A/N; DMRD: Hello all, I hope you like this new chapter. A call out is owed to robertbryan for his idea (Taoth Dakara). A fantastic idea and truly something that should have been considered earlier. But, Taoth Dakara is his. Thank you, Robert, for allowing us to use this.
ShadowXV; I would to point out this story will not be updated fast most of the time. Darth has other stories he working on and then there what i am working on. So if we miss something that why.
Darth: I would like to point out that because Shadow has bought a grammar program we should be a little faster in posting since we have a computerized beta reader. But Shadow is right we both have other things we need to work on. In other words. this damn thing called real live is in the way of the more fun things in life.
ShadowXV: It still takes time though it has caught mistakes i would of miss of course.
Darth; Good news things will be picking up in the story. Get ready for an interesting ride.
ShadowXV; Interesting rides with the two of us means nothing but trouble somewhere.
Chapter 5 8 Months ED / Yr1 CoK - Colonials Terran LifeThree months after Atlantis began turning the waters into an atmosphere the Terrans began settling on their new home. With help from the Colonials, a basic city had been built, and the 2.4 million people settled down. This city was meant to be temporary as a new city, with a layout similar to Atlantis, was built near the New Mississippi River. This river formed as the water rushing out of the stargate during the formation of the ocean.
In Orbit, the rebuilt and renamed "Resolution" station was running the beginnings of the Pallas satellite defense grid. And its "current" single shipyard was building another Cargo ship, while the Viper and Raptor factory modules were turning out F-302/B (Fox) and a shuttle design found in the Ancient Database which, after the upgraded some of the systems. They called the Norn class (Destiny Shuttle). The Resolution was able to turn out five Fox's a day and one Norn. Once the Arctic Sea class cargo ship was finished, they expected to build one cargo ship a month. The most time-consuming part being building the hyperdrive and beaming system.
On that note, Rakic Zelenka had designed a technological equivalent to a culling beam. While his proposal was initially shot down, it was proven to be a useful device. His culling beam was modified not to dematerialise organic matter. His proposal was to load the culling beam with a program to only dematerialise certain molecules. Specifically molecular patterns like Naquadah, trinium, Neutronium, and other valuable materials.
Radak also specifically designed the hardware of the "mineral sweeper" to be unable to dematerialise organic matter. The designs of the mineral sweeper were given to the Colonials and Jaffa. Radak explained that the ring platforms were also able to be modified to work in this fashion. But would take some major redesign of the pattern buffer to hold the energy from the stored matter.
The Colonials instantly saw the value of the device and began building them as fast as possible. Their versions were nearly 15 times the size of the device built by Radak, which was twice the size of the Wraith Culling Beam. But it would still be faster to use this than traditional space mining. Doctor Baltar managed to link the storage circuits of the Sweeper to a ring platforms matter transmission systems. Allowing the stored material and patterns to be materialized and sorted on the mining ship.
On Horizon, the city had expanded, and real houses were being constructed out of wood, carbon fiber, and aluminum. The population of the colony had grown from 5000 to 60,000 people. Bra'tac truly came through for the Terrans. Bra'tac had organized a migration of former goa'uld slaves to the planets that were a part of the protected planets treaty. The boost of population and food resulted in the populations fully recovering from the Ori. And in many cases a technological boost.
Another colony established on the planet Icarus. The already built base was modified to be a research station. A place to further their understanding of Asgard Technology without being watched by the Colonials. Head Researcher Nicholas Rush had finished the power tap to the planets Naquadria core. He explained that the planet's core could easily produce the levels of power equal to 5 Zero Point Modules without producing any damage to the planet.
His proposal to General O'Neill was to turn the planet into an advanced research base, shipyard, and factory. The General agreed and soon parts were being moved to the planet as fast as possible.
Building the underground facilities was a matter of some concern, but was solved by purchasing tunneling crystals from the Tok'Ra. Materials were gained from the Raids being conducted on the Lucian Alliance and visiting old Asgard facilities such as Adara 2 and other colonies.
However, the greatest boon to the facility was the addition of the Asgard Core. The Core was removed from Odyssey and installed in the Facility. After the Core was connected to the power grid a duplicate, albeit weaker, version of the core was installed on the Odyssey.
Dr. Rush also drafted a young man named Eli Wallace into the research team. Dr. McKay tried to get assigned to the Icarus. However, he was too well known among the Colonial Leadership so his disappearance would be to easily seen.
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"Dr. Woolsey," Rodney said running up to him. "What is it, Rodney." "I need to talk to you now. It's imperative that we speak."
"Ok, come with me." Woolsey touched his wrist computer and he and Rodney were beamed to a secure conference room. "What is it, Rodney?"
"I found another city ship." "What?" Woolsey sat down and started at Rodney. "Where?" "Right here in this galaxy. It's the same city ship that the Ancients fled to this Galaxy in." "Where is it, Rodney?" "Dakara. The Dakara Device was the top spire of the City."
"Well, how do we get it, Rodney? Dakra and that device, in particular, was destroyed."
"Not necessarily. The top spire maybe. But the city itself. I bet its still intact. I looked at the schematics. This city has a lot of armor and redundancy. Far more than Atlantis. I think if we go to the city I can interface the Moros Phase Shifting device with the city, and we could fly it out."
"And take it where?"
"Icarus."
Woolsey nodded seeing the reasoning. "The Jaffa have abandoned Dakara after Adria's assault. Very well Rodney. Take Odyssey and if the city is intact take it to Icarus. Use the ZPM if you need to."
Rodney was about to leave when Woolsey stopped him, "Also Rodney," Rodney stopped and turned back to Woolsey, "Did we find out if Todd had any other ZPM's that he kept hidden from us."
"I checked the Data myself. But I didn't see any sign of additional ZPM's."
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The Caprica Institute of Advanced Science had long had a prototype for a plasma weapon. However, they never had a portable energy source that could produce the needed power to create the plasma and get it hot enough to do any damage to existing armor technology used by the military. Plus, it took too long to heat it to the required temp to be practical. With Naquadah that changed.
After studying the designs of Goa'uld staff weapons and the Ori energy cannon. The Institute developed a portable cannon that could rival the output of a Staff Cannon.
Twelve of these prototype cannons were installed on the Galactica and once the two Naquadah Reactors were installed the Galactica was taken for a shakedown cruise. The Galactica's shakedown cruise took her all the way to Earth. While the Hyperdrive was goa'uld tech, Rodney Mckay had made a few changes to the drive. This change was doubling the speed from 9.92 LY/hr to 20 ly/hr. This allowed the Galactica to reach Earth in 14 days. Which was pushing the reactors to the max? With the high mass of the Galactica thanks to the armor and the larger hyperspace field.
While this is still far slower than a 304's 170,000 LY/hr, without a ZPM, or an FJN Ha'tak' 23.68 LY/hr. McKay did explain that the hyperdrive can achieve speeds far faster than 20 LY/hr, but their reactors cannot operate at that level.
When Galactica arrived at Earth, the Norn Class shuttle was tested. Twelve such shuttles were flown out to tow as many Ha'tak parts out of orbit and into the Galactic's, now pressurized, hangar bays.
When Galactica returned to Cyrannus and all the systems tested the go-ahead was given for fleet-wide upgrades. The first new ship to be built completely with the new tech was the Olympus class Warstar.
The original Colonial plans called for a ship 200 meters longer than a Phase 2 Mercury, 1900 meters with; 47 Primary Batteries, 30 Secondary batteries, and 400 Point defenses. The Warstar did not have the two massive hangar bays that Battlestars carried. Instead, it had a single bay in the middle of the Warstar that stretched from Port to Starboard. The Warstar had the ability to dock, arm and fuel Vipers, but it was not its main purpose.
With the technology the Terrans brought to the table The Mk1 Kobolan Plasma Cannon replaced a quarter of the Primary and Secondary Batteries. And Naquadah reactors replaced the Tylium reactors.
The regular shipments of Naquadah from the mining fleets allowed for the refit of the old Columbia and some of the older Mercuries.
The Colonials were incredibly proud of their new ships. In a war game with the Jaffa, a refit Colonial ship was able to hold its own for several hours. With the simple upgrades that the Terrans gave the Colonials, their ships were equal to the Jaffa, weapon wise. Their ships were still far slower in sublight and hyperspace. Jumpdrives are another matter. A Mercury can jump five times in an hour and five LY per jump. Simple math shows that they can jump 25 lightyears in an hour.
"Ok Doctor. lets make this quick." Colonel Mitchell said, "I'm already on it. Now according to the Atlantis Database all I have to do is." He pressed one more key and the sensors beeped "Sir, I'm picking up an ancient structure. Its Alterran, about 700 meters below the surface of the planet."
"Huh, that's a lot deeper than I thought." "Problem?" "No, we can still beam down." " Sir. I don't know if we can." McKay and Mitchell turned to Major Marks. "The City has incredibly thick armor. Several meters thick in some places."
"Alright. The main entrance should be here." McKay brought up the schematic on the screen "Use the transporters to beam up the rock there and we can beam down and enter the city."
A few hours later they McKay was in the cities main power center. He was disappointed to discover that the city ran on Naquadria Reactors and a few other minerals that he had never heard of. However, the City was fully functional. The only part of the city that ran on ZPM's was the superweapon that was now destroyed.
"Odyssey this is McKay. The city is in good shape. I'm going to install the phase device and run a few interface tests."
"Sure thing McKay." a few hours later McKay contacted Woolsey, Landry, and O'Neill.
"McKay what have you found?" Woolsey asked
"The City is intact and functional. Its in perfect shape. The city seems to have automated repair systems and a Subspace capacitor. It was drawing small amounts of power to maintain its systems and self-repair. The hyperdrive is functional along with sublight. Good news, we will be able to bring the city to Icarus soon."
"Good news Rodney. How much aid do you think the city will be to them." "Incalculable. This city is what the Ancients arrived in this galaxy in. It has foundries, mining facilities, everything. Icarus will be self-sustaining. A few upgrades to its computer systems and we can backup Atlantis's database to Taoth." "I take it Taoth is the city's name?" "Yes. In a few hours I'm going to activate the phase generator and fly the city out."
"What kind of weapons does the city have Rodney?" General Landry asked, "I haven't checked yet. I'm been more worried about the space flight systems."
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After he finished speaking to Atlantis Rodney found his curiosity peaked. Pulling up the cities weapons grid he was shocked and scared. The city was a third the size of Atlantis but fielded 400 plasma cannons, 60 particle beams, and 900 anti-matter missiles.
The shields were incredibly interesting to him. They were highly specific on what they stopped. The shields would be useless against staff blasts. But against railgun rounds or other kinetic impacts they would easily stop everything.
After the diagnostics were complete Rodney brought the phase generator online and powered up the engines. "Odyssey this is McKay. I'm starting takes off procedures." He was glad that the communication stones were able to communicate across the quantum frequency boundary. It made things easier.
"Roger, McKay. We're waiting for you."
"Engines powering up. 10%, 20%, 35%. The city is taking off. Crossing the surface. 1000 feet, 2000, 3000. Accelerating now at 7000 feet. Stable orbit."
"Well done McKay."
"Thank you. Returning to normal phase. Activating cloak."
"Good. We're sending over some teams. We will follow you to Icarus."
Five days later Taoth landed on Icarus. The Asgard Core was moved to the city, and it ran numerous checks on the Ancient Alteran computer systems. A few days after that the Icarus research teams moved over to the city and began to work on their projects.
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"Rodney what can you tell us about Taoth?"
"Well, its powerful. But compared to even goa'uld technology it's primitive. The Ancients abandoned the city because it was old and would take more resources to upgrade the city to their new standards then was worth."
"So is it useful to us?"
"Yes. Very. For our needs, we just need to bring over some new computers and equipment. The hyperdrive can be replaced, weapons modified, shields refined, a few supplemental reactors. But the Naquadria reactors on the city are far more powerful than what we have. We should use that design on our ships. We would have triple the power output."
"That's great. And thanks to Icarus we have a stable supply of Naquadria." Sam said
"Exactly. Also, I had thought. We could vastly increase the computer's power of Taoth if we have more Lantean Computers. We can't take them from Atlantis, but we could go to the Crashed City in Pegasus and get those computers." "Alright, Rodney. Take the Odyssey and see to it. Taoth is your new assignment." Woolsey said.
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"Sir, we need to give them a reason for this." Sam Carter told Richard Woolsey.
"I have one. We are merging our military's because our military is our planetary defense force." Woolsey told Carter. "As for your new assignment. We have turned the west pier into a scientific facility. This tower here," A hologram appeared, and Richard touched the tower, "is yours and Mckay's private lab space. We are installing the Earth Stargate here for you and Mckay to gate to Icarus. Your main mission is to study the Asgard database.
"McKay is going to Pegasus on the Odyssey. He has 58 days in Pegasus for his assignment." Sam ran the math and figured that they were officially going to give Mckay 30 days for his actual work plus 36 days not counting the eight-day round trip."
"Why are we doing this Sir?"
"What do you mean?"
"Hiding so much."
"Long Term Colonel? This whole thing isn't going to work. It can't work. Our people are too proud ever to submit to the Kobolans long term. Just like they are too proud to have weaker ships than us for very long. They will be demanding our technology, and we can't give it to them."
"Why?"
"It's our only bargaining chip. Without it we won't have an identity. Everything we are will fade into the Colonial Society. We will be nothing more than a memory. Also, I had a poll done by our people over 95 percent do not trust these colonials and wishes we did not come here. Tell me Colonel you dealt with several worlds wanting some of our technology how did they end?"
"You're right Sir it did not work out well, or we cause problems by just being there and not sharing our tech. It a shame that we are going down this path with the Colonials cause I do think we could learn much from them."
"Maybe so Colonel but the cost of losing what little we have left of who we are is not worth it. Then add in the fact our people want blood and the number of suicides that have occurred. We need to do something to give our people hope and what we would need to do the Colonial Government would not let us do."
"Who are you taking to the meeting with the Colonial President?"
Woosley sigh "I am going to be taking O'Neill and Simpson, both of them, should be able to handle it. Still it will be a problem to keep our military out of there control. I do think they will try for a long time to bring our forces under their control I want you to get the Vengeance ready."
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Simpson looks at O'Neil and Shepard as he said "The Colonials are going to give Woolsey hell for not putting our people into their forces."
Sheppard look at Simpson as he asks "why would they already know about our colony that free overall?"
O'Neill would watch the two officers as he says "It about control Colonel if our people were in their forces fully they could spread them out to the point we would not be able to do anything."
Sheppard ask "Still what about Colonel Simpson sir he is a former member of their forces they will expect him to either return to those duties or take on a position between our forces."
Simpson just roll his eyes "That is true Sheppard, but the truth is this I will be working out of Atlantis full time, and I do plan to be on the world every chance I can get away with it."
O'Neill said "Sheppard while you will be heading up the forces on Horizon Simpson will be your equal and contact with our forces that will be at Palla. Both of you remember these people are looking for any reason to come marching in do not give it to them."
Sheppard looks at O'Neill "Sir what I do not understand is I thought Colonel Simpson was taking command of the Vengence?"
O'Neill smirk "Well it is his ship Sheppard but at this point and time he can not take full command due to the fact he will have his hand full with the Colonial Miltary running interference with our forces and theirs."
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"Admiral Black, this is Raptor 271, we are approaching the wreckage of the Goa'uld ship. Initiating docking procedures."
"Understood 271, maintain radio contact."
"Sir, we are docked. Leaving the raptor. We don't have any gravity. Maglocks are secure. We're in a hallway. It's heavily shielded. If we didn't have a line of sight to the raptor we probably wouldn't have radio link."
"Understood."
"I wonder why the Earthers didn't clean up all this crap?"
"Never had the time I guess. Let's go this way."
"Jackpot." The engineer said. "This is a computer. Admiral, this is Stryker. We found a Goa'uld computer core. We need this entire Hulk."
"Roger that, jump tugs are moving into position. Return to the raptor."
"What do we have?" Adar asked the scientists.
"A lot. This computer core works near perfect. We have a lot of information on the goa'uld and some of the most advanced tech they ever worked with. It is true however that we won't be mass producing it anytime soon."
"You didn't answer my question."
"Well sir, we are still indexing the data. But, metallurgical information, weapons, shields, hyperdrive and sublight are all in this computer core. We have working examples of goa'uld and Asgard technology."
"Asgard tech?"
"Yes, Sir. Apparently, this goa'uld Anubis captured an Asgard and downloaded his mind into a computer. That ship was destroyed. But Anubis copied some of the Asgard knowledge into this computer here. We have that data now."
"Get to work on it."