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Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 112
Chapter 112 - TeaOnce, about three hundred years before he'd gone into stasis, Eventus had visited the city ship Penglai. Where he had been entertained by a ninety three thousand year old man by the name of Shennong who had made it his mission in life to create the perfect cup of tea.Shennong had of course acknowledged that it was an impossible goal, since subjectivity meant that what one person considered perfect another might consider lacki...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 126
Chapter 126 - Kidnapped Part 2Stardate 48513.14 - July 7, 2371 - 07:06:23Sisko had called an emergency senior staff meeting almost immediately after Raine had informed him about their surprise guest. Something which had run into a bit of a problem in that everyone outside of Kira and Odo had arranged to take today off to recover from the party.Which was why it had taken nearly an hour for all seven members of the station's senior to gather in...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 111
Chapter 111 - Above Average“You were in the Olympics?” Eventus repeated in surprise.“Ninteen eighty four, I won the silver medal in archery.” Xiaoyi confirmed, smiling fondly at the memory. “I was able to ply that into a scholarship to Nankai university. Which is where I spent the next rather uneventful four years earning my degree in psychology.”There was very likely a lot more to that particular story than she was letting on given t...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 110
Chapter 110 - Settling InStylistically the inside of the villa matched the outside with its mix of classic Chinese with muted modern touches like electricity and plumbing. Both of which Eventus rather appreciated given the number of pre-industrial civilizations whose towns he'd had to stay in over the centuries.“Would there be anything else you need?” Zou Fu put forward questioningly as he began unpacking his travel case.“Do you have a ...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 109
Chapter 109 - Half StepsThere was a small procession of people waiting for them next to the clearly outlined landing zone. A moderately interesting choice given the Chinese government couldn't have been sure which of their approved destinations he had chosen until he lowered the jumpers cloak.“And you're sure they're all cleared to know about me?” Eventus asked Xiaoyi, since he didn't want to cause anyone to get executed becau...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 125
Chapter 125 - Kidnapped Part 1Stardate 48512.8 - July 7, 2371 - 04:07:40“Honestly, I'd go for it.” Raine told Morn as the transporter finished returning them to one of the civilian access transporter platforms on Deep Space Nine's promenade.The Lurian opened his mouth to speak and Raine held up a hand to forestall him from rehashing the argument again. “I know, you're a trader and she's at least pirate adjacent. But that doe...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 108
Chapter 108 - A Quick TripThe Chinese government had given Eventus permission for an orbital entry vector into their airspace. Which turned what would have been a roughly eight hour trip into one that barely took them an hour.“Do you ever get tired of it?” Xiaoyi asked softly as the Jumper began to dip back into the Earth's atmosphere.“The infinite expanse of the universe?” Eventus asked with a fond smile. “I haven't yet.”And ...
Cleaning Up after The Ancients - Chapter 107
Chapter 107 - Breaks Beginning“Still can't believe you won't let me go with you.” Rayla sulked as Eventus packed back up the last of human style clothing from their shared room at the SGC.“We've been over this already, Rayla.” Eventus sighed, pretty sure the Elf was just complaining to complain at this point. “China has a face based authoritarian government, and things tend to work best with those kinds of groups when you gi...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 106
Chapter 106 - Maybe a MondayThe trek from the secondary control room to the computer core alongside copying of the database had taken Eventus less than fifteen minutes. Which meant he had been translocated onto the bridge before the rest of SG1 had even been able to finish docking and make it up there themselves.Who he had not beaten, was the pair of medical officers that were in the midst of strapping the unconscious Lieutenant Womack onto a str...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 124
Chapter 124Stardate 48511.87 - July 6, 2371 - 19:58:52Seven, that was the number of times Saya knew that she had met with her father in person. And two of those had happened while she was too young to actually remember it.Oh they talked over the comm's of course, and she had received a number of presents over the years. But it had always felt like her dad treated her more like a little sister than an actual daughter.“Ah, er, do you wanna co...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 105
Chapter 105 - Just Another Tuesday - Part 5“Okay, we’re out.” The voice of Vala’s borrowed body announced over the radio.“Still can’t believe he told Vala to drive.” Mitchell muttered moments later.“I’m sorry.” Vala shot back in clear annoyance. “Is anyone else here qualified to drive a spaceship? No? That’s what I thought.”“Miss Mal Doran.” Pendergast’s voice interjected tiredly. “You’re on an open line, you n...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 104
Chapter 104 - Just Another Tuesday - Part 4Mitchell flicked off the transmission button on his radio and looked over to them. “Okay so, Colonel Pendergast is saying that General O’Neill wants to know if there’s anything in the place that might be useful in fighting our many varied enemies?”Eventus glanced over to where Daniel was using a digital camera to take pictures of the various log entries. “You know General O’Neill best, Daniel...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 103
Chapter 103 - Just Another Tuesday - Part 3The unimaginably named Myriad Station had been designed with the express purpose of punching temporary holes between dimensional layers. And according to the records Eventus had found in the computer system, it had accomplished that task flawlessly until the plague had hit. At which point the hundreds of isolated scientists manning the station had been functionally stuck as one of only a few groups the H...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 123
Chapter 123 - Grand Opening - Part 1Stardate 48511.5 - July 6, 2371 - 16:44:24The grand opening of Quark’s Treasure was without a doubt something Raine had been looking forward to since she had heard about it. There was going to be gambling, exotic food, live music, and if rumor could be believed a cadre of Orion dancers.Her only real disappointment with the whole thing was the fact that T'Rel was still on Romulas so unable to come as the A...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 122
Chapter 122Stardate 48495.6 - June 30, 2371 - 21:27:21Upon at last returning to her quarters after Bashir’s rather thorough examination Raine had found a giant brick of message waiting for her from the missing alternate universe future version of herself. She had more or less been expecting something of the kind, after all, in the other Asari’s position she would have absolutely sent one of her own.What she had not been expecting was that the...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 102
Chapter 102 - Just Another Tuesday - Part 2“So worst case scenario.” Mitchell began, his voice momentarily drowning out the sound of their steps “What are we looking at?”“That's unfortunately subjective.” Eventus admitted, stopping as they came to a four way intersection of similarly identical corridors to check the map he had been building on his tablet. “Personally though, I really hope it's not one of the semi-sentient pr...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 101
Chapter 101 - Just Another TuesdayIt wasn’t particularly surprising that Pendergast hadn’t wanted to take the Prometheus into the station’s docking bay. After all, such an enclosed location would functionally neuter their vessels offensive capabilities.By human standards Eventus knew the docking bay would be considered enormous to the point it could likely have fit a pair of their 304 class vessels inside with room to spare. By Lantean stan...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 100
Chapter 100 - Ancient Mystery’sThe terraforming facility on Venus and the mining facility inside Jupiter's atmosphere had been functionally unreachable without a heavy duty transport vessel. Which just left the dimensional research facility in orbit of Pluto, a location Eventus had been loath to approach in the Jumper given the Atrokiri records listed it as a high security site.Luckily the SGC didn’t seem too adverse to lending him the Pr...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 121
Chapter 121Stardate 48495.32 - June 30, 2371 - 19:00:11Raine breathed a sigh of relief as the transport resolved and she saw the stark interior of the Defiant's transporter room in front of her.Sisko grunted, and Raine turned to the wounded man with a look of concern. “Are you going to be good to make it to sickbay, sir?”“I should be.” He confirmed, gingerly stepping down from the platform.“We'll all be joining him.” Bashir in...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 99
Chapter 99 - Moving On Again“And you're really okay just leaving the place to them?” Vala inquired in an odd tone as she watched the last of the marines pass through the moon base's Stargate.“For safety reasons I sanitized the database of everything but the historical files.” Eventus admitted with a shrug. “So unless there's another secret lab hidden away somewhere inside this secret lab, it’s not like there’s really any...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 98
Chapter 98 - ⅃̷̖̓ö̶̗́ƨ̷͉̍Ɉ̷̺͊ ̴͈͂M̵͇̆ɘ̴̑ͅm̴̧͒ơ̶̱ɿ̷̬̚ì̵̡ɘ̴̬̐ƨ̶̬̄A bend in the ɔ̴͔͠ĺ̶̨ɘ̶͇̉n̴͍͛Ɉ̶̼̋ɒ̷̡͠ɿ̷̦̒ layer drew Ganos Lal's attention to the side of the room right as the rooms newest guest finished synching to her phase state. Not exactly unexpected given the way things were spiraling, but she had rather hoped she would have more time.“Melia.” She greeted the...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 97
Chapter 97 - The Approaching StormPlacing the final silver needle into the last of the empty pinholes in the metallic stand, Thor flexed the protoform body's hand a final time before looking over to Sigyn for confirmation on his time.“Fifty two point seven seconds.” She confirmed, noting the numbers down on the testing chambers central control station. “Well within the baseline we established before you entered the temporal acceleration...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 120
Chapter 120Stardate -298333.3 - September 1, 2024 - 00:17:34Sleep was one of those things that a good Starfleet officer tended to teach their bodies to take in a very intermittent manner. After all, spatial anomalies only rarely appeared on schedule, and it was almost unheard of to encounter new civilizations that ran on the same clock time as the Federation.That was of course why Starfleet operated on a general shift system, and why Raine was aw...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 96
Chapter 96 - Ethical IssuesTen minutes of going over Janus’s files was enough for Eventus to be both amazed by the man’s genius, and utterly loathe the depths that he had fallen to without a supervising body to keep him in check.“He was designing a biological weapon system to destroy the Wraith.” Eventus admitted to the patiently waiting pair as he continued to read through the scientist’s patchwork notes.“Like some sort of virus?” ...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 95
Chapter 95 - The Not So Last AncientWhen Eventus had set out to investigate Earth’s solar system it had been more of a “why not” sort of thing, and he honestly hadn’t expected to find much more than the few defunct facilities he’d located with the outpost. And despite his warning to various people that Janus was probably still out there somewhere, he really hadn’t expected to actually locate the scientist, let alone just happen upon h...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 94
Chapter 94 - SpaaaceOne of the things Eventus had done while working on the outposts systems was to use its communications system to send out a general response ping to see which, if any, facilities might still be active in the solar system.He’d gotten back a grand total of three responses. A defunct terraforming facility on Venus, an automated mining facility inside the atmosphere of Jupiter, and a dimensional research facility in orbit of Plu...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 93
Chapter 93 - Morning WoesBreaking off a yawn, Eventus accepted the cup of tea Doctor Baker was offering him while silently lamenting just how long it had taken to program in the necessary repair parameters.“Surprised you turned down the coffee.” Baker said as he took a seat on the other side of the cafeteria table.“I've always preferred boiled leaf juice to boiled bean juice.” Eventus admitted, adding a couple drops of honey to the dr...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 92
Chapter 92 - Night Time ConversationsThe door of the field station closed behind him with a hiss of restored pressurization, and Daniel let out a relieved sigh as the heater kicked in, basking in the warmer air for a moment before plodding over to the nearby couch and all but collapsing into it.“Well, I had fun.” Vala offered happily, and Daniel glanced down the RV style rooms interior to see the current bane of his existence already nibbling...
Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 91
Chapter 91 - Long Distance CommunicationsThe Tria’s distress signal hadn’t been particularly verbose, just a report that their Hyperdrive had irreparably burned out, the location of where it had occurred, and the vector calculations of where they were heading. Which was functionally all anyone really needed to figure out where the ship should be in its journey to the Avalon galaxy at any point in time.“So they are fine just flying through s...
Cerulean Stars - Chapter 119
Chapter 119Stardate -298333.5 - August 31, 2024 - 22:32:09Taking a moment to glance down the maintenance passage before turning back to watch O’Brien work on the lock of the metal gate that was the only thing currently separating them from the Sanctuary district. Nerys had to bite back her urge to tell the engineer to hurry it up, since she knew that was just the familiarity of their circumstances and not any real perception of danger that was ...
