Atlantis Homeworld Command

by Ghostprogrammer

The continuing adventures of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis after Atlantis arrives back on Earth at the end of Stargate Atlantis: Enemy At the Gate. Watch as the two groups of teams work together under Homeworld Command. This story will not follow the Stargate Universe, it will include characters, but the story line will be different.

30. Science Day

Landry had organized a Science Day on Atlantis. As a number of development teams had completed their assignments with their work to present. Landry had decided it would be a wise idea to just have one day and get them all over with, it would be a long day, in particular for Gen. O'Neill, but then it would be over. They would be joined by Sheppard and Mitchell.

First up was Rodney McKay. He had three projects to present that day. The first was the new alignment modules they had designed to modify the shield emitters. They were controllable via the Control Chair, allowing the emitters to be altered as desired by the person in the command chair.

"The actuators allow the emitters to be turned in a full three hundred sixty degree rotation and swung in a two hundred seventy degree arch. All you need to do from the control chair is think where you want the shield and it will position the emitters correctly. The Atlantis computers are able to make the calculations necessary." explained McKay.

Siler added, "It was easy to construct the modules themselves to make the necessary adjustments. Just interfacing that into the control chair took a couple extra days."

"How long from city shields to planet shields?" asked O'Neill.

"1.2 seconds and the switch is made, with another 3.2 seconds for the shield to envelope the planet." replied McKay.

"Good work guys!" replied Landry.

Next up was Hlin, with the Mobile Suits. SG-1 had field tested them, and their feedback resulted in a few modifications.

"We now have two different suits that I wish to show," replied Hlin. Vala came in wearing what appeared to be black plate armor. Vala demonstrated the range of motion the suit allowed.

"This suit allows for full range of motion." explaining Hlin, "energy blasts are dissipated around the armor. It does not negate the effects but severely weakens it. It does provide some level of protection from radiation, and weapons of a penetrating nature. In addition, the skin can take multiple color schemes for concealment purposes."

Next Teal'c came in wearing the Mechanized Suit. Demonstrating the strength of the suit by picking Vala up easily in one hand.

"This suit provides a heads up display showing information on your environment. It monitors for radiation and biohazards. It can connect and provide a console to both Asgard and Ancient systems. In addition, the suit is mechanized with the ability to lift five hundred pounds and achieve a run speed of thirty kilometers an hour. It can sustain a force of one thousand pounds per inch. Each arm contains a plasma weapon, with a rate of fire of every two seconds. Energy weapons are dissipated and ballistic weapons can damage the suit. Each suit contains a personal shield." replied Hlin, "It also integrates the long range communicator that Dr. Rush created."

"How long can someone stay in one of those suits?" asked Landry.

"The suit contains small bladder for carrying liquids, include a water filtration device to provide pure water from other sources. On the rear of the suit is a storage unit that contains one week of supplies. The suit provides an air filtration that will provide the user with clean air. The suit does not provide facilities for other body functions." explained Hlin.

"Can it survive in water?" asked O'Neill.

"Yes to a depth of twenty meters for an hour." replied Hlin.

"Where is the Master Chief?" asked O'Neill.

"I do not understand Master Chief," answerd Hlin.

"Ignore Gen. O'Neill, he is making a bad joke." replied Landry.

Teal'c informed, "O'Neill with your permission I would like to begin training the recruits for battle utilizing these suits."

"You want to avoid being stunned big guy?" asked O'Neill.

"Indeed!" stated Teal'c

O'Neill laughing, "Make sure they learn how to fight someone who is wearing the suit when they are not."

"Indeed." grinned Teal'c.

"What did those poor recruits do to you?" asked Landry.

"Nothing, just want them prepared." replied O'Neill, "Can these be made with the automated manufacturing systems here on Atlantis?"

"Yes with supplies, they can produce ten suits in a day." replied Hlin.

Landry stated, "Let's start off with two hundred for Atlantis, and another two hundred for Pacifica."

"Hlin thank you! These are a wonderful addition to our teams. Now if we only had Cortana." replied O'Neill.

"Cortana is coming up later." replied Landry.

O'Neill shocked, "Really?"

"Yes, don't get that excited." replied Landry.

Next up was Dr. Lee, who had been working on a chair simulator, they had to head over to tower X12, where the training facility had been located.

"Welcome!" exclaimed Lee, "I'm so excited to show you what I have created."

"Chairs," explained O'Neill.

"Oh General, you know it's more than that. We have created four simulators. Each simulator can be run independently or in conjunction. Meaning we can put city ship against city ship, or we have simulated enemies that we can add into a simulation as well. Each room has a chair identical to that of the Command Chair, complete neural interface. Everything you can do from the Atlantis Chair you can do from these." explained Lee.

"Gen. O'Neill, maybe the best way is for you and me to try these chairs out. A mock battle for the two of us?" asked Sheppard.

"Well that would be fun to try," asked O'Neill, not noticing the wink from Landry to Dr. Lee. Sheppard and O'Neill each took a chair, while Lee activated a simulation of the two cities each attacking. Both cities were in orbit around the sun. O'Neill taking an aggressive stance moving immediately to put Sheppard in range for his drones. Sheppard using the Sun as a shield, keeping O'Neill at a distance. Sheppard detected two ships entering the system heading for O'Neill, using the Stardrive he jumped behind O'Neill, with his ship. As the Ori ships reached O'Neill, firing their weapons. Sheppard launched his drones, taking out the central tower on O'Neill's City.

"Where did the Ori come from?" asked a flustered O'Neill.

"The simulation will add random events to keep the occupants on their toes." replied Lee.

Sheppard grinning, "Hey I was ready you weren't."

"Sir is the word I think you missed 'Major' Sheppard" replied O'Neill.

"Yes, Sir! Sorry Sir!" replied Sheppard.

"Col. Davis is going to set up training routines for all those with the Ancient gene, and those who have received the Gene Therapy." explained Landry.

"Excellent, let's also get a training facility setup on Pacifica, make sure they can communicate between the two." ordered O'Neill.

"On that sir!" replied Lee.

Walking back to the conference room, O'Neill asked, "Col. Mitchell you're being quiet today, any reason?"

"Well I find all the new toys nifty and I can assure you I found the suits helpful, on BP6-3Q1 to protect us from the insects. I'm just wondering what's our plan?" asked Mitchell.

"What if I told you there are things out there worse than the Ori?" asked O'Neill.

"Something worse than the Ori?" asked Mitchell.

"Sir, the ancients thought Orin was worse than the wraith, and we easily handled it when we encountered it." interjected Sheppard.

"The Ancients didn't think or fight strategically. That is how they lost the war with the wraith. That is also how they failed to find the things we did with Orin. However, things are out there far worse than any of them. Things far older than the Ancients. We need to be prepared." replied O'Neill.

"Older than the Ancients? General do you know something is coming our way?" asked Landry.

"Nothing yet, but we need to be careful and ready for things far worse. I made notes the Ancients found races older than them, before settling here in the Milky Way. Then we may have some fun things here as well," replied O'Neill.

"Fun things?" asked Mitchell.

"How many people do you think the city on BP6-3Q1 could handle?" asked O'Neill.

"Probably a couple of million," answered Mitchell.

"And if there are other cities like it on that planet?" asked O'Neill.

"A billion maybe more," replied Mitchell.

"Can you think of any reason to have a base that size?" asked O'Neill.

The realization was setting in, "Settlement sir?" asked Mitchell.

"Yes the I.O.A. is considering disclosure, and talks about starting a new civilization off world for Earth." replied O'Neill.

"I didn't expect that." replied Mitchell.

"Population is out of control here on Earth," replied Sheppard.

O'Neill nodding, "Exactly."

"I honestly don't know what to think on that." replied Mitchell.

"You can join the rest of us. The I.O.A. is not rushing to make a decision on this," informed O'Neill.

Arriving back in the conference room, they settle back down. McKay is ready to present his next project.

"Hyperspace Disruptor satellite, sixteen satellites positioned around the solar system that when activated can lock out hyperspace for the entire system. This would allow us to force ships to drop out of hyperspace some distance away and have to maneuver here on sub-light engines. Allowing for our ships to do attack runs long before they arrive at Earth," explained McKay.

"Wouldn't our ships be limited as well?" asked Landry.

"Yes, but we could choose where to fight them. Goa'uld ships sensors wouldn't work in the vicinity of Saturn or Jupiter due to the radiation, however, our sensors would work allowing us to lock on and destroy them," replied McKay.

"Not a bad strategy there. What do you need?" asked O'Neill.

"Just the go-ahead to build the remaining fifteen satellites." replied McKay.

"Do it." replied O'Neill.

Dr. Parks and Dr. Volker were next. They brought in a device, connected to naquadah generator.

"Sirs! we have been investigating the Culling Device from wraith darts. In particular how they are able to store matter and reform later." opened Parks.

"We have been comparing it to the gate technology and to Asgard transport beams. While the Wraith Transporter Transformer is not something we can recreate or duplicate, we have applied the theory using the Asgard Transport Beams," informed Volker.

"We utilize a crystal to store the energy pattern of the object being scanned. Let us show you what we can do," replied Parks.

Volker activated the device, and a cage of living mice materialized on the conference table.

Mitchell spoke first, "A better mousetrap?"

O'Neill snapping his fingers, "Beat me by that much."

"This is just showing that we can beam out a living organism." replied Volker.

"What applications do you see this being used?" asked Landry.

"Obviously to save Tom from Jerry," replied O'Neill.

"Imagine being able to store an additional ten drones on a puddle jumper, or reducing storage of a cargo hold down to a crystal the size of your thumb." explained Parks.

That got O'Neill's attention, "We could transport an entire cargo hold on a single crystal?"

"Yes sir, we have limits on how much we can store. Currently, we believe more basic items such as food and provisions we could store most of a cargo hold in. In fact, we're working on a version that could store the pantry for a mess hall on a single crystal for up to a six-month complement. Something more complicated such as an F-302 would use an entire crystal." replied Volker.

"Imagine being able to carry over a briefcase with crystals to resupply a BC-304 in Pegasus, with food for another six months, destroyed F-302's, and missiles." replied Parks.

Volker added, "Don't forget the applications to the mining drones. they could store a much larger quantity of raw materials and transport would be much easier."

"That makes the CC-308 obsolete before we even build one." replied Landry.

"I like the idea of the Puddle Jumpers having more drones, but how much power do you need? Since I see that is hooked up to a naquadah generator," asked Sheppard.

"A Puddle Jumper's Power supply is more than capable of handling this, without the need for additional power. In fact, we are looking to see if we can incorporate this into the Mobile Suits, on a smaller scale," replied Parks.

"Could this be used on the F-302's to carry additional missiles as well?" asked Mitchell.

"Yes it can." replied Parks.

"Just out of curiosity, what happens if one of those crystals is destroyed with a bunch of those missiles in them?" asked Mitchell.

"Fortunately nothing, the pattern will become degraded, and the energy will degrade. The crystal will shatter and not cause a conversion of the energy," replied Volker.

"Let's get this installed into the F-302's and Puddle Jumpers for missiles and drones. Also, let's work on a unit for the BC-304's. Also get with Thor to update the BC-306's and other ship designs." ordered O'Neill.

Brody entered the conference room.

"Sir, as you know we were not able to acquire an Ion Cannon from Tollana. However, Freya and I were able to learn a significant amount from the system. We have created a prototype design, we're ready to test." explained Brody.

Sheppard asked, "Where is Freya?"

Brody nervous, "Freya is back on the Tok'ra Homeworld, busy and couldn't be here." O'Neill looking up at Brody grinning.

"You OK with everything?" asked O'Neill.

Brody still nervous, "It takes some getting used to."

"Did I miss something?" asked Sheppard.

"Continue with your project Dr. Brody." ordered Landry.

"Our prototype is able to generate a one-megawatt ion pulse, we would like to scale this up to a one-gigawatt ion pulse to test at the Alpha Site." replied Brody.

"I assume the cannon would require a power source capable of one-gigawatt energy output?" asked Landry.

Brody grinning, "Yes a Naquadah generator will complete our needs for testing. In production the BC-304's with the three Z.P.M.s now can easily handle three cannons operating at the preferred one hundred gigawatts." replied Brody, "The BC-306 would easily handle five cannons."

"Scale up your test, and you have permission to test at the Alpha site." ordered O'Neill, "I want those available for the BC-304 and 306's once they are ready."

Next came in Rodney again.

"Why are you coming in three separate times instead of just doing all yours as once?" asked Sheppard.

"I needed to get stuff done for the next one" explained McKay.

"Let's hear it McKay." ordered Landry.

"I was asked to look at interfacing the Asgard Core into the Repository of Knowledge. I have successfully been able to do so," explained McKay.

"So the database of Asgard knowledge was dumped into the repository?" asked Mitchell.

"Yes, but more than just that. The A.I. we have discovered in the repository once it detected the Asgard Core integration it fully integrated all of the technology. This includes the Asgard Beaming technology, Time Dilation, and the holographic interface." explained McKay.

"You're saying we have a Time Dilation field we can activate here on Atlantis?" asked Landry.

"Currently only Gen. O'Neill or yourself Gen. Landry can activate it. The A.I. assigned it to your level of access." replied McKay, "However next time we don't have enough time to complete something we can flip a switch and make the time."

"How is the Asgard Beaming Technology integrated?" asked Landry.

"The city can now beam anything from one spot to another within the range of the beaming technology." explained McKay, "On a very happy note, the A.I. even took things a step further. It integrated the new technology directly into the manufacturing process. Prior to The BC-306 was at forty-two days, after this, it reduced the time to nineteen days."

"We'll have a BC-306 in nineteen days?" asked O'Neill.

"We will have three BC-306's in twenty-seven days." explained McKay.

"Can we do the same for Pacifica?" asked Landry.

"Yes, in fact, I'm working on linking the two cities with the Long Range Communicator. That will take a couple more weeks, to put in all the security that will be necessary for it," explained McKay.

"Excellent work McKay." explained Landry, "Now about the Holographic Interface?"

"I'm going to leave that to Novak, and Ginn to explain," replied McKay, taking a seat at the conference table. Novak and Ginn then took their turn to enter the room.

"Dr. McKay asked me to investigate updating the holographic interface for the A.I. here on Atlantis." explained Novak, "With the Asgard, Core integrated into the repository of knowledge we are now able to have a hologram projected almost anywhere in the city."

"How is that possible? Without the Holoprojectors?" asked Landry.

McKay started, "The A.I. is able ..."

"Dr. McKay I am presenting here! The A.I. has integrated the Asgard Beaming technology. This was the basis for the Asgard Holograms, by beaming in light particles to create the hologram." explained Novak, "With that capability, it can create a hologram at will. We have created a routine in the A.I. for calling the A.I. General O'Neill would you please say this phrase?" Handing O'Neill a piece of paper.

"Avidan," stated O'Neill, A hologram of Novak appeared in the room.

Hologram stated, "Gen. O'Neill how may I help you?"

Sheppard asked, "In your image?"

"Yes, the user has the option of adapting the image to a number of different avatars." explained Ginn.

"Yes Ginn here did not seem to appreciate my image." explained Novak.

"So what can this hologram do?" asked Landry.

"Avidan beam Ginn to the Northwest pier," ordered Novak. Ginn disappeared in the Asgard Transport beam.

"That was cool but kinda dangerous." spoke Sheppard.

"Avidan recognizes our command authority," explained Novak.

"Thanks, Novak, it will be nice to have an avatar to discuss with occasionally." explained Landry.

Thor was up next, with two projects he had completed.

"Thor buddy, you're different again," replied O'Neill, noticing Thor was standing about six feet tall now, considerably more muscular than he had been previously.

"I received my last treatment yesterday. I have returned to my body from ten thousand years ago," replied Thor.

"I'd be happy with about 30 years taken off," replied O'Neill.

"I actually have good news from the Asgard. Freyja is with child," informed Thor.

"Loki is going to be a dad? Should I be scared?" asked O'Neill.

"This will be the first child born of the Asgard in over ten thousand years." informed Thor.

O'Neill exclaimed, "That is cause for a celebration."

"I believe that is how she came to be with child," informed Thor.

"OK, that maybe too much information. You have some stuff to show us?" asked O'Neill.

"I have completed the upgrades to the Asgard Core allowing for battle targeting across the BC-304's and added the design to the BC-306's under construction, along with the updating the designs of the other ships. I incorporated Dr. Rush's long range communicator into the design. This will allow for ships to be monitored and tracked across the intergalactic expanse." explained Thor.

"This would allow for real-time monitoring of a ship in battle in say the Pegasus galaxy from here on Atlantis?" asked Landry.

"Yes General Landry, not only monitoring here on Atlantis, but other ships monitoring for the signal in subspace." explained Thor.

"Thor this will be a huge tactical advantage for us, allowing other ships to know if they need to jump to assist another ship." explained O'Neill.

"O'Neill, I have completed the designs for the SD-312." explained Thor.

"What's the SD-312?" asked Landry.

"It's a Super Destroyer, a ship prepared to take on entire fleets by itself." explained O'Neill, "Go ahead, Thor."

"As you know the Destiny hull design is the largest we can accommodate in the Atlantis or Pacifica shipyards. I used that as it's basis. The ship will be able to accommodate five hundred crewmembers. It will contain one hundred Mobile Suits for use if necessary, along with a Stargate. Docking areas for two BC-304's and three for BC-306's allowing them to travel via the wormhole drive. It will be powered by five Neutrino-ion Generators, each producing five hundred billion kilojoules." explained Thor.

"That's two and half times as much as the one here on Atlantis," commented Mitchell.

"Two and half times? Jack what's the idea?" asked Landry.

"Thor go on, everyone will be able to understand shortly." explained O'Neill.

"All five generators can be used in conjunction to power the Wormhole drive, allowing a range of one billion light years. It will require a twenty-seven minute reset on the wormhole drive between uses. In addition, it will have the most advanced hyperspace engines we have ever produced. Pegasus to the Milky Way in under thirty minutes. In battle three generators are used to power the shields, a single generator is used to power secondary weapons. These will consist of the two hundred rail guns, thirty plasma beams, one hundred of Dr. Brody's ION Cannons once available, and carrying over one hundred thousand drones utilizing the matter storage device of Dr. Parks. The final generator will be used to power the primary weapon, a plasma cannon, capable of firing single shot seven hundred billion kilojoules of plasma." explained Thor, "If required additional generators can be switched to increase the power of the plasma cannon to two trillion kilojoules of plasma."

Everyone sat quietly in the room contemplating what they had just heard.

"Gen. O'Neill I don't have to be a scientist to know that such a ship would be basically a Death Star. What is going on?" asked Landry.

"Gen. Caldwell, Jackson, and Woosley should be here shortly let's wait till he is here." replied O'Neill.

Sheppard and Mitchell shifted uneasily in their seats, neither liking what they had heard and having to wait. Landry still reeling and disturbed with the implications he had been learning. After ten minutes of painful silence, Caldwell, Jackson, and Woosley entered the conference room.

"Gentlemen glad you could make it on short notice." greeted O'Neill.

"No problem General what's of this importance?" asked Caldwell.

O'Neill nodded to Thor who sealed the conference room, then activated a phase shifting device covering the entire room.

"Gentlemen what we are going to discuss here today is the most sensitive information maybe in the entire universe. This information is known only Gen. O'Neill, Thor and myself. Col. Sheppard and Mitchell your being granted this information on a need-to-know basis. It should never be discussed outside of this environment and with anyone not present in this room. Gen. O'Neill maybe you should begin." said Woolsey.

"Maybe our guest should introduce himself," explained O'Neill. Appearing at the end of the conference room was an Ascended Being.

"It is good to see you again Janus, it has been a long time." greeted Thor.

Janus turning to his old friend, "Yes it has been too many millenniums, my old friend. Dr. Jackson, it is good to meet you again. My name is Janus."

"I take it we met when I was ascended?" asked Jackson.

"Yes we were friends at that point." replied Janus, "You had your mind wiped much of the information you learned. Thankfully Moros gave you a certain ability that I need you to concentrate on finding and using right now."

"I don't understand what ability?" asked Jackson.

"You had the ability to shield your mind from my kind, and more importantly you could share that ability to others." explained Janus.

"I don't think so." said Daniel.

"Daniel Jackson call up all of your knowledge Moros gave you!" explained Janus, "Concentrate on protecting yourself."

Daniel closed his eyes, began to recall everything he remembered on Moros. The various caverns he went through, Adria chasing him, the device that would destroy the Ori all flooded his mind, finally, a vision of the Ori entered his mind, attacking him mentally, a sudden burst of light between him and them appeared protecting him. Moros had given him the ability to shield himself from the Ori. Reaching deeper, he still had that ability, he remembered he could share that ability.

"I remember!" exclaimed Jackson.

"Good now use it on everyone here," ordered Janus. Jackson got up and moved around to everyone touching their temples, a faint glow could be seen.

"Excellent I can no longer read their minds." explained Janus.

Jackson asking, "How are you here? I didn't think Ascended could access this dimension?"

"I can not shift into this dimension nor can I move to this dimension anymore than you can." explained Janus.

"Thor shifted the room, and you were here in the room so you shifted as well." explained Jackson.

"Dr. Jackson has shielded your minds from being read by the Ascended." explained Janus.

"If we needed to be shielded then how do Woosley, Jack and Thor already know?" asked Caldwell.

"I don't know the details, I have only a vague idea and it's enough to scare the daylights out of me." explained Woosley.

Thor answered, "Once my DNA was re-sequenced to its original structure, my mind was once again shielded from Ascended beings."

"Apparently my mind is shielded due to the Headsuckers." explained O'Neill.

Janus began, "A few things you need to understand. If you take all of the Ascended beings in Avalon, there are just over one million. Roughly one in ten of those are Alterra, while the majority of the rest are races older than the Alterra. Lanteans make up less than one in a hundred. Those that are older than the Alterra, do not wish to share the Ascended realm with others, we call them the Old Ones. They tolerated the Alterra, because we were small in numbers, when they saw we may grow, they introduced the Plague that wiped out many Alterra. When the Lanteans became a threat toward ascension, they introduced the Wraith. My friend Thor when the Asgard was nearing a stage they could ascend they introduced a genetic error in the cloning, to prevent them from reaching ascension."

"Why didn't the Alterrans stop them? Isn't the non-interference rule one of your most important?" asked Jackson.

"That's the catch, the Alterrans didn't create that rule, that rule was imposed on us, by the others." explained Janus, "It also only applied to us. They had no concerns with inferring themselves. We couldn't stop them when they outnumber nine to one."

Sheppard speaking, "So what does this have to do with us?"

"Whether you realize it or not you have been fighting in a war that goes back millions of years, prior to the first Ori or Alteran ascending. We were not aware of it, until we ascended," explained Janus.

"What war?" asked Caldwell.

"Do you think the Goa'uld just came to power? They were created to keep the humans in check. The wraith were sent to wipe out the Lanteans and keep the humans in check. The Asgard had their genetic code corrupted. All of this to keep from additional ascension. You have done more to counter their efforts than all the Lanteans and Altera ever did. You did it because of the greater good." explained Janus.

"Well there is only a few hundred Asgard, and we humans are not near ascension. I've read the research on ascension," explained Jackson.

"Everything we thought we knew was wrong, that research is garbage. What I am about to tell you, I only recently learned. It's the most dangerous information in the universe. Many of the people of Earth are near the point of ascension." explained Janus.

"Wait you're saying the human race is nearing natural ascension?" asked Landry.

"Yes, and I don't mean a few of you, which several in this room are at the brink. I mean the entire human species here on this planet," explained Janus.

"That's nearly seven billion people." said Sheppard.

"Your catching on Sheppard. No greater threat exists in the universe to the ascended than the people of Earth. If even only ten percent of your population ascended, they would easily overwhelm those currently ascended." explained Janus, "Not only that but you have advanced to a point where you're dangerous to them now."

"Dr. Jackson created Merlin's weapon but we have no way to recreate it. Adria made sure nothing remained," explained Mitchell.

"You have reached a point where you're capable of accessing energies that are powerful enough to damage an ascended being. Your missiles can be fired and shift to a different dimension leaving no way for an ascended to stop them. Your explosive device, creates enough energy that is can disrupt an ascended being." explained Janus.

"If we are such a threat to them, why do they not leave this galaxy. Surely there are other galaxies out there they could move to," asked Daniel.

"Your understanding of galaxies and the ascended is skewed to what you have witnessed. You saw the Ori being confined to their galaxy, they were not. Worshippers gave them enough strength to resist the others, only in their galaxy. What you need to understand, you were used as a pawn to either destroy the Ori, or be destroyed. They could tolerate giving up this galaxy to the Ori, or having you destroy the Ori. It was not a coincidence that you stumbled into the Ori the way you did." explained Janus.

"If we are such a threat why not wipe out our planet?" asked O'Neill.

"The Alterra and the Lanteans and our allies have conserved our strength and the Old Ones know it. If they were to strike out in mass at Earth or anywhere they would be severely weakened, to the point, we could overcome them. Similar to the Ori, they were strong enough to push them out and keep the out but not destroy them. Thus they use intermediaries to do this work. The Wraith, Goa'uld and some other force that is preparing against you. I have not identified them as of yet." explained Janus.

"The Lucian Alliance?" asked Caldwell.

"I believe the Old Ones may have pushed the Alliance toward the Ori ship to cause some damage, but they have another agent much more powerful than them they are working with. The Alterra and Lanteans are trying to find out who they are," explained Janus.

"So they are at a stalemate they can't risk doing anything directly to us, without becoming vulnerable to attack from you, yet they dabble and cause us all kinds of problems in the hope of destroying us?" asked Woolsey.

"Janus, I love the stop by and save the Universe visits almost as much as I loved the save the world ones." explained O'Neill, "How are we supposed to fight them? You say our weapons can hurt them, but we have to see them to use those weapons."

"You need to get prepared, there will come a time when they must confront you directly. Continue as you have been, but you have done an amazing job of utilizing Asgard, Lantean, and Alterra knowledge. As I told you the research we did on ascension is garbage, the research we did on the ascended plane, is not, utilize it. But I warn you, do not share this knowledge with anyone who is not shielded. Keep the number who are shielded to only a few. If too many were to become shielded they may suspect something." replied Janus.

Mitchell asked, "How much of this did you know Gen. O'Neill?"

"There was some sort of Ascended War, responsible for a large part of our mess." explained O'Neill, "Janus is there anything else that you can share?"

"Not at this time, when I learn something I will contact you again." replied Janus.

"Gen. Caldwell we need to have Col. Carter, Ellis, Lorne, and Emerson over here they will need to be informed and we'll need Daniel to shield them." explained O'Neill.

"I will need to inform the I.O.A." explained Woolsey.

"No! We can not share this with them. We will have to play this under the table. Informing them runs the risk of a leak far too well." explained O'Neill.

"Given the stakes here, I'm going to have to weight that decision. I won't disclose to them until I speak to you further Gen. O'Neill." answered Woolsey.

"Thank you, we can discuss this further between us. Everyone consider this classified as A-Level. Unless your in this room and shifted, nothing is to be discussed, with anyone." ordered O'Neill.

"A-Level?" asked Sheppard.

"Ascended Level" explained Jackson.

"Nobody on the science teams is to be told. They will be doing much of the research and work. They will be the ones who will be scrutinized the most. If they are shielded it will be more likely suspected." ordered O'Neill, "We need them clean and honest."

"That is a wise course of action. I have observed your I.O.A. as you call them. They can not be trusted with this information. I would not trust them with changing the paper in your facilities." explained Janus.

"We'll deal with the I.O.A. don't worry about that." explained O'Neill, "Thor how long will it take to build a SD-312?"

"With the enhancements to the shipyard it will take eight months." explained Thor.

"Gen. Caldwell how soon till you can have the shipyard functioning on Pacifica?" asked O'Neill

"We have one shipyard ready to come online this week, the other two over the next four weeks. The new shipyards are underway, the new middle tier should be ready in two months and the third ring two months after that," explained Caldwell.

"Excellent begin construction on the next CC-307 next, followed by three BC-306's. We will begin construction on the EX-310 two SD-312s. Who are you assigning the command of the new BC-306's?" asked O'Neill.

"Colonels. Emerson, Ellis, and Carter will be assigned to the first three BC-306's. I'm looking at Colonels Telford and Young for the BC-304's." explained Caldwell.

"The SD-312 will have docking areas for two BC-304's and three for BC-306's." explained Thor.

O'Neill stated, "Colonels Mitchell and Sheppard, I want you all to put your heads together for new ideas. I'd like for the two of you to see what you can come up with. Col. Sheppard I'm going to greenlight your Arcturus Warhead, and have Rodney design and build it. We can use it when we return to Pegasus to deal with the Wraith. Dr. Miller with her team I will have them look into nanite technology. Not to build replicators, but to assist in manufacturing. Specifically things on the scale of City Ships. We will be expanding out from the Milky Way. Alright remember not a peep, and we'll reconvene again the future. Gen. Caldwell get Carter, Emerson, Ellis, and Lorne in here with Daniel, Sheppard, and Mitchell. Dismissed!"

"I wish you all the best of luck, the Alterra and Lanteans will do what we can for you!" explained Janus. With that Thor shifted everyone back from the dimensional shift. Janus disappeared. Everyone else was stunned in silence.