Chapter 37: Empress

"Are you sure you are fine with this?" Hermione asked him as she stood beside him, looking at the control console of the Genetic Manipulation Device.

"Absolutely, you are the most important person to me. I don't want to control you through brainwashing and genetic instincts, even if a normal queen is less affected by this. No, I want you to be my Empress, my second half. I will give you all the knowledge I have besides a few restricted technologies like time travel and manipulation," Harry said.

On the Genetic Manipulation Platform was the Goa'uld Queen Morrigan, or at least her symbiote without a host. He had created a new type of Magus Symbiote just for Hermione, the Magus Empress, pretty much the counterpart to his King Symbiote, without his submission. Instead, it was replaced by a deep bond between the two; they could communicate in the same galaxy with each other, feel their locations, and so on.

"Thank you, Harry," Hermione said, her cheeks tinted pink. "If you are okay with it, so am I."

Harry initialized the device, changing the Goa'uld Queen inside it into a Magus Empress. Once the process was finished, Hermione turned towards him and asked, "Will it hurt?"

"Oh, no. I changed the whole blending process at this point. The symbiote acts more like nanites, dissolving into loosely connected cells that fuse into the body. It will only reform if the host body dies, and you need your soulpiece to take over another body," Harry explained. He didn't want a scar on his body or to swallow a snake if he ever needed to reincarnate.

"Okay, do it," Hermione said, ready to receive her symbiote. Harry grabbed the now-mindless Magus Empress and inserted it into Hermione as it began to fuse with her. It was quite fitting that Morrigan, a mythological witch queen, would become the new symbiote for an Empress of an advanced race with powerful magic and technology.

"So much knowledge; it's amazing. All this history. And there is even more to learn. The different projects have been running for millions of years, and all the data Atlantis has collected on its different experiments over the last ten thousand years Or how have the other races developed and their technology? What else can magic accomplish with its zero-point energy? Can it be replicated purely with technology? What could we accomplish if we perfectly combined the two? And…" Hermione was interrupted by Harry placing a kiss on her lips.

"That's the Hermione I am familiar with," he said with a wide smile. "How do you feel?"

"Good. Everything is so new. I can think better and faster. I feel so much more. I can feel my control over the other symbiotes." She said, her warm brown eyes looking into his as she snuggled into him.

"You are an Empress now. Will you be able to handle it?" Harry asked.

"I think so. I had a lot of ideas on what to do after you told me about everything. But now, with all the new knowledge, there are millions of years worth of sociological, economic, and political studies in mind; I will have to think a bit more about it," she replied. "And once we are in Atlantis, there is so much new to read. All the data logs are waiting there for us."

Harry could just chuckle; this was the Hermione he knew. "There will still be quite some time before we go to Atlantis. First, we need to fix the third potentia, which will at least take some weeks. We need to recruit more wizards, high-level Magi with more powerful control over zero-point energy, and their mental powers should be very useful against the Wraith or any other foe we come across. And we need to have as many materials as possible ready. Our fifth ship, the Thestral, is currently on a mining mission to get some trinium from the asteroids in the outer ring of this solar system."

"So the preparations are ongoing? How are we going to transport such a large amount of material efficiently?" Hermione realized that the longest time to maintain a gate connection is 38 minutes before the power requirements so rapidly begin to accelerate that even with a potentia, it would be hard to maintain. It would need more of them, or a singularity like a black hole powering the gate, to open the gate longer.

"Oh, we are building some rudimentary gate vehicles. Pretty much flying transport vehicles, similar to the old Lantean Gate Ships but designed to carry large loads, no combat features, just flight, gate control, rudimentary communications, and sensors. Atlantis has a Gate Ship Bay connected to the Gate Room; we can park and unload there; it also leads to the outside; as soon as we are on the surface, we can transport the goods to the other areas of the city."Harry explained his plans for a heavy-load gate transporter.

Sure, they could carry their things in transport cases, but the amount they could bring was very limited. What advanced technologies do you have if you don't even create some vehicles that could be of use to you? Of course, the Goa'uld were so idiotic to make their slaves carry their resources instead of using a vehicle. But he wouldn't be; a transporter fitting for Stargates was just the right thing to create. After all, he had multiple mining worlds right now; such a vehicle would be of a lot of use.

"Okay, our equipment, materials, and supplies will be transported with these vehicles. The third potentia is getting restored right now; the other two are ready. What else are we preparing for the expedition?"Hermione asked; she was really eager for this expedition; who didn't want to see Atlantis? So she tries to find out what preparations are being made, just in case she could add her own input.

"We are preparing a good amount of Naquadah generators and neutrino-ion generators that we can connect to the city's power supply to maintain the function of the city's auxiliary systems without wasting the energy of our potentia. Also, there are different weapon systems to install in the city, so we don't need to purely rely on the drones, which, as far as I know, are almost completely used up. Before we manage to produce new ones, these will be our main defense: a collection of pulse weapon turrets, improved staff cannons that we recycled from many staff weapons, missile launchers, and torpedo batteries. I have drawn up an exact schematic of the city and, with the counsel of my military experts, planned out where to install them. Then there are different machines for production: assemblers, molecular furnaces, and so on. It will take some time to construct enough construction nanites, so for the parts we can produce with these, we should use them. Our time frame will be extremely tight, and everyone will have to move fast; 38 minutes are not so long." Harry explained before they got interrupted.

"Your Majesties? Sorry to disrupt you. There is an urgent message from Nimbus Prime. They have found the woman you were looking for and brought her in." The Magus reported

"A woman?" Hermione asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Her name is Linea, also titled The Destroyer of Worlds. She is a criminal scientist with some interesting knowledge." Harry explained.

"Destroyer of Worlds, charming." Hermione said it dryly.

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