Chapter 19

  “Try it again,” said Amos. Reva threw the kino again but once again nothing happened. Amos grew frustrated by his continual attempts to perfect his matter conversion technology.

  “It won’t work,” said Reva. “It has to, it has to work, everything that we have done until now is contingent on this new technology,” replied Amos clearly exasperated from perpetual failure. Two weeks had passed since the Asgard had arrived on Taranis. Reva and Amos were busy trying to perfect the matter conversion technology attached to the kinos with little luck.

  “I place the blank disk inside of the kino, I throw the kino, the kino scans the device and the kino uploads the schematics of the device to the disk,” said Amos. “That’s absolutely right,” said Reva.

  “However, when I place the disk back inside of the kino, it can’t rematerialize the device, why?” Amos was stumped because his prized technology which would change everything would simply not work. He knew that Asgard matter converters could create complex items by disk alone, there was an incident on the Odyssey when a rogue operative of the IOA inserted a disk containing the schematics of a replicator. It was their last ditch effort to finish off the Ori. However, one thing led to another and the Replicator got loose and nearly destroyed the ship. Several crew members died that day because of his recklessness. Fortunately, SG1 was able to neutralize the problem. Even so, the technology Amos was trying to create was quite similar. The Asgard computer was able to make a replicator, then why was it having trouble making a Puddle Jumper?

  “What am I missing, Reva?”

  Amos knocked a stack of markers on the floor. “You’re confusing Asgard beaming technology with Asgard Matter Conversion technology. What you require is possible if you sat down and programmed a Puddle Jumper into the Asgard computer core line by line. The crystal disk just doesn’t receive enough molecular data when the kino scans the jumpers. “How long would that take, then? To program a jumper line by line” asked Amos sarcastically. “I don’t know, maybe a few years to a few decades, it would be easier to just build a new jumper than try to replicate one from scratch,” responded Reva.

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  Amos sighed, feeling disheartened by the persistent challenges. He was convinced that success was achievable— it simply had to be. Both the Taranians and the Asgard were depending on his ability to replicate the Ancient vessel. If he was unable to produce another Lantean warship upon the eventual repair of this one, their entire venture on Taranis would have been rendered futile.

  The duo toiled late into the night, only pausing for nourishment and brief restroom breaks. Shortly after midnight, Amos experienced a moment of clarity. “What if we just used beaming technology to transmit the object into the kino? Then we could just generate duplicate copies from the matter stream?” Amos mused, stifling a yawn. Reva, equally fatigued, let out her own yawn and answered, “You would still encounter a buffering issue. Without a buffer possessing the capacity to indefinitely hold the object, successful duplication cannot be achieved. The matter stream would corrode in seconds, making rematerialization impossible”

  Amos sprang from his chair with sudden vigor, a spark of inspiration igniting within him. “How about we abandon Asgard beaming technology all together,” he proposed, excitement burning in his voice. Reva, her brow furrowed in confusion, urged him to elaborate.

  “Instead, let’s utilize Wraith beaming technology!” he exclaimed with fervor, the words tumbling from his lips as he darted to Daniel’s laptop across the table.

  “There was a world encountered by the Atlantis Expedition—a realm on the brink of annihilation at the hands of the Wraith. In their desperate bid for survival, the inhabitants salvaged a downed Wraith dart, channeling their ingenuity into reverse engineering the technology. With a few clever adjustments, they managed to evacuate their entire population within the confines of the device, staving off destruction. While Asgard beaming technology is adept at transporting objects from one location to another, the Wraith’s method is designed to ensnare and carry a its contents like cargo. We could adapt a Wraith storage system to anchor our object in place, allowing the crystal disk to meticulously extract its schematics and molecular data. From there, we could replicate the code, generating as many constructs as our hearts desire. The Wraith storage apparatus is formidable enough to thwart cellular decay, while conversely, the disks housing the schematics from these newly devised Wraith buffers will carry sufficient data to download the entire molecular template into a fresh buffer, birthing the exact replication of the salvaged device.”

  Reva got up from her desk, wet with excitement. “With something like that we could easily make a buffer large and powerful enough for our duplication technology, but where are we going to get a wraith beaming device? Should we go back to where we encountered the wraith near the lantean satellite.

  Amos, finally having success in weeks, smiles, gets up from his seat and says:

  “I have a better idea.”