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Chapter 8

Waking up the next morning, Harry realized that he would have to get used to having two beautiful fiances in his home with him. With the new elf, whom he'd realized could get through the fidelis downstairs to get at the galleons, taking care of them wouldn't be an issue. He figured that Suva had helped him so much so far, for a price of course, that he could continue working with the man as well. Now he just needed to find out if his friends were in or out with this whole operation.

He rose from bed and decided that today, as he'd finished the drone ship programs early by a couple of days, that he would build a transporter. The materials were being dropped off every day into the buffer now if there was space and the system automatically called for more if it dropped below fifty percent. But with the transporter he could retrieve that Astria Porta his sensors had found in the arctic and replace the potentia at the outpost with one of the new ones he'd had constructed automatically while he'd been busy the day before.

After dressing and heading downstairs he found the girls already downstairs waiting on him for breakfast. They were sipping on tea and chatting about what they had planned for the day. Not interrupting, he sat and a cup appeared in front of him as well.

"I should really get your investments coming here from now on." said Padma.

"And I should really be working on collecting contacts for business. We are going to need people for almost everything we do here and we are going to need them soon. I don't think we have the time to wait for them to learn Lantean, so we need repositories that can be reused." fininshed Parvati. They both looked to him.

"I agree. Padma, I'll sign what you need me to. Parvati, it would probably be best if you started with Hogwarts alumni from our year first." he responded which received a 'well duh' look from Parvati.

"Yeah, Harry, I already figured that. We may need to make the offer to the squibs too but likely they have jobs they don't want to part with or bitter at us and won't be receptive."

"Well the undocumented half-bloods will likely be an easier sell." he said.

"Undocumented half-bloods? Oh, you mean the muggle-born don't you. Of course you do. I'll just have to get used to it. We'll inform their parents that we will need to scan them and all as well..." she trailed off. "Well anyway, let's stay on task. Establish the network first." she rose and stopped again. "Permission to get some gold to get an owl or two? That would really help out."

Looking at Parvati and feeling a little pang in his chest he nodded, not trusting his voice at the moment. Looking to Padma he could see the sympathy in her expression but also the resolve to remedy the owl problem for him.

"Neither of us own an owl or we would be using it. You used to have one but there is a reason that you named the first ship the Hedwig. This will go so much better if we can run owl post out of here." said Padma gently.

"I know. Do it. We need it and we might need more than two because we may need to send products out and our own flock of owls might come in handy." he responded.

"Well I agree but I only have two hands. Ill get the two and come back then we can find out if we need more or not later." said Parvati.

"Be careful out there Parvati. Strait to Eyelops and back." he said. She rolled her eyes.

"Yes, soon to be husband, I will. I promise."

Tipsy served a traditional English breakfast and they ate the slightly over-sized portions. She was a new elf and she may have still been afraid of being mounted on the wall. That or she was trying to impress him.

"Tipsy," he started, "You really don't have to cook so much for breakfast. We really don't want to get fat.

"Tipsy is sorry master Potter-Black. Please don't punish Tipsy!" the little elf panicked.

"No! I'm not going to punish you. I wanted to thank you for the food, just make sure to fix a little smaller portions next time so we don't all get fat." he quickly tried to calm the elf.

"You is not punishing Tipsy for her mistake?"

"No Tipsy. You didn't know. Why should there be any punishment?"

"Tipsy hear it happen to other elves so Tipsy be scared."

"Don't worry Tipsy. I won't ever hit you."

The elf smiled a big grin and exclaimed, "You is the best master ever. Master be thanking Tipsy and no be Punishing Tipsy. Tipsy is happy to be you's elf!"

"You are very welcome Tipsy." he said with a smile. The little elf popped away and took the finished plates with her.

"We've always thought that we were nice to elves but you kinda make us look mean. I've never punished an elf either but I don't remember thanking one that often." said Parvati.

"Maybe you should, future Mrs. Black." he teased a little.

She smiled and rose from her seat and headed for the floo, but not before stopping at his seat for a goodbye kiss. One quick trip downstairs to visit the vault and get a small sack of galleons and sickles then on to the floo and she was gone.

Padma rose and instead went to her workstation which she locked down the input and started going through letters she had handwritten. They were to the investments that Harry still had outstanding and would still send money to Gringotts for him if they didn't hear any differently from him. She was double checking them for the right attitude in the wording before handing them over one at a time to Harry to sign.

It took the better part of an hour to get through the stack as they discussed what was said in each letter, and being a form letter, meant that they would all have to be rewritten if there was any doubt that he would sign what was written. Or that he should sign at all. Somewhere during this process Parvati returned and wrote one herself that would get the ball rolling on the networking for manpower they were going to have to start on.

Finally he was able to get to his other project, the transporter. He set the constructor table to build it and stepped into the back yard to measure it out. There were three more meters than needed available so it would be perfect. He went back inside and marked the spot his sensor ghost stopped in the playback and waited for the constructor.

The transporter was a simple device and shaped in this rendition like a small box so when he was done connecting it no one would have known what it was. He locked on to the two object, dialing device and gate, and with one keystroke there was a bright flash in the back yard. Then he locked on the location of the depleted potentia and beamed it out of place before beaming in a replacement. Now down to two full potentia and one depleted one he looked at the depleted one with the knowledge of how to get it fully functional again. It was a little dangerous, though, but he could channel some magic into it until the reactions in the quantum foam started again. And that is what he would do.

He set the system to construct another potentia because this one was going to be used in the dialing device to power the gate to Atlantis. He would need a replacement for the third one required to get Atlantis home.

The twins were deep into their projects, now that he was standing over Padma's shoulder he could see she was seeing what could be done to pretty up the medical scanner design. It was looking better than a box with a handle and screen that he had been working on so he left her to it. Parvati was writing out personalized correspondences by the bushel for each of the people she hoped to network with. The one owl she set up for this was going to get a lot of work in the next few days while the other was for business correspondences to get the galleons going to the right place.

He sat down to take another look at his active programs and sank into that until lunch. Lunch was a lighter affair than breakfast as the portions were much more to the liking of the inhabitants of Grimauld Place. They took some time to catch up with each other on their tasks and spend some time snogging as well.

"Parvati," he said, "How many days do you need to get all the correspondences off and I'm sure you need to wait for the replies?"

"I should be able to get them all off today and then give a couple for the replies. Why do you ask?"

"Because our ride to Atlantis is ready, except for power that is." he said.

"Wait! You're saying that the Astria Porta is here? Where?" exclaimed Padma.

"It's out back."

That got the girls out of their seats and into the back yard. They were amazed at the amount of space a giant metal ring took up. They knew some about it as it had been in the repositories they'd absorbed but to actually see one was another thing.

"This will take us to another galaxy?" said Parvati with a little wonder in her voice.

"Yes, and instantly too. The only thing I am waiting on is the extra potentia we'll need to power Atlantis. The thing is that, while we're traveling with Atlantis, we can always gate back here at any time. There is enough power with three potentia to do so." he said smugly.

"So we won't miss any owl post besides. As long as someone is on Atlantis for the trip at all times we should have no problems, is that what you're saying?" said Parvati.

"Pretty much." he finished.

They all stood staring at the ring for a short while longer before heading inside. There were now six humanoid security bots and now they were all sporting cat ears. He'd changed the design coding after the talk yesterday with Mr. Patill. He really didn't care if they were cat people or not but soon there would be more people moving through the house and he really didn't want to get them mixed up.

"The problems with the retrieval are that we have business here that won't wait on us and that the addresses that you would need to memorize along with the fact that there is likely no food on Atlantis worthy of eating. I can reprogram a bot or two to work the hydroponics and greenhouses on board to fix the last one. You both will have to memorize the addresses for the middle one but business won't wait. We have to work that out as it comes in and having owls waiting for us is likely to make those owls and their owners a little angry with us. We'd have to have someone always in both locations." he stated.

"You're right about that and we would have to get into contact with dad about the supplies for the trip to get Atlantis growing again. It looks like the trip will have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest to power it up and get started growing. You should probably spend time writing that program now. I'll call dad." said Padma.

The next hour was spent with Harry programming while working out just how much in seeds and cutting he would need to get started. Not to mention food supply for the three days. He was taking nanites with him as well, already programmed with the upgrades he was planning and he was going to be transferring a literal ton of materials for the nanites to work with. The transporter upgrades should be done by the time Atlantis was at Centari where the outer improvements would be worked on. There was a lot of work to be done to Atlantis to get her done with all the upgrades while noone was in residence. The address would be changed by simply the fact that it would have changed galaxies but the one on board would be able to dial out as long as the gate address for Earth didn't change. The bots in the back yard were building one more for the trip as one was guarding each of the three floors and every entrance and two in the basement.

The girls, who now had an idea of what he was up to, were working with their father on how much of the planting materials they would need for the trip. Atlantis wouldn't be fully ready for habitation for weeks and unable to feed anyone for months. The supply had to be there and ready on the fly, literally, so the deal had to be struck though their supplier. Because they had said so in the contracts, and the man knew more about his operation than anyone else, using Suva to get what was needed seemed natural.

The trip was decided for the day after tomorrow as they needed time to bring in the materials requested. Mr. Patill was paid again today, up front for the service and shown the gate. He seemed especially interested in the knowledge that the ancestors of the wizards and witches today had built this for traveling to other planets without taking a ship to get there. He didn't feel confident in trusting a ship to keep him safe but he could see himself using a gate if at all possible to travel.

He left through the floo to make whatever arrangements he needed to and to get the supplies and a trunk big enough to carry them. Harry stopped him and went too the basement and a few minutes later came back with the one Gringots had charged him for. He'd simply unpacked it, dumped it out, in the vaults downstairs and was ready for reuse. It was actually too big for what they needed it for but it would cut down on the costs to not have to commission a brand new trunk just for this. Mr. Patill accepted it and was off.

Owl traffic intensified over the next day as the twins tried to manage the networking with only the two owls. They eventually were forced to send Padma into Diagon Alley for two more while Harry remade a room on the third floor into an owlry for all of the birds. Mr. Patill came through with a safari setup, tent and all just for a short excursion into the wilderness that was complete with food for two weeks. Harry laughed and stated that he wouldn't need the tent but the rest should work out in his favor.

"What I want to know is, is there a Potter Manor and where is it if there is?" he said after lunch.

"Well the talk is that it was burned down in the first rise of you-know-who." started Parvati.

"I can't believe people are still too afraid to say the name he made up to sound scarier. Its completely a fake and says that he was just scared to die." he grumped.

"Sorry, Voldemort then. You should still own the land by all rights." she continued.

"You're right, I should. Just don't know where it would be. Remus would have been able to tell me but he's gone now. It would probably be in the records department at the ministry. Which reminds me I should check on Teddy and his grandmother."

"Who?" they asked.

"My godson, Teddy Lupin and his grandmother Mrs. Tonks. Barely a year old yet."

"Parents didn't make it through the war, huh?" said Parvati.

"They went down facing Grayback. Left Teddy to his grandmother and me."

"That's so sad." he didn't catch which one that came from.

"Yeah, it is." he responded anyway.

"Well I was thinking we could have used it for training purposes. Being able to bring people in and remodel it for computers and the like but it looks like I will have to commission a few tablets."

"Whats a tablet? Wait, nevermind I know but they wont." said Padma.

"They will after the repositories. I have plans to give them the language so that they can read what we give them and get into the archives. The bot I am going to use for setup of Atlantis is going on security as soon as everything is set up. Its a short term post for the bot and that was always the original plan. I won't be asking people to work security as the system and the bots can handle that and with all the upgrades in place we should see every spell cast in Atlantis and by who."

"Woah. Stay on task love. And that is a pretty lofty goal. Are you sure with, how many can Atlantis house at once anyway? Are you sure we could police that on our own?" said Padma.

"We should and sorry, just excited. Atlantis should be able to house about a hundred thousand easily one fifty with some obvious strain."

"But that's more than there are in England!" exclaimed Parvati.

"Well despite what it seems, England is not the center of the wizarding world. There are other countries that would likely want in on this. I would rather bring in the muggleborns that are being discriminated against first for jobs. Remember I really don't have to sell a thing to make money, I'm mining gold and gems and beaming them to the vaults downstairs. By the way, how are we coming on companies to sell our products to?" Padma nodded and spoke next.

"We had some problems with the old dark affiliated investments. They wanted to continue to let Gringotts handle everything despite the fact that there is no account for either the Black fortune or their own business. I managed to make them realize that the paper trail that they were leaving with the goblins was unnecessary. They finally agreed to send the money here by owl every month. The calculators have a buyer and we can send them off today. The money came in for the first batch and two of the owls are out currently with the package. They want to see how they sell before ordering more. Saint Mungo's wants a demonstration of the scanner before they'll commit to anything, so thats tomorrow. Weasly Wizard Weazes jumped on the toy ships with the stinging hex cannons so we may need some new constructors soon. The DMLE wants a demonstration of the shield generators and the stun blasters before they buy as well. That's scheduled for the day after tomorrow." she said professionally. Harry nodded and turned to Parvati.

"We were turned down directly by Smith. But we are getting a little hope from a lot of the other muggle-born that we know because, even with the war over they just are not being hired over pure-bloods. I currently have twelve on the hook who are talking to their friends to pull in more. Be prepared for them next week. Their friends the week after that. I'm trying to space things out enough to give time to build and reload the repositories. Will that be enough time? I could still change the dates of the appointments around at this point. They've been out of work as if they were werewolves for a while now. They've gotten by with unskilled labor on the muggle side because they have no education. They seemed excited that they could be in on bringing technology to the wizarding world and getting paid for it." said Parvati.

"Well Zacharias has always had a problem with me. And the muggle-borns from our year haven't been looking for jobs long enough to be desperate for work. Oh well, we help who we can. I'm sure you have names but they will likely be captains of the ships if I can get them trained up." groused Harry.

"At least things are coming together. And are you going to take your seats on the Wizengamut? You'll get notices monthly until you do." she handed him a notice scheduling a meeting a week from today.

"I really should go shouldn't I?" he said.

"Yes. You really should." said Padma.

"But how much do I tell them?"

"Obviously not as much as you told us but enough to keep them from outlawing the technology. That would be the big thing. We have a request for calculators from France as well but they want to haggle over the price. But we havn't had time to get the market saturated to much for the traditionalists to shut us down early and this becomes a revolution instead of a revelation." said Padma. Parvati cringed.

"Yes. No more civil wars please." joked Parvati. Harry smirked.

"No promises. It depends on if the old men in charge are open to at least a little change in the way things are done. We'll have Atlantis by then and drone ships on patrol. I will still build what I can and how I can. If it becomes against the law in England to sell magic technology then we'll move the entire operation to Atlantis and work from there. We would need to encourage the new employees to live there by the way. They have to know that unless they are part of the fleet or food production they are living in a communal style arrangement." he stated.

"You're all over the place again. But yes. We kind of figured when the you wanted the city to support itself. I still can't believe that the whole city is a s ship. That's much too big. Too much. Just too much." said Parvati with a smile. They all smiled as well.

"Well, there is a new one building right now. I decided that we may need more space for more people. There is another double the size of Atlantis set to be built when we have a squadron of defending drone ships on patrol in both systems. It won't slow down the production of ships at all. By that time Atlantis will be part of the building process anyway and using Atlantis's transport buffer will bring all kinds of new construction efficiency."

"You really want us in space, don't you?" sighed Padma.

"More like I know the lost tech that our ancestors left lying around out there and know that eventually the Americans are going to piss off someone out there and there will need to be some way to fight back. Lantean ships are much more powerful, even more so with the upgrades I designed them with. We just have to get a good enough number of hulls in space to matter when they do piss someone off. Their gate is under a mountain and I'm having trouble locking on to it to take it away from them."

"Take it away?" said Padma.

"Yup. They have no idea what they are playing with and whats on the other side of the gate. The slaves they will meet will probably think that they are gods or sent by them as the Astria Porta network has been claimed by the Goauld. They'll eventually try an invasion however they can. They'll use the gate or a Ha'tak."

"So they'll get really mad and try the gate on Earth to send troops and such. And whats a Hatak?"

"Ha'tak, and its a mother ship. Carries thousands of troops and death gliders and bombers and will see any resistance as a need to wipe us all out which might mean a naquada bomb to just destroy the Earth once they find out there's no naquada or trinium."

"Right, you said you had an idea about that." said Parvati.

"But my idea is not supported by anything in the records. They simply mined it all out millions of years ago and that is why they left, other than the plague." he said.

"Plague!" the twins exclaimed.

"Major one too. Nearly wiped them out. The good thing is that I have the cure in my head. And the vaccine. That would come in handy if I ever defrost the ancient in the ice near the outpost. And we can put the shields back up on the outpost. I'm already in control of if from here. No need for the chair."

"Chair?" said Parvati.

"The control chair."

"Oh. Forgot. Comes with the repositories you gave us. How much will exactly be in the new ones. Just language? Or some backround like that so they aren't completely out of the loop?" said Padma.

"That's a good point. They are going to need the background technology to understand what they will be working with. We need to bring in business as well. But that is for Atlantis. I'm excited about what we've managed to get started." he rose from his seat and went to his workstation. "And I need a communication watch for Parvati."

It didn't take long to whip up a new watch with the same frequency on it at all. He was actually surprised it took him so long to realize she should have one. Now the three of them could stay in contact anywhere on Earth to as far out as the moon. Or thru an active Astria Porta.

It was only a couple of hours until diner so he began to work on the reloadable program for the repositories. It would contain as much as the girls had gotten and they would each leave with at tablet. All of his tech, except the calculators, had anti-tamper circuits. If you tried to take it apart it would never work again.

The twins were giving him inviting smiles all through dinner and he realized the reason. He would be away from them for a few days, and though no one expected there to be any trouble, the two of them would worry.

The goodnight kisses were especially enthusiastic.