Stargate Atlantis-An Alternate Universe

Discovery, Accomplishment, Challenge

"If I get lung cancer it will more likely be from exposer to some crazy radiation from an unidentified piece of tech find on some random planet. "McKay continued to happily eat his popcorn.

"Now you are into a whole different kind of bias!" Carson laughed.

"What's that one?" John thought a moment, snapping his fingers rapidly. "An attribution error?"

"Basic attribution error, I believe." Carson knew it was, but he was trying to play it down a little.

"I think it is just the McKay bias." Ronon jumped in with another comment to get the group to snicker a little at McKay's expense. Satisfied with his contribution, Ronon began to clean his area and get up from the table.

"This has been a lovely conversation for you guys. Really glad I could be here for you guys to jokes about." McKay forced a laugh.

Ronon came behind him, hugging him tightly and rubbing his head. "You know we love you, man."

McKay rolled his eyes a little after Ronon let him go, but the group could tell he liked it.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." McKay shrugged off Ronon and got up from the table.

"I guess we will see you in a few weeks." Teyla got up and offered her arms to McKay for a hug.

"Off to build the IGSG!" John stood up as well.

"3-4 weeks, actually." McKay corrected excitedly.

"3-4 weeks." Teyla repeated with a smile.

"3-4 weeks with Samantha." Ronon teased.

"You are all children!" McKay swept up all his popcorn remnants from the table. He realized everyone was looking at him, eyebrows raised. "3-4 weeks," he finally conceded as he danced with his hips a little.

Everyone laughed again as they left the table.

Major Lorne and his team were loading supplies onto the new ancient ship when McKay got there.

The ceremony for the ship had been extravagant. Everyone had been brimming with excitement as repairs commenced on the ship. The brunt of the work was made up of cleaning the algae and coral off the hull.

McKay had spent his time studying the ships systems, but most importantly the gates. McKay discovered that the ship did not simply hold the gates, it made them. Intricate machines were able to manufacture the gates. Unfortunately, it did not appear that the ship had the current materials required to make new gates. Not matter for McKay, as there were plenty enough gates to finish the IGSG.

Based on the ship's records, it was designed to be a sort of seed ship. The ancients developed it to fly ahead, populating new galaxies with gates. The records seemed to indicate there were many other ships designed for the same purpose.

"Unfortunately, this ship never got to set out because of the war." McKay had explained to Elizabeth. "In order to shore up defenses against the Wraith the Ancients kept many of these ships here rather than sending them out to explore."

"How fast can the ship travel?" Dr. Weir asked.

"The ship uses an FTL drive. I would estimate the speed to be around 999,999 mph."

"Around." Dr. Weir laughed.

The speed of the ship was another prospect that excited Rodney. He was excited to find out just how fast it could go.

After 3 weeks of steady work on the ship it was almost ready to fly. What it was missing of course, was a name. The name of the ship according to the Ancient data base translated to Exploror. This felt a little 'on the nose' for most people. After some debate it was eventually decided that Zelenka should name the ship being as he had discovered it. At which point, he chose with ease.