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FIRESTORM
After their gruelling defeat the alliance has been trying their best to hold off the Der'kal forces. BSG-1 are onboard the Sojourn travelling to Apophis' homeworld of K'Taun to represent the Helion Expedition in an alliance meeting. The 304 zips into real space above a world that has lush green forests and an obviously advanced citadel. The team is beamed down and the 304 sits in orbit. A Harrucian mothership drops out of hyperspace followed by an Approni battle group. 4 Tamura motherships drop out of hyperspace and 3 Auroras follow.
The alliance members all file into a room with gold decorations and a table in the centre. In the middle of the table is a hologram device. Apophis waits at one seat of the table. 4 others stand behind him adorned in red, green, blue and silver armour. Apophis informs the alliance members that these are the System Lords of this galaxy. BSG-1 introduces themselves as Nearitii enters the room followed by the new Approni diplomat, Hak'touche. Ione of the system lords smirks at Nearitii and asks him that if his people are as advanced as Apophis claims them to be how did the Der'kal capture one of their motherships, Apophis freezes before Nearitii smiles and says he will explain in the meeting. The Tamuran councillor and Tomin arrive. Then the Auroran Admiral, Ka'le [ pronounced Kah-Lee]
Over Emeraldos Wilson is informed by the head of the expedition, Dr. White, that the Teranons have made contact asking for assistance saying the Enkarlans have attacked with a fleet. Apparently they have already taken half of the planet's cities. Wilson tells Dr. White to inform the Teranons that BSG-1 will be there shortly along with a alliance military force. Wilson then orders the Victory onto full alert as the Balthamos is leaving to take on the fleet.
The meeting has already proceeded to half way when Tomin asks why the Tamuran have had limited involvement in alliance matters. The Tamuran councillor inform him that his people have been upgrading their vast fleets with shield and hyperdrive technology from the Tau'rie. Nodding thoughtfully Tomin lets it go. The Nearitii begins to explain that the reason the mothership was taken was because it was incomplete. It was also used in a battle against a super ship, its incompletion the reason it was forced to retreat. The System Lord that asked the question nodded in agreement and looked away. Apophis then asks what they are to do about their lost world. Should they re-take it or leave it. The system lords all agree to take it. The other members end up voting different ways leaving it split in the middle waiting for BSG-1 to vote. Before they can say they are beamed up and a dignitary takes their place. He informs the alliance about what is happening and they all agree to send a small army to help out. After the meeting has adjourned though.
The Balthamos takes BSG-1 over to the Teranons homeworld and beams them down before engaging the fleet. The Enkarlans weapons are more of a yellow/green hue this time and are obviously stronger. Olsen, the helmsman reports minimal damage to shields. The Balthamos lunges towards the fleet of 12 battle ships. A blue beam lances out of the Balthamos and crashes into the shield of an Enkarlan ship. On the bridge the people are going heretic. A helmsman reports that another hit like that and their toast, even with their upgrades. The commander grimaces, orders fighters launched and for weapons to remain firing.
[ camera shows the battle from behind Balthamos with the twelve ships firing on it hitting it's shields another beam lances out and the ship that was hit is engulfed in an explosion. Fighters pour over to the Balthamos as jumpers and 302s retaliate.]
The Sojourn leaves K'Taun and drops out of hyperspace just behind the Balthamos. It appears as if another two ships have been destroyed. Another four Enkarlan ships show up from the edge of the system. The 2 304s fire a beam each at one Enkarlan cruiser. The primitive ship mothballs from the incoming beams blasting it apart.
The Balthamos opens up with it's pulse cannons rippling out towards a cruiser in small bursts and soon that too explodes.
BSG-1 is beamed down to the capital and Thandos greets them telling Lakers that they have set up a strong defence against the aerial fighters of the enemy and their ground forces that will be arriving in 4 hours. A man runs up to him and informs his that the sensor they were given has detected two ship engaging the Enkarlan fleet of 14 ships. The two ships are winning easily but they are out numbered 7 to 1. Thandos says that it appears the Enkarlans upgrades are more efficient as they first thought. Rebecca looks at them quizzically and asks what upgrades. Thandos replies saying it happened 3 weeks ago. A week after BSG-1 saved them.
[ flashback ]
Thandos strides into an astronomy tower and looks through the telescope. He sees a ship, which we recognise as a Der'kal frigate sitting in orbit of Enkar surrounded by four Enkarlan cruisers.
He hears shouting and leaves picking up his rifle and heads to the Plaza. The planet gate is kicking up and an Enkarlan man comes through. He appears to be in tattered clothing. He warns Thandos that an alien race has just given technology to the Enkarlans in promise for holding Tau'rie forces off. Thandos nods his head and orders for their guest to be taken to a VIP room in the nearest lodge. Then suddenly a Der'kal walks through the planet gate and shoot the Enkarlan man. The surrounding Teranon soldiers open fire but the Der'kal kills 7 of them before they kill the Der'kal soldier.
[flashback ends]
BSG-1 all look at him in horror. The Der'kal upgraded the Enkarlan's forces. Radioing the Balthamos Lakers informs Wilson of what they just found out.
On his ship Wilson grimaces at the news before ordering to switch to the Ori core. Through the forward window we see a lone white beam hit a cruiser quite a distance away and the cruiser mothballs. More cruisers have obviously joined the Enkarlan fleet and Wilson wonders how many ships they have. They are now facing 27 ships trying to get back to the planet so they can land troops to defeat the Teranons.
In orbit over K'Taun the Ori mothership breaks off after several beams lines appear heading up to the ship from the planet. 4 Ha'tak have similar beams come up and follow the Ori ship into hyperspace. They are assumed to be taking troops over to Teranon. In the meeting room Apophis now has 3 system lords behind him, the other one has presumably left to lead the Ha'tak and Jaffa to help the planet. They are now planning what appears to be an assault on a system under enemy control. The Tamuran councillor says that 25 of their upgraded ships shall take part in the assault and will come in from behind the 6th planet in the system. The Goa'uld portion of the attack fleet will arrive form behind the planet's 5th moon, which is nearly as large as the planet itself, and the Approni says that they will attack the planet directly with 14 ships. The Approni representative asks how many ships will be participating in the attack. The blue armoured system lord speaks up saying his entire 1st 2nd and 3rd fleets will be showing up, the one in red says that his 1st and 4th fleets will be present and Apophis states that he will send the 8 Hak'tyl he has had built. He also assumes the Tau'rie will utilise one of their battle cruisers to assist, preferably the Balthamos. The dignitary frowns and asks why. He states because of it's Ori upgrades of course with the smug look on his face that he believes they will win the planet back.
On the planet BSG-1 has already fought off 4 scouting parties that are getting bigger each time. Then a mortar hit's a building behind the team. A scout yells out that he can see their army marching on the city, and estimates about 10000 men attacking. The Sojourn has added it's 302s into the mixture which were pushing the Enkarlan fighters back into Orbit as they tried to attack the city itself. An Enkarlan fighter breaks through and heads towards the capital arming one of it's missiles. The team look up and see it as a golden bolt soars down and smashes through the fighter jet. A Death glider swoops down. It then looses three more bolts as another two join it launching bolts into the enemy formations. Ori fighters join the gliders and soon hundreds of alliance fighter craft are pouring down and scattering the enemy formations. The ring platforms activate and everyone freezes not knowing what to expect. A dozen Teranon soldiers are poised waiting for the rings to transmit when 20 Jaffa ring down and spread out. Followed by another 20 and another. Soon an entire battalion of Jaffa are in the City aiding the defence. 2 battalions of Ori Crusaders are also in the City. The scout informs them that the enemy army has stopped about 3 Ks away and he can see another 3 or 4 groups of similar size indicating that there was many many more troops to wait. BSG-1 walk forwards to behind a turned over stall and dig in behind it aiming their L98A2s out towards where the enemy will be coming. About forty men appear in an alleyway sneaking towards where BSG-1 are dug in. the men see the team and open fire. The team automatically open fire and cut down many of the men. Another group of forty shows up and BSG-1 are soon getting desperate. When one of the men prepares to throw a grenade a blue bolt hits him and Rebecca looks to see Tomin with several dozen Crusaders.
Up in orbit the Ori mothership has begun to make short work of the cruisers. The Sojourn and the Ha'tak are sitting blasting away while the Balthamos uses it's Ori weapons to aid the Ori mothership in dealing with the flagships at the rear. All to quickly all but four ships are pummelled away. Only one Ha'tak has been damaged and it is still firing bolt after bolt into one of the cruisers shields. The cruiser in one on one- ing with the Ha'tak and the Ha'tak soon overcomes the shields of the cruiser blasting the ship into two.
BSG-1 are running through the alleyway to find where the Enkarlan troops got in and they find a big hole in a wall. Tomin calls in and asks for assistance and fighter support at his location. Then 100 Enkarlan troops come in and kill 15 of the crusaders. Immediately opening fire and falling back behind cover they dig in behind a piece of fallen wall firing into the incoming swarm of troops. Then a flurry of blue bolts comes crashing down as a squadron of Ori fighters come down firing on them killing a chunk of the troops. Then coming up behind the Enkarlan men a platoon of crusaders fire killing the remaining ones.
In orbit the allied fleet has now secured Teran's orbit and the Enkarlan's have yet again gained more reinforcements pushing their fleet numbers up to 34 cruisers. One of the Ha'taks is sitting pulsating out 3 shots at one of the cruisers which is using another 2 cruisers and itself to take on the Goa'uld vessel. The slightly damaged Ha'tak's shields cave in and is destroyed. The defeat of one of their enemies vessels brings the bridge of the ship that fired the shot cheering until the helmsman reports one of the two sleeker vessel is heading their way. The command orders him to open fire believing they can take out the Balthamos as well. From the Enkarlan cruiser's view port the Balthamos is seen heading up towards it with the pale shields glimmering from shield strikes. The Balthamos lances a single beam straight for the bridge of the ship and the commander closes his eyes.
The Beam hit's the bridge and crashes through causing an explosion across the front of the ship. All along the ship lights go off or flicker just before a second beam crashes into the side of the ship causing it to detonate.
BSG-1 have attached one of the Ori's Personal shields to the hole in the wall blocking it. When the return to the plaza an energy bolt crashes into a building to the left of BSG-1 missing them narrowly. The look at where it came from and see the Teranon soldiers and half the Ori troops in a fire fight with the approaching Enkarlan soldiers. Then forty Jaffa come running into the Plaza and head towards two gates. One of them is smaller than the first and the Jaffa head to this one and activate it. Then the rest of the Jaffa come along and head through it. Looking baffled BSG-1 head towards Thandos who inform them it is a planet gate linking the planets of a solar system together and that the Jaffa probably travelled to Enkar.
In orbit several more Enkarlan ships have been defeated and a new ship, more silvery drops out of hyperspace. One of the Ha'tak fire on it and the ship ignores the Ha'tak for a while before loosing 3 golden beams into the craft destroying the Ha'tak. Two more of these ships drop out of hyperspace and the Sojourn engages one of them whilst the Balthamos engages the other two. The helmsman of the Balthamos says that these are the ones that have fully integrated the new tech.
In orbit over Emeraldos the Victory sits in orbit with a few Ha'tak sitting beside it when 47 cruisers drop out of hyperspace with gun ships and escorts. The cruisers all fire on the few ships defending the planet while they retaliate and the Harrucian defences open up on the cruisers and gunships the gun ships are cut down quickly as they head towards the Ha'tak. The shields on the Ha'tak are glimmering from the damage they are sustaining while the Victory pummels out plasma beams towards the Der'kal ships. The Victory's commander receives a transmission from Dr. White who asks what the status is. The commander fills him in and asks for him to send a message to K'Taun asking for help. Dr. White leaves to do so while the Victory swerves about the enemy ships lancing beam after beam everywhere. The helmsman reports that they have 57% shields remaining a few minutes into the battle and they have only defeated 4 cruisers and a few more escorts.
On K'Taun the meeting is closing up having discussed everything so far when the message comes through. The Approni immediately speaks with his leaders through sub-space while the Auroran Admiral orders his personal fleet in orbit to beam him up and take him to Emeraldos to help defend the human's main base.
In orbit over the Teranon home world the two Ha'tak have fallen back behind the more advanced war ships while they take out the three new threats. The shields of these new ones are more resilient to the beam weapons and their weapon do more damage but they still do not stand up to the 304s. The Helion Expeditions flagship pummels the two it was attacking while the Sojourn deals with it's one. With their final chance at conquering the Teranon homeworld gone the Enkarlan fleet falls back to their world. Then another Ori ship drops out of hyperspace followed by another and another. The four ships settle into Teran's orbit to defend it while the 2 304s are filled in on the assault of Emeraldos. Spinning on their axis the 2 304s and the Ha'tak zip into hyperspace.
On Teranon BSG-1 are informed that the Enkarlan fleet has pulled back and Lauren asks for a transmission to be sent through to the Enkarlan troops who are placing pot shots with energy cannons into the capital. She tells them that the fleet they had in orbit has fallen back to run from the superior power of the alliance. The troops retaliate by saying they will conquer this planet with their reinforcements from around the planet. Sure enough Tomin informs them that the motherships have detected over one million men hanging about. Way too many for the alliance army here to take on alone. They can't even hit them from orbit incase they wipe out the cities as well. Then Tomin's stone radio starts speaking and Tomin's face pales. He informs the team that the enemy forces are now charging in an all out attack on the capital. Within 5 hours of fighting the Enkarlan's manage to push the alliance forces back into the Plaza where they hold off the enemy army for a long while but they will fall under the swarm sooner or later. BSG-1 are sitting firing round off in groups of three each laying down fire on Enkarlan men. Then the Planet gate activates as Thandos and Tomin move behind a cart close to it. Several troops pour in wearing similar uniform to the Teranon's. Thandos starts beaming and exclaims the Federation has decided to help them after all. Tomin looks quizzically at Thandos as the Federation troops pour into the Plaza reinforcing the alliance and Teranon military. Thandos explains that after the fall of the Enkarlans a month previously the three most powerful planets contacted the Teranons and asked to make a Federation between all planets in the system against the Enkarlan's. after they joined the Federation the remaining 7 planets joined in the Federation against them. Tomin looks a bit startled but decides that as long as it helps them win he couldn't care less. And judging by the fact that over 4 battalions have joined the fight already with several more pouring through the planet gate with this demoralising fact on them several Enkarlan troops begin to desert. By the time half of the Enkarlan army has been either killed or ran away the huge Federation army has come and bolstered the defences of the Teranons and alliance bringing well over a million troops and a few vehicles and tanks. The alliance forces manage to push back the Enkarlans even further through the Ori's more advanced tech pulsing out at them. With the hundreds of bullet and plasma ripping into their formations the Enkarlans army crumbles as Ori fighters darts down with a few Alkesh and blast into them as well.
Over Emeraldos one of the Ha'taks has been destroyed and another in their process of being destroyed as four Aurora's and 7 Pegasus class cruisers drop out of hyperspace. The Victory cheer as the Auroran admiral's personal fleet arrives and starts to pummel the enemy ships. 3 Approni ships and 14 Tamuran vessels ( obviously upgraded ) drop out of hyperspace and begin to cut into the Der'kal fleet present. 28 Ha'tak and a few Hak'tyl also arrive to ease the strain off of the human's planet. The battle commences for several minutes where the Der'kal fleet is cut down from 42 cruisers and 56 frigates to 36 cruisers and 28 frigates. The alliance fleet is taking low damage due to the Tamuran ships upgrades. The Tamuran ships appear to be firing cross between Tollan ion cannons and Asgard energy cannons. The Tamuran shields glow blue each time they are hit. A few Pegasus cruisers join up and begin to pummel several cruisers into dust with their drones as the Sojourn and Balthamos drop out of hyperspace. The two 304s beam a cruiser apart straight away and separate to take on enemy ships. Soon the alliance fleet has surrounded the Der'kal one and are pounding the cruisers and Frigates apart while the Expedition's base is defended by their Harrucian rail guns. As the last cruiser is dispatched by the Balthamos an Asgard transport beam appears on the bridge of the Balthamos in front of the view port. Thor begins to speak as Nearitii joins them. Thor nods towards Nearitii and says thank you before going on to explain that Sam Carter not only gave the Harrucians schematics to an O'Neill but also copies of the Asgard minds that are in the Asgard Core. Wilson begins to stutter before Thor carries on. He details at how the Harrucians could easily bring back his species in this galaxy but only this galaxy. When they come back they and the Tau'rie will not meet again unless forced to or the Asgard are ready as a people to join the great alliance again. He informs them that the Harrucians have already moved most of his people to their new homeworld in the Harrucian territory. The location of which will only be revealed to alliance members on two occasions should either happen. One being the defeat of the Der'kal and the other being the defeat and death as a race of the Harrucians. Thor and Nearitii beam out as BSG-1 walk through the stargate on Emeraldos. Wilson asks how it went once they left and BSG-1 tells him that not only did they repel the Enkarlan's but they also found a potential new alliance member. Wilson sighs and cuts the communication. He decides none on outside the bridge should know about Thor coming here. Everyone on the Bridge agrees and the Balthamos and the two 304s settle into a gentle orbit as the alliance fleet returns to their outposts, home worlds or missions and leaves Wilson thinking.
What would happen to the alliance if the Harrucians were killed as a race…