A/N: The second of 2 updates for you. This one deals with the few days between the Terran Commonwealth's existence being revealed to SG1 and negotiations beginning between the Terran Commonwealth and the SGC/US over what to do now.

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2002 – 7th April to 15th

With major operations now ceased, due to the asteroid diversion being completed, the Terran Commonwealth downgrades its alert status and orders all personnel involved in the operation to take a compulsory 2 day leave to recover from several days of constant operations, with the fighter pilots being stuck in their cockpits for up to 6 hours at a time before being rotated with the reserve pilots that are still in training.

At the same time, taking advantage of the crews being back on Earth, the Terran Commonwealth grounds all of the fighters and ships, with the exception of the TCS Sera, in order for them to undergo a complete maintenance check to ensure that they aren't going to be operating with damage accumulated from diverting the asteroid. Luckily, the majority of the ships and fighters have accumulated very little damage, and so they are available for their pilots when they come back from their leave. The remainder, 3 Cobra fighters and 1 Heracles, are grounded for up to week in order for their damage to be repaired.

The Atlas Cargo/Transport prototype ship is returned to the hangar as well, in order for it to not only undergo a maintenance check, but for it to be completed ready for its launch and space trials in May. However, due to it being incomplete, it is realised after initial checks that parts of its hull has been damaged by the strain of diverting the asteroid, and as such, the required repairs will push the completion date back to the beginning of June.

The TCS Sera, as it was only involved in guarding the ships and fighters, rather than actually diverting the asteroid, undergoes only a routine maintenance check before being dispatched back to its original mission of surveying the star systems surrounding Earth.

The scale of the maintenance required by the ships and fighters, however, strains the Terran Commonwealth's capabilities almost to the breaking point. The Terran Commonwealth does not have enough hangar space within Luna 1 to house both squadrons of fighters, as well as the four Heracles Class Mining ships, the Atlas Class Transport/Cargo ship and the two Valkyrie Class Scouts. As it is, the personnel are having to repair one of the Heracles and both Valkyrie's within the fighter hangar bay (which, due to having been constructed to hold 3 squadron's of Cobra's, plus spares, has enough room for them), with the Atlas and another Heracles being repaired/constructed in the smaller, initial hangar, and having the remaining 2 Heracles positioned in orbit of Mars until room is available.

As such, it is decided that a third hangar needs to be constructed for Luna 1, dedicated to repair and maintenance operations as well as acting as a dock for ships whose crews are on leave and to load and unload cargo/passengers, allowing the first hangar, Hangar 1, to be kept for ship construction and for the Heracles to deliver their mined resources to. The Terran Commonwealth sets out a requirement for the new hangar to be able to contain at least 4 ships of Heracles/Atlas size, with easy access to both the main base and the forge/construction area.

With the American's discovering the existence of the Terran Commonwealth, the Council could not put off disclosure to the United States any longer. As such, using the subspace frequency given to them by SG1 at the end of the initial discussion in orbit, the Terran Commonwealth had arranged for an initial meeting to take place on the 15th of April at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado. This delay between the Terran Commonwealth being revealed to the American's on the 6th April and the initial disclosure meeting on the 15th would allow both sides time to take stock, get back to normal operations and also determine exactly how much to reveal to the other side. For the Terran Commonwealth it was obvious that they would have to reveal the vast majority of their technology base, as SG1 had already seen evidence of the technology the Terran Commonwealth had access to, especially their fighters and ships, but the question is, how much technology should be revealed and should they reveal exactly how high their technology level is?

Meanwhile, as the Council is debating pros and cons of how much technology should be revealed to the US, the rest of the Terran Commonwealth is slowly getting back to normal, with the repaired ships heading back out to continue mining or on patrols, while the fighters are assigned to continue shepherding the Naquadah asteroid into a stable orbit of Jupiter, moving it into a position on the far side of the planet to keep it out of sight of Earth. This location was chosen to store the asteroid as it had already been chosen as the site for the currently still under design construction station for the Terran Commonwealth.

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