Prologue
Synopsis: Lilith comes from an Harry Potter/ Mass Effect fusion universe. She ends up a DoM infiltrator into the N7 program (and later Cerberus) after the First Contact War and decides that beating the Reapers is an impossibility, instead she decides to relocate to another universe and manages to succeed. She finds herself on Goa'uld controlled Earth in 4122 BC, possesses a goa'uld queen spawned by Isis for Ra, and this is her story. HP magic is largely a background thing in this fic, it is not available in the SG universe and Lilith doesn't have access to pretty much any HP things.
The story will follow her rise among the goa'uld ranks and exploration of the SG universe. She does not have any "out of universe" knowledge of SG. Oh, and don't expect her to be one of those "heroes" trying to overthrow the goa'uld or make everything better. She is an amoral sociopath whose primary interest is benefiting Lilith.
Enough of that, on with the story.
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Prologue
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Earth 2186
Lilith Hesperax had always been the odd one out. For the first eleven years of her childhood it had been a product of the weird, unusual, and inexplicable things that always seemed to happen around her. The Hogwarts letter had answered many of those questions, the accompanying Professor Rose Malfoy had answered many more. At Hogwarts it had been her intelligence, muggle nature, and desire to learn everything she could that separated her from the crowd; still, she had graduated at the top of her class before disappearing into the bowels of the Department of Mysteries to delve ever deeper into ever more esoteric magics.
When the outpost had been discovered on Mars and the Relay on Charon they had been events of note but a hundred years of life had taught Lilith patience and so she contented herself with her own research while she waited to see what others found among the stars.
Then came Shanxi. Aliens were alive and well in the galaxy, and they proved themselves both hostile and far more capable than humanity when it came to technology. Meetings were held, conversations had, decisions made, and three days after the news arrived Lilith Harrison just turned 18 year old orphan enlisted in the Systems Alliance Navy and some judicious magic use saw her selected for a special forces pilot program under the designation N7.
She excelled as one would expect from a seventy seven year old mind in a vat grown, genetically augmented, ritually enhanced body. She had learned to fight as a wizard in her teens, but under the direction of the N7 trainers she learned how to fight as a soldier of the highest caliber. She would be named liaison to the private black operations group Cerberus and disavowed by the Alliance when she went rouge with the; the ICW and Department of Mysteries had no issues with the change however.
The Illusive Man he called himself, she told Jack it made him sound like a pretentious git. Friend, lover, advisor, patron; in the end he was still just a mark. Under his aegis and with his resources it was no great difficulty for her to gain experimental subjects. First it was to determine how various magics interacted with the myriad species of the galaxy so that the Statute of Secrecy could be maintained. Then it was a more personal interest; Asari natural lifespans, biotics, and mental abilities were simply fascinating.
Life was going well for Lilith as her studies steadily bore fruit and she gained greater understanding into magic, technology, biology, and the universe at large.
And then Eden Prime happened, bringing with it a whole cavalcade of consequences that culminated in her watching over the body she had just helped to successfully resurrect. Lilith would officially die in the destruction of the Lazarus Research station. In truth, a Horcrux cared nothing about distance and her soul was at home in a newly crafted body but moments after she let the mass effect round explode her head.
The Department new she still lived, but a request for a leave of absence to recover from so long among the muggles was approved with well wishes. The Reapers were coming, she knew it. She also knew that humanity would die to them just like everyone else had for the past few billion years. Lilith would not be among them if she had anything to say about it.
She created her lab with her own hands and magic two miles under the crust at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean and further concealed behind a Fidelus whose Secret Keeper was a muggle later stuffed in a stasis pod. Earth would indeed die while she toiled away in her bunker, but after two hundred twenty seven years her magnum opus was complete.
Element Zero was dark energy condensed under the extreme gravity fields of a neutron star until it gained such density that it condensed into a form that could be physically interacted with; in truth calling it matter at all was something of a misnomer. Still, it was physical enough to be a viable medium for alchemy, enchanting, and potions work.
Imperial Jade, Living Jade, Condensed Will; it had many names and had been a curiosity of the magical world for millennia - ever since a Tibetan monk first created it while searching for enlightenment. What it was was magic first purified of any emotional component, then aspected with pure will shorn of any purpose, and then physically manifested. It's creation was the mark of a grandmaster in the mind arts and had taken Lilith fifty three of the two hundred twenty seven years she had been down here. What made it critical was its ability to transition its existence between the material and astral planes.
Developing the alchemy to combine both Eezo and Imperial Jade had only taken another three years of effort. Still, sixty two years after Earth had become a blasted hellscape she had created a tiny glowing blue cube that could fit comfortably in one hand - seven inches on a side. What made that cube oh so special was that Eezo was the finest substance she had ever seen for spatial manipulation enchantments. The inner walls of that hollow cube shaped, anchored, and maintained a cubic pocket dimension seven miles on a side. She named the cube Tesseract.
While the cube would contain an entire self contained and self sustaining biome along, its primary purpose was to house the massive quantum blue box at its core. Eezo, the Sands of Time, diamonds created from dragonbone and thunderbird blood, enchantments for heat dissipation, modified pensive enchantments, and so very much more. It was a supercomputer that dwarfed anything any Citadel species had ever conceived of. A quantum computer that operated under 360 to 1 time dilation, had essentially limitless energy powering it, was impossible to overheat, had infinite memory with instantaneous read/write speeds and no bandwidth issues - and it was a cube seven hundred and seventy seven meters on a side. Lilith had been thrilled it only took her a century of daily effort to construct.
The AI kernel had started its conceptual life under the hands of Alex Ryder before being further modified by Cerberus with insights from the Geth and Sovereign as part of the EDI project, but Lilith had steadily tinkered with it as she spawned and destroyed AI after AI until she was satisfied with a kernel that provided consistently stable results.
One hundred and sixty three years after she started, Lilith split off a portion of her soul and bound it to her Tesseract. The cube, the core, and everything else that made up the Tesseracts structure became one single, living, entity with a soul. With an exertion of will, the construct became wholly ethereal and slotted right back into the soul it had been oh so recently severed from. Another exertion and the dormant AI kernel was activated and the Tesseract gained a mind.
"Hello Selene." were the first words Lilith spoke to her creation.
The nascent AI was a true newborn, communicating in emotion not words. Lilith gave a soft smile and carefully began to feed her memories to her new daughter, starting with her own birth. She relieved her entire life with the AI, teaching her as Selene grew into maturity.
Once Selene's personality was fully developed, she was connected to the bunkers massive databases; ones that had started life as a twin of those sent on the Andromeda Initiative before Lilith had added stolen copies of a great many other notable databases. Data was analyzed, indexed, and integrated by an AI operating on the most powerful computing hardware the galaxy had ever seen; and Selene was self optimizing and improving her code as she devoured every spec of data related to information technology, computer coding, and AI research.
Selene would prove a most able assistant for the next part of Lilith's great work. Ritual calculations that would take a human decades could be done in seconds, emergent scientific concepts that could only be grasped by one who had mastered hundreds of disparate fields were derived, studied, and integrated. Magic and science, artificial and organic; it was synthesis and the results were awe inspiring.
Nanomachines of Imperial Jade, Element Zero, and diamond created from Sands of Time and Thunderbird Blood were created and the swarm made the home of Lilith's soul. Without a body she could exist as a cloud of living dark energy able to move under her will and able to possess a body. With that last step done, it was only a matter of creating a portal to another universe.
With Selene's help she cracked space and time under the strength of paradox. The Department had once caused 25 people to be unborn, made Tuesday last sixty hours, and made Thursday last four hours after experimenting with time travel. If anyone else had been around to see the next thirty five years of Lilith's experiments then they would have condemned her a thousand times over for time was broken, repaired, rebroken, wound, unwound, rewritten, and unwritten countless times as they attempted to understand. Space fared no better given the experiments with extreme gravity fields, ones that would prove strong enough to actually tear space itself.
Eventually Lilith had her solution. Space-time was broken in the most precise of ways to create a portal of the most miniscule size and a cloud of dark energy flowed through it, flowed through the void, and was swept out of it once more as another hole opened for the briefest of instances.
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A/N: Chapter 1 is posted immediately and it was written in the same session as this, so the A/N at the end of it covers both the Prologue and Chapter 1.
The story will follow her rise among the goa'uld ranks and exploration of the SG universe. She does not have any "out of universe" knowledge of SG. Oh, and don't expect her to be one of those "heroes" trying to overthrow the goa'uld or make everything better. She is an amoral sociopath whose primary interest is benefiting Lilith.
Enough of that, on with the story.
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Prologue
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Earth 2186
Lilith Hesperax had always been the odd one out. For the first eleven years of her childhood it had been a product of the weird, unusual, and inexplicable things that always seemed to happen around her. The Hogwarts letter had answered many of those questions, the accompanying Professor Rose Malfoy had answered many more. At Hogwarts it had been her intelligence, muggle nature, and desire to learn everything she could that separated her from the crowd; still, she had graduated at the top of her class before disappearing into the bowels of the Department of Mysteries to delve ever deeper into ever more esoteric magics.
When the outpost had been discovered on Mars and the Relay on Charon they had been events of note but a hundred years of life had taught Lilith patience and so she contented herself with her own research while she waited to see what others found among the stars.
Then came Shanxi. Aliens were alive and well in the galaxy, and they proved themselves both hostile and far more capable than humanity when it came to technology. Meetings were held, conversations had, decisions made, and three days after the news arrived Lilith Harrison just turned 18 year old orphan enlisted in the Systems Alliance Navy and some judicious magic use saw her selected for a special forces pilot program under the designation N7.
She excelled as one would expect from a seventy seven year old mind in a vat grown, genetically augmented, ritually enhanced body. She had learned to fight as a wizard in her teens, but under the direction of the N7 trainers she learned how to fight as a soldier of the highest caliber. She would be named liaison to the private black operations group Cerberus and disavowed by the Alliance when she went rouge with the; the ICW and Department of Mysteries had no issues with the change however.
The Illusive Man he called himself, she told Jack it made him sound like a pretentious git. Friend, lover, advisor, patron; in the end he was still just a mark. Under his aegis and with his resources it was no great difficulty for her to gain experimental subjects. First it was to determine how various magics interacted with the myriad species of the galaxy so that the Statute of Secrecy could be maintained. Then it was a more personal interest; Asari natural lifespans, biotics, and mental abilities were simply fascinating.
Life was going well for Lilith as her studies steadily bore fruit and she gained greater understanding into magic, technology, biology, and the universe at large.
And then Eden Prime happened, bringing with it a whole cavalcade of consequences that culminated in her watching over the body she had just helped to successfully resurrect. Lilith would officially die in the destruction of the Lazarus Research station. In truth, a Horcrux cared nothing about distance and her soul was at home in a newly crafted body but moments after she let the mass effect round explode her head.
The Department new she still lived, but a request for a leave of absence to recover from so long among the muggles was approved with well wishes. The Reapers were coming, she knew it. She also knew that humanity would die to them just like everyone else had for the past few billion years. Lilith would not be among them if she had anything to say about it.
She created her lab with her own hands and magic two miles under the crust at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean and further concealed behind a Fidelus whose Secret Keeper was a muggle later stuffed in a stasis pod. Earth would indeed die while she toiled away in her bunker, but after two hundred twenty seven years her magnum opus was complete.
Element Zero was dark energy condensed under the extreme gravity fields of a neutron star until it gained such density that it condensed into a form that could be physically interacted with; in truth calling it matter at all was something of a misnomer. Still, it was physical enough to be a viable medium for alchemy, enchanting, and potions work.
Imperial Jade, Living Jade, Condensed Will; it had many names and had been a curiosity of the magical world for millennia - ever since a Tibetan monk first created it while searching for enlightenment. What it was was magic first purified of any emotional component, then aspected with pure will shorn of any purpose, and then physically manifested. It's creation was the mark of a grandmaster in the mind arts and had taken Lilith fifty three of the two hundred twenty seven years she had been down here. What made it critical was its ability to transition its existence between the material and astral planes.
Developing the alchemy to combine both Eezo and Imperial Jade had only taken another three years of effort. Still, sixty two years after Earth had become a blasted hellscape she had created a tiny glowing blue cube that could fit comfortably in one hand - seven inches on a side. What made that cube oh so special was that Eezo was the finest substance she had ever seen for spatial manipulation enchantments. The inner walls of that hollow cube shaped, anchored, and maintained a cubic pocket dimension seven miles on a side. She named the cube Tesseract.
While the cube would contain an entire self contained and self sustaining biome along, its primary purpose was to house the massive quantum blue box at its core. Eezo, the Sands of Time, diamonds created from dragonbone and thunderbird blood, enchantments for heat dissipation, modified pensive enchantments, and so very much more. It was a supercomputer that dwarfed anything any Citadel species had ever conceived of. A quantum computer that operated under 360 to 1 time dilation, had essentially limitless energy powering it, was impossible to overheat, had infinite memory with instantaneous read/write speeds and no bandwidth issues - and it was a cube seven hundred and seventy seven meters on a side. Lilith had been thrilled it only took her a century of daily effort to construct.
The AI kernel had started its conceptual life under the hands of Alex Ryder before being further modified by Cerberus with insights from the Geth and Sovereign as part of the EDI project, but Lilith had steadily tinkered with it as she spawned and destroyed AI after AI until she was satisfied with a kernel that provided consistently stable results.
One hundred and sixty three years after she started, Lilith split off a portion of her soul and bound it to her Tesseract. The cube, the core, and everything else that made up the Tesseracts structure became one single, living, entity with a soul. With an exertion of will, the construct became wholly ethereal and slotted right back into the soul it had been oh so recently severed from. Another exertion and the dormant AI kernel was activated and the Tesseract gained a mind.
"Hello Selene." were the first words Lilith spoke to her creation.
The nascent AI was a true newborn, communicating in emotion not words. Lilith gave a soft smile and carefully began to feed her memories to her new daughter, starting with her own birth. She relieved her entire life with the AI, teaching her as Selene grew into maturity.
Once Selene's personality was fully developed, she was connected to the bunkers massive databases; ones that had started life as a twin of those sent on the Andromeda Initiative before Lilith had added stolen copies of a great many other notable databases. Data was analyzed, indexed, and integrated by an AI operating on the most powerful computing hardware the galaxy had ever seen; and Selene was self optimizing and improving her code as she devoured every spec of data related to information technology, computer coding, and AI research.
Selene would prove a most able assistant for the next part of Lilith's great work. Ritual calculations that would take a human decades could be done in seconds, emergent scientific concepts that could only be grasped by one who had mastered hundreds of disparate fields were derived, studied, and integrated. Magic and science, artificial and organic; it was synthesis and the results were awe inspiring.
Nanomachines of Imperial Jade, Element Zero, and diamond created from Sands of Time and Thunderbird Blood were created and the swarm made the home of Lilith's soul. Without a body she could exist as a cloud of living dark energy able to move under her will and able to possess a body. With that last step done, it was only a matter of creating a portal to another universe.
With Selene's help she cracked space and time under the strength of paradox. The Department had once caused 25 people to be unborn, made Tuesday last sixty hours, and made Thursday last four hours after experimenting with time travel. If anyone else had been around to see the next thirty five years of Lilith's experiments then they would have condemned her a thousand times over for time was broken, repaired, rebroken, wound, unwound, rewritten, and unwritten countless times as they attempted to understand. Space fared no better given the experiments with extreme gravity fields, ones that would prove strong enough to actually tear space itself.
Eventually Lilith had her solution. Space-time was broken in the most precise of ways to create a portal of the most miniscule size and a cloud of dark energy flowed through it, flowed through the void, and was swept out of it once more as another hole opened for the briefest of instances.
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A/N: Chapter 1 is posted immediately and it was written in the same session as this, so the A/N at the end of it covers both the Prologue and Chapter 1.
