Alterran Legacy

by Takao1160

AU - Non Cannon for HP and SG1- Harry has defeated the Dark Lord. The battle he couldn't win was the one for the girl. Harry is left feeling alone because he cannot go out without people mobbing him for good or ill. He finally realizes he must leave England to find his own way and his own life. Pairing HP/SC; then HP/SC/HG

16. Chapter 16

Chapter 16 –

Sam and Harry spent the night at Atlantis in the administrator's quarters. Hermione decided to wait until the weekend to move Atlantis to New Eden. The Crew of the Hestaphera enjoyed observing the planet below them. They were amazed to see the life that lived here and even more amazed that in many ways it was the off spring of their society that created it.

Sam and Harry worked as they normally would at Star Gate Command and soon learned that holding dual lives was no walk in the park. Once Hermione left for New Eden it would be even harder to gate travel there. They discussed many methods to do this from taking a separate gate from an uninhabited world but to place it on earth would create its' own problems because of having two gates in such close proximity to each other.

This meant that using a gate to travel to Atlantis would mean it would be off world somewhere. The answer was found by one of the crew, their senior science officer, developing a rather simple solution. Leaving one of the jumpers and then hiding another gate in space behind the moon. Harry and Sam could then take the ship to the gate to enter Atlantis whenever they wanted. By coding the gate it would not open unless keyed properly and therefore only work for them.

The Captain, having studied the situation in this galaxy, offered to engage the Gaould when the chance arrived but Harry nixed that idea as they only had one ship and should it be destroyed; its loss could not be replaced. The other reason is that from Alterran history he learned that younger civilizations tended to rely on older civilizations too much if help was offered and they could not figure out their own solutions.

Captain Brax smiled at him "You learn very quickly for one so young. Perhaps our time can be better spent on settling in and developing some more advance ships for ourselves."

Harry smiled at him "This was my thought as well. I think a new perspective of a design is in order. Alterran ships seem tame and harmless and I believe that we should design a ship that cultivates a respect from those aggressive races that don't play nicely. I believe that New Eden should be the start of our sphere of influence and we should work our way out from there.

Alexis looked at him "What about earth? How does it fit into this?"

Hermione answered for her "It was our home that nurtured us until we discovered a much more diverse universe. We can't and won't forget it but our first priority will need to be our new home world." Hermione smiled "From there the stars are the limits."

With that being said Sam and Harry worked daily at the SGC and on the weekend they jumped to Atlantis to spend time with Hermione and assisted her with developing New Eden. The SGC was soon ramping up as over the last couple of months the Gaould had stabilized somewhat because the remaining system lords had acquired territory from the now dead system lords.

In one instance two system lords had fought so fiercely that they decimated both their forces and a third had swept through to claim their territories. It was into this mix that SG1 began to encounter stiffer resistance at civilized gate worlds.

One of the things that the Alterran's at Atlantis began to work on was developing a satellite network that would monitor entire solar systems. They began to deploy them in New Eden's solar system first. Earth's system got the next group of them and then they started on the closest held territory to earth that the Gaould controlled.

At each new solar system that Harry and Sam entered they deployed an appropriate number of satellites to place in that system. It was slow going and Harry thought that perhaps it was more beneficial to bring in the rest of SGC and the President in on this. If he allowed this technology out then the other SGC teams could deploy the satellites as well. By allowing earth to access the net then the deployment could be much faster.

Harry approached the General "Sir, I have something that I want to discuss with you and the President. I have the knowledge to build a series of satellites that we can deploy around the gaould territory to monitor their activities."

General Hammond looked surprised "How did you come to obtain this knowledge."

Harry looked concerned and replied very cautiously "Sir, the repository has been integrating into my mind over the last year." Harry looked down at the floor "During the last six months I have been in a moral quagmire. I have very advance knowledge and to give it to a young species without the mental development, it would be criminal."

The general looked at him "Yet you can have it and be ok. I might remind you Harry that you are a part of the young race too."

Harry looked at him "Yes, that is true but I have millions of years of collective knowledge that guides my choices. If any other human can retain this history lesson that I have, then I would be more than happy to give them the weapons technology. The problem sir is they wouldn't use it the way you would want either."

General Hammond thought for many minutes "Is this similar to the reasons the Tollan' gave us?"

Harry smiled "Very much sir. Knowledge is more than the sum of math and science, it is also the wisdom to know when to apply it and for the right reasons. I have the benefit of seeing the results of letting too much technology out on a society that is not ready for it and it never bodes well for the younger society."

General Hammond smiled "I take it these satellites are a compromise and allow advance technology to help us without over doing it."

Harry looked at him "Something like that and I did give my oath to protect America, even from itself."

General Hammond looked at Harry "Harry is there anything else we need to know about?"

Harry stood up "I am working on a planet wide defensive system that can protect earth and it should be up in a month."

General Hammond seemed preoccupied "Very good I will also relay that to the President."

Sam had been waiting on Harry outside of General Hammond's office and as soon as Harry came out Sam looked at him "Harry we need to talk in private." Harry looked at her with many questions but her whole demeanor signaled that he should save it as this was not the place to have a discussion.

Sam took him to her lab and then closed the door. She flicked her fingers and silencing and privacy wards flared to life. Sam turned to Harry "Daniel has found references to Atlantis in the other writing you found."

Harry smiled at her "Is that all?"

Sam looked at him with surprise "Is that all? Isn't that enough?"

Harry stood up and went to her "Baby what will happen when Daniel or an SGC team dials an eight Kartush address?"

Sam thought and then smiled "Nothing! The gate will not activate."

Harry chuckled at her grin "It will be another mystery of ancient writing. Most likely Daniel will assume he read it wrong or that he got the address wrong or that Atlantis no longer exists. Any of these options won't matter because the city-ship is safe."

Two months had gone by with various missions and other intelligence being carried about the system lords. Captain Brax and Harry had been working on a new class of ship for the Alterran's. It was a mixture of science vessel and war ship with some very heavy upgrades to it's' armor and shielding. It had a never ending supply of drones that could be manufactured by constructor bots while on the move. Fifty in storage was plenty to keep the ship fighting while the Bots built more. Another single unique feature was the stern to bow rail gun that could send kinetic projectiles at a target going at outrageous speeds.

What made the vehicle so unique was its appearance. Harry wanted something mysterious, dark, and it should give an observer a sense of dread upon seeing it, if you were an aggressor. If you were being attacked by the aggressor it would give you hope.

The design was simple enough as it was a multi–decked ship with a long elongated hull that came to a point. The command center sat on top of the upper deck in the center of the ship. The view ports were not very pronounced and on the Hestaphera it would be the observation deck. Behind the command deck were three jumpers docked and ready to go. Just below the command deck was the command suites with the captain's and XO's cabins right behind the command deck.

The rest of the ship was layed out into appropriate crew quarters, laboratories, and work areas. The rest of the ship was devoted to star drive engines, power module bays, a couple of cargo bays and an engineering section.

To an outside observer the whole shipped looked like a spear or a wedge shape that was very fast and maneuverable. With a black obsidian color applied to the hull it looked very dangerous. If they ever saw the weapons in action they would be very impressed both enemies and allies.

Captain Brax and Commander Alexis looked on this new ship with a mixture of wonder and apprehension. They were not a warring race by any means but they had been in a very battle for their lives before they placed themselves in stasis five- thousand years ago. If they would have had some of these designs on the Hestaphera, they would not have been driven off. Commander Alexis was to take a crew of fifty when she took Command of the ship.

Sam had been working diligently on the Satellite network and had employed earth scientists to develop a communications package that would deliver Intel from a master satellite for earth use in the sol system. The president had readily agreed to the placement and integration of a satellite and sensor network for their protection. With SGC teams help they had deployed a satellite network that covered any approach to the sol system and had over sixty percent of Gaould territory covered.

Earth was pleased by the early results and the fact that since they had started monitoring select worlds, no SGC team had been ambushed. General Hammond was very happy with the Intel he was able to obtain from the network.

It was a month later that System Lord Yu was found to be stable enough to worry about the Tauri once more. Some of his intelligence had led him to believe that it was the Tauri that had killed the system lords that caused the turmoil among the other System Lords trying to acquire new territory.

He along with another System Lord had joined forces and planned an attack of the unprotected Tauri home world. General Hammond notified Harry of the pending attack that was to commence in one week.

Harry and Sam worked for the next three days to deploy the defensive satellites around the sol System to protect the earth from an invasion. A small scouting party found out how effect this defensive system was when they jumped from hyper space and found that all of their ships were destroyed in short order.

This caused Yu much consternation as his scouts would not answer to his hails and request for status. Harry watched from the command deck of the newly christened Emperion class battle cruiser, the Graphon.

Harry went to earth and beamed General Hammond up to the command deck. General Hammond was very surprised when Captain Alexis welcomed him to the Alterran vessel. When Harry revealed himself, General Hammond was even more surprised.

"Mr. Potter I guess I should know better than to be surprised by all of this but where did you meet your friends?" the General asked him.

Captain Alexis smiled "General, it is Harry and his mates that rescued us, gave us a new home world and designed a majority of this ship. If not for him, Sam, and administrator Black we would not be in a position to give much aide to anyone."

General Hammond looked at him "Is that so?"

Harry smiled "General the reason why I brought you here to observe is that I wanted you to know that even though things will be changing in the near future, my duties are always split between the Alterran's and the people of Earth. I will not forget my Earth bound roots, nor will I forget my Alterran heritage. It is both our world's histories and our future."

General Hammond smirked at him "I suppose the President will be coming to the mountain in the near future?"

Harry beamed a smile at him "I think it is time for Mohammad to bring the mountain to him and the world."

General Hammond rubbed his face in exasperation "This is going to cause both of us great grief no doubt."

Harry put his hands behind his back "General what is the fun in life if not for causing your allies some grief once in a while." Harry turned to the Captain "Shall we go and meet our unannounced guests?"

Captain Alexis turned in her command chair with a smirk "As you wish Admiral." Before Harry could respond Alexis yelled out "Helm take us out!"

"Aye, Aye! Captain!" was answered by a male Alterran.

Harry said smugly to the Captain "Have you been reading more Earth literature?"

The captain turned to him with a smile "Oh, I just love some of your writing about ocean going vessel from five hundred years ago and this series called Star Trek. Its' really great stuff."

Harry just shook his head and laughed before Hammond stepped beside him and smiled "What goes around comes around Mr. Potter."

Harry looked at him "You are enjoying this aren't you?" General Hammond said nothing only smiled. Harry watched him for many seconds "How much would it take for you not to tell the President about this?"

Hammond smiled very smugly "Not for all the money in the universe."

Captain Alexis called "High Counselor we will be coming out of hyper space in ten seconds."

Harry stated quickly "Wait I thought I was the admiral on this trip?"

Captain Alexis turned slightly "You are…Sir… but the New Eden council elected you as our first high counselor. This gave you an honorary rank of Admiral of our forces as the commander and chief." She gave a little laugh as Harry growled at her. "Beside High Counselor this is a first contact situation and it is protocol for our leader to introduce us."

Off to the right the science station announced "High velocity tracking has two large ships and multiple smaller targets approaching in hyper space."

Alexis turned to Harry and smiled "Recommendation Counselor?"

Harry sneered back "Fire your High counselor!"

Alexis genuinely laughed at him "No, afraid we can't do that as only the New Eden counsel has the power to recall him." Alexis pointed her finger at him "Before you ask they said they could not be reached until after your mission."

Harry shook his head "Oh, how convenient! Comms give me an open channel to Yu's command ship."

Another female Alterran at a console "Already established Admiral. Would you like it on screen?"

The Captain held her finger up "Harry the Counsel felt that it would be best if you represented Alterran's as High Counselor Omicron."

Harry looked at her "Who chose that name. It is revered in Alterran society and I am not worthy."

Alexis looked seriously at him "Harry, Sam and Hermione agree with this and Hermione stated "There is no fate but what we make. She states use Omicron!"

Harry sighed "You guys don't play fair." Captain Alexis turned to face forward "Comms, on screen."

Harry stared at the screen as a Chinese looking; older man appeared on the screen. He looked angry and stated in Gaould "Who are you to bother me?"

Harry smiled and answered in Gaould "I am your death if you proceed on your mission to attack the Tauri."

Yu looked stunned before he answered "I do not know what you are talking about."

Harry turned to weapons "Prepare to launch a greeting for our guest on my command."

Weapons answered "Ready to launch with an explosive greeting Admiral."

Hammond asked quietly "Gun boat diplomacy Harry?"

Harry smiled "Theodore Roosevelt said it best "Talk softly and carry a big stick!" Harry turned back to YU "Of course you don't but you don't have to. This is your last warning to drop out of hyperspace and return to your world." Harry stated.

Yu looked at him arrogantly "You will start a war the likes you have never known."

Harry smiled and called out "Fire! Prepare another volley."

Suddenly in the background a flash of light was seen and Yu was informed that a mid size Gaould cruiser was destroyed. "You have declared war upon me, who are you before I kill you?"

Harry didn't answer but commanded his crew "Fire another Salvo!"

Weapons answered "Weapons hot!" In less than ten seconds a much more brilliant flash of light was seen on the view screen from YU's command ship. In the background Harry heard "My Lord the other Hatak vessel was just destroyed."

Yu turned to Harry as Harry said with coldness "I told you to drop out of hyper space, do so now or die."

Yu turned to his personnel and with no arrogance "Drop from hyper space."

Harry turned to helm "Take us to them and stand-off at ten thousand meters." Harry turned to weapons "Load all weapons ports and be prepared to fire on my command."

Harry waited until the ship was steady where he asked the crew to place it and then turned to see a very surprised Lord Yu in the view screen "Who are you? This ship is unknown to us."

Harry turned to Captain Alexis "Prepare to beam Yu to here and maintain a force field on him." Captain Alexis arched her eye at him but gave her instructions. In moments Yu was standing before him and a Jaffa took command of Yu's ship. He witnessed his God being held captive within a force field.

Harry looked at Yu "I want to make this perfectly clear to you. You pose no threat to me or this ship or my people. I could wipe your existence from the face of the universe. We are those that built the Star gates and we have returned to this galaxy, it is our home."

Yu eyes widen in surprise "That is impossible for they disappeared millions of years ago from this galaxy."

Harry chuckled at Yu "Have your people try to send anything out of the gate you have on your ship." Yu looked at him for moments and then instructed his people to do this. Moments later the Jaffa reported that the gate was none responsive. Harry then closed his eyes and suddenly the Jaffa reported that the gate had activated on its' own.

Harry opened his eyes "That should take care of any doubts you have about us and our capability." Harry moved closer to Yu who looked scared "You are abusing our technology and you will stop. You are not gods; you are not even god like. You are a species that attaches to others and then treat everyone as servants."

Harry stared at him "The Tauri are protected by us and any aggression directed towards them by any of the system Lords will be dealt with most severely. You will stop oppressing people or we will begin a systematic purging of your species throughout this galaxy and by the time we are finished with you, you will find your little pond on Rylex three your only safe haven, if we do not decide to destroy that planet."

Harry turned from him and then stood behind the Captain "Do I make myself clear citizen Yu."

Yu looked completely off kilter as he stood staring at this being before him "I will go back and never bother you again."

Harry looked at him "Your people, the ones you treat as slaves?"

Yu looked very angry "I will release them."

Harry turned to the screen "Jaffa you have heard Yu speak and you now know that they are not gods' just beings with large ego's and a little technology."

Harry looked at Yu "Beam him back to those he has abused." Yu began to say something but was interrupted by the beaming. It was seconds later that Yu was captured by his guards. He was screaming in indignation.

A Jaffa came onto the screen "Know that Yu has been detained in a cell and that we shall return to our world. We will tell the other system lords your message and in fact we will give them a recording of this meeting and all that we have learned."

Harry smiled at him "We will be watching with great interest about your progress. Good Luck." The Jaffa bowed in respect.

The screen shut down and Harry turned to hear General Hammond state "Here I thought you just gave me and the President headaches. I suddenly find that I am glad I am not your enemy." Hammond turned to the screen "You know you just destroyed Yu's credibility."

Harry looked very enigmatic "Did I really? I just wanted him to know that the earth was not his playground anymore." Harry gave him a smirk before exiting the command deck "It's my playground."

Captain Alexis stood by the General "He is something else entirely, isn't he?"

General Hammond watched him leave "It's hard to believe that he is only 23 years old."

Alexis laughed "Well don't I feel old at 2,231." Hammond turned to her and looked shocked as she continued "Imagine how I feel because he just taught me a thing or two."

General Hammond responded "Such as?"

Alexis answered "He was the one that came up with the idea to target the ships in subspace and his wife figured out the math. It was so simple I never even thought about it. A ship in hyper space doesn't have enough power for its engines and to maintain shields." Alexis turned to Hammond "Do you know what Hermione, his other wife said?"

Hammond shook his head no "Place an additional power module in the ship for powering the shields alone."

Alexis sat down and was shaking her head "My race has been in space for millions of years and we learn from beings that have been around for only 23 years." Alexis turned to him "How humbling is that?"