Not sure if it was a thing with gate travel or just a Harry thing but like with the floo, Harry came tumbling out. If he had been his adult self, he would have been fine but in a kids body? He landed on his back. He was still staring at the ceiling when the gate closed behind him.


    From Sam’s memories, he remember the reports about how Atlantis was almost out of power. His band couldn’t connect to the city yet, he will need to sit in the command chair for that. He had the layout of the city in his memories from Sam. She had been to the city once. It was easy to make it down to the power room and do the same thing to the 3 ZPM’s there that he did the one on the weapons platform. They were not at a full charge but the city now had full power.


    Sitting down in the command chair the first thing Harry did was to give himself full command of the city. He also locked out anyone else from trying to take command. This basically made him High Counselor. Only after that did he start running the diagnostics for the city starting with power.


    Power was at 89%, 72% and 82%. He was charging those things by feel so in his personal opinion, he did a pretty good job. Command and control systems came back with minor damage. Harry quickly searched for constructors to start fixing things as he got in reports but to his surprise there were none. This left Harry dumbfounded. Looking back at the logs, the last idiot who programs this had the constructors use themselves as raw material to replace stupid stuff like water damage to empty buildings.


    No wonder the Alterans died out. Fucken idiots. It’s a good thing he brought his along. The city was out of almost every stocked resource so Harry designated a large part of the cities loving quarters as raw material. He made sure to have the bots place any personal belongs in storage for research purposes. There could be a ten thousand ear old dildo in there somewhere. That must be worth something right?


    First things first. He had the constructors make more constructors. The city was set to house 120 swarms of constructors and so he set the city to construct 129 swarms. He wanted 5 for the outpost and 5 on his person. Knowing that he could now progress, he went back to his reports.


    The main Hanger was fine but the second one had been flooded. The Hyperdrive had some ware from its time soaking in the salt water. Sub light drives also came back with some damage. The cold protection system reported damage but was in working order. At this point, Harry had just been doing a lot of guesswork for the repairs from available resources but the city AI seems to be learning how he thinks and gave him some figures that he could use and understand.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    Turns out the city structures were indeed emergency raw materials. The AI even let him know that at 64 swarms, he could start using some of the constructors to do repairs on the city and not have any diminishing returns in speed of repairs and constructions. Of course he went with the suggestions from the city AI.


    Time was passing by quickly but his stomach was telling him that several hours had gone by. He had been pushing himself but this was still the starved body of a ten year old. Harry decided to shift his innards in a way he had learned to do long ago to process food more efficiently and quickly. He then took out a tray of food he had taken directly off a messroom on a aircraft carrier.


    The pranker in him had never died and he giggled all the while eating that meal. Now that he was fed and watered, he sent the tray back into his band so that he could send it back for someone else to wash later. The idea made him laugh even more.


    Atlantis had the most complete database of the Alteran available. Harry decide to download the entire thing but to take it slow. He remembered from Sam’s memories what Jack did and he did not want anything to do with that. Incase something went wrong, he decided to start with the most important information to himself. Science and Tech.


    The upload could have been done in seconds but Harry decided to stretch that to one hour so that he could use his Occlumency to sort everything out better. While everything still came at him too fast, he was able to mentally file everything so that he had easier access to it later. When he was done he realized that science and tech was just over 12% of the database. Most of it was history and the arts. Harry was starting to come to a conclusion as to why the Alterans died out. Over the next 4 days, Harry downloaded the entire database. His conclusion, the one he feared had been correct. The Alteran were idiots.


    A few examples would be once the drone weapons were created, they phased out all other types of weapons. Imagine being able to shoot 40 different energy weapons plus drones at a enemy target. Nope, drones were the most powerful so they didn’t need anything else. It takes 3 ZPM’s to run the shields at full power so 3 is all it gets. 1 shield is enough to block anything so one shield is all the city gets. Atlantis is already safe so there’s no need to built so many ships. Ships can always hide behind Atlantis shields so there’s no need to Power any ships with a ZPM. They can create ZPM’s at anytime so there’s no reason to stock any for emergencies.


    The list goes on and on. They could have easily killed off the Wraith when they first emerged but the Alterans just left them be for millions of years until they posed a threat. Harry was definitely not going to make those same crap decisions. He also kind of regretted downloading the entire database. He now knew over 1600 ways to dance and the history behind each step. The good news is that the city had now been fully repaired minus some missing buildings.