WOW! I've had a huge response to this fic. A few replies to some of my reviewers.
Rangle: Thank you for the compliments. I had intended this to be somewhere in between an epic and medium length fic, some parts will be speedy, and others drawn out.
Sunsethill: I appreciate your review. The first few chapters will be a bit more of an overview than an in depth story, until we get to the meat of the story. I do have a plan for these houses and inheritances, and they are necessary. Hopefully you'll enjoy it as it's revealed.
Flashbak35a: It was a desperate attempt to save their race from extinction. I don't see more than one person going back in the hurries makeshift ritual that only had a glimmer of a chance of working anyways.
Chapter 3:Atlantis
Tom and Hadrian made the decision together to wait on a Gringotts visit. During the Spring Break, Tom would make a decision about where he and Hadrian were heading as a family. Over the summer, they would then go to Gringotts, and either claim inheritances as ward and guardian, or do a blood adoption, and claim the inheritances as father and son. For now, Hadrian and Tom would work out their relationships to each other.
As Christmas approached, the Mulsaxa, Naka, gave birth to her hatchlings. While she did not wish to attend Hogwarts with Tom, one of her hatchlings was enamored with the young Speaker. Etoile, like the star she was named for, was gorgeous. She shared her mother's silvery white color, but had no green or black, only a shimmer of gold, and some pale blue. Her venom would be non fatal for a few years, and she was small enough to stay around Tom's wrist or neck all day. The other animals he had retrieved were under stasis, waiting for Tom to leave for Hogwarts. Then Harry would make his first journey through the Astria Porta.
What had started as an act of prevention to stop the dark lord before he rose quickly become fondness and love. The look on Tom's face as he tore into the Christmas presents he received was worth every galleon spent, and his shy gift to Harry was incredible. He'd found a recipe for a potion known as the Flask of Fire, in one of the family journals, which was only possible to make with all three venoms of a Mulsaxa and a bit of shed skin. Harry was suitable grateful, as the fire would never harm the one whose blood was added, but could not be put out by anything but the wielder's magic. Likewise, Tom enjoyed the new broom and books. Harry'd never had a true family of his own before. He'd never understood like he did now the love that could connect two people. Dumbledore and the Dursleys had robbed him of this, and he was furious. What crime had he committed, that he had been assigned such a lot in life, to look at love, but never feel its effects. Vernon's abuse didn't help. Harry would never be able to see the love in sex, and thus he would never have children of his own. He hated the future he'd come from, but perhaps Gaia had given him a gift in Tom. The gift of a child, and the ability to experience the love of a parent for a child.
The morning of December 31, Tom's birthday, he came down slowly, just after nine in the morning. Hadrian was waiting for him at the breakfast table. When he saw Hadrian waiting for him, he apologized for being late.
"You're not late, Tom. I never told you what time to be up." He chided as he handed over his gift, an envelope. In some ways, Tom was just as broken as he, and in others, Tom still had innocence. As Tom carefully opened the gift, he gasped. Within was a voucher for a personally made wand by one of the leading wand makers in the world, Guerin Ancelm. Few used him due to the expense needed to personally bind a wand with blood to a wand. Most personal wands also included a gemstone, and several cores, too. This drove the price up. Harry'd seen him two months after his arrival into the past. Ollivander's wand worked, but Ancelm's wand sang to his magic.
Hadrian waited for Tom to calm, before he spoke again. "I had Ranry snoop in your personal correspondence, and invited your friends for the afternoon. They'll be here at one."
Tom gave an inarticulate cry and threw himself into Harry's arms. For all that he tried to be tough and strong, Hadrian's love and care was tearing down all his cold defenses, and Tom was starting to understand love. They cried together for a few minutes, before they pulled themselves together.
That afternoon, Harry watched with a smile on his face as Tom played with his friends, racing each other and playing tag on brooms. Childhood laughter was a balm to the healing maw that was his heart. In that moment, he'd never hated the muggles more, for killing all the wonder magic brought. They'd murdered children, and Harry would never forget that. One day, perhaps he'd be open to accepting a few of them as visitors to whatever planet they ended up on, but he would never allow the Tau'ri to become the Fifth race, nor would he ever allow them near his people or their technology. The muggles were dangerous, and he'd never forget that.
As Harry put Tom back on the Hogwarts express and waved goodbye, he felt a twinge in his heart. He hadn't expected to like being a father so much, for that was what he'd become. He'd never have biological children the normal way. Tom may be his only child ever, and for now, that was enough. No matter Tom's decision, Hadrian would always see Tom as his son, not his ward. Hopefully his tasks would keep him from missing Tom too much while he was at Hogwarts, and hopefully Tom would be safe until he had enough evidence to destroy Dumbledore. Perhaps he hadn't acted on his predilections, though. After all, he was a new teacher. He wouldn't be able to afford to take any chances. He wasn't a hero who'd slain Grindelwald yet, either. No, Dumbledore wouldn't risk it yet.
Shaking the thoughts from his head, he Apparated to the LeFay Manor. Here, he had placed everything Alteran, including the Astria Porta.
Janus had left inventions and schematics. He'd included ideas to be fleshed out, and concepts he'd discovered, along with his personal journals. They'd covered the last three hundred years of Janus's life.
Moros left information on the Ori, and information on how to successfully bring up the technological level of another race. He'd written about his cache under Glastonbury Tor, which Harry had retrieved, and he'd left valuables.
Ganos Lao has included information on relocation, and a few of her notes on Ascension. She'd also left technology she'd felt cold be useful, including an Astria Porta, and information on the Destiny project.
The Alteran vault was the most valuable though. It held Potentias and the technology to recharge them. It also had drones, and information on the Antarctic platform, and a ship, and more. The mounted thing on the wall was a repository of knowledge, according to the information it'd left in his head. After it had downloaded, Harry had stuffed most of the information behind his Occlumency shields, to prevent it from overwhelming his brain. A muggle would have died. He'd spent five months carefully sorting out his brain, integrating the various forms of Alteran into his language center, and carefully sorting out the information on technology and planets and everything else. Thankfully, his pineal gland worked like an Alteran's, and helped him not only manipulate Zero Point Energy (ZPE) also known as magic, but helped the ZPE to enhance his brain. He held all the knowledge of the repository, and still only used 47% of his brain power. It was like this for all witches and wizards . . . Alterans.
His first destination was Lantea, where Atlantis was sunken, and he was bringing Potentias with him. He was sure that after almost 10,000 years, the ones in Lantea would be almost depleted. Wokby, another elf, was in charge of manning the Astria Porta. He would ensure any unwanted visitors were unaware of their location when they exited, and would render them harmless. He'd also use the dialing device to open the wormhole when needed. Lompy would gather the mail for Hadrian, and Wokby would send it through the Astria Porta.
As Alterans did, Hadrian ignored the dialing device, and connected to the gate with his mind, opening a wormhole without the unstable event horizon. It was an easy mind trick, one even children could learn. It had to do with manipulating the ZPE (magic) into charging the gate, while mentally communicating with the gate about a destination. Bag of clothes in hand, Hadrian stepped through, and became the first of his people to return to the stars. Wokby sent the technology he'd set aside through after him, and he gathered up the Potentias first.
When he arrived, Atlantis was cool and dark, although the lights were slowly coming back on. He quickly made his way to the main power station, knowing that the presence of an Alteran would cause all systems to come back online and start draining power rapidly. If the shield failed, Atlantis would be destroyed. The Potentias were almost empty, as he'd surmised, and he anxiously replaced them. When the pedestal slid back into the floor, he sighed in relief. Atlantis was at full power.
That done, Harry went to the command crystal, and took control of Atlantis. It was an incredible feeling. At that moment, Atlantis connected with his mind, and as capitol of the Alteran people, she named him Supreme Chancellor of the Alteran people. Should he find any Alterans other than those on Earth, they would need to dispute Atlantis for his claim to the title.
After a moment of enjoying Atlantis's presence in his head, he went to the consul and raised Atlantis to the surface. She had taken a lot of damage over 10,000 years, but nothing that couldn't be repaired. Harry programed the constructors still waiting on standby after all this time to repair the city-ship, and went to Janus's lab, one of the few that was packed up properly. Inside was a device meant to be thrown through the gate to the Asuran home planet. Janus had designed it during the war with the Wraith, before the council made the decision to bomb them off the face of the planet. It would recall and reprogram all Asurans, removing the aggression from their base code, and slaving them to the Supreme Chancellor of the Alterans. The Asurans would then be proper HFR's with AI's constructed from the Alterans in the historical database, containing copies of memories and skills, without the human intelligence necessary to make them dangerous.
Harry was unsure if any Asurans had survived the bombing or not, but it was a wise idea to ensure that there was no unpleasant surprise waiting for him on the other side of the gate.
Sighing, Harry sent it through, immediately shutting the gate down afterward. In three days, he would take a gate ship through to reclaim any of the lost technology that existed, and put it to use. He'd need HFR's to man all the ships and station needed to establish a base for the Alteran people. Until then, he used the constructors that were not repairing Atlantis to build a construction platform. This would be launched into space, where it could build or repair ships. He had a feeling he would need it. He also launched a Potentia factory. He would need all the Potentias he could make when it came time to head towards a new solar system.
Speaking of which, he headed to the database to find a system to live in. It would need to contain living planets, and have plenty of room for growth. Harry had promised the Goblins a planet of their own, where they could cast off the history of subjugation by the wizards of Earth. They would be great allies, but they were an independent people, and would like the time to build themselves into something other than the goblin bankers of Gringotts. As he input his parameters into the search engine, he was surprised to find several hits for systems with multiple living planets. Soon he came across his favorite. It was a huge solar system, with three suns. It had eighteen planets, and all eighteen were living, along with twelve living moons from the thirty-seven in the system. It was unlikely the planets have ever been inhabited, due to their lack of Astria Portas. Azrea would be the perfect solar system for them.
While he was using the mainframe, Hadrian also sent a recall signal to all Ancient ships. It was unlikely that any would be able to make it back to him after 10,000 years, but one never knew, and they could and would send a signal with their position. Harry could use this to recover most of the technology his people had left scattered throughout the Pegasus and Avalon galaxies. For the next three days, Harry examined the databases, and went to planets with Ancient technology.
On one planet, he copied and built several more shields to shield the entire planet from the wraith. Then he informed the occupants that they no longer needed to kill themselves at 21, because they would now be protected from the wraith over the whole planet, not just within their old territory. It took some convincing, but he managed it. He also reclaimed a city ship that had been crashed and taken over by native people. His constructors repaired the flight drives, and it limped back to Lantea, where it was overhauled by the construction platform in space.
The Destiny fleet answered his recall. While they did not utilize hyperdrive, in order to explore the universe, they were all capable of it, and they jumped to return, minus two that had crashed. Based on the distance and speed, they would be back in a little over a week. Harry would retrieve the crashed ships at a later date. Several city ships also answered. Two had been abandoned in between galaxies, and easily made the jump back to Lantea. Admah was trapped in the gravity of a sun, and would soon fall in. It would never fly again, due to alterations made by its leader at some point in history. For now, Harry was not interested in a rescue mission, and the technology wasn't going to be cannibalized by the Wraith, so he would leave it. A few stranded ships also pinged, sending distress calls. Only one was capable of turning back, but its engines were damaged, and it was unable to travel faster than .9999 the speed of light. Harry would need to fetch it, and place it's crew in stasis until he could revive them.
With that done, Harry found the closest bedroom to the gate room, and fell asleep. For the first few hours, his sleep was peaceful. He dreamed of Tom, and watching him grow up. Then his dreams took a turn to the dark. Dumbledore, a man who abused him. Vernon, and the pain he'd endured as a child. And then Hermione, dying. Pain and cold racked his frame in torment. Muggles in lab coats loomed like monsters over a broken Harry Potter, and pain in his every movement. He woke with a shout, and sat up. He would get no more sleep that night. Like many nights, his memories had invaded his sleep, and taken over. Despite how hard he tried, he was unable to shove the hate from his heart. They'd never done anything to them, and yet the muggles had wiped them out. Finally, he buried his face in his hands, and sobbed. Like other nights, he would exchange sleep for grief, and spend his night wishing he could see his lost family one more time. After two more days of similar events, and long nights filled with dark dreams, it was time to go to Asura.
When he stepped through to Asura, Harry noticed the sheer amount of HFR's there were, as well as the amount of technology. Thankfully, Janus's device had worked. Harry went to the control consul, and took over as Supreme Chancellor. He then commanded them to mobilize all their ships, including city ships, and go to Lantea. There, they were to upgrade all ships to the most advanced models in Atlantis's computers, which he had upgraded himself with crystals from Janus and Moros. Three weeks later, Harry surveyed his finished fleet with pleasure.
During this time, Harry received two letters. The first one was from Tom, proclaiming that he missed his guardian, and reminding him to schedule the appointment for the wand maker over spring break. It was upbeat, and for a few nights Harry's dreams were peaceful. The second was from, of all people, Professor Dumbledore. Sent two weeks into Harry's stay, he, it seemed, was curious about a man who would take in an older orphan. He not so subtlety implied that Hadrian had less than pure intentions towards Tom, and should keep Tom at an arm's length. Then he suggested sending Tom back to the orphanage. Harry burned it in his anger, his magic flaring to do his bidding.
With 6,350,000 HFR's, and 48 city ships, 12 mining cities, and 12 construction cities, this fleet was perfect for rebuilding the Alteran race. It also had 384 Aurora class vessels, 6,702 gate ships, 192 science vessels, and 1,536 cruisers. Each squadron held two Auroras, one science vessel, and eight cruisers. Each cruiser had two gate ships, each science vessel five, and each Aurora held four. Each city ship held fifteen, including mining and construction cities. Each squadron was made up of 23,000 HFR's slaved to the main Atlantis controller (Hadrian), with the remaining 2,084,000 HFR's on the city ships. Each mining and construction city carried two squadrons. The cities carried three squadrons. For travel back to Avalon galaxy, the city ships combined into twelve pentaflakes, or groups of six, one in the center, and the cities attaching in a pentagon around them. Each had four city ships, a mining ship, and a construction ship.
When the fleet warped back into the Avalon galaxy, Hadrian looked at his star charts. Success! At twenty-five light years from Earth, the Azrean solar system had eighteen planets and three suns. The entire system was rich in Trinium, Neutronium, Naquadah, and other valuable minerals, and the majority of planets were living.
The third planet from the central sun had an immense amount of magic, coming from the planet being a living being, rather than dead. It was similar to Terra (Gaia), but stronger. He re-named it Altera. He claimed it in the name of the Alterans, and sent the ships to begin mining. They were to mine and terraform the planets first, and then the moons. The tenth planet, second from the third and smallest sun, was to be called Asura. Asura would be the new home for magical creatures, such as the dragons and nundus and basilisks. The fourth planet from the central sun was smaller than Altera and Asura, but just as magical. This, Hadrian set aside for the goblins. It was, after all, part of his deal with them. They told him the planet would be named Rygz, for the first Goblin King to live and fight for his people's independence. The first three to be mined and terraformed were the newly named Altera, Asura, and Rygz, which were to then be prepared for habitation.
As the HFR's and mining ships got to work, Harry sent ten Auroras to fetch the lost ships, two a ship. They were manned by HFR's, and were to do everything possible to preserve any living Alterans in stasis and kill any Wraith. Then, Harry took a city ship, which he named The Animus, and took off back to Earth, leaving it cloaked in orbit. Hopefully, his operations were successful. As he left, defense satellites were being scattered around the system. No one would be able to enter without first a warning, and then destruction.
It was time to begin the salvation of the Alteran race.
When Harry returned to Earth, he had two things to do. The first was to visit the goblins and tell them about Rygz. The second was to visit Albus Dumbledore and tell him to keep his big nose out of things, giving Hadrian enough time to ruin him.
"Gringotts!" He called into the floo. He whirled away, only to be deposited face first. Damn his balance. One day, he would get floo travel.
"Lord Peverell!" A goblin greeted enthusiastically. "My name is KarNott. I'm here to bring you to King Ragnor. He said your next visit would be with news of Rygz?"
"Indeed!" Hadrian said calmly. "Please, lead the way."
As they walked down the long hallway and entered the throne room, Harry smiled. He was pleased with the progress he'd made in the last few months. The goblins, after hearing his story, had become great allies. BlackClaw and StoneCrusher were increasing his fortune rapidly. He'd have no problem buying creatures and DNA to ensure that every species on the planet was saved, and the flora and fauna was being preserved and chosen.
"King Ragnor!" He greeted. "An honor to see you again. I do indeed bring news of Rygz. Is this room secure?"
When Ragnor nodded, Harry conjured in his hands a picture of Azrea, the solar system. "This is Azrea, the new solar system of the Alterans. As per your request, I have chosen and set aside a planet for the use of the goblin nation, Rygz, in the same solar system as our own. Located next to the new Altera, it will be accessible by ship or Astria Porta. It is living, like Mother Gaia, Earth, and thus magical. I am told there are plenty of deposits of gold in the planet's veins, which, when mined, will be left for your use. Alterans do not usually use money, but perhaps the goblins will be our bank with any cultures in the galaxy that use a currency. You will also be given a large amount of the metals on your planet, and your moons will remain un-mined until you are ready to mine them or tell us to mine them. Your planet is being mined and terraformed as we speak. It will be moved into the optimal orbit to maintain it's atmosphere, and will hopefully be more than you can even imagine."
Ragnor nodded. "Tell me about the life of the planet?"
"It seems to be younger than this one, and stronger, due to the lack of harm done by muggles. I am unsure how you will need to adjust your magic to tune into the planet, but that will be trial and error. We Alterans are merely strengthened by magical planets, but our powers come from the ability to manipulate zero point energy. We will not be able to help you adjust your magic very well."
Ragnor nodded again. "And the suns. You said three? What's the time cycle?"
"The suns are so located that your planet will run on a 26 hour day. Fourteen hour days, and twelve hour nights, give or take based on season. It will be similar to Altera's orbit, and I would recommend a thirteenth hour on the clock. Two cycles to make a day. The year will be 482 days, as will Altera's, so we will need to come up with a new calendar. I would suggest that a year is 60 ΒΌ weeks. There can be fifteen months, on an eight day week. Altera will have 26 hour days as well. Our weeks will also be eight days, so there's no need for us to worry about syncing our times."
"And when will the terraforming be done?"
"The planet will be move-in ready in a month. I would suggest you install an Astria Porta in a secure vault, and while most of you live on Rygz, a few of you stay to run the bank, alternating based on your new planet's calendar, to keep all your people aging at the same rate."
"Agreed." Ragnor said with a goblin grin. It was quite fearsome. "Our people have already begun packing their belongings. In a month's time, over 9/10 of our population will be on the new planet, building cities and creating an entirely new infrastructure. We've decided to rename ourselves. Goblin holds a memory of oppression. We will be known as the Rygzxoll. Xoll is children, so we will be the Children of the One who Fought for Freedom."
Harry nodded respectfully. "Perhaps, when the Rygzxoll are no longer solely bankers, they might consent to forge new foci for my people. These foci will need to be metal, crystal, and gemstone, to channel zero point energy, without creating a dependence on foci like we have now. We'll also need crystals, for data storage. I have some designs, but they can keep. When you're settled in, we'll speak again. Contact me when you're ready to have an Astria Porta installed in Gringotts."
As Harry left, he found himself grinning. One race saved, many more to go.
"Todry, Tippy." Harry called lightly as he returned home. The elves appeared. "Yes Master Peverell, sir?"
"I have set up a set of transportation rings in the basement of the LeFay manor. Todry will move all the new creatures to the ship in orbit, and create habitats for them in the city ship. It's already got several habitats and cages. The dragons will be kept in rooms until they're ten feet, and then moved to a habitat suitable for their species. The phoenixes will be in the forest habitat. The snakes in tanks, and the rest in habitats or cages as they belong. When you are done moving them, you and your elves will tend to them until their planet is done and we can drop them off. While this is being done, Tippy will be using the Hydroponics bays and greenhouses to collect sufficient amounts of every magical plant, to be transplanted down onto Asura with the animals. You will both use money from the Emrys and Pendragon vaults to make sure you have three or four of every species and sub species. When you've done all the magical, move onto non-magical. We are moving an entire civilization. Tippy, you will need closer to ten of every species and sub species, and many more seeds of each. We will be planting an entire planet. The plants will be in time dilation for the equivalent of a hundred years to establish themselves before we move the animals, so make sure you plan for that."
He summoned his cloak and dismissed the elves. Then he stalked to the floo. He had a Headmaster teacher to see about.
Hopefully, y'all aren't losing interest, and will like my path for this story. I'm wrapping up some loose ends before unleashing Harry on the universe. I don't know much about the galaxy, so I'm making up the names of my solar systems. Assume they're Alteran names.
New Solar System:
Azrea
Suns:
Sra
Sheucs
Zaomas
Planets:
1) Flaiji
Moon: Veect
2) Klioft
Moons: Jo, Cluect, Thiuys
3) Chaepran = Altera
Moons: Trods, Flaafs
4) Krephoa = Rygz
Moons: Graukdish, Echaittak, Bokdeen
5) Xikrith
Moon: Brool
6) Driameft
Moons: Sriohs, Bix, Zloat, Zaf
7) Ethansei
Moons: Dripliph, Iritrea
8) Ibrahleo
Moon: Proct
9) Opligdeel
Moon: Vlaaft, Kips, Fod
10) Srufs = Asura
Moons: Flimdaids, Fliblums, Epluzla, Ploottecz
11) Pazdop
Moons: Uceect, Ziolt
12) Pheur
Moon: Prect
13) Qoont
Moons: Ozucloa, Geabbutz, Thimmats
14) Rega
15) Ideepdops
Moons: Vaix, Shao
16) Claph
Moons: Araar, Phia
17) Ichueccesz
Moon: Lainsact
18) Ufluezzoms
Moons: Zrumsosh, Thaqitz
Main Characters:
Harry Potter ~ Hadrian Peverell
Tom Riddle
Aurors:
Kevin Haynes
Carol Robbins
House Elves:
Ceesey ~ Head Peverell Manor Elf
Vooby ~ Tom Riddle's personal elf
Nonly ~ Head Library Elf
Ranry ~ Hadrian Peverell's personal elf
Todry ~ Head Caretaker of Magical Creatures
Wokby ~ Head Stargate Elf
Lompy ~ Head Mail Elf
Tippy ~ Head Caretaker of Magical Plants
Muggles:
Melissa Adwell ~ Discovers the existence of magic
Daniel Jackson
Goblins:
BlackClaw ~ Account Manager for Harry
StoneCrusher ~ Account Manager for Harry
Ragnor ~ King of the Goblins
KarNott
Pets:
Naka ~ Mulsaxa Serpent
Etoile ~ Mulsaxa Serpent ~ Tom Riddle's
Icarus ~ Great Horned Owl ~ Tom Riddle's
Soleil ~ Barn Owl ~ Hadrian Peverell's