Over the course of the afternoon John either stayed within eyeshot of Teyla or had gone to the briefing room having Carson update him every ten minutes, things were set, they just needed to get back at the Wraith for good now, only the best way to do it, well, that still left some work to be done, and the Wraith's Bane still was not yet battle worthy, even though the Furlings that were still wtithin the ship had stated that she indeed was ready for combat in space.
The Wraith's Bane, was built similar to that of the Daedalus, and somewhat larger then the Daedalus itself, in fact the hangar bay itself could possibly fit the Daedalus inside with very little room to spare. The ship had a total of fourteen decks, two of which were reserved for the medical bay, two for sleeping quarters and six for engine areas, the rear of the ship for the six levels for the engines were in fact half of the area for the hangar bay, six floors high and holding three jumpers, and two dozen X-302 fighter craft.
John liked what he saw, but was troubled by the fact that the ship was not yet battle worthy for the attack from the Wraith, the last thing Earth needed after the Ori attack was the Wraith to show up. At least the Furling Drones had done so much extensive work on the ship it carried a air of both grace and, something of power behind it.
Looking out the front winscreen John took in the view of Earth, his wife was done there, slowly healing from the fight with the Prior that morning, it seemed like weeks ago when John watched Teyla fight the guy. It was odd he knew, for a single human to fight such a being, after all, he'd read the mission reports on the topic many times over since he'd been pulled away from Teyla's bedside.
"So, what do you think Sheppard, You think this ship can hold back the Wraith for a time?" Jack asked after a moment of quiet. Jack seemed OK with it, that had to be worth something.
"I like it" John said after a minute of relaxing in the commanders seat, sadly the Furlings had no idea what a Lay-Z-Boy Recliner was, so, John kept his thoughts of how well one of those would be for his chair to himself.
"Not exactly a Lay-Z-Boy but it'll do huh?" Jack said, well, looks like he spoke the unspoken complaint.
"Not exactly a Lay-Z-Boy, but then again even in a Lay-Z-Boy I'd look odd, the Wraith don't even have tables for god sakes." John said.
"I think they like to eat their food standing up Sheppard" Jack said, he knew first hand just like John did of what the Wraith liked to do. "Anyhow what say we test out this lovely mocking bird?"
"I like that idea, what of a crew, one to take my place when I go onto the planet and such, I'm not good at just sitting around, you know that." John said. Then John relized who he was talking to, "Bad example." He said knowing full well that Jack himself hated sitting around doing nothing and getting totally confused.
"Well the crew is taken care of right now, two Asgard, six Furlings, all in the engine area, the rest are human crew members picked out by many of the Air Forces best and brightest." Jack said.
"That's putting them pretty dimm isn't it Sir?" John said wit the hint of a smile on his face. "Anything else on this bird that I should know about?" John asked getting up out of his new seat, already he wanted to sit right back down, but first thing's first.
"Well, there is one thing that I know mcKay will like. tweleve, you heard right, tweleve, ZPMs, two of which power this thing right now." Jack said, "There is also another 14 in reseve right now as well. From what is told to me by Carter is that when the spent ZPMs are ready to over load, they are put into the main engnie core wherein they blow up and give off from what I remember, up to around fifteen or so hours of power."
"Well, I think McKay already knows that" John said remembering his last visit to Earth of which Teyla was nearly killed by Adira. "what else is there?"
"Beaming system, beam weapons, what else, there is a long list you can't expect me to remember it all!" Jack said as the crew started to get onboard. the supplies had begun to be beamed aboard, "And another thing there is a ring platform system going through the whole of the ship, no elevators anymore, they tend to break a lot, we still have stairs though." Jack said as Carter showed up, "hello Carter tell us you got good news we can understand."
Cater shook her head, "Sorry sirs but no, not good news but something you can understand. Two Wraith ships were spotted by the Apllos deep space sensors, they past Midway Station a half hour ago and just dropped out of hyperspace just inside the Milky Way."
"Just two ships?" Jack and John both asked before John relized, "Two Hive Ships, and then the escort ships with them, along with the fighters for each escort and Hive, lots of Wraith. How many weapons does this tweety?" John asked Carter.
"Well, to put it simply sir enough firepower to blow up the third Death Star." Carter said.
"There was only two made as well as the Prototype, Carter." Jack said, "so that is three... isn't it?" He looked over to John who didn't say anything. He'd seen the mocvies and read a few of the books but that was it, at least he didn't try to make his own lightsaber, he knew they weren't real, unlike a certain sientiest he knew.
"Anyhow we know the Wraith are coming, how close are they to actually gettinghere? can we meet them half way?" John asked.
"If you leave now yes, all the weapons and supplies for the crew are onboard just being stowed away now." Carter said.
"What about Teyla?" John asked, Carter sighed, John had asked the utmost question she'd been hoping he wouldn't.
"Still alseep and with Carson right now, Carson said that he'd radio you every hour with a update, and right now from what he can tell he had stopped the bleeding to a few wounds, but not all of them. It's only a matter of time ungil he knows for sure." Carter said.
"OK then, hopefully her sleep will be better then my first battle in this bird. Get the crew in their places, hopefully I wont screw this over like back at al Sui." John said, heading for the bridge, and his seat, as the rest of the crew came aboard and got into their places.
It was time to get back at the Wraith head on.