Col. Sheppard sat in the conference room with Gen. Landry, and Gen. Caldwell.
"Colonel please provide us an update on where we stand on finding the Travelers?" asked Gen. Landry.
"Sir, it's been busy over there. Col. Lorne, by the way, I can't think of a better man to replace you General on the Daedalus. Col. Lorne has been conducting sweeps around Pegasus looking for any signs of the Travelers, with no luck. Larrin and her group seem to have disappeared. Nobody seems to know anything about them. We're continuing to look for them. Do we have a plan on how to deal with them? The ships they have would never make it here to the Milky Way."
"Yes, we are looking at creating a shipyard on Corlan as part of the large city there. Do we have a name for this city?" replied Caldwell.
"Gen. O'Neill wants to call it Starfleet?" replied Landry.
"Seriously? Starfleet?" replied Caldwell.
"Could I suggest Vulcan?" replied Sheppard.
"No you may not!" replied Landry.
"So offer them a place they can build there own ships sir?" asked Sheppard.
Caldwell nodding, "Yes they would have a place they can build their own ships and if they wish they continue to build them for trade. In fact, I am authorized to negotiate the purchase of three ships from them meeting certain criteria. As part of that would be a Ha'Tak, and three Goa'uld cargo ships for them."
"A Ha'Tak sir?" asked Sheppard.
"The weapon systems on this one was destroyed. It has shields and hyperdrives working," replied Caldwell.
"Soon as we can make contact we'll discuss with them," replied Sheppard.
Later that day on P4J-392, Rodney was working with Dr. Lee in the Auxiliary Control Room.
A very frustrated Rodney, "This makes no sense, diagnostics are still showing as fully functional, but when we initialize the stardrive it is detecting an error and references the diagnostics. This makes no sense."
"I know Dr. McKay, I've been over the logs and when this ship crashed, the only thing in the logs was a reference to see the diagnostics. Every diagnostic is reporting good." replied Dr. Lee. The personal assigned to McKay and Lee had two weeks ago decided it was a better idea to stay at earshot and give both of them plenty of space.
"Let me write a diagnostic routine that checks each one of the functions separately," replied Rodney.
An exasperated Dr. Lee, "I've already done that! Twice!"
"Well you did it wrong," exclaimed Rodney. Twenty minutes later Rodney, slumps "It's reporting everything is functional."
"Told you!" exclaimed Dr. Lee.
Novak entered the control room, "Dr. McKay, Dr. Parks, and Dr. Brody have asked for me to install additional naquadah generators for testing the shields. Is that OK with you?"
"Who? Do I look like I care right now!" shouted Rodney.
"I'll take that as a yes," replied Novak.
"Sorry Novak, we're just a little testy here as nothing makes sense," replied Dr. Lee.
"I understand." replied Novak looking at the log that Dr. Lee was staring at, "Him so the ships logs report the diagnostics are failing to report on the stardrive. Diagnostics on the diagnostics, the ancients thought of everything." as she left the control room.
Dr. Lee looked over at McKay who was staring back, "It couldn't be that simple could it."
"No there is no way we overlooked something that simple," replied Rodney.
Dr. Lee punching on the ancient console, located the diagnostic routine for the diagnostic system. "It's reporting a failure in a conduit on one of the piers. It appears the diagnostic system can't get any information on the engine of the stardrive on that pier with this broken conduit."
"Just go and fix it," replied Rodney.
An hour later, the diagnostics for the diagnostic system was now reporting no errors.
"It seemed that conduit broke, which caused the stardrive to detect a failure in the diagnostics, that caused it to shut down. It was a safety feature built in by the ancients, but it shut down too close to the planet and couldn't escape the gravity. Their own safety measures to prevent a crash, caused the crash." explained Rodney.
"Now we have a fully functional stardrive thanks to Novak," replied Dr. Lee.
"Don't ever mention this to anyone," replied Rodney.
"Mention what? We found the conduit that the stardrive detected which prevented it from initializing," replied Dr. Lee.
Over the Radio Zalenka, "Rodney we have found the problem with the transporter. Diagnostics just started working, and it's reporting a broken conduit going to one of the piers. Apparently, it disabled the entire transporter system. We should have it working in about two hours."
"Great news Zalenka!" replied Rodney over the radio.
"Did anyone make a change to the diagnostics? Can't figure out why this all of a sudden showed up," asked Zalenka over the radio again.
"We just fixed the stardrive, we found a broken conduit out on the pier." answered Rodney over the radio, "Brody and Dr. Parks, how are the shield emitters?"
Brody over the radio, "Two are functional currently, as we told you each one is having to be re-aligned, and some repair work is necessary."
Two days later, back on Atlantis, Teyla and Sheppard are meeting with Gen. Landry.
Teyla explaining, "We have encountered the first group of humans who do not wish to evacuate General."
"Who are they Teyla?" asked Landry.
"Very small world, I do not know the planet's name. I believe they are wraith worshipers General," asked Landry.
"I spotted a man there that is a known collaborator with the wraith. We believe he had helped in Teyla's abduction a while back. Sir, if this is true, then the wraith know we are relocating people to our galaxy. Very likely they will step up their activity." replied Sheppard.
"Yes, that was a risk we knew we may encounter. I'll talk to Gen. Caldwell and see what we can do," replied Landry.
Later that day.
"Gen. Caldwell have a minute?" asked Landry from his door.
"How can I help you General," asked Caldwell.
"Word has gotten out, the wraith should know we are evacuating the people of Pegasus," replied Landry.
"We knew it had to happen at some point." replied Caldwell, "I'll reroute the Hammond to the Pegasus Galaxy, we'll send over a number of the Mark IX Hyperspace missiles to the Hammond at Midway. Will send the Mark IX Phase Missile over to test as well. We'll also replenish Daedalus and Apollo as well. The Hammond can guard P4J-392 while the Daedalus and Apollo go on the hunt." replied Caldwell.
Over the next two weeks while the Hammond was traveling to Pegasus. The Apollo and Daedalus were taking turns hunting the wraith. The satellite system around galaxy provided excellent information if the wraith were getting anywhere near the edges. In fact, they spotted a traveler ship once, but it was gone before they could reach the area, with nothing on scanners. One faction of wraith appeared to become very active with culling. Evacuation teams had encountered the wraith darts on a couple of planets. The Darts had been taken down with puddle jumpers. Homeworld Command was now sending three puddle jumpers on each evacuation to handle the darts. The Apollo had taken down another three hive ships, and countless cruisers, while Daedalus under her new command, had taken down another two hives and an untold number of cruisers. The wraith was not deploying hive ships in multiples as they had previously done.
Once the Hammond arrived to oversee security for P4J-392, Daedalus and Apollo began to target worlds where the wraith was known to have bases. The Daedalus arrived over one such planet.
"Sir sensors are detecting 4 hive ships, and what appears to be another 8 hive ships being grown." replied the airmen.
"Twelve hive ships total? I think this is time to test the Mark IX Phase Missile." replied Col. Lorne, "Target an area central to all the ships, and set a phase point about one mile underground."
"Target locked sir." replied the Airmen.
"Fire." replied Lorne, "This thing works we'll have one heck of an advantage for ground bases."
They waited the missile was much slower than it's hyperspace brother. Several cruisers had taken off from the surface to confront the Daedalus. That is when the missile detonated. A full third of the planet exploded out.
"Hyperspace now!" ordered Lorne.
Col. Lorne sent a report to the Apollo and to Homeworld Command, on the effectiveness and risks to avoid using the Mark IX Phase Missile. The next day Daedalus returned. The planet had shifted orbit around it's star. A full third of the planet had been blasted out to space. Sensors showed only a few small pieces of the Wraith ships remaining. The debris field was scattered for thousands of miles.
Col. Carter was working on the Hammond building an additional 10 satellites to deposit around the Pegasus galaxy to provide galaxy wide coverage. These would not last as the wraith could easily pinpoint the location for the subspace messages, so she was altering the parameters to only send a message if a hive ship or traveler ship was located. Dr. McKay and his teams were taking advantage of the Hammond being in orbit. Ordering up parts to be created by the Asgard core, or on a time or two asked Col. Carter for help.
Rodney had returned to meet with Homeworld Command to update the status with Gen. Landry
"OK McKay how is it going?" asked Landry.
"Much better than we had hoped. Stardrive is operational, the shielding is operational, and once we complete attaching the broken pier we will be structurally sound, that is going to take another week. We have some holes that require patching that will be another week by itself. Life support still has some issues, but nothing we can't fix, just going to take some time. Another month and I think we will be running the final diagnostics. Then we need a power supply, which we do not have anything even close to handling that." replied McKay.
"Dr. McKay have some faith. Gen. O'Neill does and he believes we can pull this off, I trust him," replied Landry.
"Does he have three full Z.P.M.s in his truck?" asked McKay.
"He just may." replied Landry, "now how about the weapon systems?"
"Well the control chair appears to be functioning, however, we have no drones as we took them several years ago," replied McKay
"I will want some teams installing the Mark IX Hyperspace Missile launcher on Atlantis." replied Landry "Also how long will it take to search the pieces of the towers for any usable components?"
"We can do that after the city launches," replied McKay.
"No, I want those parts on the city ship, in case anything breaks you have the best chance to repair it," ordered Landry.
"I have the best chance to repair it?" asked McKay.
"Well, who did you think would be on it? asked Landry.
"Well I was hoping for someone else, but why should I think I won't be on the shipping flying between galaxies, that's been crashed and derelict for ten thousand years," replied McKay.
"That's the spirit!" exclaimed Landry.