A/N; DMRD: Hello all, A call out is owed to r2r4l/robertryan for his idea (Taoth Dakara). A fantastic idea and truly something that should have been considered earlier. But, Taoth Dakara is his. Thank you, Robert, for allowing us to use this.
Jackjones; I have been trying to decide if your review was worth answering, it was literally that ridiculous. Really an ultimatum for you to keep reading the story? Your presence isn't that important. All i'm going to tell you is this, if you don't like it, don't read. I can't believe I'm wasting 5 lines of text even responding to you.
Guest; to the guy to who used the word fiat. Dude, have you even read the story. We said quite clearly in the earlier chapters. Their infrastructure on the alpha site and every other planet can't support the sudden influx of 10 Million people. Without industrialized farming they can't feed that many people. Without medicine they cant survive the next outbreak of any disease. So, if they used your idea, they would either starve or die of disease.
To everyone else, thank you for your review. I appreciate them.
Also, sorry about the long delay. Job hunting and life are a pain to deal with.
Chapter 5On the surface of Horizon a huge crystal city was gleaming in the morning sunlight. The gifted Tok'ra crystals were truly a life saver. The crystal city was now home to 3.3 Million inhabitants. Near constant shipments from Volia were delivering food to the city. The colony was hidden for now.
Doctors, teachers, engineers and other professionals were hard at work among the Terrans setting up schools and hospitals.
In orbit, the rebuilt and renamed "Resolution" station was running the beginnings of the Horizon satellite defense grid. And its "current" single shipyard was building another cargo ship, while the Viper and Raptor factory modules were turning out one Valhalla a day and three F-302s. Once the Arctic Sea class cargo ship was finished, they expected to build one cargo ship a month. The most time-consuming part being building the hyperdrive and beaming system.
On that note, Rakic Zelenka had designed a technological equivalent to a culling beam. While his proposal was initially shot down, it was proven to be a useful device. His culling beam was modified not to dematerialize organic matter. His proposal was to load the culling beam with a program to only dematerialize certain molecules. Specifically, molecular patterns like Naquadah, trinium, Neutronium, and other valuable materials.
Radak also specifically designed the hardware of the "mineral sweeper" to be unable to dematerialize organic matter. The designs of the mineral sweeper were given to the Colonials and Jaffa. Radak explained that the ring platforms were also able to be modified to work in this fashion. But would take some major redesign of the pattern buffer to hold the energy from the stored matter.
The Colonials instantly saw the value of the device and began building them as fast as possible. Their versions were nearly 15 times the size of the device built by Radak, which was twice the size of the Wraith Culling Beam. Nevertheless, it would still be faster to use this than traditional space mining. Doctor Baltar, surprising everyone, managed to link the storage circuits of the Sweeper to a ring platforms matter transmission systems. Allowing the stored material and patterns to be materialized and sorted on the mining ship.
Bra'tac truly came through for the Terrans. Bra'tac had organized a migration of former goa'uld slaves to the planets that were a part of the protected planets treaty. The boost of population and food resulted in the populations fully recovering from the Ori. And in many cases a technological boost.
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Eli was currently on a bench looking out over the slowly growing cityscape on the planet Icarus. A slowly growing colony Icarus was becoming a very important world for the Terrans. With the original Asgard Core and a growing copy of the Ancient database there was little they were unable to learn here.
Eli had moved here to work with Dr Nicholas Rush after Colonel Samantha Carter had to move to a different assignment. Eli was a gifted Mathematician and had quickly understood, with help and manuals, how the Colonials FTL drive worked.
Eli was very proud of his work so far, after designing a shuttle usable for the militaries of the Worlds of Kobol and the Terran military he had gained a massive financial package from the Government and fast tracked into a very bright future. Which was why he was on Icarus, he was learning from Asgard teaching programs now and learning even faster.
He slowly made his back into the base to his apartment it was no bigger than a motel room for now. But he had a lot of friends here in the city and even among the colonies. He regularly contacted Captain Lee Adama and Lt Kara Thrace. Lee had even put Eli in contact with his father Commander Bill Adama. Eli was quickly becoming one of the best connected Terrans among the Colonials.
Hovering above the base, Eli saw the Ha'tak shipyard and the tiny forms of people slowly putting together a Artic Sea class cargo ship and down below the city another runway was being built for F-302s. A few puddle jumpers were also there and his own Valhalla class shuttles.
For now though, he had to go help Rush get the cities power grid connected to the planets Naquadria core. He had already worked out that the planet could output the power of five Zero Point Modules without any risk to the planet or its inhabitants.
There was a slight tremor in the ground, he knew what it was, Tokra tunneling crystals opening up large caverns where Colonial factory modules would work producing materials for the shipyards. Looking up he saw the Odyssey coming in to land. Its cargo bays, he knew, filled with refined naquadah and other materials captured from the Lucian Alliance. Tomorrow, the Vengence would be arriving from Tolonna having checked the planet over for survivors and other signs of the Tollan civilisation.
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"Why are we doing this?" Lt Sharon 'Boomer' Valeri complained as the Valhalla Class Shuttle traveled through the gate to the next planet. She had already traveled through the gate to five worlds today. Placing these pillars beside each gate. She knew what they were for but that didn't mean she had to like doing this it was boring.
Finally through the last of the platforms had been placed and they shuttle flew back through the gate to the temporary base where this mission was launched from. After the shuttle arrived Boomers eyes flashed red and she pulled back on the stick and firewalled the throttle. The shuttle screamed into the sky as she activated the cloak. The shuttle exited the exosphere in seconds as the BC-304 Daedalus started chasing them, the sensors able to penetrate the cloak of the shuttle.
However, before the Dedalus could reach the shuttle it vanished into FTL. Daedalus detected its destination but it jumped four more times outside of the 304s sensor range before they could follow it.
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"What happened." O'Neill growled glaring at Caldwell and Adama.
"Were not sure. The pilots of the ship are being investigated and the logs transmitted from the ship are being gone over as well."
"It wasn't a system glitch. The logs showed that the commands came from the flight stick. The pilot gave the commands to enter orbit and the jump coordinates were entered manually. And there was no virus either. The computer core was not any more taxed than it should have been. The pilot did this deliberately."
"Has CID turned up anything?"
"Not as of yet."
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"How is Boomer?"
"She's recovering. After she resurrected it's taken some time for her to recover her memories."
"I see. And the ship?"
"We removed the power core and disconnected the subspace components. We are taking no chances with this. The ship is being taken apart on the Basestar before it is brought back to the colony."
"I see." One said, "How has our examination of the ship gone so far?"
"We have their jump formula but without their subspace sensors it's useless. We have working examples but no idea how to make it yet."
"Good. Lets get that ship to the colony as quickly as possible. We need to move farther from Cyrannus. Download their starcharts to the colony."
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"Dr. Woolsey," Rodney said running up to him. "What is it, Rodney." "I need to talk to you now. It's imperative that we speak."
"Ok, come with me." Woolsey touched his wrist computer and he and Rodney were beamed to a secure conference room. "What is it, Rodney?"
"I found another city ship." "What?" Woolsey sat down and started at Rodney. "Where?" "Right here in this galaxy. It's the same city ship that the Ancients fled to this Galaxy in." "Where is it, Rodney?" "Dakara. The Dakara Device was the top spire of the City."
"Well, how do we get it, Rodney? Dakra and that device, in particular, was destroyed."
"Not necessarily. The top spire maybe. But the city itself. I bet its still intact. I looked at the schematics. This city has a lot of armor and redundancy. Far more than Atlantis. I think if we go to the city I can interface the Moros Phase Shifting device with the city, and we could fly it out."
"And take it where?"
"Icarus."
Woolsey nodded seeing the reasoning. "The Jaffa have abandoned Dakara after Adria's assault. Very well Rodney. I'll notify the President, take Odyssey and check on the city. But until i get permission from the President do not take the city.
Rodney was about to leave when Woolsey stopped him, "Also Rodney," Rodney stopped and turned back to Woolsey, "Did we find out if Todd had any other ZPM's that he kept hidden from us."
"I checked the data myself. But I didn't see any sign of additional ZPM's."
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The Caprica Institute of Advanced Science had long had a prototype for a plasma weapon. However, they never had a portable energy source that could produce the needed power to create the plasma and get it hot enough to do any damage to existing armor technology used by the military. Plus, it took too long to heat it to the required temp to be practical. With Naquadah that changed.
After studying the designs of Goa'uld staff weapons, the Institute developed a portable cannon that could rival the output of a Staff Cannon.
Twelve of these prototype cannons were installed on the Galactica, and, once the two Naquadah Reactors were installed, the Galactica was taken for a shakedown cruise. The Galactica's shakedown cruise took her all the way to Earth. While the Hyperdrive was goa'uld tech, Rodney Mckay had made a few changes to the drive. This change was doubling the speed from 9.92 LY/hr to 20 ly/hr. This allowed the Galactica to reach Earth in 14 days. Which was pushing the reactors to the max.
While this is still far slower than a 304's 170,000 LY/hr, without a ZPM, or an FJN Ha'tak' 23.68 LY/hr. McKay did explain that the hyperdrive can achieve speeds far faster than 20 LY/hr, but their reactors cannot operate at that level.
When Galactica arrived at Earth, the changes to the Raptors were tested. The combat shuttles had been modified with engines, comm systems and sensors from death gliders and they were being put their paces. Twelve such shuttles were flown out to tow as many Ha'tak parts out of orbit and into the Galactic's, now pressurized, hangar bays.
When Galactica returned to Cyrannus and all the systems tested the go-ahead was given for fleet-wide upgrades.
They were also ones to design and build much of the main systems for the Gaia, the Terran Nova Class Battlestar. The construction of the battlestar was on schedule. At the scorpio yards the modular skeletal framework was complete and most of the modular components were already installed such as the CIC, manufacturing plants, hangar bays, and crew centers were all installed within months.
The jump drive was prototype drive meant to allow rapid tactical jumps. It was going to be installed on a new mercury but was repurposed for the Nova.
What truly built a long time to build was the hyperdrive. Earth had never built a hyperdrive as large as the one that would be needed for the Gaia. The drive that was actually used was a goa'uld inspired design that the colonials built for the ship. The materials used for the hyperdrive and other advanced technologies were all built at the CIAS; such as the control crystals and the power distribution system.
On Atlantis the MK12 Naquadah reactor was built to be installed on the Gaia. The MK2 design was given to the colonials for their own ships.
Weapons systems were based on the original Nova laser weapons, the plasma weapons, the terran railguns and the Terran X-699 which was chosen to be shared with the Colonials.
It was estimated that another 2 years would be needed to finish everything for the ship.
The first manticore had fully finished being upgraded with Goa'uld technology. All its systems had been linked and completed. Now, the first group of 10 were being modified with Colonial built versions of Goa'uld technology.
The Manticore used their original gravity systems and inertial compensators. The computer used a Colonial design from before the fall but used an Asgard Operating system with a Colonial based UI.
Weapons were CIAS plasma cannons with a few Heavy KEWs. Point defenses were something completely new, A laser based point defense grid, the Guardian System. The lasers were built by Tauron almost 100 years ago but the design was too impractical for the time because they needed to much power for practical uses.
With naquadah, that problem was countered. Terran sensors and subspace systems were than installed and asgard shield coding was loaded into shield matrices build by them.
The ship still lacked a hyperdrive but that wasn't as big a deal since they had subspace sensors the ship could easily jump hundreds of lightyears at a time.
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"Ok Doctor. let's make this quick." Colonel Mitchell said, while on their way to Dakara they heard back from President Ryan and they were given authorization to recover the city. "I'm already on it. Now according to the Atlantis Database all I have to do is." He pressed one more key and the sensors beeped the operator quickly responded, "Sir, I'm picking up an ancient structure. Its Alterran, about 700 meters below the surface of the planet."
"Huh, that's a lot deeper than I thought." "Problem?" "No, we can still beam down." " Sir. I don't know if we can." McKay and Mitchell turned to Major Marks. "The City has incredibly thick armor. Several meters thick in some places."
"Alright. The main entrance should be here." McKay brought up the schematic on the screen "Use the transporters to beam up the rock there and we can beam down and enter the city."
A few hours later they McKay was in the cities main power center. He was disappointed to discover that the city ran on Naquadria Reactors and a few other minerals that he had never heard of. However, the City was fully functional. The only part of the city that ran on ZPM's was the super weapon that was now destroyed.
"Odyssey this is McKay. The city is in good shape. I'm going to install the phase device and run a few interface tests."
"Sure thing McKay." a few hours later McKay contacted Woolsey, Landry, and O'Neill.
"McKay what have you found?" Woolsey asked
"The City is intact and functional. It's in perfect shape. The city seems to have automated repair systems and a Subspace capacitor. It was drawing small amounts of power to maintain its systems and self-repair. The hyperdrive is functional along with sublight. Good news, we will be able to bring the city to Icarus soon."
"Good news Rodney. How much aid do you think the city will be to them?" "Incalculable. This city is what the Ancients arrived in this galaxy in. It has foundries, mining facilities, everything. Icarus will be self-sustaining. A few upgrades to its computer systems and we can backup Atlantis's database to Taoth." "I take it Taoth is the city's name?" "Yes. In a few hours I'm going to activate the phase generator and fly the city out."
"What kind of weapons does the city have Rodney?" General Landry asked, "I haven't checked yet. I'm been more worried about the space flight systems."
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After he finished speaking to Atlantis Rodney found his curiosity peaked. Pulling up the cities weapons grid he was shocked, and a tad bit concerned knowing their luck.. The city was the size of Atlantis but fielded 400 plasma cannons, 60 particle beams, and 900 anti-matter missiles.
The shields were incredibly interesting to him. They were highly specific on what they stopped. The shields would be useless against staff blasts. But against railgun rounds or other kinetic impacts they would easily stop everything.
His laptop beeps pulling his attention from the weapons systems and back to the present. The diagnostics were complete, he brought the phase generator online and powered up the engines. "Odyssey this is McKay. I'm starting takes off procedures." He was glad that the communication stones were able to communicate across the quantum frequency boundary. It made things easier.
"Roger, McKay. We're waiting for you."
"Engines powering up. 10%, 20%, 35%. The city is taking off." The shaking started as the prehistoric inertia dampeners struggled to keep up. "Crossing the surface. 1000 feet, 2000, 3000. Accelerating now at 7000 feet." The shaking stopped and he looked at a viewscreen showing outside. "I'm in stable orbit."
"Well done McKay."
"Thank you. Returning to normal phase. Activating cloak."
"Good. We're sending over some teams. We will follow you to Icarus."
Five days later Taoth landed on Icarus. Odyssey landed on nearby and Sam worked with a team to remove the original Asgard Core from Odyssey and installed it on Taoth. A duplicate was than installed on Odyssey. They wanted to preserve the original core and felt that Taoth and the defenses they were installing on this planet would better defend the core. Than the Odyssey could which would constantly be going into harm's way.
Once the Core was installed it was networked with the Ancient systems, in human terms, because the primary interface between the humans and the ancient systems. It also was able to fully index the data in the computer systems. A few days after that the Icarus research teams moved over to the city and began to work on their projects.
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"Rodney what can you tell us about Taoth?" President Ryan asked.
"Well, its powerful, it could take on fleets of Ha'tak and come out the winner. But that isnt due to how advanced the city is. Simply the redundancy and the power it can output. The technology is incredibly primitive, even compared to even goa'uld technology it's primitive. The Ancients abandoned the city because it was old and would take more resources to upgrade the city to their new standards then was worth."
"So is it useful to us?"
"Yes. Very. For our needs, we just need to bring over some new computers and equipment. The hyperdrive can be replaced, weapons modified, shields refined, a few supplemental reactors. But the Naquadria reactors on the city are far more powerful than what we have. We should use that design on our ships. We would have triple the power output."
"That's great. And thanks to Icarus we have a stable supply of Naquadria." Sam said.
"Exactly. Also, I had a thought. We could vastly increase the computer's power of Taoth if we have more Lantean Computers. We can't take them from Atlantis, but we could go to the Crashed City in Pegasus and get those computers."
"Alright, Rodney. Take the Odyssey and see to it. Taoth is your new assignment." Ryan said.
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Admiral Cain walked through the halls of the new space station built by the CID. The station was well over two thousand lightyears from Cyrannus orbiting a planet inside a nebula. Inside the lab she saw the computer core that they removed from the remains of Anubis's personal flagship.
They were still working on downloading and decrypting the data but at least they had in interface thanks to the Terrans.
Part of this station was a shipyard where they were building a brand new battlestar using technology reverse engineered from the ha'tak wreckage and gained from the Terrans.
Cain was currently going to the computer research room to see if she could get a copy of Anubis's warbook and sensor profile database. She had been given a mission from CID and Adar. For this mission, Pegasus had been modified with the few operational systems they could understand from the wreckage. A sensor system, a naquadah reactor and two staff cannons. They couldn't get any shields working on the Pegasus.
CID learned of a race known as the Tollan from the Terrans as well as the world's location. Pegasus was being sent to locate as much advanced technology as possible. Tollan was almost on the entire other side of the galaxy. Nearly 95,000LY, this trip, if the ship made jumps of 100LY at a time, would take almost 3 years one way. To that end they were modifying Pegasus with an extra three naquadah reactors connected directly to the FTL drive and the largest and most robust FTL capacitor they could build. They hoped to be able to make a jump to at least 500LY at a time. if they could do that once a day they could make the trip in 190 days, slightly over 6 months. The entire trip, they planned would be about 2 years. That would make the trip much more feasible.
Either way, Pegasus would be gone for a long time which is why a Tylium mining ship and refinery were being installed in Pegasus. Cain wondered about the wisdom of this mission. But, she also knew that it was needed. So, she was going.
To that end, Pegasus was being modified with a specialised Hanger bay setup. The standard hanger bays were completely removed and the model 5 prototype bays were installed. The pods were equal in length to the Pegasus itself. On the top and bottom of the pods were the actual hangar bays. The back third of the pods were repurposed goa'uld sublight drives and Naquadah reactors.
The front third of the pods were cargo bays for any technology and the middle was the machine shop for the vipers and cargo haulers.
Cain did not know how these pods would affect the Pegasus's handling but she knew she would learn.
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"What have we figured out?" One asked Three.
"Well, the computers for the craft were programmed using the colonial programming language. So we don't have any examples of Terran coding practices. The good news, we were able to take the sensors used on the craft and build a version for the colony. This means that the Terran jump formula is applicable now that we have subspace sensors."
"What about their star charts."
"Limited. The Terrans only included charts and stargate locations relevant to the mission. That way if the wraith captured the ship they didn't get any more gate addresses. This does open up the gate network to us though since we know how to use the gate system."
"Good, anything else?"
"Well, the sublight engine is much more advanced than the version we use so we can upgrade our basestars sublight abilities. The shield though is a problem. To create a shield big enough to protect our baseships will take a massive amount of power. The baseship is literally the worst design possible to protect with a shield.
"The first war era baseships would be a more efficient space frame."
One thought it over. Given the overall volume of space that a shield would have to cover he realized what she meant, "Crap."
"Exactly. Good news, like the colonials we have the designs for effective plasma weapons. And with the Terran examples we have been able to build our own weapons. But, without a better reactor design were screwed."
"But the…" "We need a Naquadah source to start building the reactor used in the shuttle. Even worse is the fuel in the reactor was mixed with a isotope of naquadah that we can't identify. All i can tell you is that it is very unstable."
"Great." One said sarcastically.
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Dr Greg Webber sat in his office on Atlantis looking over the design again for a ship that he felt would be the perfect match for the Jupiter class battlestars. Years ago he worked on the X-301 interceptor project and than worked with Colonel Carter repairing the goa'uld tel'tak to save Earth from Anubis's asteroid. Than he worked on the BC-304 project and even helped build the X-305.
Now he was assigned to the rebuilding of the Colonial Jupiter class battlestars for the Terran fleet. It took a lot of work but they had decided to scrap the Viper systems for now since they didn't have enough pilots for them.
Eli Wallace's Valhalla class shuttles were good but didn't have the space or power for what was really needed. Something new was necessary. And he felt he had that down to a t with his design. He had put in his request for supercomputer time to put his design through the needed simulations and the results were confirmed. They would work.
Greg stood and went to General O'Neill, he was going to pitch his idea.
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"Sir, we need to give them a reason for this." Sam Carter told the President.
"I have one. We aren't merging our military's because our military is our planetary defense force." Woolsey told everyone. "As for your new assignment. We have turned the west pier into a scientific facility. This tower here," A hologram appeared, and Richard touched the tower, "is yours and Mckay's private lab space. Your main job is to study the Asgard database."
The President than took over. "McKay is going to Pegasus on the Odyssey. He has 58 days in Pegasus for his assignment." Sam ran the math and figured that they were officially going to give Mckay 30 days for his official assignment, unknown to the colonials he would have another 36 days not counting the eight-day round trip."
"I see."
Jack Ryan could see Eli Wallace itching to ask something, he was on Atlantis for this meeting before returning to Icarus to continue his research on Taoth, "Mr Wallace, you have a question."
Jack suppressed a smirk when Eli jumped, "Uhh… Yeah…. Umm, Sir, why are we keeping Taoth and the Crashed city ship a secret?"
Ryan leaned back and thought about it. "Taoth is our primary base for studying the Asgard Core but also our place to research projects that are too dangerous to work on here in Cyrannus. Also, we don't want to risk the Wraith getting their hands on the Asgard Core. Which is why Colonel Carter and Dr Mckay only have an uplink to the core, not an actual copy of the core.
"Yes Sir. But, why can't we tell the colonials about the crashed city ship. I know that the colonials want full access to Atlantis. I know we have given them partial access to Atlantis. But they can't study the technology. But why can't we make a deal with the inhabitants of the crashed Pegasus City Ship. offer them something to let us rebuild the city. I'm sure the colonials would love to work on the city."
"Can that city even be rebuilt?" Ryan asked.
"I'll have McKay do an investigation of the city when he arrives." Jack O'Neill said.
"I'll take the idea under advisement Eli."
Woolsey then took over the conversation, "Who are you taking to the meeting with the Colonial President?"
Ryan sighed "You and I are going along with O'Neill and Simpson. Both of them, should be able to handle it. Still it will be a problem to keep our military out of there control. I do think they will try for a long time to bring our forces under their control I want you to get the Vengeance ready."
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Simpson looks at O'Neil and Shepard as he said "The Colonials are going to give Ryan hell for not putting our people into their forces."
Sheppard look at Simpson as he asks, "Why would they already know about our colony that free overall?"
O'Neill would watch the two officers as he says "It about control Colonel if our people were in their forces fully they could spread them out to the point we would not be able to do anything."
Sheppard ask "Still what about Colonel Simpson sir he is a former member of their forces they will expect him to either return to those duties or take on a position between our forces."
Simpson just roll his eyes "That is true Shepherd, but the truth is this I will be working out of Atlantis full time, and I do plan to be on the world every chance I can get away with it."
O'Neill said "Sheppard while you will be heading up the forces on Horizon Simpson will be your equal and contact with our forces that will be at Pallas. Both of you remember these people are looking for any reason to come marching in do not give it to them."
Shepherd looks at O'Neill "Sir what I do not understand is I thought Colonel Simpson was taking command of the Vengeance?"
O'Neill smirk "Well it is his ship Sheppard but at this point and time he can not take full command due to the fact he will have his hand full with the Colonial Military running interference with our forces and theirs."
There was a knock on the door and O'Neill turned and it took a minute for him to remember who this was, then it hit him, he worked on the X-301. "General, Colonel, Im Dr Webber, i'm assigned to the rebuilding of the Jupiter Class ships.
"I remember you, X-301 and Ravana."
He gulped, "Yes Sir, but I also worked on the BC-304 and the X-305."
"I know, what can I do for you Dr?"
"Sir, i have a design I want to show you. As we decided to drop the fight compliments of the Jupiter's for now do to lack of pilots I've been working on something to take their places. And i think i have them. Have you ever played Halo?" He than activated the holographic projection of the fighter.
Simpson roll his eyes for a moment as he said "You made a fighter off a video Fighter that if i remember right was bigger than most fighters that have ever been made?" Looks over the display of the fighter as he then looks back at O'Neill to see his reaction.
" I made this ship to be a support vessel for our other ships and to supplement or replace 1 or 2 man fighters and to be a bomber. She's 64 meters long, 75 meters long, and 12.9 high. This isn't meant to be anywhere near as maneuverable as a F-302 or Viper. The ship is armored with the same armor that a Nova carries.
"Weapons systems are six asgard ion cannons and six plasma repeating turrets spaced around the ship giving 365 degree coverage. On the bottom of the ship is 3 miniguns in cecessed turrets for ground support. There was also room for a point defense laser grid, an asgard shield, a jumpdrive and hyperdrive.
"Powering everything is a naquadria reactor based on what we have learned from Taoth."
O'Neill restrained himself and looked to Simpson who had more experience with the Battlestars. But inside he was jumping for joy.
Keeping his eyes on the design he said "You better hope the shielding or armor on this thing holds up. She can kill any fighter that annoys her, but she is fat and will not be able to outrun or evade wraith Drats and they tend to throw those things at everything."
"That's why I used Colonel Carters modified armor design. And the shield is only about 25% weeker than a 304s shield. The engines are based on the designs used by the Asgard motherships. I also figured out how to make the ship lighter the same way the Asgard do."
"This is also a good troop transport and grough support vessel. The ship only needs a crew of three but I would recommend five. A pilot and copilot, an engineer, and two gunners.
Simpson look at O'Neill "She powerful enough but she will eat though all our current pilots even if we train more we risk more if they are destroy. The wraith have throw darts into shields before so if they think they can not win i think they might ram her."
O'Neill said, "Even if we don't just use this as a fighter, we could use this a a troop transport, medical evac ship, ground support, I can see dozens of uses for this ship. It obviously can't go through the stargate."
"No it can't." Dr Webber said.
O'Neill looked over to Simpson who nodded, "Ok Doctor, go to Horizon and build one of these things. Than I want you to return to work on the, "Jack checked his status reports for the Jupiters, "Atlas, and modify its hangers for the Longsword."
"Yes Sir."
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Adar sat inside the presidential bunker watching on the screen talking to the lead scientist of the Otherus project. Three days ago Pegasus had left the shipyard on its way to Tollan. With Pegasus on its way they were continuing to work on the Goa'uld database. Adar was about to get an update on the decryption process.
"What do we have?" Adar asked the scientists.
"A lot. This computer core works near perfect. We have a lot of information on the goa'uld and some of the most advanced tech they ever worked with. It is true however that we won't be mass producing it anytime soon."
"You didn't answer my question."
"Well sir, we are still indexing the data. But, metallurgical information, weapons, shields, hyperdrive and sublight are all in this computer core. We have working examples of goa'uld and Asgard technology."
"Asgard tech?"
"Yes, Sir. Apparently, this goa'uld Anubis captured an Asgard and downloaded his mind into a computer. That ship was destroyed. But Anubis copied some of the Asgard knowledge into this computer here. We have that data now."
"Get to work on it."
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McKay grunted as he was finally given the go ahead to work on the city ship. He beamed down and once in the city started disconnecting the consoles from the city allowing them to be beamed up to the cargo bay. In the auxiliary control room he disconnected everything and almost the entire room was beamed up.
The control chair was a boon and would likely be very useful for Taoth. The ZPM pedestal was removed along with sections of the main computer core. He then moved over to examine the star drive. It was almost completely trashed but parts were removed for study. The last of the drones were removed along with the remaining Jumpers.
In the end they had enough to seriously upgrade Taoth.