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Chapter 18

The entire counsel followed the two missions with great interest. Because New Lantea took two hyperspace jumps to get to, one to skirt Goa'uld space and another to get on target, use of the social satellites for communication was a must. There was even one at Earth to keep it in on the network. When the Tria mission sent the message that they had made contact with the ancient ship the counsel assembled in the counsel chamber or projected themselves there. There was a barely noticeable lag time in the transmission due to the distance involved.

"Tria, this is the New Lantean Navy ship Aether. Please come to a stop so we can effect repairs to your hyperdrive." there was silence for a few minutes before a commanding female voice replied.

"Aether this is the Lantean battleship Tria. Tria will be coming to a full stop. We expected to be out of the loop for a while but for there to be a whole new navy and captains that I do not recognize...how long have we been relativistic?"

"Excuse me if my introduction was lacking. I am captain Simpson of the Aether. You have been relativistic for about 10,000 years. As far as we can tell, time nearly stopped for you. I would not recommend spending more time relativistic if it can be helped at all." came the response. The Tria was quiet for nearly 5 minutes.

"We can see that you're telling the truth. We've detected a communications network, that we are basically on the edge of...it's Lantean but my codes didn't work at first. They have since been enabled. I am captain Helia of the Tria. My crew and I have apparently been lost in space or the better part of an age...we request an audience with the High Counsel of this time to discuss our commissions." she said.

"Understood Tria. Standby for nannite swarm to effect repairs." Helia made a strangled sound.

"Nanites! Are you sure that's wise?" she said finally.

"I assure you there is no artificial intelligence. They are simply constructors and have their orders. They will attempt to repair and update you as far as possible to an Aurora II as possible. As for speaking to the High Counsel... there should be a hard light projector in your briefing room. Repairs should take the better part of a day while we will hang out for 3 while you get updates. Our partner on this mission, the Alastor, should have completed their portion of the mission by then."

"May I ask what your mission was?" asked Helia.

"Spread social satellites across the void to the Pegasis galaxy, install a foothold in the Pegasis galaxy through use of nannite construction techniques, and rescue and save the Tria. We stopped to do the rescue first while the Alastor continued with the other objectives." came the replay and there was a few minutes of silence again before Helia spoke again.

"I believe I will have that talk with the counsel about our options." she said before leaving the bridge for her briefing room.

She walked into the room to find the projector already on and 8 figures sitting in a semi-circle around one half of the room. She moved to stand before them and took a parade rest, or what would be parade rest for the Marines they were using. She looked to the center and found that there was one very young male and few similarly aged females on the counsel and became worried.

"Captain Helia of the newly rescued Tria reporting." she said.

"Thank you for wasting no time, captain. I know that you have discussed the eventuality of rescue with you crew before this but I doubt you expected it to come 10,000 years after the fact. Even the repository," at this Harry raised his arm to show the Gauntlet of Moros's time in office. "It dumped everything from the time before we first came to Avalon to leaving to escape the plague. I have the entire history and technological knowledge of our entire race since we split from the...ones before. It was my intention to drag our people back into space, kicking and screaming if I had to.

"We have been at this for close to a month, maybe a little longer. The fleet is still small, but upgraded from the fleet of old. I am pretty sure we could start a war with and hold our own against the Wraith again but we would loose any extended engagements. There is a new enemy at our gates that reverse engineered some of the technology our ancestors left behind to enslave the majority of the galaxy. We are currently in a war with them and that's where you come in. You currently have seniority as far as Aurora captains go and experience, as well as a full crew. We could use that experience in setting up training modules for or Navy.

"Joel is Chancellor of the Navy, and held the rank of Senior Captain...now that you are to take that rank he'll move on to Admiral. We would like to keep him as head of the Navy and Marines." said Harry.

"But, where are my manners? I am High Chancellor Harry Potter-Black. This is Joel Packard, Chancellor of the Navy. Next is Chancellor of Military and Counter Intelligence, Padma Patil. Then Counselor of Personnel, Parvati Patil. Hermione Granger, Chancellor of Research and Development. Edward Muller, Chancellor of Education. Antonia Shultz, Chancellor of Medicine. And Alice Resch, Chancellor of Law."

"I understand that you had to organize in very little time, but surely not everyone is with you?" said Helia.

"You would be correct. There are around 6 million with Lantean heritage on Earth or Terra. Currently we hold the highest population for a new nation at just over 100,000. We hurried to get some defense into space and were lucky we could defend the planet that time. We need better trained crews. Full crews would be nice. There is nothing in the history as a separate security and striking force in the Navy but we created the Marines anyway. You will be taking a few on board after we get you back to claimed space.

"We hope to pull in the majority of the people over time but those in power and that are successful in their current places will not leave what they have built for themselves just to go into space. We're expecting even more when it is announced that we have an entire planet of our own and open for colonization in 2 weeks." said Harry. Medical chimed in.

"We also have to get you up to date on your immunizations. There a few nasty bugs that developed for us in the last 10,000 years. You will all get a full workup. We'll even check you for a ZPE core. We have one member from before the time on Lantea who's had a full workup from missing 5 million years of immunizations. It won't be as bad as Aila had it, I assure you." said Antonia.

"My first mission?" said Helia, a little overwhelmed.

"Get repaired. Get upgraded. Then report to Atlantis for your medical workup. Then you will report to the mobile fleet to take command, Senior Captain Helia." Joel said. "We'll be cutting you proper orders soon. For now just continue to cooperate with Alastor and Aether." she nodded and saluted. Before walking out of the room. They all shimmered out.

HPATHLA

Helia's confusion faded as only Joel began to tell her what to do directly. Her and her crew's orders were cut over the course of the 3 day period. She would be taking command of one Pallas Class Carrier, 4 Aurora-to include her own, and 6 Chronos Class Cruisers and all would be fully crewed by the time she got there. Under her command would be an additional archaic flotilla of 10 Destiny Drone Ships. She was to go on patrol of the claimed systems that were not separated and be prepared to render aid to New Lantea if they were ever to ask for assistance. She was to take on a new Navy Intelligence officer.

The two ships that rescued her would be part of her command and had no problems turning over command to her as the 3 entered Hyperspace together on course for Atlantis.

Joel had gotten on to Harry for almost taking over with the orders to Helia and Harry agreed that he was still used to doing things on his own, but insisted that he was doing better at it. Helia was surprised when she got a call from the High Chancellor's office to discuss wages.

"We had moved beyond basic commerce and banking. Have our descendants fallen so far?" she'd asked him.

"No evil money lending entity here. Merely a place to store your monies. No hidden fees. Most banking is electronic when in Lantean settlements. The system is that you basic needs are to be taken care of, without regards to working. But if you want more than the bare minimum you have to work. And that determines your pay scale. Yours would be a touch higher than the other captains which is higher than most others on board their ships, and so on based on rank. I'm only talking to you about it so you can explain it to your crew." Harry countered. She nodded and looked over what came across her computer.

"What is this G, S, and K?" she asked.

"We are using a gold standard. The G is for Galleon and it is a gold coin. The goblins, and yes they are either genetically engineered or evolved on Earth somehow with so many races on one planet...combined with our ancestor's tendency to play God...but that's not the point. The S is for silver Sickles. The K is for the bronze Knut. 17 Sickles to the Galleon and 29 Knuts to the Sickle. We have a few stores that take that or British Pounds Sterling for music and entertainment items. You could visit some at Atlantis, they have the oldest stores." he said.

"I see...is there anything else?" she asked.

"There is the possibility of investing or renting a place for yourselves on New Lantea or Atlantis. Let finance know, who will CC me if it has anything to do with the payroll." he answered.

"And why would you deal with the money matters yourself? Wouldn't it be better to assign a new chancellor?" she asked.

"The rest of the counsel believes, and I agreed, that the ability to control the money and production in a government system is the highest executive power and should remain with the executive. Especially if they can be trusted and have to vote on most things anyway. It's what the counsel is there for." Helia had to nod at that.

"Thank you for the information, High Chancellor. I will distribute it throughout the crew and give them a little leave for a few days before we report to the fleet." she said. He smiled.

"Actually the fleet will come to you. They are gathering at Atlantis in a few days to flesh out their crews and take on the cruisers." he said. She nodded.

That had been a few days before and now the Tria was in station keeping with Atlantis. Medical had beamed aboard and done their thing. Supply had matched them to wands and showed them how to access the learning texts to figure out how to use them. They had stronger ZPE cores than Aila, they refused to call them magical, and they had some experience with abilities without wands such as minor healing and some self defense. Basically they could banish, summon, and perform minor healing with enough focus.

Her security officers were absorbed into the Marines. She still wondered how the people of Earth decided on such a force and would look up this history in her own time. She knew that the High Chancellor was watching her every move for a while, as well as Internal Security. She understood why but was willing to take an oath of loyalty. They all said they would keep that in her file.

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The week after Helia took over the mobile fleet, there were another crop of cruisers available bringing the number of them to 16, two per Aurora. They also added one new Asclepius, the Crios and a full battalion of marines and a full complement of healers on board to round out the utility of the fleet. That was rounded by a sixth Pallas, the Morpheus. None of the other fleets received any new ships other than the newly built drone ships at New Lantea. When word got out that they were settling their own planet the flood of thousands a day became tens of thousands a day. They had to rent space elsewhere to process them all.

Internal Security was stretched thin as were the Aurors but they soon were pushing the 150,000 range before it slowed to the trickle of a thousand or so a day after that. It had been 2 weeks since they'd rescured the Tria and her crew had been a big help in putting together training modules. They had stated that the Navy had made a really good start but there were points like formations and when to break them and when to stand and slug it out and when to manuver.

Overall he was happy with what was happening and it was almost time to add more ships to the fleets as the crews were now all fleshed out. There were more in training and he wanted the ships to be ready by the time they finished what was now called the Tria Modules.

There was a profit coming in from the leases, as New Lantea was the land owner of all of the new New Lantean homeworld/colony. He knew he would get more information from the meeting in a few minutes. He was already sitting in the counsel chamber waiting for it to start. People began to file in, and the twins stole some quick kisses before taking their seats. Most of the rest shimmered into place and the meeting began.

"Personnel," began Parvati, "Is stretched pretty thin. We managed to divert 50,000 to New Lantea and the Arcadia. Only 30,000 remained in the city. The rest went to farming and industrial. We now have a hover car manufacturer and other hover vehicles. We also have quite a few farmers moving themselves and their families out to the little farming communities that we've built. We have a group petitioning for mining rights in the mountains. They are using regular robots, not nannites to do the job but they want to be able to offer an alternative exotic metals supply. Those mountains are rich with Naquada and Trinium." she began. Harry nodded so she continued.

"We have a small group trying to whip up a frenzied mob that would like to vote for who is High Chancellor. They even have their own candidate. He's a German pureblood that would like for us to discriminate and only purebloods have any say. Currently being ignored by the rest of the population." Padma interrupted.

"A perfect opening for Intelligence to step in. as personnel has noticed, we have enemy agents. They are trying to recruit our small pureblood contingent in much the same way that Voldemort did. They want purebloods on top, especially purebloods loyal to Europe so they can take away everything we have and shut it down. New Lantea was built by half-bloods, wogs, and mudbloods (according to them) and that alone is a good enough reason to put an end to it as far as they are concerned. We want to get the entire group in one go so we are watching who they associate with and where they go.

"We're beginning to lean towards questioning nearly everyone with veritaserum but that would be too expensive. They slipped in here during the time that we were getting those obvious agents. It's the volume of immigrants that makes it difficult.

"On the state of the Goa'uld Empire, they have devolved into a shooting war. Lord Yu has managed to grab and hold Ra's shipyards so we are looking at the possibility of a new System Lord. He was a lesser lord and had to even trade or buy his own ships but he stayed out of the initial fighting so his fleet of 16 ships managed to take and hold Ra's shipyards. Few can counter that number and watch their own borders. The few that can have their own shipyards and can play the long game.

"Ma'at has banded together some of the lesser lords and pulled a fleet of 9 together to guard the shipyards of Apophis. Ba'al is looking to be the winner there with his fleet of 21 bearing down on them. The profile on Ba'al is that he is a schemer. He likely has backup plans for his backup plans. He also has a warmaster, Nut. He barely uses him though, preffering to take care of things on his own. He basically doesn't trust him. He is very familiar with the gate network so it's likely he knows about any gates we use regularly. He might not know where they are but he knows that they are in constant use.

"The social satellites in orbit of Jaffa homeworlds have come back with some interesting news in Apophis's old territories. They are in open revolt. They've figured that if he wasn't a real god, the rest can't be either. They have organized each other along a military structure to keep order. That's all we have on that, as they just figured out how to use the communication hubs on the planet that the overlord of the planet kept. They've killed him and taken over his one Ha'tak. That's just the one planet that has managed to do so. We could intervene, but with the construction slowdown we couldn't hold any of the territories." she said. Joel picked up from there.

"We went with the slowdown because we couldn't crew the ships. Now the ships are crewed and the pickets are fine. We should build a small fleet of say...10 Destiny II and send them to the world Intelligence was talking about." said Joel. Padma spoke up again.

"Chulak. The planet's name is Chulak. It is, not surprisingly, the planet Teal'c comes from." they all smirked. Joel picked it back up.

"Chulak then. Ever since there was a little fighter programming downloaded to the Destiny II core, we have had to get used to them weaving through the simulated enemy fleets doing attack runs. They are much smaller and less powerful than any other ship in the fleet we've decided to call them the frigates of the fleet, unofficially. Now that we are fully crewed, to include enough coordinators to get the job done, we should build the Destiny's like their going out of style. They can be set to automatic defense and don't require a crew. We can have 20 in about 8 days so I say we do it." said Joel. There were nods all around.

"The update from Pegasis is that we already have 5 Destiny II in patrol of Lantean Space with the new automated flying outpost, designed for Pegasis. It uses pulse cannons and naquada generators supplemented by neutrino-ion generators as well. It's also automated.

"As for the mobile fleet...4 Aurora, 8 Chronos, 2 Pallas, 1 Asclepius, and 15 Destiny drone ships. The fleet could use a little fleshing out. Senior Captain Helia and I believe it is time to start dividing the fleet into battlegroups. We need a new Asclepius and to at least double the Destiny drones. Then we could divide the fleet into halves of 2 Aurora, 4 Chronos...etc. Then we build on another group like that. Helia has been reading up on human naval action and thinks that this is the next step to freeing both galaxies.

"Otherwise, the Marines are doing well in their billets and, with the introduction of the virtual reality training gear, their getting better. They may be able to coordinate well enough to take a Ha'tak now. They understand how to fly it. They understand how to sweep it of hostiles." said Joel. Hermione spoke up next.

"My new section chiefs tell me that we should have the virtual reality trainers doing everything from modifying a ship's systems to a raid in a tropical jungle. It depends on what is needed.

"We found that channeling spells though the main guns of our ships leads to increased wear. They will still last for thousands of years...but some of the ships have been known to last for millions of years. We recommend either not making the spell modifications or replacing the barrels of the guns every 10 years or so, just to keep everything in perfect shape.

"We are getting closer to finding out what is holding us back with the replicator problem. It has to do with quantum states and such...some things must come about naturally or it doesn't work well for the potion. As to why that has to be...we don't know yet." she said with a frown.

"Education," began Edward, "Is going along well. We are handling all the downloads and children's educations. It seems that the hardest part is learning Lantean. There are some concepts that don't exist in English yet as far as the science goes and it is confusing to the very young. They are picking up the language much more easily than the older children though. It's just concepts that they wouldn't be exposed to for some time yet would confuse the issues.

"Navy and Marine education is coming along at an accelerated pace since we refit those gutted Ha'tak. We can now get some 15 classes for the Navy and 3 whole divisions worth of Marines ready and training at once. That's all I've got." said Edward.

"Legal has finished combing the laws of Magical Britain and finished throwing out any laws that discriminate in any way. Everyone is pretty much equal and all. We just need some marriage laws worked out..." she seemed hesitant.

"I know I'm contracted to multiples and some people are seeing that as an example to follow. I say let them. The government should not tell you who you can and can't marry. We're magicals. We can have children with any human and many of the magical races out there. It you love them and can support each other, more power to ya." he said. She nodded. The vote was a tougher sell at 5-3.

"Medical has the same problems as last time but not quite as urgent. We have some 2,000 in medi witch training to meet demands on such services. Many of the incoming had wanted to be an Auror or a Healer. Nurses are a not hard to find. It's anything higher than that that we're having to train. Thank goodness for healing technology that can usually pick out whats wrong with someone faster than magic can. It can even recommend a treatment plan. The system has been updated with healing potions so it does recommend potions regimes. Once the influx of people is done I would bet it pretty much dries up across the board?" Parvati nodded and she sighed. "In that case we need to advertise to pull in recent graduates with potions NEWTs." they knew that there were an untold number of lower grade pads out there in general circulation and that any notation Parvati made would be available to her recruiting agents.

"The Tel'tak found on the moon was given to the Queen in exchange for a billion pounds sterling. There are no weapons on board and a severely outdated hyperdrive. The charts on board are 5,000 years old. The mundanes will feel better if they have some way to defend themselves without us. We'll still help because a large portion of our population is stuck there or won't leave to join us and we're not really prepared to take them all in anyway." said Harry. There were nods all around the table.

"That ship will give any ship designer worth their salt ideas about how to construct a space worthy combat platform." said Joel.

"The mundanes are already taking it apart. They are looking to create their own hyperdrive based on that one and I wish them luck. They had a Tel'tak from before but ended up damaging it. They are likely to piss off few more System Lords while trying to steal this technology. They aren't likely to stop trying for better and better tech but there's not much we can do about that.

"They've got anti-gravity drive systems, rudimentary shields, sensors, quantum computing, trinium/naquada hull plating ideas, rail guns, energy cannons, naquada missiles, fighter platform...they just have to put it all together." Joel finished.

"I just hope they don't blow themselves up..." said Harry, "There is a distinct possibility that the temporary alliance of the whole world is just that, temporary. That when this war with the Goa'uld is over they may turn on each other. Just a thought..." he left that hanging and saw the frowns on many of their faces.

"Is there anything else?" he asked.

"Just that the American SGC is starting to seem desperate to 'get there first' and built fighter out of the pieces of a death glider. ASP has plans for an orbital shipyard/space station to replace the international space station idea. They are taking the hull shape for the X-303 and sizing it up to make sure they have space for all of the technology they want to shoehorn into it. They still want to call it the Prometheus. The American version would be only about 200m long. The Allied version would be 500 meters and they would pool their resources to lay down 5 of them right off the bat. They already have a few models that they are testing. Each will be a carrier and haul 8 of the air and space superiority fighter, the X-302. They haven't finished building any of them yet as they are three times more expensive than any current fighter aircraft.

"The Allied Stargate Program idea is to learn from the Goa'uld. They made their tech with redundancy so it would last centuries or even thousands of years. They have ship to ship energy weapons to reverse engineer but the staff weapon has become where they worked out an energy beam weapon with a limited firing arch. The front of the ship would have to be pointed in your general direction. The main weapons in that case would be the rail guns as the trinium solved the overheating issue for them. Higher temperature before melting and the guns don't get that hot. That's all I have." said Padma. He looked at her for a moment then smirked.

"All that trivia was eating you up inside wasn't it?"

"Like you wouldn't believe." said with a smile.

"Okay. We can adjourn. Remember to CC each other on related subjects and shields on at all times." he said as he stood. People began to shimmer out and the twins wrapped him up between them.

"Ever since we suggested that you keep the payroll of the government as your job you've had less time for us. That and my taking on Internal Security." said Padma before he leaned down a and and gave her a lingering kiss.

He turned his head to do the same for Parvati and she sighed against his lips. His hands wandered to their butts and gave a little squeeze. As there lips were still connected she moaned into his mouth. He used that as an excuse to try and slip her some tongue. Padma held on and watched.

It ended up being a heavy snog session for the three before they prepared to go home for the day.

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When they exited the counsel chamber they were accosted by a familiar figure.

"Harry! I sent you an owl about tryouts for the Cannons but you didn't show. Where have you been, mate?" said Ron, surrounded by security who had obviously been tailing him.

"Mr. Weasley...please come back to the registration desk and sign in. I know you just got excited when you saw the High Chancellor but there are protocols to follow for everyone's safety." said a personnel officer that had followed as well.

"Rubbish! I only came to talk to my best mate. I saw him and came over. So, Harry, magic tekneelogy? Bet that isn't working that well for you. Come on with me and we can still make tryouts if we hurry." said Ron, blowing off the prompting. Harry frowned.

"Actually, I will shortly starting up a communications hub for Earth. And the word is technology. I'm making nearly a half a million galleons a year already, based on what I've earned already on my 'magic technology'. Why don't you sign in and make an appointment like you've been asked?" he said. Ron frowned now.

"Oh, so now you're too good to talk to your best mate, huh?" he snarked. Harry sighed.

"No Ron. But now I'm in charge of a new industry and an entire, and growing, magical nation. I've been very busy lately and, as much as I like quiddich, I don't really have the time or the love required to do it for a living. I got your letter...I just didn't find it that important against what I'm doing." he responded, praying Ron got the message. He was disappointed.

"Quiddich not important? It's much more important than some tickneelogy and a couple of wogs! I can't believe you! I told the Cannons I could get you to come and now they won't even take me without you!" Ron shouted, getting up a full head of steam. Security drew their stun pistols but Harry motioned for them to hold their fire.

"Well I certainly didn't ask you to do that, did I. I'm not even a Cannons fan! I'm doing what I love. Why can't you accept that. We could even find a place in New Lantea. But call my fiancees that word again and I'll let security stun you. And what about Hermione? I thought you were together?" said Harry. Ron blushed.

"She left me and said she was running off to study the city of Atlantis's library. 'Know it all' said that she wasn't going to stay at home to raise the kids and not have a job. Not like anyone would give her one anyway...and Atlantis is a myth besides." Ron said with authority.

"Ron...Atlantis is real. I found and raised it from the bottom of the sea. It wasn't on Earth though so I brought it home. It's a space ship Ron. And she has been studying the library on Atlantis. She's there right now, actually...and she wouldn't have been happy as a house witch, Ron. She would have hated that. You know that." Ron just shrugged, still frowning.

"So you stole my girl with a fancy library, you ruined my dream job by not showing up for tryouts...what else are you going to do, huh? Some best mate you are!" he snarked. Harry's face went blank.

"If that's how you feel...security, if you please?" said Harry as he turned away and headed to their favorite transport point, the twins following. Security stepped up.

"Come with us sir!" said a female officer, a marine waiting for a billet in space. Ron shook off her hand and stomped towards the floo.

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The next week showed what the combined wealth of the world could do when they felt they had to build a fleet. A single hull was begun but it ended up being half a kilometer long. The internationally designed X-302 was rushed into production after the failure of the the X-301, the American design cutting corners in the process. The pilots were saved by the British Tel'tak which had been taken apart, studied, and put back together in the 2 ½ weeks it had been owned by the British. They managed to design their own hyperdrive that, if their math was right, was half as fast as the current Goa'uld hyperdrive. Basically they could see what the Goa'uld did wrong with the tel'tak.

What they couldn't make heads or tails of was the cloaking device. They simply left it in place for future study but the science seemed beyond them for the moment.

It would take them 6 months to build the prototype ship and they would have X-302 fighters in a few weeks. If the designs did well they would make whatever tweaks needed to be made and lay down 6 more hulls, buying the material directly from New Lantea. They made a hefty profit selling the materials for less than they could get it off world.

Not that it would have normally taken 6 months, but this was the first fitting of tech to chassis they had yet to do for a space ship of this scale. Not to mention the expected problems getting her into full readiness.

New Lantea ended up sending the first 10 new Destiny II drone ships to Chulak's system and the Jaffa hailed them as best they could. They were thanked for the security of Chulak's system and asked how long they were going to stay. They needed time to understand the ships they now had under their command, having taken the Ha'tak on the planet. They expressed the the desire to build a united free Jaffa Nation with Chulak at the center and led by a counsel headed by an older Jaffa named Bre'tak. They had weapons to last them a while and they knew the gate addresses of some of the other Jaffa planets. And thus began the slow turning of the slave soldiers of the Goa'uld Empire.

They also found that they could detect cloaked Tel'taks when one tried to sneak into the system. The little ship was challenged on the edge of the solar system and held by a tractor beam until it identified itself.

The pilot identified themselves as Tok'ra. Intelligence had heard about them but the Goa'uld had yet to prove beyond a doubt that they even existed so the information they had was somewhat pitiful. They were supposedly good Goa'uld and, as the name suggested, against Ra and his System Lords.

They met the little ship with one of the refurbished Ha'tak so they wouldn't see too much and the intelligence officer had a chat with him. He was Ergit and Eton and, as far as they could tell, the two were happily blended. There was an entire division of marines on the station, so there was always someone to watch him.

He'd been sent by command to investigate the disappearance of Apophis and confirm his death if at all possible. It wouldn't be the first time that a System Lord was declared dead and hadn't died. The Navy personnel laughed and said it was unlikely he made it through having his bridge destroyed out from under him. Tok'ra High Command would be happy to hear that. He still couldn't get anything more about the battle than 'he shot first so we took him out' for an answer. That and the desire to get the galaxy free of slavery under the Goa'uld.

Eventually they were released with those two trains of thought, and only a glimpse at some technology that they didn't quite understand. They were in an assimilated Ha'tak and even that didn't look very much like a Ha'tak anymore. Crystaline technology seemed to be the key words as the internals glowed most of the time. He would eventually tell the Tok'ra High Command that an older race had moved in at Earth and was protecting the planet and system for some unknown reason.

HPATLA

Harry read the reports about their little Tok'ra visitor and chuckled. If they could get on good enough standing to be on speaking terms it would be nice to have a race of...well...snakes that was the good guys in the equation. He wished he could turn over the slaves and all to the Tok'ra but he had a feeling that their numbers were smaller than his own. He was afraid he would be stuck ruling or at least managing the Milky Way Galaxy and the Pegasis Galaxy before he was through.

Looking at the sensor analysis provided by Intelligence, the Wraith were in hibernation. They would likely be like that for years. There were talks of sending division of Marines and a Aurora's crew to man the new outpost there and begin using the gate to gather information on the people stuck under he Wraith's thumb. The social satellites were showing a relatively small sleeping fleet and that the Wraith likely had some planet based cloning and shipbuilding capability because what stood now and what they'd had at the height of the last conflict was at odds. It was likely some style of cloning facilities and their ships weren't completely technological. They were biological to a degree.

The simple fact was that they needed to clean up their technology before the Wraith found out how to use it and their start charts or even potentia. Their hyperdrives seemed a little worse than current Goa'uld but their armor and weapons were a threat. They'd never developed their shields any further, he could tell that from the sensor readouts but the hives were fully loaded for bear. They were ready to wake at a moment's notice but noticed that lack of robust subspace communications arrays and wondered if the Wraith were psychic and could reach out to each other that far through space. It would explain some of the historical battles with them. Once one hive knew something, they seemed to know it though there wouldn't be even a peep from their subspace communications.

He left the readouts of the Pegasis Galaxy to look at the Milky Way once again. They'd found a small base, hidden on a barely habitable planet, with some thirty Ha'tak in orbit and a shipyard. What really got their interest was the upgrades. They were more powerful by nearly double, somewhat resembling their training scenarios. They were closer to what one would expect when a race of evil beings found Atlantean technology and reverse engineered it properly. He had a feeling they had just found Anubis.

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Harry stood in the Intelligence office and waited until the queries were all made and they knew for a fact that they had found Anubis. His network was encrypted much better than the others, using ancient programs, but they found a way in without alerting that fleet. The cloaking technologies in the social satellites were many steps beyond what this base seemed capable of detecting. That didn't mean that they were going to be careless with the satellite.

"We're in their system and it's confirmed. It's Anubis. There's something you should see though..." she said and turned her screen for him to see the display.

On a throne was a figure garbed in black robes but what stood out was that the being posing as an exiled System Lord seemed to be made out of rippling energy.

"It's like he's partially ascended. No. that's exactly what it is. Cursed immortality. Explains the hardware around him. A containment field to keep from 'leaking' everywhere. Its a good thing we have a weapon that works on ascended beings, huh?" he asked. Padma sighed.

"I guess...why is there always some kind of powered up super monster?" she asked. Harry burst out laughing at her expression.

"At least this one we know how to kill instead of having to run all over England looking for the key." she nodded at his response as he'd told the twins most of what happened on that near suicide mission assigned by Dumbledor that was supposed to see Harry dead and buried with a mortal, but still monstrous Voldemort still to take care of.

"We manufacture one that works in just the system its in. When he makes a move with that fleet of his we deploy the bomb and kill him. That should cut the head off of the snake, so to speak, and put an end to his revenge kick. They exiled him for cruelty. He has to be one of the worst and he's got to be pissed." he said. Padma shook her head.

"Ra exiled him, while the others didn't speak in his defense. We have some of the Goa'uld histories of Ra and the others and they are not nice snake creatures. They are all cruel. For him to get exiled for it means that he was cruel for no reason and likely to his fellow Goa'uld. He's also smarter than them. That and he's somehow managed to ascend, at least partially. We should be extremely careful of him." he smiled at her.

"I plan to be. Get this over to the fleet and see what they make of it. He's on the far side of Goa'uld space right now...he would also want to deal with them and become Supreme System Lord, like Ra, or wipe them all out and take it all for himself. I'm betting it is Supreme System Lord." he said.

"You're probably right. We are going to go on the offensive when the time is right?" she asked.

"I'm leaving the when to the good people that I put in charge of the Navy and the fleet." he answered. She nodded.