Hammond Bridge
Everyone on the bridge knew about the fate of the Asgard and everyone also thought that if you wanted to see them, you would need to go to the Asgard Core and talk to one of them there. That's why when Thor walked onto the bridge followed by closely by Sam everyone stopped what they were doing and stared. Both Sam and Thor just stood there and stared back, straight faced.
General O'Neill was the first to snap out of it. "Sam, Thor, sorry for our rude behavior but seeing you my friend walk onto the bridge was a shock indeed." General O'Neill made his way over to Thor and Sam while he was talking. Once he got to them, he bent down at the knees to be more on Thor's level. "It was just that we never thought that we would see you anywhere but by the Core."
If the General was surprised before, he was really surprised when Thor placed a hand on his shoulder and spoke back to him. "It was anticipated General O'Neill but thanks to Sam and the rest of SG-1 were able to scan Voyagers holographic technology, and from that Sam and I recreated it to suit my people's needs." Thor pointed to his forearm where a thin Asgard bracer shaped device appeared. "As of now this is the device that a copy of my consciousness is stored as well as the projector, power source, and failsafe systems. With this, we will have the ability to feel, interact, and change our environment once again. It is just a shame that we did not think of something like this sooner, millions could have been saved." Thor lowered his arm and his holosleeve disappeared once again.
"And for that I am sorry. But on the bright side, here with us, you and the remainder of your people can have a new start, with all the time you need to rebuild. I wouldn't ask for anyone else to be with us." General O'Neill knew that this was a huge step for the Asgard people, and his as well. While they have access to all the Asgard knowledge, they didn't actually 'know' how or why most of it worked. Having them able to walk the stars again would be huge help indeed.
"Both of our people have a bright future ahead of us. Together we will build something great."
Standing back up, the General headed back to his command seat, but continued to speak. "We will be arriving at our destination in about twenty-five minutes so if there anymore of your people that you want to join you for our meeting with Earth, feel free to 'wake' them up."
"I will get started immediately. I will be back in time for the meeting that I'm sure will be taking place." With that Thor beamed himself off the bridge. General O'Neill didn't know how he did it but wasn't shocked that he could beam himself around the ship.
"Colonel Carter, do you have the data on creating stargates, I'm considering leaving one on Earth so I want to know if that will be now or later after we set up somewhere?"
Sam held out her hand and materialized a pad with all the information on what it would take to make a stargate and DHD. While they had the energy to create one, it would cost too much and take away the vital energy needed for the ship to function at one hundred percent.
"Ok Colonel, we will wait until we hopefully find the resources we need and to get ourselves started." General O'Neill went to prepare for the arrival in Earth space and the meeting that would follow.
The Hammond and her attending fleet exited hyperspace in between the moon and Earth with Voyager in tow. Visible in a very high orbit was a massive space station that was in the shape of a cone with a mushroom type top sitting on the wide end up top. Clearly visible was a ship that was exiting the massive construct. That ship started to accelerate to their position once the eight ships registered on their sensors. Subspace transmissions were flying back and forth from Voyager to Earth as well as the space station.
General O'Neill was sitting in his command chair while Thor and Freyr were sitting in their egg like chairs, one on each side of the general while SG-1 was behind all of them.
"General, we are being hailed. It's the Voyager."
"Thank you Lieutenant, put it on the screen." This was the conversation that O'Neill wasn't looking forward to, the part of playing politics, but he had to do it and was determined to do it well, especially with their two guests on the bridge as well.
Captain Janeway was on the screen with another man who looked to be in his sixties and had white hair. His uniform was different as well. It looked far more formal and decorative. "General O'Neill, once again I would like to thank you for keeping your word and bringing us home safely. We are transmitting the rest of the agreed upon information as we speak. I would also like to introduce you to Admiral Paris. Admiral this is General O'Neill, commanding officer of the Tau'ri vessel Hammond and the accompanying support fleet."
"Nice to meet you Admiral Paris, please allow me introduce my two friends beside me. To my right is Thor and to my left is Freyr. They are both on the Asgard High Council and speak for themselves and their people but are our strongest allies. Thor, Freyr, this is captain Janeway of the Voyager and as we just found out, Admiral Paris."
"On behalf of the Federation, I give you our thanks for returning our people to us."
General O'Neill looked towards Thor, indicating that he wanted him to take the lead on this. Being that he had more experience in these situations and it would also show that they were two peoples instead of all working under the General, Thor gladly answered the Admiral.
"You are welcome Admiral; it was no trouble at all. We thank you for the information that you provided us in return, it has been most helpful."
"It's the least we could do after all you did for us. Now, Captain Janeway has informed us that you are away from your home by an accident and are unsure if you will be able to return home. She also said that you will continue to explore. Is there anything else that we can do to help you?"
"As a matter of fact there is. Have you ever seen these compounds before? We would be willing to trade for information or for the materials themselves." Thor looked to General O'Neill to make sure that as the de-facto leader for his people that he agreed with the proposition. General O'Neill inclined his head in acceptance since he knew these materials were vital to their survival. Once the General showed his acceptance Thor transmitted the atomic structure of the ore they needed as well as their names; Trinium, Naquada, and Neutronium.
Captain Janeway looked to Ensign Kim and nodded her head in a silent command to look up the information. "Well, what you call trinium, we call duranium and there is plenty of that around, you just have to mine it or trade for it as we do. Naquada we never had a name for it beside Compound 349, we have previously only found trace amounts of it within Federation space. But there is an artifact made out of this substance that we can't scan or open. In fact it has been a mystery to use for several hundred years. And as far as Neutronium, there is no record of it in our databanks."
"Well, Admiral, is there anything we could trade for this artifact that has been plaguing you for so long?" General O'Neill knew that if there was only trace amounts of Naquada found but the Federation had an inoperable artifact made of it, it had to be important.
After a second of thought Admiral Paris answered the General. "I'll have to check with some people before I can say yes or no. "Standby and I'll find out right away."
Freyr answered the Admiral. "We will stand by Admiral. Hail us when you are ready. Hammond out."
Colonel Mitchell moved up towards the Asgard and the General. "Well, that sucks about the Naquada and the Neutronium."
"Cameron Mitchell, just because there hasn't been any found by the Federation that does not mean that there is not any elsewhere. Let's see what the probes find out before we start jumping to conclusions."
Thor spoke up, over the bickering of Vala and Daniel. "Teal'c is correct; it is not wise to worry when we don't have all the information."
"I just want to know more about this Artifact and what it really is." Sam was always the curious one.
Apparently Admiral Paris had his conversation rather quickly because they were being hailed by him. When the comm channel opened they seen the elder man and he had a smile on his face. "Well, I have good news. We are willing to trade the Artifact to you. All that we ask is for you to take three ships back to the Delta quadrant where you picked up Voyager to continue the exploration of that quadrant of the galaxy. And after dropping them off, we also ask you to deploy a series of long range transmitters to allow us to communicate with them."
"Hold on one minute Admiral." He nodded his head and the General ordered the channel muted.
"So what do you think Thor? Freyr?" General O'Neill asked. In his mind it was good deal as long as the artifact contained something useful. Talking in their native tongue where Daniel could decipher a few word that quickly reached an agreement.
"We think that the deal is questionable at best but not doing it would do nothing for us while doing it we may come up with something of value and we will endear the Federation towards us and not us to them."
"Then its agreed. But I say we will do it in a month or so. I would like to get word from the probes we sent out before we go so we know what our next move is."
Freyr had a pleased look on her face. Well, pleased for an Asgard. "Wise idea General, I agree." Thor nodded his head in agreement.
With a quick order from the General the channel was reopened. "Admiral, we have come to an agreement. We will take your three ships and deploy your transmitters for the artifact but we will have to wait a month. Is that acceptable?"
"That's fine General, it will take us some time to get everything in order. I was informed that as a token of our thanks that we are prepared to transport the artifact to you now in the hopes of a building friendship between our peoples."
Thor didn't expect this move from the Federation. He always dealt with people who were closely guarded and really didn't show trust so either these people were trying to get something or were truly to trustworthy and he was willing to bet it was the former instead of the latter.
"I assure you Admiral that your faith in us will not be misplaced. Here are the coordinates you can transport the artifact to."
The Admiral looked at Janeway who in turn looked at Harry and gave him a quick nod who transported the artifact to the port side hanger bay.
"Transport complete sirs."
"Alright General, we will meet here in one month to get underway. Captain Janeway has informed us that you wish to explore more of the Galaxy?"
"That's right Admiral. We are looking for resources that we need and will probably need to look outside of your territory. We will see you in one month Admiral to complete our part of the bargain."
"Just be careful General. There are some hostile species out there. Good luck. Admiral Paris out." The connection blinked out leaving the Hammond bridge looking at each other.
"Well, who wants to see what this artifact really is. I bet it's worth a fortune." Vala had a dreamy expression on her face as she imagined opening the artifact and finding all types of gold and jewels.
An exasperated Daniel responded to Vala's statement. "I'm sure that it's not something that you could pawn Vala, don't get your hopes up." Everyone still followed her suggestion and was headed towards the docking bay to see exactly what it was that they received. The Asgard went via the teleporters.
When everyone made it to the port side hanger bay, they were surprised at the size of the artifact. It was in the shape of a rectangle measuring 25'x25'x10'. The outside was perfectly flat with no evident way of opening it.
"So who wants to tell me what this is?" The General looked at all of those that was staring at the artifact. SG-1, the two Asgard and even some airmen were standing close to the item but wasn't touching it. Sam put her palm out towards the artifact and used the scanning stone to try and find out its secrets.
"Sir, according to the readings, it's made of Naquada and some other material that we are not familiar with. The weight and proportions don't add up so it's not solid. There are minute energy readings coming from it but I can't scan inside of the thing so I have no idea what could be inside." Looking towards Thor and the other Asgard Sam asked, "So what do you think?"
Looking at the item in front of them, they talked amongst themselves. After about two minutes Thor spoke up. "We agree with your assessment Colonel Carter. We also believe that this alloy composition is a worthwhile discovery in its own right due to the fact that our scans can't penetrate it. Only one species was able to accomplish this that we know of, the Ancients."
With that comment, excited whispers broke out amongst everyone there that wasn't Asgard. In her jubilation, Sam walked up to the artifact and touched the smooth metal that made up its surface. "It's warm!"
Daniel went to touch it but stopped short as a being appeared in a flash of light. He was wearing a black SG uniform and was also sporting the standard tactical vest and was carrying a P90. If it wasn't for the fact that he suddenly appeared on top of the artifact, he could have passed for a crewman, an older one since he was balding on top of his head and looked to be in his forties, but a crewman nonetheless.
Just as quickly as the strange man appeared, everyone who had access to a weapon raised it at the man.
"Well, well, well, so these are the ships that are about to change the shape of the galaxy as everyone knows it." The strange man was walking in a circle, seemingly looking at everyone and everything.
Teal'c and Mitchell started to move in to confront the man when the General raised his hand to stop them. There was something odd about him that didn't sit right with the General. "Would you mind telling us who you are, what you want, and what you mean by what you said?"
The man came to a stop in front of Thor and the other Asgard and stared at them for a moment seemingly ignoring the Generals question. Finishing with his observations he turns towards the General and snaps his fingers. To the shock of everyone, all the weapons that were pointed at him disappeared.
"Mon General, I am Q. What I want is to see the people that will be responsible for the large amounts of deaths that will usher the Galaxy into a place of peace and tranquility with major advancements in science and technology. Why with the help of your half dead little friends here, billions upon billions will die." Q said this with a smile on his face, further disturbing everyone that just heard what he said.
"How can you possibly know this?" asked the General. He didn't believe that anyone's future was set in stone so for this being known as Q to tell him and everyone else that they would be responsible for the deaths of that many people was a shot in the dark.
"I told you already, I am Q."
At everyone's blank stares Q decided to explain.
"Put it this way. Your so called Ascended Ancients are but a worm to what I am capable of. We have no rules and are GODS compared to all else."
Everyone including the Asgard was shocked to hear this. Teal'c and Daniel looked angry at yet someone else claiming to be a God. But to compare yourselves to the Ancients in such a way was unheard of. Q must have read their expressions because he got a wicked smile on his face. "A demonstration then so you know I speak the truth it is."
Q snapped his fingers and in a flash of light everyone was on the bridge. The truly remarkable thing was the scene that was going on it the viewport.
"General, controls for all ship systems besides sensors are disabled. Oh my god! This is the first battle against the Ori battleships."
Everyone here could here Q whisper to mumble to himself about 'primitive races'. A Goa'uld Ha'tak just exploded in the distance.
"Can you confirm that the sensors are operating at 100%?" O'Neill wanted to confirm that this wasn't a trick.
Sam, who was now at a console answered the Generals question. "Sensors are fully operational and as far as the rest of the systems, well they just appear to not be there."
All of a sudden a blast from an Ori mothership passed right through the Hammond and it was bathed in the light of the blast while not being harmed at all.
"I'm sure that everyone here knows when and where this took battle took place." After a pregnant pause Q continued. "This silence is appalling! Well, if this doesn't give me the reaction I'm after…well it will so let go." With another snap of the fingers the Hammond disappeared in another flash of light only to reappear above a planet. A planet that had a massive number of ships in orbit all converging on a particular area. Wraith ships. Ships that were all firing at the surface.
Everyone including the Asgard sucked was shocked at what they saw. A surprised General asked the question that was on everyone's mind. "Q, what is this?"
"My dear General, what you are witnessing is the siege on a place that made its creators crawl back, well crawl is to brash of a word since their method of travel is rather ingenious, for a mortal, but made them flee none the less back to Earth. These creatures, these Wraith were able to beat back the Alterrans, not through strength but through numbers."
"Yes, we know what happened." Daniel said. "And while seeing it happen is truly fascinating and your abilities are obviously powerful, what do you want with us and what was the point of you showing us this."
Before Q could answer, Freyr did. "I believe that what he is doing is twofold. First he is displaying his power and wished to show us his power by not only taking us back to our own quantum reality but through time as well and making us invisible to everyone in that reality. Secondly I would assume that he is in fact warning us that while we may be powerful, we are but a few."
When Freyr said powerful Q snorted in amusement. 'They never comprehend how young they truly are really are.' He thought. But that Asgard was insightful. "That's not exactly how I would have put it but it will do." Q snapped his fingers and the Hammond was returned to the same place and time that Q took them from.
"Sir, we are back where we started. Sensors are still the only operational systems." Sam reported from a console.
Thor took a step closer to Q. "Could you not return us to our own reality, using the same technique you just used to demonstrate your power?"
"Well, I could, but where is the fun in that. You are here for a purpose, a purpose that you will find out later, but nevertheless, you are important to the future of the Galaxy."
Daniel was shocked. "We got here by a freak accident. How do we have a purpose here besides trying to get home and if we can't do that our only purpose is to start new lives?"
Q just raised his eyebrows with an amused expression on his face. "Who says that that's not the reason you are here, to start over. But the question is how you are to start over. Oh this will be so much fun to watch."
Cameron couldn't stand it anymore. "I'm so glad that you are having a good time stringing this whole thing out. Can you just tell us what we have to know so that we can get on with your little show that we call life?"
General O'Neill looked at Colonel Mitchell with a disapproving glance but didn't say anything because he agreed with his statements.
"Well, you guys are no fun. Fine. Point blank you're here because you are supposed to be here. This container was left for you. By who doesn't matter yet. I was left to make sure that you could open and understand what's inside. And since this container is Alterran in origin guess what that makes you?"
"Lucky." Vala stated with a straight face. Everyone looked at her like she was crazy. "What? I would say that we are pretty lucky to find an artifact err container full of Ancient stuff wouldn't you say?"
"Indeed." Intoned Teal'c.
Q just smiled. "You will probably consider it luck now but later you may find that its quite the opposite. But I digress. In order to understand the stuff, you yourselves have to be Alterrans!"
Q snapped his fingers and everyone in the Hammond's little fleet but the Asgard was surrounded by a bright white light. When the light finally faded, everyone looked at each other and started to inspect themselves. The Asgard just looked on in curiosity. They couldn't see any differences but then again, the Ancients looked exactly like humans so distinguishing them from observation alone would be insufficient.
When everyone turned back to Q with questions on their lips about what supposedly just happened, all they could see was him slowly beginning to fade away. But of course he couldn't leave without some words in parting. "Remember this, we will be watching…" And Q was gone.
Everyone was just standing there in silence, each trying to absorb the enormous amount of information that was given to them. In just a short time they went from trading with the Federation for an artifact, to supposedly being turned into Ancients by a being that claimed to be more powerful than the Ascended Ancients. It was a bit much to believe but they had to be sure.
"Thor," stated O'Neill. "Do you have any medical specialists that are awake or can be awakened. We need to check the validity of this Q's story and find out if it is even possible that he really made us all Ancients."
"Currently there are none awake but I can modify the sensors to detect if you are really an Ancient or not."
"Thank you Thor. The sooner we know the sooner we can plan our next course of action." Thor nodded to the General and beamed himself to the Asgard core room to make the necessary modifications. "The rest of you, you are dismissed. No one is to touch the artifact until we have answers to some of our questions. When Thor has all the data we will be having a meeting to decide what he has discovered. Dismissed." Everyone went about their business except for Teal'c and General O'Neill. Seeing Teal'c still standing there with a thoughtful look on the usually stoic Jaffa's face, General O'Neill asked him, "Teal'c, is everything all right."
"I am unsure General. I do know that Q did something because even though i did not look i can feel that something has indeed changed." Finally Teal'c pulled up his shirt and indeed, his symbiotic pouch wasn't there and there wasn't even a mark left to show that it ever was.
"While that confirms that he did in fact do something, we still don't know what that is. Go to the medical bay and have yourself checked out. Report to me once they are done."
With a subtle nod of his head, Teal'c headed out of the docking bay towards the infirmary to get himself checked out.
The General himself made to go to the bridge but stopped as soon as he heard his communicator go off. "General, this is Thor, can I see you in the Core room please." Thor sounded as excited as he ever heard an Asgard sound. Something was up and the General was going to find out exactly what that was.
General O'Neill entered the core room and approached Thor who was working at the main controls of the Asgard interface. "You wanted to see me Thor?" O'Neill asked.
"Indeed. I have the results of the scans you requested. As it turns out, whatever Q did, he did in fact change the entire crew's physiology into that of the Ancients." Thor seemed excited about this turn of events.
"Ok, so what does this mean and why do you seem happy about this. Don't get me wrong, being turned into an Ancient is great compared to anything else that we could have been turned into but we didn't want or ask for this." O'Neill wanted Thor to know that he wasn't too thrilled with the idea of being turned into something against his will.
"What this means for you is that you and your crew will have to learn what it is to be an Ancient. For now you will have the same beliefs and values of the place of your birth, but in time, I believe that will change and your people will become more enlightened. The reason that you would assume that I am happy is because, while as of now you don't have any of the advanced knowledge of the Ancients, you now have the ability to learn at an astounding rate and to see the answers to difficult problems. A thirst for knowledge and the answers to the universe will grow in your very beings and in time, with our help, a solution to my peoples cloning problems may come to light and we can finally walk beside you, the Ancients as equals once again." The end of his speech was filled with hope and a sense of reverence for the long dead race that now stood before him as infants. "also you will be able to utilize and access our current technology better. A good example would be that combat suit that has been issued to your people, there are advanced functions that we locked out given your inability to use a neural interface device. Now that you are an Alterran you will be able to use the suits to their full capacity.
To say the least, General O'Neill was shocked. The thought of the Asgard looking up to others was shocking in itself, but Thor's belief that his people now held the key to giving the Asgard life was daunting in itself. "Ok Thor. It seems that we are going to need more help from you and your people. As it seems we have a lot to learn and you are the only ones that can do that."
"It would be an honor General." Thor bowed his head slightly in a sign of respect.
"Now let's talk about this artifact that we have. It has to do with us being turned into Ancients so I say we go there and see if we can't see what's underneath its hood."
"Agreed. Now that we have ascertained that Q has indeed done what he said, I see no reason not to discover the contents of the artifact."
Using the communication function of his Materializer, General O'Neill opened a channel to the entirety of the fleet. "This is General O'Neill. It has come to my attention that the phenomenon that took place a little while ago did in fact turn our physiology into that of the Ancients. This will cause things to change for us in the future but for now we are going to continue on in the same fashion that we have been and we will face all the changes that will come together. Already Thor has pledged to not only guide us in this time of change, but to also teach us to reach our full potential. Let us not look at this as an act of injustice but that of a rare opportunity. If anyone has any questions, please let myself or any senior officers know and we will be there to assist you. That is all." With that General O'Neill closed the ship wide channel and opened one for just SG1. "SG1, please report to the artifact in two hours."
O'Neill turned to Thor. "I'll see you there Thor." And with that, General O'Neill left the core room.
In the cargo bay, SG1 was waiting for General O'Neill. They each could tell that something was up before the General made his announcement about Thor's findings. For Teal'c it was his symbiotic pouch disappearing, while for Vala it was her speed of thought. Mitchell was thinking of strategies from past battles with a different perspective and Daniel had instant recall on all of the languages that he knew. As for Sam, right after the change her scientific mind took off. It was like she was seeing problems unfold in her mind. The answers weren't there but starting points that she didn't even think of before was presented to her so that solving the problems would be quicker and with better results. The fact that she knew most of the systems on the ship by heart assisted in this new found insight as well.
When the General walked in, he was surprised to see that Vala was actually being normal for once and just standing beside a surprisingly calm Daniel. O'Neill was used to the two's antics and all though he would never admit it, it was rather funny at times. When he got in front of SG1, Thor appeared in the classic chime and white flash of the transporter beam.
"Ok team, we have discovered that Q was correct when he said that he turned us into Ancients so that marks that off of our to-do list. Now for the immediate future we need to find resources, find a planet to set up a base, and to finish our deal with the Federation. That is, after we find out how to open this thing and find out what is inside of it." General O'Neill told the team and Thor.
Thor spoke up from his egg shaped floating chair. "As you know, the ancient used their unique genetic markers to secure their technology. I would assume that all you would need to do is touch it and its secrets should be revealed."
O'Neill looked at each of the team members and finally rested his eyes on Daniel. "Jackson, would you like to the honors?"
Like a giddy school child, Daniel responded, already moving towards the artifact. "You bet."
Daniel approached the artifact and laid a hand on it. When he touched the side of the artifact, a piece of it that was in the shape of a door sunk in several inches and slid to the side to reveal a small room. Before anyone could look into the room a holographic form appeared outside the door, startling everyone. The figure was of a man who appeared to be in his mid-thirties with black hair and vibrant blue eyes. There was an air of confidence as he stood there in his Lantean attire.
Greetings, I am Titonus. Since you are seeing this, you are obviously the ones that the being known as Q has effectively turned you from human to Lantean. Why I know is not important, just know that your arrival has been seen and I leave this to you in order to assist you. Without it, you will eventually all die and that cannot come to pass. While not all will survive, a part of you needs to live on and this will enable that to happen.
Now, a little information about me is in order. I called Atlantis my home and was a scientist there. I was actually in charge of the first manned Wormhole Drive test that was performed. Unfortunately, the test failed and I ended up here in this alternate universe. Ending up here has been a blessing and a curse. A curse because I am the only one of my people here and am in fact alone. A blessing because I was able to travel with some people that allowed me to further my scientific knowledge, all of which I am going to share with you.
Now this technology that I have for you is twofold. The first part is plans for what the humans of this universe call a Dyson Shell.
Here Sam gasped in shock. She knew exactly what a Dyson Shell was and used to think that such a thing was impossible. Titonus continued while bringing up an image of said Shell, showing everyone exactly what he was talking about.
A Dyson Shell is a structure that is built to totally encompass a star and therefore is able to capture all of the suns energy. If the inner shell surface is far enough away from the sun, typically one astronomical unit, then it would be possible to build a veritable paradise. I know that you are thinking about how large a structure like this would be and therefore how long it would take to create, but I know that with a little ingenuity it would be possible to build this in quick order. I will tell you that the one that I assisted in building striped most of the resources from the quarter of the galaxy that we placed it.
Now, for the second part of the technology that I am gifting to you is a modified repository of knowledge. I put all of the knowledge that I had available to me at the time and downloaded it for each of your crew's usage. While it is far from the collective knowledge of our people, it is enough to give you a giant step in restarting our civilization.
Good luck my brothers and sisters, the future is now in your hands.
With that the hologram disappeared. Everyone that was watching was standing in silence, digesting the information that they were just given. Thor was the first to speak. "The concept of the Dyson sphere is amazing. To create a structure this size has never been done by the Asgard but we will get started right away."
"The possibilities are endless with the availability of such a source of power." Sam said with a gleam in her eyes.
"Let us not forget the insight to the Lantean society that we can gain. Not only them but countless ones in this galaxy that we have never even heard of before…" Vala cut Daniel off from his rant.
"Oh can we just stick our head in the thing and get on with it?" Vala half asked half whined.
"I never thought I would say this but I happen to agree with her. All this standing around and not accomplishing anything is driving me barney." Mitchell said. Teal`c just bowed his head in agreement.
"Ok Sam, you get the honors of going first so you can start working with Thor and his people on this Dyson Shell. As of right now the Shell is our priority." General O'Neill stated.
So one by one, SG1 went into the artifact and took a turn with the modified repository. After SG1, O'Neill went inside to use the repository as well. After they were done, everyone went back to their duties, each letting the newfound knowledge integrate itself in their minds. Sam went with Thor, Daniel went to the Asgard hologram room to continue studying their history, Teal'c and Mitchell went to work out and Vala went to do what she does best; annoy Daniel. General O'Neill went to the bridge to ensure that the entire fleet could use the repository in an orderly fashion.
Three Days Later
In the three days that have passed a lot has happened for the people aboard the Hammond. They were currently headed to the other side of the galaxy where one of the probes discovered there was a large section of space that had a dozen systems with uninhabitable planets and was completely devoid of life. Their destination was to a system that was in the middle of all the others and had a class k star that was fairly young. It was the perfect star for their project
Sam was briefing General O'Neill and the rest of SG1 on the plan that she and the Asgard have come up with. The use of the knowledge that she gained from the repository not only let her keep up with her Asgard colleagues, but it also allowed her ideas to be better refined and yet still have the human touch of thinking outside the box.
"As you know we have been working with the plans of the Dyson Shell that was already created. Those plans will take years to create but unfortunately, we don't have that amount of time. So here is what we have come up with." Sam activates a newly created holographic projector in the conference room. "Our plan is simple for us to build but it will be very complicated to ensure that it is built correctly. We will design the first piece of the Dyson Sphere. First the piece will have a solar power collector." As she speaks the holographic model follows her narration. "After the power collector, there will be a buffer to store the energy and a computer core. This core will be the crucial to the development of the shell. We had to use an Asgard AI matrix to ensure that the Shell will be built properly. Also on this piece will be an Asgard transporter. It will take the energy collected from the sun and use it to actually build the Dyson Shell. The last two items are the most important, a power core and a time dilation device.
The beauty of having the Shell created this way is that it will be built in what seems to be no time at all; the AI will ensure that it is built correctly with no risk of anybody, and the Shell will build itself from the power of the sun. to complete the project we will create six sections and place them around the sun in a cuboid shape. The transporters will do the rest. Now we only need to design the inside of the Shell." Finishing, Sam sat down waiting for the questions that she knows will come.
"Major Carter, what are the limits to our designs for the inside of the Shell?" Teal'c asked.
"Well we will be basically be creating our own artificial ecosystem. We will need to take samples from some of the inhabited worlds in the galaxy but besides that our imagination and the laws of physics are the limit." Sam responded.
"Sweet." said Mitchell.
"Who is going to design the city itself? What will it look like? Will we live in it or outside of it? What culture will we design it after? How…"
"Daniel. We will put a team together to design the city. They will go around and get everyone's ideas and use that to design our home. You will most defiantly be in charge of that team. For now, everyone will live in the city but once we get settled, people will be able to choose for themselves how and where they reside. Any questions?" General O'Neill looked around and seeing no questions he dismissed his team. "Good job Major. SG1, your dismissed"
Two days later, not only has the Hammond surveyed the systems that they would claim as their own but the designs for the first city that was going to be built. A junior officer on one of the Daniel Jackson-class ships also came up with a name for the Dyson Shell that seemed to stick, Othterra. It's a combination of Othala and Terra, a way to honor both the Asgard and the Ancients, or as they are truly called the Alterrans. With the survey and designs complete, the Hammond arrived at the system of its new home. Wasting no time, Thor and Sam drained a lot of the ships power reserves to create the six pieces of the Dyson Shell that will lead to the creation of the rest of the massive structure. They deployed the pieces at such a distance from the sun that the entire interior surface will be the perfect temperature. Once the pieces were set, the Hammond moved out of range of the space that the time dilation field will encompass. If the calculations were done correctly, the power core should last long enough for enough solar power collectors to be built to power the device by the time that it fails. If not, they will need to use more of their precious power to create another power core.
Even with the activation of the time dilation field, the effects were slow at first. Not only did the inside surface need to be made but the outside hull and all the systems in between. A new piece was completed every couple of seconds, adding to Othterra. It was as if an artist was putting together a model, a model of epic proportions. As time went on pieces to Othterra started to appear quicker and quicker. With more pieces appearing, more energy from the star can be collected, therefore pieces could be constructed at a faster rate. The real beauty of having an integrated Asgard transporter beam constructing Othterra is that the outer surface is built seamlessly.
In the design of Othterra, the design team not only thought of a way to build in upgrades or new designs but also a way to build a computer core with the power that no one on the ship has seen before and that includes the Asgard. They did this by including a replica of the first piece minus the power core. With each additional computer core that was added, it is networked with the others, adding its power to the others. With each additional Asgard transporter, Othterra could choose to construct many things at once or larger, more complex items. This is something that the creators of the first Dyson Sphere did not have. The Asgard transporter was truly a masterpiece. Little did they know, but their budding world and civilization was going to be centered on that very technology.
A/N: I AM CREATING A LIST OF "TOYS" I WANT TO THE OTHTERRANS TO HAVE ACCESS TO. IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO HAVE ADDED TO THE "TOY'S LIST" SEND ME A PM WITH YOUR REQUEST AND DETAILS ABOUT IT THAT O'NEILL WOULD LIKE (weapons and stuff). THE LIST WILL BE PUBLISHED AFTER CH. 8 TO GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO RESPOND.