Stargate: Eclipse is an original work of fiction and I make no money off of writing it. I do not own Stargate SG-1. All parts of this story up to the part marked "The Eclipse" are factual events. No offence to any Nation/s or person/s was intended when using them to set the backdrop for this story. Nobody sue me, unless you want a share in apprentice wages (about 8 dollars an hour).
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Chapter One
The War Becomes Global
On June 22, 1941, more than 4.5 million troops of the Axis Powers, consisting of men from Germany, Romania, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia and the Spanish volunteers of the infamous Blue Division, invaded the USSR along an 1800 mile front. Adolf Hitler's goal was the rapid conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union.
At the same time, Japan seized military control of Indochina. The United States, United Kingdom and other western governments reacted to the seizure of Indochina with a freeze on assets, while the United States (which supplied 80 of Japan's oil) responded by placing a complete oil embargo.
Japan, forced to choose between withdrawing forces from Indochina and taking the oil it needed by force, considered the embargo an unspoken declaration of war. The Imperial General Headquarters thus planned to create a large perimeter stretching into the Central Pacific in order to facilitate a defensive war while exploiting the resources of Southeast Asia; to prevent intervention while securing the perimeter it was further planned to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet on the outset.
By October, when Axis operational objectives in Ukraine and the Baltic region were achieved, with only Leningrad and Sevastopol resisting in sieges a major offensive against Moscow had been renewed. After two months of fierce battles, the German army almost reached Moscow suburbs, where the exhausted troops were forced to suspend their offensive. Despite impressive territorial gains, no strategic goals of the campaign had been fully accomplished: two major Soviet cities hadn't been captured, Red Army's capability to resist was not broken, and the Soviet Union retained a considerable part of its military potential. The blitzkrieg phase of WWII in Europe had ended.
On December 5, the Soviets, with freshly deployed reserves, mount a massive counter-offensive along a 1000 kilometre front and pushed Axis forces 250km west.
Two days later, on December 7, Japan attacked British, Dutch and American holdings with near simultaneous offensives against Southeast Asia and the Central Pacific, including an attack on the American Naval Base of Pearl Harbour and landings in Thailand and Malaya, prompting the United States, United Kingdom, their allies and China to formally declare war on Japan.
Germany and the other Axis Powers responded by declaring war on the United States, honouring the Tripartite Pact, signed a year previously in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, by the leaders of Germany, Japan and Italy.
The Tides Turn
In early May, 1942, Japan initiated an attack on Port Moresby via amphibious assault, hoping to sever the communications between Australia and the United States. The Allies, however, managed to intercept and turn back the Japanese Naval forces, thus preventing the attack.
Japan's next plan, motivated by the earlier bombing of Tokyo, was to seize Midway Atoll and lure the American aircraft carriers into battle to be eliminated. As a diversion, Japan also seized and occupied the Aleutian Islands.
In early June, Japan put their operations into action but the Americans, having broken Japanese naval codes in late May, were fully aware of the plans and force dispositions and used this knowledge to achieve a decisive victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On Germany's eastern front, the Axis defeated Soviet offensives in the Kerch Peninsula and at Kharkov and then launched their main summer offensive against southern Russia in June, 1942, to seize the oil fields of the Caucasus. The Soviets decided to make their stand at Stalingrad which was in the path of the advancing German armies and by mid-November the Germans had nearly taken Stalingrad in bitter street fighting when the Soviets began their second winter counter-offensive, starting with an encirclement of German forces at Stalingrad and an assault on the Rzhev salient near Moscow, though the latter failed disastrously. By early February, the German Army had taken tremendous losses; their troops at Stalingrad had been forced to surrender and the front-line had been pushed back beyond its position prior to their summer offensive.
In the west, concerns the Japanese might utilize bases in Vichy-held Madagascar caused the British to invade the island in early May, 1942. This success was off set soon after by an Axis offensive in Libya which pushed the Allies back into Egypt until Axis forces were stopped at El Alamein. On the Continent, raids of Allied commandos on strategic targets, culminating in the disastrous Dieppe Raid, demonstrated the Western allies' inability to launch an invasion of continental Europe without much better preparation, equipment, and operational security. In August, the Allies succeeded in repelling a second attack against El Alamein and, at a high cost, managed to get desperately needed supplies to the besieged Malta.
The Eclipse
Days after the second Axis defeat at El Alamein, the sun above Cairo is suddenly and mysteriously blotted out in a complete solar eclipse by an unknown phenomena. After a short time, three distinct shapes can be made out in the sky, which many people referred to as 'flying saucers'.
Fighting in the region stops completely as the 'saucers' make a landing, one after the other, on top of the three large pyramids, the Great Pyramid included. Nothing happens for a time, and many people approach the now landed craft, now observed to have a pyramidal middle part and four large points extending from each corner of the inner superstructure. People the world over listen into radio transmissions, eagerly awaiting the appearance of Earth's first extra-terrestrial visitors.
The perceived visions of 'little green men' were soon proven to be very wrong, however, as imposing human-like shapes with massive falcon shaped heads begin appearing from the ship and speaking in a strange tongue…
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A/N: This is my second fic, and as you can probably guess, it's going to be exploring the possibility that the SG-verse was invaded by the Goa'uld during World War Two. At the time, the Stargate is still being studied by the Americans as they try to figure out what it is and what it does. Please R&R and let me know what you think. I may not continue this story and concentrate on my other fic, Otherworld, if this one doesn't get a good enough response.