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Chapter 12

Harry spent the next morning working on the badges. They would give his transporter something definite to lock on to so that transport would not have any guessing games associated. They would have to transport themselves using their watches and he had already a tablet controller built anyway so that he could get back to Number 12.

With the badges done by lunch he spent all of his time that afternoon on the crystals for the repositories. What he needed the recruits to know would be on them and some backround information for the technologies that they would soon find themselves using would be made available as well. They would also get Lantean language as well and that was just the tip of the iceberg. They would spend the next month on learning programs and ship training so that the fleet would have human hands in control at all times. The first ship, named the Zeus, was the flagship of the fleet and first of it's class. He wanted everyone ready to do these ships justice and not have to rely on heavy brute force tactics when in combat as sometimes it was better to let Earth know it was protected to make sure that the enemy didn't escape.

The training center would be complete at the end of the day and he wanted the recruits beginning to get a move on with their training and earning the gold he was to be paying them. The first month's wages were more of an up front thing, and he wanted to impress upon them the severity of the problems facing the fleet from the get go.

One of the major problems he could see was that soon the results of the gate use from the Americans would be seen. He didn't know when, but there would be some sort of fallout from the Goauld unless they were just so lucky that they found nothing on the other side of the gate. That wasn't likely and he knew that if the Goauld were on the other side they would invade to bring the population of humans on the other end under control to increase their slave counts. They would then do whatever it took to remove any education, as slaves didn't need to know much about anything and especially didn't need to gather evidence that their gods were not actually gods. That wouldn't work very well for the Goauld model of government at all.

He made three hundred crystals to start with and transported them ahead. No one was at the facility as of yet but he sent the crystals ahead anyway. Next he grabbed his controller and transported over to the facility himself to inspect it. He knew the basic layout but he didn't know how it would all look. The overall asthetic was pleasing and higher tech than anything else currently on Earth. He had arranged the crystals into as case for used and a case for unused. The used was empty as of now as he hadn't burned through the buffer crystals using a repository. That would take up most of the first day.

The facility was arranged with one upstairs level, for now, for housing. The rooms, or suites, were large and had their own bathrooms as well as enough beds and storage for four people per room. The idea was to stack as many people as he could in here so that they could all get into their seperate trainings as soon and efficiently as possible.

The downstairs was equiped with training computers and tablets with a large common room style area for study, as well as three seperate simulators for ship combat training. There were also double that number for engineering training for the repair and maintenance of ships in and out of combat. Crystal alignment and hyperdrive controls and consoles were there for tinkering and the basics of the entire ship could be worked at for knowledge's sake. He didn't just want to go back to the stars. He wanted people to be able to keep them there and never again decend into self important blood purity wars.

Happy with the facility, he transported back. He had a date for another go at the simulator with the twins. They had decided to make time every day for training themselves. Just because he had the knowledge didn't mean that he knew how to command the best out of the tech and his crew. He intended for the first ship to go to the best captain and simply hoped that that would be him. He wasn't feeling like that would be the case as the trainees would be working specifically on training to be the best that they could be at everything. Soon they would have engineers and scientists again. The training facility would weed out who was best at what and why. Then they would get into their specializations and carry on from there. Some people would wash out of combat simulation entirely and that was perfectly okay. They would need all sorts.

He remembered that he wanted to scan the muggle-born families to gather more data for his 'undocumented half-blood theory' and Parvati had included invites for the whole family to attend for scanning purposes. The final count for today was somewhere along the realms of 200 people. There were retired army and navy noncoms and officers coming along because their family was leaving for space to work with Harry and his fiances.

Harry wore the same business casual he'd worn to talk business with Suva Patill and was sweating it out a little. Nevill and Hanna would be in place as well as would Hermione. There were going to be a lot of people and they were going to need seating until they recovered. He had all of that and more but he was nervous.

They had been correct. The ships were all complete. The Zeus was waiting for a crew and there were now three drone ships in the solar system and two in the industrial location. Atlantis would be done shortly and he could build another like her, with the same upgrades from the get go. He would love to have another site to build up more ships and mine out an uninhabited planet. With that in mind, he launched the five social satellites Atlantis had and ordered her to build and launch them as they came available. The idea was to get a satellite to each of the closest stars to the home system looking for another uninhabitable world and mining it to death to establish another shipyard as he'd done at Centari.

The twins had decided on relatively conservative dress robes but their jewelry screamed foreign money. They wore blue with silver trim and the robes hugged them as well as was possible for robes. They smiled, satisfied at his dropped jaw and double checked that they had transmitted their workstations to the master's chambers in the new Potter Manor/training facility. Everything was beamed out to include the stargate, which was beamed out onto the grounds. It was more out in the middle of nowhere and heavy traffic would stand out less. He used the control pad to lock on to the signals of their watches and beamed them over to the Potter property.

The girls looked around and nodded. They would have no problems transporting over here every morning to work. They were currently in the entrance hall which had a floo and the front door nearby. It would fit all 200, and some change, people for their first foray in the the leadership of this effort. The place had an owlery for their owls and they had already sent them ahead. They really were trying to limit the foot traffic at Grimwald Place even if that meant they had to move as well. They would simply 'go to work' every day after breakfast and Harry's new elf would pop over to their work suite to serve lunch and they would be 'home' in time for dinner.

For this to work they had developed tablet devices that they could continue their work on as long as they weren't builind lat into the night anymore. The industrial side of what they were building for sale was covered as they had many more constructors and workstations built into the facility and they would be buying more owls today to have a full flock, or whatever, for large deliveries. They already had the people hired that would be filling the constructor built orders. They could then train and organize and keep eyes on the rest of the operation. Maybe the trainees could find a way to fight off an invasion that wouldn't reveal their presence.

"The repositories are in the next room with plenty of reclining space, right?" asked Parvati. He smiled and nodded.

"Good. Then are you ready to get this moving?" said Padma.

"Yeah. The first set of crystals are loaded so I'll use my pad to make the first transports." he responded.

The first appointed time came up and they plastered smiles on their faces. Parvati had the biggest grin as Lavender Brown appeared with all of her werewolf induced scarring at the front of the group. She brought a single trunk, resembling a school trunk, and that was it. No family. She wore a big grin when she spotted her classmates.

"Parvati! I missed you girl! How have you been?" she asked.

"I should be asking you that. I know your parents kicked you out for your scars, even though you're not a werewolf. So how have you been?" Parvati asked with deep concern. Lavender lost the grin.

"Purebloods automatically assume that I'm a werewolf so I'm getting shunned. It's not like it takes much for purebloods to shun anyone but it's been kind of rough. When you said you might have a job for me I couldn't turn it down." she answered. Parvati nodded as Harry stepped up.

"She didn't tell me you were coming directly, but I should have guessed. She heads up personnel and social or Counsilor for Communication and Social so, if you'd like, you can work under her." he said before smiling at the rest of the group.

"Before anyone can move on and pick jobs or move on to the jobs they've already been selected for there are placement tests and such to be done. But before any of that is done we have to send you through the repositories to get you up to speed. If everyone would follow us through the double doors here.." he trailed off as he moved to exit the room while the group followed.

There was a lot of murmmering as they followed into a large social room complete with wheeled padded chairs, hundreds of them. They were wondering as to the two odd stands side by side with an army of chairs ready in front.

"If you will all line up in front of the stands, no crowding please, and we'll get started. Simply place your head inside the recepticle and the information will be imparted directly into your head. It's a language and basic science package so you don't spend the next 6 to 8 years trying to work your way up to the job you want. It will give you a headache to get all of that information so suddenly so that's what the chairs are for. We'll help you to a chair so scoot on out of the way when you get your cheeks in the seats." said Harry.

"How do we know you're telling us the truth?" said some guy in the middle of the group. Padma picked up the question.

"Because we've all been through it. Well...Harry went through more, a lot more, but my sister and I have already had the download. It will give you a headache to get all that information at once and you may get a little dizzy. That's what happened to us." more murmering. Padma sighed.

"If you're really that opposed to getting the job of a lifetime, why did you all come out here?" said Parvati. There were some panicked lookes.

"It's not that we don't want the jobs, we do, it's just that we really don't know anything about those stands and what they are supposed to do to us. I don't personally want a headache. And why can't we get more out of it. If we're going to get a headache anyway, shy not go for broke?" a few people nodded with him. Harry stepped forward again.

"Because the download is set for the maximum safe amount of information that can be imparted. Anything more that that could actually hurt you. As it is, the worst that will happen to you is a headache and a little dizziness. This was all described in the letters that you exchanged with Parvati, I believe, so I really don't see the problem. I have another group showing up in about 50 minutes now that we've stopped to talk about it. Then we still have to get you all sorted." he said. Lavender rolled her eyes and went strait for one of the machines.

"Well I need the bloody job so I'll be the first to stick my head in the machine, how about that? Will that get things going?" she asked as she stood in front of it. Parvati moved to assist her when she came out pulling a chair close.

Lavender shook her head before sticking her face in the machine. It grabbed on and a few seconds later it let go. Lavender wobbled on her feet and Parvati helped her into a chair. Then the blond grinned.

"What a rush! I think I know another language now. Read, write, and speak. He's right you know. You won't have a clue what's going on of you don't do that first." she said.

Lines formed with renewed interest and the crystals were switched out from the repositories as they were depleted. Near the top of the hour everyone was sitting in the chairs trying to get the world to stop spinning or heads to stop pounding. They were using Lantean and English interchangeably and barely noticing when they switched.

"As it took so long to get everyone through this portion of the day, it's time to meet the next group. I see some of you brought your families with you, immediate only and my scanners say that there isn't a single true muggle in the house. Everyone is a witch a wizard or a squib. It proves my theory that there is no such thing as a muggleborn. We have rough average of 30 small families and not a single muggle is actually a muggle." he said with a big grin. One mother frowned.

"What does that mean?" she demanded. He grinned.

"It means that the war, the death camps, the dark lord...were all wrong and your children are all half-bloods. It means that everyone with magic has magical blood all the way back through their earliest ancestors. That and, if there is an inheritance test out there your children should probably take them. Most will likely turn up nothing but being distant cousins to some pure blood snob but some might turn out to be lost bloodlines. When kids turn out to be squibs the purebloods turn them out. That's magical blood that no one tracked. Eventually magic comes back to the line and everyone assumes that you're muggleborn but I think a true muggle born is next to impossible. I think this pureblood nonsense is literally breeding the magic right out of us. I also believe it's time to transport in the next group." he grinned and strutted back into the entrance hall and hit a few keys on his control pad and another group appeared in a flash of light.

"Welcome to Potter Manor/training facility." was all he got out before Hermione began to damn near vibrate.

"Well then...if you're that excited then you'd better follow me and line up in front of the small platform, podium items in the middle of the next room. They will download the information you need to keep up with this operation directly into your minds. It will give you a mildish headache and may make you dizzy for a bit which is the purpose of the chairs. Dan, Emma, I'm glad you made it."

"Wasn't going to let her run off and dissappear into another world again without us this time." Dan said while Emma nodded with a determined look. Hermione stopped vibrating in excitement and blushed heavily.

"Honestly, Dad, it's not that bad!" she protested. He raised an eyebrow and said one word.

"Australia." her jaw snapped shut and her blush intensified. Harry smirked.

"If everyone would line up in front of the repositories, no crowding please. They are simple to operate. You simply put you head into the recepticle. Everyone in the room reclining in the chairs has already done it. Before you shove your face into the thing, please make sure there is a fresh crystal in the machine or nothing will happen and you'll just look silly."

People who'd gone through nearly an hour ago were nearly recovered and rolled their chairs out of the way as this group didn't complain nearly as much about sticking their head into the machines that they didn't personally know.

"Alrighty, now that everyone's been through that it's time to parse out the jobs some of you already signed up for. For those who don't know, wizards and witches are the descendants of the people of Atlantis. At some point they realized that they could manipulate zero point energy to make their lives more comfortable and didn't need their technological marvels to live how they wished. They rejected the technology and began to worry about the purity of their Lantean bloodlines as they didn't have a sustainable population so had to have children with the normals or muggles. They were respected as healers and wise men and women but, in time they forgot much of the knowledge that made them so wise to begin with. But miracle cures were harder to come by without the technology and the dangerous idea that you were somehow better than others if you had less human blood in your veins.

The point of this is I am going to bring back that technology that those lazy Lantean ancestors threw away and drag the wizarding world kicking and screaming back to the stars. But there is a problem with that too. I was going to have this system and others patrolled and probably have terraformed Mars or something within 50 years while slowly releasing technology so as not to overwhelm anyone. But the absence of our ancestors, and their tendency to leave their tech lying around for others to find later led to a race of beings that pose as human gods to enslave most of this galaxy. They did it with our tech, however it is badly reverse engineered. They also use the Astria Porta system to spread. Which is why I'm almost certain that they will come back to Earth in force. The Americans have one and they are likely to piss off the Goauld, which is what they call themselves, and bring them back to Earth for new slaves and genocide.

"I've already taken some steps...I've now got drone ships patrolling the solar system and I have one Battleship/Flagship that needs a crew. Atlantis herself will need a crew, as she's a city and a space ship." he said. The others looked sceptical.

"So there's another threat and you're hoping some of us will sign up for the rough navy of yours in case we have to fight off Gould?" said one of the parents.

"Goauld, means god in their language, and yes. They control 90 percent of the Astria Porta in the galaxy and would definitely find insult with a group of Americans that wouldn't see them as gods. If they manage to kill one we may find a reprive while they snap up the territory lost but, in the end they will come here." most nodded.

"And if we don't want to join the navy?" asked Emma. He smiled.

"Again, we have commercial space. We also have our own production jobs and figuring out how to combine our achievements with magic with the old tech. We could use the scientists, if you want to call them that. We could also add trying to improve the tech itself as we understand it better. We need folks that listen to the Goauld chatter and records the important bits but that would be the intelligence portion of the navy." she smiled back at him.

"We'd like to see about that commercial space. You'll need dentists and other health professionals." she said. He laughed.

"We have feelers out for healers as well. If there are any doctors or nurses in the group, we would really like to see you for run through of the medical facilities. There are training facilities here for them and Neville is here for the greenhouses in Atlantis. He's got a mostly bot staff at the moment but I think Hanna there was going to help him. Families will share a suite in the upstairs rooms and the floo is available for any travel needs. The security bots already have your magical signatures and biometrics so you should find setting up your own accounts easy. Pay will be mostly in galleons or the magical pay scale because I like being on a gold standard. I don't really know why the muggles came off of it. Anyway, volunteers for each section have already signed up if they knew to and it would be nice to have some medical professionals working with us." he said. Parvati smirked.

"It helps that we got a message from a muggleborn enclave school in Eastern Europe. They only have the one school and don't accept muggleborns at all. They and their families have had to open their own schooling so there are some twenty thousand of them looking for better jobs and a better life. Figured we could fill Atlantis up on the European contingent. They start portkey-ing in next week. We looked up navy ranking for the navy we're building so don't worry too much there. Now lets get everyone organized. Everyone with a job in the civilian sector and or hoping for a commercial slot to the left side, research and development in the middle, and navy to the right side." Parvati said.

To the right were 112 people, in the middle was Hermione and 60 people, and to the left went 41 people. They navy folks were led by Harry to the training facilities to begin their training into crewing the ships. Padma took the research and development group to a set of labs in the facility while the commercial was led outside with Neville and Hannah following to the stargate.

Hermione and the research group were given their access codes and went strait to work trying to meld the tech with the magical advancements of the last 10,000 years and the first focus was on wards. They immediately began to build a ward scheme to add to the hulls of the ships that were run on potentia that would make the armor more resilient and harder to target. Then internal changes like space expansion. They would add a circuit to the ships to run a small amount of power into the wards to keep them charged. They finished the theory by the end of the day.

By then the initial testing of the navy personnel was completed and they had 3 captains; Robert Jones, Katherine Shoemaker, and Joel Packard. Robert was 5ft. 11in. He had a moderate build and brown hair and was in his mid twenties. Katherine was the shortest of the three at 5ft. 5in. At 19 with long black hair she was the youngest captain. Then Joel as a black man who had just turned 30. he was 5ft. 9in.

The three had the best all around scores in all of the tests. They absorbed the functions of the Aurora class ships quickly and in command they managed the best tactical turnout for the invasion simulations. They would spend the week working with the rest of the personnel to figure out who would hold what positions in their crews. Harry informed them that it was likely that any Admiral positions would be chosen from among them first. He also informed them that the best of them would get the flag ship, Zeus.

"I have two more hulls to work out as well. Medical ships and carriers. When we take the future fight to the Goauld we may need to treat the populations of the planets we liberate and that is were the medical ships come in. Nurses will be easier to come by as we can train them up in the use of the medical equipment we have on file. Healers will be in charge of the bays, and we're still looking for them so it looks like we'll only get the one hospital ship for the forseeable future. The carriers will have more battle coordinators than the Aurora as there will be 10,000 squads of fighters for them to coordinate. They will be very busy. Again we have to have more captains but there is only one billet right now as only one manned ship is ready." said Harry to his Navy personnel. Katherine raised a hand and he acnowledged her.

"When will these new ships be ready? And how will you do the selecting? Plus, how's going to captain a hospital ship?" she asked.

"The two new hulls will be ready in two days. I've ramped up production to meet the demand and the threats we face. A new Aurora, Medical ship, and Carrier will be in that group. There is a training module already ready for each of them. Atlantis's upgrades will be complete by then as well so she can build more of the drone patrol ships currently operating now. Anyone else wanting a captains billet will have to get their scores up and will be competing against the muggleborns from the continent. The hope is to have a strong fleet built up within a month. We will already have more ships than crews come two days from now so keep that in mind. I've got to get more repositories ready to meet the demand. We also have one of the Veela enclaves asking for a billet and I see no reason to deny them." he answered. "The captain of the hospital ship will have to listen well to their chief healer as that is the primary function of the ship. Every ship will have at least a nurse to run their infirmaries as well. I know some of you are training for that so I'll leave you all to that."

The captains nodded. They had already decided to split the applicants into groups of 36 for their crews.

"If that's the case then the oldest of us would like to take the Zeus. We can focus on choosing and training the crew for her with the upgrades that the research division has come up with. They are saying that they will have the wards ready to apply by tomorrow and we'd like to be on manuvers the day after. That will get the Zeus out of the shipyard and make space. We've seen the suggested pay scale and, as long as we get leave to spend some of it at Atlantis. We should have a good economy going by the time the next ships are ready. We passed our contacts to Parvati with the contact's permission, of course, so you can expect plenty more British applicants soon as well. The death camps really messed up all of our contact lists and a lot of people ran to the continent and America." said Katherine. Many nodded.

"I've got 2 seats on the Wizengamut that I'm using to try and make sure that kind of thing doesn't happen again. I'm hoping to make them realize that the hate written into the laws needs to go or there will be more home grown Voldemorts. Anyway, since you all have been talking, who will take what?" asked Harry.

"Like we said, I will take the Zeus and 36 recruits. A nurse or two will be included. I think Katherine would like the medical ship and Robert should likely should take the first carrier. He had the best scores of all of us captains in coordinator position." said Joel. Harry looked at them for confirmation and nodded.

"Agreed. I want to establish a captain's counsel to make tactical decisions. I don't want to be the only one with a say in what happens. My job, as I've come to understand it, is to make sure everything goes smoothly. Eventually my workstations will be moved to Atlantis. I'm already pushing over functions. Though I can work mostly from Earth with the subspace communications. I'm High Chancellor with Parvati being Chancellor of Personnel and Social and Padma as Chancellor of Intelligence and we will be appointing one for the military as well. The goal is a nation built by the half-bloods and muggleborns of the world to protect this planet and any other claimed territory. We have two systems to cover and soon will be adding more. The social satellites will find more uninhabitable worlds to mine and build from and more ships will be the result. That's not to say that we will turn away all the purebloods either. But we will have nothing to do with any of the pureblood supremacy nonsense that we had to put up with in British and European schools." said Harry then he blushed. "I forgot to set you all up in your suites for the time you're all here. Sorry about that. I guess I was excited to get started. Why don't you all find the stairs and get settled in. With the plan we have in place, 37 of you will be moving on in a couple of days anyway but the rooms are set up for 4 to a room. They are already assigned for families and they are suites so you share a living room with 4 bedrooms for privacy."

The group adjorned for the day and Harry took the time to find Parvati. She'd taken her contingent to Atlantis and he'd heard the gate start again to bring her back much later in the day. He found her in the manufacturing portion of the facility sending off owls. He walked over to her.

"Hey Harry. I'm sending out tablets and badges to the European contingent that will be joining us in a few days. The tablets can call us so we can communicate in real time and skip the international owls." she said as he swept her into a hug.

"I know. I got your message on my tablet here. You got any definite numbers yet?" he asked. Everyone else in the room looked up for a moment before going back to filling the manufacturing orders and he heard one man comment about lucky bastards.

"Eastern Europe is going through a shake up and shakedown of the muggleborn and Veela. They were mostly ignored before the whole ordeal with Voldemort but now the idea to push them into camps and enclaves with no representation is going on. We are about to have some 32,000 refugees camping on the grounds in 3 days. I've already ordered a small armies' worth of wizard tents and a lot of them are bringing their own, but it might get ugly. Some are staying behind to liberate the ones that have been rounded up and the Veela enclave in Germany is packing everyone and moving them here tomorrow. That's 3,000 Veela. I've ordered truckloads of food and they are bringing a few hundred elves with them. The refugees will bring another 1000 elves or so with them as well. Your ancestral grounds are going to get packed pretty quickly. I say we get the repositories into them and get them to Atlantis as quickly as possible. Those that want to join up with the Navy, and yes I'm capitalizing, can stay here and go through the training facilities. We just finished the repositories and have started on the crystals needed to reload them but we'll be at this for days. I contacted Daddy and he's arranging the food, for cost plus a small fee. We'll likely never have personnel problems by the end of the week. We also have British muggleborns contacting me still and I've been sending out badges and tablets to the enclave leadership and households to bring them in with up to date, real time communications so we don't have to rely on owls. Now give me a kiss and let me go so I can get back to work." she said. He gave her that kiss and released her to go looking for Padma.

He found Padma looking over the ward schemes they wanted to use on the ships though Padma was frowning at the two new hulls she would have to work with. He hadn't told them he'd been working on them. He wrapped her in a hug from behind and kissed her neck.

"What's up?" he asked. She sighed.

"I really wish you told me about the new ship types. The schemes have to be adjusted for the shapes for maximum efficiency. The good news is that we don't have to make any changes for the internals. The structural integrity fields will charge the runes naturally so we only have to have the nannites carve them in and they should work. And if not, no big loss, we just don't get the hard to target benefit out of it. The wards for the Zeus and every other Aurora class ship are ready now, they just need your approval to be carved now, and on every one of them to be built from now on. They cause anyone using manual targeting to see them in triplets making them have to choose which to target so the longer the fight the more direct targetting we'll have to work around. But the start of every fight with the Goauld will start with the manual cannons off target for the most part." she purred. Hermione frowned.

"The schemes for the other two hulls will be ready tomorrow. The computers say we need your approval to make any changes as the High Chancellor." said Hermione as she stared at her best friend blatently loving on Padma. He raised an eyebrow as to her tone.

"Is the relationship between me, Padma, and Parvati going to cause problems for you Hermione?" he asked. She huffed.

"Really, Harry, a marriage contract? It's outdated and barbaric!" she started to rant.

"Outdated? Sure. Barbaric? I don't think so. It was an agreement between the girls, myself, and their father. It really isn't any of your concern, and it is unbreakable except for the agreement of the people involved. We're happy with it so calm down, okay?" he interrupted. She huffed again and went back to pouring over the the ward schemes. He rolled his eyes.

"What else do you have for me?" he asked Padma, who turned around in his arms and threw her own around his neck.

"The new intelligence office already has some information for us. The Americans really stepped in it. They got into a dustup with the over god Ra. They managed to kill him and the Goauld are in dissaray fighting over the empty seat. They are all now at war with each other trying to carve out new territory. However Earth was mentioned multiple times as a threat to their power. They can't quite remember where we are and it wasn't called Earth the last time they were here so they haven't quite gotten around to finding us yet. Whoever comes out on top will shuffle their resources to do the searching after the battles are over. It seems there will be little actual fighting. They can't use their minions to search for us because that would mean they would have to educate them and that would be bad for their image. They could pull the general location from the stargate network, and that is likely what they are going to do, and come here blind, or whoever wins the closest bit of territory to us. That looks like Appophis at this point. That is unless he looses his territory before then. Now I need you to sign off on the changes to the Aurora hulls." she answered.

He nodded and stepped back from her after giving her another kiss, this one on the lips, and moved to the console to enter his confirmation codes. Hermione was paying special attention so he decided to nip that in the bud.

"The system records and stores magical signatures so only I can enter the codes." he said. She looked dissappointed.

With that done he went to look at the grounds that were going to be full of tents in the near future. The sun was going down and the grounds were a little overgrown but this should work. He waved his gauntleted hand and the grass was trimmed down all across the grounds and he nodded at a job well done. Or, at least, well enough done. He decided to check on how people were settling into Atlantis tomorrow and went back inside to work a bit at his station. He increased the maximum nannite amounts at the industrial site by 10 times and looked into the new changes for the Aurora hulls. He personally read the intelligence reports and agreed with the conclusions reached. Then he went to the replicator and replicated 172 bags for galleons and transported himself to Grimwald Place to fill them with the first months pay. He'd set aside a place for a bank in Atlantis for everyone to do their banking without the rediculous fees working with the goblins. This way he could pay everyone without having to count it all personally. With all of the monies counted and bagged he transported back and called a meeting.

"Alright people, we have to discuss how everyone is going to get paid. The first month is ready for you and I'll start transporting the bags over or we can set you up accounts with the Atlantis Bank that I set up when I retrieved her. You would only have to set up an access code of some sort and it would be transported and stored in your own vault without access fees. You won't earn interest, but I'm not about to bother your money for you without authorization except to add more to it. The muggles are starting to use bank cards but you can use credit codes. Just remember you code and the system remembers your magical signatures and only you can authorize any payments out unless you set up an authorization for minor stuff for wives and children. It's up to you. Carrying around a ton of gold or set up an account. You all have suites in Atlantis already assigned to you so you could have it all transported there for later use and, as annoying as making sure that is done will be, I will happily see it done." said Harry. Everyone was thinking about that.

"What about converting to muggle money?" asked Hermione.

"I can't do it for you. The goblins won't work with me. You'd have to go to Gringotts and get it converted that way. With the civilian economy we're establishing in Atlantis, I would imagine most of what you want would be available soon for galleons. Not to mention that the goblins are likely to reject you too Hermione." he answered.

In the end it was agreed to open up accounts so he called the Orion to transport the gold to Atlantis Bank in seperate accounts organized by magical signatures. It was near dinner time so the twins and Harry went to the entrance hall to transport over to Grimwald Place as everyone else went to the social hall/dining room. They took their tablets with them so they could continue to work on whatever they had been working on when they left. Harry spent most of the night until bed assigning ranks based on performance after his captains. Intelligence was working in shifts so he went through the newer reports as did Padma. The international owls would arrive in the continent tomorrow but the local owls had delivered today so Parvati was fielding calls all night until just after dinner. Even then she was still trading messages.