Prologue

A secluded group of people on the planet Earth had lead to the fall of the Goa'uld, the most powerful race across the Milky Way Galaxy for centuries who had ruled with an iron fist and enslaved hundreds of worlds. They had helped one of the most advanced races in multiple galaxies defeat their long-time enemy, a group of self-replicating machines that adapted to new technologies at lightning speed. Narrowly averting an invasion by a galaxy full of beings which had ascended beyond this plane of existence, calling themselves the Ori, was also on their repertoire. This group had operated in the shadows and had even kept the existence of other life throughout the galaxy a secret from more than ninety-nine percent of the population of their home planet.

This group was called the SGC and they now thought that they were now relatively safe. They were now left contending with the power vaccum left by the fall of the Goa'uld and a few stray Ori ships left in the galaxy. They were now free to pursue other things, like pushing their forces to their second base, an advanced city in an adjoining galaxy, and expanding on their knowledge of the Stargate network, a series of devices left through the galaxy by an ancient race allowing for instantaneous transport throughout the stars.

The SGC's main advantage that allowed for their victory over so many vast and powerful opponents was their unparalleled understanding of the tactics of warfare. Humanity on Earth had evolved for millennia at internal conflict – fighting each other and mastering differing methods of killing one another. When compared to other races throughout the galaxy, the people of Earth had a drive to survive, no matter the cost. Over evolution of their race, this drive had often led to increasingly more complex and efficient ways to kill the enemy and survive. Deceit, cunning and misleading the enemy were often some of the tactics used to typically win. Moreover, the people of Earth had shed their need to look deadly and intimidate their enemies hundreds of years ago. The tactical evolution of human warfare on earth had evolved so that it was more important to kill the enemy by any means necessary rather than to intimidate. This had led to the SGC using small teams of tactical operatives to strike a the heart of the enemy. While their enemies had millions of combatants, they were trained in intimidation and using their overwhelming numbers. The people of Earth were trained to survive and fight another day. The Goa'uld had fallen to this aspect of Tau'ri warfare. As had the replicators, time and time again as the most advanced race in multiple galaxies turned to the people of Earth to devise new and cunning ways to defeat the self replicating machines.

The Lucian Alliance, a loose alliance of smugglers, pirates and the remaining Goa'uld, were quickly learning these tactics though. The galaxy post Goa'uld and Ori was a very dangerous place as worlds and systems began to fracture and splinter off from one another. More and more worlds were fighting each other over resources and dominance. One had to become cunning to survive these days.
Meanwhile the people of the Tau'ri now had access to all the knowledge of the Asgard, the aforementioned advanced race and were quickly adapting the Asgard's knowledge onto their ships and defensive facilities. They were already a power to be reckoned with in the galaxy, however this was making them much more powerful. Their advances in technology helped them carry out their missions and protect a number of worlds from rebels and pirates throughout the galaxy. It was becoming much easier for them to defeat their enemies, and without realising it, they were falling into the same trap that had caught so many advanced races before them. They were losing their tactical advantage and becoming more and more reliant on advanced technology.

It was this day that the Tau'ri would be alerted to the importance of tactics in any battle. It was this day that a much, much more technologically inferior race would strike a blow to the Tau'ri much, much larger than any of the technologically advanced races that had fallen under the indirect pinches of the Tau'ri. It was this day that multiple cities across Earth would suffer the blasts of nuclear destruction. It was this day that the Tau'ri would meet two races that had more cunning, more deceit, and were more familiar with space warfare than most races throughout the galaxy. The Tau'ri had been in space for less than a decade, while one of these races had been operating in space for more than forty years. The other race had been operating in space for much, much longer. No one really knew how long they'd been making warfare on each other in space, but it was definitely longer than two-hundred years, their distant ancestors having lost the ability deep in their past. These two races would shape the future of the people of Earth and make the galaxy tremble at large.