Ch.131

It took a long month to use the nanite beds to make cloning pods with accelerated growth fluids before unlocking each of their genetic locks to clone the members of the crew of the Aurora. I'd gone into stasis and spoke with Captain Dawson of the Aurora. We knew each other fairly well during the beginning of the war and he was one of the oldest living Lanteans now barring myself and Faora.

He and the crew woke up in their cloned bodies on Atlantis with their proper genetic ages and the genetic locks back in place. They'd been fully briefed on the situation down to being some of the last remaining Lanteans alive. With five hundred of them, they spread out with the resources I gave them to repair Atlantis and prepare for war. Those that weren't repairing Atlantis or the two war ships and cruiser headed to Tarranis, the ship building dock to repair and retrieve and repair the war ship the Hippaforalkus.

Dr.Weir and her people asked questions and for the most part were ignored. I told her that we didn't have time to answer questions because the wraith would send a contingent within the year to attack Atlantis if they acted as usual and we had to get the city and armada prepared to withstand a possible fleet of wraith ships. I sent my suit to the Lagrange Satellite weapon to make repairs and upgrades while I continued repairs on Atlantis.

When she asked what they could do to help, I told her to find her other self and get the information Janus gave her so that we may possibly have whatever weapons he'd arranged for this outcome. I told her she'd be in a white suit that looked like Sam's and possibly be old beyond living a few hours after she exits stasis, but that's what she signed up for, to defend this city and protect them all.

She went with Sam and their people were off studying things, learning and whatnot. I was busy repairing the city, starting up the drone factory and filling the storages full of drones while they heard the former Elizabeth's tale. The Athosians asked what they could do to help us and I told them to keep watch over their children because the labs were dangerous and to help Sam with security, John with scouting and supplies, cleanup or any Lantean that looks like they need help because there was plenty of work to go around if we are to restore Atlantis and continue the war with the wraith.

She agreed and I stopped her, grabbing her necklace and breaking it. "Sorry, it's a wraith Lantean locator beacon. If there are any wraith nearby your necklace would have alerted them to our location and the fact that we're alive."

She said she didn't know and I nodded. "I'm aware and it's fine. Atlantis is far from wraith territory so it was hardly going to be an issue immediately, but if you'd gone off world it might've been different."

She thanked me before leaving me to my repairs. I made a dozen human form replicators with their only programs to be to repair Atlantis. I gave them pallets of tons of resources to fully repair the city and help the Lanteans. I used the satellite network once it was online to monitor the wraith, watch the Hippaforalkus return and find the city ship that'd been nearly destroyed.

It was just a tower now, but when Atlantis was repaired I sent Captain Dawson there with the replicators and tons of resources to repair it fully, find out if it had working ZPMs and kick the humans out of it that we're using it to suppress the locals. Dawson reported back that the locals were pissed and kicked out, but the potentia were nearly drained while the replicators were repairing the city ship to full power and removing all the dirt off it.

I told him to return for now after removing the potentia and bring them all back drained or not. From there when he returned, Dr.Weir gave us the list of potentia Janus left them through her other self saying that's all he'd left. There were five locations so I turned to Dawson as my old suit returned to me and wrapped around me like a hug, lowering the hood. "You take two and split your crew between the two ships that are done with repairs. I'll take the Hippaforalkus and one of the locations leaving two for the Athosians and the human contingent. If we can get all five we can power up both ships and prepare for the war as we never were."

He agreed, Dr.Weir agreed and Teyla just nodded saying her people would help in any way they can. I told them I was making a weapon that would essentially destroy wraith ships and technology on contact so soon they'd be forced to use the stargate for a ground war which we can then take the stargates from their planets and destroy them from orbit, but any wraith stragglers would need to be dealt with on the ground so it would be up to their peoples and ours to work together in exterminating the wraith once and for all.

Out of all five potentia, only two were viable while the others were dead or nearly so from usage. I'd gotten the brotherhood's potentia simply by beaming it from the scanned location to the ship without even going down to meet the locals before returning to Atlantis once I put a dead ZPM in it's place. The Atlantis expedition had found the child one that was nearly drained from using it to create a powerful EM field that knocked out even Lantean technology.

The Athosians found the Genii who refused to give their dead one over until they meet the ancestors as they called us. I stopped by and explained what it was and that I was one that knew their people back when they had ships. I told him that the humans of earth awoke the wraith and soon the war ten thousand years ago would begin again and if they were serious then we could use their help in killing the wraith once and for all.

Their leader asked how and I told him our plan to rid them of ships leaving them on foot and stranded so their men on the ground would need to kill off all of them that they come across. I told him that this was it, the last stand of the ancients and if we failed this galaxy would be left at the mercy of the wraith for good because there are very few of my people remaining.

I sighed. "We are prepared to die to the last man to free your people and all the worlds of this galaxy from the wraith. If you won't help us, that's fine, we will do it without you or die trying."

He bowed to me saying the Genii have always and will always support the ancestors. He gave me the potentia and I scanned it before shaking my head. "It's dead. We cannot use it. It was one of five that remained after the war and it seems the core was cracked and leaked energy until it died."

I set it down and told Commander Cowen. "Gather your sick and send them to Atlantis. Our medical beds will remove the radiation damage from insufficient shielding while I send the repair drones to upgrade your facilities so no further people of yours are injured and upgrade your living conditions. Whatever armies you have will receive a data server with real time wraith locations. Once the ships are destroyed you may do what you can. Until then I don't want to risk even a single life of your people to a fruitless effort to attack the wraith prematurely."

He nodded and I beamed down several computers and data servers to show them all wraith infested planets and ships in space at the moment and in real time. I told him the drones would look human but were robots with repair and upgrade specs before saying they'd arrive in a day or two. I beamed the athosians and myself up before returning to Atlantis with the dead ZPM and the full one.

Captain Dawson returned with both ships and similarly to me a dead and full ZPM apiece. John returned without it saying the reader I gave him said it was nearly dead so they left it with the kids and are sending back a naquadah generator to boost the range of the EM field to make sure the kids are safe. I didn't comment and just took the ZPMs to the power conduit before plugging in all of those with power.

The city ship was nearly at full strength, the ships were landed and fully repaired, upgraded and restocked with drones. That left the city ship off world that needed the ZPMs so I decided to dial up the Asuran home world. I told Sam and Dr.Weir when it actually worked and I sent a probe through that was the size of a floating balloon. "It's the home world of the Asurans. If there's any structure then it means they survived and rebuilt. If they have then we're in luck and if they haven't then we can harvest the neutronium to make more ships."

Dawson asked. "Are you sure it's wise? After what happened last time?"

I grunted. "The council acted without my approval and the wraith turned them off with a virus. The council refused to even listen so I'm hoping-"

The images recorded opened a two way communication both visual and auditory. We saw the Asurans there and I sighed before telling them who I am. I told them to stand down and let me through the gate to explain. They had no choice but to comply so I turned to the humans and Athosians. "Stay here and keep the Iris active once we leave. They can and will kill you all but they can't harm ancients, it's in their base code to protect us."

Captain Dawson wanted to come with, but I told them it was something I had to do alone and he was needed here because the long range sensors picked up the Lantean ship Tria in the void between galaxies heading towards Atlantis at close to the speed of light. So they had a potentia which could be useful if things don't go well on my end. He wished me luck and I told him to bring our people home.