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SG1 guys and girls, Mrs. J.K., Writing is fun, critiquing other writers is fun too. Being critiqued is bloody annoying… I blame my age for it. Old Guy is a grumpy bastard after all.

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With a big grin, Tracey beamed to the Control Chair. A minute later her voice came through the speakers, "All systems that matter are green, releasing docking clamps in ten seconds."

12 Going Home… Flying Home.

Ten seconds later we felt… nothing at all, the inertial dampers made it a smooth ride up. Tracey's voice told us, "We reach the surface in an hour, I keep it at 3 ft a second, what is the weather up there? I am limited in my range now, I can barely see beyond my shield."

I shook my head, "Stop merging with the sensors for that, Tracey, access the terminals of the Control Center to get your Data. It is slower but won't fry your brain."

"Ow… I knew that, I just didn't remember it," came her embarrassed voice, "Ah, it is evening up there, the weather is nice."

After calculating my options, I made my mind up, "Lavender, while you stay here and beam raw materials in from the continent, I'll go out with a shuttle and visit those three Auroras, I'll take some volunteers with me and see if we can salvage them, we will turn the beacon off and wait for you to collect them. I need three pilots that have experience flying our Auroras."

Lavender answered, "Padma will contact us in two hours, she will send some pilots through, I will ask for a load of drone weapons too."

Mireille spoke up, "We located Astra Portas close to where those Auroras are located, one is on the same planet as one. You can go through now, there is some Naquadah and Trinium in that solar system, with Maintenance bots, Repair droids, and Constructor droids, I think you can get that ship back into space."

Tracey's voice added, "Take some ZPMs with you. It is easy for a Construction Droid to create an extra socket and you can power the ship with a ZPM. Harry can charge the depleted ZPM later, that way those Auroras have two ZPMs."

Xxxxx

Padma called in, "Hello, Atlantis, wait a bit, we syncronyze our holo-emitters so we can talk face to face… ah, that is better. When can we expect you home, Harry?"

"We need at least a week here, Padma," I answered, "we located three Lantean Aurora Class battleships. We plan to salvage them and bring them home with us. Can you send some pilots with high brain power over, two or three should do it."

Lavender added, "And a load of drone weapons too, Padma, we are almost out of them here and the secondary weapons need repair, we are nearly defenseless. Raw materials too if you can spare them."

Padma smiled, "We are prepared to send raw materials through, the engineering department made floats that can pass through the Porta, we are sending them through now, tell us when you run out of space. I'll arrange the pilots."

Float after float came through the Astra Porta and filled the cargo bay, we used our mental control to steer them to their place. A genius designed those floats! With an expansion charm, they carry almost ten times their normal load. Soon the cargo bay was filled with floats, and we made them stop delivering.

Astoria came through the Astra Porta with her shuttle and three Veela, she hugged me, "I missed you, Hubby, as you commanded, all of us are between 38% and 40% brain power."

Padma commented, "by this time tomorrow we have another shipment ready if you return the empty floats, they are hard to spell I am told."

Lavender answered, "We are sending them back the moment they are empty, Pad. These floats are marvelous. Thank the guys that made them."

When the connection was cut, Astoria grabbed my arm, "Show me around first Harry, a hologram can only tell you the basics. I want to feel the Magic of the real thing."

Lavender chuckled, "Yes, show Astoria the magic of the High Counselor's chambers, Harry. The view from there is phenomenal."

One of the Veela pilots asked, "Can we see it too?"

Louise sheered, "Go for it sisters! The view is great too!"

Two hours later, Astoria panted, "Now, let us see that view, Harry."

Xxxxx

We left after lunch, first we sent a spy drone through to explore the surroundings, then our two shuttles, one loaded with Naquadah and Trinium, the other with ZPMs, Constructor droids, Repair droids, and maintenance bots, and passed through the Astra Porta to the planet with the Aurora, we cloaked, took to the sky and hovered above the outpost.

Adele, when you spent two hours fucking her, you can say we are on first name base, reported, "I detected the ship in the old outpost we abandoned. It is occupied with humans. My first analysis tells me that the Sublight engines are damaged, the Hyperdrive needs attention too, the whole ship needs a tune-up and a ZPM. This is one of the last models of Aurora Battleships, Harry."

"We take this one, Harry," said Astoria from the other shuttle, "there are enough minerals in reach to use for the repairs. We take a ZPM to power the ship, a Transporter beam, and half of the droids. Louise and I are enough to repair the ship sufficiently to reach Atlantis. We can repair the outpost too, but this volcano is about to erupt."

I offered a solution, "You can warn the people when you leave, give them the dialing address from Lantea, they can settle there. Maybe create a shaft to the magma chamber with your transport beam to release the pressure, that way the people can see the danger."

A few beams later we took off to the next Aurora, we used the Astra Porta to go to the nearest position of the ship. After a few hours of flight, I groaned when I saw the damage of the Aurora. The second ship was drifting in space, the front was completely destroyed, Atlantis had to come and get it. It was an impressive ship, even with this kind of damage.

Adele reported, "The crew is in stasis, Harry, a lot of them, but after ten thousand years in stasis, I doubt their bodies can survive long if we wake them up."

I mentally connected with the Ship's Main computer sent my authorization code, and commanded to turn the beacon off. I sighed, that is all we could do for now.

"We make clones for them and transfer their consciousness to their new bodies," I told my crew, "we leave them here with a spy drone to keep watch. Let's go to the third one."

Xxxxx

This one was in orbit of a brown Dwarf with two ships flanking it, the travelers if I recall their names. We arrived fully cloaked, Adele said, "There is a lot of radiation, those people have shields erected around it, but it is not enough to solve anything. How do we proceed?"

"Copy their computer, and make a translation program for their language," I decided, "then we make contact. Nicole, start by getting rid of the radiation, and repair the Sublight engines."

A bit later we made contact, "Vessels that are boarding our Battleship, respond please."

A male answered, "We claimed this ship, stranger. It was drifting here for centuries, we are preparing it to be operational again. Leave or face us in battle."

"Ehm, let me ask, can you detect us? How are you going to fight us when you can't get a lock on our position?" I asked friendly, "Let me first demonstrate what you are up against."

With a thought, I switched the crew of the bridge of one ship with the crew of the other, "Please get your crew from our ship, keep in mind, we could just have transported you outside your ships. As a token of friendship, we do some maintenance on your ships if you are willing."

One of them threatened, "We can blow that ship up. If we can't have it, nobody can."

"You could try, but before you detonate that explosive make sure that it is not in front of you," I commented while I beamed their explosives at their feet, "My goodwill is slowly fading though, we understand that this is a big loss for you, but you would never be able to operate our ship, it will only function for our people. Do we repair your ships or do we have to destroy them? Choose now."

"You can repair our ships, stranger, we realize we are at your mercy and will get our people from the ship." came the unwilling answer.

Each ship got a repair droid that started to work on the engines, fixing the worst mistakes, those are flying death traps. It used our raw material at a frightening rate. Nicole called, "Harry, I scanned the surroundings, there are some asteroids that have minerals we can use, I will collect some."

Xxxxx

It took two days to patch the battleship and the two Traveler ships up, in the meantime I programmed a construction droid and gave it an extra power cell, I added a cloaking device and some thrusters to move around. I cleared all our data and loaded the blueprint of a Travelers ship. Just to see if I could do it.

I contacted the leader, "To give you some compensation, we will leave a Construction unit on a place to build some ships for you, each time a ship is finished, it will automatically travel to this position. It will build ships until it is out of raw materials or energy, then self-destruct. Any attempts to take possession of that droid will go boom."

If I calculate it right, it will give them three or four ships like the one I scanned. That should be enough compensation. Nicole and Adele started the Aurora up and set course to the damaged Aurora to wait for Atlantis. I traveled to a nearby asteroid field and activated the Construction droid. Then I followed the girls, the third pilot, Simone put her shuttle in formation mode and beamed to my shuttle.

An hour later, she sat next to me, "Thank you, Harry, thank you for saving me and my sisters. You gave us a future without fear."

I smiled, "You thanked me plenty, Simone, helping the Veela community was the right thing to do. Besides, Fleur is dear to me, I could not stand aside and watch when I could help the woman I care for."

Xxxxx

Atlantis arrived, Tracey, aided by Nicole and Astoria, used their tractor beams to dock the damaged battleship. Then they secured their ships on Atlantis too. Simone and I entered the shuttle bay and moved to the Control Tower after parking our rides.

Lavender looked at the three huge ships, "I'm glad we took time to collect them, all we have to do now is to travel to that asteroid belt and do the rest of our repairs."

Antony reported, "It will take four days for Atlantis with the current number of droids, Astoria's ship needs a day, Nicole's needs an upgrade, three days, and to rebuild this one it will take a week."

I shook my head, "We fill our cargo bays with raw materials, and only repair Atlantis, then we head home. We repair the battleships when we are home. I bet Hermione's department has some ideas with Runes and extension charms."

When everything was set in motion, we gathered in the meeting room, Mireille started with her report, "The Wraith are hibernating, so far we detected a hundred twenty Hives. We don't know how long they will hibernate, but it is best to let them sleep. There will be a guard or guards looking for signs of trouble no doubt."

Tracey commented, "This City is not suitable for us, to operate it requires high brain power, over 70%. Everything has to be done manually or with a splitting headache. At best we can copy the archives and search the science labs for hidden treasures. We can use it as a template to build one of our own or use a model from our archives."

Lavender agreed, "You are right, Tracey, let's not forget we have muggles with 5% to 15% Brainpower among us, living here will get them an aneurysm or make them feel like second-class citizens."

"They are the most enthusiastic in using their mental commands," commented Simone, "them and the squibs having fun using their minds to control our new technology. Especially the squibs, they thought never to be able to use Magic, now with their bracelet some of them can even cast simple spells."

This is where reality diverted a bit from Canon, McKay and Shepard could fly it with no problem, if they try it with this Atlantis, they would fry their brains. I bet the Ascended who is pretending to be an AI made some alterations to the Control Chairs to let them work for them. That or the criptwriters warped Logic and made it so. Think about it, a Human without proper education is flying a Huge spaceship, just because he has a bit of DNA... Well, put a Chimpansee in a race car and see if he can reach the finish line. After all, we share more than 90% of DNA with them.

Astoria nodded, "Hannah started the second City, the Immigrants are streaming in, a lot are the families of muggleborn and squibs, especially now the word got out we can improve their babies."

I explained about the Travelers, and what I had done for them, "Finally to compensate for their loss I programmed a Constructor droid with the blueprint of one of their ships and put it in an asteroid belt, it will build three to four ships before it runs out of energy, then it will self destruct."

"We will return here eventually, to clean our mess up," at their puzzled faces I explained, "We can not let the Wraith be, we are the ones that created them, they have Lantean DNA, somehow some mad scientist created them, and let them get out of control. We will return when we are stronger."

Lavender nodded, "Just like the Goa'uld used our technology to get in power. We will face one problem at a time."

Xxxxx

Atlantis was as good as new when we took off, Tracey and I took turns flying it home, I expected to meet the last Aurora battleship on my list halfway on the road, I got them on my long-range scanners and alerted everyone.

I called through the com, "I have a Lantean battleship on my long-range scanners traveling just under light speed, prepare to have visitors, I think their Hyperdrive is damaged or are out of power."

"I'll contact them," said Lavender, "they will be glad to see a friendly face."

I chuckled, "Or mad that a bunch of strangers nicked their City. Their ID said it was the Tria, presumed to be damaged in battle and ordered to travel to the Avalong Galaxy, the current Milky Way, the captain's name is Helia."

Lavender's hard light hologram appeared on the bridge of the Tria, "Battleship Tria, this is councilor Lavender Potter on the City ship Atlantis, if you need our assistance come to a full stop."

Helia's hologram appeared in the Control room and looked around, "Are you not a bit young to be a counselor, young girl?"

Lavender nodded, "I am just old enough to give you aid, if you think I am too young, then we leave you for someone more mature to find you. Now, do you want our assistance or do you want to travel on your own?"

That sucked, Captain Helia's face froze up, grinding her teeth, she answered, "We need assistance, Atlantis."

Lavender snubbed her, "The name is Counselor Lavender Potter, Captain Helia. A lot has changed in ten thousand years, it is best you adjust your attitude."

That is my girl! Dealing with snotty Wizards paid off, Helia made her ship come to a full stop, Atlantis came alongside the Tria, I aided with the tractor beams to dock their ship, secured it, and took off again. I kept an eye on Captain Helia, just like in the TV show, after securing her ship she went straight to the override panel, a few unsuccessful tries later she demanded the control of the City to be handed over.

Everyone was looking amused at the Captain, finally Lavender chuckled, "Come on, Captain, do you think you have the right to own Atlantis? Just because you happened to live there ten thousand years ago? We got Atlantis just on time from the bottom of the ocean, we repaired it to its former glory and you expect us to hand it over to a captain with a bad attitude?"

Astoria added, "It is not ours to give away, our husband owns Atlantis now. Wait until he secured the Tria, and got us back on the way. Start with giving a damage report."

Her second in command suggested, "Captain, maybe we should take stock of the situation before we make demands, we were as they said ten thousand years on the way to Avalon."

Tracey beamed next to me, "I'll take over, Harry, talk to that Captain before she throws a tantrum."

I beamed next to Lavender and faced Captain Helia, "Good day to you and your crew, Captain Helia, and welcome back to Atlantis. My name is High Councilor Harry Potter. Give us a detailed damage report, we will start scheduling to repair your ship. Do you have any questions?"

Helia fumed, "I demand the control over Atlantis right now! You can hardly be called Anquietas, I am surprised you can even get it to fly through space."

I sighed, "You know, we could use your experience of the Anquietas' ways of life, to guide our people, but not with this snotty attitude. I claimed Atlantis when it was on the verge to be destroyed by the Ocean, I reclaimed three lost Battleships, one with a crew in stasis, and you have the choice, join us under our command or we repair your ship and you can fuck off with it."

Helia protested, "I have the experience and knowledge, whatever can you do better than me? Boy?"

I shrugged, "A lot of things, I got the full repository of Moros, my ancestor. And experience? You lost a war against insects, the ones you created yourself. You have nothing to brag about, Captain. We are not full Anquietas or Lanteans, as we call ourselves, our Ancestors were, but we evolved too, we are fighters, survivors, and if you can get out of this, I might listen to you."

With a wave from my hand, I turned her into a sheep, "We learned to use the Potentia energy in many ways, Captain Helia. Perhaps a few hours like this will cool your temper. Sir? You are the second in command? Are you willing to listen before making demands?"

A bit weary he answered, "I am First Officer Cronos, High Counselor Potter, I am willing to listen."

I nodded, "Well, it started all when High Counselor Moros and his people sunk Atlantis to the bottom of the ocean and left for Terra in the Avalon Galaxy…"

We told them the story of our History, and how I came into possession of Moros' repository, and how we are starting from scratch. How we got Atlantis and the three battleships and ended with a snotty Captain with a chip on her shoulders.

I turned Helia back and said, "I present you our offer again, join us or we repair your ship and you can go your own way. We could use you, but we need teachers, not babysitters. At this moment we have the crew of the Aurora in stasis who need new bodies, their current bodies can not survive a day. So if you have a medic with experience in cloning, that would be great, or else we have to do this ourselves."

Xxxxx

We arrived at Rigil, we hovered a mile outside in full view to let everyone have a good look. On the viewing screens at home and street corners, a report of our expedition was shown with video footage, we cut the R18 scenes though, we saved those to be analyzed in private.

Dan and Jane Granger took their best medical teams along to Atlantis to aid Tria's crew in creating clones for the almost five hundred crew of the Aurora. A process that takes time to let the brain have optimal growth. Helia and her senior officers went into stasis to enter the Virtual world the Aurora crew has been living in to prepare them for a new body.

Tracey landed Atlantis in the Ocean close to Rigil City and took the Traveler Aurora to Mining One, Astoria took her Hyppotamus?… stupid name, her Orion to Mining Two for an upgrade. By now we have new ZPMs, and both got a new shiny one, that made them hum with contentment.

The Tria and Aurora battleships had their major flaws fixed, to get ready for their turn to be upgraded, while I sifted through Atlantis's secrets and made sections off-limits. Janus's time ship got a special place… very off-limits.

Hermione and her department are researching how to integrate old technology with the Magic branches, Runes, Warding, Charms, Enchanting to name the most important, and had improvements for the spaceships ready for my approval. I know, control freak passing through, but if I don't keep them in line they would soon go crazy Wizard on us.

The improvements were great though, extension charms in the crew quarters made them luxurious suites, the outside Wards put extra protection on the hull, lightweight made maneuvering easy on the planet, when the idiots wanted to install a Floo that was where I drew the line.

Our fleet is getting impressive, twenty Destinies and six Alteran Auroras, with the four Lantean Auroras we are almost strong enough to kick Goa'uld ass, we are monitoring all planets with active Astra Porta activity and mapping the Goa'uld power structure.

Our third shipyard finished Luna's Space fortress/science station and we are in the process of bringing it to Rigil, Luna is the proud pilot who is taking her baby out to play. The shipyard started a new one to be stationed in orbit of Earth.

SG1 you ask? They are still negotiating with the other Nations to share their Star Gate program, now that they know who is out there, the nations are more cautious to venture out and start new conflicts. That doesn't stop them from stirring up trouble in the neighborhood though I have to deal with them soon.

Parvati, Lavender, and Astoria are reclaiming old Alteran technology, often beaming it away from the Goa'uld. When they see the chance, they erase the computers from the shipyards, sometimes uploading a flaw in the design to let the Hyperdrive fail. They found another Gate jumper with a time device, Janus is leaving all his junk in the most inconvenient places.

Rigil got a new celebrity, the Ice Lady from the South Pole got defrosted and cured by Parvati and Daphne. They made a complete documentary of it and broadcast it live on the view screens in Rigil, Daphne got a boost in popularity too, she is high on the babe scale and single, offers from a date to a marriage were streaming in. Yep, Sis-in-law can have the first pick of the litter so to speak…

Xxxxx

The Council did good work, they made every change from the way of life on Earth to the new way of life on Rigil go smoothly. In the weeks we spent recovering Atlantis they made a lot of improvements in managing the Immigrants and the City.

We changed our currency from Galleons to Credits, we made it easier to calculate too, we kept it at prime numbers, but now it is eleven Silvers for a Credit and eleven Bronzes for a Silver. I was outvoted to call the Silver coins Cre, and the Bronze coins Dit, when they sent a report to Lavender.

We kept the exchange rate from one Galleon to one Credit. We extended our mining operation for Gold to cater to everyone. The Council decided to give every Immigrant a starting capital of two years' pay, to jump-start the economy of our new city.

Slowly, farms and greenhouses appeared around the City, Neville and his Herbalists introduced new vegetables and fruits for cultivation. Those became popular fast, new tastes and new recipes will soon replace everything from Earth. We strictly regulated the vegetables and animals that are allowed to move to Rigil, Neville and his department often provided good alternatives from Rigil to replace them.

The Potions and potion ingredients industry will take a hit, our medical science is superior, so nobody is willing to drink those foul-tasting potions, especially when our bracelets remove them from our bodies. Meh, they can change to farming and cooking, that is not a big difference. To keep the knowledge for prosperity, several greenhouses on Pandora are dedicated to cultivating those herbs.

Luna introduced new farm animals to replace the ones from Earth, shamelessly promoting her Snorkacks. Rigil has its own Honey bee, the Snorkack replaces the sheep and goat, it is something between, every animal from earth has an alter ego on Rigil. We realize it will take decades to form a working society without interference from us.

The Council made strict hunting regulations to preserve the local wildlife. Wards and force fields around the City protect the people from predators and harmful insects. We made our people aware that imported animals or insects could ruin our ecosystem, with several examples from Earth, cats and rats in Australia for instance.

Waste disposal and pollution from Earth were documented and solutions to prevent it from happening on Rigil. It was discussed with the people, the knowledge we downloaded made it easier to understand, soon they were researching solutions to solve them on Earth.

Speaking of Earth, memory globes started to circulate in the Magic communities, if you have the DNA and hold the globe for ten minutes, the Lantean language will be imprinted in your brain. Place it on a table and tap it with a wand and it shows holograms of the City and wildlife on Rigil. It was Padma's and Susan's idea to promote our world. It worked like a charm, people were trampling to Immigrate.

Xxxxx

It was time to visit the Asgard, when Parvati told me she found a faulty android.