Author's Note: I will be working to chapter 50, as I have these chapters mapped out, and full of ideas on them. Once I make chapter 50 I will be taking a break to fully review all the chapters correct issues within them. There are a few mistakes I need to make in the story, such as Cassie Frasier's age. Also, correct any grammar issues. I have been using "Grammarly" for the past 10-15 chapters and not happy with it.
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O'Neill had a couple of offices modified to work as a War Planning room. The room had the phase shifting technology added to it. In addition, it contained new holographic projection systems. Communication equipment to allow for communication when shifted. Dr. McKay and Thor had delivered on this requests.
Present in the room were O'Neill, Caldwell, Landry, Davis, Thor, Bra'tac, and Hammond.
"Welcome everyone, this room is where we will be our strategy center and crisis response center. We will be meeting here regularly to plan out our strategy," opened O'Neill.
"Basically our situation room?" asked Landry.
"Yes," replied O'Neill, "Right now we have two situations, the Ascended, and Odai Ventrrell with his H.O.P.E."
"On Odai Ventrell, we found three additional satellites that had a device attached to it for him to communicate through," replied Landry, "Eli Wallace is working with Mr. Barrett monitoring for any communication from him. Once he does we hope to have him."
"We are still determining what to do with our three little terrorists in the brig. The Atlantis Council is debating it," replied O'Neill.
"Sounds like we have that under control," spoke Hammond.
"Yes we do, now for the war with the old ones," replied O'Neill.
"Janus and I have discussed this to great length," replied Hammond, "They have withdrawn to the edges of the galaxy. We know they are there. Our ascended friends have come within our solar system would be the best way to describe it."
"They are acting as a shield?" asked O'Neill.
"Not precisely, it is difficult to explain, but simple terms they are getting things ready on our plane of existence to battle," replied Hammond.
"What do we need to know, to prevent friendly fire?" asked Caldwell.
"They are at the edges of the solar system, out of your range currently," replied Hammond.
"So when the old ones come?" asked Caldwell.
"I'm going to be blunt here, we do not number enough for a direct confrontation. You're going to have to stand and take the assault, we will help as we are able, but we need to conserve our strength for a final assault," replied Hammond.
"So we're going to have survive the first couple of rounds with them, then you all come in at them?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes Jack, that's basically it. You have the strength and technology to stand up to them far better than we can. Your weapons are a threat to them. You will take a great number of them out I do not doubt. But they have numbers on their side. We believe they will throw everything they have at you, once they do that, we can take them out," replied Hammond.
"How effective will our shields be against them?" asked Thor.
"The shield modifications you made against the old one on Alcatraz will go a long way," replied Hammond, "It won't hold them for long, they will be able to overwhelm your shields quickly."
"We need better defenses and weapons," replied O'Neill.
"How do we get them?" asked Landry.
"Soldiers we have, another twenty thousand Jaffa stand ready to begin training," replied Bra'tac.
"Soon as we have enough trainers we will take them," replied O'Neill.
"We will have the supplies set up. Captain Voronkova has been focused on the agriculture aspects of Altera. She has brought in over five hundred botanists, and farmers. The food production techniques of the ancients are accelerating food production. Estimates put us at being self-sustaining at one hundred thousand in four weeks," replied Davis.
"If the remaining five city ships are intact, we can have them here, which will provide additional support for operations," replied O'Neill.
"There is a docking port for each of those city ships, here in Altera," replied Hammond.
"There is?" asked Landry.
Hammond accessing the computer to change the holographic display, show the six docking ports for the city ships, "The one in red was built for Pacifica, however it will no longer inter-connect," replied Hammond.
"We could use the time dilation field and nanites to create a replacements," suggested Thor.
"Do we have the supplies to do that?" asked Davis.
"If we build them on Othalla, then yes we have the materials. We could build the entire six by tomorrow morning and have in place by tomorrow," replied Thor.
"Wait we could have brand new city ships by tomorrow?" asked O'Neill.
"Othalla is rich in all the material required. We could build them in a few hours and have them here, complete with the most advanced technology that we have," replied Thor.
"Each of those city ships is unique, you will need to access the Repository of Knowledge to get the designs," replied Hammond, "When all seven city ships are in place, on Altera they will create a formidable platform."
"Thor begin the construction of the six city ships," replied O'Neill.
"We are going to need some sort of weapon for the troops to use. Otherwise, they are cannon fodder," replied Landry.
"Get Dr. Miller and Dr. Felgar working on upgrading the X-699 on that along with Hlin. I have a feeling Hlin already has some upgrades to the suits. We need them with weapons that we could use against the old ones," replied O'Neill.
"Did you just say Dr. Felgar?" asked Hammond.
"Yes I did please don't remind me," replied O'Neill.
"Sir what about the hyperspace disrupter satellites? Those were discussed but never implemented," asked Caldwell, "We implemented those into our ships instead. I think having an independent system in place would be advisable."
"I can also say that those have the effect of slowing down ascended beings," replied Hammond.
"Really? That is something we can use to our advantage then," replied Caldwell.
"Let's get those implemented. I believe Dr. Simpson should be able to get those constructed for us," replied O'Neill.
"I'll have her on it immediately," replied Caldwell.
O'Neill turned to Thor, "How goes the construction of the Atlantis Outposts?"
"South America, Asia, and Europe will be online tomorrow. In four days North America, Australia, and second Asia will be online, with remaining North America 4 days later," replied Thor.
"We are making upgrades to the Nemesis, Hades, and Ares, to be able to pull power from the grid when needed in Earth orbit," replied Caldwell.
"The Poseidon, Athena, and Apollo we are prepared to construct once we have crews ready for them," replied Thor.
"Poseidon, Athena, and Apollo?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes, three additional DN-1103's if needed we can use a time dilation field to speed up production. We had not done so, due to lack of trained crews," replied Thor.
"Master Bra'Tac, have your Jaffa ready, soon as Davis is able to assign them quarters. Commander Landry, tell Teal'c and Ronon, we need to accelerate their training. Those with piloting skills need to be assigned to Larrin for training in the new fighters," ordered O'Neill.
"O'Neill, I can assist in their training, and I believe I can bring in a few additional Jaffa to help train as well," replied Bra'Tac.
"That is excellent news," replied O'Neill.
"We'll get them assigned out for training, and I will speak to Teal'c and Ronon," replied Landry, "Commander O'Neill, we need better defenses and weapons, but I don't see how we can advance much further than we are right now."
"Now then, I have two hopes on new technology, P9C-372. We made contact with them, they were an advanced electronic species. I want Carter to take SG-1 and the Nemesis there to try and make friendly contact," replied O'Neill.
"And the second way?" asked Landry.
"Find the Furlings, to join us," replied O'Neill.
"O'Neill, the Furlings moved on from our part of space many millennia ago," replied Thor.
"Until now it has been difficult for us to search beyond our galaxies that are close together here. Now Othalla is across the known universe," replied O'Neill, "We have the ability to traverse around the universe."
"I had not considered this, but we have the entire universe to explore," replied Thor.
"We can use the planetary data that we receive from the seeder ships, to map out worlds that would suit their needs and be able to examine those," replied O'Neill.
"There is a reason we choose you to be our leader, O'Neill," replied Thor.
"Does it seem we are bit chaotic here to anyone else? I mean we are talking about building six city ships, three DN-1103's, disrupter satellites, trying to befriend an alien species that nearly wiped us out, and also go find the Furlings," asked Davis.
"You left off the part about fighting basically gods again," replied Caldwell.
"Yeah and that," replied Davis.
"Things are a mess right now Col. Davis. Yes, it's going to be chaotic. We are going to be trying many things. Realize we have the most formidable enemy we have encountered coming for us. These guys make the Ori, look like Girl Scouts. You never faced the Ori, directly, they came at you through other means. Which is what the Old Ones have done up until now. When you wiped out the Ori, things changed. When you unlocked the ability to generate power like you have, they changed further. Mark my words here, we need to do everything that we can. Commander O'Neill is correct, we must find anyone we can to help. Five million Jaffa out there with a weapon won't be enough to make a dent, yet one single scientist, could wipe them all out," spoke Hammond.
"Sorry sir, it just seems we are trying to do so much in so little time. I'm worried we are going to miss being ready," replied Davis.
"That is why we are here, to discuss and plan. So we don't make that mistake," replied O'Neill.
"So can we go over what the plan is right now? To make sure we are all on the same page," asked Landry.
"Number one, Dr. Simpson will construct and deploy out the Hyperspace Disrupter Satellites. Number two, the Asgard will use time dilation fields and nanites to construct six new city ships to be delivered tomorrow. Number three, Col. Carter will take SG-1 and the Nemesis, to P9C-372 to attempt to establish communication with the electronic life found there. Number four, Bra'Tac, will work with Teal'c and Ronon to bring in additional instructors and twenty thousand Jaffa for training. Number five, Commander Caldwell will work with Larrin and accelerate the fighter training, as well as the DN-1103's training. Number six, Commander Landry and Col. Davis will work to increase the food production here in Altera and see to settlements. Number seven Thor will work with identifying planets the Furlings could be on," replied O'Neill.
"That actually makes it a lot clearer and better organized than it seemed," replied Col. Davis.
"Your right, I was a bit lost myself," replied Landry.
"Ok, folks you know what to do. Let's get things going. We will meet back here tomorrow," replied O'Neill.
Thor deactivated the phase shift and everyone exited the room.
Thor immediately returned to Othalla to put things into action.
Caldwell that night was in Pacifica now in orbit around Earth.
"Sir we are detecting six wormholes opening in orbit," cried Jennings.
"That should be our new city ships arriving," replied Caldwell.
Six very unique city ships appeared on the screen. They all had similar characteristics to Atlantis, but slight differences. Caldwell watched as they descended down toward Altera. Six brand new city ships constructed and delivered in less than a day. Time dilation was something new to get used to. The Asgard certainly knew how to use it.
The next morning everyone has gathered in the situation room again, Janus had joined them.
"Everyone report on status from yesterday," ordered O'Neill, "Thor you first."
"We have built the new city ships they have been added to Altera. Their designs are unique, they have much stronger star drive than necessary, each carries considerable more drones than Atlantis," replied Thor.
"Can you not guess? With all seven city ships, Altera can be launched if needed. They were designed in case of a battle that the six outward city ships would act as the primary weapon platform. They would be the target instead of the primary city," replied Hammond.
"You didn't think to tell us before now?" asked O'Neill.
"We have upgraded the drones to the new types that we have developed, along with a few new features as well," replied Thor.
"Better for you to learn that we have to share," replied Hammond.
"Commander Caldwell?" spoke O'Neill.
"Teal'c has identified over two hundred Jaffa that he believes will make excellent fighter pilots. We also have seven Asgard who has requested to join the program as fighter pilots," answered Caldwell.
"They have requested it, they have seen an entertainment video you call Top Wing," replied Thor, "They have studied aerial combat techniques from your database."
"I think you mean Top Gun, good movie," replied O'Neill.
"Larrin is working with all of them, and she said to say thanks for the fighters. I am very much impressed with them and how they are carried around," replied O'Neill.
"Thank you, we put all the advanced technology we could into them," replied Thor.
"Carried around?" asked O'Neill.
Caldwell held up his wrist showing a large bracelet on it, "All I need is an open space with twenty by twenty feet, and press a couple of these buttons on this, and it will materialize out a fighter," replied Caldwell.
"I want one," replied O'Neill.
"We have a different suit for you Commander O'Neill, I will bring it by later," replied Thor.
"Does it fly?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes it does," replied Thor.
"Cool," replied O'Neill grinning.
"Dr. Simpson has started construction of the Hyperspace Disrupter Satellites, she expects to have them ready in a week," replied Caldwell, "The Hades will place them in their location once complete."
"Excellent work," replied O'Neill, "And the assignment for the Nemesis?"
"I'm glad you had discussed this with Col. Carter prior to me speaking to her. Col. Carter has requested that I send Dr. McKay with them to help establish communication with them," replied Caldwell, "Col. Carter is working with Mani on some upgrades to the scanners and shields. They should be ready to leave in two days."
"Master Bra'Tac," replied O'Neill.
"Your Col. Davis has found living quarters around the training area for the Jaffa. They will be arriving over the next few days. I will be joining Teal'c, Ronon, and the other instructors. We have added an additional ten instructors from Jaffa that I know. We have created a modified training regiment where all recruits will be moving through different regimented training areas," replied Bra'Tac.
"Do me a favor make sure we don't send to many to the infirmary," replied O'Neill, "Commander Landry, how is food?"
"Col. Davis working with Captain Voronkova, has accelerated the food production we should be online with food production for one hundred thousand by end of the week," replied Landry.
"Also a large number of American farmers have requested to join us here to help on food production, over ten thousand in total. We may be able to be in a position to export food to other countries. Also, we are looking at exporting these food production techniques here. We could be on the verge of solving hunger across the globe," replied Davis.
"Let's work out a training program, farmers can come here, learn the techniques, then we can return them home with the equipment to get started," replied O'Neill.
"I think we could swing that easily," replied Davis.
"Janus you said you had something you wanted to propose?" asked O'Neill.
"I want to return to Celeste and see if we can reason with Adria. She is the only one who would know the location of Merlin's weapon. If we could study it and learn how it works, it's possible we could use that technology to defeat the old ones," spoke Janus.
"I thought she was in an eternal battle with Morgan Le Fay?" asked O'Neill.
"Only because she is alone without help. I and a few other ascended would tip the battle easily. We could convince her to turn over the device to us," replied Janus.
"Do you really think Adria will tell you where the device is? Or that she has already destroyed it," asked O'Neill.
"I believe she would have kept it, in case she needed it to defend herself from any other ascended being," replied Janus.
"That would make sense," replied Landry.
"What if she tries to use this device on you?" asked O'Neill.
"It's a risk, but the potential gains outweigh the risk," replied Janus.
"Permission granted, but I want you to take along SG-1," replied O'Neill.
"They are on the Nemesis preparing for P9C-372," replied Caldwell.
"How about I take along an additional ten ascended with me," replied Janus, "Any interaction with her will be on our plane, not yours."
"Make it twenty, we need you all back safely," replied O'Neill.
"Thank you," replied Janus.
"General I have a few things from the U.N.," replied Landry.
"I'm sure this is going to be good," replied O'Neill.
"First they have asked to relocate the U.N. here on Altera complete with embassies and everything," spoke Landry.
"They want to be here?" asked O'Neill, "They understand this is going to be ground zero correct?"
"Yes, I've explained this," replied Landry.
"Do we have any facilities even suitable for that?" asked O'Neill.
"Actually Sir, yes we do. It's located in one of the eastern segments. We probably have about five hundred facilities that could be used for embassies, and there is a central hall there to house the U.N.," replied Davis.
"They say they would be more inclined to support Altera if they were here," replied Landry.
"Blackmail?" asked O'Neill.
"Basically sir," replied Landry.
"OK, work it out with Woosley and the council, if they are on board then set them up. They have access to Altera, not Atlantis," replied O'Neill, "Which brings up a point. Any and all scientific work that requires security should be done within Atlantis, while unsecured work can be done in the labs scattered around Altera."
"That's basically how we have been operating," replied Davis.
"Second they have asked about air transportation," replied Landry.
"For getting here?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes and for replacing the current airlines we have around the world," replied Landry, "They have gone so far as to suggest that Altera should be the worldwide hub for travel."
"Don't we have a plan for spreading the transport technology?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes and no. Concerns over misuse have brought that to a stop," replied Davis.
"Let's find someone with a solution to this," replied O'Neill, "Let's send out a request for ideas to all of our scientists. See if someone steps up with something brilliant."
Landry looked around, "Well I have some news from Dr. McKay. He has built a new class of nanites that can make use of miniature time dilation fields. These nanites are being programmed to upgrade and repair Altera. He is building in safety protocols that will have them create a zone to prevent anyone from entering, while within they are using the time dilation fields to accelerate the work. He believes the entire city of Altera can be upgraded to the latest technology in just two weeks."
"Two weeks?" asked O'Neill, "I thought he would have done it faster."
"He is using a less aggressive strategy for them, to prevent any accidents. However he believes we can use this same technology to repair Altera or any of our ships," replied Landry.
"Have him get on that as well. Automated repairs on our ships would be amazing," replied Caldwell.
"Anything else anyone?" asked O'Neill.