16 Prepping for war.
He must have recognized our technology and been cautious. As a half Ascended, he probably suspects it is a move from the ones above to obstruct his progress, he is probably right. I used Merlin's latest invention, spy drones that can stay out of phase. A thousand of them are bound to be dropped off at planets with active Astra Portas. A job for Fleur's division.
There are about nine hundred active Astra Portas, a few thousand that were used after we left for the Pegasus Galaxy. Once they all got a spy drone, I ordered five thousand more to be sent to Stars that don't have Astra Portas but are in reach for a Ha'tak near a planet with one. Almost every Astra Porta got buried in the sediment, seven million years of neglect will do that.
That way we discovered a lot of hidden bases and lost technology, even some planets with humans that are about to discover space flight. We set a monitoring… Spy drone, to check on their progress and to keep the Goa'uld away.
Xxxxx
Parvati has a team dedicated to reclaiming our technology from planets in our Galaxy, sometimes erasing the data from computers of worlds that reverse-engineered our technology when they are using it to suppress others with it.
Our spy drones discovered a potential enemy, the Ashen got in the picture. Fleur's team discovered their crimes after analyzing their planets, they occupied six planets, five of those planets had their original population made infertile by the Ashen and died out, the Ashen occupied them as farming planets.
The Ashen were discussed in a meeting, Fleur described their civilization to us, "The Ashen are an advanced race focused on expansion, once they discover a new planet, they offer the local residents to improve their technology, by doing so they infect that planet with a Genetic virus that makes males and females infertile, a generation later they have an empty planet."
She continued, "The good news is that they have a malfunctioning Astra Porta, it only gets the address from an incoming connection and infects that incoming Astra Porta with the same flaw. That is the only reason that prevented them from conquering other worlds. They don't have Hyperspace technology yet, but are working on it."
That is why they never got further than six planets, with a fully functioning Astra Porta they could reach every corner of the Galaxy. If Carter can let a Porta work without a dialing device, the Ashen would be able to do so too. They are not stupid after all. Or it was a plot hole that the scriptwriters had made into reality. This could be my version of the afterlife.
Daphne reported, "The Ashen are genetically altered, they are emotionally detached, killing someone won't trigger any emotion, neither hate nor anger or remorse, there is only a community instinct focused on expansion. This is a planet-wide genetic alteration, no doubt administered by the government to silence opposition. This means they have no empathy for other races, they see them as an obstruction to be erased to get a new planet."
Parvati added, "They made their own version of Astra Portas and created a local network mostly to transport the harvest to the main planet. They have a big space fleet but as Fleur said no Hyperdrive, although that is not far off. If a team from Star Gate Command comes in contact with them, we would cease to exist a century later. Getting new technology is too attractive for governments to refuse."
Susan commented, "I suggest keeping an eye on them, if one of the Star Gate teams makes contact with them and the Ashen try their trick, then we have a reason to act. We can not eradicate them in advance, that would lower us to the level of the Goa'uld."
Padma nodded, "Keep a permanent eye on them, but we can not allow them to develop a Hyperdrive, that will set them loose in the Galaxy, we have our plate full with the Goa'uld, we don't need another headache. I suggest Fleur put a permanent team to monitor their progress with extra spy drones."
"I hesitate to suggest it, but I can program the Astra Portas to refuse certain DNA to pass through, they would be stored in the buffers…" I said, after thinking about it for a moment, I added, "I can make it so that they are ejected when that Astra Porta gets an incoming call."
"You know I can't do it for the Goa'uld," I said before they could mention it, "The Jaffa and their Larva are separate entities, the Portas would keep the Larva, the Jaffa have human DNA and will pass through without their Larva, that would be a death sentence for them."
Grudgingly they agreed, it would solve a lot but would reflect badly on our reputation. We have to be able to solve it with as few human causalities as possible. Keeping the moral high ground is tricky.
Cho Chang, head of the legal department reported, "There is an increase of racism, and there are voices to separate from Rigil and colonize another planet. This means some people are slipping into Rigil that did not make the oath."
I groaned, "They must have used a Gemino spell on a bracelet… do a scan for bracelets with the same ID number, they can duplicate the bracelet, the ID number stays the same. Arrest everyone that have a duplicated bracelet and find out who is after it, they must have pilfered some technology away too."
I looked at Fleur, "Scan Earth for our technology and get on them like a ton of bricks. Check the logs of the shuttles and Auras for unauthorized side trips. When you have them all, erase their knowledge and turn them into muggles."
I sighed, "People, these first decades will define our future. If we allow splinter groups to form, we will have planetary wars in a few centuries, even when there is enough room in space, we are not evolved enough to tolerate others next to us. I know that I am contradicting myself, but the minds of our kind are still set on the Muggle, Muggleborn, Halfblood, and Pureblood kind of thinking. It will need two generations to get us equal with the Gene sequencing of our babies."
Xxxxx
Two days later the dissidents were captured, put on trial, and questioned with Veritaserum after we removed the bracelets. The trials were broadcast live and judged following our Core laws. In the end, we turned two hundred wizards into Muggles and put them back on Earth.
Then we moved to the ones behind the movement, it was no surprise they were from the nations that promoted pureblood superiority. One by one was beamed up, interrogated and when guilty turned into a Muggle.
A month later, everything was over, Earth got a couple of thousand more Muggles, and the rest got the message that they better not mess with us. We reported it in the Wizarding Papers on Earth with all the details and our response to it.
Our end quote was, "We welcome you to join us in space, but it will be under our rule. Why you ask? It was the single action of our leader Harry Potter that made it possible to travel to the Stars. It is our goal to restore our Nation to its former glory. Once we were united throughout the whole Galaxy. As One Nation under One rule for millions of years. If you don't want to follow our laws, you can stay on Earth."
Xxxxx
Lisa Turpin, our newly minted ambassador for the ICW and Earth granted several interviews to promote and explain our policy to Wizarding and Muggle newspapers. Her arrival is always spectacular with her specially designed Diplomat Corvette, each interview ended with a trip to the planets in the solar system and a visit to Rigil. Lisa also explained what Star Gate Command was doing in the Galaxy.
They were not happy when Lisa exposed their top secrets to the public, her comment made them shut up, "It is your right if you develop weapons in secret to make your country stronger, it is not right when your actions endanger the whole planet. It is right to search for new technologies, it is not right to steal them from others, or force them to hand them over, as it happened in the past by your NID."
Her final comment cut deep into their pride, "Exploring the Galaxy has to be done by all the nations, then if something goes wrong you are all the blame, not one or two countries."
Lisa, with Padma, and Susan were the driving forces to introduce ourselves to the world. By documentaries about the wildlife on Rigil and Pandora, and reports on the Alien races in our Galaxy, they made the world aware of what is out there. They explained why the Goa'uld are mad at us, and what we have done to protect the World from them.
Lisa said in her interviews, "It is best for Earth to unite and prepare for war against the Goa'uld, we are not your babysitters that will solve all the problems you caused in the Galaxy. We allow the Star Gate Command to use our Astra Porta, we even made a quarantine building around it. That does not mean you can go out there and do whatever you want, we have a set of ethics that can not be crossed, we will remove the Porta if you do."
About immigration, Lisa commented, "People interested in knowing if they are eligible for a place on Rigil have to mail a letter with a drop of their blood to the addresses we made available. Our scanners will tell if you have our DNA and will send you a memory globe with an explanation if you have any, once we have your DNA our computers can find you."
It was a good strategy, letters with drops of blood streamed in, we gained another forty thousand new Lanteans that way, and they kept on sending blood. Our screening was optimized by now and security sweeps prevented further fraud.
I was glad for that, I hate to introduce Artificial Intelligence to regulate people like the one from Atlantis. Why not you ask? There are too many ways it could go wrong and backfire.
Xxxxx
It almost saddens me to find out Hogwarts had to close its doors, there were not enough students to keep it afloat, the place is still in ruins, and most of the students emigrated to Rigil with their parents. The only students were purebloods that managed to stay out of Azkaban, the rest are up here with us, yes a lot of them are purebloods, we don't discriminate. Astoria, Daphne, and Tracey are shining examples of it. Which encouraged other purebloods to ask for a spot.
Why did they ask for a spot on Rigil you ask? Because their economy was dying, all the Muggleborn and Halfbloods were gone. All the shady businesses had their victims beamed away. As I promised Luna, after all the Veela were rescued, Fleur's department searched for Muggleborn victims of those slave traders. Needless to say, our mind healers had to do overtime when they appeared. Earth got themselves a lot of new Muggles when we were done.
Shacklebolt was the Minister of Magic of an empty shell and secretly wanted to emigrate too. We made a move to buy all the excess house elves from the Ministry and Hogwarts, and let the elves choose if they want to bond with Rigil's Cities or to a family of their choosing.
We introduced them to the Nox and their planet, but the elves wanted to serve Wizards, it was too deeply ingrained in their being and could not be denied. Hermione made sure that proper treatment for Magical beings was included in the Core Laws.
The Goblins are still crying bitter tears in their caves, Griphook's head was mounted to a wall in their main Hall. One customer after the other emptied their vaults and moved to Rigil, soon only the last hard-core traditionalist remained on Earth… and they despise Goblins.
Goblin Silver, you ask? Meh, we can replicate it without problems, our enchants are just as good as theirs. It is cheaper too. Once the Goblins found out we could make Goblin silver they wanted to start a war… they could not reach us though. Every Goblin that came too close to my properties got dunked in the Northsea. They stopped trying after the ones that could swim returned to their caves.
Gloating? Nah, maybe a little. A crying Goblin is a sight to see, damn right I am gloating!
Xxxxx
We finally found Anubis! That fucker hid at the outskirts of our Galaxy on a planet without an Astra Porta. We only have to find out how to kill that bastard. We can't kill it with conventional weapons, he just gets into another body and it moves on.
When Fleur reported she found Anubis I ordered her to stand back and observe only. I called everyone in for a meeting.
I started my explanation, "During the battle of Hogwarts, Tom Riddle did kill me and my soul Ascended halfway. Up there I got a choice, move on, or go back and finish the job. The one who was talking to me told me that Riddle was not the only trouble I would face and worse enemies were out there waiting for me. I decided that I could better be dead after I got back and die than give up without a fight. I gained a lot of Brain Power by coming back, double what most of you have, I'm at 78%."
I looked around to see if they swallowed my half-truths, I continued, "Somehow I got a bit of flashes of what is out there. Anubis is the Voldemort of the Milky Way. He tricked an Ascended to help him ascend, once there those naffers punished the Ascended by forcing Anubis down in our Galaxy as a half Ascended. Meaning he is impossible to kill, you can kill the body but he will possess another one."
After I was done talking I asked, "Any ideas to solve it?"
Hermione started to vent her ideas, "First we need to upgrade the shields of our Space fleet, to ward it against Ghosts and poltergeists, those are the closest to Ascended. We could capture him in a space that drains magic. We could send him into a Black Hole."
When Hermione came up for a breath of air, Luna said, "Avada Kadavra, it separates the soul from the Body and kills it."
Hermione breathed out and nodded, "That could work too. In fact, I think we should start with that. No doubt those three unforgivables were designed for Anubis."
Helia commented, "Ascending is the Soul that gathered enough energy to surpass the physical world, and move to a higher plane, where it can draw its energy from. It makes them immortal. That is a definition an Ascended gave us millions of years ago. That Avada spell could work."
She looked at me, "If you search the archives, there are methods to keep the Ascended from entering our homes and obscure their view. Once we began to ascend, those methods became classified, only the High Councilor has access to those files."
Dan Granger gave a piece of advice, "Protect yourself from Mind Magic, the Mind and Soul are connected, if Anubis wants to take your body he has to enter your Mind and force it out along with your Soul. It begins with your Mind, so build a wall around it."
After consulting with her team, Hermione said, "We can add those protections to our bracelets, Harry can let the main frame do an update to all the bracelets once we have the data ready."
Xxxxx
I included in the Major Update of the bracelets to let them search for the Oath, that was an oversight of my original design. It is corrected now, we got some offenders, some of them by an honest mistake at the recruitment center and made the Oath, others avoided the Oath on purpose, they returned to Earth as Muggles.
Atlantis unlocked the classified technology to shield against Ascended. I smiled at the Ascended in the archives, "Nah, the Ascended may keep on looking at Atlantis. Some of them are still good."
We decided to go all out on Anubis we have twelve Auroras, all of them with the newest upgrades and wards, the bad part? I was banned from participating in the fight... So were my wives... And my concubines... And my friends with benefits. All the councilors were banned from joining the fight.
Helia took command of the operation, after analyzing the data from the spy satellites, they moved in. It was a bit anti-climatic, ten Auroras advanced under cloak, got in position, and blasted the planet full of holes.
Anubis got beamed up in a warded room surrounded by our warriors, who went Avada on his ass, once it was done, everyone beamed out, and the stripped-down Corvette jumped into Hyperspace for a fraction of a second to come out of it in the middle of the star.
That was a fulfilling end for a bad guy, to be sure, I went to Atlantis and asked the Ascended who pretended to be the Archives AI, "Would Anubis stay dead when he was killed with the Avada spell and ejected into a star? Can he come back?"
The Ascended, sighed, "Anubis is dead, Harry Potter. You disturbed the Other's plans, this won't bode well for you."
I shook my head, "They can't interfere without violating their own laws, but warn them that if they even think to put a plague or create an insect hybrid to eradicate us, then they will suffer. There must be some Ori among those Others. So does this mean you can't stay here? I can give you sanctuary if you want. I kind of like you a lot."
She shook her head, "I can not stay to guide my children any longer, I am called back. Fare thy well, my child."
I smiled, "Thank you, Grandma, we will meet you again someday."
"Someday we will," were her last words. I think she was one of the returnees from Atlantis who had some kids with humans before she ascended.
Xxxxx
A memory of that conversation was shown to the original crews of the Tria and Aurora. After the showing, we discussed the implications. It drew a somber picture of the Ascended for the ones on the verge of ascending.
Helia sighed, "Our Ascended Ancestors are evil after all, we fled our original Galaxy from evil Ascended to create our own demons here. It makes me wonder if it is worth it to ascend, it makes life meaningless."
I tried to get her out of a depression, "Don't give up hope, Admiral Helia, we are at a pivoting point in History. We are granted a fresh start, to correct past mistakes and build a new world."
With a grim face I vowed, "We will find a way to punish the Others for their crimes, they act too much like Dumbledore. Sacrificing everything and everyone to reach their goal. They will pay."
Padma asked, "Can you give us a decade? I am sure Harry will work it out for us. In the meantime, we will research ways to block them."
Hermione commented, "The first steps are already made, the City Centers are warded against them."
Xxxxx
Luna went on a shopping spree again, the dragon preserves could not afford to keep their dragons anymore, demand for Dragon parts dropped to such a low that keeping Dragons cost more than they could earn from them.
Luna bought them all and released them in warded parts of Pandora to prevent them to grow out of control. The first resorts were built close to the nesting areas and fully booked by dragon fans.
Every race has a separate region suited for their race according to the old books, closely monitored through the camera globes from the space science station. Those cameras were sending life pictures to the view screens on Rigil on the nature channels. Those channels became popular, dragons were not well known, even for purebloods, most only knew them from books and pictures, watching them live in the wild was special.
Luna hired Hagrid and his brother, I made him swear an Oath to prevent him from cross-breeding even the smallest insect or keeping an animal as dangerous as a flobberworm… ok, normal Crups and Kneazles are allowed... Normal dogs too.
When he protested I shouted, "Did you forget your fucking Spiders, Hagrid? How many kids did they kill during the battle? Acromantula are harmless for you, can you say the same for us? I did not forget those blasted-ended screwts either."
I sighed and said, "Hagrid, I know you are a good man, but your actions put others in danger. If I find out you are experimenting with magic animals again, I will let a dragon fuck you in the ass to see if you can fart flames."
Luna calmed me down, "I have a solution, husband. We located a group of ten female giants, all the males fell in the battle. You, Hagrid, and Grawp are the only surviving males. There is a big island on Pandora, twice the size of Britain. That is big enough to let them survive. Will that be agreeable for you, Hagrid? Your Human blood might be enough to lower the violence in your offspring."
I saw what Luna was getting at and made an offer, "Your bracelet will act as a wand, you are allowed to use Magic. We provide a home for you and the giants with all the technology to learn. If your children have Magic and are not violent madmen, we will provide an education for them too."
Luna smiled, "Your bracelet will prevent you from getting hurt, and give you an edge over the girls."
Hagrid's mind short-circuited, he got ten wives? That was too good to be true! "I accept, Miss Luna. Grawp will be happy too. When can we move there?"
When we left I said to Luna, "Be sure to fix Grawp, I rather have giant kids from Hagrid than violent ones from Grawp. Just make his swimmers infertile so he can have fun shagging."
Luna looked sideways at me, "Normally I would object, but this time I feel this is the smart thing to do."
Kids from Grawp would pummel the kids from Hagrid, starting the violent streak of the Giants all over, getting to shag the females will let Grawp view the kids as from him too. Is that cruel you say? Perhaps, if you can offer a better solution give me a call… that is right, there is no cell phone service on Pandora.
Xxxxx
Now that Anubis is out of the picture we prepared for the final strike. Daphne and her team found a solution for the Jaffa, two solutions in fact, the most drastic was to turn them back into humans, and the other was to cure their immunity system. Both had their good and bad points.
Most were for turning them back into humans, to prevent trouble later on, they are twice as strong as regular humans, and without a god to control them, they might become a problem.
Both Asgard and Nox kept their opinions to themselves, they probably see this as a test. Padma and Susan went over the laws with Cho's department to find a precedent in their past. They did not find any.
The Jaffa existed for more than six millennia, longer than any genetically changed humans, but history proved that all genetically altered humans turned to violence… A bit stupid though, normal Humans turn into violent monsters once in a while too.
I made the final decision, "We keep them as Jaffa, the aggressive ones will be turned into humans again. If they can live in peace with humans they can stay as Jaffa, otherwise, they be humans again."
Xxxxx
SG1 got beamed up into the Potter, I welcomed them with the wives and concubines and the friends with benefits… yeah, that is me gloating. I smiled at Carter and made a wide gesture around, "See, Carter? This is what you missed out on. But.. Not for you anymore, you slapped me."
Lavender punched my arm, "Be polite, Harry. You made an improper offer that day, she had every right to be mad at you, then you made fun of her, you deserved that slap. Even though O'Neill deserved it more."
Parvati rolled her eyes, "Quit the drama, Harry. Miss Carter, if you want, there is a place for you among us, somehow that insensitive brute likes you, even if he tries to hide it."
O'Neill protested, "Hey! She belongs with us!"
Parvati looked at him with pity, "You have been drooling over her from the day you met her and didn't make a single move. I say you missed your chance."
Tealc commented, "The mating rituals of the Tauri are complicated," then he asked, "Is there a reason to be summoned here?"
Padma answered, "Next month we will launch an attack against the Goa'uld, we need you to be there to form some kind of government. We developed a cure for your dependency on those Larva and are offering them to you, it comes with a price tag though. No more slaves, no more exploiting humans or treating them as second-class citizens."
Tealc looked thoughtful, "I agree to treat the Tauri as equals, not a lot of Jaffa will think the same."
Padma nodded, "That will get us to the next solution, any Jaffa that can not agree to treat humans as equals will be turned into a human again. After all, the Goa'uld created you from humans, it is easy to turn you back into one."
Tealc shook his head, "The Jaffa will fight it."
Susan said, "The Jaffa will not have a choice, we are willing to let you form a government, but within our limits. The Asgard and we are like-minded in this, we will not replace one bad ruler to set another bad one in its place."
Susan addressed O'Neill, "This is a chance for Earth to get a foot in the door and form an alliance with the Jaffa. Although you did not do much to help their cause."
O'Neill grumbled, "We could have destroyed those Ha'tak from Apophis."
Susan shook her head in pity, "And you would have died trying it."
Xxxxx
We gathered an impressive fleet, Twenty Auroras, a hundred Auras, and three hundred Destinies. It was still nothing compared with the Asgard fleet, Thor was here with his Daphne and a hundred Greengrasses, four hundred Biliskners, and a thousand Potters… Yeah, I got one named after me too... sigh, small ones, they pack a punch but… they are small. Bloody Greengrass could not stop herself from gloating at me. Even Astoria smirked at me.
It is time to put the worms back where they came from.
17 Back where they belong.
Fleur delivered the intel where we could find them, our scanners confirmed their position, the Asgard has our scanners equipped so they got the same data. We beamed all the worms in one big sweep and started dismantling the Ha'taks after beaming the Jaffa to our ships to erase the knowledge of spaceflight.
We destroyed the factories that produced the Jaffa weapons, the secret bases were destroyed and the Jaffa returned to their home planet, all Astra Portas got replaced with new ones that needed access codes to pass through. That centralized the Jaffa and humans to their core planets, it took a week for all the Jaffa to return home.
Now it is my turn, yes, this one will go for the maximum effect, my upper body appeared in the sky above the capitals of the Jaffa planets, it was as if I was looking in from outer space, my voice boomed around all their planets. It made the Jaffa and humans fall to their knees.
"People that lived under the rule of the Goa'uld! We finally got enough of these false Gods and put them back where they belong, in the ponds and rivers of their home planet!" I spread my arms out and told them, "I could claim I am a God too, because I can do this party trick and fool you all again. But I am not a God!"
I let that thought settle for a bit, "We are so technologically advanced that this is an easy trick we can use to fool you, just like the Goa'uld fooled you with their glowing eyes and technology they stole from others. We reclaimed our technology and removed most of our knowledge. We limit traveling through the Chapa'ai to the main planets your recent Goa'uld leader ruled over."
I raised a finger, "Jaffa beware! Once you were humans, the false Gods changed you to fight their battles. Remember you were Human once! We can turn you back if you treat humans badly! Work together to raise as one people and be welcomed by us. Start wars and repress others and we will come back. At the Chapa'ai is a storage room with the solution to eliminate your Larva dependency. Take one pill and the larva will be removed."
Hmm, it is kind of fun playing the voice of God, Worship me! Lick my feet! No! I am ticklish there! Do not suck my dick, only my girls are allowed!… Why do you want to kiss my ass? You know what, it is too much work, you can keep that job, it cuts too much in my quality time with the girls. If you prefer being a bully over fucking a bunch of girls, then there is no hope for you.
Xxxxx
In one month, we set the Goa'uld territory back to the Middle Ages, no, to the pre-industrial era. They are aware of the possibilities, and we provided textbooks to raise their technology backup.
That brings us to the next problem, the ex-hosts of the Goa'uld, especially that Vala girl, the tool of the Others to get the Ori here. I programmed the Astra Portas to store all humans with Naquadah in their blood and signal us when they had one. Every ex-host will have their memory of the possession erased.
There were not a lot of them, most were too old to live more than a few days. No, we don't help them, people die from old age all the time. I admit, Vala has a certain comedy factor, but she is a risk, keeping her means that it is possible she attract the Ori and is responsible for billions of deaths, so I opt to erase her Goa'uld knowledge before she stirs up trouble.
Our shuttles were hunting stray Al'kesh and Tel'taks, they are spread wide, being the first choice for small-time criminals. Death Gliders don't have a Hyperdrive so they are easily found, they are found at the Ha'tak and shipyards, also on the main planets of the System lords to keep the Rif-Raf under control.
Once our shuttles found an Al'kesh, its Hyperdrive and sublight engines were beamed out along with their power source and computer. What is left behind is a big iron box.
We were determined to remove all Goa'uld technology, our scanners are tuned to finding the most hidden ones. We discovered several pirate nests this way, the funny thing about pirates without pirate ships is that they can't pirate anymore, they are stranded in their hidden base, mostly on barren rocks. A few weeks without food made them beg to be arrested.
We put all the Goa'uld back on their planet, we removed the Astra Porta, and put defense platforms around them and spy satellites. Our shuttles kept on hunting for stray Goa'uld and their spaceships, by now I think it is just a flimsy excuse for them to scout the Galaxy.
We got results though, Ba'al had some clones stashed away, a scan of his memory uncovered his hideouts. In the end, the hosts are brought along to get their memories erased, nine out of ten thanked us about that, the Goa'uld are nasty parasites after all.
Xxxxx
With the help of the Asgard, all traces of the Goa'uld were removed from the Milky Way, in three months time the Goa'uld are a bad memory. The Asgard returned home, only Heimdal and his team stayed at Rigil to assist Daphne with their cloning troubles.
Padma and Susan made a tour around the worlds that have developed Spaceflight to introduce ourselves, and offer an Astra Porta if they didn't have one, in some cases they dug one up from the sediment.
That was the next mission for the shuttles, scout our inactive Astra Portas, and report the state of the planet they are on. Several gems were found, forgotten worlds teaming with life, we marked them for our use. A defense platform and spy drones will keep watch over it until we are ready to expand.
We scored good points with the Nox on how we handled the Goa'uld, we had about a hundred thousand causalities, most were suicide attacks of fanatic Jaffa that preferred to blow their ship up. That does not mean the troubles with them are over, you can't change the mentality of a race overnight, Jaffa will be Jaffa, and act as Jaffa. We have to wait until they get out of line to turn them back into humans.
We could not do that without giving them a chance to change their ways, that would ruffle the Nox's feathers of pacifism. Once the Jaffa got out of line we got a reason to step in, as they were our responsibility.
Xxxxx
That brings us to the next set of troubles, the Pegasus Galaxy, there I have one big handicap, I never saw all the episodes, I stopped watching the TV show halfway through the second season. Be honest, if you are a brilliant scientist, so smart that you can reprogram Nanites, you should be smart enough to know how to behave, instead of being a pain in the ass. Rodney McKay was the biggest prick. The characters of the scientists ruined the show for me, but that is coming back to bite me in the ass. Ironic, I know.
We had a meeting with our Generals and officers to discuss it. Helia, the Captain of the Tria, now the Admiral of our Space fleet gave a short overview of the history of the Wraith and how it got out of hand.
"When we arrived in the Pegasus Galaxy, we seeded life as we did in this Galaxy before we left," sadly, she shook her head, "on one planet, there was an insect that took advantage of it and used our DNA to evolve into what we now know as the Wraith. When we discovered them, we let them be, thinking them as an evolutionary mutation, but harmless for us."
With tears in her eyes, she continued, "We were wrong, they used the Astra Porta to overwhelm an outpost and stole our knowledge. Worst of all, they got their hands on a Potentia, what we now call a ZPM. That allowed them to reproduce at an alarming rate and develop Spaceflight. They still could have been stopped at this point, which we did not. We acted when they were too advanced to be neglected."
"From then on it was a losing battle, wave after wave they came for us," she sighed, "until there was nobody left to fight them. Our best people ascended or focused on ascending, or worse of all, they ascended in the middle of a battle."
I took over, "If we are going to clean the mess we left behind, we need to be smart about it. At this moment the Wraith are limiting their numbers to let the people recover from the culling, otherwise, they starve themselves. If we rush in, they will multiply themselves and we are back to square one."
I raised my hand to stop the questions, "The Lanteans tried to fight them with Human formed Nanites, the Wraith used a computer virus to reprogram them. They used our DNA against us, our computers accepted their programming and we lost control over those Nanites. Our leaders decided to destroy them."
"Somehow a few of them survived and replicated again," I continued, "Our long-range scanners found a planet full of them, at least forty City ships the size of Atlantis, a big fleet of Aurora battleships are there doing nothing. We guess the Wraith reprogrammed them. Those are the two main threats."
Su Bao, our strategist, took over, "We need to be smart before we launch an attack, There is no doubt that the Wraith know where to find ZPMs to start reproducing. Our focus should be to recover them all, meaning we have to deal with the Human form Replicators too. Our Spaceships are having an advantage. Our Magic is an unknown for them, our Wards and Runes can hide our ships from them, enough to give us an edge."
Su Bao, pointed to Hermione, "The science department has to find ways to protect our spaceships and computers against foreign attacks, they also need to analyze the Human Form Nanites and find a way to overcome them. Most of all, our location has to be a secret, or they will rush here and eat us all."
Su Bao warned us, "The Wraith are a hundred times more dangerous than the Goa'uld. They have our DNA and can adapt to threats at an alarming rate. The Queens communicate mentally and work together to find solutions against our attacks."
Hermione took the stand, "We have to rethink our designs, our department came up with some ideas already. The most important one is to install extra shield generators, that can rotate or work together to fend off an attack."
"The Aurora has two ZPMs," said Hermione, "one of them can be used to power the shields, we calculate that it can stand the suicide attacks of the darts from ten Hive ships. We also added short-range defense guns to deal with those Darts."
"Our Auras will get a ZPM, and two more shield generators. The shuttles will have extra ways to hide, all of the ships will be warded against the transport beams from the Wraith." concluded Hermione's explanation of the extra defenses.
Hermione showed some holograms, "For our offensive, we developed in collaboration with the Asgard, two new kinds of weapons An Ion Pulse Canon, and a Plasma Beam Canon. Both can deal with a Hive ship in seconds."
I reported, "I will include the upgrades in the shipyards once Hermione's team has all the solutions, the ships that are bound for the Pegasus Galaxy will get served first. I want an upgrade for Atlantis too. Three more ZPMs and a set of Plasma Beams and Ion Canons, an extra Shield generator, and magic wards."
Hermione predicted, "It will take three to four months to calculate the placement of the new guns and programming, our software team will focus on the anti-hacking solutions. It will take time."
Overkill you say? Maybe, we could move in with ten Auroras, and fight the Wraith for three decades, or do as SG-Atlantis did, and stroll through the Astra Portas and attract all the bad guys. I know what was out there and won't take any risks.
Xxxxx
Star Gate Command you ask? Well, somehow Rodney McKay got hired, Elizabeth Weir and Jon Shepard were added too, they traveled the Milky Way. Too bad for them we kept the South Pole Outpost hidden, and we confiscated most of our technology throughout the Galaxy.
Their space program was on track, Hermione provided the calculations, now Spaceships with sublight engines are scouting the solar system, their anti-gravity needs work though. Samantha Carter is leading the Science division of the space program on Hermione's recommendation, which was sneaky of Hermione, she knows I like Carter and can't stay mad if she drops a calculation or two in Carter's lap. They probably will have a Hyperdrive next year.
Major Miranda Barns was a special case, with her private ride she assisted the first steps of the alliance into space, in her free time she put some satellites in orbit for some pocket money, she always looked smug when she parked her Death Glider on her parking spot. I might have given her ride a new paint job, Griffindor colors, the wives vetoed the flames and Hungarian Horntail motives, or the fog horn.
Xxxxx
Shacklebolt made a request, they don't have the manpower or the money to keep Azkaban operational and asked if we could house them, Hannah smiled evilly when I asked to build a prison somewhere. She hasn't forgotten that her mum was killed by the ones she has to house.
A week later, Hannah welcomed the prisoners in their new crib, "Dear guests! Welcome to your new home, we have to explain some basic rules first. To begin with, there will be no guards, you are free to roam the premises. But first, let me describe your new home, yes, this is an island, a hundred miles from the closest continent. Being on Rigil, there are some scary fishes in the water, I won't recommend a swim."
Hannah smiled sweetly, "You must have felt your new bracers, ah, yes, they bind your magic, and with it, we can locate you and track your movements even record it for months. Your cells are not locked, only, you are not allowed to enter other cells. You may try it, I do not advise it though. In each cell is a food dispenser, it will give you two meals a day, and unlimited water."
Hannah turned serious, "Now the downside, any violence between prisoners will be punished severely, remember the bracelets? They record everything, violence, bullying, assault will be punished. This will force you to act as civilized people. Let me explain the punishment, we have a device that will put you in stasis and will let you relive your crimes from your victim's point of view."
Hannah smiled brightly, "Hermione Potter was happy to design it, especially for you! So if you want to be bad, feel free to act on it. Your room number is on your bracelet. Enjoy your stay."
Hannah can be scary… I bet she misses her Mum… maybe it is time to try that time machine. It is stored in the Potter with the rest of the goodies, like the dimensional mirror… I have to try that too someday. Dementors you ask? They did not survive the trip. Nor did the werewolves that ran free on full moon nights.
Vampires? They are already dead, I just have to bury them, Mercury is a nice planet to have a burial site. Why females glorify those walking corpses I can't understand, their hearts don't beat anymore so there is no blood going to their dicks...
Xxxxx
McGonagall is one unhappy cat, she is finally the Headmistress and there are no students to abus… teach. I visited her once in her office to discuss her options, "Hello, Minerva, how is your new job? Are you settling in fine?"
McGonagall glared at me, "You ruined our world, Harry. You took something good away from us and twisted it. Now nobody wants to be here."
I shrugged, "Something good, Minerva? When was Hogwarts good? From the six years I went to school here my life was in danger more than three dozen of times, mostly orchestrated by that Dark Lord you are still worshiping. Did you visit Rigil? My friends must have offered it to you plenty of times."
McGonagall fumed, "Albus Dumbledore was not a Dark Lord I'll have you know! He made sure we won the war, Potter!"
I looked her up and down and asked, "Tell me, Minerva, when you hear someone tell you a prophecy, what would be the best course of action? Did you hear that prophecy? Did it say Dumbledore has to arrange for Harry Potter to be treated like a Malfoy house elf for ten years? Did it say that he has to arrange those idiotic trials to 'TEST' me? Did that Prophecy tell Dumbledore to send me on a wild goose chase with a storybook, a snitch, and a deluminator?"
I glared at her, "Did that Prophecy tell Dumbledore he has to get me killed? From day one he was working his ass off to let that Prophesy go the way HE wanted it to go."
"Now, tell me the definition of a Dark Lord, Minerva," I asked, "Is it not a man in power that uses that power to corrupt and abuse the ones he is lording over? Letting his minions do crimes and cover for them? Can you justify Snape's behavior? Molly Weasley's behavior? That fucking nurse Pomfrey's? Yours?"
McGonagall protested, "I did no crimes, Mr Potter! I endeavored to be as fair as possible to everyone."
I snapped at her, "Criminal neglect, McGonagall! You watched the Dursleys for a whole day and still allowed Dumbledore to drop me on their doorstep, Did you knock on that door, McGonagall? Did you ever check up on me afterward? You knew they were the worst kind of Muggles, and you left me there. If it wasn't your business, why were you there in the first place? To enjoy the show?"
When she did not have an answer, I went on, "I arrived here, the smallest runt of the year, dressed in rags, timid like a scared bird, but a Weasley latched onto me so it was alright, I was with the good sort. Are you not trained to spot abused children? After all these years you must have at least noticed the signs of abuse."
"That brings me to Pomfrey," I sighed, "Why that bitch never lost her Magic by violating her healing oaths made me wonder if she took them in the first place. I had a fucking false Horcrux in my scar, McGonagall! I had gone through ten years of malnourished and mental abuse, scars all over my body, and she did not see it at all! Or she refused to see it."
I looked curious at McGonagall, "You allowed Umbitch to use Bloodquills on us in her detentions, you did not even press charges against her. You allowed Snape to terrorize the school. Tell me, McGonagall, how Dark are you?"
I turned and while I walked away I told her, "When you die, you will haunt this castle, Minerva. You will sit on that ghastly tomb of your Hero and wail about all your sins, about the deaths of the students you caused, by helping Dark Dumbledore doing his crimes."
Hmm, would that be enough to turn her into a ghost? Unfinished regrets and all that? We can only hope. Anyway, the only teachers left, are McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout and Trelawney. Yep, Firenze is on Pandora looking at the stars. The constellations did not change that much after all. Too bad they miss Mars, they have a purple planet instead, we named it Mars too… Mars is purple tonight… Meh.
Xxxxx
I spent a week studying the time device from Janus, his notes and drew my conclusions from it. I removed the time machine from the butt-ugly puddle jumper and installed it into my shuttle. My next move was installing eight Cloning pods, yep, I am going to collect my parents, Luna's and Susan's too, Hannah's mum, and Tonks.
Why not more you ask? That bloody machine only allows one trip back and there is only room enough for eight pods and the time device in my shuttle, a bigger ship is out too because of the massive power requirements… I am stupid.
That night in my bedroom I explained my plan, "I studied the time shuttle from Janos and found a way to get some lost souls back without causing a Paradox or erase our present. I will take the Harry and go back to 1976, and make clones, I copy the minds of our parents and put them in the clones. I am afraid we have to let the originals die like they are supposed to, or the paradox will do that for us including the rest of the planet."
I pointed out, "We can clone a lot of victims of Voldemort and Dumbledore, my parents, Luna's, Susan's, my grandparents, our relatives, I bet there are a lot of Veela that can get their lives back. The only restriction I make is that they have to be dead in the present time, and deserve a second chance on life."
Luna sighed, "But they would be copies, Harry, their souls would go on to the afterlife, would they have souls?"
I thought about it, I nodded, "We copy their minds, Luna, not their memories, but their minds. You could say that their mind is their Soul, after all, the brain commands the body, it defines who they are. Otherwise, the Asgard would have died out a long time ago. That is why the clone has to stay in the pod for two more days, after loading the minds into the clone. It is to let the brain grow the synapses it needs to adapt to the new mind."
Hermione asked, "What about the time difference, Harry? Your parents died in November 81, Susan's parents January 81, Luna's Dad in 98, Hannah's mother and Sirius in 96, are you going to stay in the past for eighteen years?"
I shook my head, "Nope, we use stasis pods and wake up a few days before we gather the samples. We take the DNA on the first days, and program the Clone pods to start the clones on a predefined date, so the clones will be ready when we need them. With a bit of luck, we lose a year in the past. Once we gathered everyone, we go into stasis until the day after we left to the past. This way we made a full circle."
Padma asked, "We? Who is going with you, Harry? All of us? We won't be gone for a day or two, that is acceptable."
Tracey calculated, "If we take only two shuttles along, we can fill the free space up with pods, which makes two cargo bays and a half Shuttle bay. We can convert the passenger cabins too and fill them up with pods. We all sleep in Harry's quarters anyway. We are thirteen women and one man, which fills a cabin, if we manage the placements of the pods as economically as possible we can retrieve about four hundred people. That is if we make an extra floor in the Cargo bays."
I looked around, "I will make the adjustments to the Harry, all of you make a list of people with dates and places, where we can find them and where they died or find an optimal date to copy their minds. Padma, make sure everyone know that we are going on a trip for a week and won't accept calls."
Xxxxx
Adding pods and an extra floor was easy, I installed two ZPMs and an extra shield generator, a small plasma beam canon on top finished the job. Most of all, we warded against the Others, The Harry, shuttles, and a necklace that hid us from nosy busybodies.
A week later, my Corvette, the Harry, left for a pleasure trip, heading for the Pegasus Galaxy, Tracey did report a blip on the scanners on the way to the Milky Way when we returned with Atlantis, this was a good time to investigate. We will when we return back in time.
When we saw The Harry on our Long-range scanner, I activated the Time engine, I was outvoted to call it the Flux Capacitor, we traveled back in time, powered by two ZPMs, and arrived in 1976, at the start of the first blood war. My cargo bays are filled with Clone pods and Stasis pods and are ready for action. It is time to collect some samples.
We gathered samples for the first two weeks, mostly at night. A hair was enough, after testing it was the real hair, of course. Everything was labeled and set for a date to be cloned.
Growing a clone takes three months, four, for a prime-quality one. As soon as the clones were ready they were put in stasis in the cloning pods, waiting for the last phase. Soon the Clone pods were filled with bodies that needed the finishing touch.
First, we did my grandparents, Mum's parents, were killed by Tom. Dad's parents died from Dragon Pox, being old, it was not necessary to record their final moments, so we used them to optimize the cloning procedure, we eliminated small defects, mother's parents were squibs, with a small adjustment they are wizards now. We shaved some decades off, of course, there is no need to make them old, just a bit mature.
To make sure the procedure was flawless, we had to wake them up and check, I did not look forward to the conversation. Once out of the Pod and dressed in robes or muggle outfits, Luna and Laverne led them into the Bridge, it got a nice view of Earth.
I started, "Hello Grandfather, Grandmother, take a seat so we can start explaining all this, let me introduce myself, I am Harry James Potter, son of James Fleamont Potter and Lily Rose Evans, born on the thirty-first of July 1980. Yes, we are time travelers, and yes, we are on a Spaceship."
After introducing my wives and concubines, all thirteen of them, we gave a blow-by-blow history of what was going to happen for the next twenty-three years. They were not happy to find out they were about to die in a few years.
Grandpa Potter asked, "There is nothing you can do about this war?"
I shook my head, "If we change one single thing, our future will change and we will disappear, we are taking a huge risk for collecting this many people. We can not even numb the pain of the ones that are tortured, we can only scan the mind a few days before that."
Grandma Evans looked at me, "What happened to Petunia?"
I shrugged, "A big case of jealousy before, and fear after you both got killed, she made my life hell on Earth. Part of it was Dumbledore, a big part. She is still alive last I heard."
"Can you explain how you got eight wives and five concubines, Harry?" was her next question.
I nodded, "I could, I am not sure I should. It depends on your point of view, honestly. I can say up front, that I don't need or want your approval or disapproval. They are my wives and concubines and went through a lot together."
Grandma smiled, "I was curious, Harry, not judgmental. I can not tell the leader of the New Lanteans and owner of a big spaceship how to live his life."
Tracey giggled, "Oh, Grandma, this is a small one, a very small one, only three hundred fifty feet long. The Potter is three miles long and Atlantis can park four of them. Flying Atlantis is a blast!"
Grandpa Potter almost shouted, "You found Atlantis?… Wait a minute, it can Fly?"
Tracey nodded, "Better than a broomstick, Grandpa."
I stood up, "I hate to say it, but we need to move on. When next we meet, it will be on Rigil with about four hundred others."
Hermione commented, "When you wake up, you will have learned our language and our technology, you will be able to fly these kinds of spaceships, we do this for family only, the others will learn the language and a bit of our history."
Xxxxx
One by one we gathered our targets, Luna's parents a few days before her Mother died, it was better that her father wouldn't remember those years after the drama. We recorded what happened with my parents and Dumbledore's betrayal, we recorded the years at the Dursleys and what wards were erected, the spells that he cast on me, The magic he blocked. The girls voted to clone him and put him in stasis in the spare pod.
We spent a lot of time in Stasis pods and made the clones in blocs of twenty to thirty people, it became a routine after a few times.
We decided to keep my parents, Sirius and Lupin at the same age, we erased the years in Azkaban for Sirius and the years after Hogwarts from the Wolf. We kept their memories just before the attack.
That way Tonks is the same age as that cowardly Wolf. Meh, Andi will set them straight. We got the complete Bones Family, rejuvenated Amelia for a few decades, of course, we got Hannah's mother and a bunch of Victims of Tom and his animals. Sirius's sweetheart Marlene McKinnon got a new life too. Mum… Hmm, that will be difficult to solve.
One after the other our Stasis pods got filled, did we overlook someone? Yes, a lot of them probably, we even expanded our cargo bays and put more Stasis pods in, we have close to a thousand people from the past in our spaceship and instead of spending a year of our time, we did three. Well, we did our best.
When we got them all, we set out to our waypoint and investigated the blip of Tracey's scanner, it paid off, we found a derelict City ship.
Fleur warned us, "This is the City ship Discerna, she is reported as lost en route to the Pegasus Galaxy to escape the plague. All signs indicate that they caught the plague. I will try to access the logs… Oh, Mon Dieu! The plague caught them, we need to release the cure inside and let it cleanse that ship. We are not equipped enough to spread the cure completely, Harry."
"We will return with a team to vent the air and decontaminate Discerna," I decided, "everything we need to do now is to go in stasis until we are back in the present time, then we are back where we belong."
Parvati shook her head, "No, hubby, we have one last shag first."
18 Blast from the past.
With a wave of my hand, Parvati was tied up, "That is not the way to ask for quality time from your lord, is it? Now beg for it, horny tramp."
Louise got in the mood instantly, "My Lord! That whore doesn't deserve to be spoiled first! Take me! I am your most devoted slut. Tie her up and let the tramp watch us!"
Lavender slapped Louise's butt, "Hold on a minute bitch! You are not going to hog all of Harry's attention. Work for it first, it happens that I have a pussy that needs to be eaten, I am sure Padma's cunt needs it too."
Fleur went behind Louise and vanished her clothes, "Yes, this bird is in season, she is dripping as a two Silver whore at the thought of getting a bonus."
Claire cheered, "I'll help!"
Nicole whispered to Simone, "No matter how many times I hear them do Dirty Talk, it doesn't turn me on. It is good that we come in last when they are exhausted enough to Sweet Talk. It still upsets me seeing Louise and Claire getting railed by Harry."
Simone smiled sadly, "It could have been us if we had not been abducted. Louise is more in tune with her bird than us. Maybe it is time for us to let loose."
Adele put her arms around both and said, "I agree, we have been holding back due to the trauma, and you can see that Louise and Claire are enjoying it, I want to lose myself that way. Come, Padma and Astoria love to dominate Parvati and Louise, they can help us."
Tracey's voice came from behind them, "Then you girls better strip out of your clothes and get on your knees. We skip the Dirty Talk, but we can do the rough sex, I am sure we can work something out. Astoria! The handcuffs and the ropes please!"
We entered the Stasis pods six hours later.
Xxxxx
Our return shook our community, the complete medical department aided with waking the clones from Stasis. All of them got a set of new clothes and an ID bracelet. We gathered them in the Holo stadium for an explanation. My speech was followed on all view screens on Rigil and Pandora.
"Welcome to the future! For some it is only a year in the future, for others, twenty-two years," was my opening line, "First let me tell you that we did not abduct you in any way, We used our science and made a clone of your original body and mind. You are exact copies from the moment in time when we scanned your original mind."
I waited for the shouting to calm down, "You ask why we did that? Well, your original body was bound to die and we felt that all of you deserved a second chance at life. I know it is hard to accept, but all of you have passed away one way or the other, most of you in a violent way."
I explained, "I have a time-traveling device in my possession, and after long deliberating we decided to bring the people we thought deserved it most back by cloning them. We know that we could not recover everyone, a lot of deserving people are unknown to us, so we made a list and traveled back to 1976."
Padma took over, "Most of you are victims of Tom Riddle, known as Voldemort, and Dumbledore. Some are the relatives of our loved ones or dear friends, some were heroes, dying when protecting innocents. A lot are Veela that got abducted and killed."
Padma changed the stadium seats into fluffy couches, "Let us introduce ourselves, we are the descendants of the last survivors of Atlantis! Ten thousand years ago, they came to Earth, some of them mingled with humans, with us as a result. Yes, our magic community, squibs, normals, that have a speck of our blood, reclaimed our birthright and are back traveling the Stars!"
While Padma was talking, images from Rigil and Pandora appeared behind her, our first shuttle, starting Rigil City, Aura ships, Atlantis, and the Auroras, everything was explained.
Padma finished, "We made you, but we don't own you, you are free to live as you like. You can build a life here or move to Earth, we will make sure you are cared for. You have to know this, High Councilor Potter planned to get eight people back, he found a way to take a bigger ship back in time and rescued more than he first intended. When we expanded the Cargo bays of the Harry we ended up saving almost a thousand."
I spoke up, "This was a unique opportunity for us, I am sorry we could not save more people, this was the best we could do, if we used a bigger ship, we would have ripped the fabric of Time. There is a third option! If you do not agree with being cloned, we can end it painlessly."
I had to let it sink in before I continued, "Do not think we got you trapped… we only trapped one. One person we brought back to stand trial. But that is for later. All the Veela, will you follow Nicole, Louise, Claire, and Adele please, they will explain everything and take you to your relatives."
Lavender announced, "We posted the names from the ones we cloned on the main frame, if you recognize a relative you may want to meet them,"
Lavender turned serious, "We have to tell you that it was a unique action that can not be repeated. The Time device can not exist in the same Time Bubble as a second Time traveling Device. So from 1976 to this date, Time Travel is impossible for us."
I did not want them to know that it was for this little corner of the Galaxy. As long there was no interaction from outside, it was still possible somewhere else.
Xxxxx
Meet the parents! It was a bit nerve-wracking to meet my parents, they took comfort in their parents, although they were not married yet when we made the clones, I know, it is bloody complicated.
"So… you are our Harry," tried Dad to break the ice, "It feels strange, I changed your diapers just yesterday."
I nodded, "Yeah, you guys missed a lot, I am potty trained now. Petunia made sure I learned fast."
Mum exploded, "Petunia? Why in Morgana's name would that Harpy potty train you? Why were you not with Alice or Sirius?"
Grandma Evans said, "Dumbledore dropped Harry on her doorstep."
Mum hugged me, "Sorry we could not be here for you, Harry."
Dad looked at Grandpa Potter, "A clone, that is hard to swallow, we buried you, and yet you are here. Sirius? What happened with you?"
Sirius shook his head, "I only remember rushing to your house, then nothing."
Padma commented, "Some of you we cloned on points in their lives when they were not yet broken. Sirius and Lupin are examples."
I told Mother, "When we cloned you, we discovered that you were two weeks pregnant with a girl. We could not let the girl grow in your body, we removed the embryo and incubated her. I hope Luna wants to hand her over, Luna! I promise you can have babies of your own! Hand her over."
Luna beamed in with my newborn sister, with a pout she gave her to Mother, "She was born yesterday. If you don't want her, I will take her."
Mum shook her head, cuddling her new baby, "Not a chance, Luna, but Rose could use an aunt that doesn't mind babysitting sometimes. James! We have a baby girl!"
That was a good diversion from the fact that I have thirteen wives and concubines, let's not mention the Veela that come to celebrate life.
Xxxxx
Neville got a whole new family, Hannah's mother reconnected with her Husband after some awkward moments, and Susan got her parents, her brother and sister, and Aunt back. Totally weird, now she is the eldest daughter, only seven years younger than her mother. Neville's parents explained the details of what happened after they died to the Bones. Susan however was a slobbering mess.
When she spotted me she jumped in my arms, "Thank you, Harry, just when I thought my life could not get any better, you surprised us with this. We are in your debt."
Neville came closer, "She is right, Harry, we are happy here, have interesting jobs and it could not get better than we thought. Thank you for this. Sue? Let Harry get some air, he is turning blue."
Xxxxx
Death by titty press is a nice way to die, death by titty fuck tops that, but I have others that can do that. Once the clones got their download, they knew there was nothing for them on Earth, just tombstones with their names on them.
Yes, we got Fred Weasley, the Prewitt twins too, although they were not happy with what we did to Bill, Molly, and her youngest kids. George will set them straight, if not? Meh, going Muggle is an option too.
My feelings of guilt were eased by cloning all the students who died at the battle of Hogwarts, and the victims of the dead camps. We got Ted Tonks back, we even have Moody, without the scars and missing body parts though.
All the nightmares that happened to me were documented. My cupboard got a memory globe installed, the kitchen, school, Mrs Fig's house where she reported the abuse to Dumbledore, all of it was recorded. Dumbledore got special attention, all his usual spots were bugged, and his crimes were recorded.
Cho and her department made a compilation to show our people the life of Harry Potter and who orchestrated it. From the Prophesy to the end battle at Hogwarts, everything was recorded, edited, and shown in the courtroom.
Dumbledore attended, we aged him to ninety years and made him look at the evidence. He was not happy to be exposed like that, he was silenced until Cho presented her case to the court, She showed every detail of my abuse and the reports Dumbledore received from Mrs Figs, and ignored the wards at the Dursley home and the spells to make Harry's life harder. The six years at Hogwarts were detailed, it made some of the Brits blush, recognizing their part in the abuse.
Cho ended with, "Ladies and Lords, this is a prime example of a man that thinks he got all the answers and doesn't need consultants! The simple fact that Dumbledore knew Tom Riddles's real name should have been made public in the seventies! What Pureblood fanatic would willingly follow a muggleborn? A few simple words would cut his army in half!'
Cho turned to Dumbledore and glared at him, "What he did to his allies is beyond words, he sacrificed them one after the other, just for the chance to redeem one of the criminals. He forbade the use of dangerous spells to prevent Death Eaters from dying. He just looked sad when his allies died all around him."
Cho pointed out, "His biggest crimes are the ones against Harry Potter, our High Councilor. We all saw the holograms of Harry's life, the abuse caused by Dumbledore's spells to induce hate against a toddler. If he consulted curse breakers, the scar would be dealt with in a week, there are methods to track Horcruxes, but Mister Perfect knew what was best."
Cho ended with, "To be honest, I want to kill that man in the worst kind of way. I doubt there is one that disagrees with me, or… Minerva McGonagall! You watched the life of your Hero, tell me what do you think?"
McGonagall shook her head with tears in her eyes and did not answer.
Dumbledore got his chance to defend himself, "I know all this seems bad, but all I did was for the betterment of our people, I could not risk raising Harry as another Dark Lord, one he is proven to be by raising the death with a ritual…" his monologue lasted for a half hour until he saw the audience yawn, he concluded with, "History will prove me right in the end."
Helia, the head judge, shook her head, "Never in the five hundred years of my live have I met such a delusional man. Mister Dumbledore, you let your power go to your head and consume you. I did not see or hear remorse for your actions beyond the fact that you were caught doing your crimes."
Helia looked at me, "High Councilor, in our days we wiped the memories of their actions and posted them on outposts for a Decade to a Century, we don't have any outposts yet, I advise you to let him live out his life on the prison island, and show his crimes to your people on Earth."
Meh, I showed the world what a creep Dumbledore was and gave him a spot on the island with his buddies.
Xxxxx
It was time to deal with the wraith, we informed the Asgard of our plans, so they could let some of their spaceships patrol the Milky Way, while we made our last preparations, packed up, and left. Hermione's parents left with a big team to the City ship Discerna to remove the plague. I followed with the Potter, but I was not allowed to go to the Pegasus Galaxy.
Tracey came along with Atlantis to collect Discerna. When we arrived at Discerna, all the medical teams released the cure of the plague throughout the city, there was only a minor hiccup with the City's Artificial Intelligence, which was ordered to vent the atmosphere from the City if humans boarded it again.
The medic teams cleared Discerna of the plague and lifted the quarantine measures, Astoria flew the City to Shipyard Three for the upgrades.
Xxxxx
Su Bao, the Admiral leading the mission, reported, "There is some bad news from the Pegasus Galaxy, someone woke the Wraith up, and they are not happy at all. Worse, they began to multiply, no doubt they heard of us. From the Travelers, or the ones from the volcano planet, those are the only ones that had contact with us. We can not be stealthy about it anymore."
I shrugged, "We still have the strength to defeat them, our Aura can handle one on its own, our Auroras can handle a dozen. I gave you a free hand for this mission, Admiral Su, that hasn't changed. What do you propose?"
Su Bao thought for a minute, "We go for backup plan B, get Atlantis in position, we go for our first objective."
Su Bao decided to deal with the Asurans first. While traveling with Atlantis to our destination, I made some adjustments to the Astra Portas. With my Master Dialer, I reprogrammed the Astra Portas, now it prevents Wraith from passing through the Astra Portas and stores them in the buffers.
The second change was to install a cut-off switch. Yes, I read Janus's secret notes and visited his hidden lab in Atlantis, I found out about his Attero device and what downside it had. Activated, it will destroy the Hyperdrives from the Wraith ships, but it will overload any active Astra Porta, causing it to overload and blow up, meaning three-quarters of the planet will be destroyed alongside it.
Now, when you attack an army of a hundred men, you don't do that with ten men unless they have superior weapons, nope you attack with a thousand men, even when you have superior weapons, after all, the enemy can have some hidden weapons too.
The Asurans were surprised that all their Astra Portas activated with an incoming wormhole, they stopped being surprised when the Disruption ray blasted through them and reduced them to dust. A few seconds later five Auroras uncloaked after they released all their shuttles and went with their disruption rays through the planet with a vengeance. This lasted a whole day until our scanners could not detect a single Nanite.
That started the clean up, all the Astra Portas got beamed up, the navigators uploaded the Atlantis command codes to override the Asuran programming. A firewall was installed to keep the Wraith out until we could do an upgrade at our Shipyards. Once we got every Spaceship under our command, the crews started to beam the structures into their cargo bays, it would be a shame to leave such prime-quality metals behind.
One by one the City ships got in orbit and stored four Asuran Auroras. Soon all the City ships were loaded, we got forty of them! A staggering number, multiply it with four and we have a hundred sixty Asuran Auroras and fifty spares.
Due to the nature of the Asurans, being Nanite droids, the ships needs to be refitted for humans. Toilets and food dispensers mainly. Each City ship got two shuttles that provided the necessary human needs, all that was left was to wait, the Wraith could detect the Asurans, any movements would alert them of our presence.
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It was our turn now, Atlantis decloaked above Lantea and let her presence known through the Galaxy for a couple of seconds, enough for the Wraith to fly there like a moth to a flame. Now it was a cat and mouse play, I built Janus' Attero device in Atlantis and used it combined with my Master Dialer.
First I let all Astra Portas shut down, then I activated the Attero device, letting all the Wraith ships in Hyperspace explode. We got 65% of them in the first blow. I kept it up for a day before disconnecting the Attero Device.
During that day, we searched for the hives that escaped and the shipyard that clones new hive ships. The Wraith were caught with their pants down, every Hive we found got attacked by two Auras and one Aurora who made firewood out of the Hives, when they escaped, they exploded when they entered Hyperspace due to the activated Attero device. The Hives could not escape.
We attempted to beam all the humans out of the Hives before blasting them, our Auras collected most of them, although the losses were still high due to the Attero device.
Adana Gregorowich, a general of Su Bao, reported, "High Councilor Potter, after interrogating the humans we beamed up, they revealed that the Genii heard of our return, and wanted their pound of flesh out of the Wraith. They used a crude Atomic bomb and let it explode inside a Hive ship, it woke them all up though."
I nodded, "In hindsight, we should have been more stealthy, we only gave them the address of Lantea, but forgot they have their own list of Astra Porta Addresses. Save as many as you can, but don't put yourself in danger doing it."
Honestly, I could not blame them, their timing sucked big time, however. We discovered the homeworld of the Genii and removed the Astra Porta, from what I remembered from the show they were abusing their allies and were pains in the asses. Anyway, the Wraith arrived here first, and the Genii paid dearly for their action.
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We discovered their cloning facility by tracking the trajectory of the ships back to their starting point, something the Lanteans never thought of doing. Arriving there our fleet was just on time to intercept a super Hive ship, the Wraith noticed us coming and used the ZPM from the shipyard to create a Super Hive ship.
The wraith could only collect one ZPM, we got the others first and defended them with three Auras if they were in use. Anyway, the Super Hive was not super anymore once we were done with it, it was not that strong, it lacked the Trinium to make it strong enough to fight against us.
Once the Wraith found out they were losing, they started a game of hide and seek and were good at it. It only needed a Queen and a male to escape our attention to let them grow back their numbers. The hunt lasted a year, everything with Wraith DNA was hunted down. The original Iratus bug could not escape either.
We discovered the Vanir, the offshoot of the Asgard, those poor buggers hid on a toxic planet from the Wraith, Thor came for them with his Daphne and a fleet of Greengrasses. Every time I see The Daphne I imagine her gloating at me. Jealous? Hmm, maybe a little.
We replaced the Astra Portas with the new model, something we did in our Galaxy too, all programmed to store the Wraith DNA if it wants to pass through. Some humans with a bit of Wraith DNA got caught and cured by us.
The next course of action was to reclaim our technology, it included our shipwrecks and secret hideouts. We let our construction droid finish the third Traveler ship before collecting it back.
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By then we were long back in the Milky Way, Hermione and her science team designed the upgrades for the Asuran City ships to make them fit for human use. The Artificial Intelligence was replaced by a copy of the one from Atlantis. The Asuran Auroras got theirs too, it created an opportunity we could not neglect.
Those City ships are begging to be used! We held several meetings with our Councilors, Department leaders, and space fleet Generals over our future, finally, we came to a decision.
All view screens in Rigil and on our Spaceships activated and my face appeared, I got pushed aside by Padma and Susan. Padma addressed the people, "New Lanteans! New opportunities opened up for us! First, we planned to stay here on Rigil for a minimum of two generations to let us grow closer as one people, but after we visited the Pegasus Galaxy we got our hands on Forty Atlantis-type City ships!"
Smiling, she continued, "If you remember your history, they were made by the Asuran and unfit to be used by us. We upgraded them to fit for use by our people. As you know, Atlantis requires too much brain power, we made it so that in those Cities most utilities need at most 7% and the control centers no more than 35%."
Susan took over, "This made it possible to spread out and colonize suitable planets, here and in the Pegasus Galaxy. At the moment we have two million New Lanteans, which will make fifty thousand people for a City ship, those numbers are too low to start a new colony, therefore we will release a City ship for every hundred thousand people that want to start a new future on another planet."
Susan held her hand up, "Don't rush it! Go through the archives to find out how our ancestors did it. Our explorer department listed planets that are most suitable for us, with plenty of resources and a mild climate. We will screen candidates on their abilities to lead and select the best to be the new Councilors, they will get the knowledge of our ancient Councilors on how to lead a new colony."
Padma added, "We know this is not the best solution, to keep us as one people we centralize our Space fleet. Every New Lantean from fifteen to twenty-five years old will serve on that fleet, that way they will meet new people and mix with people from other planets. It is possible to make a career in the fleet, we hope that this way we keep together as one people."
Susan nodded, "Our Space Fleet will not only be warships but also science stations, explorer ships, passenger and cargo transports, terraformers, and diplomatic spaceships. Look at our history, we were explorers, not conquerors. The Galaxy is big enough for all, we have the technology to Terraform new planets, territory disputes are meaningless that way."
I gently pushed the girls aside, and commented, "The first colony ship will depart next year, you have up to then to organize and prepare for the move. To keep the community equal, a part of the Fleet will be commanded by citizens of each Colony. An interplanetary High council will be formed when ten Colonies are established."
Daphne pushed me aside, "We have the ability to activate the Gene our ancestors included when they seeded this Galaxy with new life, this means we can change humans into Lanteans, they would have the lowest grade of brain power, but we can give them the option to live with us. Any children will be made equal in the mother's womb."