I don't own Potter or Stargate.
Chapter 2
Harry began continued his evening by writing programs by hand. The original Lantean programs for the constructors and nanites were out of date and a little uncontrolled. He didn't need them to be self replicating and have a sense of self. It would be best if they could only do what he directed them to do. It was a simpler program but it had its benefits.
The constructors would also require new programming because he was going to shrink them down to a degree and add some functionality in the form of new matter deconstructor and reconstructor beams. They would also have an internal buffer to store materials and instructions to return to the designated stockpile when the buffers ran dry. They would be about the size of a coffee table.
The brainstorming also brought him to realize he would have to design a mining drone and the first ship he built would probably be a drone itself to send to that proximity star to start mining that unfortunate planet. It would be best as a remote base anyway until he could be sure of the amount of materials he could regularly get his hands on to build a ship for himself. Nanites would build more of the mining drones and constructors, while constructors would build an updated version of the ships...in fact why would his first manned ship be built on Earth out of substandard materials when he could have it built with the same circuits that would drone out the drone ship so he could recall both of them if necessary or when he was ready.
He would hold off on a shipyard by building directly on the surface of the planet and the magnetosphere would offer enough protection to the ship that it wouldn't be irradiated overmuch but just in case the shield generators would be a welcome addition.
There was so much to plan for these endeavors that he was happy he planned on employing Padma to help him, which brought him to a new realization, he would have to create a learning program that would bring her up to speed. It would take months to get her to where she could help him with technology but he had the time and the money that it wouldn't hurt in the long run.
But for now he would have to prioritize for Padma. Setting aside the programming for the drones he dove into the learning program. Lantean would be first so she could read the technical diagrams and history then technological knowledge for the assistant position she was filling. He knew he could just translate the whole database but it would be better to leave it all in the original as some would be lost in translation and he didn't want to be the cause of that loss.
He was deep into language tutorial when his communicator beeped.
"Harry here." he said as the image of the pretty Indian girl materialized. Her father was there as well.
"It would seem that I owe you an apology, Mr. Potter." Suva Patill began.
"No need sir. I was prepared for that when I opened my mouth about my plans. The crowd behind us listening in I expected to comment on it but we could probably expect something in the Daily Prophet about what I said, including the goblins continually calling me a thief." Harry countered.
"None the less it was uncalled for to treat you like a stupid child when your ideas could be proven. Padma has also mentioned that you could use supplies to build even more and, though it is outside of my normal supply, I could work with you and my daughter to procure what you need. She has mentioned raw materials could be transfigured into whatever you wished so if you could provide me with a list I can probably have pallets of them shipped directly to your residence in the future. My delivery people are squibs so even if your residence is unplottable there should be no trouble as long as it is not an active fidelis."
Harry nodded. An arrangement like this meant that he would stop having to run out and carry back strange materials all the time and look like he was having a strange computer party. That and multiple runs a day would get old very quickly.
"When would you like to meet to go over a plan sir?"
"Tomorrow at ten would be best for me I think. Yourself?"
"That would work fine. Have you made a decision about whether Padma can work with me as well. I have already begun on the tutorial for her." Padma smiled at the projector.
"Yes. Padma will be working with you but there will be her sister there to chaperon as you are both single young people and Padma has an interest in you." Padma looked horrified now. She hadn't expected that of her father.
"Not, of course Mr. Potter, that I don't expect you to be a gentleman but she is my daughter and I have to continue to look after the honor of house Patill."
Harry was blushing as was Padma. He could see the man's point but he really didn't have to be so blunt about it. He looked to Padma's color image and could see a light blush there too.
"That seems fine sir. Would you all be coming over tomorrow then? My house elf will prepare refreshments."
"Yes. That would be all that I have for you at this time."
"Thank you for your consideration." Harry ended. Her father dissapeared from the projection.
Padma still looked horrified as she waited for her father to clear the room.
"I'm sorry about that Harry. I think he wanted me to blush as a father's prank." she attempted.
"So the beautiful Padma Patill has no interest in me?" he countered. Her blush deepened.
"So you have an interest in me then." came her counter.
"I do. In my defense I didn't know how to dance and was really trying to protest the Yule Ball in the only way I knew how at the time. I'm sorry if I hurt you or your sister." his own blush deepening and head dropping. She nodded.
"Well thanks for the apology. Lets just see where it goes, ok?"
"That works for me." he was relived.
"Goodnight Harry."
"Goodnight Padma."
The connection terminated and he sat back for a moment and contemplated what her father had been up to with the revelation. He had probably hoped that the rich young man with a great idea to invest in that had connections with his daughters and hoped to employ her for aid had some kind of interest in her. It was a partially political move and he could see the possibility in his new knowledge. Some people would have pushed a little harder and then left the two of them together to make a mistake of some sort or tried to catch them together and set up a shotgun wedding. This was more of a nudge.
He checked the time and realized that he had time to get more materials for another computer and decided to do so. Knowing that he would need no disguise for muggle London he was out the door in only a few minutes.
It was late into the night when he gained access to a new computer and information crystals that he'd successfully programmed from the previous computer before hot swapping the information crystals needed and he had a second working computer. The machines were all in the sitting room and he would have to move them before his guests arrived tomorrow so he moved it all to the living room. The sensor was wireless because he could and now he could access if from either of the two consoles. The constructor table was a beast to move being the heaviest but he could simply levitate it and so he did. He'd bought small tables and folding chairs to set all of this up and they would work well enough for the time being.
With these things done he went back to work on the learning program. He figured that Padma was intelligent enough that she would be able to take an accelerated course and programmed it as such. She would of course take written and spoken Lantean in case it would be best to need to speak in code. The program took until ten to complete but with that done he laid down the bare bones of the constructor code before preparing for bed.
The morning brought him back to programming as he uploaded the old programs and cut out what he didn't need and substituted in what he really needed. He was ready for nanites but he had no real use for them yet. They worked best for construction and he didn't have the materials needed just yet. He could build his first constructor bot but again he didn't have the needed materials to do it so instead he went ahead with the communication array that he would need to control the drone ship that he would send off to set up the mining base.
He started detailing the plans in the programming. First the mining of materials with the one mining bot he would be sending along. Then on to the construction of more mining and constructor bots. Finally when there were enough of each the construction of his first manned ship. With the drone ship there was the definite possibility of it being detected on exit but it wouldn't be coming back as it would be recycled for the internal computer and instructions programmed therein but the new ship would have all the enhancements and such with up to date materials and a buffer with the ability to hold enough materials to build whatever he wanted here. The first ship would be an industrial with large storage buffers and a drone launcher for defense which he would need naquada for true multiphasic drones.
He would be able to build better drones and computers and he would of course mange a potentia growth station to build full potentia and a hyperdrive capable of making the Pegasis galaxy and retrieving Atlantis. It would be best, before he went that far, to make cloaked hyperspace capable sensor drones and sending them to worlds with stargates to see the state of the milky way as it was called by the muggles. But all of that would have to wait for trininum and naquada.
He'd dressed in muggle business casual of deep green and black with brown loafers for the meeting. This was his first business meeting with the family of a girl that may turn out to be his new girlfriend so he wanted to look his best. His hair was still untamable and he had noticed that even though he never cut it, it never seemed to grow.
The fireplace flared green and Padma's father stepped through. He was dressed in robes for the meeting and he'd gone with a rusty brown. His expression was much more personable this time around and it seemed he was ready to put up with Harry this time around. Padma and her sister stepped through next with Padma wearing another sarong style of dress and her sister wearing a muggle mini skirt and cutoff t-shirt to show her bare mid-riff. No one seemed to be happy with this choice in the family that had stepped through with the exception of Parvati herself.
"Hi Harry, its good to see you again." Parvati began.
"Yes, but that doesn't excuse you for dressing in this way Parvati." her father interupted. "I appologize. She refused to change and the agreed upon time had come before I could get her to at least wear something more traditional." Harry nodded to him.
"It's fine. She's not essential to the talks today anyway." Parvati deflated. "I don't want her loose in the house either so lets get on to the talks."
He led them to the sitting room and called Kreacher for some tea and biscuits. They talked through the problems with supply and he showed him the manufacturing process of the calculators. They resolved that he would need materials close at hand and a good place to get scrap metal being junkyards because of cost. The windows of old cars would be a good source of silicon and he would have upgraded metal to use as something a little more crush resistant. They talked of using batteries instead of self sustaining magic crystals to facilitate return business and how they were going to set up deliveries.
"How are we going to drop the materials here after all. There is likely no place to drop them on the street in front of the house." asked Suva.
"There is a large back yard, big enough for a small junkyard of its own so I can get the materials I need. I'm currently programming a drone to do the basic transfiguration into raw materials right now. I just need the materials to build the drone and soon that portion will be ready. I also have plans for a camera, that is a recording device that will capture an entire play and play it back consistently for later use. It will be great for award ceremonies and lectures and maybe even law enforcement. Imagine being able to re-watch something like a wedding over and over again like the muggles do." Harry pitched.
Mr. Patill nodded. "An interesting idea and I have doubts that you will be able to build these things. I will send the girls over tomorrow with the payment plan to get your materials and if you will show me this backyard and give me the address ill see about the first one within 3 days."
Harry and Padma smiled. Parvati was bored though and feeling that her outfit was unappreciated by her target.
"So Harry, whats you plan for the two gorgeous twin girls you will have all to yourself in your house today?" her expression mischievous. Harry looked at her.
"Retrieving raw materials and a learning program for understanding what I'm doing. I don't really have anything set aside for you to do Parvati but I guess you can learn or watch what we do today. Or you can take a nap on the couch I guess. Or sunbathe out back, you certainly seem dressed for it." he countered.
Padma giggled. He'd countered her sister's attempt at seduction, clumsy though it was. How her father had decided she would make a good chaperon she didn't know. He couldn't possibility be looking for there to be a reason for a shotgun wedding could he? He sure had not really done anything about Parvati's mode of dress. He wasn't refuting her either.
"Well I need to make some floo calls and send at least one owl and I happen to know of a junkyard owned by a squib, don't ask how, so there should be no real problems for supply. I'll be going now and I expect there will be no problems, right Parvati?" Suva raised an eyebrow as he headed for the floo.
"There will be no problems dad. Just looking to get to know Harry better." she fluttered her eyelashes at the boy in question.
With their father gone Parvati and Padma both stood and waited for Harry to give any instructions he was want to. He stood as well and bid them wait a moment before he went to change into something more suited for working in. He came down the stairs in jeans and a t-shirt that said 'brainy women are better' that he'd gotten from Hermione on his birthday. Padma smiled while Parvati looked like she sucked on a lemon.
The shopping took them to a hardware store where he bought some sheets of metal siding that he could break down into the body of some drones and they called a cab to get it all back to Grimwald Place. With the three of them it was actually short work to get it all inside. Harry then transfigured it into smaller stack-able pieces before stacking them on top of the constructor table and transferring it all to the buffer. He was ready for the first construction drone.
Parvati was astounded as the drone began to take shape, bulbous and about the size of a coffee table. She was already astounded at the wandless transfiguration he had done to the base materials and now transfiguration by a machine was blowing her mind. Padma, having seen this before wasn't so affected. Padma was also sitting at the second computer going through the learning program and having the time of her life. It was similar to taking ancient runes but it was at your own place and pronunciation was provided.
He downloaded the operations program and put the drone on standby. There were no materials ready for it to take apart with its deconstructor beams nor put in their proper place with its constructor beam so there was little point to it being online anyway. It hovered in the living room powered by a miniature potentia or magic crystal. Manipulator arm, just one hung from the front of the drone. It was seamless as well.
"You've really got big plans then?" Parvati finally spoke.
"Yes." he said simply as the drone was pushed into the corner.
Next was the mining drone which had a deconstructor beam transporter pushed the material to the drone ship buffer for processing into where it was needed. The mining drone would gather it and push it to the drone ship which would push it to the constructor bots who would be working on more constructors or the first manned ship which he still had to design. The mining bot was much smaller by design just twice the size of a football (soccer for us Americans) and just as round with four deconstructor transporter beams. Again it was programmed and put on standby then shoved in the corner.
"I kinda feel like an idiot. I heard Pad's story and thought for sure you were just trying to get a go at her...I thought that maybe I could steal your attention and live happily ever after and no more greenhouse...but your really serious about this magic technology thing huh?" Padma was glaring at her now and she noticed with a wince.
"Yes we are." said Padma rising from her seat at the computer, pausing the program.
"Then how do I sign up? I promise to work hard and get Padma to dress more like a modern woman around you so you can see those legs of hers." she tempted.
Harry blushed a deep red at the implication. A blush that Padma caught and made a note of. From now on it would be sarong for special occasions only like dates.
Just then Kreacher popped in.
"Nasty half-blood master's back yard is ready. Nasty half-blood telling Kreacher to help him. And nasty blood-traitor has wogs women over in the mistresses house!" the elf yelled.
"That is enough Kreacher. If you have nothing nice to say say nothing!" Harry countered. Kreacher's mouth snapped shut before he popped away.
"Sorry about that but he was trying to wake the portrait of Mrs. Black who hates everything that is not on the pure-blood supremacy agenda." he apologized.
"There is something seriously wrong with that elf. Can't you get another one?" asked Padma.
"I don't know how."
"I'm sure dad does. We'll ask him." Harry smiled warmly at her and she returned it. Parvati looked between the two of them and smile, shaking her head. Then an idea formed but she would wait until she had her sister's attention only.
The afternoon found them all huddled around the computers the girls at one and Harry at the other on the other side of the room. Both girls were going over the language learning program and progressing well enough while Harry was synthesizing potentia power batteries for the calculators. Parvati leaned close to her sister when she was sure that Harry wouldn't hear.
"You know, Pad, I'm willing to share him if you are." she whispered. Padma started and turned to her.
"What? There is not even an us and you're trying to get me to share him with you?"
"Well he didn't take advantage of me when I was throwing myself at him and I am actually finding that kinda sexy, don't ask me why. Always liked the bad boys myself and yet..."
"You're starting to find that a gentleman is a good thing huh? Never thought I would see the day you grew up. How did it happen. Sure didn't show it this morning when you were getting dressed. Trying to hurry up and steal him all for yourself." looking back to make sure Harry was still occupied. He was still writing programs for his machines.
"I admit I was being a selfish bint, ok? I just wanted to beat you at something. Anything and I always thought I had you beat out in knowledge of boys but that turned out to be untrue as well so now...I don't know. I just know that you're my sister and he likes you and we look just alike and maybe he wouldn't mind trying out a set of twins after that Weasley girl broke his heart."
"I...I don't even know why I'm contemplating this at all but lets give it a try. Maybe you can help me loosen him up a bit. When were leaving we both give him a goodbye peck on the cheek then floo out. Confuse him a bit. What do you think?" Padma plotted. Her sister was stunned. Subtle but strait forward enough that it might work.
"Is there anything you aren't good at?"
"I could never wear the stuff you do." Padma tried.
"We are identical twins...if it looks good on me it would look good on you too. Tomorrow we both wear something better suited for working in and being comfortable and form fitting like tighter pants or something and give him hello hugs and or kisses. Then we keep up the physical flirting until he either asks what's up or gives in and responds." They both nodded, plan hatched and turned back to their learning program.
Harry had no clue what was going on behind him but he did know how the drone ship would be constructed and deployed. He could already start building potentia which he wanted a potentia per manned star ship when he was ready but the potentia he could build would be sub par and would fade in power over the course of months and not over the course of thousands of years.
The calculators were a good start but he would need to distribute them somehow and didn't need them on the banned list. If he could get one to Hermione and spread the word through Parvati and her gossip network then all would be fine.
"Hey Parvati, is there some way that you can spread the word about the calculators through your friends and see if you can get the muggleborns you know to spread the word to their friends. These would be a big hit with magical accountants and maybe even the goblins, if they'll even deal with me. The cameras work well for security and such so we could get in touch with the DMLE. As a matter of fact I know the minister will talk to me about them. And the tech should be able to accept wards as well so we could skip the anti-gravity and go strait to flight runes...Padma how are you at flight runes."
"Okay we are definitely going to have to help you stay on one task or so at a time. I could barely follow all of that. But yes, I can help. But we are going to have to go soon anyway so I'll contact my friends when I get home. I suggest you contact yours as well an get them in on this as soon as you can, tell them what your doing at least and your ideas to improve the wizarding world." Parvati said while Padma nodded.
The two rose looked at each other and nodded before crossing the room to stand on either side of him. They leaned in and placed matching pecks on his cheeks before heading to the floo. Harry sat stunned as hey walked away and definitely watched them walk as they headed for the fireplace. A bit of powder later and they were gone.