"Gen. O'Neill, thank you for seeing me on such short notice." replied Jeannie.
"When the lead on High Energy Projects Director says they have something important they need to tell me, I tend to listen." replied O'Neill, "So what have you found?"
"I've been investigating the Neutrino-ion Generators the Asgard used. We can build one here to power the city. If we build one large enough it should be able to generate one trillion kilojoules." replied Jeannie.
"English doctor." reminded O'Neill.
"The Asgard used relatively small versions of the generators. Sometimes multiples in their ships to power them. These produced one billion kilojoules, a single Z.P.M. produces about twenty billion kilojoules." explained Jeannie.
"But you said trillion with a T, not a B. Now how is that?" asked O'Neill.
"Right, because the Asgard didn't scale up their generators very large on their ships. Larger generators produce more power. I have designed an generator that would require us to convert a tower into a generator. There is a tower located not far over from the central spire. It is essential empty. Whether the ancients never needed it, or had some other plan for it, I don't know. I want to turn the entire tower into a single generator." replied Jeannie.
"The entire tower?" asked O'Neill.
"For the power output your looking for yes that's what is needed. Equivalent to fifty Z.P.M.s to power the city." replied Jeannie.
"How big of an explosion would this take out? If something went wrong?" asked O'Neill.
"It generates power, it doesn't use stored power like the Z.P.M's, so it would be minimal. Some broken windows, but it shouldn't even destroy the tower." replied Jeannie.
O'Neill thinking, "Your sounding like your brother before he blew up a solar system, at least from reports I have heard from Sheppard."
Handing Jack a stack of papers, "That is a study from the Asgard on the safety of this large of a generator. The designs are from the Asgard, they used ones like this on their worlds. We can make it better by using the extra power conduits from the city ship."
"What's the catch?" asked O'Neill.
Jeannie grinning, "We need about one hundred kilos of naquadria to power it per year."
"Naquadria? As unstable as that is?" asked O'Neill.
"The Asgard found how to handle it's instabilities. Along with a way to convert Naquadah into Naquadria safely." replied Jeannie.
"You have an answer for everything don't you?" asked O'Neill.
Jeannie just grinned at O'Neill.
"I want McKay, Carter and all the other eggheads to go over this, down to the last circuit. Start with Dr. Simpson, as she'll probably be leading the engineering." replied O'Neill
"Yes sir!" replied Jeannie, "Oh another thing we should be able to charge a Z.P.M. in about 5 days using this system."
Jeannie left O'Neill's office to find Dr. Simpson, whom she found having lunch in the mess hall, with Lindsey Novak.
"Hey you two, heard you all saved the planet yesterday from the killer citrus!" exclaimed Jeannie.
"Yeah that was some scary stuff, wish we could have gotten to the refuges on Corlan in time. Johansen said they appeared to have been dead for at least a day." replied Jenny.
"Well I was ordered to have you review something first Jenny, but I think Lindsey it would be good to get your eyes on it as well." replied Jeannie.
"You finally cooked up something in that lab?" asked Jenny.
Jeannie grinning, "A neutrino-ion generator the size of one of these towers, how about one trillion kilojoules of power?"
"One trillion kilojoules, that's enough to run everything here at full power." replied Novak.
"And it's been sitting under everyone's noses for the last two years." replied Jeannie.
"What?" asked Jenny.
"The Asgard database, they had designs for their own city generator they used." replied Jeannie, "We have everything we need to build it."
"Let's go, I want to see this now!" exclaimed Jenny.
The three ladies rushed off to Jeannie's Lab. She brought up the schematics and design documentation from the city's Asgard core. Over the next five hours, she listened to Lindsey and Jenny saying, "hmm" a lot. Jenny was furiously putting something into the computer.
"Ladies your welcome to stay here reviewing this as long as you need I need to run home for a little bit and I will back." replied Jeannie.
"Sure." mumbled Jenny.
Jeannie made her way to operations to the Asgard beam to transport her home. She appeared in the empty room off their garage they had setup for her to use for such purposes.
She made her way into the house, to Madison shouting, "Mommy!" as she ran to greet her mommy.
"How did your day go?" asked Kaleb as he gave her a quick kiss.
"Kaleb we maybe going to celebrate this weekend." answered Jeannie.
"That good?" asked Kaleb.
"Better than you can imagine. Let's have dinner. What did daddy fix for dinner tonight?" asked Jeannie.
"My favorite tofu chicken!" shouted Madison.
The Miller family sat down to a wonderful meal with tofu chicken, brussel sprouts, and quinoa. Jeannie enjoyed being able to work on Atlantis and thanks to Gen. O'Neill have a way to return home each night in Vancouver. She realized he really understood family. She tucked Madison into bed.
Upon returning to her husband she sat down with him.
"Think I need to return to work for an hour or two tonight. I left some people studying what I had put together and their review is important." Jeannie was telling Kaleb.
Kaleb sighing, "You sure?"
"I've been working there for five months and I beat you home every day except for today, don't you dare give me attitude mister!" chided Jeannie.
Kaleb grinning, "I can't help I like having you home. Go take care of what you need."
"Well maybe in a little bit, but right now I want to thank my husband for being the best." replied Jeannie leaning in to start a passionate kiss.
An hour later Jeannie was making her way back to her lab having just beamed back to Atlantis. When she arrived in her lab she found nobody there. A note on the keyboard read:
Meet us in my lab!
Jenny.
Jeannie hurried down four flights of stairs to Jenny's lab. When she entered she was stopped by a shield. Jenny and Lindsey looked up.
Lindsey said, "Hold on let me lower the shield." as she pushed a couple of buttons.
"Look what we made for you?" asked Jenny, holding up a small clear cylinder with a flowing light.
"Is that a miniature generator?" asked Jeannie.
"Yes it's running on a microgram of naquadria." replied Jenny.
"How?" asked Jeannie.
"Using my Asgard core here in my lab. Having your own has some advantages." replied Jenny.
Jeannie amazed, "Gen. O'Neill will love this!"
"The design is amazing. It can be scaled up or down easily." replied Novak.
"I'll call for the science department to review it, and hopefully we can get started on it." replied Jeannie, "How long do you think it will take to build at the scale I'm proposing?"
"With supplies three months, using the Asgard beaming and the methods we used to build Midway Station." replied Jenny.