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Harry Potter and the Cochran Effect - Chapter 9

The US remained at DEFCON 3 along with all the other major world powers, who were readying conventional air defenses. Aboard the Tel'tak, O'Neill and the rest of SG-1 had begun their journey home from Proclarush with modifications for speed made by O'Neill, after disposing of the Jaffa traitor Ronan who tried to prevent their return.

Back on Earth, the President and his advisors were discussing plans when the power went out, with Anubis appearing right in front of them. The secret service immediately opened fire, but the bullets passed through, revealing that he was merely a hologram.

Anubis threatened Earth and demanded its surrender. Hayes attempted to bluff Anubis out of attacking by telling him that Earth would give him a good fight. Hammond had told him that their three ships would likely be a good match for three of his Ha'taks or at least give them 'a good fight.' The problem was he was likely to have ten times that many beyond sensor range. After Anubis left, thirty additional Ha'tak exited hyperspace over Earth and proceeded to take out power grids around the world.

Back at the SGC, they lost power and manually sealed the gate just before an incoming wormhole made connection and a naquadah-enhanced weapon rocked the gate room, but stopped by the iris. Colonel Pearson received a coded message from SG-1 saying they were not coming through the Stargate and explained their destination of Antarctica. The folks at the NDC were very glad that their three gates addresses had never been compromised to enemy contacts yet. The lack of attack on them proved that had remained true.

...

Therefore, the IOA-ICW joint forces made their play and committed their ships. The Hyperion and Helios joined Prometheus in defense of the planet. It would be three Tau'ri battle cruisers with Asgard shields against thirty-three upgraded Ha'tak and Anubis' super-mothership.

The Hyperion and Helios, both capable of firing while cloaked due to separate power for each system, was able to destroy one upgraded Ha'tak per salvo of their combined seven Tollan Ion cannons. Due to Hyperion's relative disadvantage in firepower, it was used as shield screening to allow Helios to take more shots with its six Ion cannons concentrating fire. The older Hyperion was still able to disable a Ha'tak shield in three shots, but all they were really doing is keeping flanking Ha'taks off Helios.

With Prometheus' weapons being less effective across the board but with Asgard shields just as effective, they retreated into the atmosphere to shield SG-1's Al'kesh as it attempted to drill its way into the ice of Antarctica to reach what they believed to be a secret weapon that O'Neill was leading them too.

Eight of the next closest Ha'tak was ordered to find and engage the ships that successfully attacked and destroyed one and disabled another Ha'tak. Since the Helios and Hyperion remained cloaked, they could not track them, but from the vectors of the cannon fire, the Goa'uld had a general position to focus barrage fire. About eighty plasma cannons erupted in the general direction of where Helios and Hyperion used to be but missed by a million miles, as the defenders were performing evasive maneuvers at high sub-light speed. Helios and Hyperion hit and destroyed yet another Ha'tak when suddenly the sky filled with thousands of bright whitish-yellow flying squid shaped drones that avoided all friendly ships and destroyed the enemy fleet.

The drones saturated the incoming motherships. Each one piercing, exiting and re-entering the hulls of the ships several times, setting off multiple secondary explosions before sinking their teeth a final time into the heart of the ships and detonating with the full force of the energy provided by the ancient power of the outpost.

With the battle miraculously won thanks to another save by SG-1, down in the cave of the outpost, Colonel O'Neill slumped forward in the control chair, driven to exhaustion by all that he had done. Major Carter checked his pulse and informed Teal'c and Daniel that it was erratic. Teal'c grabbed O'Neill and placed him in one of the Ancient stasis pods. Still weak, O'Neill then said, "Aveo ... amacus," which Daniel translated as being Ancient for "good-bye, friends" before the pod activated, sealing Jack inside.

Major Carter and Teal'c boarded the Prometheus and flew to the Othala galaxy to attempt to contact the Asgard to help Colonel O'Neill. While Major General Landry, Daniel and the rest of the SGC along with ND-3 got embroiled within the internecine wars of the Goa'uld that were trying to prevent Ba'al from becoming the next dominant Supreme System Lord. Simultaneously the Jaffa Rebellion gained strength with command of its own Ha'taks and control of several worlds such as Chulak and Dakara for the first time. A previously unknown underground group of Human and Oranian smugglers and mercenaries called the Lucian Alliance became a new minor power as well-all because of Anubis' sudden fall from power, allowing many to seize the remnants of some of his holdings; those portions that Ba'al had been unable to immediately seize for himself. The galaxy was again descending into chaos.

In Othala, Major Carter was able to contact Thor and he was able to remotely connect to Colonel O'Neill's stasis pod and mind. While in the process of repairing O'Neill's mind for a second time, O'Neill gave Thor instructions for the creation of a Replicator Disruptor weapon that they could use to rid themselves of the Replicators forever. They were not a problem at that moment. Thanks to the success of the previous mission by SG-1 and ND-1, they were still trapped in time dilation and the human form Replicators destroyed. However, finally they could rid themselves of the problem altogether.

A month later, Doctor Jackson finished translating the final pieces of the Lost City tablet and discovered both the final symbol for the address and that its proper name was Atlantis. That news became an Earth shattering revelation to the ICW Ministerial Committee, since it had been long held that the wizarding world descended from Atlantis, though until then no one ever thought that had anything to do with aliens. This added another new dimension to the ICW's alliance with the IOA, one that would foment another new secret side-initiative within the ICW and they held an emergency meeting to discuss it.

...

"Thank you for meeting on such short notice. We have already distributed the results of the last mission report from the IOA and their recent findings regarding Atlantis. What I want to discuss is our approach to this information," announced Dumbledore.

"As we all know, Atlantis is said to be the origin of our race, and the beginning of all magic on Earth. Now, we learn that Atlantis is actually a city in another galaxy, Pegasus supposedly. Taken together with what else we know of the Alteran's who lived at Atlantis, these are the same people who left Ayiana behind about seven point five million years ago and are the self-same race that created the Stargates themselves and the technology that fueled the rise of the Goa'uld. They were also one of the four races in the so-called Four Great Races Alliance consisting of them, the Asgard, the Nox, and the lost race of Furling-all of whom we've discussed in the past.

This revelation is staggering. It implies that our ancestors go back at least that long and it might even imply that the healing ability Ayiana demonstrated itself was a form of magic. There is much to be considered, but my immediate reaction was to sequester the knowledge of our belief in our Atlantis origins from the muggles, insomuch as the few muggles who know about our identity might not already be aware of from their own myths and legends. However, it would be another thing altogether if we were to openly declare it. General Potter, if you would continue the explanation and give us your idea on the matter that you suggested." said Dumbledore.

"Yes, thank you. We have been developing closer and closer ties with the IOA and certainly, we should continue to stand by their side to help them defend Earth. However, we have not revealed or shared all of our advancements with them for our own security. To be fair, the vast majority of this discovery belongs to the IOA-and over the fullness in time, we should thank them for it. However, the issue is that Atlantis is our legacy, not theirs. We cannot be certain that if they should learn the secrets of Atlantis, would it lead them to have power over us, or to learn of our true nature in the first place. Nor can we be certain we should trust them with that knowledge. Furthermore, it is only suspected that the city lay abandoned. It may not be at all. We might find a city, indeed a world or galaxy full of our cousins there.

We simply do not know what we will find if we go to Atlantis. However, for all those reasons, I think we should send an ICW expedition to explore it ourselves, before they do. We know that the IOA is already beginning to form plans for their own expedition to Atlantis using the power module, which they have called a Zero Point Module that they got from Proclarush to power the Outpost defense system.

We estimate they are about one to two months away from launching that expedition. The sole ZPM in their possession is believed by them to be the only power source large enough to make a connection to an inter-galactic Stargate. However, as you know, we successfully tested international gate dialing a long time ago, using a very large SSFIRE crystal reactor matrix. Instead of one SSFIRE512, it essentially required three SSFIRE512 reactors configured serially.

What I propose, is that you authorize TND to embark on our own expedition to Atlantis first, immediately. Then, in whatever state we find it in, we either decide in consultation with the locals what we should do in regard to the muggles, if anything, assuming they aren't hostile and take us prisoner-there is always that risk as well. Alternatively, if we find the city abandoned and salvageable, we should sequester Atlantis to our own use. If we act quickly enough and if it is abandoned, we can secure it for our own use, preventing their gate from accessing it at all-and they would never need to know what we found, until, when, or if we decide to share any of it with them.

"Генеральный Поттер, что бы вам нужно от нас, чтобы сделать возможным такое миссия? (General Potter, what would you need from us to make such a mission possible?") asked Minister Pugachev from Russia.

"Nothing, we can use several teams from the NDC itself, with existing supplies and resources. We already have enough SSFIRE512 reactor pods to power our gate for international dialing. I just need three more weeks to make another three pods that we can take with us to Atlantis, to ensure we have enough power to dial back. We can use those three weeks to carefully plan our logistics and other fail-safes for the mission, and then just go. We should beat the IOA by about two months." Harry answered.

The Ministerial Committee deliberated for only a half hour on the question and decided unanimously to authorize Harry's mission to Atlantis. "General, the mission is approved, you have a go." announced Dumbledore.

Three weeks later, ND-1, ND-3, and ND-4 finished preparations to launch their mission to Atlantis. Before they were to depart, Harry made sure the construction projects for the next two Helios class battle cruisers got started at the Olympus shipyard, and that his new Phoenix II hull would start being laid down in the New York shipyard. He would finish it when he got back. ND-2 would as usual remain split between the SGC and the NDC, so that to the IOA it would appear business as usual. The Helios would remain docked at the NDC; while the Hyperion remained at Olympus under Susan's command should they need to defend themselves while the most experienced teams were far away. They had a full company of two hundred android soldiers on standby to join them, should the city actually be deserted and ready to be claimed for salvage.

Until then they would go as lightly as possible, except for the cargo containers full of the SSFIRE512-S3 reactor, and the rest of the provisions and supplies they needed for their 12-person expedition. If they were confronted about bringing all of that by whoever might be on the other side, they would simply explain that they thought the city had been abandoned and were just ensuring they could dial home, which had the benefit of being the whole truth, which seemed more and more to be a rare thing in their business. Otherwise, they would call back as soon as they could for the reinforcements and the rest of the supplies for a longer expedition.

...

Harry led ND-1, ND-3, and ND-4 to Atlantis and confirmed over radio back to the NDC that they arrived safely and the place appeared deserted-then the gate disconnected. As everyone looked around, Harry and Hermione went up the steps to the main Operations room and all the lights came on in an instant, stunning everyone although there were no reports of any aliens whatsoever.

They split up into their three teams to explore and everywhere they went, as soon as they stepped into a room the lights came on and any consoles that were nearby activated. They did not find any aliens, ancients, or anyone else, but they discovered a large conference room, and a hangar with small spaceships.

At the same time, Charlie discovered the control room and the Lantean Dial Home Device. As they were powering up main systems, Hannah called Harry down three levels, where they saw a huge submerged city through the window, Atlantis.

Lucky for them, there was a shield holding back the water to prevent collapse of the city. Kevin also found a room with a holographic recording by an Ancient, telling the history of Atlantis. About ten thousand years previously, a powerful enemy called the Wraith besieged Atlantis, which is why they sunk their city, and went through the Stargate back to Earth.

Harry observed that the entire story of Atlantis was true, only that the Ancient Greeks probably heard it from an Ancient but he discovered a problem. They had to stop activating new systems and install the SSFIRE512-3 power generator they brought immediately, or they were dead, the last of three ZPMs that powered the city appeared ready to fail.

Therefore, they reigned in their curiosity and set out to work on getting the generators installed. First, they had to work out how to connect them to the receptacle where the ZPMs normally went. Harry had not planned to have to do this with mere hours to spare. The teams got everything unpacked, set up and ready in the control room, but Harry still had not worked out the connectivity issue when alarms went off and they heard and felt six large thumps from the bottom of the city, followed by the city rising quickly to the surface.

The twelve members of the expedition stopped what they were doing and just looked at each other wondering what was going on. They rushed back up to the command deck where they could see the water rushing by the city as it ascended. A moment later and Atlantis broke through the surface with a crash of water and high waves sent in all directions, followed by the shield falling and the alarm stopping.

"The city must've had a failsafe to prevent it from collapsing under the water when the power ran out." Harry observed.

"Good thing." Hermione replied, along with heads nods and several shaking in disbelief of how close that had been.

"Kevin, why don't you stay here with your team and try to interface with the command deck consoles? See if you can figure out if this place has sensors and find out if we just stuck our heads out into enemy territory or what? said Harry. The rest of us will go back to the control room and finish getting the power restored with our generators."

"Will do, make it quick. Who knows what we've gotten ourselves into now?" Kevin answered.

Harry and the rest finished setting up the generators and he figured out a way to interface them with cables they had come with jury-rigged for that purpose into the receptacles where the ZPMs normally sat.

After the control chair accepted power from the one SSFIRE512-S3 reactor Harry sat in it and it responded to him, reporting that city power level was restored to ten percent of normal capacity. Harry inquired of the AI what city systems that could support. There was enough to power all city systems, including the Stargate, the shield or the cloak for brief periods, but not the star-drives.

From the chair, Harry also tapped into Atlantis sensor net and learned that they were safe for the moment. There was no other activity on the surface of the planet, in orbit, or even in the rest of the system. They all breathed a sigh of relief and checked in with the NDC, dialing the gate back home. After updating them on status and events so far, Harry said,

"We need you to build for us two more SSFIRE512-S3 reactor pods, so we can use the other two ZPM receptacles and max our power to the city."

"That will take at least six weeks." Ginny replied.

"That's okay. We seem to be secure for now. Just go ahead and dial back and send the company of droid soldiers, and we will begin a larger exploration of the city and see if we can learn how to fly this thing to bring it home. Then begin standard gate security protocols from your end and we'll do the same here and we'll be secure on the gate network as well." Harry answered.

"Will do guys. Congratulations and good luck." Ginny answered and signed off.

...

During the next six weeks, all of the team members took turns sitting in the chair and getting familiar with how to control various city-ship functions. There was no magical download of superior ancient knowledge, but there was the next best thing, a city-ship wide artificial intelligence that was willing and able to answer any question and do anything they asked of it. It did not take them long to come up to speed enough to know what they were dealing with and how to get it home.

One of the first things they asked Atlantis AI was if the city had any spare ZPM (or Potentia as the Lanteans had referred to them). The answer was no. Then, could Atlantis help them make new ones? The answer was yes, but it required travel to a Twin Quasar to do it (the nearest, nicknamed "Old Faithful" being eight point seven billion light years away), a roughly fifteen hundred years round-trip in an Apophis class Ha'tak or fifteen years round-trip for Atlantis with its current forty percent power efficiency). However, now he was motivated to get his hyper-warp ship operational. When completed, it could make such as trip feasible in a reasonable amount of time.

That had been disappointing, but they managed to get the city AI to accept Harry as its new Supreme Commander, since as it told them the first time it spoke to them, each of them registered as Lantean descendants. Therefore, Harry as leader of their expedition and General of their military was worthy to take on the mantle. The AI walked Harry through raising the command pedestal on the command deck by the gate room and formally accepting command.

They learned the purpose and how to fly the gate ships, which Hermione nicknamed puddle jumpers. They learned from the holographic recording the history of the Lanteans war with the Wraith. They learned from the remnants of the social research satellite network that the Wraith were severely reduced in numbers due to diminishing their own food supply of humans, and spent most of their time in hibernation. Their current cycle having fifty years before they were due to awaken and cull worlds to feed their diminishing numbers. During the intervening time, only one Hive and its three cruisers remained awake and alert, patrolling and keeping general tabs on the galaxy.

...

Back in the Milky Way galaxy, there had been a ceremony at the SGC where a new Homeworld Security was formed under Lieutenant General Hammond. Colonel O'Neill was promoted to Brigadier General, and given command of the SGC relieving the retiring Major General Landry; and Major Carter was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and given command of SG-1.

When the Atlantis expedition was ready to dial out to begin, they were shocked at what they found.

"Sir, announced Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman, the remote gate... Atlantis' gate, is not responding."

"What do you mean? We tested it just two months ago?" replied Brigadier General O'Neill.

"The last chevron will not lock sir." clarified Sgt. Harriman.

Lieutenant Colonel Carter went over to look over Harriman's work and the console to see if she could find anything out of the ordinary. After a few minutes, O'Neill looked at her with a raised eyebrow, wordlessly questioning her findings. "Sorry sir, it's just as Walter said, no joy on the Atlantis gate." Carter announced.

The gate room was full of supplies, military and civilians full of anticipatory anxiety, some eager, some nervous. All let out a breath of air they were holding on that news, to some a great relief.

"This isn't a very good start to the first mission under my new command," O'Neill whispered to Carter, hoping no one overheard him. He knew it was bad luck accepting a promotion to a desk job.

"Keep trying every fifteen minutes, Sergeant. O'Neill ordered. Doctor Weir, I will just ask your expedition team to wait on standby. If Atlantis doesn't answer in four hours we'll scrub the mission, regroup, and try to find out what has gone wrong."

A pair of members, the other half of Ginny's team, ND-2, Dan and Emma Granger just exchanged mildly amused glances to one another as they took in the scene and used all their will power to restrain a grin from forming on their lips.

...

In July 2004, while Harry and his expedition, flew Atlantis back with forty percent power restored thanks to nine large pods of SSFIRE crystal matrices wired into the control chair; the SGC was assessing the current state of affairs of the galaxy in the wake of Anubis defeat, and after they stopped licking their wounded pride over the Atlantis failure.

Ba'al had become the dominant System Lord but was being pushed back to Yu's distant former domain by the recently formed Free Jaffa Nation. A small upstart power calling itself the Lucian Alliance managed to obtain a number of Ha'tak and the control of several worlds in the ensuing power vacuum in their part of space. The Tok'ra had presented to them intelligence that indicated a flotilla of about one hundred Aschen light cruisers had apparently escaped the Black Hole destruction of their home world Aschen Prime and seemed to be heading in the direction of Lucia.

On a patrol mission to scout Lucian Alliance space, the Prometheus picked up a distress call. After dropping out of hyperspace to investigate they found a suspicious-looking Al'kesh, sitting dead in space. SG-3 was sent to investigate; however, the team was stunned and a Kull Warrior transported over to the Prometheus. It then used the rings to transport the entire crew except Daniel Jackson to the Al'kesh and piloted the Prometheus away. It turned out that the Kull warrior was a freelancer just borrowing a set of the armor, a former Goa'uld host named Vala Mal Doran who hoped to trade the Prometheus to the Lucian Alliance for a large shipment of weapons-grade naquadah. With the help of the Prometheus crew from the Al'kesh who followed them, Daniel managed to subdue Vala and place her in the brig. After the full crew returned to the Prometheus and they made plans to return to Earth, an alarm sounded and they discovered that Vala escaped, returned to the Al'kesh and disappeared into hyperspace.

In the meantime, Atlantis had arrived at Olympus, with another prize, a salvaged Lantean Aurora class battleship called the Tria; her crew was found dead in their stasis tubes, midway in the void between galaxies on the way home. Atlantis was able to take remote control and pilot it to one of her piers. They gave the dead crew a burial in space, like the seafarers of old. They also recovered a nearly full capacity ZPM from the Tria. They landed Atlantis just offshore of the main colony, on the large inland lake.

The ICW met and decided to inform the IOA two weeks later, amending some of the other secrecy, they had been enforcing, informing them that they had recovered Atlantis for themselves, so they could stop spinning their wheels over it. They were ready to reveal to the next few rungs on the IOA ladder and the SGC who they really were-pending those decisions by their own Heads of State. With their own colony fully self-sustaining, the recovery of Atlantis itself, and their people on Earth still as hidden as ever, they no longer feared repercussions from the muggle world. They could evacuate all magicals overnight if they had to, using Atlantis.

During a video conference, Brigadier General O'Neill slammed his fists on the table and replied, "What do you mean, you recovered Atlantis? That was our find, our mission. You had no right!" he shouted.

"General, you're right that it was your discovery and we thank you for that. However, what you do not understand is that Atlantis is our legacy. Our ancestors came from Atlantis; it is our home by birthright." Harry announced to a stunned silence, jaws dropped all around the SGC conference room table.

Daniel finally broke the silence. "You mean you are the Ancients? The very people we've been looking for all this time?"

"We are their descendants. We are not the Lanteans themselves. They all ascended or died in a war with their enemy called the Wraith, in Pegasus. A few hundred escaped back to Earth ten thousand years ago after they sunk the city. Those people resettled on Earth, spurning their science and technology, blending in with and intermarrying the locals, and through the generations, a hidden community of their heirs, us-evolved." Harry answered.

"Still...we agreed to share our discoveries and technological advancements." O'Neill interjected, bitterly.

"Yes, and we will still abide by that if you still want to do so yourselves. But, you had no intention of inviting us along on your expedition to Atlantis did you?" Harry countered.

Weir looked decidedly uncomfortable at that observation, which did not go unobserved by those in the room with her or those watching on teleconference. "We didn't hide it from you. Doctors Emma and Dan Granger were here as they always are; they knew what was going on." O'Neill added.

Dan and Emma had their turn to look squeamish since they were in the room on the SGC side of the call. "Yes, began Harry, we knew, but we also watched and waited for weeks while you discussed and planned your mission without a single word to us whether or not we would like to participate. Beside that, it just goes to prove what by now a minor point that is. Atlantis is our legacy. We were not about to let it end up in anyone else's hands beside our own from the moment we learned of its existence. It is practically our holy land. What would you expect?" Harry explained.

Daniel observed, "He's got a point Jack."

"I know he has a point Daniel. Nevertheless, they could have at least warned us they had gone to do it, what must have been weeks ago or maybe months now? We put a lot of effort and moved around a lot of people's lives to prepare our own mission, only to get a busy signal when we dialed the number," Jack countered as if the subjects of his frustration were not on the call with them. And then we looked like fools to the brass and the entire IOA," he concluded.

"I'll tell you what, Harry began. We can make it up to you by partially sharing one of the secrets to our success. We have a power source that produces clean, free energy, one that I have adapted to be able to plug-in to the receptacle of a control chair where a ZPM normally would go. The current generation of reactors can continuously produce the equivalent power of ten percent of a ZPM, but it takes up a lot more space."

"Could we use that to restore power to the old Ancient outpost?" Lieutenant Colonel Carter asked.

"Indeed. That is what I propose. We will give you one of those for Antarctica, and we can even keep you re-supplied with a full complement of drones. Thus restoring Earth's secret weapon as it were. All under your control, as usual. Any time you use some, we will just re-supply you. And for your gate, we will supply you a scaled up version of the same type of power that will give you inter-galactic dialing capability." Harry offered.

"That is a generous offer General Potter. But if I may ask, the way you phrased that, does it mean you will just supply us the generators and the drones without exchanging the knowledge of how to make more for ourselves?" asked Doctor Weir.

"Yes and it will all be free and unencumbered, our gifts to help you help defend Earth, and before you get upset about that again General O'Neill. Please understand that you lack the ability to create some of the functionality that goes into those power cells. In the case of drones and other advanced Lantean technology, we are going to keep those things State secrets; only sharing them when it is in our strategic interest and wise to do so, no less than as the Asgard did, and no different than the logic you use to decide when to share secrets. However, as friends I will say you are welcome to try to reverse engineer them. If you can learn anything from that and make it work despite what we believe, then more power to you." Harry answered.

"I don't understand. Why do you say we lack the ability? If you gave us the ability, we would be able to?" asked O'Neill, sounding confused over his first point.

"It requires certain unique abilities of those of our race to perform some of the finishing touches to make the power crystals work. Unlike in the past when we would just say 'drop that, it is classified,' we are now amending that. We have separately sent communiqués to your Heads of State that have always understood and kept secret to our mutual benefit, some of the differences about our race and now we have given them leave to brief in the few of you within your command structures that have a need to know, while preserving our overall secrecy to the public. With this revelation of our relationship to Atlantis and to the Ancients, the Alterans as they were originally called, your Heads of State will now understand more than they ever did and will quickly put two and two together in order to decide how best to disseminate that information among your leadership." Harry announced.

...

With the IOA brought into the loop and somewhat mollified with their gifts, the salvaging and return of Atlantis and the means to continuously partially power it, the ICW decided to expand their colony to open immigration to Atlantis itself or the adjoining Olympus colony to all magicals world-wide who wished to go. Any that wanted to have nothing to do with technology would be given homesteads on land instead of homes in the city. The revelation of Atlantis would be all that it would take to inspire the interest of the majority of the wizarding world.

Harry and his inner circle held a meeting with the Fantastic Four and Wakanda about the rediscovery of their Lantean roots and city. They offered control of the TND facility in New York, Tanzania, its gate and the Hyperion to be turned over to them to continue their own terrestrial power and influence for defense of the Earth if they wished, while the bulk of the magical world would immigrate to Olympus and Atlantis, and continue with their alliance with Earth from there.

The Fantastic Four and Wakanda actually turned them down, opting to simply go back into retirement and resume their isolationism, respectively. Since they really were not needed any more, and because the New Lanteans would remain Earth's ally for defense from space, they felt that the contribution that had been needed from them at the start was no longer as important. They were satisfied with just going back into retirement. T'Challa just asked since they were willing to give some older stuff away, for their one Al'kesh. It would serve him and his people as a good reliable means for basic cloaked space travel, when and if they ever wanted it.

Harry and company worked on a new ship design and ship building program, and stripped the Tria down to reverse engineer it thoroughly. In time, the bulk of the magical world would immigrate. The ICW would maintain a skeleton crew at their hidden New York NDC to maintain their own foothold and remain available to help stragglers who needed to migrate later.

All of their technical and magical resources including other gates, etc. and the rest of any other magical races who wanted to follow them were moved to Olympus or pulled back to the NDC. They recalled ND-2 and their House Elf spy network in order respect their privacy and to improve the SGC's sense that Olympus was not staring down their backs every minute. The magical world had learned all it needed to rise up as equals to the muggle world concerning science and space, and now exceeded them in certain ways. They would normalize relations with them as an ally, without going behind their back anymore. They would establish and maintain regular communications in a more conventional sense going forward.

Harry had placed into both Earth and Olympus orbit a hybrid Tollan phase-cloaked long-range communication and surveillance satellite network, to keep a clear remote eye on Earth and maintain real-time comms with the NDC and SGC.

Earth launched its second BC-303 battle cruiser, the Odyssey, while Atlantis continued to assimilate the various advanced knowledge of Tollan, Asgard, and Lantean-to rethink an even newer approach to hybrid technology solutions in the future.

About one hundred thousand opted for life on Atlantis as mages, cross-trained in science and technology, to have some role in operation of the city and defense of the Colony. Another one million opted for the more traditional life on land continuing to live as simple wizards and witches, although they too would live with more technology in their basic infrastructure, not to mention their next generation NFIRE (Naquadah Filament Infused Runic Energy) crystal powered orbital defense platforms and terrestrial shielding.

Another estimated four hundred thousand magical stragglers remained on Earth, most of them spread out and inherited what was left of the old world enclaves, including ministry and school facilities. Those chose to remain on Earth in hiding, intending to continue living in the old ways indefinitely.