The screen showed the nine symbol address to one of their worst mistakes since allowing the Ori to gain power, if not their single worst mistake. "If you want information about what you will find on the other side of that gate I would advise you not to ask that question, I will not answer it. Only know that it is a mistake I plan to erase when I get the chance."

"It's a little too late to inform us about what you've hidden on the other side of that gate." O'Neill flared up. "We have people trapped on the other side without a way of returning home."

"Then you can only hope that they will die fast."

"Sorry, but that's not our way. We leave no man behind."

"There is nothing I can do for them. If I had the power to dial that gate I would not go there to rescue them or aid them. I want nothing to do with what's on the other side of that gate."

"Well guess what, we want something to do with it."

"Look, we only want to dial Destiny to send them aid." Daniel said as he stepped into the conversation.

"You say you already have people there, don't waste any more lives trying to aid them. I would suggest you tell their families they're dead and forget about them."

"We have found a certain, extremely rare, material. A variation of Naquada, it's…" Carter said.

"An isotope. I know what it is. I believe you call it Naquadria."

"You know about it?" Carter asked in surprise.

"Yes. When my and Daniel's minds were connected his subconscious mind forced certain information into mine. It's mostly linguistics."

"You stole things out of his head?" O'Neill shouted.

"I do not steal things General O'Neill, it was offered to me and I accepted."

"Jack, it doesn't matter, isn't it better that he knows what we're talking about?" Daniel said.

"Either way we have found a few planets which have cores of Naquadria, we've used one such planet to dial Destiny before. We've since lost the planet and if possible we would need another to send supplies so that they can find a way home."

"If you promise that the only reason you would aid them is so that they can return home then I might be able to provide you with the location of one such planet. They can not under any circumstances continue the journey for any longer than needed."

"What exactly could scare the Alterran enough that you wish to destroy the ship which we see as one of your most amazing achievements?" Daniel asked.

"Some things should stay buried Daniel, that ship was launched not by the Alterra as a race, even if I am sure the creator of the ship would like to claim so. The ship was sent against the will of the other Alterra to find the thing which separated the Ori from us, a way to rule over everything and everyone. Had we not been occupied by other matters I am sure that it would never have been built in the first place. The creator of the ship could have created another split in our society like the one between the Alterra and the Ori. He was deemed dangerous enough that we imprisoned him and banned him from Alterran space under the threat of execution should he return once he had served his time. It is the first and only time we have used such a punishment."

"That seems a little harsh just because he had a different opinion than the rest of you guys." O'Neill said.

"The last time we had such a large difference in opinions in our society entire planets were destroyed to their core, mind you, not the literary core but the actual core of the planet. Eighty percent of the population in the galaxy died. Now tell me, what would the leaders of your world have done if they knew that the worst crime committed on your planet was about to happen again?"

"Jack. Our government have punished people far harder for far less." Daniel said.

"I'm beginning to see a small point approaching on the horizon. But I still don't see why you need to destroy Destiny or stop her from making the journey."

"It's not something I can answer you clearly. I only know that after the ship was launched a small part of the signal it's tracking was decoded and whatever the researchers found the council ordered their lab and research destroyed. In the repository was a few prime directives which I'm forced to follow, one of which is the order to destroy that ship whether I like it or not General."

"So you're going to send a bomb through the gate to destroy that ship as soon as you can dial her?"

"That is the last of my prime directives so only when I have made sure all the others will be doable will I do that. Those other directives includes keeping Atlantis safe. So as long as the threat of the Wraith remains I do not think I will have the resources to execute that directive. It will give you a few years, perhaps more."

"What happens if you would fail in one of these directives?" Carter asked.

"There are secondary directives to cover that. I have many years of directives in my head, but do not mistake me for a robot. Apart from the primes I am only required to follow the laws of the council, until such a time that I can form a new council to change the laws."

"The sooner you give us the location of the planet we need the sooner we can get those people home and maybe if you're a good boy we'll do you a favour and destroy her for you." O'Neill said.

"You will have your planet General, but I will need more generators in return."

"A planet for a few generators hardly seems fair, the planet's already there but we have to make the generators by hand."

"The materials for the generator's already there too General and to my knowledge there are only three such planets in Avalon."

"Sir. The chance of finding one planet in the entire Milky Way isn't that great, it's likely none of us will live when we do if we start in one end of the galaxy and search systematically from there." Carter said.

"Well lucky us, he just told us there's three of them."

"Whatever information's in his head it's at least ten thousand years old. Given that we've blown up two that only leaves one. We're lucky if the last one hasn't been destroyed by someone else."

"They are very fragile aren't' they?" Mokar said. "Should the planet in Avalon no longer exist there are a few in the bordering galaxies, but I do not know what lies in wait there."

"Sir, we can waste manpower and resources for hundreds of years before we find the planet. We can make up the loss of generators in the time it'll take me to fly the ship back to Earth if we can get the coordinates for the planet." Carter said.

"Jack. This could be the thing that saves them, we can't put a price on their lives."

"Fine, you kids can have it your way." O'Neill said as he gave in. "Bring down three more for him."

"Thank you O'Neill, this will be remembered." Mokar said as three more grey boxes appeared close to the gate in a white flash.

"Just don't make me regret this deal." O'Neill said as he picked up the console Mokar had dropped in his surprise. "The location now please."

"Of course. The planet does not have a gate, as I would have already used it to dial another galaxy otherwise. But I can show you the address the planet would have used." He said as he pressed his palm onto the DHDs orb and six symbols lit up. "There you will find the planet you seek."

"Thank you." Daniel said as Mokar walked up to the gate which was still dialed to the lab and sent through the generators before he returned.

"A planet outside Avalon with a similar core can be found here." He said as he pressed his hand onto the orb of the DHD and seven symbols lit up. "If you truly wish to bring your people home the DHD will need to be close to the gate to connect the long wormhole to the gate."

"We've had people return from Destiny while the DHD was far away from the gate." Carter said.

"Then if you have already been able to bring people home why would you not save all of them?"

"We tried but the wormhole only allowed one person through. The others were stranded on an alien planet in the past due to a solar flare."

"Long ago we used the power of the stars to dial between galaxies, much like the ship supposedly does and we begun to install failsafes to avoid traveling in time, those failsafes are used in the DHDs, not the gates. There are failsafes against many things in the DHD, I would suggest you used them."

"You're saying we could use a star to dial Earth?"

"Not Earth. I do not have the original blueprints for the ship in my head, but the recreated ones I have suggests that the ship can not handle the power needed for such a long wormhole. It should however be able to create a wormhole long enough for the dialing gate to supply the rest of the power. But doing so is extremely dangerous, if you get it wrong a power surge could damage both gates."

"You've become awfully helpful all of a sudden." O'Neill said sceptically.

"The only reason I am wasting my time telling you this is so that you can destroy the ship when you're done, my primes more or less forces me to give you this information." Mokar said as he walked up to the gate. "But that is also all the information I can give you about the ship. I do hope that you will use the knowledge in the right way. When I get the chance that ship will be destroyed." Then he stepped through the gate, leaving them standing there.

On the other side of the gate the four generators waited patiently for him and just as the gate was about to shut down a small device he'd seen the other four wore in their ears tumbled through. As he reached down to put it in his ear he saw a small piece of paper with the writing, Use this to contact us the next time, attached to it before the wind caught it and blew it away.

He had gotten what he had asked for and more, still he was not satisfied. He would need to find a way to keep the Tau'ri in place or they would be in his way in the future. Still it would have to wait until he could do something about it, at the moment all his concentration would need to be focused on his current task of getting one of the generators up the steep cliff side to the lab. It was not without risks, that he knew, but he did not have a choice, so he took up the closest generator and put it on his shoulder before he begun the trek upwards, hopefully for the last time.

Three and a half hour later he was pushing the generator into the lab. It had been exhausting even for his Alterran body to balance it on his shoulder up there but it was with relief he took out the generator from the box and hooked it up to the console he had isolated before. The screen told him it was working on low power, but until he could secure some potentias it would have to do. When he was satisfied with the safety of his jury rigged power source he began to plug the console back into the rest of the lab. The simple relief of having power increased further as the doors begun to open for him when he approached.

The lab was only composed of the control room and two proper labs. But as he entered one of the labs he could see a dozen stasis pods sitting around the room. They were all active, but as he took a few steps into the room to inspect them closer he stepped right into a force field which blocked his approach to the pods. Without a second though he walked back to the control room and made sure the doors stayed open after he walked through them. In the control room he turned of the generator and hurried back to the lab. He did not need to feel the force field against his hands to know that it was still active, the unmistakable faint and dull glow of an almost drained potentia in the pitch black room was all he needed to see to know that it had a separate power source which had been added after someone had made the blueprints now found in his head.

With curses in Alterran, Goa'uld and English flowing from his mouth he dragged himself back to the control room. In the control room he restored the power and begun his search through the labs database for a way to deactivate the forcefield. Many hours later he gave up his efforts, it seemed he would need a code to deactivate the shield, but through the records of the lab he found out that at least seven of the pods contained members of the servant species and the rest contained something else. The instruments in the lab also confirmed that ten of the pods had managed to keep their subjects alive since their freezing before the plague.

Here he was with a temporary solution to his lack of manpower, yet he was not able to grasp the solution in his hand. But at least he had the power he would need for now. He would need something to drain the forcefield, with any luck he could create something like that with the production facility. So he stepped into the center of the lab were the rings resided and activated them.

To his relief they came down through the roof and transported him down to the gate, were the rings disappeared beneath the soil. The three generators still stood at the gate ready for him when he dialled the gate to the processing facility. After pushing all three through the gate he stepped through it himself before it closed behind him.