I skipped this story many times because based purely on the title I figured this would glorify shady ethics. I finally read it after a recommendation and I have to say I wish I never skipped it.

Great AU, to the point, and original.

Ch. 3

Very interesting little story; I just find it rather implausible, given how the series depicted Maynourne and the NID...

Lovely fic, and quite soothing to a fan like me.

It doesn’t cover all the seasons but it does make a great start and sets up earth with a strong basis from which to keep moving forward while retaining its soul.

I’ve never seen any story that posits Maybourne as anything better than a nuisance, let alone a positive force.

Thank you for dreaming this up and then writing and posting it. My joy of fanfics has been nicely refreshed :)

fun read even though i wouldve liked to see more tech.

wouldnt the jaffa symbiotes have gone mad too?

i loved this maybourne.

this was a good idea but it is going nowhere

now way in hell they moved an tolan ion cannon through the gate and even if they did they would lack the power grid to use it

shame, its clear you dont fully grasp what that place means either.

fixing up a direct neural interface would make finding out all this tech so so much easier. a fully immersive VR would be the next. you have all that tech and space mining to fuel it figured out before the week is out

they could just have phased to the surface, if it is their thoughts guiding what is solid footing then a wall can become stairs.

this episode right here, tin man. a mausoleum of a death ppl guarded by a guy who just desperately wants company? too easy. but lets ignore all that and focus on what we know:
a wide erea stunning beam
scanners capable of copying memories and bodies.
production capabilities to make such fake robot bodies in less then an hour.
this is all the tech humans ever could need. computers that can beat the brain? memory scanners used on goauld? robotics, power gen, production.

etc etc. that place right there would catapulted stargate command, and earth to the space age better than the goauld in less than two years so ofc it was all ignored

taking tech from the tolan is one thing, but scavaging what they left behind? i dont see o'neill protest that.

10/10

Everything came together nicely.

Hey,

I know I am rather late to this party, but frankly I love this premise (then again I also love XSGCOM, the crossover with X-Com, where humanity also gets the goodies and is not afraid to use simple overwhelming firepower to achieve their ends).

Tollan-Tech in some areas rivals Asgard and even Ancient tech - their phase-shift tech is more advanced than that of the ancients (especially since it is way smaller and seems to require less power - an armband instead of a blocky table like thing and that was personally made by Merlin to hide from the ascended Ancients, so we don't know if the Ancients over all truly used that tech) and their health-implants are also something we've not seen the Asgard or Ancients use.

I also often asked myself why the SGC didn't have an intelligence component (so spread out agents accross the stars to observe the Goa'uld etc.)...in RL the alphabet soup would be all over the gate! They would observe, steal, coerce, assassinate etc. to get the upper hand out there and not only rely on the Tok'ra :(

Sometimes the SGC also doesn't do its job sadly or they forget about tech they've acquired! Hell, we know they know how a staff-weapon works, but we sadly never see a human energy weapon!

Sadly you didn't write a truly long SG-We-Nab-Your-Tech story...I sadly always seem to run into writer's block after a chapter or two, so I've never posted anything online so far...still, it's fun to read - again (as I've red it before!)

I've always liked the character of Harry Maybourne. I wish this had been the shows storyline as I might have continued watching it.

Impressive story, we need more morally ambiguous good guys.

I can't see Harry Maybourne helping ANYONE just because it was the right thing to do. He spent more time trying to discredit the SGC than to work with it.
That being said, if regarding this as a spoof, it's pretty entertaining.

By the way, Daniel is the one who figured out Seth was on Earth and tracked him down, start to finish.