they were programmed to remain hidden inside the child and to monitor his progress and his power as he grew.
His job complete he walked back into the forest and beamed back to the ship his job accomplished and the ship had also collected blood samples from all the other fighters on the planet. As well as the human test subject's blood, "computer upload all the collected blood samples into the data base and run complete structural analysis on them. I want a complete understanding on how their Ki powers work and how to incorporate them into my new body."
"Understood commander," the computer intoned. "Implantation of nanites in Bulma Briefs and Dr. Gero were successful, samples of Capsule Technology as well as a copy of the Capsule Corp data base has also been retrieved and added to the Janus Key's computer. Also analysis of DNA samples has been completed," the computer finished.
"Really," I asked impressed. "That was fast; let's see if the result is what I thought it was going to be." It turned out that my guess was correct, in this universe the cells of each individual acted as a sort of zero point energy reactor meaning that each sentient being and many non sentient creatures had billions of tiny ZPMs inside their bodies which gave them their powers. Most human's abilities on this planet were in a sort of sleep/standby mode unless they were woken up and trained, by using their powers and training they expanded their capacity to produce energy and got more powerful. Then there were individual genetic abilities that came from a specific race like Freiza's ability to breath in space or Piccolo's ability to regenerate and fuse with members of his own species or the Sayian's ability to increase their cells power after being seriously injured.
Furthermore every species had the ability to multiple their powers though transformations which multiplied their existing power levels, Freiza's race transformed physically while the Sayian race had a unique energy field in their Super Sayian forms. Even Piccolo's race and the human race had their own transformations; it wasn't just limited to the Sayians like in the anime here every race had their own unique transformation ability which multiplied their power levels for a short time until they powered down.
"Computer begin running the simulations for my new body, I want it ready before we head to the Stargate universe," I ordered.
"Yes commander," the computer said while I began looking for the HALO universe I wanted. It was a very specific universe that I wanted and I didn't even know if I could find it since it wasn't the mainstream universe nor was it a universe I read about in a fanfiction. It was one I only thought might exist, in the HALO universe the Ark was the place where the HALO rings were made and controlled but in the past the Forerunners had built another Greater Arc that was destroyed in the war with the Flood.
I wanted a universe where the Greater Arc survived like the Ark did, maybe damaged in the war but repaired over time by whatever AI was left behind. But other than the Greater Ark existing I didn't want anything else to be different about the HALO universe. Without a reference it actually took me three whole days searching in orbit of the DBZ earth to find the reality that met my requirements. Too many of them had damaged or half destroyed Greater Arcs or ones with flood samples or total infestations all over them. Some others changed the cannon of HALO by existing and factoring into the Forerunners plans when humanity came calling, but eventually he found a Greater Arc which had been damaged but repaired over the thousands and thousands of years by the AI left on it which no Forerunner actually knew survived.
In the reality it existed in it lived on the outside of the Milky Way galaxy on the opposite side of the galaxy from the regular Arc and was not connected to any forerunner transportation system in the Milky Way, so it had zero effect on cannon which meant it did not matter if he took it for himself. He locked onto the reality using the Greater Arc as the focusing point and again he jumped the Phoenix to a new reality.
The Phoenix arrived in the HALO galaxy around 500 million kilometers from the Greater Arc, the Greater Arc consisted of a shield world about 14,000 km in diameter held on a six sided flower shaped platform about 250,000 km in diameter, like the Arc the Greater Arc's arm platforms had full environments on them that could support life. The whole thing had to be full of forerunner technology and data, their ability to build truly giant superstructures was something he desired greatly.
Unfortunately he didn't have the power to seize the Greater Arc by force, but if his guess was correct he wouldn't have to. He flew the phoenix closer to the Greater Arc waiting for it to respond, "Commander the structure is attempting to scan us," the computer told him.
"Good send back the Forerunner symbol for Reclaimer and an analysis of my DNA as planned," I ordered the computer. If he was correct then like all other Forerunner structures it was programmed to turn itself over to human control once a human presented themselves.
"Commander we are receiving directions from the structure to land in planetoid," the computer informed him.
"Excellent," I said. "Take us in."
The computer obeyed and I prepared for the next step of his plan, the very last of his resources was used to create a dozen Replicator bugs. Hopefully he wouldn't have to use them to attack but in the worst case scenario they would protect him until he could beam back to the Janus Key and escape. The Phoenix got closer to the Shield World of the Greater Arc and suddenly hundreds of Forerunner sentinels followed by dozens of small triangular ships, well small for Forerunner ships they were still four times the size of the Phoenix, came out to meet him and guide him in.
Landing the Phoenix he stepped off onto the platform the ship had landed on, the whole inside was full of Forerunner architecture just like in HALO 4 with Requiem and he was greeted by a large floating blue eye like orb which was a Forerunner AI known as an Ancilla. "Greetings Reclaimer I am the Forerunner AI Endless Sorrow," the orb introduced itself in a soft female voice.
"Greetings Endless Sorrow I am Cayleb Dyson and I am here to claim the Greater Arc in the name of humanity," I said confidently.
"That is wonderful news this means that your race is well on the way to claiming the mantel of responsibility as my creators had planned for, I was most impressed by the DNA sample you sent. Human beings are even more evolved than they were when they originally arrived in this galaxy. But I have to know how you found this structure Reclaimer," Endless Sorrow asked.
"A reference to it was mentioned by the records left behind by the Librarian, she did not know if the stations survived or not and I was sent out here alone to check. Two questions if you would be so kind are there any Flood spores on this station and are you programmed to turn yourself over to me totally like other Forerunner tech," I asked.
"There are no Flood spores stored here or research stations dedicated to studying the Flood, which was taken care of on the Lesser Ark and the HALO Rings. This station was nearly destroyed by the flood and went into auto repair which was completed a few hundred years ago. And yes since you are a Reclaimer and your knowledge proves that humanity has indeed been set on the path set out for them by my creators I have no problem turning all systems over to your and anyone else's control you decide," Endless Sorrow explained.
"Excellent," I said. "If you will take me to your primary computer core I will be using these devices called Replicators, the reason is because we have had several situations where alien races have tried to use humanity to gain control of Forerunner tech to use against us. That's the whole reason I am out here alone in the first place."
"My that is troublesome and understandable given the situation you described, follow me," Endless Sorrow said. As the Ancilla turned away she didn't see him smirk in victory, if there was one major fault in the Forerunner design when leaving their tech for humanity it was making it so easily accessible to any human who just came along. I guess they just assumed that any human that had made it that far would be the most worthy of the technology but whatever.
Endless Sorrow led me to the primary data core of the Greater Ark and I had the replicators inject their nanites into the computer and began overwriting systems including Endless Sorrow. Within 24 hours I had complete control of the Greater Ark and it was everything I could ever want, not only did it have every conceivable version of Forerunner tech but it was also a symbol of my power, if I wanted to be a God I needed to be credible. The powers of the DBZ universe gave me personal physical power and the power of the HALO universe gave me resource and manufacturing power as well as technology.
Though the Greater Ark had plenty of precious resources the HALO universe technology did not rely on any universe specific elements like Naquadah from Stargate, it lacked Trinium as well but surprisingly Neutronium did exist and was used in the HALO universe. The forerunners used a lot of it in their technologies computers and nanites and there was a fairly large supply of it on the Ark, this allowed him to create a large number of Replicators under his control. Around 100 million of the block type bugs ready for when he returned to the Stargate universe, which was great.
As for power sources the Forerunners used a singularity drive, an artificial black hole to power their largest structures and ships. Like the Ori used a black hole to power their Supergate, it was an incredible piece of technology; there was one inside the shield world and three in the superstructure of the Greater Ark. As for the secret to their massive construction ability the secret was in their hardlight technology, they literally built whatever they wanted to scale with hard light and then forcibly shifted the molecules into the elements they needed them to be. Within the Lesser Ark a new HALO array could be constructed minus the environment within a regular earth year, the Greater Ark also had the ability.
Besides all the military technology and the Prometheans he now possessed he also had a full copy of the genetic index of every species the Key ships repopulated in the Galaxy. Every race from the Covenant and then some were included, it also included all the genetic information and technology of the Ancient Humans the Forerunners had defeated here. One look at this realities version of the Alteran showed him that if they hadn't been focused on destroying the Flood when they arrived in the Milky Way and already severally weakened by their constant war they would have run over the unprepared Forerunners with little to no effort.
Surprisingly enough the Forerunners in this universe were actually descended from the Asgard of this universe that had taken a very different evolutionary path from their Stargate cousins, it was ironic that the Asgard and Alteran of the HALO universe had been such bitter enemies. But he had a job to do, though he was in the HALO universe he was actually 50 years before the first contact between the UNSC and the Covenant which gave him time to leave and come back. But he wasn't going to be leaving the Greater Ark, which he decided to rename Elysium, in this universe. Emitters were placed all over Elysium of two different types, the first types were designed to emit a constant anti ascended energy field around the entire structure. The last thing he needed was the ascended Ancients finding out about and getting onto Elysium, the second type was designed to expand the dimensional jumping field so he could take the entire structure to the Stargate Universe.
The whole process took about a month of construction all across Elysium but finally he was ready, but he didn't go right away. Using the genetic reconstruction system taken from the Key ships combined with the computers from the Janus Key he finally managed to combine his Alteran enhanced DNA with the Sayian, Nemekian and powerful human DNA from the DBZ universe. His new body was 6'7 and super cut similar to Goku or adult Gohan but still lithe enough that he didn't look bloated with muscles.
He had the adaptive ability of the Sayians and the regeneration abilities of the Nemekians but he still looked human with blond white hair and blue eyes he was cut in a way that was very handsome and the body weighed almost 400 lbs. He managed to isolated and repress the monkey tail of the Sayians so he wouldn't turn into a giant ape at a full moon while he retained all the psychic abilities of the Alteran along with the nanological upgrades of the molecular replicator cells in his brain and spine.
By stimulating the cells as the body grew he could increase the base power level of his Ki before he transferred his mind to the body, by measuring the power with his sensors he estimated that the body had a level of about 10,000,000 riki, for a comparison Gohan post Cell sagas base form was about 16,000,000 riki his Super Saiyan form was about 200,000,000 riki and his Super Saiyan 2 form about 350,000,000 riki. Until he actually got into the body and learned to activate his own version of the Super Saiyan he couldn't get that power level up super high but it was still superior to the original final form of Frieza which was about 1,500,000 riki and the original Super Sayian Goku which was about 2,000,000 riki.
But the thing he was worried about most was not his mind but his soul, gaining a Alteran based body allowed him sense for lack of a better work his central energy matrix, what most humans called a soul. With the Janus Key he had access to all the Alteran's ascension research and his central energy matrix or CEM was the most important aspect of his self. It had transferred with him when he jumped bodies the first time but it was a little lose and before he could take his new body he had to meditate to settle his own soul properly back into place into his current body.
It took a while but eventually he managed it, it was a humbling experience. The last thing he needed was to damage his own soul and become corrupted. Finally he was ready for the transfer, he placed himself in the pod and began the process of possessing his new body. He set the cameras in the lab to record the process and when he watched them later he literally saw a glowing white mass leave his bodies chest and actually travel though the machine while Endless Sorrow protect his mind and his replicators protected his bodies. It looked similar to the ascended ancients but smaller and not as bright and during the process he was actually aware of his surroundings as opposed to asleep as he had been the first time around.
His mind and CEM entered his new body and he slowly became aware of it as his and the new powers that existed inside it, settling his mind was easy and quick but it took almost a whole day to settle his soul back into its proper place. He never would have been able to do it without the Ancient database in the Janus Key, stepping out of the pod he really got to notice how big he was. 6'7 and cut like a Greek statue was no small feat, he instantly went to one of the desert regions on one of the arm environments to start practicing with his Ki.
It took another whole month but he managed to master flying and simple Ki blasts, he even managed to copy attacks like the ka-me-ha-me-ha and the special beam cannon and even the destructo disk. He even tried out the solar flare though he managed to half blind himself in the process, in his studies he deduced that fighting with Ki was like Yu-Gi-Oh cards. You took your Ki and divided your power between your attack and defense, 99.999% of the time you divided it evenly between attack and defense so a person with a power of 100 would have 50 attack and 50 defense while a person with 150 riki would have an attack or 75 and defense of 75.
The one with the higher power level would beat the one with a lower power, even if the one with the lower power level moved power to or from attack or defense the one with the higher power level would just move their power around to counter it. So the majority of the time they simply kept it even between attack and defense and tried to counter with special abilities or tactics if their power level was lower or higher.
Then he was finally ready to jump to the Stargate reality, his body and his technology was ready and he had a plan. Activating the dimensional jump device he brought up the connection to the reality the Janus Key came from and plugged in a time exactly 24 hours after the Janus Key originally came to his dimension all those years ago. A truly humongous hole was ripped into reality above the Elysium and the first part to enter was the three sided tower sticking out of the top of the shield world followed by the two resource rich moons in orbit of the shield world, then the shield world itself followed by the flower shaped superstructure and the whole of the Forerunner Greater Ark Elysium entered the Stargate Universe.
He looked from the surface of Elysium in the commander center as the emitters and singularity drives powered down from the strain of opening a jump hole that big at the Milky Way galaxy of the Stargate Universe. He was outside the Galaxy still both because he thought it would be bad to have something that big inside the Galaxy and because even though the Ascended Ancients existed in a higher plane of existence his theory, based on his studies of the database, the Ascended could not see the whole galaxy all at once.
They existed in correlation to locations inside the Galaxy itself and had to move around to view other locations, because of this they would almost always remain inside the galaxy itself. This was reinforced by the Ark of Truth movie where Ganos La used the Supergate to go to the Ori Galaxy with the Tau'ri. That was why he brought the Elysium into the Stargate universe outside the Milky Way even without the anti-ascended shield the Ascended should completely miss the massive world ship. Behind him a silver white Stargate he had built and connected to the gate network was prepared to dial into the Milky Way network. It had an energy shield iris and another anti-ascended filter to prevent any ascended from getting in though it.
The Janus Key had a copy of all 342,772 gate addresses in the Milky Way and his destination was one that was supposed to have large deposits of Naquadah and Trinium, he had already sent a Forerunner probe through and found out that the planet was controlled by a minor Goa'uld who had so far avoided the destruction of the species. For some reason the Stargate was located away from the main city and only had a few Jaffa guarding it, the probe was cloaked so they didn't shoot at it but they had been standing guard with staff weapons pointed at the open wormhole.
"Well it's so similar to the situation form the Galactic Imperium it must be fate," I said as I began to done my costume/armor as the gate dialed up again. I had a Galaxy to conquer and an Empire to build and I was very much looking forward to it.
AN: Ok before anyone reviews that I have made Cayleb to powerful to being with listen to me. Yes Cayleb has the personal power to destroy a planet by himself, but he will rarely if ever show that kind of power. Even just a fraction of his DBZ power will be enough to really scare most people and he will need it for realities with really big bad beings and for the Ancients of this reality. Not to mention anything else that might pop up in the Stargate universe. Furthermore the Greater Ark has a lot of tech and abilities but that is his garden of eden, he will be building up an Empire in the Stargate Universe first using mostly Stargate tech and the Elysium will play very little role in the beginning except being a fortress of solitude and safety vault. He could easily create and unleash an army of hundreds of millions of Promethean knights but that's not what he wants to do.
So while I gave Cayleb a lot of stuff I hope you will agree with me that I haven't broken him, if he dies he runs the high risk of damaging his soul in an emergency transfer to a new body and the ascended ancients are a big problem for him because he does not have the weapon merlin created. Also he does not have the Asgard database just the Ancient one and Forerunner one so the Asgard tech is a real danger to him as well. Still next chapter will see the beginning of the Empire being born in the Stargate universe, please remember that I own nothing and that any similarities to the Galactic Imperium are merely influence I have taken from the story as a whole I don't mean to copy it just take inspiration from it. So I hope everyone enjoyed this installment and I will see you all next chapter. No flames please as they will be deleted.
Ja Ne!
