Fraiser was talking to Carter, "I watched the documentary last night, with Cassie. She said it was very surreal watching it, showing me dying, and I'm sitting next to her."
"I can imagine that would be a little disturbing," replied Carter.
"I never thought I would watch my own death like that," answered Fraiser.
O'Neill entering the conference room, "Someone here please tell me how did we miss a city lying under the ice in Antarctica?"
"We had our very best shields hiding it," replied Janus.
"Supreme Commander!" saluted Mitchell, all military in the room stood at attention and saluted O'Neill.
"Knock it off, standing order you don't have to do that!" exclaimed O'Neill, "Everyone take a seat, we have a lot to cover. Janus, what can you tell us about Altera?"
"It is four million years old, You can see that Atlantis is designed to sit in the center. Atlantis is capable of controlling everything across Altera, just on a larger scale now. It can easily support ten million people," explained Janus.
"This looks remarkably similar to the city the Asurans had in Pegasus," remarked Caldwell.
"It should they modeled it on our plans for it. They had found the Altera archive and copied it. When we were at height in population this was the center of our civilization. Altera made up the bulk of our manufacturing and production facilities. It makes great use of the water in which it sits, when you get there you will find that water is prevalent throughout the infrastructure. The one issue, is that it is four million years old, Atlantis was updated with new technology, it will still interface, but you're not going to find medical bays there equivalent to what is here on Atlantis, as an example,' replied Janus.
"So it's a fixer-upper. Dr. McKay I'm giving you that assignment, to upgrade Altera as needed, you will report to Supreme Commander Landry on that task. Col. Mitchell we will need you to move Atlantis to Altera. Let's make preparations to do that as soon as possible," ordered O'Neill.
"Yes sir we will get on it after this meeting," replied Landry.
"Dr. Miller you're going to be in charge of distributing our Interdimensional Energy Collectors. Both here on Earth and off-world. Thor can we count on Manni to assist in this?" asked O'Neill.
"Manni and his technicians will be able to assist," replied Thor.
"Teal'c and Ronon I suspect we will have a number of new recruits coming in. We are going to need far more than the two of you to begin training them," spoke O'Neill.
"Some of our first recruits would make candidates assist in training," replied Teal'c.
"Which leads me to my topic. I have five thousand Jaffa ready to join and train. They have heard stories from the ones you have already trained, and a few have seen first hand the new combat techniques," replied Bra'tac.
"We will get new facilities set up in Altera and then we will bring them in to start training," replied O'Neill.
"Supreme Commander O'Neill, the Tok'ra has a contingent that would like to join for training as well," spoke Freya.
"Once we have facilities ready we will welcome them. I expect we will have a large number of people here on Earth wanting to join as well," replied O'Neill, "Larrin I would like you to work with Col. Mitchell, and Thor on designing a new combat fighter. I would like for you to work on training the new pilots."
"Yes sir!" exclaimed Larrin.
"PJ-1 your mission will be the recovery of the remaining five city ships that are scattered out in the Universe, I want them found and identified if they are viable or not," ordered O'Neill.
"We will get right on it sir," replied Sheppard.
"SG-1 your being assigned to Col. Carter, on board her ship. You will be going out to attempt contact with some of the lifeforms we have had contact with in the past that didn't work out well," replied O'Neill, "However Carter, PJ-1 and SG-1 you all have two weeks for downtime, to help recover, but we will need you back soon."
The door opened in walked a young woman. Woosley perked up, "Supreme Commander O'Neill, allow me to introduce you to Chloe Armstrong daughter of Senator Armstrong, she has agreed to take a position as your assistant, to help you with any red tape, and paperwork you may encounter."
"I plan to ban red tape and paperwork. Ms. Armstrong, it is good to meet you, and I'm sure we will get along well since you're a bureaucrat," replied O'Neill.
"Thank you Supreme Commander! I promise I will do my best to assist you and not get in the way," replied Armstrong, taking a seat next to Woosley.
"That will be a challenge," answered O'Neill, "Now your first task, is to notify everyone of a new standing order. Those under my command can call me Commander O'Neill, with two L's, instead of Supreme Commander, and that goes for Commanders Caldwell and Landry as well."
"I really liked being call Supreme Commander," replied Landry.
Caldwell chuckled, "It was nice while it lasted."
"Janus will ask that you work with the Asgard on developing some new weapons that will be effective against the Old Ones," ordered O'Neill.
"Very well, is there any chance I can get my old lab back from Daniel Jackson?" asked Janus.
"No," replied Jackson.
"Daniel, come on it was his, to begin with?" prodded O'Neill.
"Sir do you have any idea how many it took to move Dr. Jackson's stuff into that lab?" asked Davis, "Two dozen men two weeks."
"I think I may be able to make that happen a bit faster, and I think I may know a place Dr. Jackson may prefer once we reach Altera," replied Janus.
"A place I would prefer?" asked Jackson.
"Well there is the Ancient equivalent to a museum, in Altera," replied Janus.
"There is an Ancient Museum, from four million years ago?" asked Jackson, Janus nodded, "I'll move!"
"Dr. Fraiser, would you be willing to work with Dr. Beckett, and Dr. Lam, I believe they may soon be seeing some new types of injuries coming their way, that you may be able to help them prepare to treat," asked O'Neill.
"I thought you would never ask," replied Fraiser.
"Gen. Hammond sir! I would ask that you help coordinate the Ancients with everything else. Whether it's training with the troops, or whatever they are able to do," asked O'Neill, "Ordering you just don't feel right, sir."
"Commander O'Neill, it was an honor to be your commanding officer, now it is a greater honor to serve under you, in this effort," replied Hammond, "You will get used to it."
"We will have to see about that sir," replied O'Neill.
"Supreme Commander O'Neill, Thrud, and Carson have a group of 198 Asgard, that would like to relocate here from Othalla, to take up residence," asked Thor.
"We would be more than delighted to have them here," replied O'Neill, "Unless someone has something else let's get to work. Commanders Landry and Caldwell, hang here, we need to talk."
Everyone else exited the conference room.
"So what's up Jack?" asked Landry.
"Just want to make sure we are all on the same page. I'm going to be depending heavily on you two as we make adjustments for everything that changed," replied O'Neill.
"You mean like we are not in charge of four other races, and expected to dominate five galaxies?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes all that," answered O'Neill.
"Jack, I will run Altera, it will be primary base of operations, from production to training, to research," replied Landry.
"I'll be setting up training facilities on Pacifica for these new ships. We have a lot to learn but fortunately, the Asgard built their new designs around human technology instead of their own. Ellis has taken command of the Ares II, Lorne has taken command of the Hades II, and I was thinking Col. Carter for taking command of the Nemesis," replied Caldwell.
"That sounds good, now on these city ships. There are five out there we need to bring home. I would like to establish one in each of the galaxies, Pegasus, Ori, and Othalla, as a base of operations in each of those galaxies," replied O'Neill.
"That sounds like a plan," replied Caldwell, "The Asgard expect to produce another three DN-1103's in three months. They nearly have the shipyard upgrades complete on Pacifica complete, we should be able to begin constructions of another nice DN-1103s within a month."
"Hank, your also going to be in charge of helping disperse technology. That's power, transport, and medical are the primary three we need to share," replied O'Neill.
"Not a problem, with Manni and Dr. Miller working on the power that one will be easy. Dr. Beckett already has ideas on the medical, so those will get spread out as fast as we can. Transport will get a bit tricky, but we will find a way," replied Landry.
"One additional thing, as it sounds like we are getting Jaffa, Asgard, and Tok'ra, they need to be interspersed, so they have to spend time together," replied O'Neill.
"Will pass that along to Davis," replied Landry.
A knock came at the door, and it opened to reveal Col. Davis, "Sir's I think there is something you may want to see." Flipped on a monitor, which began showing news of riots occurring around the world.
"It appears that people have not necessarily accepted this as well as we had hoped," spoke Davis.
"No many of this world just had everything turned upside down," replied O'Neill. "Is that Egypt?"
"Yes, people in the streets there are demanding the return of the Stargate and control of Atlantis, as they say, it was rightfully theirs," replied Davis.
"Ha, the jokes on them, I'd give it all to them to deal with if I could," replied O'Neill.
"Riots are happening in most major cities, but more surprising is the number of celebrations going on. The UFO and Alien communities are having the biggest Told you so, celebrations," replied Davis.
"This was to be expected," replied O'Neill.
"At last count over fifty countries have filed claims against the militarization of the Antarctic, along with claims against the United States for withholding this technology," spoke Davis.
"The I.O.A. is working hard to smooth everything over," explained O'Neill.
"Sir, we have gotten fifty-two requests all from countries in Africa requesting access to the energy sources," explained Davis.
"Energy there is a major issue, Commander Landry, put Africa at the top of the list for receiving the Interdimensional Energy Collectors," ordered O'Neill.
"Sir, I'd like to suggest those in greatest need the order for all the new technologies rolling out," spoke Landry.
"That's the way it should be," replied O'Neill, "Africa and South America will get the biggest gains there."
"Hopefully some stability to those regions as well," replied Landry.
"How many are we installing?" asked O'Neill.
"Two for North America, and Asia, one for Europe, Africa, South America, and Australia," replied Landry, "The main issue will be power distribution."
"Thor has made a comment about each of these should be an Atlantis Defense base?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes each station would be a defensive platform, for use if we were under attack, and for defending the collector," replied Landry, "They would also have lite manufacturing capabilities. For the medical equipment and other items, we are looking at providing. Transporters to beam between Atlantis and there for personnel.
"Looking forward to seeing these in place," answered O'Neill.
Later that day, Colonel Sheppard sat in the Command Chair of Atlantis, lifting the city from the Pacific Ocean.
"All Atlantis Personnel we are commencing relocating Atlantis to Altera. It should be a smooth ride, but be prepared," announced Harriman over the broadcast system. Twenty minutes later Sheppard was settling Atlantis into the center of Altera. News crews had been there to provide coverage of the entire relocation. Julia Donovan had event won over O'Neill, allowing her to set up a broadcast center on Atlantis. She would be the official news reporter for the Atlantis Command.
Landry stepped out to the control room, asked, "Walter are we ready to turn on Altera?"
"Yes sir, all diagnostics check out," answered Harriman.
"Turn the lights on!" shouted an excited Landry.
Walter clicked a few buttons, "There we go, sir!"
Lights across the abandoned city came on. Landry went out on the balcony to look out over Altera. As far as the eye could see in each direction was the city. He remembered the city could support ten million, but Janus wasn't just speaking of housing, but work areas, and often with the Ancients he had learned they would have a massive laboratory just for one person. The immensity of the what lay before them was unprecedented. Earth was never going to be the same again.
Teal'c and Ronon had learned there was a combat training facility in Altera. They were out in the southern quadrant inspecting it, along with Lt. Adams, and Varro who was looking to be one of the instructors.
"This facility could replace the obstacle course, and it appears it was designed to be easily reconfigured, to challenge the recruits even further," spoke Adams.
"Indeed," answered Teal'c.
"There appear to be nine other facilities like this one scattered around the open center," spoke Varro, "We should be able to handle as many as twenty-five thousand recruits at a time."
Ronon walking in, "Sparing rooms are scattered all around here, there would be plenty to keep the recruits busy."
"Classrooms as well for the professors," replied Adams, "Plus living quarters around the outside parameter."
"I believe these facilities will be suitable," replied Teal'c.
Larrin was meeting with Thor, as Mitchell was on R & R.
"What are your specifications for a fighter?" asked Thor.
"Slim profile, it needs to be difficult to target. It needs to be extremely agile, tight turns, extremely responsive, and able to accelerate quickly," answered Larrin.
"It needs to be able to operate in space and the atmosphere of a planer?" asked Thor.
"Yes and it must be able to take a lot of hits, with shields and armor," replied Larrin, "It does us no good if it goes down with a single hit."
"Weapons?" asked Thor.
"We need two types. Fast repetitive weapons that can be fired quickly and over long periods of time. Then we need the big weapons, the missiles, the large beam weapons, that are slower but more destructive," answered Larrin.
"If we use a neutrino ion-generator we would have the power run two rail guns and using a stored energy pattern for the ballista, we could create a nearly endless supply of shells for the rail guns. It would require a charge but using an induction capacitor we could build a large enough charge to fire a beam weapon at a significant power level," replied Thor.
"Great what about speed?" asked Larrin.
"Inertial dampeners and sub-light engines we should be able to have the fighters operating at five percent of the speed of light," answered Thor.
"Five percent? That would be incredible!" shouted Larrin, "What about shielding?"
"Multi-ionic phase induced shields, with only five layers, instead of the one hundred that we have on the DN-1103's," replied Thor.
"Sounds great!", replied Larrin, "How soon can we have one?"
"I went send you the designs once I am complete with them. We should be able to build ten per day using a single manufacturing line on Pacifica," replied Thor.
Dr. Miller and Manni were meeting with Commander Landry.
"Manni, you had something you wanted to discuss?" asked Landry.
"Yes, we have designed a ship that would be able to build the Atlantis Defense Bases in place. We would set down at the location where they are being built, and in seventy-two of your hours, we would have a base complete and online," explained Manni.
"Seventy-two hours?" asked a shocked Landry.
"Yes, sir. We have a steady enough stream of raw materials to be able to produce these quickly. The manufacturing facilities would be set to manufacture medical bays and these energy distribution pods," replied Manni.
"Energy distribution pods?" asked Landry.
"They are these devices here, they receive energy from the base station and provide a method to interface with existing power lines," replied Dr. Miller, as she pulled out a glowing blueish cube.
"This will solve the distribution issue?" asked Landry.
"Yes, sir. A village or city with these interfaced into the electrical grid would be able to fully power their wirelessly using these," replied Dr. Miller.
"The base stations would form a planet-wide energy grid, these could tap into them to provide access to that energy," replied Manni.
"I just learned about these this afternoon," replied Dr. Miller.
"Nice, excellent work, I guess you're not needed on setting these up Dr. Miller. I'll speak to Commander O'Neill to see what to assign to you," replied Landry.
That night O'Neill was finally alone with his wife, Carter, in their quarters.
"How are you holding up?" asked O'Neill.
"Just trying to get everything right in my head. That Old One really played some mind games on me," replied Carter.
"What everspace you need to get better, let me know, spoke O'Neill.
"How about zero space, I need your arms around me feeling protected. I need to feel my Jack," spoke Carter.
Jack held his wife through the night on the couch as she slept. He watched over her, as she slept soundly.