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Stargate O'Neill 13
Arriving at Atlantis, it was plunged into darkness, but Xion used the nanites to enhance his vision and also to detect energy sources, arriving at the ZPM room. There he extracted the huge two meter high and one meter wide energy source from his storage bracelet, and switched it on.
Atlantis had enough power again, so he returned to the control room and plugged everything in. This took him a day, as he had no help and lacked knowledge. Still, he managed to open Janus' laboratory, where the nanites were located.
This took him time, since in this timeline there was no expedition to Atlantis or time travel to leave the city ready to be used, so he had to reconnect everything. The advantage was that the time machine built by Janus was still in the city and he could use it later.
When he finished reconnecting the consoles, Xion went to Janus' lab and used all available resources to create an army of replicators. He ordered them to devour the jumpers, with the exception of Janus' time machine, and anything else that was scattered around, as he would need overwhelming numerical superiority.
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By the time the replicators were finished, there were over a hundred thousand, but that wasn't enough, so Xion searched the city archives to find a second copy of Atlantis. He knew that a kingdom of sorts had been established there, so he ordered the replicators to devour the entire city.
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Three days later, his army had grown to several million and formed a mass of creatures in front of the portal of the city they had devoured, awaiting his orders.
While the replicators devoured the city, Xion researched the Atlantis database for information on the Asuran and their programming codes. As he suspected, his knowledge was insufficient to get the information he needed, but he found the Asuran address and sent his army of millions of replicators that swept over the Asuran city like a wave.
The human replicators in the Pegasus galaxy were not the same as the replicators in the Asgard galaxy. The human replicators in the Asgard galaxy were experienced in handling armies of insectoid replicators so numerous that they could conquer a galaxy. They could also change their own programming and were experts in computer systems because the insectoid replicators who created them had thousands of years of experience in all kinds of warfare and tactics. However, the human replicators in the Pegasus galaxy were different.
They were created by tree-huggers and could not even change their own programming, nor attempt to change that of others. Therefore, the great wave of insect replicators swept over them and devoured them without hindrance, as they tried unsuccessfully to increase their numbers by printing more copies. However, there were very few printers and the insect replicators easily took them over, modifying them to use the neutronium stored in them to replicate themselves, recovering from the few casualties they had suffered.
The defenses of the human replicators were pathetic. They tried to interpose shields, but it took less than a minute for the insectoid replicators to overcome them as if they were not there. Then they tried to close the doors, but a spit of acid made them last less than any shield.
While the battle was taking place, Xion infiltrated the wave of replicators still entering through the portal and took control of the city. He used his ancient genes to interact with it and wrest control from the replicators, who were stupid. They built an imitation of Atlantis, they had even created the interface that allowed the Ancients to interact with the city, which gave them access to its systems.
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When the city was under their control in less than an hour and the human replicators were eliminated, Xion sighed. Knowing the weaknesses of these guys, anyone could make them bite the dust. Xion could only sigh at how easy it was to obtain the most advanced technologies in this universe if you knew where to look and what to do.
Now, their next target was the wraith. They were several times easier than the replicators, as they were asleep and their hives in suspended animation. He just needed some preparations to take them on.
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With the city captured, Xion gained an incredible amount of resources, including twelve Aurora battleships, plants, factories and shipyards. The replicators, in addition to a copy of Atlantis, had an entire industrial city at their disposal with probe factories and such.
Xion, who was not an Ancient and did not intend to use his useless weapons and ships, used the plants and factories of the human replicators to create some defensive technology. He built three meter and a half diameter spheres that could hide and float behind him, with multiple devices to defend him, including weapons and shields. Each had a ZPM as a power source. For himself, he created a personal shield generator and a personal invisibility system. This was not something he did personally. He just programmed the city to build them, as well as thousands of robots with replicator bodies that performed all the physical tasks for him.
While the things he had commissioned were being built, Xion downloaded some knowledge into his own mind, such as ZPM manufacturing. As the fans imagined, it was a difficult thing to do and the human replicators only had twenty of them. The dimension to extract energy was not easy to create and it took decades to meet the ZPM requirements to extract energy. Because of this, the Ancients used less efficient energy sources that depleted faster. They were a mixed technology, combining a subspace energy source with a conventional energy source that required materials such as naquadah. Xion recalled that the Asgard did something similar, but their power sources were based on neutronium.
ZPMs were not cost-effective in the long run, and any civilization that relied on them as an energy source would end up backward or be destroyed in any conflict due to their scarcity. The next thing Xion downloaded was knowledge about probes that could pierce shields.
It was a similar technology to the ZPM, but could not be depended on for survival, as it consumed matter and had no performance compared to energy weapons. They could only be used as strategic weapons, as they were a huge waste of resources, despite being easy to produce. Finally, Xion unloaded what little medical and genetic knowledge the replicants possessed, most of it acquired during their confrontations with the wraith.
In Xion's opinion, Ancient warfare technology was junk. This did not mean that it was not advanced, as the probes were one of the most powerful weapons on this world, cutting through any shield as if it were not present. However, they had the fatal drawback that they could only be used once, as missiles. For obvious reasons, they were strategic weapons and trying to win a war with them would be the ruin of any civilization. Unfortunately for the Ancients, they never really grasped the concept of war economy, and that was the end of them.
On the other hand, there were the ZPMs, the second cause of the fall of the Ancients. The ZPMs were the ultimate power source created by the Ancients. They were incredibly stable, so easy to use that they were adaptable to any interface and extremely easy to regulate, supplying only the power required and nothing more. In theory, you could even connect a simple household fan to them without any problems.
So, the question was: if they were so smart, why did they disappear? The answer was simple: survival and success, no matter how much people insist, are not based on intelligence alone. More important are adaptability, cunning, imagination and, of course, the will to live and prevail.
These were all things that the Ancients lacked, and you could see it in their technology. Probes, which were strategic weapons and which a species like humans would only use as strategic weapons due to their high economic cost, were the signature weapon of the Ancients.
ZPMs were more of the same, an energy source of immense power that was the best they knew, but required specialized facilities for their manufacture and literally the creation of a stable artificial dimension, which took decades to accomplish. If they were the humans, they would only use them strategically and never rely on them in a war. But for the Ancients, they were the standard and in the end they had nothing.
The ZPMs also fell into the hands of the Wraith, who adapted them for their own use in an instant, defeating the Ancients with their own weapons. In conclusion, the Ancients would hardly get a five out of ten in survival, they were completely inept. A race like the Asgard or humans, with the same technology, would have gotten rid of the Wraith in a couple of days.
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After taking a day off, Xion took five jumpers, filled them with replicators and headed for a planet that the replicators identified as a Wraith hideout. There he used invisibility to enter unseen and deployed the replicators to capture the queen and keep the hive asleep.
He accomplished this by acting in stealth and putting the queen to sleep without her noticing, using a weapon similar to the one Linea used and plunging her into what appeared to be a natural sleep, without setting off any alarms. Then the replicators took over, keeping them in a virtual sleep while he downloaded the knowledge from their brains and stored it in the replicators, as he still had O'Neill's body and didn't want his head to explode.
To solve this, Xion started a project he called "bio-nanites," which was to combine nanite technology with Wraith biotechnology. These bio-nanites would not have the same capabilities as nanites, as they were not digital and biological cells could not compare to Naquadah or neutronium in terms of providing energy.
Xion had several reasons for creating the bio-nanites, including the aggressiveness of the Wraith cells, which could be used to visibly modify DNA and physical form. If this process was enhanced, bio-nanites would be the most powerful biological weapon in existence, just as nanites were the most advanced technological weapon. In addition to all this, Xion needed a ship, so he began modifying the hive ship to create a super bio-ship.
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After setting in motion the creation of the bio-nanites and the bio-ship, Xion returned to Atlantis to use the time ship built by Janus to travel a hundred years into the past.
Xion did not use the portal or perform any actions, he simply used the ship to move and travel through time. In doing so, he replaced a ZPM in the city and then used the portal to return to Earth. He did not use the time ship to go through the portal, only he entered along with his three guardian spheres, which had been modified with biotechnology. Sensors, a dematerializing ray and matter storage had been added to them, in addition to all the previous upgrades, such as weapons, shields and a platform to use them as transport rings.
Xion knew that the portal to earth would be covered in ice, so he used an overload to force it to activate and clear the place.
Going out to the guard post through the portal, Xion cleared the area, and after scanning the place, he captured his target, an alter that had been there for millions of years, and was a semi-ascendant. Xion put her into one of the biospheres and then used one of them to connect her to the portal and provide her with power to call Atlantis.
With his target captured, Xion had no more business there, so he left a biosphere behind to wipe all his tracks and leave everything as it was before he arrived. The biosphere would then be hidden until he returned to the Milky Way galaxy in the future.
Xion returned to Atlantis returning exactly one second after he left. He used the Stargate, and went straight to the bio-ship under construction, to begin his second research, which was his own body enhancements. For that, he had the wraith biotechnology, which was the most advanced among all the advanced races he knew.
He also had the Alteran biotechnology which was deficient in almost everything, and the advanced knowledge in genetics and human biology, which the nanites had in argos. As materials, he had the human genetics of O'Neill, the Alteran genetics of the Alteran woman he captured, who was also a semi-ascendant, and the genetics of the wraith, of which he had thousands of samples. In addition to the wraith themselves, there were their ships, which were a treasure trove of biotechnology, but first he would concentrate on obtaining a suitable body, and he already had everything he needed.
Xion had been in the Pegasus galaxy for two months when he obtained his new body, a mixture of Wraith, ancient and human, with a greater predominance of Wraith traits, as these represented almost the maximum exponent of a biological body. Their new body was no match for their divine body in terms of physical strength and endurance, because the wraith, despite their longevity and capacity for regeneration and advanced healing, were as fragile as a human, a firearm, and even a knife, would cut them with ease.
On the other hand, thanks to the study of the semi-ascended Alteran's body and mind, and the wraith themselves, he had gained psychic abilities, and that was something he did not have before. He had telekinesis, telepathy, healing, and many more psychic abilities.
These abilities depended on his mind, and although he now had a super brain, which couldn't compare to a human's, so his intelligence had increased dozens of times, they didn't give him much, if he faced the technology and weapons of this world, his psychic shields wouldn't hold up much, a hatak goa'uld ship would tear him to pieces, and he couldn't do anything against his shields.
This was not to say that he was a weak semi-ascendant in comparison to an Ori prior, whose psychic shields could withstand the gunfire of an entire fleet of ships. The thing about the priors, was that they cheated, because they had an amplifier for their abilities, and that was the Ori crystal they carried in their staffs. That little artifact was what made them invincible, and they could only be taken down if their abilities were sealed. But Xion had no similar technology, and had to settle for being a common semi-ascended, anyway, he had three biospheres always behind him, powered by three ZPMs, his psychic abilities were just an add-on, something he found interesting to investigate.
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In these two months his bio-nanites project, to increase compatibility with organic matter, was also completed. These bio-nanites, became part of his body, forming an integral part of his neural network, which enhanced the psychic capabilities of his body. With the amount of bio-nanites he was creating, not even the Wraith Queens as a whole, could compete with him.
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With his new body, and the bio-nanites ready, Xion continued in his research and development work on his spacecraft, based on a Wraith hive modified to suit ancient technology. For this, he could use the bio-nanites and three ZPMs, to conclude in just days, but his heart ached at wasting such scarce energy sources in the construction of his ship. So he returned to Atlantis to get information about Project Arthur and its location.
This time, Xion already had all the knowledge of the ancients and the wraith in his own brain and bio-nanite network. Therefore, it was easy for him to get everything he wanted. He also took the opportunity to order the replicators to clean up Atlantis, removing the artifact that prevented entry into hyperspace, all information about replicators, nanites, Project Arthur and nanite-based weapons. In addition, he released a smoke bug that Atlanteans used to experiment with. Those Alterans could be bastards sometimes. The bastards had gone and left the bug locked up for ten thousand years.
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After visiting the Project Arthur planet and gathering all his data, Xion returned to the Asura city, which had specialized facilities that Atlantis did not, and proceeded to create his own power source. However, he did not do the same as the Alterans in creating a force field, nor did he adopt McKay's solution of sending the debris to someone else's home, which he felt was immoral at the time, since if those particles fell into an inhabited place with many people and the technology was not advanced enough to complain to McKay, everyone would have died. From that point of view, it was a pretty sadistic experiment.
Xion had a better solution, which was to create an artificial dimension similar to those used by ZPMs or subspace power sources, to dispose of garbage. Of course, it wouldn't be so elaborate as to take a hundred years to set it up, since the configuration didn't matter to him. He didn't need to extract energy from there, just dispose of the garbage, so it didn't require constructing a complex building, just digging a well, which could be done in a few hours.
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Once finished, Xion sent the power source he called Dimensional Energy Source 1.0, or FED 1.0, along with the replicators, to install it in his bio-ship and then activate it. Just in case something went wrong, he decided to stay in Asura City and keep an eye on the replicators while they activated the FED 1.0. He was confident of its success, but as a precaution, he decided to stay behind. The wraiths were in the bio-ship, but he was lazy to take them out, not caring that the leeches would be turned into space dust in case the FED 1.0 blew up the solar system where the developing bio-ship was located.
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Fortunately for the wraith, things went well and the FED 1.0 worked like a charm, integrating into the bio-ship and generating twenty times the power provided by a ZPM. It was estimated that its lifetime at maximum output would be about ten years before it would need to be adjusted to discard the attached dimension and replace it with a new one.
With all this energy available, the bio-ship accelerated its development by a thousand percent, which meant it would be ready in days, and with the support of the bio-nanites, this time frame was reduced to just one day, as he surmised, the bio-nanites were unrivaled in genetic reorganization and modification of biological structures. They could modify a human-sized body in minutes and a five-kilometer bio-ship in a day.
Neutronium nanites could do no such thing, because they acted on organisms, while bio-nanites adapted to and were part of them, integrating and functioning as another source of production, construction and reorganization. The obvious disadvantage was that they lost all their digital capacity, so he still required the support of the neutronium nanites to function as an integrated computer.
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Two months and a week after arriving in the Pegasus galaxy, Xion already had a new body, and a bio-ship, so he began to make preparations for the next phase of his plan and created satellite bio-spheres to distribute throughout the Pegasus galaxy, with the goal of locating any ancients who might still be there.
In addition, he sent some of them to search for those he knew were traveling toward the Milky Way galaxy using the speed of light. It was like looking for a needle in a universe, but Xion plotted several routes taking Atlantis as a central reference point and covering a swath of five thousand light years in the direction of the Milky Way galaxy.
Distributing the biospheres would take a day using the stargates, and Xion decided to investigate something else that was also important, and that was his divine cells, to see if they became useless, or could be of use to him in the future.
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Xion got results after only a few hours of research. His divine cells were not damaged, they were just having trouble adapting to this new universe, yet they were not paralyzed, and were assimilating his new body steadily.
The problem was that they were doing so at an extremely slow pace, and at the current rate, it would take thousands of years to accomplish their purpose. However, the speed of assimilation was increasing with the passage of time, and according to their projections, in fifty years they would have managed to overcome this universe, and achieve their purpose, giving him back all his abilities, body, and divine power.
Fifty years might seem like a big problem, but he had a time machine, and he could simply move fifty years into the past, and wait somewhere quiet, to become a god. The problem with that, was that if he became a god again, he was sure that the ascended would treat him as an equal, and that meant that they would not let him act on the material plane. To do that, he would have to wage a war against them, and even though he was sure to win, because he knew their weak point, and could get rid of all the ascended in a galaxy at will, that would be genocide, and he was not that kind of person.
As he was not willing to kill to impose his will, or rather, he was not willing to kill those he considered good people to impose his will, he would not use the time machine to become a god, as nothing in this reality could be a threat to him, and he could do whatever he wanted, while he gathered all the knowledge of this universe, as a mortal, and then he would act as a god, when it would be his turn to do so, not before. He had already befriended all the people who helped him in this universe, and he still had many things to do, he would not throw everything away and go back, that had no purpose at this point, and more so when time, for him, was now something insignificant. For all this, becoming a god would have to wait a little longer.
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With his self-confidence restored, and the assurance of being able to return, and regain contact with his other half, Xion continued on his plans for this mortal plane. His bio-ship was ready, but it did not have the appearance of a wraith bio-ship. Xion named her Titan.
The Titan was five kilometers long and three kilometers wide, with arms reaching six kilometers. Its exterior and interior design was similar to that of the Goa'uld, but with some notable differences. The pyramid was larger compared to the black frame, making the latter appear elongated instead of having the traditional hexagonal shape.
The arms were also longer and had long horizontal antennae accompanying and protruding from them. These antennae were receivers for sensors, capable of traversing a planet. Finally, the pyramid was not hollow, as Xion had added a shipyard for bio-ships inside, in case he ever wanted to build a probe factory and more space in case he needed something in the future. For the moment, the empty space was intended for warehouses or storage.
The entire outer shell was armor, an alloy between Naquada, tridium, and neutronium, which if any shot pierced the Atlantean shields, would be absorbed by the armor, as it used a technology similar to the armor of a warrior of Anubis. As for weapons, it had probes, with antimatter heads as a strategic weapon. Plasma repeaters, three thousand heavy plasma cannons, one thousand electromagnetic impact cannons, just in case he ran into any technology capable of absorbing energy like his own, twenty particle cannons, similar to the Atlantean defense satellite, cloaking capability, Atlantean shields, Atlantean hyperspace engine, and all this supported by three FED 1. 0, one for weapons, one for shields and the last one for everything else, and it should be taken into account that each FED 1.0, generated twenty times more energy than a ZPM. Because of this, Xion had full confidence in his own current warfare capabilities.
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Xion reached the Titan's bridge thanks to a transporter beam from his biospheres, which connected to the ship's transporter. This technology was useful, but requiring a point of origin and a point of destination, it did not have the versatility of Asgard transporter technology.
Xion displayed a hologram of the Titan in front of him. He reviewed the various systems, weapons, Atlantean shields, probes and the integration between the hull and the bio-ship. The hull and internal decoration were like very heavy armor, but the Titan had a power source twenty times more powerful than a ZPM, making it extremely light for her.
Xion nodded with satisfaction as he saw the results of his efforts and began deploying spheres to store the replicators that were monitoring the planet. She then set her destination towards the asura city. It took the bio-ship, with a FED 1.0 power source and a maximum speed of one billion four hundred million times the speed of light, a couple of minutes to reach the asura city. Asgard hyperdrives were much faster than that, but he didn't have that technology. In fact, if it weren't for the extraordinary energy efficiency of the bio-ship, which was up to ten times the efficiency of any Altan ship, he wouldn't exceed a speed of about seven hundred million times the speed of light.
Arriving over the asuran city, Xion deployed an army of over five thousand biospheres over the city and began dematerializing it. Xion lowered the bioship to assist them, and within minutes, all trace of the asurans in the place had been converted into stored resources, with the exception of four of the twelve aurora-class battleships, which he had left for the alterans he intended to rescue. He then supplied Atlantis with common materials and probes in addition to repairing the defensive satellite and adding shields and defensive weapons, because despite having a powerful weapon, it was ineffective as a defensive weapon.
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When all the work was done, Xion checked his satellite network to locate ancient ships that still remained active in the galaxy and were not moving, because there were humans on those ships and if they were moving, they would not be the ones he was looking for. Three choices of static ships appeared and Xion used his satellites to send them a signal, to which the ships responded automatically. That was how unsafe Altan technology was. Xion knew which ship he was looking for and set his course for that location. Upon arrival he checked the area for Wraith in the area, but without the emergency signal, the battleship had not attracted attention.
Xion deployed a hundred biospheres and sent them out to scan, finding the Alterans in suspended animation. He stored them in the biospheres and dematerialized the damaged aurora battleship so as not to waste resources by leaving it abandoned there.
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After that, Xion set course for Atlantis and took the Alterans out of the biospheres to inject them with nanites and rejuvenate their bodies. When he finished, he removed the nanites because the Alterans were purists and did not see fit to alter their bodies. The treatment took several days, during which time the biospheres he sent to the Milky Way found the Alteran ship traveling at the speed of light. It had only taken a few days to find them and they were right in the center of the trajectory he plotted. Xion set a course for them, using the bio-ship's maximum speed.
In the meantime, he awakened the Alterans and brought them to his bridge using the biospheres as transport rings.
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-Welcome," said Xion.
There stood all the Alterans he had rescued, along with the Alterans he had captured on Earth. They had just woken up and were surprised to be there, and at the strangeness of the ship's design, because the bridge was similar to the Goauld's, with its throne and all, but it was actually an Asgard design, with a large space without consoles, only the throne that was integrated to the ship's telepathic control system.
-A wraith! -one of his guests exclaimed in fear. Xion sighed.
Xion looked nothing like a wraith. His hair was golden and silky smooth. His eyes had turned white from the semi-ascended enhancements and had nothing to do with the eyes of the lizard Wraith. His skin was pale but smooth, with no trace of the fish and insect skin of the wraith. If he had to describe himself, he would be a tall, blond man, 6'2", inverted triangle face, white eyes, pale skin, and statuesque body, wearing a casual suit of slacks and flannel, with sneakers. If I had to guess why he was mistaken for a wraith, I'd say it was a sixth sense alter.
-My name is Xion, I come from Earth, the planet you know as Terra, in the Milky Way galaxy, and I am the captain of the Titan, the bio-ship you are in now," said Xion pointing to the front, where a hologram of the Titan formed, indicating its scale. I am not a Wraith, but this body was created using genetic information from the Wraith, Alterans and humans, which is my original species," Xion explained with a sigh. But we're not here to talk about me, we're here to talk about you.
"It has been ten thousand years since the wraith war, lanteans ended. You lost. But there are some survivors left, and I am rescuing them. Right now, this ship has set course for one of your ships, which is stranded on its way to the Milky Way, and my goal is to catch up with them and return them to the city of Atlantis with you. For that, I sent some of my biospheres, and now I am preparing to make contact, so that you can stop and wait for us, or use the resources in the biospheres to repair your ship's hyperdrive and shorten our journey to meet you," Xion explained.
An older man, in his forties or fifties, stepped forward next to the little more than a hundred people. Xion noticed the beautiful blonde beside him. She was a beautiful woman, who in the original story had suffered the tragic fate of being sucked to death by a wraith.
-I am Captain Pylos of the Aurora. Thank you for rescuing us, but if ten thousand years have passed, how is it possible that our appearances have not changed? -asked the man.
-I have rejuvenated your bodies to the state they were in when you underwent the suspended animation," Xion explained. Now pay attention. I will let the Lanteans on the ship see that we are there," Xion said and sent the order for five spheres to deactivate their cloak and attempt to contact the ancient ship. The attempt did not work, but a minute later, the ship began to stop and that made communication possible.
A hologram of a blonde woman apparently in her fifties was projected between Xion and the crew of the Aurora.
-I am Captain Helia of the warship Lantean Grilas. Please identify yourself," the woman asked. In the original story, she had a bad temper, but here she seemed humble. Xion projected an image of his bridge and bio-ship.
-I am Xion, captain of the Titan. Those spheres are drones, and this is a rescue mission for you and your crew. With me are some of your fellow Lanteans that I rescued on a previous mission," Xion explained, pointing to Captain Pylos and his crew.
-Captain Pylos, how is this possible? It must have been more than ten thousand years for you," Helia said with a frown. Pylos frowned as well.
-I am just as confused. Me and my crew just woke up," Pylos explained. Captain Xion has told us that he found us in suspended animation and altered our state to rejuvenate our bodies," he added. Helia frowned.
-That's… well," she said at last without much enthusiasm, "What species do you belong to, Captain Xion? His appearance is something we haven't seen before," Helia asked.
-I was originally a human from Earth, but I lost my original body, and after a cosmic incident, I ended up in the body of another man, and as this was not appropriate for me, I created this body for myself, which is mainly Wraith, with a bit of you and my original species, humans," Xion explained.
-Wraith! -said Helia in alarm. Xion nodded.
-They have interesting technology and are very good at creating bodies. They keep sucking the life out of everyone they meet," Xion said with a sigh. Still, their technology is useful, and since I needed it to save some good friends of both of them, I captured one of their hives and studied it. I now have your queen and her crew in suspended animation, in one of the Titan's cargo holds. I hope that after I sign a peace treaty with them, I can release them," Xion explained.
-Are there any wraith on this ship? -Captain Pylos asked in an alarmed tone. Xion nodded.
-Where do you think I got this body? -Xion asked.
-Are you planning to sign a peace treaty with the wraith? That's impossible, we tried that before and failed," said Captain Helia.
-Actually, you are fools. Back then, the wraith were already losing the war, but thanks to the potentia you gave them, they created more clones and an army of bio-ships to attack Atlantis," said Xion, and the Lanteans looked surprised. Anyway, you can't expect much from the tree-hugging species. After this rescue, I will return them to Atlantis. I've left ten potentia there, and four Aurora battleships. I have stocked the holds with probes and left materials so they can build what they need.
"After that, I will offer a new food source to the wraith. Right now, they are weakened and will not be able to recover soon, as they have no potentia or other sources of energy to start a war.
"They are also reduced in numbers, at most about two hundred hives. If they do not accept peace and stop feeding on other intelligent species, I will put them to sleep with the other wraith in the cargo hold. Now that no one will help them resist, I think there is a great opportunity to sign a peace treaty," Xion explained.
-Two hundred hives? -Pylos asked, somewhat dazed. Xion nodded.
-Don't worry, wraith technology has a multitude of weaknesses. If exploited in the right way, two hundred of your ships are nothing. You lost because you were tree-huggers. Humans are better at this war thing… Well, maybe we just didn't have a choice. It can't be said that humanity has had an easy road, or will have an easy road in the future," Xion reflected.
-Excuse me, I'm Guebra, first officer of the Aurora. What do you mean by a tree-hugging species? -Guebra asked. Xion looked her up and down.
-Pacifists who curl up and cry when things go wrong, when someone just as strong or more advanced confronts them. They also tend to run away," he said, looking meaningfully at Captain Helia. The Lanteans looked annoyed and somewhat uncomfortable, but none of them dared to insult him.
-Does that mean that humans choose war to resolve their conflicts? -Pylos asked disapprovingly. Xion shook his head and then nodded.
-Yes and no. Humans are not a homogeneous group. Each individual does as he pleases, as long as he can and there is no one to prevent him. Generally, the most numerous human civilizations establish an order and have a moral code.
"Deciding to wage war or to seek peace depends on what that civilization or people consider right or wrong. However, this is not absolute, as we also have a survival instinct. If we believe something is wrong, but it is the only option for survival, it is likely to be carried out anyway. However, this is not a general rule, as there are also many peaceful people on our side, and even whole peoples who embrace peace, such as your own, the tree-huggers.
"Among the most advanced are the Tollan. They are as rigid and lacking in personality as you are, with an almost psychotic tendency to uphold their laws and enforce them. But there are also other peoples without any technology who can embrace peace. I once visited a planet where a Goa'uld was experimenting on humans to obtain better hosts. The goa'uld had used nanites to shorten their life span to a hundred days. The poor people didn't know it and lived very happily, singing and dancing all day," said Xion shaking his head.
-Who are those Goa'uld and why did they do such a thing? -Captain Helia asked.
-The Goa'uld are a symbiote species. Surely you should know them by now. They left their world and found the technology they left behind in our galaxy. Then they came to Earth and encountered our primitive ancestors, enslaving them and taking them to thousands of other worlds as slaves, servants and warriors. They also used us as hosts, apparently they liked us, because they abandoned all the species they parasitized and focused exclusively on us. They formed an entire empire in the Milky Way and exterminated any advanced civilization they found.
"Fortunately for humans, the Goa'uld exhausted the resources and technology you left on Earth, and were only interested in continuing to obtain slaves. However, there was a rebellion and the gate was buried five thousand years ago.
"Since the humans on Earth were primitive, the Goa'uld in charge was lazy to bombard a planet with no resources, and eventually forgot about humanity. But now, humanity has left Earth, stolen Goa'uld technology and will start a war that will destroy them in the near future throughout the galaxy," Xion explained. The Lanteans blinked from time to time during his explanation, but otherwise remained motionless.
-How do you know all these things? -Pylos asked seriously.
-Magic," Xion said with a smile, then looked at Captain Helia. The spheres contain materials and tools with which you can repair your ship. Allow me to board or wait until we get there, in one day….
-Are you an Ascended? -asked the Alteran woman he rescued from Earth. She established a telepathic communication. Xion grimaced and looked at her. She seemed somewhat excited. Her abilities meant that she could ascend, but it wasn't certain either. Xion remembered Oma Desala. If this woman wanted to ascend, he could guide her on the right path.
-If I were an ascended one, I wouldn't be able to talk to you. I'm just someone who wants to fix a few things and then return to a life of peace. If you want to ascend, I can take you to a place where they will help you do that," Xion replied, also using telepathy. The others became aware of their secret conversation and noticed the woman's excitement after her, but they did not possess that ability and could not know what they said.
-Thank you! Please guide me," the woman said sincerely and bowed. This time she used her voice as she realized it was impolite to speak in secret in front of the others. Xion cleared his throat.
-Captain Helia, as I was telling you?
-Who are you? -Captain Pylos asked the Alteran woman, interrupting their conversation.
-I am Sira. I lived on Earth before my people left. I was left behind because I carried the plague. He rescued me and healed my body, bringing me here to you," the Alteran woman explained.
-Have you rescued more people like us? -Captain Pylos asked excitedly.
-You are the only ones I know of…" Xion frowned. There was still Merlin. But Merlin was an ascended one, he didn't think he wanted to go back with this group. Besides, he didn't think like them and was suspected of spreading his genes everywhere on Earth.
-I know one more, but I don't think he wants to come back to you. He doesn't share your politics and is likely to want to move up after you rescue him," Xion explained. Or maybe not, Xion thought after speaking. Merlin had spent years fighting with the Ascended, it was possible he wanted to return to Earth.
-Was he also an Ascended? -Sira asked excitedly. Everyone looked at him and Xion looked at Sira menacingly, which made her cringe in embarrassment.
Xion sighed. He was already considered an ascended one in the Milky Way galaxy anyway. It was also useful for talking and not having to explain himself about anything, since everything he knew was because he was an ascended. Xion shrugged his shoulders.
-Well, never mind. Let's get on with the rescue plan. Captain Helia, will you wait for us or repair your ship and come out to meet us? Mind you, I have few virtues, and patience is not one of them," Xion confessed. Captain Helia smiled.
-We will use the resources in the spheres," said the captain. Xion nodded and made the necessary arrangements. Then he gave the Lanteans permission to stretch their legs around the place or go see the wraith in the suspended animation hold.
There wasn't much to do on his ship at the moment. He planned to make himself a game room, but that would be when he got back to Earth.
-Can we meditate? -Sira asked. She seemed eager to ascend.
-What is it like to ascend? -asked a Lantean who was already on his way out, but when he saw talk of meditating, he seemed excited… For some reason incomprehensible to Xion.
-It's like being dead," Xion said sincerely. You can't do anything fun, and there are too many rules…" Xion looked the bald man up and down. He had forgotten who he was talking to. Forget what I said before, surely it's paradise for you," Xion shook his head and rose from his throne to approach Sira and motion for her to sit on the floor, while he sat on his knees. He had been meditating a lot due to loneliness and boredom. He really regretted leaving his game console at the SGC and thought several times about going for it.
The bald man approached them and asked permission to sit down. Xion nodded and asked to shake hands.
…
After meditating, Xion went to sleep due to boredom and decided that once he got the Lanteans back to Atlantis, he would call Earth to have his games sent to him.