A/N – Third chapter, please do not moan about the fact that other stories get updates with higher frequency than this one, your moaning will achieve nothing or possibly make me less eager to write.
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Thor materialized in the flying city and looked around the chamber, it seemed that nobody cared about the fact that in the orbit there used to be enemy ships. I had forgotten that they are pacifists and warfare for them is not a tolerated thing. They will hide out and wait until the enemy gets bored and leaves them alone, he thought with some minor disdain.
He looked around the circular room and, recalling the layout of this place from his mind, walked towards the room where the ruling council of the Nox was usually gathered. When he entered the round chamber he could hear whispers. The chamber had walls decorated with wood centered around a large round stone table The whispers grew in intensity with each moment. He was not surprised as his body was different than it used to be.
Previously he looked like a dwarf with an overgrown head and too thin limbs, now his body was of more natural proportion and build, it was much taller and was lacking the genetic imperfections of its predecessor.
"Supreme Commander Thor, we didn't expect your arrival," one of Nox said and he nodded in Thor's direction.
"I was sent here on orders from Penegal who was contacted by the ambassadors of the Alterans and Furlings. They have a message for this whole council and you, Leader Ohper," Thor said. "They believe that a new summit should be called with utmost speed as Arkadia was discovered by the Fifth Race and they suggested that the Tau'ri should be brought into their rightful place."
"We will need to discuss this, but I can assure you that we will discuss it today and tomorrow we will send you a message."
"Thank you," Thor said, slightly bowing his head. "With your permission I will beam back to my ship and send a message to Penegal that he should expect a message from you."
"Permission granted,"
A beam of light enveloped Thor and whisked him away onto the bridge of Gungnir, he then moved some controls stones across the control panel and activated the hyperdrive that would take him to Earth and its inhabitants.
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O'Neill nodded to the Secret Service agents as he was ushered into the Oval Office, he was becoming a constant guest at the White House and by now they knew him. He nodded when he saw the President and the Secretary of Defense, the Hammond sent a message to the Pentagon from Titan before delivering him here.
"Mr President, Mr Secretary," O'Neill said as he looked at his superiors who nodded in acknowledgement and gestured him to one of free seats.
"What forced you to travel to Titan?" President Hayes asked.
"The Deadalus found something there and they wanted me to see it. Titan is something more than just the biggest moon of Saturn, it is empty inside and there is a shipyard hidden there. How much is still usable is unknown, but according to Colonel Caldwell it is a huge complex and he said that he will send radar images once they are done. Mckay told me there are at least 5 docking centres, all more than 15 km long."
"Are you saying that we had it in our system this whole time and we never found it?" The Secretary of Defense asked.
"Yes, Mr Secretary," Jack said and on his lips appeared smirk. "There is some even better news about the shipyard, according to what they found there are a few partially finished Aurora battleships inside of it and, if they are right, they can be quickly finished."
"How hard it would be to move our production capabilities from Area 51 and Area 17?"
Jack was silent for a moment, thinking over those words. "We have sixteen hulls in various stages of construction and dragging them through space would be in my opinion too big of an expense. It will be easier to finish them on Earth as there is everything ready there. However once they are finished, it will only be a matter of moving our workforce, which shouldn't be too hard."
"How soon will they be ready?"
"Area 51 is just finishing their hulls, Area 17 needs a couple more months, up to eighteen," Jack said. "So in my opinion better would be transferring the workforce to 17 to get those hulls finished sooner and then transfer to this new shipyard. Otherwise we won't get as much done and we will still need to fund Area 17."
"And what about our allies?" President asked.
"The British and Russians are happy that they are getting ships for themselves, eight hulls from Area 17 need to be assigned to countries that will operate them. I would suggest giving them to NATO as a whole as they are our most important allies and might feel excluded from the elite club."
"It isn't the worst idea ever and we would need to discuss with the rest of the IOA, but it has some merits," Secretary of Defense said and they looked at him. "What I mean, Mr President, us that we have a limited amount of qualified people that can be transferred into black book programs, with NATO helping we can get a lot more. Also it will allow us to get more money for the programme, even more than those dozens of billions per year."
"More cash is a thing that I won't mind," Jack said. "R&D mentioned that they are starting to work on Block 48 upgrades and it will cost a lot to get done so more money is a good thing. Also if I'm supposed to get this shipyard on Titan get working I will need hundreds of people, maybe even thousands. People that need to be paid and supplied."
"You will have everything that you will need."
"Perfect," Jack said as the talk focused on the details and finer points that needed to be discussed. As well as diplomacy which always was a cause of a massive headache for him, he never had enough patience for it. It was bad when he was a leader of SG-1, now it was far worse.
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The Gungnir slipped out of hyperspace in the asteroid belt that was a border between the outer and inner part of the solar system and started to accelerate towards Earth, her sensors looking through the space around her. While they did it her communication arrays were focused on dozens of probes left by Asgard in the last expedition to Earth. They were exchanging data and downloading information gathered since the last time any vessel hailing from Asgard came into the system.
"The Tau'ri are advancing quickly," Thor said as he analyzed the information that flowed to the data cores of his ship. It was impressive and showed that the Tau'ri were no longer primitive and lacking advanced technology, no, they were making giant leaps in the understanding of science and the universe all around them. Energy signatures detected by his ship's powerful sensors were good enough proof, he could even see neutrino-ion generators being installed on board of some of their newest ships.
He moved a couple of stones on a control panel in front of him and the Gungnir changed her course and started to accelerate towards the moons of Saturn. He was not going to fly close as he knew that he was going to be spotted, instead the course would bring her close enough for her sensors to have a good look at the station. This would allow him to see what the Tau'ri discovered and wouldn't give them a chance to spot him.
The Gungnir's hull sliced the void of space around Saturn and the moment her sensors collected every single piece of data her hyperdrive activated and took her out of the solar system and Milky Way galaxy onto a journey to the Andromeda Galaxy.
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Carter poured over the data displayed on innumerable displays around her as she tried to understand what the main purpose of the station was and how it was powered. It was even more amazing than Atlantis,and each moment was bringing new discoveries; at first they were excited when they found new ZPMs, now they were a common occurrence.
She scrolled through the information, looking for any sliver of it that was connected with power generation, so far she had discovered one thing. Whatever it was, it was putting ZPMs to shame and they looked like cheap batteries compared to a nuclear power plant. Her gaze swept over hundreds of lines of text and numbers when it stopped over one.
"Daniel, can you come here?"
"Sure," Daniel Jackson said and walked to her. "What do you need?"
"Is it what I think it is?" she asked indicating one line of text.
He was silent for a moment. "If I'm right about it, yes you just found your power generation."
"And..."
"They have a black hole in the middle of a station that powers it." She arched an eyebrow and looked at him. "I'm not joking, that's what's written here, we always knew that they were advanced and it just proves it even further."
"We always knew that singularities could be used as a power source, but we didn't know how to create them and how to keep them from eating everything around them. So if they did it, than we better not poke a dragon." She tapped her earpiece. "Jack, keep all of our teams as far from power generation as possible. If Daniel and I are right about it, it is dangerous."
"How dangerous?" O'Neill asked over the radio.
"Very, able to devour the station and maybe our whole system, you get the point."
She heard his acknowledgement and she once again focused on the displays showing data about power generation, her understanding of the language used by the Ancients was rusty, but Math was the same for everybody and here she had more luck. She tried not to blink when she made some mental math and realized that this single power source was putting out more power than Atlantis used for past ten thousand years. Not to mention that it was much more powerful than Arcturus was supposed to be. Focusing on the database she started to dig through it, looking for even more information on it.
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The Gungnir dropped out of hyperspace above the homeworld of the Asgard and the sight that was met by her surprised Thor, he didn't expect to see those ships here. In high orbit above Othalla there was a city-ship even bigger than Atlantis and an organic ship of similar shape to a dart. Those were ships of the other two of the Four Great Races, races that were believed to be long gone and extinct by most inhabitants of the universe. He maneuvered to take an orbit in safe distance from those ships and the moment his ship was safely anchored Thor beamed onto the surface, into the Hall of Valaskialf.
It was a tall building raising into the sky on three pillars made out of crystal and on top was a large structure in the shape of a hammer, the seat of the High Council of Asgard and their command center for space operations.
Thor looked around the familiar room and quickly made his way into the chamber of the High Council, entering the room he immediately noticed the presence of the Alterans and Furlings. While the first ones were easy to mistake for humans, the second ones were almost impossible to be mistaken. They were tall, graceful, had golden eyes and slightly pointed ears that made them look like elves from human folklore.
He walked to his seat on the right hand side of Penegall and took it, there was a moment of silence as the Alterans and Furlings talked between each other telepathically, while the High Council was reading sensor data transferred from the Gungnir.
The silence was finally broken by one of the less important members of the council, Bragi, whose main responsibility was diplomacy and intelligence gathering. "Supreme Commander Thor, how sure are you that the Tau'ri are advancing so quickly and are able to incorporate our technology into their designs."
"You also saw what they were capable given only our hyperdrive and shield technology, now they have access to all of our knowledge and they are using it to quicken their own technological development," Thor said and on a display in front of him appeared the blueprints of the BC-304 Block 32. "As all of you can see this design is utilizing our technology and their own creating something that could potentially be a threat to our older ships. I think that it speaks volumes about their incorporation of our technology."
"Indeed, it is utilizing our technology," Penegall nodded and turned to look at the representatives of the Alterans and the Furlings. "Revered Ambassadors, what do you have to say about bringing the Tau'ri into the Alliance of the Great Races."
"I think that we should...
To be continued.
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A/N – I wouldn't mind ideas for eight names for ships, choose navy and name according to its naming convention, but please not all from the US Navy.
Reviews:
Chloe – about Ha'tak, this name encompasses so many subclasses that it is hard to be precise with it. The Tau'ri will get a naming convention for them once they start gathering more data about them. Also the hubris of Thor in that fight was an issue. About theNox homeworld, effect of my memory betraying me, also remember that a lot of treaties from our world has similar names and it is easy to mistake one for another.
Sean W Eckythump – I will fix it, Jackson that I introduced is Robbie Jackson from Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novels, about Sam will be fixed from this chapter onward.
rice2999 – answer is here