Advanced Genetics

Warnings: This is my first time using Stargate or Blame!/Noise in Fanfiction. Probably some OOC.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of them, at least nothing on the net indicates I do.

They were a team of three, forged together by fate. Susono Musubi was the first freelance agent ever, using highest network technology. Nanite based technology in which her body was reconstructed with silicon. The only odd thing was, she still kept her network genes, even if they didn't count when it came to influencing the net sphere. If someone asked her what she was she would not answer. Her weapons were her body and a sword based on highest net technology. Next was Killy, he was the second oldest of the group, he was a special member of the Administration, however, he was under no control and wielder of the last gravitationalbeamemitter not under restricted safeguard control. He had the ability to use it at the highest level. Finally came Cibo, once a human without network genes she had been a scientist and had the bad habbit, in her own opinion, of having to change bodies far too often. Currently she was inside a Level 7 Network Body, she had managed to integrate network genes into her body structure and was the reason why humanity managed to survive. A network-wand and her body were her weapons but she usually hacked into enemies.

These three people were the saviours of humanity, and now they were planning to leave the dimension as they found out about plans to deactivate them. Safeguard and Administration technology was being restricted and they were above these new laws since they were far older than any of the humans. They were unknowns, the were too powerful to be stopped, they were not needed any more. For Susono it was bitter, after loosing her humanity, or most of it, about 500 years ago things were not looking up, they were planning to dismantle her like some not sentient robot. Cibo had been one of the first humans to be resurrected and felt cheated, it was not her fault that her encounter with Level 9 safeguard technology made her adaptable to the network-bodies? Or that her mind was using network-data to store information. It was even weird to her that a human could use a network file system for brain information, even weirder was that she did it before she had gotten the network genes. That was no reason to dissect her. Killy finally wanted to travel again, he had been stuck in the same mega structure for far far too long and liked exploring. His mission was over and he was supposed to be free, not to be erased like some unneeded datafile.

This led to them being here, standing next to a gravitational reactor. Cibo and Killy had already experienced the effects of the time space bending the thing was able to do. It even made Killy meet another Cibo from another alternate reality. The were planning to leave this dimension and experience another one. With them was a lot of network technology that was currently restricted and about to get banned with their processing. They were agreeing that some weapons were too powerful and that the Safeguard had to be restricted, but things were certainly going overboard. Now they were charging up for a whole in the time-space continuum.

"Energy levels are perfect, opening rift." Cibo said. And in the gate they made a fluttering wormhole opened.

Killy tossed a probe through it.

"Data indicates breathable atmosphere, artificial structures are awaiting us." Susono told them as she read off a data feed.

Killy picked his bags, enough to load a small car and stepped inside.

Cibo and Susono shared a look at the grenade he dropped right before the gate. It was counting downs from 25.

Quickly they picked their stuff and rolled a cart inside with even more advanced technology and some provisions.

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Earth: Stargate Centre

"Chevron six encoded"

"This is it." Dr. Weir said nervously "Seriously Dr. calm down, you are embarrassing me." She told Dr. MyKay who stood beside her.

"Chevron 7 encoded"

"I have never been so exited in my entire life." He replied calmly.

"Chevron eight is locked"

The wormhole opened and the expedition members broke out in applause.

"Send in the MALP" Dr. Weir ordered.

The machine shuddered as it started and rolled into the Stargate.

"We have MALP telemetry" the bridge technician told them as the data feed started

"What is it that we are looking at?"

"A large room, we have stairs ..."

Dr. Jackson was surprised. "Structurally intact?"

"Sensors say there's oxygen, no measurable toxins." He took a breath. "We have viable life support."

"The city is active." Dr. Jackson stated the obvious.

"Looks like we are not getting out of this." McKay told Weir.

Weir glanced at O'Neill.

The General smiled. "Dr. Weir, you have a go."

"Thank you." She turned away "Sir"

"Let's go, people! We don't know how much power we've got." Sumner's ordered. "Security Teams One and Two, you're up first. All other personal will follow on our signal. Once on the other side, keep moving, clear the debarkation area! On my lead ..."

"Hold on Colonel!" Weir called out. She took her backpack and shouldered it. "We go through together."

"Fair enough." Sumner's decided.

The teams entered the Stargate with guns ready and Sheppard falling back.

In the control room Daniel offered "Jack, it's not too late for me ..."

The General responded with a small "No."

"I can just grab my ... kit."

"No."

<All clear. It looks good> Sumner's transmitted.

O'Neill stepped forward. "Expedition Team ... move out."

"What does it feel like?" Sheppard asked.

"Hurts like hell, sir" Lieutenant Ford answered before grinning like mad and jumping into the event horizon with a "Whoo-hoo!"

Sheppard followed warily.

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Pegasus Galaxy: Atlantis: Stargate Hall

"Security Teams, any alien contact?"

<Negative, sir.>

The team Members came out of the gate one after the other. The rearguard entered and Sumner's exclaimed "That's everyone."

Dr. Weir took her walkie-talkie. "General O'Neill? Atlantis Base offers greetings from the Pegasus galaxy. You can power down the gate."

General O'Neill was even kind enough to send them a goodbye bottle of champagne. The teams were spreading around and watching working consoles, until. "Welcome to Atlantis, would you mind telling which world you are from?" A tall blond woman said. She found several weapons pointed at her immediately.

Dr. Weir decided to answer for their group. "We are from Earth. It's in another Galaxy."

Another female voice responded "It doesn't seem like our Earth, the weapons are far more primitive and the technology less advanced." She told the blond one. "We really made it."

"Only one full set of network-genes found, many others have fragmented versions." A male voice came.

Everyone snapped around to see a woman that reminded most of them of a cyborg like in the science fiction films. She was shorter than the blonde woman but taller than her male companion who looked like a teen of about 16 years.

"And you are?" Colonel Marshal Sumner's asked.

McKay couldn't hold it in any more after seeing these three persons: "Are you Ancients?"

The three shared a look and exchanged hi speed communication that no one but and Atlantis itself could have understood.

<How much should we tell them?> Cibo asked.

<We are travellers and explorers not unlike them.> Killy responded.

Musubi decided to add one thing. <Tell them you are a scientist, several of them look like those. This might make things easier for the future.>

<We arrived in a different matter and are not familiar with this Galaxy yet.> Killy reminded.

<I will handle this.> Cibo decided.

"We are not the creators of this Structure." Cibo did not deem this big as even small Megastructures were often hundreds of kilometres long. Than again the huge body water surrounding them with a fading energy field keeping it at bay was disturbing. None of them had ever seen so much water, if the city archives were correct this was called an ocean, a huge body of water with a high saturation of salts, depending on the kind of saturation bodies of water could be defined into various types. "We arrived by a method not unlike your own, only ours took us across dimensions."

That raised a lot of interest with the scientists, they had already heard of dimensional travel, Dr. Jackson was one to experience it himself.

"What are your positions?" Colonel Sumner's demanded.

"Administrator and scientist." Cibo answered.

"Administrator and warrior" Musubi responded.

"Guardian, explorer and scout." Killy finished.

Dr. Weir stepped forward. "I'm Dr. Weir, leader of this expedition. Colonel Sumner's is the commander of the military forces. McKay is one of our head researchers. You are in possession of the Antique-Genes?" It was more of a statement than a question.

"We call them Network-genes as they allow for interfacing with the Network and computer systems."

"Call your teams back." Killy interrupted.

The response were several weapons pointed at him.

"This structure is low on power and any movements within it raise power usage, we kept on shutting down the unneeded sectors we activated. I'm not finished reading the structure of the energy field and it's purposes. But it keeps the enormous pressure of the water at bay."

This caused a lot of agitation within the newcomers.

"We need to find power now." Weir said, she turned to the blonde. "Is there enough power for an activation of the Stargate?"

Cibo looked at the ring "The power requirements for the wormhole device are matched by auxiliary generators. I have found a database of gate links, if you would follow me?"

"Exploration teams return, scout teams one and two prepare." Sumner's barked.

Killy and Musubi followed into the command centre, where Cibo started explaining the layout. "By the way I am Cibo, primary Administrator as registered by the Atlantis, Musubi Susono is secondary Administrator, Killy has restricted access to certain systems due to his position as guardian."

"Currently only one person if fit for full administration access, that's him." Killy pointed at Sheppard who stared back not getting what they were talking about.

"We can handle this later, now we need a stable gate address that we can use."

McKay pointed at one. "Why not try that one, it's one of the first ones on the list."

"The control device is there." Cibo pointed.

McKay punched a button with the corresponding symbol. "Chevron One encoded."

Dr. Weir glared at him.

"Alright" he punched in the other coordinates.

"Send in MA..."

Killy had walked off and lobbed something like a grenade inside the wormhole.

"Atmosphere breathable, it's currently dark out there, no signs of nanite contamination, no living beings within 200 meters, no power structures within two kilometres." Cibo reported.

There was a moment of silence before Sumner's commanded, "Teams we have a go. We will bring the device back."

Killy remained behind much to his discomfort.

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Cibo meanwhile had interfaced with the consoles and two laptops much to the wonder of the newcomers.

"That's a primitive file-system, no object specialisation or anything. It's still coded in binary, transcoding the basic kernel onto the hardware is possible but running it won't work. Maybe if I just copy some of the translated data banks ... can I have one of these I want to know how all file-formats work and all options for the databases. We will need a huge multi part database that works with objects, text, cross links, maybe dynamic input and output." Cibo wondered.

McKay felt insulted at suggesting the hardware slow. "You are talking about Kernels and file-systems as if they were the same thing!"

Cibo frowned, an additional screen popped up showing rapidly changing symbols. Another frown later these changed into normal numbers, really big numbers. "They are, the ancients use a very familiar version of the Network Kernel. The file-system is a part of the kernel, it's a dynamic system with it's own kernel administrating it's own data, the network is created by interfacing the kernels with higher and specialized kernels."

"Some kind of super kernel?" A technician asked.

"Something like that. More like a full interface allowing interchanging data and like a network connection as you know it. Allowing for remote access."

"So you are communicating with the file-system and asking it to tell you the data without truly touching it?" Dr. Weir asked.

"It's safer this way. Without proper authorisation getting the data is impossible, each kernel decides on some encryption ..."

"How much?"

"Pardon?"

"How high is the encryption?"

"It's your version of something like ... 975 745 bit if placed on your system. So upgrading your standards to network level is useless as you see. It would be far to slow as well as that the coding into binary systems would decrease it's speed further."

"I don't think it would run at all." McKay decided, t"he requirements are far too high."

Musubi was meanwhile helping unpack the most necessary items. Her extreme strength was surprising everyone, or the way her fingers extended to get a better grip on certain items. Currently the Naquada generators were topmost priority. Even if only to power more computers to find out more about the ZPM's and the rapidly failing shield.

Cibo felt in heaven, for her this network environment was unrestricted, open, she could read everything, small patches she was writing all the time were making interfacing easier and easier, her thoughts were data in here, the patches were only supposed to make her data so she could truly merge with the data. It was more along the line of self adjusting.

The alert sounded, Stargate activation from outside.

They activated the iris and Cibo frowned as she saw the drop in power, power meant time, time was something they did not have. Killy and Musubi were in front of the gate with weapons ready.

"No, find out what you can, we don't have much time. Cibo is currently running various simulations and we have between four hours and two days, there are too many unknowns." Dr. Weir reported.

The gate shut down.

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Four hours later Cibo called her friends. They held communication by linking themselves. Again Cibo's and Susono's abilities to create nano strands was watched curiously, like Killy's own port that he pulled from somewhere.

Suddenly there was a bang.

McKay panicked. "The shield gave way!"

Weir ordered. "Dial out now!"

"Wait, the City is rising." Musubi called.

Killy was walking for the windows.

Everyone else was busy staying up.

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"Gate activation!"

"Iris activated"

"Not now." Weir was furious, sure they were the second group here, they had less knowledge of the ancient technology, they had no one who could actively merge with a data stream, but they were in this city too and they had a right to be here. Currently exploration teams and Cibo's two friends were searching the city with Killy and Susono heading for the damaged areas.

Everyone else was straining to set up labs, find rooms for sleeping.

"Evacuation is not necessary, Atlantis is safe but unprotected, your teams are settling in." Cibo responded.

<Uhm, confirmation?>

"She is right, tell them not to hurry and make a good impression."

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Cibo Killy and Musubi were in their quarters, they claimed a laboratory with four additional rooms as they figured that at least one of them would always be awake since sleep was obligatory in their cases and a pleasant luxury. Besides not sleeping kept nightmares away, not that Killy had that problem. They shielded their equipment against most frequencies and secured the laboratory for their and Network genes users only.

That they had picked so quickly had nothing to do with the fact that they had their own balcony.

------

Killy was currently manning the stations and plugging into the data stream. For the watchers it wasn't as impressive as Cibo but again and again somewhere an additional window would flicker in with some schematics and fade away.

"Two outposts have been flooded, damages will have to assessed manually Sensor capacities in affected areas down to 21.5%"

"How long is the day here?"

"One complete rotation of the planet takes 37.2891 hours." Killy responded.

"Thanks, somebody note that down so we can make a proper clock for resident time."

A display popped in, it seemed to be based on shifting and changing lines.

Everyone stared at Killy.

"Resident Clock."

"Gate Activation."

"Iris activated"

"Identification code Lieutenant Ford."

"Open Iris."

Killy watched the newcomers with interest. Even if no one had even partly operational net-genes. "No net-genes present, several minor injuries, no life threatening status."

Dr. Weir shot Killy a lot before turning to Sheppard. "Major Sheppard! Major Sheppard? Who are all these people? What happened? Who are these people?"

"Survivors from the settlement. We were attacked. Sumner and some men were taken. What's going on? We have more light?" Sheppard responded.

"Cibo got the City to rise onto the ocean, the final ZPM was almost empty."

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"So you understand all this?" McKay asked slightly annoyed.

Musubi nodded, causing several spikes to shift over her body. "The main coding is the same as in our network, only the signs are slightly different, more like several of those geometrical rune types some programmers use for multiple signs at once." She paused for a moment. "Actually that one means 'Food and Drink'"

"We are installing some of our lab into what was the dining hall?" McKay sounded very annoyed.

Musubi didn't understand the difference. "For a basic bio-lab the requirements are the same, easy to clean, water, good airing. If you want one of the former labs than head down that corridor and and use the seventh door on the right. Just don't touch the right wall, there are supposed to be some dangerous chemicals in there, Killy offered to clean them out later to see if they are still usable."

"How can he do that?" this time it was exasperated.

"He is immune like me but has much better optics and scanning."

"Moment, moment. How good are we talking about?"

"Can you see farther than 3000 km?"

"..."

"Thought so."

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"You offered them refuge here?" Weir was slowly loosing her cool.

"We can't just let them out there, you didn't see the fight." Sheppard responded.

Cibo was approaching "I unlocked room for them, it seems we can fit them all in, in the main tract. I have told Peter to watch the distribution and to note down who lives where."

Elizabeth Weir was a calm person, but this mission was turning out way differently from what she expected. First there were people in the city, they had been there first and were handling the technology far better than her team but maybe Sheppard was. Next they didn't accept her rank, they treated her as equals and had no problems with security as they were simply locking everything that they decided was to dangerous to be reviewed yet and were acting on their own. She was startled out of her thought by her Major.

"We have men out there and I need to rescue them."

"We don't even know if they are alive." Weir responded.

Cibo walked off "This should be discussed outside." The wall opened before her and she walked out onto the balcony. "Lot's of salts in the air, humidity is very high, air currents present."

John had followed her. "We call this weather. I think you will like the rain."

"Rain?"

"You'll see."

Cibo searched through the information she had gathered from the laptops she had been connected too. "Water falling from the sky a meteorological phenomenon. Water condensed in clouds drops out of the atmosphere in form of drops of water."

"Not the most scientific explanation but it's correct."

Cibo linked a channel to Musubi and Killy. "We are currently testing all gate combinations. I do not see why a rescue mission should be impossible."

Sheppard stated. "You are not going to let me rescue my people."

"What do we know about the Wraith? One of the few things we know is that they are the enemy that defeated the Ancients. When we first began to use the Stargate on Earth, we got into serious trouble. Why?"

"Because you were ill prepared." Cibo inserted. "You went onto planets that had civilisations without knowing what could happen. You had to make treaties with others so you could survive."

Weir and Sheppard stared at Cibo. "I went through the mission records, fascinating, that's why Killy offered to help on dangerous missions, especially possible with Wraith contact, Susono agreed to help too when needed.."

"I appreciate it, I'll tell you if we need help." the Major answered.

Cibo smiled. "You don't understand, missions that could affect the safety of Atlantis are something he has to participate in, it's his role as a 'Guardian of Atlantis'"

"We are defenceless!" Dr. Weir was close to loosing her patience.

"We are not." Cibo countered. "We have certain possibilities that we can use as a last resort." A beam from a high charged GBE (gravitational beam emitter) was very dangerous. A supercharged one was far worse. Add a few items they took with them and Musubi's sword and things did not look so bleak any more. "Sorry I'm needed in the bio-lab."

Cibo left.

"I'm not letting you go on some half assed rescue mission. How do you know it won't lead them right back here?"

"It could."

"John ..."

"Our people are in the hands of the enemy doctor. Do you know what that means?"

She just shot him a look.

"It is just a matter of time before the Wraith figure out this is our base of our operation."

"I just need more information. Who knows, Maybe we could negotiate a peaceful ..."

"Peaceful? Are you kidding? We weren't there for more than a few hours before they showed up."

"Is it possible they came because of you?" Weir asked in suspicion. "And that one of these people you brought tipped them off?"

"It's possible." Sheppard admitted.

"That is exactly the kind of snap decision I'm referring too!" Weir accused him.

"They are not all bad people. If we are going to stick around here, we need friends"

"I see your point, Now you see mine. I will NOT authorise a rescue mission unless I am sure there is at least a remote chance of success. I am not sending more good people including you, to their certain deaths."

"Ok." Sheppard answered.

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"We are receiving visual telemetry"

"I can't see anything." Weir complained.

"No atmospheric reading at all." McKay read out.

"Hey, what was that?" a technician asked.

"Rotate the camera."

They did and saw the planet, the Stargate in orbit.

"Well there goes that MALP"

"It's in space." Sheppard could not believe it.

"It's in high orbit on the other side of the galaxy." McKay explained.

"You are sure this is the right address?" Weir asked.

"It's the only one we could get a lock on."

"Very well. Shut it down." Weir commanded. "Sorry" she told Sheppard.

"Come with me Major." McKay seemed to have an idea.

Killy followed.

"Think you can fly it?"McKay asked.

"What do we say we find out?" Sheppard seemed very determinant.

Killy emerged from the shadows and entered the ship. "Systems checking, all systems responding function ability."

"You can use this?"

"I have never used a craft like this." Killy responded. "I can access it by data connection."

"Let's see what we can find out."

------

Cibo and Dr. Beckett were dissecting the wraith arm. To them it was fascinating as it's structure was way different from anything. The cellular tissues and structures reminded Cibo more of nanites than of normal cells.

Earth Personal:

Dr. Elizabeth Weir

Dr. Rodney McKay

Major John Sheppard

Colonel Marshall Sumner's

Dr. Carson Beckett

Lieutenant Aiden Ford

Athusians:

Teyla XXXX Daughter of Targa

Gemini:

Wraith:

Caretakers

"Steve"