Harry Potter – Alteran, Part 2

*This is Alteran speech*

-"Mental communication"-

-oo00oo- scene break or time jump.

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Now on with the Story.

Chapter 6 - A. Couple Small Trips

After giving out his instructions to Remus and Helia, Harry walked out of the room and up the stairs to the Astria Porta ship bay. He was looking for a specific ship that Janus had modified for his *time* experiments. It was the last thing in this or any lifetime that Harry wanted falling into the hands of people he didn't trust one hundred percent, in this case the list of people he trusted could be counted on one hand: Hermione, Luna, Aliya, and himself. Albus, Remus, Neville, and his godparents fell on a secondary list, but only because they were magical and knew the consequences of time travel.

Harry really didn't trust himself either, if he was being honest. It had crossed his mind more than once to go back to the night his parents died and save them. He could do it, too; beam them up just before the killing curses hit them and beam in a clone at the same time. Everyone would think they died just as history wrote. The problem was he didn't know what had saved him from the killing curse: if it was his mother's sacrifice, then a clone just wouldn't cut it and he would have died, never to discover the Outpost, never to go back in time. Can you say paradox, because Harry sure could.

Besides, the city ship Olympus was a little too big to go mucking around in time with. This little ship was a different story but he still wasn't going to do it. He'd put it in one of the high security vaults on Olympus, one that took a unanimous vote by the High Council to even open.

After ascending the stairs he walked into the bay and over to the ship that had the device installed in it. He knew exactly which one it was since Janus, as part of his little gift during the wedding had made sure to give the four of them his own personal memories, things he had worked on while in the Pegasus Galaxy, and what a list it was.

Harry knew of at least three things that he was going to have to either destroy or place under heavy lock and key so they didn't fall into wanting hands. He had other concerns as well but they weren't as pressing as this was. It was true that Janus had installed a time device on Olympus but it was well hidden inside the cities drive assemblies, no one could access it except the nanites; and Harry was the only one with the command codes to use it.

Harry entered the little ship and found the device sitting in the center of the back compartment. He walked around it for a minute to examine the device from all sides, taking in the work Janus had put into it. After looking at it, he walked back out of the jumper, closing the back hatch. After the hatch sealed, Harry placed his hand on the hull of the little ship and closed his eyes. He hadn't done anything like what he was about to try on this large of a scale before.

Harry connected to his magic and let it flow around his body. The hull of the ship and technology in it was going to fight him on this. He finally sent a pulse of magic through his hand and the ship started to shrink. After a few seconds the ship was the size of a matchbox sitting on the floor. He whirled around when he heard a gasp from behind him.

Helia was standing there with a look of shock on her face. Harry reached down and picked up the now tiny ship and placed it in his robe pocket, waiting for her to regain her ability to talk. It only took a few moments before she shook the shock, of seeing him shrink a Porta ship to the size of a matchbox, out of her mind. *How?* She finally managed.

Harry turned from her and walked to the center of the bay, looking around at the other ships to give himself time to formulate an answer.. *The mixing of our DNA with that of the humans of Earth caused a mutation. All Alterans have some form of telekinetic power - I believe you, from your personnel records, have a bit of telekinesis. We had those powers because of the evolution of our race and our minds.

Because of the blending of DNA, we the second evolution of Alterans have the ability to directly control Zero Point energies. There is a new region in our brains that allows us to manipulate the ZP energy around us, the energy that permeates the universe, all universes.*

Harry turned back to look at her before continuing. *It is Hermione's hypothesis that the Alterans would have evolved this ability eventually on their own. The Human DNA somehow accelerated the evolution of it. If our ancestors hadn't ascended, our race would have eventually gained the ability, in another few million years. Those that have ascended, well they have the ability now too, as they are on a higher plane of existence but I think it is still different to what we have. I can't be sure since I've never ascended, I've just seen some examples of what they are capable of. We call it magic… * Harry laughed at that. It was just energy manipulation, but still the word was now stuck in their vocabulary. *At least that is what the descendents of the Lantians that returned to Earth call it. They aren't aware of their heritage though. I was the first to discover our true history. I brought Hermione and Luna with me, then we found Olympus, then Aliya.*

Harry walked toward the exit behind Helia but stopped next to her but didn't look at her. *When we, Hermione, Luna, Aliya and myself, married, we did the sharing of memories, Janus appeared from the higher plane, he gifted us, Aliya can… now has the same ability. We're not sure why he did what he did; but he said we have the blessing of the others to rebuild the Alteran race here on the lower plane. I think they just want us to clean up their mess since they won't.*

Helia didn't take her eyes off of him as he spoke. After a small pause, Harry turned his head and looked at her with a bit of coldness, though his voice wasn't raised. *The Alterans, in their age and superiority got arrogant. You all thought you knew better than anyone else. You became just like the Ori, you didn't want to be worshipped, but you still looked down on lower lifeforms as… beneath you. Their lives didn't mean as much as those of the Alterans... * Harry returned his gaze to the exit. *The Alterans created life in both this and the Avalon galaxies, yet you treated your creations as… you played god just like the Ori do.* Harry then started walking toward the door to the bay.

Helia watched him move toward the exit but before he could leave, she called out. *High Councilor.*

Harry paused, looking back to her. *Yes Captain Helia?*

*You have given me a lot to think about. I still stand by my choice to remain and assist you.* Harry nodded his head once, before leaving her alone in the bay.

-oo00oo-

"The satellites have been launched Harry." Luna told him from the control chair of the Zeus. "They will all be on station within the hour."

Harry nodded to Luna. He had returned to the Zeus shortly after his conversation with Helia in a pensive mood. What he had said to her was all true, but he also felt like he, his wives, and all the others with him now were still walking down that same arrogant road his ancestors did. He knew he couldn't give advanced technology or knowledge to the lesser races. To advance without the wisdom to use those advances was suicide for those races.

He understood that side of the Alteran argument, but that didn't mean you left your toys laying around, or ignored the lesser races and treated them with disdain. "Harry." Luna called to him, pulling him out of his thoughts.

"Yes my moon?" Harry looked at her.

"They are raising the city now." The hologram that was the bridge zoomed in on the location where the city would appear. Harry turned to watch as he heard the door to the bridge open. A moment later Hermione and Aliya stepped up next to him, they had been resting in their ship's quarters.

Luna got out of the chair, walked over and stood in front of Harry with her back to him. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in close to him, Hermione and Aliya both taking a side and putting their arms around Harry. Together, they watched as the city emerged from the waters.

It was a wonderful sight to see. The top of the city shield and the center spire cleared the surface of the water first, the rest of the city quickly following. The wave created in the water by the city spread out from the city in all directions; the Zeus automatically tracked the wave for a few moments, giving Luna data on it and any environmental effects - there would be none.

The shield on the city lowered after it finished stabilizing. *Atlantis, this is the Zeus. The city looks beautiful from here.* Harry called out to the city over the comms.

*Thank you Zeus. We are ready to receive the nanite swarms. The Tria is already descending to dock with the city.* Came the reply from Remus with a bit of an accent to his speech. It was what he was having the most trouble getting over. Harry was sure he'd get over it soon since everyone around him would be speaking Alteran almost exclusively while he was on Atlantis.

Harry watched the Tria descend into the atmosphere of the planet with the typical atmospheric disturbances. He was curious as to why the Alterans never tried to find a way the negate those. After five minutes of watching, when the Tria finally docked on the city pier, Harry commanded the Zeus to enter the atmosphere.

Once they were a thousand meters off the west pier, he released the two nanite swarms that he brought just for this reason. The nanites swarmed down into the city to start repairs and modification.

Harry then called out again. *Atlantis, we are taking the Zeus out on its secondary missions. We should be back within two standard days. Are our two Asgard friends ready?*

*They are ready High Councilor; the city has picked up a distress beacon from an Aurora Class ship. It must have activated when the city's systems came online at full power. I'm sending you the coordinates. Captain Helia suggests you check it out first. The beacon could wake up the Wraith or cause whichever hive is currently on watch duty to go looking.* Remus replied to Harry's transmission.

*Acknowledged Atlantis. We'll head there first.* Just as Harry finished his reply the two Asgard that had come through the gate appeared on the bridge. "Do you have the information we need to find the lost Asgard?" Harry asked them.

The first Asgard, Yuhliser, answered Harry. "We do High Councilor. Captain Helia was kind enough to give us their last known location. I have transmitted it to Zeus's navigation system."

Harry conjured two chairs for the Asgard then walked over to the control chair. If the girls wanted chairs they could conjure them themselves. Harry was sure that Hermione and Luna were getting out of practice, and Aliya just needed the practice in general - he had taught her how a week earlier.

-oo00oo-

The Zeus dropped out of hyperspace at the coordinates that Remus had provided. Harry had bypassed his first stop in order to get to the Aurora beacon first. If it hadn't been for this he would have stopped at the single defense satellite still remaining in the Lantea system. He wanted to see if it was still salvageable or if it needed to be dismantled for raw materials.

As soon as the Zeus cleared the hyperspace window it cloaked and started scanning the area. The scanners didn't pick anything except the Aurora on the short and long range scanners. The scanners on Atlantis would pick up any threats long before he did though. The Zeus's long scanners were only good out to a fifty light years distance where Atlantis pretty much cover the entire Pegasus galaxy, at least when it came to hyperspace travel. Once all the satellites were in position the Zeus would be able to tap into them to extend its long range information acquisition.

Harry pulled the Aurora up on the scanners: the ship was pretty beat up. Life support in sixty percent of the ship was offline and it had two large hull breaches. The bridge of the ship was open to the vacuum of space from what looked like a direct hit to it. It was part of the reason Harry's variation on the Aurora had the bridge deep in the center of the ship. "Wow, it's the Aurora. This is the ship the class was named after." Harry commented.

Harry scrunched up his face as he sorted through the data coming in. He could feel Luna was standing at the back control console looking at the same information he was. "Hermione?" Harry got her attention. "I'm getting some weird life signs from the ship, could you take a look please? They don't make any sense to me." Harry got up out of the chair and Hermione sat down.

Hermione leaned back in the chair to get all the sensor data. Before she could say anything, Luna called out to Harry. "Harry, I can't access the Aurora's logs. The computer core is running full out, its processing a lot of information."

"That's strange." Harry commented back, before looking to Aliya. "How long do you think the core can run like that?" He had his own thoughts on that but wanted a second opinion.

"If it's only doing one operation, a long time, a hundred thousand years; without maintenance, ten to fifteen thousand. It just depends on what its processing, I've seen a core running at a hundred fifty percent, it burned out in a century." Alyia answered, of course the systems she had back before she was frozen didn't even compare to computational power the Zeus had, never mind Olympus or the current core in Atlantis.

"That's what I figured as well." Harry replied. He turned to look at Hermione as she sat up in the chair.

She gave Harry a look of concern. "The crew is in stasis and based on the readings, they've been that way for a long time, ten thousand years at least. I'd need to get over there to tell you their condition. I can say this though, we won't be able to pull them out of it, not after this long."

*Zeus, Atlantis, we are tracking a Wraith cruiser heading your way, eta three days.* Remus's voice came over the comm system. Harry acknowledged the information mentally then turned to each of the girls. "Suggestions?"

Luna was the first to speak up. "Shut down the beacon then tow the ship back to Atlantis. We can figure the crew out after." Hermione was nodding her head, as was Aliya.

"Sounds good to me." Harry replied. "Hermione, suit up, we're going to have to go over there." As Harry was addressing Hermione, his robes disappearing as his nanosuit engaged, the helmet forming over his head.

-oo00oo-

Harry and Hermione appeared on the bridge of the Aurora and to say it was a mess, was an understatement. The entire front of the ship was blown out and both of them could see pieces of debris floating just outside the ship. Harry mentally called to the Zeus, which he could see floating a thousand meters in front of the Aurora.

A swarm of nanites came flying out of the Zeus towards the other ship. Harry knew they didn't have time to do full repairs, so he instructed the nanites to seal the hull and get life support back online.

He turned to face the back of the bridge, the lights from his and Hermione's suits shining on that area. He could see the door to the bridge was sealed. He wasn't looking at that, though. Harry walked over to a control station near the door, "I should be able to turn the beacon off from here."

Hermione nodded her head as she replied. "I'll go see about the crew and check the status of the pods." She then disappeared in a flash of transporter light.

Harry turned his attention to the console and pressed a few of the controls but they didn't respond to his touch. He vocalized a short grunt before disappearing in transporter light as well.

When Harry arrived at his destination he looked around. The computer core room didn't look the way he had expected it to. The core was where it was suppose to be and all the control console were as well, but there were dozens of conduits connected to the core that normally wouldn't be. The core looked jury rigged for some unknown purpose.

A flash of light to his left drew his attention. Hermione appeared and walked over to him. "It's as I feared, they've all aged to the point where bringing them out of stasis will kill them. There's something funny going on though, they are all showing normal brainwave activity when they shouldn't be, and the pods have been modified with some sort of neural interface."

Harry listened to her, looking around the computer core room again. He then walked to one of the control panels and stared down at the readings without touching the controls. "I think I know what they did." He made his way over to another station then, reading the information there. "They set up some kind of virtual reality and they're all connected to it."

Hermione pulled out her PADD from her nanosuit and looked at the readings she had taken from several of the crew. "That fits with what I'm reading of the scans I took."

Harry turned to her. "So they're all in there. Their minds are all fine but their bodies have aged too much to sustain them outside the pods?"

"Essentially yes, that fits the data we have." Hermione replied.

Harry walked over to another panel and looked at it, then pressed a few controls. "The panel on the bridge didn't have power, I just shut down the beacon." Harry then turned to the core and stared at it for a minute, examining it while he ran a couple thoughts through his own mind. "Could we clone them, then transfer their minds to new bodies?"

"It's possible." Hermione replied as she typed a few things on her PADD. "As long as we keep them in stasis until the transfer is complete, it should work. It's going to put one hell of a strain on the cloning lab back on Olympus. We were going to start the Asgard when I returned from this little trip."

Harry ran his hand over his helmet as if running his finger through his hair. "I can have a dedicated building built after we return to Navo Altera, a large cloning facility. After everything's said and done it could be repurposed for some other project in the future."

Hermione bit her lips behind her face mask. "I'll send you specs on what we'll need for the facility. There are a lot of Asgard that will need new bodies."

Harry took another look around the core room then nodded. "OK let's get back to the Zeus. We can tow the Aurora back to Atlantis then move on to our other projects."

Hermione just nodded then disappeared. Harry stood there for another few seconds, looking around one last time before he too disappeared.

-oo00oo-

With the Aurora under tow it took two hours to get back to Atlantis. By the time they arrived, the hull and life support were back online and the nanites returned to the Zeus. The nanites in the city had already constructed a transporter for the city so they didn't have to use the transport booths. It had been at the top of the upgrade priority list.

Harry had called ahead and the chief engineer and medical officer of the Tria along with thirty of the crew were standing by to beam up to the Aurora. They would get it ready to enter the atmosphere and land it on Atlantis so it could be carried back to the Milky Way when they left Pegasus.

Hermione wanted to stay with the Aurora; she wanted to start getting DNA samples from the crew as soon as possible. Harry told her the Tria crew could handle it. Plus they still needed to find a way to get someone else into the VR so they could tell the Captain of the Aurora what was going on.

The Tria crew was the most familiar with the Aurora systems so Harry left it to them to fix up the ship and look after the crew that was in stasis. Hermione would check on progress with the crew when she got back and if there was an emergency they could be back within minutes, if Harry pushed the engines.

-oo00oo-

Again the Zeus burst out of hyperspace, this time by the last defense satellite in the Lantea system, a short micro jump from Atlantis. Harry started the scans on it and found it to be in almost perfect condition. The problem was that now that the Aurora was docked on Atlantis, or it soon would be anyway, and there wasn't going to be room to store the satellite for the trip back to the Milky Way.

Harry decided it just wasn't worth the trouble and released a nanite swarm on it to break it down to base elements. It would take a few hours then the nanites would wait to be picked back up later when the Zeus returned.

-oo00oo-

Harry was in the control chair when the Zeus exited hyperspace, fully immersed in the data stream of the Zeus for this stop. He didn't know what to expect when it came to the Asurans. According to Helia, they had all been destroyed, their planet turned to molten rock.

Harry knew better though. His own nanites could withstand a lot and keep on going. The fact that they didn't have a mind of their own was really the only difference between them and the Asurans. Of course his nanites also had more safety protocols built into their base code than you could shake a stick at.

They also had security protocols; they couldn't be hacked, at least in anyway that Harry knew of, and if somehow they came under attack they would literally revert to their base elements.

Harry still wasn't sure what he wanted to do. He had put off thinking about it until he knew if the Asurans were still around and what state they were in. He wanted to use them like the Lantians did, reprogram them for other things but their code was a thousand times more complex than the nanites he and Olympus used.

On the one hand, he could use them to clean up the Wraith issue like they were originally intended for, then deactivate them. Hopefully. His concern with that plan however, was having a galaxy full of them instead of all of them being in one place. If he didn't use them for that, he would have to deal with the Wraith himself eventually.

The other option was to strip their entire code and repurpose them into nanite swarms but he just didn't have a use for that many swarms and creating new swarms was very easy to do.

He definitely didn't want to leave them in their human forms unless it was to fight the Wraith. That would be just weird having them around and it wasn't like they could be used to help rebuild the Alteran population. He had the codes that Janus had built into the Asurans base code to shut them down if needed, but even that wasn't a sure fire solution. In Janus`s notes he warned that the code could be overcome by the nanites given enough time, the same with their base code.

With the Zeus cloaked, Harry turned the sensors on the Asuran planet below him. What he found didn't surprise him in the least. He heard Aliya curse under her breath. She hadn't been around when the Asurans were created but she had studied them in the files left on Olympus.

She knew their base code inside and out, better than Harry did. It had been her pet project for when they came to Pegasus and Harry was more then happy to let her have it, he had enough on his plate most of the time.

"This isn't good," Harry spoke out loud to the girls. The two Asgard were in the guest quarters on the Zeus since they were not needed at the moment.

"How many of them are down there?" Aliya asked.

Harry ran through the sensor data he was getting before answering. As the data came in, he got a feeling of dread. "Millions. I am detecting one primary network and a secondary, less used one. They have sixty Potentia running their cities. There is no way the Zeus could survive a direct fight." Even though he was talking to Aliya he kept himself immersed in the control chair. He didn't want to take his mind off the planet for even a moment.

"Can you access the network?" Aliya asked him as she moved to the secondary control console.

Harry checked the primary network for access and found that he could get connected to it. "Yes, but I can't get access to their base code." As he spoke he saw three ships launch from the surface of the planet and start heading in the direction of the Zeus. "I think they detected the connection. Three ships are heading this way." Harry cut the connection to the network and maneuvered the Zeus to a higher orbit and thirty degrees spin ward of the planet.

Just as the Zeus moved into the new position the three ships that had launched from the surface fired their weapons on the location the Zeus had been at, hitting nothing. "Aliya?"

"We're going to have to decloak and identify ourselves as Lantian. If their base code is still intact they'll stop firing." Aliya looked at the data that was being displayed on the console she was standing at.

Harry opened his eyes and glanced at Luna, who was standing next to the control chair, but she didn't look back at him or give any kind of indication as to a course of action. He was really hoping her sight was telling her what the best thing to do was. If the Asurans had broken their base code, the Zeus wouldn't last long.

He checked on what the three ships were doing and could see they were maneuvering in a search pattern. It didn't look like the bots were going to give up. "Alright Aliya, but if they start firing we are going to have to leave quickly."

Aliya pressed a few controls on her console then spoke to the room. "Asurans, this Aliya on board the Zeus." Along with the message she sent out her DNA code. "You will cease all activity and your ships are to return to the planet." She then closed the channel.

Harry watched as the three ships turned toward where the Zeus was now positioned. They had obviously been able to track the communication channel back. The ships didn't fire though, they just hung there in space not moving.

It took a few, very nervous minutes for Harry, until the three ships started descending back down to the planet. Aliya was still at the back console. "Harry, drop the cloak." Harry turned his head to look at her over his shoulder and the back of the chair, "Are you sure Aliya?"

"As sure as I can be without access to their base code." She replied.

Harry made sure that the shields were ready to take over at full power when the cloak dropped, he then dropped the cloak, the shields snapping into place a microsecond later.

"OK Aliya, they can see us now. They're trying to scan the ship but it's not penetrating the shields." Harry had his proverbial finger on the trigger to the shutdown codes. He wasn't sure what Aliya hope to accomplish but at this point, he just want to shut them down and be done with it. He'd have to slag the planet again after shutting them down just to be sure.

"Aliya, what do you hope to accomplish?" Harry finally asked her directly. Maybe she had some other option that he hadn't thought of. He really hoped she did since this felt like a Mexican standoff at the moment.

"Harry, you keep having to put off projects like securing or destroying Alteran tech in the Milky Way, never mind what has to be laying around Pegasus. Then there are the Wraith, the Goa'uld, and ascended knows what else out there, that we just don't have the manpower for and you can't do it all yourself. Nevermind that Earth and the SGC seem to be a pet project for you. We could use them - not all of them mind you - but a few hundred or thousand to go out and do some of this."

Harry frowned as he thought about it. Aliya had good points but what was below them on the planet was… well it was a headache waiting to happen. Even if they were able to get a few thousand to work for them, there was always a chance they could break free of their programming and cause trouble. The Asgard had enough trouble with the Replicators as it was and they still didn't have a solution for that. He could see it now, the Asurans and the Replicators getting together and taking over the universe. That was not a pretty picture in this or any other reality.

"You have a point, but how can we be sure that they will never find a way to free themselves from our control?"

"You let me worry about that." Aliya replied. Luna actually turned around and looked at Aliya with glazed over eyes as Aliya made that statement. Both Harry and Aliya noticed her.

Hermione had just been listening to everything but felt she needed to put her two cents in. "I agree with Aliya in principle. You do need the help Harry, and there aren't enough of us to do it all. Even with the new recruits we are still three generations away from being viable as Alteran, and that's going to take careful matchmaking to get everyone to at least seventy five percent level of Alteran DNA. Even if we recruit say a thousand more people, we still need three generations, after that the Alteran DNA will become self propagating again, and we'll get to one hundred percent within ten generations." Hermione stopped at that, she had gotten off track. "The point I'm making is, we need the help so we can focus more on us and not the rest of the two galaxies plus whatever else may pop up." She finished.

Harry looked to Luna. She was still looking at Aliya with a far away look in her eyes. "Luna." Harry called her name.

Luna turned her eyes to Harry then back to Aliya. "There are ways this could go bad for us, but there are ways this could go very right for us."

"What's the spread?" Harry asked.

"80/20 in favor." Luna answered in her faraway voice. "The bad though… is really bad and it will come quickly."

It had been a while since Harry had asked Luna for her precognitive advice on things and it was the first time in awhile that she was willing to share it. In fact, she hadn't shared anything since she had had the operation to fix her brain after the repository had damaged it.

"Twenty percent odds this blows up in our face…" Harry mused. "Fate hasn't exactly been kind to us lately. I'm inclined to shut them all down and be done with it."

"If we don't take the chance, we will have other problems in the future, from other sources." Luna replied to Harry.

"How bad..." Harry started to asked.

"I can't say, there are too many variables, too much information." Luna's eyes refocused on the here and now. "Sorry Harry. This is one of those 'Harry makes a choice' moments. I can see the possibilities if you go with Aliya`s plan, but if you don't, it gets fuzzy. To many other things could happen to lock down a single path."

Luna then grabbed the side of the control chair as her knees started to give out. Hermione was there a split second later, supporting her and running her scanner over her. Aliya had hurried to Luna as well to help her. Harry wanted to jump out of the chair but he couldn't, not with being in orbit around the Asuran planet and acting as sitting ducks for them.

Hermione finished her scan. "It's magical exhaustion. She must have put a lot into that." Luna just nodded her head against Hermione`s chest where she had laid it after Hermione grabbed her. "I'll take her to our quarters and put her in bed." Hermione told Harry and Aliya, then disappeared in transporter light with Luna clinging to her.

Harry knew Luna was in good hands so returned his attention to Aliya. "No more than a thousand and the rest have to be shut down and destroyed. I don't even want to claim any of the cities down there. It all needs to be destroyed."

-oo00oo-

Harry had given up the chair to Aliya so she could do whatever it was she was going to do. He trusted her; she was his wife, and she knew more about the Asurans than he did, if he was being honest with himself. She had been in the chair for over three hours so far, her fingers going a mile a minute in the gel pads on the arm rests.

He was still watching the Asuran planet via the secondary console and the holographics. So far they hadn't done anything, in fact they were being too quiet in his opinion. He had his finger hovering over a control on the console that he had programmed to send out the termination code at the first sign of trouble.

He had to give it to the Asurans. They had built a beautiful city on the planet even if they only had one city ship as part of it. The rest was all grounded city like the Alterans had on Earth back in the early days. Those ruins had been ground into dust by glaciers millions of years ago though, after Atlantis had left the planet.

Harry`s hope was to someday build something like this on Navo Altera. To see millions of Alterans living and working in and around it for the betterment of the galaxy and maybe the universe. It was his ultimate dream.

That last thought, about the universe, took his mind to the Destiny ship that was out there somewhere following a signal that the Ancients had found, and that they couldn't identify. They hoped the signal would led to the birthplace of the universe and maybe to a race that had been around longer than them. That to Harry was a scary thought. Any race older than the Alterans could be benign or they could pose a threat that he didn't even want to imagine.

He was very tempted to recall the Destiny and the seed ships that were with it. He'd discuss it with the Great Council when they got back. It was a worry but not a priority at the moment.

Harry refocused on the current situation just as Aliya sat up in the chair. "It's done. The primary network you discovered was what they all use. That secondary network was being used by a few thousand that didn't agree with trying to overcome their base programming."

"So what, they were originalists or something?" Harry retorted.

"Something like that. Overall, their base code hasn't been changed at all. The majority of them still hate us and want to see the Lantians completely destroyed. I've separated out the originalists and temporarily disabled their deactivation codes. You can deactivate the the rest." She wasn't happy with terminating what was essentially a sentient lifeform created by her people, but then again the Wraith were created by them too, even if they were by accident.

Harry didn't reply to Aliya, he just dropped his finger onto the control he had been hovering over for the past three hours. He kept his eyes on the sensors as millions of Asurans all disappeared from the sensors at once and raw material appeared in their place. He could still detect a little over five thousand Asurans on the planet though.

"I didn't want more than a thousand." Harry reminded Aliya with a bit of exasperation in his voice.

"I know Harry, but I couldn't pick a thousand out of the rest and just let the others be destroyed. They would have started hating us as well for that," Aliya explained in her own defense but to Harry it sounded like she was being a bit snippy. "I completely disabled their ability to replicate or build more of themselves. I also reinforced their need to follow our instructions, as well as burying the termination code deeper into the base code. They can still think for themselves but I removed a lot of the base emotion code that they were originally programmed with. They still have some of it but it's been dampened down."

"So they're nothing more than smarter nanite swarms?" He asked, not completely reassured.

Aliya turned to face him. "A little more than that but essentially yes. They're more in line with the AI of Olympus, the Terra Outpost, or the one here on the Zeus."

"Did you wipe their original code first or just modify it?" Harry still had some concerns but if she did it right they didn't have anything to worry about.

Aliya replied to the question, but Harry could tell by the tone of her voice that she was still upset. "I didn't have to, I just needed to fix what the others messed up. I base the code on what Janus did to Olympus, though I haven't actually been into Olympus's code, just the file Janus used."

Harry took a minute to think about that as he walked over to Aliya and pulled her into a hug. He could seel that what she had just done was hurting her. She had picked up a bit more humanity versus Alteran arrogance from Harry and the rest over the past two years, so essentially committing genocide on the Asurans was bothering her quite a bit. The Alterans of old, before leaving the Milky Way and becoming the Lantians, wouldn't have thought twice about destroying the Asurans. The Lantians only paused for a moment before trying to do it.

"You did the right thing Aliya. The Lantians should've never created them the way they did in the first place. Janus, at least, got it right when it came to the Outpost and Olympus. Though I think there is more to Olympus than we know. Did you know, Olympus actually mourned leaving the planet he was originally built on? He accepted that it was time to leave and that it was his duty to us to do so, but he did said goodbye to it as we left." Harry was still hugging her closely as he told her that.

"I didn't know that. I'll have to look into Olympus`s programming when we get back." She replied quietly as she held onto Harry.

"No," Harry said after a moment of thought and alarm. "I don't think he would let you. He would let me but only because I'm the High Councilor - I think it's restricted to me. I've never gone looking so I'm not even sure of that. It's a small hole in the knowledge that Janus gave me…"

Aliya didn't have to look up into Harry's eyes to know he was telling the truth of that. Their bond assured her he was. That was something they had all discovered after the wedding: they couldn't lie to each other, and they could feel each other's emotions if they focused on it.

Harry released her after a few more minutes, returning his attention back to the holographics displaying the city below them. "So how do we get five thousand non-asurans... we're going to have to rename them, off the planet?"

Aliya stared down at the city for a short moment before answering, "We either let them fly the city ship back to Lantea or they take several of the Aurora class ships they have down there."

Harry thought about it for a minute. "Instruct them to launch both the city and the five Aurora class ships. Once they're in orbit, dock the Auroras, then fly the city to Lantea and park the city in orbit." He paused. "Oh wait, have them pick up the swarm and resources from the satellite on their way there. Also, have them remove all the Potentia from the rest of the city and store them on the city ship, waste not want not." He smiled at her.

Aliya smiled back as she returned to the control chair to give the instructions directly. She glanced back to Harry when he called her name again, "Aliya once they leave orbit, destroy the planet. I don't want anything bigger than a small asteroid left of it. I'd prefer it atomized." Aliya nodded and sat down in the chair as Harry made his way out of the bridge to get some rest himself.

For now he was going to give Aliya`s modifications to the Asurans a chance. One step out of line though and he would terminate them all.

An hour later, the sound Zeus' main weapons firing didn't even wake him up.