New Beginnings

Everyone in the room froze at the vehemiance in Celestia’s voice.

Emerald cleared her throat. “Not Lanteans actually. Though I do have to wonder about what has gotten you so riled with the Gate builders.” She said. "And how you know about the Gate Builders in the first place."

“They left us without support when they Ascended. The Nox and the Asgard were nowhere to be found either.” Celestia ground out. “It was merely our people against Ra. Eventually Discord cast an enchantment that removed our world from normal space time to protect us. We had dozens of worlds. Now we have only the one. So much for the Council of Races.” She finished.

Emerald’s eyes widened before closing as she began to hit her head on the table.

“Idiot.” ‘Thunk.’ “Idiot.” ‘Thunk.’ “Idiot.”

Twilight put a hand on Emerald’s shoulder. “What’s wrong Emerald?” She asked her marefriend, who gave her head on last solid hit before looking at her.

“I wondered why the written language here was so damn familiar. It’s been bugging the hell out of me.” Emerald said. “Celestia’s little confession told me exactly what I was forgetting.”

“What was that?” Sam asked.

“Have you found Ernest Littlefield yet?” Emerald asked.

Daniel nodded. “Yes. A shame we couldn’t spend more time there, but it was too dangerous.” He said.

Emerald nodded before going to a bookshelf and selecting a volume at random. She returned to the table, opened the book to a random page and slid it over to Daniel.

Daniel accepted the book, looked over the pages, stopped, looked up, lifted his glasses and rubbed his eyes before looking back at the book.

“Well, are you going to keep us in suspense?” Jack asked.

“Jack, this is the language of the fourth race we found on Ernest’s planet.” Daniel said, awe in his voice.

Emerald nodded. “Probably the main reason I never put two and two together is in my original reality, we never found the fourth race. The Nox we found and they asked to be left alone outside of mediating some agreements with some of the System Lords. Ones we very grudgingly entered into with zero expectation that they would be honored.” She said when Jack opened his mouth to speak. “The Asgard were allies that helped where they could. Thor was our primary contact.”

“So you are the fourth race. What are you called?” Daniel asked, excitement in his voice.

“Collectively we would be known as the Furlings.” Emerald said.

A hush overtook the room as Emerald made the revelation.

“So if your race was in an alliance with the Gate builders, why does your society seem so far behind our own?” Sam asked.

“It is possible that the war with the Goa’uld made the leaders at the time decide to regress their advances to stay safe.” Teal’c said.

Luna nodded. “That is what happened. This planet is our home world. When the decision was made, Discord was instructed to erase all evidence that we were a space faring race. However, it turned out he was just biding his time to betray us. There used to be many more alicorns on Terra. My sister and I are the last of those born as alicorns. Our niece was able to ascend to being an alicorn through extraordinary means. All of our advancement and accomplishments were erased.” She said sadly.

During Luna’s explanation, Emerald had pulled out a device that projected a holographic interface once she activated it. Once the interface was up, she began moving items around and typing rapidly.

“What are you doing Miss Gear?” Celestia inquired.

“Reassigning my automated equipment currently in orbit. Now that the field that had the planet and the inner solar system out of phase is gone, I have access to more raw materials. Thankfully, according to the scans, the asteroid belt is rich in the materials that I need like tritium and naquadah. Once I have mined enough, I will step up construction on more mining drones and more assembly drones. Once that is done, a massive shipyard will be built in high orbit. From there, ships of the line will be built as well as building more ODPs. The Goa’uld have long memories. All it takes is one random patrol to move through this sector of space to find a planet where there previously wasn’t one will wind up bringing a fleet down on us and an army through the gate.” Emerald said as she made adjustments. “ Colonel, I think we need to talk to your CO to see if we can get some personnel for security and for training. As it stands, if the Goa’uld show up now, this world is humped.” She added with a glance at Jack.

Jack nodded. “I’ll radio and talk to him when we get back to the Gate. It will have to be relocated.” He replied.

“I was planning on doing so later. It will be secure in my base that I built under my workshop.” Emerald said as she made the last of her updates to her construction program.

“So you really do have a base under your workshop?” Twilight asked.

“Yes I do. Was planning on keeping it a secret until it was needed, but now it is needed.” Emerald said. “Damn that mare and her annoyingly perceptive nature.”

“Who?” Sam asked.

“Pinkie Pie. The current bearer of the Element of Laughter and someone who has an annoyingly bad habit of knowing things she shouldn’t. Thankfully, most of the locals just pass it off as ‘Pinkie being Pinkie’.” Emerald explained.

Sam raised an eyebrow and made to ask, but was interrupted by Twilight.

“Don’t, just don’t. Trust me, that way lies madness.” Twilight said. “It will be easier if you accept it and move on.”

Emerald chuckled. “I think she may have been touched by Chaos or is a seer. Either is absolutely terrifying.” She said with a shudder.

“So these people are not Lanteans?” Celestia asked.

Emerald shook her head. “They are the second evolution of the form. Some of them do have Lantean ancestry, but it is a small percentage of a population of around six billion that have the gene required to activate the technology left behind. Teal’c here is actually a Jaffa, former First Prime of Apophis after he rebelled and joined the Tau’ri in their fight against the System Lords. Ra was killed by Colonel O'Neill and his team when they went to Abydos.” She explained.

“Apophis is dead as well.” Jack added.

Emerald looked at him. “What happened to his body?” She asked.

“Er, we wound up giving it to Sokar.” Daniel replied sheepishly.

“Not dead then. Sokar hates Apophis so he used a sarcophagus to revive him so he can torture him some more.” Emerald replied with a sigh. “Next time you have the body of a dead Goa’uld, remove the head and burn the remains. Only way to ensure they stay dead outside of a nuke to the face.”

“Duly noted.” Jack replied. “Well, I need to report in to the SGC and let them know what is going on and see if we can provide any assistance to you to assist in returning to your former status.”

Emerald nodded. “We can understand if your leaders are hesitant. It will likely be years before we are back to being a space faring power. The most I would like to request at this time are some Special Operations trainers. I have a plan for an elite force and I was going to handle the training myself, but I would appreciate some assistance. I would also like to get some people who are well versed in educating to very high levels of maths and sciences. I want to train minds as well as bodies.” She said.

“I will ask the questions, but you are right. Our leadership will want something in return to make it worth their time.”Jack said resignedly.

Emerald considered, before she flicked her wrist and produced a hard drive.

“To sweeten the pot in our favor, give them this. These are designs for ships and body armor that you are capable of replicating at your current tech level. They aren’t as advanced as what I will be building here, but they are predecessors to the technology, just a few steps down.” Emerald explained.

“Big honkin’ space guns?” Jack asked, his eyes lighting up.

Emerald laughed. “There are some designs for those as well, but it will be hard to hide the platforms. They are about ten times the size of the International Space Station once it was completed. There are also designs for technology that can clean up the space junk around Earth.” She said.

Sam’s eyes widened. “You mean you can clean up low Earth orbit?” She asked.

“YOU can clean up low Earth orbit with the tech I am giving you. I would recommend contacting a business that is in the space industry to create it though. Just kind of do an anonymous email to the CEO of the company, say ‘Hey, here is something new and revolutionary. You are free to patent it as your own.’ That will help get it out there.” Emerald said. "Might I suggest Elon Musk? He has just the right amount of crazy to go for it."

"The PayPal guy? Seriously?" Sam asked incredulously.

"Yup. In a few years, he will start up Tesla motors making all electric cars that can hit over 150 and do 0-60 in under three seconds. After that, he starts SpaceX which revolutionized space flight by making reusable first stage boosters. Got us back to the moon and a SpaceX craft was the first to get humans to Mars." Emerald explained.

"Seriously?" Sam asked incredulously.

"Yup. My money was on him being a time traveler. Only thing that made sense. Alien was up there, but getting a DNA sample and testing it ruled that out." Emerald said. "Never did find out for sure on that one though."