Gen. Caldwell had come by Puddle Jumper back to Earth to meet with Gen. Landry and Gen. O'Neill. They were meeting in General O'Neill's office.
"General O'Neill thank you on the promotion, that was quite a surprise," said Caldwell.
"First off it's Jack when it's just the three of us. Second, you earned it," said O'Neill.
Landry replied, "Congratulations again, you have earned it."
"Let's get to business since Stephen needs to get back to his ship," replied O'Neill.
"So tell us this master plan you have Jack," said Landry.
"Once we evacuate everyone from Pegasus. There are locations in both Pegasus and here in the Milky Way, we know there is advanced tech. For instance, Tollana homeworld of the Tollans, who had very advanced tech, they even built a stargate, then we have M7G-677, which we know has a Z.P.M. even though its nearly depleted, and has an EMF shield." explained O'Neill, "We're going to be sending science teams to collect and bring back whatever they can find. Not to mention the city-ship on P something another."
Gen. Caldwell, "That could make for some interesting work. So we need to plan our evacuations with teams to move and pull any tech we find?"
Landry nodding, "We can make that work, with a bit of planning we can get teams on the ground there, either on foot or puddle jumper. We may need support to protect them from the wraith."
"Hank and I will have to work together to coordinate the evacuations, particularly if Daedalus or Apollo will need to assist v's keeping the wraith occupied." replied Caldwell, "Something I've been thinking about, what if they don't want to evacuate?"
"Teyla, hopefully, she can reason with them." replied Jack, "Stephen, the Daedalus, and Apollo primary role is to keep the wraith occupied and away from planets to cull. Landry will be sending teams through to do the evacuations. Once the evacuations are complete we will then do a final sweep looking for technology and then gorilla tactics hit and runs on the wraith. You and the Apollo take out as many as you can."
"I have 10 puddle jumper teams ready with the procedure to evacuate worlds. Dialing the bridge in secret, only what they can carry, and no weapons. Major Marks is ready at Midway." replied Landry.
"How long do Ellis and I have in Pegasus galaxy to harass the wraith before we must return?" asked Caldwell.
"Till you get low on armaments. I don't want to push weapons through the gate past Midway. Return here and we will send teams back to monitor the wraith as we are able." replied Jack.
"So what's the plan after the evacuations? Search and recover on tech?" asked Landry.
"Yes and no. We'll monitor the wraith, Daedalus or Apollo will make the occasional trip back there to scout out what is occurring. With the new sensors that should be considerably easier. But we will continue to investigate here in the Milky Way, but Ida, Othalla, and the Ori galaxies will be investigated next." replied O'Neill.
"Jack we're expanding beyond the two galaxies?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes, when we find a suitable power source, we'll be using the Stargate to access those galaxies.", replied O'Neill, "Until then you'll get some pretty decent frequent flyer miles."
"We know the Ori and Ida galaxies have stargates, but Othalla, we don't know," replied Landry.
"Campers follow me I have something to show you." grinned O'Neill. He led them down to the V.R. Room.
"Morning General's!" greeted Daniel.
"Daniel are we ready?" asked Jack.
"If you look here you will see that it is showing the Earth. Let me zoom out, that is our Solar System. Now out further, and you see the Milky Way. See these glowing green dots? Those are planets in our galaxy that have stargates. We can zoom in and get details on each of those systems. Let's zoom out and we see the gates that make up the bridge, and also there is Midway Station." informed Daniel.
"Zoom out further and we see Pegasus and all the stargates there." Daniel grinning, "Now let's zoom out a bit further." Ten different galaxies came into view, and tiny green dots could be seen over them all.
"Wait that is 10 different galaxies and you are telling me they all have stargates?" asked Landry.
"Yup Hank, that one there is Ida, and Othalla. Daniel zoom in on one of those please," instructed O'Neill.
Daniel picked a planet in the Othalla galaxy and it came up to be a moon with a stargate around a gas giant. There on the display was a 7 symbol address, and below it was an 8 symbol address. Then below that was a list of resources Trinium.
"Wait you're saying we can dial any of those gates right from here?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes it appears with the Atlantis systems we can dial any stargate in the system, while from those galaxies, there is only one stargate that can dial back here to Earth. But show and tell isn't over yet. Daniel!" informed O'Neill.
"Well here are the 10 galaxies closest to us. Let me zoom out to 1 billion light-years," replied Daniel. Hundreds of galaxies came into view, also showing green dots. Gen. Caldwell and Gen. Landry sat in stunned silence.
"Do I need to call medical in here?" joked O'Neill.
"That is millions of stargates, how is that even possible? The ancients couldn't have traveled to all of those places." an exasperated Landry.
Daniel smirking, "They didn't. They built what they called seeder ships, these ships were fully automated, they had certain criteria to search for on planets, and if it was met then it would plant a stargate on that planet or moon as the case might be. They built hundreds maybe even thousands of these ships. These ships also could build stargates, they had an automated system for gathering resources to build the stargates. these would be placed and added to the network. Apparently subspace messages were sent back and Atlantis updates this information regularly."
"How vast is this network?" asked Caldwell.
Daniel zoomed out to a full 5 billion light years. Galaxies were nothing more than green dots showing they had stargates, on the outer edge there were vast empty areas. "Those areas you see that appear empty contain galaxies without stargates. It appears we don't have readings of those galaxies until a seeder ship enters the galaxy and starts to place stargates."
"Jack, what is your idea?" asked Landry.
"Ori supergates. If we can get a power source that will allow us to connect to these other galaxies as necessary, we select galaxies of interest and build supergates, so we can move ships between galaxies, reducing travel time." replied O'Neill, "Obviously we won't put one in the Pegasus, but Ida and Othalla would be my first suggestion. We already have one in the Ori galaxy."
"You think big don't you." a shocked Landry said.
"Big isn't big enough to describe this plan," replied Caldwell.
"As of now only the four of us in this room know about this. I'd like to keep it this way. Woolsey and I are working with the I.O.A. about funding a supergate in Ida and Othalla. How vast this network is something I want to keep under wraps for now." replied O'Neill, "I have brought in Dr. Jeannie Miller solely to work on energy production to find a way to build Z.P.M. or another power source on that magnitude or higher."
"Arcturus?" asked Caldwell.
"No, which is why Jeannie and not McKay is on this. She does not have the rashness of her brother. We are not going to make that mistake again." replied O'Neill.
"Also we don't want to make the mistake of the Ori, or Wraith again. We know the Nox originated here in the Milky Way, the Asgard in Othalla, the Ancients in the Ori galaxy, and we don't know who could be in these others. I would guess the Furlings are in one of these galaxies. We must be careful and take our time no rushing this time." spoke Daniel.
"Daniel tell them about Destiny," ordered O'Neill.
"The ancients detected a signal in the background radiation of the universe, something that wasn't natural. They built a ship called Destiny to trace this signal. It receives the same information we get from the seeder ships. It's fully automated as well, except it has a stargate on it that can be accessed, using the nine symbols." informed Daniel.
"Wait a signal? Did the ancients think it was some sort of a higher power or something?" asked Caldwell.
"They didn't know, that is why they built Destiny, was to find out what it was," answered Daniel.
"Now let's evacuate a galaxy campers!" explained O'Neill.
"Yes sir, the Daedalus and Apollo start monitoring for wraith activity and keep them busy. Hank let me know when you need cover for your teams, we'll send you information on when we see a planet get targeted for a culling," replied Caldwell.
"I'll be sending teams out in the next hour, they are all prepared," replied Landry.
"So how does Sheppard feel about leading PJ-1?" asked O'Neill.
Landry laughed, "I think he is waiting for his chance to pay Mitchell back for that."
Gen. Caldwell headed back to his puddle jumper for the bridge to return to Pegasus and his ship. Gen. Landry went for the final meeting with his team leaders, before giving them a go for evacuation.