10 A new Nation.
Back home, Lavender contacted me, "Harry? One of those Goa'ulds claims to be a Tok'ra, they are some splinter group that are fighting the Goa'uld. His host was begging to keep that worm in his body. The other ones are swimming in your fish tank. We sent the Hosts back with the Jaffa, they can explain why they were not Gods."
I asked, "What did that Tok'ra see of our Destiny?"
"Just the inside of his cell," answered Lavender, "we don't know what an Obliviate does on a combined being, what do you suggest?"
I shrugged, "There are enough future leaders with you, work it out for yourselves, whatever you decide is fine by me."
I know, we are young and unsure, but we have a lot of history of laws and rules to fall back on. It is with situations like these that we can learn and grow… Hmm, I have to work on my words of wisdom before I say them, they sound like total bullshit.
Lavender continued, "As you suspected, a cloaked Tel'tak was spying on us from the Asteroid belt. We captured the spy, but he already sent a message out. He is in the fish tank too."
Astoria and Tracey towed the Ha'taks to Rigil, they expanded the shields to include the Ha'tak for jumping into Hyperspace. With a tow, they had to reduce their speed a lot, seven hours later they arrived. By then the Council voted to include one of the Ha'taks to the City as a tourist spot, the other as a training tool for the troops. With the Sub-light engines repaired, they landed when their spots were properly prepared.
The Ha'taks had plenty of Naquadah in store, thank you Apophis! Dean, Seamus, and Alice came to inspect the spaceships to see how accurate their data was and corrected it accordingly, they had fun programming the VR Cabins.
Astoria stored a Wing of Death Gliders and several Al'kesh and urged Tracey to do so too when she heard they were about to be recycled, "You never know when they will come in handy," she said, "They could be great bargaining chips."
Neville used the extra Naquadah for City improvements. Better food replicators are a must until the farms are up and delivering products. Anyway, the Ha'tak were stripped of their goodies and used as training model for the future troops, and sightseeing trivia for the City.
Xxxxx
The Holo-Stadium was almost finished, Neville went above and beyond with it, it dwarfed the biggest Olympic Stadium on Earth and then some.
He shrugged, "It can be used for a lot of things, sports, training, concerts, meetings. It is a good investment of resources."
Hannah must be going crazy about that Huge Holo-Deck, its design was screaming Star Trek all over. She told us it would be ready for use in a day or two. She searched our database for models that have similarities with Star Trek, her argument was, "People will recognize it and will be easier to accept the technology and be honest, most of these designs are ugly."
I shook my head, "Most will not recognize it, Hannah, most wizards tend to turn their back to the Normal world."
Hannah protested, "Not true, Harry! A lot of Muggleborn return to the Normal World when they can't find a job. There are more of them than you know!"
I shrugged, "You are probably right, and I must admit that it looks great."
Xxxxx
Our first residents are Veela, they had no problem swearing loyalty to the New Lantean laws, even when we are still discussing them. After a visit to the medical center, healing years of abuse, they were free to move through the city and enjoy their freedom. Soon more Veela Immigrated, Fleur promoted our World by demonstrating the Bracelet's abilities while rescuing enslaved Veela and bringing them to safety.
Fleur did use her judgment and made the worst Veela traffickers disappear. News that Veelas are vanishing all over the world, along with the worst criminals got the governments worried, do we care? Nah.
The Grangers decided to move to the city to practice their first passion and lead the Medical center. I prepared a Repository with medical science and knowledge about the devices used in the Medical Center. Daphne was the third who asked to be a professional healer. I let her discover the cure of their family Blood curse by herself. Soon the Greengrasses were cured. Daphne concentrated on Veela and the Werewolves now.
The thank you shag from Astoria was one for the Pensieve.
Angelina, Katie, and Alicia are leading the Transit Center. Alicia and Katie moved into the Mansion with the Veela crew. Nigel Wolpert had a good time as the only boy on-site. Veelas get bored easily and have the best ideas to entertain themselves. Lucky Nigel, his thoughts of wanting to be a pilot were gone.
Xxxxx
We made peace with George Weasley, he insisted to be questioned with Veritaserum that he did not know about his mother's crimes and condemned his family for thinking they were in their right to do that. We accepted George as one of us, he is shagging Angelina and is bound to marry her. He is the only one though, the rest can fuck themselves.
Too bad we can't kill them now that George has joined us. Bill and Ron are feeling Fleur's and Hermione's anger already. Fleur did some cosmetic changes, now Bill is a balding, toothless, hunchback guy with a limp. Helped by Hermione's parents, the changes are locked in his DNA, he could keep his Dragon tooth earring though. Muggleborns are calling him Quasimodo already.
Ron is currently employed in a brothel filled to the gills with Amortentia and lust potions. He is shagging Hags for two Sickles and five Knuts a turn to please the new Love of his life, the Matron of the whorehouse. Molly and Ginny saw it all by a Holo transmitter every time they were alone in their home.
Xxxxx
Rudra Patil pushed a marriage contract under my nose, "You are already doing everything married couples do, it is time to make it official, Lord Potter. I know you are honorable, but Amrita and I want it on parchment and documented."
I asked, "Can I talk it over with the other girls? This will be a big change for all of us."
Rudra nodded, "We expected that, we want your answer in one week, Lord Potter."
That night, we discussed Rudra's demand, Astoria, commented, "We are already acting as married people, Harry. Daddy will be waiting with a contract soon too. I bet he will offer to include Daphne in the deal."
"Too bad for Daphne, I'll stick with my six girls, thank you!" I protested, "I don't mind marrying all of you, but no more."
Luna smiled, "Fleur was asking to join, Harry, and I bet Gabrielle will be soon when she comes of age. In fact, the whole Veela community wants to shag you. Fleur had good arguments."
Lavender giggled, "She sure had good arguments, she taught us several new things,"
Padma nodded, "That snog was toe-curling great too, I bet Bernadette is shagging Neville, Susan, and Hannah."
Parvati mounted me, "With or without that parchment, we belong to you, Harry. Not only are you our savior, but you are a good loving person too. And bloody great in the sack! More fuck less talk, honey."
I flipped her to get her below me, I put her legs on my shoulders and pounded into her until she screamed to Morgana, The Goddess of Orgasms, they call on her every time.
Then I slapped Hermione's ass, "This naughty girl is been promising stuff to the Queen, that needs to be punished. Show us where your loyalties are, Miss Granger. You are going to eat everyone out tonight on your hands and knees."
The slaps on her ass woke something up in Hermione, she does have a submissive side, or she would not be so devoted to authority figures and rules, the following hours she got bossed around, for every girl she was eating out she got it in doggy style from me. Parvati was looking at it longingly and whispered that tomorrow was her turn.
Xxxxx
I started the third shipyard up at Luyten's Star's Asteroid belt. The first order was several Potentia modules, yep, I found the plans to build new ZPM Crystals, to speed it up, I went overboard with the constructor beams, I have thousands of them now. I sent the finished modules to the Star Sirius A to grow the Crystals. Too bad it takes a month before one is fully formed and charged… well, I have to wait that long. I also went through old records to locate possible ZPMs that I could use for Atlantis.
The old records also showed where the Repositories were located, that, and the locations of the outposts were enough for me to go on a mission. When I explained in a meeting the risks of ZPMs in enemy hands and their use for us, everyone agreed to recover our lost equipment.
My first goal was the locations that did not have any Astra Porta activity for the last ten thousand years. Astoria, Parvati, and Lavender came along, each in a Destiny to assist in collecting our technology and provide security. One by one we visited the locations of the outposts and collected everything that wasn't nailed down. We even passed by Heliopolis and retrieved the damaged Porta and the meeting stone of the four races, it will be a nice asset for our new museum.
Then the Repositories, most of them depleted of energy, ours now. My loot? Several depleted ZPMs, a few Repositories, three Control Chairs, thousands of drone weapons, and one fully loaded ZPM. Too bad for O'Neill, he won't meet the Asgards… crap! That is my job now.
I studied the ZPMs, and compared a depleted one with a fully charged one, once the ZPM is depleted, the pocket space where the ZPM draws its energy from collapses. I took a risk, took a depleted ZPM in a shuttle, and experimented with it well away from any star. My goal? It is to create a new pocket dimension and charge it with exotic particles to start a new cycle.
My first try got me a ZPM with 10% of the original output. My second and third made it to 40% with a better understanding I improved the first one to 60%. That was the best I could get, no matter how hard I tried. It is still a bloody lot of power, enough to power the new Auroras with. It took a few hours to design a power socket and let the current Naquadah power generator act as a backup.
Xxxxx
The Holo-Stadium is completed, we took the opportunity to celebrate and gathered all New Lanteans. The scene was a big ancient amphitheater, with softer benches though. Padma and Susan were the girls who focused on politics and leading. Most of the time they did the speeches aided by the other girls.
Padma and Susan took the stage, while Neville and I stayed at the back, "We reached another milestone in our History!" was Padma's opening line, "Our city is completed, we only need to fill it with residents. The first ones are already streaming in, welcome."
Padma waited until the applause ended, "That does not mean our troubles are over, we are going to face a lot of them in the future. How we go from here will define us as a Nation."
Susan stepped forward, "The question is, as who are we going forward? As the Alterans before they moved to Pegasus? As Lanteans when they came back here? We can not deny the human DNA in our body, it is who we are, it is what we are. That Human DNA came with its own pack of inborn instincts, instincts the Alteran and Lantean lost millions of years ago."
Susan got the attention of everyone, "Instincts to fight for survival, fight for territory, for resources, to defend our offspring. Those were lost to our ancestors, and the reason they lost the fight against the Wraith. Both ways are flawed, one too aggressive, the other too passive. We aim to be in the middle."
It was Padma's turn again, "We are starting a Society from scratch, people will come from all over the world. Different cultures and habits will crash, there will be bumps in the road, that's unavoidable, we will be a young nation again. Old rules and laws don't fit us anymore, even though I wish they would."
I spoke up, "With the knowledge we downloaded in your brain it would be easy to live like the Lanteans and Alterans, but it would not work because of our mentality. Ten thousand years of evolution and cross-breeding with normal Humans made us not the peaceful gentle scientists we used to be. Now we are Wizards that had to fight to survive, we had to hide to survive, we are fixed on possessing material goods, we are territorial. We have to gradually learn the old ways again, we can not force that from one day to another."
I continued before a captivated public, "We need to learn again that money doesn't matter anymore. We need to learn again that territories don't matter anymore. Is this planet full? There are thousands available, are they full too? We Terraform some more! Is this Galaxy full? There are a billion Galaxies out there! Greed? Power? It just means more work."
I looked around and concluded, "We, all of us here are at the start of a new era, it is up to us to keep our people united until we learn the old ways again. If we split up into factions, we will fight each other in the future and end up as Hedge Wizards in the boonies again. It is up to us to stay as one Nation. And that will be bloody hard. Brits, Macusa, Russia, China, India, Africa, Veela, Japan. All different nationalities and habits. Count the House Elves, Centaurs, Mermaids, by the time we are one people, we probably will be long gone and our grand, grand children might pick the fruits of our hard work."
Padma added, "We know our History, Lanteans, and Alterans did not have a monetary system. Food, clothing, and homes, it was all freely provided, and they filled their days with science, art, manual labor, research, and exploring. The galaxy had enough resources to provide for them. Harry is living proof, Do you need a shuttle? There you can have that one. Why don't we build a city for a couple of hundred thousand people? No problem, with the help of our friends we have one within a month! We only can not force that mentality on our people, it has to grow."
Neville spoke up, "Harry and I discussed it with our Fiancees for days already, this is the first time it has been discussed with all of you. We will keep this discussion going, to include all of your ideas and opinions. We are making decisions for generations to come, that can not be done in a couple of evenings. Search your memory and look through the History of our people in the database on our Main computer."
Susan ended the speech, "On your tablet is a file called Core rules, we are going to demand everyone to swear to follow them, there is a subfile where you can put your suggestions and post any loopholes you found in our laws. At the end of the week we will finalize the Core Laws and begin our new Nation."
Susan smiled, "Now the formal stuff is done, we have some entertainment prepared. There are three choices, two muggle movies, Star Trek and Star Wars, and one Horror Movie, Harry Potter and the Basilisk. Hands up for the First movie! For the Second! The Third? The third one it is."
We discussed it, people need to know what we have been through to appreciate what we have now. The Basilisk is a good eye-opener, they would understand what we were up against. The majority of spectators were Veela, and they could scream to wake the dead. Our in-laws got a new look at Hogwarts. Aunty Alice was swearing like a dockworker when she saw twelve-year-old me fight off a Basilisk.
When the Movie was done, all the Veela had tears in their eyes, Lord Greengrass and Lord Davis went from one shock to the other, this was the second time they came to Rigil, and now they saw what happened at Hogwarts without them having a clue. My reputation took a boost, the shag that night was phenomenal, Fleur claimed a spot with the girl's approval.
Xxxxx
We analyzed the Repositories, they are from seven million years ago, my Vambrace is superior, I finally adjusted a Control Chair to measure our brain power and activity. Combined, it will indicate the amount of download our brain can handle without melting down.
I scored the highest at 85%, I blame it on being semi Ascended and then forced back down with my Soul in it. The rest is all between 5% to 15% for the normals, 11% to 30% for Squibs, and 21% to 50% for Magicals. The overlap is due to brain activity, intelligence is a major factor. Although above 40% is exceptional.
Neville clocked at 48% as the second highest. To download the old Repository completely, you need above 70%, the Merlin one on my arm needs 95% with a fail-safe to stop when the brain cannot handle it anymore.
Angelina installed a row of Chairs in our Transit center, everyone that sat in it registered their score in their ID. Another thing the Chair did was detect your aptitude for certain professions, it is not 100% accurate, but it indicates where your talents are.
For example, if your brain is using your memory more than your mobility's side, then you are more suited for a desk job than to play football, the one you play with your feet or play with your hands. Best of all? It could read your intent, people that wanted to grasp the power or have evil thoughts were marked. We have a dedicated team of Veela monitoring the City for Sabotage or people poking for a rebellion.
People are starting to move in, muggleborn are convinced when they saw the hologram when we made a call, it caused a stampede. In one week's time, almost everyone without a job moved to Rigil, a few days later after they swore the oath, they returned to fetch their relatives.
Xxxxx
SG1 you ask? They got their jobs back, the Queen spoke up for them after the Captain reported what happened up there. Every country was pissed at the US Military for endangering the world, soon a consensus was reached and a new Stargate program was founded. Britain got a leading role because the Queen had an inside Man… Woman with the people that eliminated those pyramids.
Yep, Hermione can't stop herself from caving in when the Queen asks for a small favor, launching a few satellites was done quickly by herself, if we recycle the Al'kesh and Death Gliders why can't the Queen have one? Pretty please Harry? We remove the Hyperdrive from the Al'kesh, that way they stay in the Solar system, Hannah? The Queen asked! THE QUEEN!
The Queen got her Al'kesh and Death Glider, we removed the Hyperdrive, the bombs, and plasma weapons. We delivered them on her lawn with a dazed Captain, she got the privilege to try the first muggle VR cabin and got a crash course on how to fly an Al'kesh and Death Glider. She had a little Lantean DNA, enough to activate the VR Cabin, and a small visit to the Repository to teach her the piloting and navigation skills to fly Goa'uld stuff.
Why did we do that you ask? Well, because she is the QUEEN of course! And to teach the US that endangering Earth without warning their allies is not done. That and Hermione had some good arguments, she was explaining them while she was shagging me… I can't remember what she said though… somehow I agreed, Hannah convinced Neville.
We got something in return, a Billion pounds! Easy cash!
Xxxxx
Daphne figured out that for Veela to have boys, normally the chances for one is about one in twenty thousand, Daphne developed a way that made males produce only male sperm. To balance that, she did the same with female sperm. Daphne became the new most favorite person in the Veela community overnight. I dropped to third place, behind Fleur.
The Grangers took an interest in curing the Werewolves too, after they got some volunteers, they beamed a few wolves up that roamed free on a full moon and put them in quarantine. They will be test subjects for the next couple of months, werewolves that run free on a full moon deserve a harsh treatment.
I developed something too, no, I rediscovered it. Sharing our essence. I tell you that is a blast! It is as if you are wrapped up in two Patronuses and merge your mind with the girl. Once I shared with all the girls, and the girls with each other, I signed the marriage contracts, yep, I am married now, there were no doubts or secrets anymore after our sharing.
Another spell I kept for personal use is the opposite of the Crucio, it is borderline unforgivable, the effects you ask? It stimulates all the pleasure receptors in the body and brain. Cast on you, and you will have a big mind-blowing orgasm that will make you almost pass out. Knowing that spell could be addicting for bachelors, it replaces their wand hand.
Xxxxx
Immigrants flooded the transit center, often there were cries for help, the pureblood movement found fertile ground on the continent, except for France, they kicked most of the purebloods to Britain during their Revolution. Malfoy, Lestrange, and Nott to name a few. Rumors of Muggleborns being put in camps like the ones we had made us investigate.
We discovered the camps, there was barely any food, new arrivals had to give all their valuables to the guards… we made recordings of the camps and exposed the governments to the ICW. There was not much of a reaction, so we took our case to Kingsley and told him what was about to happen.
Kingsley Shacklebolt addressed the ICW, "Wizards and Witches from all over the World! Something is brewing in Europe! Several Nations took an example to our former Dark Lord, and are prosecuting Muggleborn and putting them in death camps where they are slowly starved to death."
Kingsley looked at the representatives of those nations, "There is a new Nation, founded by Lord Harry Potter. He noticed the treatment of your people and took offense to it. From tomorrow on, all those camps will be destroyed, the prisoners rescued, and those abusive guards punished. I have no control over Lord Potter at all. At the moment he is the most powerful Wizard on Earth."
The representative of Germany scoffed, "A mere eighteen-year-old Halfblood boy the most powerful Wizard? Don't make us laugh, Lord Shacklebolt. What we do with our Mudbloods is our business. We did not say a thing to your country a few months back."
Kingsley shook his head, "No, you followed the example of a Dark Lord, what does that make you? I tell you that you have to change your policy before Lord Potter does it for you. Do not underestimate him, he showed me what he is capable of. We are mere bugs compared to him, I advise you to treat your Magical people better or face the consequences."
The Supreme Mugwump asked, "Lord Shacklebolt, is Lord Potter's Magic that strong?"
Kingsley shook his head, "It is not his Magic that is strong, even though he is at the level of Dumbledore and Voldemort. No, he found lost lore from the lost City of Atlantis. He created technology that works on Magic. He built ships that can travel to other Stars, he built a City on another planet, I witnessed it with my own eyes, I saw animals not found on Earth."
My hard light Hologram appeared next to Kingsley, "And I find the Pureblood movement idiotic. This is my only warning, if you keep killing Muggleborn, you will not like the consequences."
The German representative laughed, "What can a Halfblood do besides some party tricks?"
I shrugged, "I'll show you."
A beam later the man was standing in front of a bunch of penguins, a few seconds later he was falling down from ten thousand feet high. When he almost reached the ground he found himself dipped in the ocean, then he was hung to dry above an active Volcano for a few moments, then I put him in his house. Finally, I beamed him back in his seat, soaking wet.
I smiled, "Did you enjoy the trip, pissblood? Do you still feel superior? What do you think about my party tricks?"
I turned to the ICW, "We came from an ancient civilization, a civilization fifty million years old, this pure blood movement is self-destructive, our numbers are low as it is and you are making them smaller. I offer sanctuary for every Magic user, Squib, or Muggle who has a speck of our forefathers in their blood."
I looked at the German pureblood, "Make no mistake, I can remove your magic, even our legacy so that you end up as a pure Muggle."
The Supreme Mugwump stood up, "Lord Potter! Is this a declaration of war?"
I chuckled, "No, Mugwump, let me show you all what we showed Lord Shacklebolt."
I beamed all representatives on the bridge of Destiny One, Tracey was driving and turned the view to the planet, I told them, "How can you reach me up here? I can pick every pureblood off one by one if I want to from here. Tracey, the tourist route please."
The wands were beamed out of their hands, while Tracey took off to the moon, they spent enough time behind a telescope to recognize the Moon, then Tracey visited all the planets, somehow I always skipped Mercury, not Tracey, she had the chance to show off and even showed Pluto.
The ICW members were glued to the windows, it did not escape them to see the size of the ship, while I did most of the explanation, "We started a new Nation called New Lantean, we accept all people that have the blood of our ancestors, muggle or pureblood alike. Our numbers are low as it is, so every soul counts. Tracey, to our city please."
When we arrived, Tracey positioned herself so we had a good look at the city, "As you can see, we are not on Earth anymore, the ICW has no jurisdiction here, pureblood stupidity is not allowed here, we are equals. You are not purebloods anyway, our forefathers mingled with humans, there is muggle blood in all of us, we are Hybrids, all of us. Tracey, take us back, please."
Tracey took a slow pass next to Aurora One, 1.5 miles long and bloody impressive, I commented, "Atlantis is a multitude bigger than this one, I plan to retrieve her shortly. Change your ways, people, before it is too late."
We dropped them off back into their seat and beamed their wands back into their hands. Kingsley ended his speech, "We thank Merlin that Lord Potter wants to avoid violence, as you just witnessed, he does not need to. We can only hope to open diplomatic relations with New Lantea, anything else would be foolish."
11 Assholes, Atlantis,
Kingsley left them to think it over, they had a lot to think about, a broom vs an Aurora? Meh. There will be an uproar soon when half of the population will disappear. Did you know Veela can be vindictive? They are! They volunteered to monitor the repressive governments and tag the bad ones, then find all the camps and mark the prisoners.
The following morning, all the prisoners were beamed away to the transit center, where other Veela were ready to heal and feed them while explaining what was going on. A first download and a bracelet were sufficient for now, the rest will be done on Rigil, the Veela processed twenty thousand people that day. That some of the worst guards turned into muggles was a pure coincidence.
When the ICW representatives of those repressive countries reported me to their government, I authorized the supervising Veela to give them a lesson. Every member of the meeting got beamed up and dropped from twenty thousand feet high, everyone that tried to apparate away got beamed back, then following my example, they got dipped in the ocean close to the polar cap and paid a visit to a volcano.
When they got dropped back into their seat, a voice boomed through the building, "You better reconsider if you think you are superior to us! It is only on the goodwill of our Leader that you maggots are still breathing! Any action from your side will be punished by turning you into a muggle. We will be watching!"
It was not all bad, a lot of countries contacted us to make transit arrangements for the ones that wanted to move to the new planet. Slowly, Rigil was coming alive. Newcomers got to see the recording of our speech and the movie Harry and the Basilisk, dubbed in the Lantean language.
With all the newcomers we realized that it takes years to settle in, everything needs to be started up, an administration, police force, army, intelligence, food production, manufacturers, and many more.
Padma, along with Susan, are the political leaders of the Council. Neville returned to his passion and is head of the agriculture and Herbology department, he was not interested in ruling, and plants are his passion, Terra forming is part of his department. Luna heads the Wildlife department overlooking and managing our ecological footprint on the planet.
Fleur led the intelligence department of our army, a lot of Veela were interested in a military career and signed up. Lavender is heading the logistics department for now. Hannah is talented in managing the People.
Astoria will, when we branch out, manage a fleet of spaceships to travel between our future planets. Parvati is the head of the police force. Every member of the DA got a department to lead. Too young you say? Nah, a visit to the Repository gave them all the experience they needed to know about management and leadership. We can rely on millions of years of experience. Hermione? She will lead the science department.
Xxxxx
Dan and Jane Granger reported their findings about us, "Jane, Daphne, and I analyzed our bodies, according to the records, a full Lantean has a life span of several thousand years. Wizards between a hundred fifty to three hundred due to our Human DNA. With the bracelet actively working to keep us healthy we can go to a thousand years, two thousand with regular visits to a medical pod for someone like Jane and me, three thousand for Wizards."
Daphne added, "We found a Gene therapy to let embryos grow into full Lanteans during their time in the womb, although we would advise against it. We'd lose our Human side that way. We all agree that our Human side is contributing enough to validate keeping it"
Daphne explained, "Our Magic ability needs Human DNA. Transfiguration, and Charms, rely heavily on Human DNA mixed with Lanteans to work properly. If we alter embryos we should limit it to get 50% Brain Power and 50% Human DNA, the level You are on, Neville."
Neville shrugged, "I would not mind that, but you have to work overtime once you let that news come out. Every parent would want the best for their child, they will stand in line to get it. We need to build facilities just for that purpose."
Hannah commented, "I'll start on it right away, I'll discuss the plans with Dan, Jane, and Daphne. I know I will visit it once Neville and I start having children, everyone will."
When they all looked at me, I said, "Post your conclusions on the Main Frame and offer the treatment free of charge for every pregnant woman. Hannah will build a Maternity hospital based on the applications."
Once the news came out, the medical department was swarmed with pregnant females, and the Immigration inflow got a serious boost.
Xxxxx
Kingsley called me up, "Harry, we received an emergency call for the ICW. The Chinese military developed a way to discover Magic communities and are closing in to destroy them. Their army will not allow people to have any power above them and suspect they will be killed. We don't have the infrastructure to shelter them all, and asks if you can help them out."
I answered, "We will take them in,"
I contacted Fleur, "Honey, the Chinese Military is moving in to destroy Magical villages, set temporary shields and evacuate them to Rigil please."
Then I called Hannah, "Hannah, Fleur is going to bring the Chinese Magic population. There are a lot of them, can you prepare the City? I leave it up to you and Fleur to start it all up."
Fleur and her department scouted the magical villages and headed to the besieged ones first, they put beacons on the borders and a shield generator at the center of the village, then Fleur activated the shield. One Veela stayed behind to supervise the shield while the rest traveled to the next village, the girl in the village used her tablet to communicate with the elders and explained that they were safe from the normals.
When all villages had their shield, Fleur started to organize the evacuation, first, she collected an elder from each village and took them to Rigil after a visit to the Repository to be a witness. They took the tourist route of course. Somehow they were more impressed by visiting the Moon than looking at Saturn up close.
Hannah gave them a tour through the City and explained the Laws and regulations, she ended with, "We know that you want to hold on to old habits and way of life, the life you have been leading for centuries."
She spread her arms, "What we want is to return to our way of life, the life we led for Millions of years! Therefore we will not centralize your villages together but spread out through the City and the new one we are planning. There is no language barrier, and everyone has the same level of education."
Fleur added, "Search your memory for our History and on your tablet for the complete set. Now that your village is shielded, you can take your time to pack your belongings."
That gave Hannah the time to expand the City, after a few weeks over a hundred thousand Chinese Magicians joined our Nation. We gave the world a preview of our power when the Chinese Army could not make a dent in our shields, it took a week of heavy artillery fire for them to give up on it, especially when we disabled the nuclear warheads they tried to drop on it.
Fleur had enough after that nuclear attack, she beamed all the Generals to the North Pole, gave them a dip in the Ocean, and let them watch how our transporter beams turned the artillery around the villages into iron ingots.
Coolly, Fleur gave them a message, "If this is how you will behave when you visit other worlds, those other worlds may do the same to you what you are trying to do now. Know that your behavior is recorded and judged by us all."
Her last words made the generals pale, "We will take these villages away and relocate them, my advice to you is to think about what you saw here, and know there are plenty of other worlds in the Galaxy that can destroy you without breaking into a sweat."
It had some results, a lot of nations that were ready to attack their Magicals who were abusing Muggles, backed down after our show of force, and were informed that we were dealing with the pureblood movement.
The pureblood movement came to a full stop when their most fanatic purebloods turned into muggles after they were caught in the action, parents that kicked those newly minted muggles out of the family got Muggled too. The few grandparents who dared to kick their muggle children out found out the hard way that muggles don't have an extended lifespan.
The pureblood movement came to a stop. It was purely coincidental that all the abusers turned into Muggles... Honest! It was fun to watch them adjust to the Muggle way of life.
Purebloods started to apply for a spot once they knew the number of years they could gain. They did not even mind being screened by Veela, multiplying their lifespan up to ten times is enough to change their behavior. Too bad for them that the Bigots were known to us.
Xxxxx
Aunty Alice and Uncle Frank were scouting for a place to start a second City, we try to follow the old regulations of preserving local wildlife and centralize our presence on a planet to one continent with a maximum of a hundred million inhabitants. There are enough worlds to colonize after all.
Every Immigrant got an account with 400 Galleons as a welcoming gift after they swore the oath to follow our Core Laws for them and their next twenty generations. Susan and Padma insisted that it had to be twenty generations. With a bit of luck, we will be united by then.
Luna had a blast by evacuating all the magic animals from China, and relocating them to a planet she discovered that was recovering from a Meteor impact that destroyed almost all wildlife one or two millennia ago. The plant life recovered, but all the big animals were gone and could be replaced with ours. We dug up the Astra Porta and locked the access to Rigil only.
Then Luna, Demelza, Romilda, and Gabrielle went on a shopping spree, they bought thousands of mustangs and herds of buffaloes from America, reindeer from Lapland, they nicked moose, wapiti, deer, some wildebeests, and zebra from the wild. You know, all of them animals for predators to prey on, and set them out on the planet. Best of all, Luna transported big herds of Crumpled Horned Snorcacks to the new planet. The girls had a blast building a new world for the Magic animals.
We knew it would work when Luna convinced the Centaurs and Mere people to move to the new planet. We called the planet Pandora in honor of Luna's mother. In a few short weeks, all the Centaurs and Mere people found a new home on Pandora.
Luna took the initiative and relocated all the Magic animals that roamed free on Earth. From Fairies to Unicorns, Thestrals, Hippogrifs, you name it, she beamed it up. She held off on the dragons until the wildlife raised their numbers. Some will not make the transport, Dementors, Vampires, Lethifolds, to name a few, they got lost somewhere along the road.
She was lucky the Transport beams cleaned the cargo bays from the Aurora after each transport, those Cargo bays are huge! A planetary research station in orbit will prevent future meteor impacts and provide scientists with a place to study the wildlife without disturbing them. They could finally study the mating habits of Centaurs without getting a bunch of arrows in their ass.
Goblins you ask? They can stay in their caves on Earth. Those fuckers have no place with us, they are unreasonable greedy shits. Take their Goblin Silver for example, they think they rent it out to the customers for a lifetime, but they charge it for the full value of the item instead of charging rent. It is only to have something to be mad about and to act rude. Fuck them.
They got my only Veto, the Goblins stay on Earth! Am I petty? Maybe I am, but so are they when they told me to take my gold and scram. That was before they found out I could move to other planets and have planets filled with goldmines. They were shitting bricks when I beamed all my vaults empty.
I smiled and told Griphook, "Have a nice short life, Griphook. Once your Elders find out what they are missing out on, I bet they will present me with your head on a platter. It will not work though, they dug a hole and can stay in it."
Goblins, as most of the Magical beings, are a creation of our Ancestors, the Hagrid type of Ancestors. Maybe we treated them badly in the past… we probably did, but that is no reason to treat me like that. I know they are weeping in their caves right now, I saw it. Gloating? You bet I am!
Xxxxx
I was hesitating between recovering Atlantis or visiting the Asgard. Well, I am ahead of the Canon timeline, I think we will do Atlantis first. Then I have the complete research about Nanites and Artificial intelligence. I ran simulations on how to proceed without drowning, and think I have it figured out.
I selected a support team, Tracey will be the pilot, Laverne took the longest straw, a dozen Veela for monitoring the scanners and communications, Goldstein and Boot came along to survey the City. A bunch of repair droids and maintenance bots will come along with a second shuttle.
The shield engine of Atlantis has an emergency shield generator to provide extra power during space travels through a debris field. I can use that to connect one of my 60% ZPMs to boost the shield and replace the depleted ZPMs, all it needs is timing.
We amplified our Astra Porta with a ZPM and dialed Atlantis, when the connection was established, I sent Moros' Command codes through with the first command to keep the power off and remain a complete communication silence.
Tracey moved my shuttle through the Porta, the one with an extra-strong shield, Lavender and Tracey were with me, the rest had to wait until we managed to power the city back up. I was ready with my gear and used the shuttle beam to move to the Emergency Shield engine, Lavender beamed to the ZPM Power room and waited for my signal.
I hurried to connect the ZPM to the Emergency Shield Engine and powered it up, when the shield got back to full power and expanded, I contacted Lavender, "Lavender, the shield is back at 100%, you can replace the ZPMs. I will go to the control room."
I beamed to the Control room and raised the override console, I put my hand with the Vambrace on the console and called out, "Atlantis! I, Harry James Potter, a Descendant of the Last High Councilor Moros, claim you as my property to help rebuild our Nation! So Mote It Be!"
Atlantis scanned me and responded, "Harry James Potter, Atlantis acknowledged your claim, you are registered as the new owner, we are at your command."
Hmm? That worked? I am the new Owner? Awesome! I connected my mind to activate the control room, the lift brought the shuttle and Astra Porta down to the cargo zone, "Tracey, park the shuttle out of the way to make room for the second one. Then find the Control Chair and scan Atlantis to see if there are issues."
I called Padma, "Honey, we succeeded, I took ownership of the city, and our team began to do a damage survey, you can let the second shuttle come through. Call in tomorrow, then we will know more."
Padma smiled, "That is great news, Harry. We close the Porta after the shuttle gets through and call back same time tomorrow. Love you, bye."
The Porta closed after the second shuttle came through, The Veela team did not hesitate and beamed a long-range Scanner and a short-range scanner in orbit to do a first scan of the Galaxy.
Goldstein and Boot went to the maintenance section of the Control Room to get a damage report and send the repair and maintenance droids to the most urgent places, while I visited the Library and updated my Vambrace with the history of the last ten thousand years from the passive sensors.
Through those sensors, I found out that like in canon the Wraith starved themselves and killed the weaker Queens until their numbers were small enough to survive. They still had to hibernate for long periods to let their food grow back in numbers. We are in luck, they are hibernating for at least forty or fifty more years.
I activated the Library hologram and said, "Give the locations of Potentias currently in use in this Galaxy. Download it in my database."
That was a long shot, in the TV show that Hologram was an Ascended pretending to be the Library hologram. The Holo Ascended obeyed, I pretended I did not know she was an Ascended, she is a pretty one though.
My next command, "Load a memory crystal with all information about nanites and how to disrupt the connections. Load all research about the subject. Prepare another memory Crystal with all the Asgard Genome from the time we left Terra."
Hah! I got it! That will make the Asgards happy, there is enough info to let the Asgard get some decent bodies and enough science to fight off the Replicators. Now, some big honking spaceships are floating and standing around, just waiting for me to collect them.
With a thought the City came alive, I beamed to the main control room, everyone in the room was at a console gathering information.
Goldstein reported, "There is water damage at the outer regions, the shield reduced in size to save power, a flaw in the design, they were close to the shield emitters, once they were exposed to the water, the shield would collapse, a rough calculation comes out on three to five years more before it would go critical."
He turned to me, "We were just on time Harry. We beamed our repair droids to the most urgent places and our maintenance droids to the sublight engines and Hyperdrive."
Tracey's voice came through the speakers, "Harry, I activated all repair droids from Atlantis, Antony and Terry should have control over them now. The storage rooms are almost empty, we need more raw materials."
I warned her, "Be careful that you don't fry your brain, Tracey, that Chair doesn't have a limiter."
"Thank you for telling me, Harry, I limit my search to one section of the City at the time." came her response.
Laverne was not happy, "We are low on Drone weapons, Harry, a lot of our secondary weapons are damaged by the water. We need raw materials, a lot of it. The City is back to full power, two 100% Potentias and one at 60%."
Mireille, the matron of the Veela team, reported, "There is a damaged Defense platform in this solar System, and a Wraith ship on the bottom of the ocean with one lifeform in it, according to the data it resembles a Hive Queen, the ship is a Cruiser."
I speculated, "It could be a casualty of the last battle or after they won the war, they probably fought over the food. That Queen must had access to some energy to sustain her life and is possibly Hibernating. Use one of our Transport beams from our Shuttle to beam her up and spread her atoms in space. Beware, they have a mental connection with each other, beam her up at maximum power. Our transport beams have a different composition than the ones from Atlantis I bet their ships are resistant to those beams."
After a few moments, Mireille said, "It is done, Harry, what do we do with that Wraith ship? It is a Cruiser. We discovered a Thermal drilling station a mile away, close to the Cruiser."
Hmm, we don't need it for anything, "Lavender, can you study the layout of that station and work out a plan to harvest that station for raw materials to repair Atlantis? We have enough energy, and we leave in a few days from here, so we better make use of it."
I asked, "Mireille, can you girls scan for the ID codes of our spaceships? Even if we can find a wreck, we can take it with us and recycle it."
My task was to see if I could use the cloak at the same time as the shield, I had to somehow expand the cloak outside the shield… that is a lot of work. All the emitters have to be upgraded… that will take a week. I made the modifications and sent the plans to Boot and Goldstein to put on their long list of things to do.
Lavender spoke up, "Terry? Can you mark the storage hangars where I can beam the materials?... Thank you! The transport starts now, it will take a half day to get it all here safely."
Xxxxx
Tracey woke up, and saw everyone standing around her, she asked, "What is the matter? I fell asleep, that is no reason to make a fuzz about is it?"
Lavender flicked Tracey's head, "It is when you bloody pass out on the Control Chair dummy! Be glad the safeguards activated and beamed you in a medical bed and warned Harry. He is reprogramming the Control chairs now."
She sighed, "Tracey, this City is made for people who have over 70% brain power, you knew that and still you forced yourself to endure the headache. Harry chose you because you have 44% and are a trained pilot. Don't force yourself to prove to us that you belong."
Terry commented, "You are one of us, Tracey. We knew at Hogwarts who was enjoying casting Crucio on us and who hated it. As the Carrows said, you have to mean it. A lot of Crucios from Slytherins did not hurt that much. I remember you, Daphne, and some other Slytherins came back to heal us, you belong with us."
Antony joked, "And pretty to look at too, so don't damage the goods, Tracey Davis."
I added when I came closer, "At least we know the safety measures still work. Get your butt out of bed, Tracey, it is time for dinner."
Xxxxx
At the dinner table, I commented, "I have to thank the one who thought of bringing a food replicator with us. The food from the local Replicators tastes like cardboard."
Lavender speculated, "Maybe they did what we are going to do in a few years and let it taste bad to stimulate people to grow and prepare our own food instead of relying on replicated meals."
Mireille shook her head, "That can't be, they were under siege for years."
I searched the database on my Vambrace and said, "They did a reset before they left the City. Only the Mainframe has all the settings stored."
One of the Veela, Claire, commented, "The level of automation is off the scales too, when I walked into an apartment and entered the bedroom, I saw maintenance beam the old bedding away and replaced it with fresh ones. There was not much left of the old beds after ten thousand years. I bet the whole City will replace old decayed items with new ones."
Terry grumbled, "And eat all our raw materials in the process."
Tracey patted his back, "At least we will sleep in a proper bed, Terry."
I gave the City a mental command, and said, "Guys, only this building will have its perishables replaced. I set to do the repairs following the sequence of importance you set. This will searching for resources more important though."
One of the youngest Veela, Louise, cheered, "We are in Atlantis! We are having dinner in Atlantis! If someone told me three months ago that I will be having dinner in the sunken City of Atlantis I would call for a mind healer, and yet here we are."
Goldstein added, "Being part of the history books. That is what we are now, the team that brought Atlantis home."
"That is true," I said, "take some time off for the rest of the day. All the repairs and searches are automated and can be left alone until tomorrow. Explore the City, but avoid the science section, I bet there are some nasty surprises if we are not careful. We meet back at eight for breakfast."
Xxxxx
After dinner, almost all the Veela girls giggled and took Goldstein and Boot along for some private time. That left me with Lavender who vanished our empty plates and got in front of me on the table, lifted her skirt, and said, "Here is dessert, Harry."
Louise, who stayed behind with Claire, had a hungry look in her eyes when she saw me eat my dessert, and said, "I would not mind eating some of that too."
Lavender moaned, "I bet Harry has something you could suck on, Louise. Or Tracey, I bet her pussy is yummy too."
Hesitating, Tracey asked, "Lavender? Are you willing to share?"
Lavender moaned, "Why not? Veela are people of love and emotions, bloody gorgeous, and great in bed. You too, Tracey, are nice, magnificent, and if you want, you can take a turn, Harry has the stamina for it. The other girls agreed that Veela would be allowed to share our bed if they wanted. I say you can join us."
Louise took Tracey's hand, "Come, Tracey, I heard Fleur brag that Harry tasted great, let's find out."
It was hard to concentrate on Lavender's pussy when two girls were double-teaming on not-so-little Harry. Louise must have practiced her gag reflex, she could take it all in. I had to resort to Parseltongue to keep my edge. Claire worked on Lavender's nipples, welcoming Lavender's fingers on her snatch.
Louise stood up, "Harry, let Tracey take over, so you can fill her up from behind, Tracey, eat Lavender's cunt."
I got up from my chair and pushed it aside, it made room for Tracey, with a wave of my hand she got naked. Eager she bent forward and went down on Lavender, working her over with fingers and tongue, spreading her legs a bit to show the goods to me. Her pussy was dripping already, so I did not waste time and shoved Little Harry in, up to the hilt.
Louise got under Tracey and showed her expertise by working on Tracey's clit and caressing my balls, it did not take long for both of us to reach the top, Lavender followed not long after.
I pulled Louise up and put her next to Claire on the table, "We can't forget our little slut," I commented while I spread her legs and took a good look at the goods, "My, you have a hungry pussy, it needs something doesn't it, Louise?"
Louise put her legs around me and pulled me in, "Fuck me hard, Master, make me yours."
Tracey pushed Louise down on the table and straddled Louise's face, "Then eat your Masters cum if you want to be his servant, or do you want to be his personal bitch?"
Lavender twisted Louise's nipples, "Don't talk with your mouth full, Louise. Harry, I think we keep this one. I think we keep both."
That night, the High Councilor's chamber got blessed, once Tracey got her first peak, she became insatiable, it was some months ago when she let loose and I got the benefits from that.
Louise and Claire are our age, and as all Veela is very hot and sexy, did I say hot? Smoking hot, all the Veela that share our bed gave as much attention to my girls as to me, believe me, getting shagged by Veela is mind-blowing.
It still does not compare to sharing our minds though, Fleur said. I limited doing that to my girls, it is an act of pure love… Auuw! "Focus on us, Harry! Tracey is our slut for tonight and she is needy, fill that cunt with your dick, Louise and I will work on the topside."
In the morning, Tracey snuggled against me, "Thank you, Harry, I needed that."
"It was our pleasure, Tracey," I said, "last night was great, we all enjoyed it."
Louise stretched and yawned, "I agree, this was one of my best nights. Maybe the fact that we were fucking in Atlantis was a big part of it, and Harry's Parseltongue is Magical on its own."
Claire smiled dreamily, "You are sold once you feel that tongue on your pussy, a normal one won't do anymore."
Tracey groaned, "You are right, Claire. Lavender, you are a very lucky girl. Treasure that guy, he is worth ten normal ones."
Lavender whispered in her ears, "We are not home yet, Tracey, make the best of it, I'll talk with the other girls if you want."
Xxxxx
After breakfast, Mireille analyzed the first results of the long-range scans and reported, "There is not much Trinium on planets, we found some in asteroid belts, Naquadah is more available, one Asteroid belt has both and several other high-quality metals, we suggest moving there once the upgraded cloak is operational"
She looked at the display of her terminal and commented, "We can harvest the Trinium from the cruiser to tide us over, the hull of that Cruiser is part Trinium, there is a lot of debris circling the planet that contains Trinium. Debris from the last battle no doubt."
Mireille continued, "We located three ID responses from Aurora class Battleships, one on a planet, two in space. I recommend we salvage them fast before the Wraith picks up on those transponder signals."
Antony reported, "Hyperdrive and sublight engines are done with their maintenance in eight hours, the shield generator is at 100% with the backup generator activated.
Terry reported, "We prioritize the upgrades on the Cloak emitters, the only issue is the raw materials."
Claire suggested, "There is a land mass nearby that has minerals, if we raise the city and move closer, then our beams can reach it, there is enough except for Naquadah and Trinium."
I looked at Tracey, "Make it so, Tracey, Claire will give you the coordinates."
With a big grin, Tracey beamed to the Control Chair. Her voice came through the speakers, "All systems that matter are green, releasing docking clamps in ten seconds."
12 Going Home… Flying Home.
Ten seconds later we felt… nothing at all, the inertial dampers made it a smooth ride up. Tracey's voice told us, "We reach the surface in an hour, I keep it at 3 ft a second, what is the weather up there? I am limited in my range now, I can barely see beyond my shield."
I shook my head, "Stop merging with the sensors for that, Tracey, access the terminals of the Control Center to get your Data. It is slower but won't fry your brain."
"Ow… I knew that, I just didn't remember it," came her embarrassed voice, "Ah, it is evening up there, the weather is nice."
After calculating my options, I made my mind up, "Lavender, while you stay here and beam raw materials in from the continent, I'll go out with a shuttle and visit those three Auroras, I'll take some volunteers with me and see if we can salvage them, we will turn the beacon off and wait for you to collect them. I need three pilots that have experience flying our Auroras."
Lavender answered, "Padma will contact us in two hours, she will send some pilots through, I will ask for a load of drone weapons too."
Mireille spoke up, "We located Astra Portas close to where those Auroras are located, one is on the same planet as one. You can go through now, there is some Naquadah and Trinium in that solar system, with Maintenance bots, Repair droids, and Constructor droids, I think you can get that ship back into space."
Tracey's voice added, "Take some ZPMs with you. It is easy for a Construction Droid to create an extra socket and you can power the ship with a ZPM. Harry can charge the depleted ZPM later, that way those Auroras have two ZPMs."
Xxxxx
Padma called in, "Hello, Atlantis, wait a bit, we syncronyze our holo-emitters so we can talk face to face… ah, that is better. When can we expect you home, Harry?"
"We need at least a week here, Padma," I answered, "we located three Lantean Aurora Class battleships. We plan to salvage them and bring them home with us. Can you send some pilots with high brain power over, two or three should do it."
Lavender added, "And a load of drone weapons too, Padma, we are almost out of them here and the secondary weapons need repair, we are nearly defenseless. Raw materials too if you can spare them."
Padma smiled, "We are prepared to send raw materials through, the engineering department made floats that can pass through the Porta, we are sending them through now, tell us when you run out of space. I'll arrange the pilots."
Float after float came through the Astra Porta and filled the cargo bay, we used our mental control to steer them to their place. A genius designed those floats! With an expansion charm, they carry almost ten times their normal load. Soon the cargo bay was filled with floats, and we made them stop delivering.
Astoria came through the Astra Porta with her shuttle and three Veela, she hugged me, "I missed you, Hubby, as you commanded, all of us are between 38% and 40% brain power."
Padma commented, "by this time tomorrow we have another shipment ready if you return the empty floats, they are hard to spell I am told."
Lavender answered, "We are sending them back the moment they are empty, Pad. These floats are marvelous. Thank the guys that made them."
When the connection was cut, Astoria grabbed my arm, "Show me around first Harry, a hologram can only tell you the basics. I want to feel the Magic of the real thing."
Lavender chuckled, "Yes, show Astoria the magic of the High Counselor's chambers, Harry. The view from there is phenomenal."
One of the Veela pilots asked, "Can we see it too?"
Louise sheered, "Go for it sisters! The view is great too!"
Two hours later, Astoria panted, "Now, let us see that view, Harry."
Xxxxx
We left after lunch, first we sent a spy drone through to explore the surroundings, then our two shuttles, one loaded with Naquadah and Trinium, the other with ZPMs, Constructor droids, Repair droids, and maintenance bots, and passed through the Astra Porta to the planet with the Aurora, we cloaked, took to the sky and hovered above the outpost.
Adele, when you spent two hours fucking her, you can say we are on first name base, reported, "I detected the ship in the old outpost we abandoned. It is occupied with humans. My first analysis tells me that the Sublight engines are damaged, the Hyperdrive needs attention too, the whole ship needs a tune-up and a ZPM. This is one of the last models of Aurora Battleships, Harry."
"We take this one, Harry," said Astoria from the other shuttle, "there are enough minerals in reach to use for the repairs. We take a ZPM to power the ship, a Transporter beam, and half of the droids. Louise and I are enough to repair the ship sufficiently to reach Atlantis. We can repair the outpost too, but this volcano is about to erupt."
I offered a solution, "You can warn the people when you leave, give them the dialing address from Lantea, they can settle there. Maybe create a shaft to the magma chamber with your transport beam to release the pressure, that way the people can see the danger."
A few beams later we took off to the next Aurora, we used the Astra Porta to go to the nearest position of the ship. After a few hours of flight, I groaned when I saw the damage of the Aurora. The second ship was drifting in space, the front was completely destroyed, Atlantis had to come and get it. It was an impressive ship, even with this kind of damage.
Adele reported, "The crew is in stasis, Harry, a lot of them, but after ten thousand years in stasis, I doubt their bodies can survive long if we wake them up."
I mentally connected with the Ship's Main computer sent my authorization code, and commanded to turn the beacon off. I sighed, that is all we could do for now.
"We make clones for them and transfer their consciousness to their new bodies," I told my crew, "we leave them here with a spy drone to keep watch. Let's go to the third one."
Xxxxx
This one was in orbit of a brown Dwarf with two ships flanking it, the travelers if I recall their names. We arrived fully cloaked, Adele said, "There is a lot of radiation, those people have shields erected around it, but it is not enough to solve anything. How do we proceed?"
"Copy their computer, and make a translation program for their language," I decided, "then we make contact. Nicole, start by getting rid of the radiation, and repair the Sublight engines."
A bit later we made contact, "Vessels that are boarding our Battleship, respond please."
A male answered, "We claimed this ship, stranger. It was drifting here for centuries, we are preparing it to be operational again. Leave or face us in battle."
"Ehm, let me ask, can you detect us? How are you going to fight us when you can't get a lock on our position?" I asked friendly, "Let me first demonstrate what you are up against."
With a thought, I switched the crew of the bridge of one ship with the crew of the other, "Please get your crew from our ship, keep in mind, we could just have transported you outside your ships. As a token of friendship, we do some maintenance on your ships if you are willing."
One of them threatened, "We can blow that ship up. If we can't have it, nobody can."
"You could try, but before you detonate that explosive make sure that it is not in front of you," I commented while I beamed their explosives at their feet, "My goodwill is slowly fading though, we understand that this is a big loss for you, but you would never be able to operate our ship, it will only function for our people. Do we repair your ships or do we have to destroy them? Choose now."
"You can repair our ships, stranger, we realize we are at your mercy and will get our people from the ship." came the unwilling answer.
Each ship got a repair droid that started to work on the engines, fixing the worst mistakes, those are flying death traps. It used our raw material at a frightening rate. Nicole called, "Harry, I scanned the surroundings, there are some asteroids that have minerals we can use, I will collect some."
Xxxxx
It took two days to patch the battleship and the two Traveler ships up, in the meantime I programmed a construction droid and gave it an extra power cell, I added a cloaking device and some thrusters to move around. I cleared all our data and loaded the blueprint of a Travelers ship. Just to see if I could do it.
I contacted the leader, "To give you some compensation, we will leave a Construction unit in a secret place to build some ships for you, each time a ship is finished, it will automatically travel to this position. It will build ships until it is out of raw materials or energy, then self-destruct. Any attempts to take possession of that droid will go boom."
If I calculate it right, it will give them three or four ships like the one I scanned. That should be enough compensation, even when it will take a few years to complete. Nicole and Adele started the Aurora up and set course to the damaged Aurora to wait for Atlantis. I traveled to a nearby asteroid field and activated the Construction droid. Then I followed the girls, the third pilot, Simone put her shuttle in formation mode and beamed to my shuttle.
An hour later, she sat next to me, "Thank you, Harry, thank you for saving me and my sisters. You gave us a future without fear."
I smiled, "You thanked me plenty, Simone, helping the Veela community was the right thing to do. Besides, Fleur is dear to me, I could not stand aside and watch when I could help the woman I care for."
Xxxxx
Atlantis arrived, Tracey, aided by Nicole and Astoria, used their tractor beams to dock the damaged battleship. Then they secured their ships on Atlantis too. Simone and I entered the shuttle bay and moved to the Control Tower after parking our rides.
Lavender looked at the three huge ships, "I'm glad we took time to collect them, all we have to do now is to travel to that asteroid belt and do the rest of our repairs."
Antony reported, "It will take four days for Atlantis with the current number of droids, Astoria's ship needs a day, Nicole's needs an upgrade, three days, and to rebuild this one it will take a week."
I shook my head, "We fill our cargo bays with raw materials, and only repair Atlantis, then we head home. We repair the battleships when we are home. I bet Hermione's department has some ideas with Runes and extension charms."
When everything was set in motion, we gathered in the meeting room, Mireille started with her report, "The Wraith are hibernating, so far we detected a hundred twenty Hives. We don't know how long they will hibernate, but it is best to let them sleep. There will be a guard or guards looking for signs of trouble no doubt."
Tracey commented, "This City is not suitable for us, to operate it requires high brain power, over 70%. Everything has to be done manually or with a splitting headache. At best we can copy the archives and search the science labs for hidden treasures. We can use it as a template to build one of our own or use a model from our archives."
Lavender agreed, "You are right, Tracey, let's not forget we have muggles with 5% to 15% Brainpower among us, living here will get them an aneurysm or make them feel like second-class citizens."
"They are the most enthusiastic in using their mental commands," commented Simone, "them and the squibs having fun using their minds to control our new technology. Especially the squibs, they thought never to be able to use Magic, now with their bracelet some of them can even cast simple spells."
This is where reality diverted a bit from Canon, McKay and Shepard could fly it with no problem, if they try it with this Atlantis, they would fry their brains. I bet the Ascended who is pretending to be an AI made some alterations to the Control Chairs to let them work for them. That or the criptwriters warped Logic and made it so. Think about it, a Human without proper education is flying a Huge spaceship, just because he has a bit of DNA... Well, put a Chimpansee in a race car and see if he can reach the finish line. After all, we share more than 90% of DNA with them.
Astoria nodded, "Hannah started the second City, the Immigrants are streaming in, a lot are the families of muggleborn and squibs, especially now the word got out we can improve their babies."
I explained about the Travelers, and what I had done for them, "Finally to compensate for their loss I programmed a Constructor droid with the blueprint of one of their ships and put it in an asteroid belt, it will build three to four ships before it runs out of energy, then it will self destruct."
"We will return here eventually, to clean our mess up," at their puzzled faces I explained, "We can not let the Wraith be, we are the ones that created them, they have Lantean DNA, somehow some mad scientist created them, and let them get out of control. We will return when we are stronger."
Lavender nodded, "Just like the Goa'uld used our technology to get in power. We will face one problem at a time."
Xxxxx
Atlantis was as good as new when we took off, Tracey and I took turns flying it home, I expected to meet the last Aurora battleship on my list halfway on the road, I got them on my long-range scanners and alerted everyone.
I called through the com, "I have a Lantean battleship on my long-range scanners traveling just under light speed, prepare to have visitors, I think their Hyperdrive is damaged or are out of power."
"I'll contact them," said Lavender, "they will be glad to see a friendly face."
I chuckled, "Or mad that a bunch of strangers nicked their City. Their ID said it was the Tria, presumed to be damaged in battle and ordered to travel to the Avalong Galaxy, the current Milky Way, the captain's name is Helia."
Lavender's hard light hologram appeared on the bridge of the Tria, "Battleship Tria, this is councilor Lavender Potter on the City ship Atlantis, if you need our assistance come to a full stop."
Helia's hologram appeared in the Control room and looked around, "Are you not a bit young to be a counselor, young girl?"
Lavender nodded, "I am just old enough to give you aid, if you think I am too young, then we leave you for someone more mature to find you. Now, do you want our assistance or do you want to travel on your own?"
That sucked, Captain Helia's face froze up, grinding her teeth, she answered, "We need assistance, Atlantis."
Lavender snubbed her, "The name is Counselor Lavender Potter, Captain Helia. A lot has changed in ten thousand years, it is best you adjust your attitude."
That is my girl! Dealing with snotty Wizards paid off, Helia made her ship come to a full stop, Atlantis came alongside the Tria, I aided with the tractor beams to dock their ship, secured it, and took off again. I kept an eye on Captain Helia, just like in the TV show, after securing her ship she went straight to the override panel, a few unsuccessful tries later she demanded the control of the City to be handed over.
Everyone was looking amused at the Captain, finally Lavender chuckled, "Come on, Captain, do you think you have the right to own Atlantis? Just because you happened to live there ten thousand years ago? We got Atlantis just on time from the bottom of the ocean, we repaired it to its former glory and you expect us to hand it over to a captain with a bad attitude?"
Astoria added, "It is not ours to give away, our husband owns Atlantis now. Wait until he secured the Tria, and got us back on the way. Start with giving a damage report."
Her second in command suggested, "Captain, maybe we should take stock of the situation before we make demands, we were as they said ten thousand years on the way to Avalon."
Tracey beamed next to me, "I'll take over, Harry, talk to that Captain before she throws a tantrum."
I beamed next to Lavender and faced Captain Helia, "Good day to you and your crew, Captain Helia, and welcome back to Atlantis. My name is High Councilor Harry Potter. Give us a detailed damage report, we will start scheduling to repair your ship. Do you have any questions?"
Helia fumed, "I demand the control over Atlantis right now! You can hardly be called Anquietas, I am surprised you can even get it to fly through space."
I sighed, "You know, we could use your experience of the Anquietas' ways of life, to guide our people, but not with this snotty attitude. I claimed Atlantis when it was on the verge to be destroyed by the Ocean, I reclaimed three lost Battleships, one with a crew in stasis, and you have the choice, join us under our command or we repair your ship and you can fuck off with it."
Helia protested, "I have the experience and knowledge, whatever can you do better than me? Boy?"
I shrugged, "A lot of things, I got the full repository of Moros, my ancestor. And experience? You lost a war against insects, the ones you created yourself. You have nothing to brag about, Captain. We are not full Anquietas or Lanteans, as we call ourselves, our Ancestors were, but we evolved too, we are fighters, survivors, and if you can get out of this, I might listen to you."
With a wave from my hand, I turned her into a sheep, "We learned to use the Potentia energy in many ways, Captain Helia. Perhaps a few hours like this will cool your temper. Sir? You are the second in command? Are you willing to listen before making demands?"
A bit weary he answered, "I am First Officer Cronos, High Counselor Potter, I am willing to listen."
I nodded, "Well, it started all when High Counselor Moros and his people sunk Atlantis to the bottom of the ocean and left for Terra in the Avalon Galaxy…"
We told them the story of our History, and how I came into possession of Moros' repository, and how we are starting from scratch. How we got Atlantis and the three battleships and ended with a snotty Captain with a chip on her shoulders.
I turned Helia back and said, "I present you our offer again, join us or we repair your ship and you can go your own way. We could use you, but we need teachers, not babysitters. At this moment we have the crew of the Aurora in stasis who need new bodies, their current bodies can not survive a day. So if you have a medic with experience in cloning, that would be great, or else we have to do this ourselves."
Xxxxx
We arrived at Rigil, we hovered a mile outside in full view to let everyone have a good look. On the viewing screens at home and street corners, a report of our expedition was shown with video footage, we cut the R18 scenes though, we saved those to be analyzed in private.
Dan and Jane Granger took their best medical teams along to Atlantis to aid Tria's crew in creating clones for the almost five hundred crew of the Aurora. A process that takes time to let the brain have optimal growth. Helia and her senior officers went into stasis to enter the Virtual world the Aurora crew has been living in to prepare them for a new body.
Tracey landed Atlantis in the Ocean close to Rigil City and took the Traveler Aurora to Mining One, Astoria took her Hyppotamus?… stupid name, her Orion to Mining Two for an upgrade. By now we have new ZPMs, and both got a new shiny one, that made them hum with contentment.
The Tria and Aurora battleships had their major flaws fixed, to get ready for their turn to be upgraded, while I sifted through Atlantis's secrets and made sections off-limits. Janus's time ship got a special place… very off-limits.
Hermione and her department are researching how to integrate old technology with the Magic branches, Runes, Warding, Charms, Enchanting to name the most important, and had improvements for the spaceships ready for my approval. I know, control freak passing through, but if I don't keep them in line they would soon go crazy Wizard on us.
The improvements were great though, extension charms in the crew quarters made them luxurious suites, the outside Wards put extra protection on the hull, lightweight made maneuvering easy on the planet, when the idiots wanted to install a Floo that was where I drew the line.
Our fleet is getting impressive, twenty Destinies and six Alteran Auroras, with the four Lantean Auroras we are almost strong enough to kick Goa'uld ass, we are monitoring all planets with active Astra Porta activity and mapping the Goa'uld power structure.
Our third shipyard finished Luna's Space fortress/science station and we are in the process of bringing it to Rigil, Luna is the proud pilot who is taking her baby out to play. The shipyard started a new one to be stationed in orbit of Earth.
SG1 you ask? They are still negotiating with the other Nations to share their Star Gate program, now that they know who is out there, the nations are more cautious to venture out and start new conflicts. That doesn't stop them from stirring up trouble in the neighborhood though I have to deal with them soon.
Parvati, Lavender, and Astoria are reclaiming old Alteran technology, often beaming it away from the Goa'uld. When they see the chance, they erase the computers from the shipyards, sometimes uploading a flaw in the design to let the Hyperdrive fail. They found another Gate jumper with a time device, Janus is leaving all his junk in the most inconvenient places.
Rigil got a new celebrity, the Ice Lady from the South Pole got defrosted and cured by Parvati and Daphne. They made a complete documentary of it and broadcast it live on the view screens in Rigil, Daphne got a boost in popularity too, she is high on the babe scale and single, offers from a date to a marriage were streaming in. Yep, Sis-in-law can have the first pick of the litter so to speak…
Xxxxx
The Council did good work, they made every change from the way of life on Earth to the new way of life on Rigil go smoothly. In the weeks we spent recovering Atlantis they made a lot of improvements in managing the Immigrants and the City.
We changed our currency from Galleons to Credits, we made it easier to calculate too, we kept it at prime numbers, but now it is eleven Silvers for a Credit and eleven Bronzes for a Silver. I was outvoted to call the Silver coins Cre, and the Bronze coins Dit, when they sent a report to Lavender.
We kept the exchange rate from one Galleon to one Credit. We extended our mining operation for Gold to cater to everyone. The Council decided to give every Immigrant a starting capital of two years' pay, to jump-start the economy of our new city.
Slowly, farms and greenhouses appeared around the City, Neville and his Herbalists introduced new vegetables and fruits for cultivation. Those became popular fast, new tastes and new recipes will soon replace everything from Earth. We strictly regulated the vegetables and animals that are allowed to move to Rigil, Neville and his department often provided good alternatives from Rigil to replace them.
The Potions and potion ingredients industry will take a hit, our medical science is superior, so nobody is willing to drink those foul-tasting potions, especially when our bracelets remove them from our bodies. Meh, they can change to farming and cooking, that is not a big difference. To keep the knowledge for prosperity, several greenhouses on Pandora are dedicated to cultivating those herbs.
Luna introduced new farm animals to replace the ones from Earth, shamelessly promoting her Snorkacks. Rigil has its own Honey bee, the Snorkack replaces the sheep and goat, it is something between, every animal from earth has an alter ego on Rigil. We realize it will take decades to form a working society without interference from us.
The Council made strict hunting regulations to preserve the local wildlife. Wards and force fields around the City protect the people from predators and harmful insects. We made our people aware that imported animals or insects could ruin our ecosystem, with several examples from Earth, cats and rats in Australia for instance.
Waste disposal and pollution from Earth were documented and solutions to prevent it from happening on Rigil. It was discussed with the people, the knowledge we downloaded made it easier to understand, soon they were researching solutions to solve them on Earth.
Speaking of Earth, memory globes started to circulate in the Magic communities, if you have the DNA and hold the globe for ten minutes, the Lantean language will be imprinted in your brain. Place it on a table and tap it with a wand and it shows holograms of the City and wildlife on Rigil. It was Padma's and Susan's idea to promote our world. It worked like a charm, people were trampling to Immigrate.
Xxxxx
It was time to visit the Asgard, when Parvati told me she found a faulty android.