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A/N: Hello everyone, thank you for the many positive reviews. I just wanted to let you know that my rate of posting new chapters might slow down. I just got a job after being unemployed for almost three years, so my extracurricular energy level ought to drop proportionally. I am usually 1-2 chapters ahead of the current posting, so I have the next chapter almost done and the following one almost half-way. I will try to maintain that process, but the wavelength between postings might increase.
Harry Potter and the Cochran Effect - Chapter 7
In June 2001, the major Earth governments finally signed a multi-lateral joint forces treaty creating a new organization within the United Nations, called the International Oversight Advisory (IOA) Committee, for a new Stargate program. To assuage political competition between the three largest powers, they decided to locate the new Stargate Command at the Ambérieu-en-Bugey Air Base, in the Rhône-Alpes region of Eastern France, close to Geneva, Switzerland where the main IOA headquarters offices would be located.
After the IOA re-established a united Stargate program run out of France they busily worked to get caught up with galactic events and learned in greater detail the level of work of The New Defenders with the Tok'ra, who continued to successfully prosecute the war.
Major General Landry assumed command of the new French SGC. Lieutenant General Hammond was vindicated of wrongdoing at the original American SGC and put in command of the Area 51 Advanced Technology Program and the Prometheus Initiative. Major General Bauer and the NID never saw a single Stargate mission under their purview. They were pissed. With Potter in the game they had never been able to establish any material influence for their corporate cronies. And now that the IOA had global oversight, their role was redundant. They made an attempt via Senator Kinsey to groom Mr. Woolsey, recently appointed to the IOA, to their side. Nevertheless, they failed, when they stuck their foot in their mouths. Woolsey was too intelligent to fall for Kinsey's crap as it turned out, and now he was aware of their back-channel heavy-handed attempts at brokering as well.
Civilian scientists and Air Force personnel from France, UK, Russia, and China joined the US at the new SGC and Area Fifty-One ATP. SG-1 remained intact for their experience and gained plus one member; as all teams were increased to five. All the other SG teams were reorganized as five with each nation having equal number of team commander positions and the rest of their personnel assigned from a joint pool of officer talent from the five nations. There would be other nations participating depending on expertise, but those were the big five, to coincide with the UN Permanent Security Council.
Once they got themselves fully situated, they finally requested a formal meeting between the IOA and TND to discuss a partnership and alliance. One thing they hoped to get was their help getting the Prometheus project off the ground, literally. The two Stargate powers would meet at Geneva, Switzerland. TND was represented by Harry and Hermione Potter, and Ben Grimm (NDC Commander). Doctor and Ambassador Elizabeth Weir, Major General Landry, and Lieutenant General Hammond represented the IOA.
The IOA primarily wanted an alliance to share technology (which according to their custom they naturally expected to be a one-way sharing). Harry made it clear it would be a two-way sharing of discoveries and technology or there would be no deal. Furthermore, Harry indicated that there were issues and concerns for their organizations' security as well as their personal safety. He reminded them that the US had once before tried to abduct and steal Harry's work, and there were other national security concerns regarding the citizenship of some of its members and secrets they would be unable to share due to the above top secret nature of some of their technology and capabilities.
Harry explained that they could help them with their own ship development to a point, certainly good enough to get them reliably into space, but they would not share everything the TND had though. He also clarified that only TND personnel could serve aboard TND ships and operate some of their armor and other technology for the same reasons.
"Doctor Potter, what kind of national security or citizenship issues are you concerned about that we don't already have clearance for, either through the IOA or our parent countries, namely the US?" Doctor Weir asked.
"To answer that you would need to ask your respective heads of state and only the heads directly. When you do so, you should ask them to refer all political matters regarding TND to the ICW." Harry answered.
"What is the ICW?" she countered.
"That is also classified. We can tell you only that much at this time. With that reference, your heads of state will understand and follow up directly with the appropriate parties to then ascertain what if anything could be done about our security concerns." Harry explained.
Those contacts were made and then the heads of the various nations involved finally understood what had been going on. They still could not explain that to their subordinates though. However, recognizing the opportunity to get the magical community on their side in the war against the Goa'uld, the heads set a small committee of three of their number-the UK, the US, and China to open negotiations with the International Confederation of Wizards (ICW) on behalf of the IOA.
Communications between governments and the ICW was awkward, made more so since only the heads of state could meet directly on the matter, or negotiate on behalf of the UN and the IOA. It all looked highly irregular to the many uninitiated. Most ultimately assumed that the ICW had been some multi-national "heads of state only" global security program that their own military organizations also knew nothing about and for whatever reason was continuing to still be kept more secret than the Stargate program ever was. Since it was the heads of state from such disparate interests, and the matters were subsequently ratified and recommended by the full Permanent UN Security Council. Everyone eventually just filed it away as an unusual footnote, but went back to work.
The IOA and TND alliance became blessed by the ICW so long as Harry's previous stipulations were met, and the classified nature of their work was respected. They might from time to time provide or demonstrate capabilities that they were not permitted to explain. In those circumstances, it was a "no questions asked" policy. If so asked, and a TND member said the answer is classified they were to drop it. Any further inquiry or causes for concern should be forwarded to the relevant head of state or their assigned delegated liaison (which thereafter for the purpose of the alliance, would be assigned from a list of approved and properly educated squibs) for them to directly consult with the ICW. In time, the squib liaisons would become something of a shadow IOA themselves, working as a committee on behalf of the ICW and TND to keep the IOA inline as far as magical security was concerned.
When finally the organizations were approved by their respective higher authorities to work together, Harry and his team met again with Dr. Weir and her team which this time included Mr. Woolsey, to discuss particulars. Feeling as though they were closer at that point, Weir tried again, "What exactly is the ICW? Can you at least tell us what that stands for?" Doctor Weir asked.
"No. Unfortunately we cannot tell you even that much. Suffice it to say, it is a top secret organization known only to certain heads of state and precious few others, except members of TND itself of course." Harry answered in a friendly tone.
Since he was responding kindly, she tried another tact. "Is this another super-hero organization like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four used to be?" she asked, reasoning that must be what all of that is about with Ben Grimm part of it.
Harry answered. "It is something like that, and as you can see a couple of the Fantastic Four itself have come out of retirement to assist with the program." If they wanted to offer that analogy and he could answer as they hoped with a giant white lie of omission, then he hoped, finally they would drop it.
"But, what is that about? What other heroes do you have beside the Fantastic Four? Any others we would know?" Mr. Woolsey continued to press.
At that, the ICW official representative Mr. Al Dumbledore interrupted and said "Excuse me. I'm sorry, but that will be the last of any questions on the matter that we will entertain. I believe we've given you enough to understand the nature of the program and its authority at the highest levels as they themselves have already attested themselves to you."
One further question was raised. "If I may, please, just one more question for clarity, began Lt. General Hammond. If the TND program is as highly cleared as it has been said, why then when Doctor Potter came to the White House in the TND battlecruiser, did the President not recognize him at that time?"
"Mr. Dumbledore, may I answer that. I think I understand their remaining confusion." Harry asked.
"Certainly, be my guest Doctor Potter." he replied.
"General, at that point in time the President didn't know that I was a part of the ICW program; or that the ICW was running the TND operation."
Lt. General Hammond nodded his head and said "Ah," and appeared gearing up to ask a follow-up question but Harry just forestalled him with a hand gesture. If he didn't finish his explanation his way, Dumbledore might cut him off from trying to explain it at all. They had discussed how the meeting could go in advance, and they were treading on thin ice as it was.
Harry continued "When several members of the ICW discovered the Stargate program and the extant alien problem our private investigation of the matter was handled cautiously. The ICW is a global organization, not simply the jurisdiction of one country. And when the ICW approved founding of the New Defenders to assess and meet the new threat, it was given broad jurisdiction and was deemed necessary to keep secret even from the US Stargate program until the time was right.
That was because of both their personal treatment of me during my previous work, and their own unilateral secret operation of something that ought to have been a matter of global jurisdiction to begin with. To be frank about it, at that time the ICW then had to assure that the US could be trusted with its own involvement with off-world affairs. It took us some time to ascertain that the US operation itself was not a rogue operation. In the meantime we had to prepare for global defense ourselves. I think you will find that for all of those reasons we did what we did." concluded Harry.
"Thank you Doctor Potter. I think that sums it up nicely. Dumbledore added. Doctor Weir, can we put the matter of the ICW and TND's authenticity behind us so that we can move forward? After all it is you who asked us for an alliance to help your new organization?"
"Yes, of course Representative Dumbledore and Doctor Potter, she added with a nod to him. Mr. Woolsey, General's, please let us get to the matters at hand. I understand the curiosity but, I believe our friends have explained things well enough to be going on with and I know that the President and other heads of state have given this their blessing. So, let's continue." she instructed.
"Very well Doctor that does just about explain everything I had any real concern about, Lieutenant General Hammond said, and concluded with: Dr. Weir, Mr. Woolsey, with all that having been said, this treaty with the TND as classified by the ICW, has my full recommendation to proceed."
"I concur, added Major General Landry. Nothing I've heard gives me pause. All of us in this line of work understand the principle of "need to know." If it is cleared at the highest level then it is cleared. As for our experiences with them, SG-1 says that when ND-1 helped them and brought them home they were very courteous. The one time they went up against the Doctors Potter back in ninety-eight, they were just following orders and hold no animosity to them. In fact in their recent conversations with the Tok'ra they refer to the TND as heroes; and from all that we've learned we're inclined to agree."
Hammond cringed at the reminder of the ninety-eight fiasco; those were his orders...even if they had come to him from the President via the JCS. Fortunately the Potters showed no further interest in talking about it.
...
Therefore, as of August 2001, the TND kept a permanent liaison at the new French SGC, Dan and Emma Granger from ND-2. There would be no accidental exposure of magic from them, they could speak fluent French, and they were the only ones who could not fly in their armor-so even that wouldn't be exposed needlessly. Not that they would be wearing it much on base or going on off-world missions with them anyway.
At various times Harry, Hermione, and Johnny Storm, would visit Area Fifty-One for a consult. However, they gave the SGC most of what they needed on disk for Goa'uld hyper-drive and shield designs to finish the Prometheus and X-302 prototypes, in exchange for the SGC including them in all material trade agreements they made in the future, for supply of naquadah, trinium, and other rare materials.
Also, during the period when the IOA was finishing their Prometheus design, TND finally finished their reverse engineering of Tollan salvaged technology and upgraded the Hyperion with a single forward facing Tollan Ion cannon, powered by a Tollan Fission reactor.
During that time, the question of warp drive was reconsidered among the team. Harry had been putting it off for more practical matters. He personally was very busy on several fronts, not the least of which was his ND-1 duties.
"Harry, don't you think you should think about a next generation version of your hyper-warp concept?" Hermione asked.
"You know I've given it thought. But, I still don't know when I'll have time to work on it. Plus, getting a next generation hyper-space cruiser with the Tollan upgrades developed is more important right now." Harry replied.
"What about the major speed advantage it would give us?" Johnny pressed.
"It would be good for that obviously. But it still needs a lot of work to perfect even the next revision of warp-drive by itself, not to mention a failure-proof hyper-warp design, Harry started. The most important thing right now is that we make ourselves able to match the Goa'uld, especially for home-world defense.
Also at this point in time, I am still limited by geometry of the ship hull which might put a damper on things. But all the other issues are problems too. I could begin working on say a Phoenix Mark II prototype with hyper-warp in mind. But, right now I'd say it would look more like the classical idea of a flying saucer when I'm done." he explained.
"What's wrong with that?" Hermione asked.
"In general nothing, but specifically, it might limit the type and number of weapon systems and other hard-point type systems, hangars, and so forth." Harry answered.
"Harry, I and the scientists at Wakanda took another look at the hull geometry limitations and with integration of proper energy shielding, a hybrid of Goa'uld shields and the Tollan phase shift-we might have some suggestions that would open up more options for you in that regard." Reed offered.
"That is interesting. I would definitely like to have a look at that." Harry replied.
"So you'll do it?" Johnny clarified.
"Sure, I will, but as time allows. I will design and build one, with the idea that we would have one very fast ship for inter-galactic travel should we need it in the future. Of course, that means next generation sensors and navigation systems as well-fortunately that is another area the Tollan technology will help us.
I also will stop using Vibranium alloy in the hull designs. We will not be able to maintain enough supply to build a fleet of ships with that anyway. And it's more important to reserve it for new suits of armor. We now have access to Trinium, so I want to look into substituting for that in our hulls." Harry concluded.
/Time Skip - 1 year/
The following year was a series of missions from the re-formed SGC teams, re-establishing their own presence through the Stargate, and both organizations working on their own ship and weapon designs and developing closer protocols and ties for working together as necessary.
In June 2002, SG-1 discovered an Ancient woman who they named Ayiana buried in ice near the original Stargate site. Miraculously she revived, and they discovered that she was from the original race of Ancients that departed Earth around seven point five million years ago. Unfortunately, she was buried with the ancient virus that killed her people and she weakened and died soon after using her ability to heal by touch to save several of the expedition. O'Neill only just survived by temporarily hosting a symbiote to restore his health.
In August 2002, the Prometheus prototype launched for trials without any Adrian Conrad incident because Maybourne never got him a Goa'uld, the NID never had gate or Al'kesh access.
The Hyperion helped Prometheus conduct its initial trials by giving each other something to shoot at (shielded of course), and by providing comparative analysis of their two ships performance (the parts they didn't keep classified from each other naturally).
Thor of Asgard showed up at the end of trials, again asking for help against replicator's that had over-run his home world. This time he wanted SG-1 to enter the time dilation field they trapped them in and destroy or fix the device that the Replicators had since modified to their own advantage, and whom had now evolved themselves into artificial human form. He specifically asked for help from Prometheus and SG-1 who he was familiar with. Captain Potter offered their help with the Hyperion as well. However, Thor turned them down because he detected several very advanced technologies on their ship that he thought would attract the Replicators, unlike the lower tech. Prometheus.
While that little tidbit of information about tech. disparity did not get past the members of SG-1, they swallowed their pride and accepted the assistance of ND-1 itself, who accompanied them aboard Prometheus for the mission.
On the Asgard home-world Hala, when the human form Replicators identified themselves to SG-1 and ND-1, SG-1 fired on them with no success and were immediately surrounded by bug Replicators. Therefore, ND-1 cast Immobulis charms that froze all Replicators in their tracks.
Harry told Carter to continue working on the time dilation device while he and his team kept the replicator's at bay, and all four of them Harry, Hermione, Sirius, and Remus used several destructive spells to destroy all five of the frozen human form Replicators.
After Carter reset the device giving themselves ten minutes to escape, back aboard Prometheus when O'Neill insisted they explain how they did what they did, ND-1 obliviated SG-1 leaving them with the false belief that their original attack combined with support from ND-1 worked and the rest of the plan had went off without a hitch. The two teams would file rather different mission reports to their respective commands.
...
For the rest of the year, Harry and Reed collaborated on a new Phoenix Mark II design which was still only on paper, and ND-1 began focusing on some of their own new internal politics with the ICW and various ministries. Since they too had finally came clean in the other direction with their people, with Dumbledore's support.
That is why subsequently, Harry, Hermione, Sirius, Albus, Minerva, and Shacklebolt met with Madam Bones, the new UK Minister for Magic, and her counter-parts from the equivalent IOA countries to discuss everything that Harry and the rest of TND had been doing with the Supreme Mugwump's secret ICW blessing those last few years.
"So, Minister Bones, what I'm asking or suggesting, is that we expand TND to a larger ICW global program, just like we explained to the IOA and UN that we already have in our cover story." Harry started.
"Doctor Potter, I think we've all agreed that there is no legal problem for your work. But, do you really think the magical world on the whole is ready to accept all this technology and muggle ways of doing things?" she asked.
"As I understand from Professor, I mean, sorry, Supreme Mugwump Dumbledore; we have about one and a half million witches and wizards around the world. While I don't expect the vast majority or maybe a majority at all, to take an immediate interest or fall in love with this stuff. All we need is a small minority interest, with some portion of them willing to work for us in an expanded program...so we can grow our numbers and be more effective." Harry explained.
She and the others had the look of skepticism on their faces but hadn't said anything yet, so he continued...
"I may be getting ahead of myself. However, the other thought that Hermione and I had was now that we have the ability to travel and explore in space, that maybe we could find a new planet of our own, one as nice and habitable as Earth that is not yet claimed by anyone else-that we could possibly start an all magical colony there. To finally have a place all of our own where our people could live and practice magic openly, without fear of muggle misunderstandings, or of them exploiting us, and worse hunting us down to kill us for radical religious reasons like the last time they discovered us." Harry offered.
"Hmm. That is intriguing Doctor Potter. I hadn't thought of that. This stuff is so new to me. What do you think of that Albus? And the rest of you?" including the other four magical heads of state, asked Minister Bones, looking around the table.
They discussed the pros and cons of such an idea, with Harry, Hermione, and Sirius offering clarification and explanations of Stargate and space topics as needed.
"I suppose you'll want government funding to go along with this broadened scope and additional staffing?" one of the other Ministers asked.
Hermione answered, since she is Treasurer of TND, Inc. "Yes that would be ideal. Currently the TND is funded by an endowment of the Potter Trust, with an annual budget of three hundred million dollars. If it was just paying the additional staff, that would be no problem. What we would need is more funding for capital projects, funding for material resources primarily and anything else the ICW decides to expand into, such as our colony idea."
"You've been funding this yourself Doctor Potter? Pardon me for prying, but I didn't know the Potters had that much wealth?" asked Minister Bones.
"We didn't have that much when I first left Britain. However, as a youth growing up in the US, I invented and licensed some new very advanced technologies that US companies and their military industrial complex bought from me. I made over six billion dollars before they essentially ran me out of the country over the trial flight of my Phoenix warp-ship." Harry answered.
"Ah, yes. You did very well for yourself, she began. ...Fellow Ministers, I think that if we decide to authorize a broadened program that we should fund it. We would not be where we are now if it were not for Doctor Potter and his friends. It's not fair or practical to continue to expect them to fully foot the bill for all this." she suggested.
After exchanging several affirmative head nods and murmurs of agreement, she continued with some other questions she had still from their original brief.
"Doctor Potter, I understand that you had to abandon or destroy the Phoenix to get home from one of your off-world missions. What are your future plans for warp-drive as you called it, now that you have this Goa'uld hyper-drive?" asked Minister Bones. She didn't really understand anything more than the basic context of the terminology, but she wanted as clear a picture of his intentions as she could get and every time he opened his mouth she continued to learn something she needed to know, even when she didn't yet know she needed to know it.
"There are pros and cons between the two types of faster than light travel. For one, hyper-drives are tried and true technology going back millennia and it appears probably millions of years actually to the ancients. Another thing is that the current common version of hyper-drive found out there in their large motherships is actually faster than the warp-drive I invented."
"Does that mean you no longer have interest in pursuing that further?" she asked.
"It's not that I don't take pride in it. It certainly is still the most advanced breakthrough by us Earthlings. But, in terms of competing with our enemies out there, it could take decades of more work to perfect into something we can rely upon for general service." Harry started.
"My warp-drive, which is measured in factors from warp one through ten, with ten being the theoretical maximum, only had potential to match up to the original Goa'uld hyper-drives they'd been using for millennia until they just recently upgraded. Their current hyper-drives are three hundred sixty-five times faster than their older ones, and at least hundreds of times faster than my warp-drive is currently capable of." Harry answered, watching some eyes roll back in their heads.
"Having said that though, when we lost the Phoenix, and the only reason it was able to carry the team to the next galaxy to rescue us, is because of a new theoretical drive I've invented in collaboration with Reed Richards that combines the two types of faster than light concepts, which I call hyper-warp. That one trip was an emergency one-way test of it. The ship was not built to handle warp speed of that magnitude and most of the warp systems fried in the one use.
However, if I had more time to devote to a project like that, I might be able to perfect it. However, bare in mind, I had only one real test of the warp-drive itself before that. And it was only a prototype. I always planned to incrementally develop better warp drives over time. I did not expect to have to go to war with it the day after I tested my first prototype. I have not had much chance to work on it, but Reed and I have been developing on paper at least, a Phoenix Mark II hyper-warp ship. The TND mission was to get us to space with the most reliable propulsion and other systems in order to match the Goa'uld as quickly as possible, so we went with the proven hyper-drive." Harry concluded.
"That made good sense. Very well, it is something else to consider then if we decide to expand future projects. I just wanted to know your thoughts and plans on that. I'll have to take your word on the muggle techie stuff. None of it means a thing to me." she replied, with grunts of acknowledgement from the other Ministers.
Sirius wanted to interject to show support as well. "But, do you all see the value in this? He began. With time and education, we wizards and witches can catch up to muggle knowledge of these things, Remus and I have, and dozens of others. Harry has given us the opportunity to emerge from the shadows both figuratively and literally. To go where no wizard or witch has gone before, to claim a new magical-only home world for ourselves, where our culture is our own-A true home for our people, if we wanted one." Sirius pleaded.
"There is a lot to think about. Let us confer off-line amongst each other and our constituents. We'll keep in touch through Albus for the time being. Give us some time to think about it. But, yes I do see the value in it, and the prestige that this brings us on the world scene." said Minister Bones.
The meeting was dismissed and everyone went away feeling as though it had been a productive meeting at least. Minister Bones was right of course. They needed to take the ideas home and discuss them and think about them some before weighing in.
...
By late Fall 2002, the key ministers and the ICW decided to authorize and fund a limited expansion of the TND program, with an immediate goal of founding a one thousand wizard and witch colony, off-world, made up of volunteers who wished to try it.
For the endeavor, TND would be reorganized as an official department of the ICW. Thereby making it what they claimed to the UN and IOA that they already were, closing that gap. The muggles and other associates Harry brought in were welcome to remain as part of the new ICW department, and Harry would remain authorized to invite and clear more muggles as he saw fit.
Furthermore, since the IOA now referred to the parent of TND as the ICW, without knowing what it really was, they would just from thereon refer to themselves as the ICW. Thus in that manner, for the Stargate and other off-world programs and the IOA, TND would represent the ICW overall and go forward simply referring to itself as the ICW. They would still keep the New Defenders (ND) nomenclature for their Stargate teams. In that way they would continue to keep the muggle world at arms length from the real ICW even as it expanded its own Space operation.
Toward that end Harry was promoted to a newly created position, Mage-General of the ICW. Moreover, Minister Bones's daughter who had already joined TND in the past and was fully versed in what they were doing, would leave that post and assume new duties as Mage-Governor, of their future off-world colony; serving as its civilian leader and voting representative in the ICW, and by that fraction of a hair, Harry's nominal boss. But, he would retain authority over all Space programs and security.
Therefore, a new era for The New Defenders was born or reborn, as a fully authorized and funded department of the ICW. The next step was to organize that project and get it kicked off. While Susan took charge of one part, Harry would be responsible for finding an appropriate planet and being responsible for its security and their transportation. Susan would begin with organizing and planning for it on the ground, while Harry started his search. During all that, they would retain their Beta Site on Caracalla as failsafe storage for backups of their body of knowledge and starter supplies for if they lose Earth and their future colony and have to go into survival mode. It would also serve as Harry and Hermione's own private stash for the same reasons.
...
While all that had gone on among the IOA and ICW, the rest of the muggle world had begun to come up to speed. That took the form of Doctor Daniel Jackson publishing an authorized and declassified global bestseller simply entitled "Stargate." It was translated into over one hundred languages.
Daniel was allowed to keep ten percent of a typical ten percent author's book royalties and other rights (therefore only one percent of the whole). The rest of the usual author's cut (nine percent) earmarked to an international charitable trust overseen by a panel from the UN5, chaired by Daniel. (The rest went to the other gross players in the game such as the publisher, distributors, studios, etc. as normal).
Daniel and the elderly Doctors Littlefield and Langford went on the talk show circuit, since they were finally able to publicly discuss their breakthrough work and exploration. Daniel kept the focus on Ernest and Catherine especially helping to elevate Ernest as an unsung national hero for his accomplishments, his perseverance and survival. Harry and the ICW were happy to let Daniel and his friends take care of the public speaking. They filtered what little information was necessary to inform the public about themselves, through Daniel's efforts, such as more pictures and general unclassified knowledge about the Hyperion and its abilities, and their new alliance.
A movie and television series called Wormhole Extreme was inspired by Jackson's book, which altogether even with only one percent of gross royalties, made Daniel one hundred million dollars and he was embarrassed about that much. From that he gave ten million dollars each to Littlefield and Langford for their original breakthrough work and sacrifices. Daniel was mostly happy just to have his work vindicated and being able to publish it at all.
Thanks to government rules under military service, none of the others officially saw a dime. It was against the law. That was not to say that Daniel would not find a way to take care of his closest friends and team mates, because he did.
...
Early in 2003 saw a string of successes against the Goa'uld. In January, ND-1 collaborated with SG-1 after one of the Russian led teams came back early from their mission to P3X-367 with a sickly man named Alebran who informed Colonel O'Neill that Nirrti was experimenting on people. Apparently, she had foregone her past methods of eugenics and now had a machine that could alter DNA in real time. They managed to kill Nirrti with help from one of the enhanced locals named Eggar, and then took the machine back to Area Fifty-One for joint study between the IOA and ICW.
Additionally, Thor arrived at Earth to give Asgard hyper-drive and Asgard shields to Prometheus and Hyperion, as thanks for their help with the Replicators.
In early February, SG-1 killed Mot during a mission on P4S-237. Later that month when Anubis was enroute to attack Abydos, the ascended Daniel Jackson appeared to tell them they would not fight alone and then he relayed the intelligence information to Colonel O'Neill, after which General Landry authorized a mission to help prevent Anubis from getting the Eye of Ra, a component for the new super-weapon he was building. Daniel Jackson naively bargained with Anubis, exchanging the Eye of Ra for his agreement to leave Abydos unharmed forever. Daniel also informed SG-1 that Anubis was part ascended and told Jonas Quinn not to lose the tablet they found, that it would lead them to the Lost City of the Ancients.
Anubis defeated Yu's fleet, which was also there to stop him from getting the Eye, and ultimately he attacked and destroyed Abydos anyway. The SGC lost all contact with it and had no idea what became of Daniel, since they heard nothing more from him either. When SG-1 finally re-established contact with Abydos after it had apparently been destroyed, they learned that it had in fact been destroyed and what they just saw was an illusion, allowing the now ascended Skaara to say goodbye to SG-1.
