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Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 23.5

Chapter 23.5 - From Here To There

“She’s certainly big.” Major Lorne offered as he looked out across the hanger at the now restored form of the Enterprise.

“The design was originally used for long range exploration.” Eventus explained as he considered once again whether he should have repainted the vessel to a more appropriate color for its current name. “Once things with the Wraith went from swatting down the occasional attack to an actual wa...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 27

Chapter 27 - Many Many Mistakes

Having left Sheppard to deal with the fallout of their impromptu election, Eventus had been on track to fulfill his fervent desire of passing out for at least eight hours of uninterrupted rest. However fate once more seemed to other plans, as less than a dozen steps out of the transport booth near this apartment he'd run into the one of the few people he had a reason to not just brush off out right. 

“Evan!” Becket...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 26

Chapter 26 - Election Speedrun

Weir, Caldwell, and Everett wanting to discuss things without him around was moderately understandable from a security perspective. Though Eventus didn't really have the heart to tell them that with the ZPM plugged in he could just bring up the internal sensors logs to review everything they said if he actually wished to do so.

On the upside, that left him free to slip over to the core interface room and initiate the high co...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 25

Chapter 25 - Time And A Half

The brief brightness of the matter stream quickly resolved itself, and Eventus found himself standing on the bridge of the Daedalus.

“I have to admit.” He said as he looked around for a moment before focusing on the Asgard that was working at a very different looking control station. “I am moderately impressed. Because we'd been trying ...

Darkened Stars - Chapter 27

Darkened Stars - Chapter 27

Stardate 29413.7 - May 31, 2352 - 09:56:26

“You seem happy.” Keiko offered as she shot Rain a somewhat confused look.

“This place has been more stressful than living on Terra.” Rain told the Japanese woman, all but bouncing on the heel’s of her feet as she watched the cargo ramp rise back up. “So believe you me, I'm happy to finally be leaving.”

She wasn't exaggerating either, som...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 24

Chapter 24 - Pest Removal

“That's certainly a ship.” Eventus muttered in bemusement as he studied the mishmash of energy signatures the Daedalus was radiating.

There was the expected Ancient and Asgard of course, a number of things that he suspected were Goa’uld in origin, and a smattering of things that just came up as unknown. Which made him wonder just what they represented given the varied alien encounters he knew Earth had experienced in their ...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 23

Chapter 23 - Reinforcements

“That's a lot of ordinance crates.” John muttered as he watched the intermittent string of soldiers exiting the gate from Earth from the gateroom’s control platform.

“You didn't think we were just going to leave you here to die, did you Major?” Colonel Everett inquired in a clipped tone as he walked up beside John and joined h...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 22

Chapter 22 - Overheating Problems

“Good to be back.” John offered as he and McKay exited the gate back to Atlantis, Teyla and Ford having opted to stay behind and assist Beckett with the still ongoing disaster recovery “Not that the Taranians weren't nice, but it always felt like…

He stopped mid sentence as the distinctive smell of burnt metal hit his nose, and a quick look around the gate room allowed him to pinpoint the source. Twin trails of me...

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 99

Chapter 99

Stardate 48358.5 - May 11, 2371 - 20:27:36

“Absolutely not.” Raine told the trio that was giving her a combination of hopeful and amused looks. “If you want someone to take care of a baby ask Jadzia, because she has a lot more experience with it than I do.”

Yes, she knew the Jem'Hadar baby wouldn't be a baby much longer, but it was the general point of the matter. Because if you accepted taking care of a randomly discov...

Darkened Stars - Chapter 26

Darkened Stars - Chapter 26

Stardate 29400.5 - May 26, 2352 - 13:59:31

“Okay.” Rain muttered in a strained breath as she and Keiko did their best to carry the bagged Tholian back to their hover car. “I'll admit, I may have underestimated just how heavy she was going to be.”

With how generally svelte the Tholian had been, Rain had figured she would be maybe two hundred pounds at most, not exactly light, but Asari were stronger then...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 21

Chapter 21 - The Original Problem Solvers

“I know you said not to worry about it, Jack.” Daniel said as they hurried through the corridors of Cheyenne Mountain. “But the fish thing has been worrying me.”

“They’re just fish Daniel.” Jack told him tiredly, still more than a little surprised it was Daniel and not Sam worrying so much about the issue. “Everything else matched up, so it was probably just me messing with me.”

...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 20

Chapter 20 - Fix It Or Lose It

“Which was when the giant mutated whale leapt out of the ocean and swallowed Thalia, and the gate ship she was flying in, whole.” Eventus finished as he directed the insect-like maintenance robots over the Hippaforalkus's outer hull.

“That sounds less funny and more… Dangerous.” Norina said, shuffling slightly to try and get more comfortable on the small bench he had pulled out of one of the wall insets.

...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 19

Chapter 19 - Catching up to the Cleaner

“Certainly feels homey.” John said as he looked around the control room that, if it wasn't for a number of clearly aftermarket addons that looked like they were lifted from world war two, could have been on Atlantis itself.

“Suppose they didn't exactly have Home Depot back in the day.” Ford added in from where he had taken up watch by the entryway.

“I rather doubt they needed it.” McKay ...

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 98

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 98

Stardate 48358.4 - May 11, 2371 - 19:35:02

“I have to agree with Iliana.” T'Rel said as she stabbed a leaf of Andorian lettuce with her fork. “It was most likely Dukat.”

“Really?” Raine asked skeptically as she stared at the Romulan woman sitting on the other side of the table from her. “He seemed like the least likely to me given how quickly it happened?”

Finally taking a bite ...

Darkened Stars - Chapter 25

Darkened Stars - Chapter 25

Stardate 29400.3 - May 26, 2352 - 12:14:06

“How!?” Rain asked as she rubbed the bridge of her nose, trying to process just what had prompted Keiko to not just look, but succeed, in finding one of the missing 'artworks’.

“You mentioned it when you were high.” Keiko offered as she shuffled a few inches further away from the faux wood desk Rain was currently seated at. “Sounded like they could be worth...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 18

Chapter 18 - The Other Guys

“So.” John began as he and the rest of his team waited for Weir to call them into her office. “Any luck with that bypass you were working on to let us connect the ZPM without inviting more trouble to our doorstep?”

“I was close.” McKay said with a smirk that told John the man believed he’d figured out something particularly clever. “But then I realized I was over thinking the problem. Because we don’t need to ...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 17

Chapter 17 - Emergency Cooling

The purpose of Control Chairs had been to act as a master control that would allow a single person to run everything the Control Chair was connected to.

That job unfortunately required a lot more than just the standard neural interface, because even his people hadn't been capable of splitting their consciousness hundreds of different ways at once. So the chair's hardware contained a large number of subsystems solely dedicate...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 16

Chapter 16 - General Cleanup

Before the cold war with the Wraith had gone hot, most of his people had just ended up doing what they enjoyed. It was a system that had worked without more than a few minor problems for millions of years, and probably would have kept doing so for millions more if it weren't for the Wraith.

Once things had gone hot however there had been a request for volunteers, and when that failed to generate the necessary numbers, a draft....

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 97

Chapter 97

Stardate 48343.8 - May 6, 2371 - 11:41:16

The past month had been rather reminiscent of attempting to ride a pugabeast, something Kira had attempted a grand total of once on a dare, and deeply regretted for the following weeks it had taken her broken arm to heal.

From the Orb Shadow experience she'd had when mind melding with Na'Tal, to...

Darkened Stars - Chapter 24

Darkened Stars - Chapter 24

Stardate 29397.7 - May 25, 2352 - 13:23:48

Reading through the information on the padd T’Lyn had just handed her as she lay on the bed, Rain felt her eye ridge twitch in annoyance at the extensive documentation the Vulcan woman had just handed her.

“Why?” She asked as she turned a perplexed look to T'Lyn before shaking her head slightly as a better question occurred to the Asari. “How did you have the time...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 15

Chapter 15 - Secret Closet

The evacuation of Atlantis back to the Milky Way had been a multi-stage affair, because even his people hadn't been egotistical enough to think they could just walk back through the stargate and everything would just work out.

During that process, a significant portion of the cities excess equipment had been brought back to Earth, where it would have spread out and eventually ended up being hidden away, buried, or looted by the ...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 14

Chapter 14 - Step Two

“She shot you.” Weir repeated as if she couldn’t quite believe what Eventus had just told her.

He shrugged, not particularly bothered by it given he’d had his personal shield on. “She thought she could prove I wasn’t one of the Ancestors by shooting me. Not really sure how that would have worked given we’re just as much flesh and blood as you all. But she seemed pretty surprised when the projectile just hit my personal ...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 13

Chapter 13 - The Little Details

“Only six?” Weir repeated into his ear, the radio signal coming through the open gate with the same clarity John had come to expect by this point.

“Yea.” He returned, only to pause as he remembered that Weir was one of those people who tended to prefer every detail up front. “Well, seven if you count Sanir, but after she sold us out to the Genii, Allina apparently doesn’t.”

“So this Sanir wa...

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 96

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 96

Stardate 48334.6 - May 3, 2371 - 03:05:45

“What’s going on?” Raine demanded as she exited the turbolift to ops, the red alert that had woken her still tinting the room in a clear sign that things were anything but okay.

“Radiation leak on Legate Ghemor's ship.” Lieutenant Primmin reported. “They're–

The hum of another turbolift car arriving caused him to pause, and then Asari was ...

Darkened Stars - Chapter 23

Darkened Stars - Chapter 23

Stardate 29392.7 - May 23, 2352 - 17:28:36

Consciousness returned to Rain as sharp spikes of pain radiated out from worryingly numerous places on her body.

Groaning, she forced her eyes open to see the rubble of a collapsed building surrounding her in a moderately spacious pocket, lit only by a few feebly burning fires and then occasional ray of moonlight streaming in through gaps in the debris.

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 12

Chapter 12 - They Followed Me Home

“We had to pry it out of the wall with a crowbar.” Shepherd told them as he held out the potentia for McKay to take.

“You better not have damaged it.” McKay muttered as he gingerly accepted the device.

Eventus rolled his eyes at McKay’s meaningless griping, since there was no way the man didn’t know it was a lot more likely that the crystalline structure of the potentia would damage a steel c...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 11

Chapter 11 - A Little Bit Godly

“I’ll admit it was a great plan in theory.” Eventus told Allina as Ford and Shepherd did an admirable job of showing just why the Ancient was happy to have the Atlantis expedition around by digging out the buried entrance. “Nearly fifteen hundred Wraith hives were destroyed before they could get the word out to all their forces. But then the interference signal started to bleed into the same subspace bands utilized by this galaxy's ...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 10

Chapter 10 - All That Glitters

“And these spheres of yours will search the valley for you?” Allina inquired as Eventus idly looked around the library the woman had led them too. 

“They’re already doing so.” Eventus admitted to her as the rest of team Atlantis made themselves busy looking over the various documentation her group had gathered about the Brotherhood. “I mentally initiated the search via the control unit's neural interface the...

Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 9

Chapter 9 - Familiar Locations

“I always used to tell the others we should put the gates in areas of various planets with a more tropical bent.” Eventus offered to the four members of Atlantis Reconnaissance Team One as they trudged up the pathway to the castle that had been universally agreed was the best starting point for their search. “But they always wanted them in places with long term environmental stability so they didn't have to worry about the gate being b...

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 95

Cerulean Stars - Chapter 95

Stardate 48332.6 - May 2, 23710 - 9:45:00

“My current theory is that they used a predictive matrix fed with their own records to generate the artificial memories of Iliana's Bajoran life prior to sending her on the replacement mission.” Doctor Bashir explained as they waited for Legate Ghemor to make his way to the conference room. “So I suspect the differences stem from either Cardassian biases that ended up skewing the ...