Title: Ship Talk, Stargate: Atlantis
Title: Ship Talk
Word Count: 1395
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: John Centric
Series: The Sharing part Ten
Summary: They talk about what they found and make plans.
“It’s a ship”
“It’s a ‘Farstar’ class exploration vessel,” Chief Scientist Rodney McKay expounded as he motioned to the hologram that was floating in the middle of the meeting room.
The ship looked like a crystal with both the front and the back forming points with the main body of the ship formed of leaner lines. The sides of the ship were angled out so that they formed a point about half way up the sides. All in all the soft white form looked elegant in its simplicity.
“An exploration ship?” asked Dr. Weir.
“Yes,” Dr. Zelenka responded,” after the Ancients left our galaxy they needed a way to scout ahead of Atlantes to find worlds to visit and inhabit.”
“Why not just send Atlantis. They went to almost every planet in the galaxy anyway,” Major John Sheppard asked.
“The Ancients yes, Atlantis no. The city can’t move very fast. The energy requirements to open and maintain such a large hyperspace window are very damaging and difficult to maintain. They would have had to stop and maintain a number of systems every day or so. And even in the window the mass…”Dr. Zelenka was explaining when Rodney cut in.
“Yes yes yes, that not important. What is important is that they made them and that we found one.”
“What can it do,” Dr. Weir asked trying to make sure that the group stayed on topic.
Rodney turned to Dr. Weir, “Well Elizabeth, the main reason for the ship was to out pace the city. To do this they gave it a Tran-galactic drive, now the speed of the drive isn’t that much faster than an Asgard drive, but the Ancients-“Rodney said before Zelenka cut him off.
“They made it smaller, much smaller,” he said excitedly.
“1/8th of the size. Whole decks on Asgard, Goa’uld, and our ship are used to hold drives but-“
“One room,” Zelanka continued Rodney’s thought.
“And not even the whole room, it has deep space radar.”
“Long range life signs detector,”
“Scanners more advanced than anything the Asgard have,”
“Hm, maybe not anything,” Zelanka pointed out to Rodney.
“Ok maybe not…but smaller,” Rodney said after thinking about it for a few seconds.
“Yes much smaller, the whole ship is only 100 feet long by 54 feet wide,”
“What about weapons, does it have Drones,” Major John Sheppard asked thinking about maybe being able to defend Atlantis if the Wraith came.
McKay just rolled his eye as Zelenka spoke, “Weapons always weapons.”
“That’s the military, great scientific find and all he cares about is weapons,” Rodney said sounding annoyed as Zelenka said something rude sounding in his own language.
“Yeah weapons so we can protect you,” Lt. Ford said speaking up from his out of the way place he normally hides in.
“If the Wraith come to this world looking for the Ancestors having one of these ships would be most helpful doctor,” Teyla added trying to keep the arguing down to a minimal amount.
Rodney rolled his eye one last time before answering the question, “Yes it has weapons but not drones. This ship uses an energy weapon like the defense satellite we found only on a smaller scale.”
“What about power?” Dr. Weir asked, “Does it need a ZEM?”
“No,” Zelenka replied before adding, “and yes.”
“What do you mean no and yes?” Weir said for the whole room.
“The main power is designed to use a ZedPM but,” Rodney started.
“The back up is very much like our Naquadah generators and with a little work…”Zelenka tailed off.
“We won’t have full power, but we will have power.”
“I want both of you to see if you can get it flying, Major,” Weir said turning to John, “use the Ancient database and learn as much about flying this ship as you can.”
“No problem,” John answered.
“Teyla, go with McKay and Zelenka and try to find as much about the Ancients from this rock…person as you can, take one of the anthropologist with you. If they deal in stories we don’t want to run out.”
“You need not worry, I know a great many stories,” Teyla assured her.
“Still just in case,” Dr. Weir replied.
***
“It’s not powering up, are you sure you have it connected right?” McKay asked from his spot by the hyperdrive.
“Yes Rodney I do, are you sure you have it turned on?” Zelenka snapped back.
***
“What can you tell us of the man that left the ship, did he leave any other messages,” Teyla asked the rock.
“Yes, that we tell no stories of him,” the rock side in it’s grinding voice.
“What can you tell us of the other Ancients or the Wraith,” Teyla asked.
***
John rubbed his eyes trying to un-blur his vision. He’d been reading and rereading everything the Ancients had on the ‘Farstar’ ships. They weren’t all that different then the Jumpers they just had lot more they could do, like maneuver rings around them and anything else in the sky…or space. John flipped the page and started to go over the controls one more time when the sound of footsteps on the main staircase caused him to look over to the other side of the control room.
The first thing that hit him was that the room it self was empty, no techs keeping an eye on the gate, no guards keeping an eye on them. The only sound was of footsteps.
John crossed half the room with his hand on his sidearm before the person reached the doorway. Once there he saw who it was, “What did you do with the others?” he demanded.
“Others,” the man asked with a casual tone.
“Yeah, the others, that were in this room, what did you do with them,” John demanded once more stepping closer to the Ancients.
“Ah, the others,” he said with a sad smirk, “you’re just like him, putting his men first, before anything…anything,” the man said looking away as his words grew soft. But before John could ask again the man looked back at John and spoke normal again, “they’re fine in the real world…you fell asleep.”
“Why are you here? The others can’t like you doing this. You practical gave us that ship. You knew that I’d be able to see the address. That’s why you showed me that world,” John questioned, “isn’t it?”
The man looked at John before he spoke, “No, I showed you that place because you must go there and soon. And I showed you that address because our first meeting was cut short.”
“That’s was why only I could see it, because it was from you?” John asked.
“Yes, and as for why I’m helping you…that is for a later time, if ever,” the man held up his hand to stall John’s protest, “my reasons are my own. I didn’t come here to tell you what I have done but to tell you what you must do.”
“And what’s that?” John asked crossing is arms.
“You must take my ship and go to the place I showed you and stop by Proculus on the way, but you must leave soon, with in two days and no later, and no I will not tell you why.”
“Why won’t you tell me the others will never know. Hell if they knew about this meeting it wouldn’t be happening would it,” John asked.
“You are right, but I still will not tell you. See Athar first if you must but you must leave with the ship within two days.”
“Why”
“If you don’t’ you’ll be too late.”
“Late for what…late for what,” John demanded of the Ancient but the Ancient didn’t move, “late for what,” John demanded one last time as he stepped forward.
Once he stepped forward John found himself half stumbling out of his chair with Dr. Peter Grodin looking at him with concern, “Major are you all right,” the scientist asked as he came over to John side.
“Yeah, I’m fine just a little sleepy that’s all,” John said hoping that Peter would buy it.
“You yelled something about being late,” Peter Grodin gently questioned.
“Yes, if I don’t get to bed soon I’ll be late for the meeting when the others get back,” he said as he left the control room leaving a concerned scientist in his wake.
The end
Word Count: 1395
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: John Centric
Series: The Sharing part Ten
Summary: They talk about what they found and make plans.
“It’s a ship”
“It’s a ‘Farstar’ class exploration vessel,” Chief Scientist Rodney McKay expounded as he motioned to the hologram that was floating in the middle of the meeting room.
The ship looked like a crystal with both the front and the back forming points with the main body of the ship formed of leaner lines. The sides of the ship were angled out so that they formed a point about half way up the sides. All in all the soft white form looked elegant in its simplicity.
“An exploration ship?” asked Dr. Weir.
“Yes,” Dr. Zelenka responded,” after the Ancients left our galaxy they needed a way to scout ahead of Atlantes to find worlds to visit and inhabit.”
“Why not just send Atlantis. They went to almost every planet in the galaxy anyway,” Major John Sheppard asked.
“The Ancients yes, Atlantis no. The city can’t move very fast. The energy requirements to open and maintain such a large hyperspace window are very damaging and difficult to maintain. They would have had to stop and maintain a number of systems every day or so. And even in the window the mass…”Dr. Zelenka was explaining when Rodney cut in.
“Yes yes yes, that not important. What is important is that they made them and that we found one.”
“What can it do,” Dr. Weir asked trying to make sure that the group stayed on topic.
Rodney turned to Dr. Weir, “Well Elizabeth, the main reason for the ship was to out pace the city. To do this they gave it a Tran-galactic drive, now the speed of the drive isn’t that much faster than an Asgard drive, but the Ancients-“Rodney said before Zelenka cut him off.
“They made it smaller, much smaller,” he said excitedly.
“1/8th of the size. Whole decks on Asgard, Goa’uld, and our ship are used to hold drives but-“
“One room,” Zelanka continued Rodney’s thought.
“And not even the whole room, it has deep space radar.”
“Long range life signs detector,”
“Scanners more advanced than anything the Asgard have,”
“Hm, maybe not anything,” Zelanka pointed out to Rodney.
“Ok maybe not…but smaller,” Rodney said after thinking about it for a few seconds.
“Yes much smaller, the whole ship is only 100 feet long by 54 feet wide,”
“What about weapons, does it have Drones,” Major John Sheppard asked thinking about maybe being able to defend Atlantis if the Wraith came.
McKay just rolled his eye as Zelenka spoke, “Weapons always weapons.”
“That’s the military, great scientific find and all he cares about is weapons,” Rodney said sounding annoyed as Zelenka said something rude sounding in his own language.
“Yeah weapons so we can protect you,” Lt. Ford said speaking up from his out of the way place he normally hides in.
“If the Wraith come to this world looking for the Ancestors having one of these ships would be most helpful doctor,” Teyla added trying to keep the arguing down to a minimal amount.
Rodney rolled his eye one last time before answering the question, “Yes it has weapons but not drones. This ship uses an energy weapon like the defense satellite we found only on a smaller scale.”
“What about power?” Dr. Weir asked, “Does it need a ZEM?”
“No,” Zelenka replied before adding, “and yes.”
“What do you mean no and yes?” Weir said for the whole room.
“The main power is designed to use a ZedPM but,” Rodney started.
“The back up is very much like our Naquadah generators and with a little work…”Zelenka tailed off.
“We won’t have full power, but we will have power.”
“I want both of you to see if you can get it flying, Major,” Weir said turning to John, “use the Ancient database and learn as much about flying this ship as you can.”
“No problem,” John answered.
“Teyla, go with McKay and Zelenka and try to find as much about the Ancients from this rock…person as you can, take one of the anthropologist with you. If they deal in stories we don’t want to run out.”
“You need not worry, I know a great many stories,” Teyla assured her.
“Still just in case,” Dr. Weir replied.
***
“It’s not powering up, are you sure you have it connected right?” McKay asked from his spot by the hyperdrive.
“Yes Rodney I do, are you sure you have it turned on?” Zelenka snapped back.
***
“What can you tell us of the man that left the ship, did he leave any other messages,” Teyla asked the rock.
“Yes, that we tell no stories of him,” the rock side in it’s grinding voice.
“What can you tell us of the other Ancients or the Wraith,” Teyla asked.
***
John rubbed his eyes trying to un-blur his vision. He’d been reading and rereading everything the Ancients had on the ‘Farstar’ ships. They weren’t all that different then the Jumpers they just had lot more they could do, like maneuver rings around them and anything else in the sky…or space. John flipped the page and started to go over the controls one more time when the sound of footsteps on the main staircase caused him to look over to the other side of the control room.
The first thing that hit him was that the room it self was empty, no techs keeping an eye on the gate, no guards keeping an eye on them. The only sound was of footsteps.
John crossed half the room with his hand on his sidearm before the person reached the doorway. Once there he saw who it was, “What did you do with the others?” he demanded.
“Others,” the man asked with a casual tone.
“Yeah, the others, that were in this room, what did you do with them,” John demanded once more stepping closer to the Ancients.
“Ah, the others,” he said with a sad smirk, “you’re just like him, putting his men first, before anything…anything,” the man said looking away as his words grew soft. But before John could ask again the man looked back at John and spoke normal again, “they’re fine in the real world…you fell asleep.”
“Why are you here? The others can’t like you doing this. You practical gave us that ship. You knew that I’d be able to see the address. That’s why you showed me that world,” John questioned, “isn’t it?”
The man looked at John before he spoke, “No, I showed you that place because you must go there and soon. And I showed you that address because our first meeting was cut short.”
“That’s was why only I could see it, because it was from you?” John asked.
“Yes, and as for why I’m helping you…that is for a later time, if ever,” the man held up his hand to stall John’s protest, “my reasons are my own. I didn’t come here to tell you what I have done but to tell you what you must do.”
“And what’s that?” John asked crossing is arms.
“You must take my ship and go to the place I showed you and stop by Proculus on the way, but you must leave soon, with in two days and no later, and no I will not tell you why.”
“Why won’t you tell me the others will never know. Hell if they knew about this meeting it wouldn’t be happening would it,” John asked.
“You are right, but I still will not tell you. See Athar first if you must but you must leave with the ship within two days.”
“Why”
“If you don’t’ you’ll be too late.”
“Late for what…late for what,” John demanded of the Ancient but the Ancient didn’t move, “late for what,” John demanded one last time as he stepped forward.
Once he stepped forward John found himself half stumbling out of his chair with Dr. Peter Grodin looking at him with concern, “Major are you all right,” the scientist asked as he came over to John side.
“Yeah, I’m fine just a little sleepy that’s all,” John said hoping that Peter would buy it.
“You yelled something about being late,” Peter Grodin gently questioned.
“Yes, if I don’t get to bed soon I’ll be late for the meeting when the others get back,” he said as he left the control room leaving a concerned scientist in his wake.
The end