The Commander steps away from the dome shaped device and storms passed two Verdain, pushing them out of the way as he walks passed on his way out of the room. He leaves the room and swiftly walks down a long corridor, every now and then he passes Verdain who are guarding other doorways that line the corridor.
He eventually comes to a single unguarded door, the door is different to the the rest as it contains a hand shaped hole in the middle. The Commander places his hand in to the hole which verifies his identity and the door opens, the corridor immediately outside the door glows with a shimmering white light as he steps inside the room and the door closes behind him.
A short time later he emerges from the room, and with a sense of urgency he runs back to the room he was in with the dome shaped device. The doors slide open and he steps inside and walks up to the two Verdain that carried the crystal.
"You two." says the Commander, pointing at them.
"Find me the Novum that escaped from Intrius." orders the Commander.
"Yes Sir." says both of the Verdain and they head for the doors.
"WAIT" shouts the Commander, "When you find them, report their location back to me." he says.
The Verdain confirm by bowing their heads and then rush out of the room heading back towards their ship. The ships leaves the top of the battle ship and heads for orbit above Sehabo, once there they are joined by two other ships and together they head off in search of the Novum.
Meanwhile Atlantis is back at Earth awaiting O'Neill's return, the crew are going about their usual duties, not quite knowing what they should be doing.
"Dr McKay.. Zelenka. Can I see you in my office please." says Woolsey, stood at his office door.
When McKay and Zelenka arrive in Woolsey's office, Woolsey standing behind his desk holding a computer tablet and reading McKay and Zelenka's hyperdrive Jumper research.
"I've been going over your research into fitting Jumpers with hyperdrives. To be honest I don't understand any of this, how close are you to making this a reality?" asks Woolsey.
"Pretty close." replies McKay.
"Err..I don't think we're that close." says Zelenka.
"We're pretty close." says McKay, while giving Zelenka a disagreeable expression.
"No, we're not, Rodney." replies Zelenka.
Woolsey puts down the tablet on to his desk "Please. Don't start this again." he says firmly.
"What do you need to do to get this to work?" ask Woolsey.
"Getting it to work isn't the problem. We can make the Jumpers capable of travelling in hyperspace, the problem is it uses too much power." replies McKay.
"Basically it's a one time thing, Jumper's only have enough power to use the hyperdrive once." adds Zelenka.
"We haven't figured out how to get around that little problem yet." adds McKay.
"I see." says Woolsey, he walks around the table and slowly towards his office door, he looks out in to the control room while deep in thought, he then turns to face McKay and Zelenka.
"I want you to make all the Jumpers hyperspace ready." says Woolsey.
"What?, we just told you we have't figured it out yet." replies McKay.
"Yes, and I understand that. But the Jumpers are small and manoeuvrable, if we end up in another fight with the Verdain we're going to need the Jumpers to mount a defence." says Woolsey.
"Yeah, but.." replies McKay.
Woolsey steps forward to McKay, "One Verdain ship almost destroyed Atlantis, if we come under attack again we may need to make a hasty retreat and it's very likely we won't have time to wait for any Jumpers engaged in battle to return to Atlantis." explains Woolsey.
"But if they had hyperdrives, even if it does only give them one jump, then at least they'll have a chance at getting away." adds Woolsey.
"Right." says Zelenka.
"Can you do it?" asks Woolsey.
"We'll need some help." replies McKay.
"Take whoever and whatever you need to make this happen." says Woolsey, "Get to it." he says.
McKay and Zelenka leave Woolsey's office and head up the stairs going directly to the Jumper bay, Woolsey watches them head away with a hopeful yet worried expression on his face.
Raina and Jomar are inside the briefing room examining the other crystal, Woolsey sees them and goes in to the briefing room, he coughs to alert them to his presence.
"Oh, hello Mr Woolsey." says Raina.
"Hello." replies Woolsey, who then walks over to them, "What are you up to?" he asks.
"Well everyone seems to be doing something, so we thought we'd try and make ourselves useful by taking another look at this crystal, see if we can figure out what it's for." replies Raina.
"I see. Any thoughts on it yet?" asks Woolsey.
Raina puffs her cheeks and then lets out a breath, "Nothing yet." she says.
"We're still working on it." adds Jomar.
"We appreciate the help, please, continue and let me know if you find something." says Woolsey, he gives them a friendly smile and leaves the briefing room. Raina and Jomar take a look at each other "Back to it then" says Jomar, "Ok" says Raina while taking in a deep breath.