Mu (city-ship)

Mu
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"*Mu likes me... Sometimes she helps me.*"
―Salanda

"*Ancient city, sole resident crazy woman Salanda, night stalker population medium. Sells: Fruits.*"
―Dinesh's assessment
Mu is an Ancient City-ship built tens of millions of years ago. Its history is largely unknown, but it can be assumed that the Ancients settled in the Andromeda Galaxy much like they did in Pegasus, and later left for unknown reasons. On arriving in the city, the Mu Squad found the city almost drained of power, jumper bay empty, but most of its complement of drone weapons still intact.

Salanda speaks of the city as if it were alive, using female pronouns. Tyler Rmoutil taught the city English, and many consoles now display in that language by default.

## Locations

### Gate Room

Unlike in Atlantis, the DHD is positioned near the Stargate. The chevrons on the gate have a lilac glow, compared with the orange of the Milky Way gates and blue in Pegasus.

### Salanda's Garden

    Salanda's garden is a dreary-looking place, half in the shadow of one of Mu's many towers, but the plants growing there seem to be thriving. None are recognizable Earth plants, but most of them are edible. Between the plants are numerous silver statues created by night stalkers. The statues consist of various species native to the Milky Way, including Kavach.

The garden produces enough fruit for the whole group, or enough for Salanda with excess to trade. It's a pleasant place to hang out during the day, statues aside, but dangerous as anywhere else at night... if not more so. Lately, one of the statues has begun moving.

### Chair Room

The chair room is in the lower third of the tallest, central tower of Mu. It houses a control chair 🡭 and the doors can be sealed from within. In Mu, the control chair allows extremely limited communication with the city itself, in addition to its normal functions, although this communication is very unreliable.

### Jumper Bay

The jumper bay of Mu was entirely empty when the Mu Squad arrived.

### Medical Lab/Infirmary

The medical lab of Mu is equipped with a number of technologies, including a medical hologram programmed to diagnose and treat injuries using the equipment available. Unfortunately, many or most of the handheld devices have already been removed from the infirmary and sold off.

The **medical hologram** is a key feature of the infirmary / medical lab. It is programmed by the Ancients to diagnose patients and recommend treatment, which he will carry out if authorized to do so. When active but not in use, it enters an idle animation loop like a video game character.

The primary tool to examine patients is the **scanning table**, a table and attached monitor that scans subjects with a green light to provide detailed internal scans. Foreign bodies (such as Goa'uld) appear in red, infections appear in orange, and metal appears white.

#### Revivitas Chamber

A successor to the Ancient healing device 🡭, the **Revivitas Chamber** is capable of repairing any injury and even reviving the dead; however, once brain activity has ceased, anyone revived in the Revivitas Chamber is likely to lose most or even all of their episodic memory 🡭 and sense of identity.

### Selene's Lab

Selene's is an Ancient lab, much of its equipment unfortunately removed over the millennia (much of it presumably by Dinesh). Selene retrofitted it with various different types of Andromeda technology collected during the first few months of her stay. It is filled with bubbling chemistry sets, mysterious fluids move through conduits, consoles and screens often glowing with arcane diagrams.

## Technology

### Drone Weapons

Almost all of Mu's drone weapons are still present and presumed functional, though the lack of a ZPM to power them means that test-firing is impossible.

## Trivia

* Like Atlantis, Mu is also named after a "lost continent" 🡭 in myth.
* Alternatively, the name may be derived from Lemuria 🡭.