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dizzylizzy59: How easy do you think it's to drive something if all of a sudden it was jet fuelled, you'd have to forget when to do change gear and feel when you should do it, that's why, I'm not saying that Sheppard is not as good as O'Neill at flying Atlantis, I'm just saying that because the city all of a sudden have way more power than before he's not used to it and therefor makes mistakes, O'Neill on the other hand is not used to flying Atlantis and therefor he's more careful and doesn't give it full power to take of.

I'm working on the where were problem and personally I think it's getting better and better, I know the difference in my head but it's my fingers that's doing the writing.

Chronus1326: The Tower is a military installation but they're repairing it so it will be the way the Lanteans built it, the shower part was just a show of how little privacy the Lanteans had.

Yea, I believe that's the first proper ship battle scene yet might tidy that one up sometime. I was thinking more along the lines of Rodney wanting to kill Wraith, but I'll accept your view on why Rodney does that.

Yes, Sheppard did indeed send those packages to the Auroras, one is the Tria, left behind close to the Midway space station the other is the one used by Niam's faction, as it's fate is never mentioned I took the liberty of having Sheppard restoring it.

Quoting myself now: "The Aurora class is a light carrier, it is meant to be used as a weapons platform for drones, combat jumpers and other mobile weapons. It boasts strong shields meant to take any punishment from weapons that point its way. It's not meant to be taken into direct battle but rather deploy its payload and retreat to a safe distance. If cornered alone it's useless as it has no weapon mounts. Booth quick and nimble, it's a medium speed vessel."
Episode Six. So basically the Auroras are what you said. We'll be building new ships either in this episode or in the next depending on how long this chapter becomes, or at least I think that we will. Most of the new ships are not all that new the carrier class is basically a larger Aurora, the scout class is a large jumper and the command class is Destiny but with a few more guns bolted to the hull and with less internal space in favor of more power storage. A Lantean ship that's shot-to-shit is not likely, they were fools and therefor they where wiped from the face of the galaxy.

They'll stay in Pegasus and regroup for some time.

Would it need an AI to do that?

Oh, it is, 220 km the first week. (136 miles)

doctor chocolate thunder: Well I felt that the Wraith needed some way to make one final push, a chance to destroy the Tau'ri.

Darkcrest27: It's not on the planet, it's the planets core, when the Wraith parked they did so very close to each other, so close that their mass started to attract space dust and after a while the ships were covered and so the planet grew until it was the size of a planet.

A hive is often said to be around 10-15 times the size of a Daedalus so that makes the hives around 2-3km, so this new ship would be around 12 times the size of a hive. It might be a bit big, I'll admit that, ok it's way to big, but the Wraith needs it in the coming battle.

Shane: The First is not a single Wraith; it's more like calling someone Queen, a title, making the First the two Queens and the male Wraith.

Lolz: Well spoken, what you say is true. But at the same time 40km might have been aiming a little to high. XD

Oh and don't forget the wormhole drive, now that's a fun piece of technology.

Happy reading.

Control Room. Atlantia.

General O'Neill was standing in the control room of Atlantia wearing his Atlas armour and was watching a SG team returning. Recently the list of new planets had begun to run dry and would soon be empty, so instead SG teams had been going to old planets and had set up remote controlled mining facilities, this team was however returning from a new planet and from looking at their expression O'Neill could tell that they had found nothing at all. Just as he turned around to face Daniel, who was standing next to him, the world flashed and froze, all around him people froze in the middle of what they were doing and then he heard Daniel.

"What's happening?" Daniel said

"I don't know." O'Neill said

"Well, at least I'm not alone here."

"No, but why we two?"

"I might be able to tell you that." A white haired man said as he came down the stairs behind the duo.

"If you don't…" O'Neill said before Daniel cut him off.

"Merlin." Daniel said as he saw the man.

"You know this man?" O'Neill said

"Jack, it's Merlin, the one who helped us defeat the Ori." Daniel said

"Oh, that guy. Thought you died?"

"To be honest I'm not really alive." Merlin said.

"The others, they came for you when we were transported away didn't they." Daniel said

"No, Morgan Le Fay never left my side, she was waiting for the obelisk to transport you away before she ascended me and left an empty shell for the Ori to find." Merlin said.

"So you mind telling us what's happened here?" O'Neill said and motioned around the room at the frozen people.

"Nothing has happened, we are inside your minds, this way no one can listen and it will go much faster to explain."

"Explain what?"

"Well, there was some small mistakes when you met the Furlings, in their eagerness to restart the war they forgot to send the address to the Ultima Cubile, the final resting place of our species."

"Oh, well they were eager to say the least." O'Neill said.

"I know, we watched you."

"That's just creepy."

"It was deemed necessary."

"Can we get back to why you're here Merlin? I thought the others forbid interference?" Daniel said

"Yes, well we have no rules against interference, but we do try to minimize the amount of interference, simply so that you would develop independently. But we say that we do so that people from the corporal plane won't demand things from us all the time."

"So if there's no rules against interfering then why was I cast out?"

"You were not cast out Daniel, you chose to go back to help your friends and to help us push you in the right direction."

"But there's others who has been cast out, Orlin and that woman in Pegasus for example."

"They were not cast out either, Orlin might have said that but he was in fact grieving on the planet when you came, why he followed you back to Earth I do not know, and as for the woman she is not forced to remain there, she walks around in the galaxy and among us on the higher planes whenever she wishes to, but she likes the humans and their way of living so she stays there most of the time. There's even some of us who spends most of our time here, directing things and helping you if you need help, I'm one of those, most of the others you have already met.

But there's more pressing matters, while I could wake up my own brothers I'm not allowed, one thing that was decided before we went to sleep was that only a descendant race might awaken any one of us, you are the descendants and the only ones to survive, so it's your job to awaken the Altera, but to do that we must go through the Stargate, the address should be on the console in front of you. Dial it and walk through, I'll meet you two on the other side." Merlin said as he released his grip on their minds and reality started to move again, looking at each other they saw that the other had experienced the same thing.

On the console in front of O'Neill an address appeared when he looked down at it. Walking over to the gate technician Daniel relieved him and after some arguing the tech walked out of the control room. Looking up at O'Neill Daniel saw him nod, taking the address and punching it in he got up and followed O'Neill down to the white gate that was dialling. Reaching the gate they waited as the horizon snapped in place before walking through it.

Ultima Cubile

Coming through the gate the duo knew what to expect and it was just as they thought, except for the dust not being there and another person, the room the gate was positioned in was clearly Ancient in design, looking similar to Atlantis corridors and the door on the far side of the room was also ancient in design.

"Welcome friends." Merlin said.

"Hello." O'Neill said as he walked away from the gate towards the door with Daniel following closely behind, falling in behind them Marlin followed them to the door.

Sliding his hand over the door control O'Neill opened the door and walked through, on the other side was the sphere shaped room with the bridge leading up to a platform and on the platform was a stasis chamber, not the kind found in Antarctica or Atlantis but the kind found on Destiny. After reaching the platform with the stasis chamber they waited and after a few seconds a hologram appeared.

"By coming this far you've shown that you have mastered the Stargate, you've shown that you'll do whatever it takes to protect yourselves, even if it means beating someone who's smaller than you, now for the final test, wisdom and intelligence, please assemble this hyperspace engine to show that." The hologram said, before taking a step back to allow a large table to rise from the floor with parts on it.

"Crap, why didn't we bring Carter with us?" O'Neill said.

"Because she's still in control of Atlantis and doesn't have the time to come with us on these crazy adventures." Daniel said

"Don't worry, I've got this." Merlin said as he walked up to the table and looked at the parts before turning to the hologram. "Hey, you. You've missed a piece."

"You are correct. Sometime true wisdom is to accept defeat." The hologram replied before beginning to fade away.

When the hologram was gone the table disappeared into the floor again and the stasis pod opened to reveal a woman, she was about 1.6 meter tall and had short blond hair.

"Hello." The woman said.

"Hello." O'Neill and Daniel said

"Is that you Merlin?" The woman said

"Yes, I believe I am." Merlin said.

"If you're here then something must have gone wrong. How long do we have until they're here?" The woman said as pods around her begun to open.

"Yes, something went wrong, but it only delayed us a few days and they have not yet arrived here, but I believe that the time for that will come sooner rather than later."

"So what went wrong then?"

"Well, you see the Furlings forgot to give these fine gentlemen the address to this place in their excitement to go to war."

"Well that was to be expected, they were always a little to trigger happy for my taste."

"We're here now so maybe you could start by giving us some answers?" O'Neill said.

"Certainly, there's things we must do, ships to repair and new ships to build, we must fortify our defences. But I understand that you will want some answers after coming all this way so I will answer what I can before I go and join my people in our preparations, but some questions I think are better suited for Merlin." The woman said.

"Well can you please tell us about this enemy of yours?"

"Why yes, of course. Long ago we were a peaceful people living side by side with our brethren who would later come to be called the Ori. The split that pushed our two cultures apart was one close to our hearts, you see we did not evolve on our own, that much we knew, before we could even read or write we found an artefact, this artefact was placed there by our creators. The Ori believed them to be gods who should be worshipped, but we knew better, we, the Altera originated from the tribe who controlled the area around the artefact and so we learned the most from it, but we helped our brethren so that they could live comfortable lives to, we built cities and empires, but our tribe always guarded the artefact from any invaders, soon we became the next empire and after hundreds of years of fighting we managed to unite the planet.

After that things happened fast, we developed space probes and small space stations to begin with but only a few decades later we built ships with FTL drives and begun to explore nearby systems, things went too fast and we lost control, the Ori rose up and a civil-war broke out, after centuries we decided to jump ship and so we retreated to our biggest cities, there we waited and thought, it was finally decided that we would flee the galaxy and so our cities took of to the skies and fled towards this galaxy, at that time we had no idea were we would settle, but after thousands of years we found this charming galaxy which we called home.

We settled down and peace reigned for many millennias and during that time we searched the galaxies closest to ours and found three other races who were very advanced, but still not at our level, we found many similarities between our four cultures and some went as far as saying that we were all created by the same mysterious people. During this exploration we also settled some of the galaxies.

With their help we perfected the Stargate and many other incredible things and then one day we learned that there was artefacts on all of these races homeworlds, after sending a joined team to each of the artefacts we were certain that they came from the same race and by descriptions we determined that the artefact on our own homeworld was identical the these new found, a couple of years later the artefacts activated and a message was played, it told us of how we were our creators last hope, they had sent ships into the universe to seed life, so that one day one of these races could come and help them, they were locked in a war they could not win but at the same time they would not lose, it also told us of the fate of the other races that had been seeded, of the hundreds of spices only a dozen remained in our part of the galaxy and so we set out to find them, but we only managed to find two spices before the enemy did, one called the Gadmeer and the other called Sekkari, we took them in and moved large parts of their civilisations to new galaxies were the enemy would not look for another hundred years.

After seeing what the enemy could do to advanced races we started to build fleets and research weapons, but we never had enough time, the enemy came and the blackened out the sky over our worlds, at first we drove them back but more of them kept coming, then they tried a new strategy and went after one of us at a time, first the Gadmeer and the Sekkari who were already weak from fighting them before, then the Asgard and the Furlings, the Nox managed to hide themselves in some way not even we know of.

When they went after the Asgards and the Furlings they fled to other galaxies, the Asgard to Ida and the Furlings to Andromeda, after that things got worse and so we came up with this plan, to withdraw from the galaxy and wait until the enemy left, the other races all agreed to this plan and so one by one we went to sleep, but we each left a race behind to wake us up when the time came and here you stand, you've awaken us and so now we will again prepare for war, but we will not do so in this galaxy, this galaxy is yours and so we will seek out another galaxy for ourselves, we will prepare for this war and when the war comes we will bring the resources of an entire galaxy to the fight.

Is there anything else you want to know of our enemies?"

"Yes, how do they look, are they big mammoths or small rats, some way to identify them?"

"They are machines and so they have no appearance, but they did make use of drones and cyborgs made from people the have captured."

"There's no way you happened to have a picture of one of them?"

"Yes we do." The woman said before a hologram of a berserker drone and a control ship appeared and stayed for a few seconds before switching to a hologram of the aliens from the alternate Daedalus and their fighters and motherships.

"We know them, the first ones are attacking and following Destiny and the second were attacking Atlantis in an alternate dimension." Daniel said.

"Then they are already aware of your existence and could come for you sooner than we would like, but never the less we need to do what we can to stop and push them back And at least Destiny is still on her way."

"What's so special with Destiny that you wasted so many ships just to send her away, besides getting the black gate of the planet?" O'Neill said.

"Destiny's mission is our mission, her destination is the location of our creators and she's bringing the black gate so that when the time comes we can send a fleet through it and turn the tide in the battle that's being fought."

"Then what about the cosmic microwave background radiation? Why scan that if the destination is the important part?"

"Well, if we send her on her way with hyperspace engines she would arrive only a few thousands years after we sent her and we would still be sleeping, even as it is now we barely woke up before she's going to arrive, it can't be a more than a few years left and we collect the radiation because it's instructions on how to get past their defences and it's coded in such a way that it can only be read with the help of an artefact, thankfully the Nox still have their artefact."

"Hm, I've got another question for you. Where are we exactly, we've seen the same lay out of the facilities that the others were sleeping in, only with different materials and colours, is it different parts of the same facility?" Daniel said.

"No, each facility is located close to the centre of a galaxy and built from the same designs, each facility have the ability to produce a some small ships and other necessary equipment for us to settle the universe again."

"So it's an Ark?"

"Yes, you could call it that."

"So what happens now?" O'Neill said.

"If you have no more questions we will send you back to were you came from and then we must each prepare for the war."

"I suspected as much. Daniel, anything else you want to ask the Ancients while we're here?" O'Neill said to Daniel.

THE END

A/N: So what is Daniel going to ask the Ancients? It's your call, if you have any questions write them in a review and Daniel will ask the Ancients. ;-)

Do you know why I say that reviews make it fun to write? It's because if you write a long good review I want to reply and I mostly reply at the beginning of each episode so because I want to reply I write a new Episode much faster, so leave a review, replying to them is as fun as writing an entire Episode and it's much easier.
As always suggestions are appreciated and I try to work all of them in at some point.

Until next time, may the force be with you or whatever.