In August of 2007, the Earth ship Odyssey was flying through a remote section of the Milky Way Galaxy. During their exploration, they found a star system with 12 habitable planets and thousands of starships in the system. First contact with the 12 Colonies of Kobal, as they called themselves, went horribly. When they Colonials learned that the Terran's did not worship the same Gods as them and that they did not follow the sacred scrolls they decided to educate them. Forcibly if needed.
Six Battlestars attacked the Odyssey; missiles, rail guns, and cannons were fired at Earths flagship. However, the Little Lady's ZPM powered shields held back the attack with ease. After a minute of attack, the Odysseys commander opened fire of the Colonial Battlestars with the Asgard Plasma Beams; 6 shots in 3 seconds, the Battlestars had a hole, straight through the armor. Moments later the Odyssey entered hyperspace leaving the pride of the Colonial military to limp home.
(Six Months after the battle)
(Pentagon, Washington DC, Earth)
General George Hammond, Head of the Home World security sat in a Conference room with his most trusted Advisors. That these advisors were the former and current SG1 as well as General Hank Landry was just a lucky coincidence. With the breakdown of diplomacy between Earth and the 12 tribes of Kobal, War was a certainty.
"Where are we at Sam?" General Hammond asked Samantha Carter, soon to be commander of the Atlantis Expedition.
"Well Sir, we are in a lot of Trouble. The Tribes of Kobal are true masters of space warfare. In my opinion they are far more dangerous than the Goa'uld, or Wraith. They have the numbers, industrial might, and will to sweep through the galaxy teaching everyone thetrue history of humanity. It's Ironic that their gods were Goa'uld."
"Sam is right General. I have been reading through their history. They have fought almost as many wars between themselves as we have. We will be facing an enemy with superior skills in space warfare and equal skills in land." Daniel Jackson told his longtime friend.
"Indeed, if the Jaffa fought against the Tribes of Kobal they would be slaughtered in combat. And because we are still recovering from the Replicators and Ori, the Jaffa would certainly lose." Teal'c said solemnly.
"Why exactly, and what can we do about it?" Jack asked
"The Colonials have been in space for several thousand years. They have extensive defense systems and they have the facilities to built and maintain a fleets of several thousand ships. If they got their hands on goa'uld technology or, god forbid, ancient technology we would be in trouble. We cannot beat them at the moment. We don't have enough ships to attack every ship in their system nor could we hold off their fleet if they attacked Earth.
Right now they are in a similar position we were when the Stargate program was started. They are actually in a better position as they have FTL capable fleets and the ability to build more."
"Bottom line carter what are the abilities of their fleet vs our ships?" Jack
"No ship in their fleet can hurt one of ours 1 on 1. But if a Mercury rammed a 304 the 304 would be crushed. And their FTL drive could allow their Raptors to bypass our shields or jump into the atmosphere of a planet. A Colonial Mercury class Battlestar is roughly 231 times the size of a 304 and 3 times the size of a Ha'tak.
The only 304 that could handle being rammed is the Odyssey thanks to the ZPM. But if a 304 was caught by 10 or more Battlestars the 304 would be trapped and would suffer heavy damage. If enough missiles hit the shields the energy feed back would short them out. And if one of their raptors was able to jump past our shields a nuke detonating directly against the hull of the 304 would destroy the ship. IN combat I would recommend the the 304's never stop moving. It is also vitally important the the colonials never get their hands on one of our ships. If they had access to the Asgard core on Odyssey.
I looked over the Sensor Data from the Odyssey. The Armor of the Battlestars is amazing. It can handle a direct impact from any Nuke we have on earth. However our Naquadah enhanced Nukes would destroy the Armor. Their weapons are very powerful as well. Their railguns would have destroyed the Ha'taks that Apophis used to attacked Earth with Little Difficulty."
"So what would you recommend we do?"
"We need more defenses and more ships. I think it's time to build an off world shipyard."
"Do you have anything in mind for that Sam?" Jack
"Yes, I have been going through the Asgard core. I found dozens of automated construction equipment designs. They look like Ant's and can build anything they are programed to. All we need to do it build the command core and factory, and then give them a directive."
"That sounds an awful lot like replicators to me." Jack
"I know, but it is how the Asgard built everything they had. Do you really think they built building and ship like we do?" Sam
"Well no. But how do you know that we won't have something like the replicators happening?"
"Because these Ants can't self-replicate or fabricate. They can put components together but nothing more."
"What about raw materials?" Daniel
"The core has a way to use the transporters to beam the ore right out of the ground in its refined state."
"Neat." Jack
"Why can't we use the Transporter to build a complete starship?" Jack
"We could, but we don't have the knowledge to build and maintain a reactor powerful enough to run the transporter at that level. We have the directions to build a reactor but not the skill." Sam explained to the group
"Where should we build the Shipyard you mentioned Sam?"
"I was thinking P3S-271. It is very close to earth, uninhabited and has a good amount of Naquadah and Trinium." Sam said smiling "I have actually been designing the base in my spare time for the last several months."
"What do you have so far?" General Hammond
"I have the control center, refinery, fabrication center, and Ship Berths for 304's and 303's in place. They are modeled after the original berths we have in Nevada. The base will also have the equipment available to handle massive expansions.
The designs I made also have APB's, rail guns, and a shield for defense as well as a cloak. Also Area 51 managed to reverse engineer, and improve, the Satellite weapon built by the Rand Protectorate.
The base will hopefully have some of these in orbit after being built. The designs also have the facilities to build these satellites and weapons on site and a much larger research site then Area 51."
"How long will building these facilities take?" General Hammond asked
"With the Asgard construction drones about 4 months for completion. However it would be operational in 2 weeks."
"What about the Tria? It's still sitting in the void correct?" Jack asked
"The Tria, you mean the Lantean War ship where the Daedalus found Living ancients?" Daniel
"Yes that one. Why don't we build a Hyperdrive for it and bring it to this base Carter wants to build?"
"With an Asgard Hyperdrive it could travel to the Alpha site. And with its power output it could travel from Earth to Atlantis very quickly. I would recommend that we give it APB's, if we use it as we will run out of drones very quickly." Sam explained for the next few hours the Eight talked about the preparation needed to be made for the war against the Colonies of Kobal.
(Colonial Ministry of Defense, Caprica, Cyrannus system)
Richard Adar President of the 12 tribes of Kobal was sitting in his office thinking about what had happened over the past 6 months. First a tylium scout patrol runs into a ship from Earth, then instead of agreeing to allow a team from the Battlestars to view their ship and technology. He did not understand however why the Battlestars opened fire on the Earth ship he did not understand. He read the reports and saw that the Battlestar Pegasus fired first, however he did not understand why they did.
The Pegasus security systems showed that Admiral Cain did not order her ship to fire. While Cain did not lose her rank the ship was assigned to a very low priority task. Thinking over his last few orders he truly did regret them. When the Earth ship, Odyssey, disabled 4 Battlestars with energy weapons and protected itself with shields. The military and the civilians wanted to get their hands on the technology. More accurately the admiralty was drooling over the possibilities.
However whatever technology the Earthers had they will not be able to beat the colonial military with ships sub-gunstar size. He was sure that the colonial military, with the resources of 12 planets, could handle the resources of one world. At least the was what his advisor Deanna Biers implied to him. OR more accurately convinced him of after dinner.
Despite everything however he did not want a war. He did not want everything the Colonials worked for over the last 40 years to be damaged by a civil war. However if he could reunite the 13 tribes he would go down in history as the greatest president that the colonies ever had.
Two months after the battle a state of war was declared between the two nations. Adar ordered an increase in military spending and ordered raptors and Battlestars to search for Earth. Adar just hoped Earth was close enough for the ships to find them.
Adar also ordered new mining sites and shipyards to be built. He was sure that if Earth was as advanced as he thought that they must have been very spread out.
(Cylon Home System, Unknown location)
"This is disaster." A Number 2 told his companions.
"Not completely. This does give us many options." The Number 1 said. This particular 1 was unique as he was the first humanoid Cylon built be the final 5.
"How, This 6 fired on the 13rs's ship. What happens if the Colonials and the 13th learn what happened?"
"They won't learn. My sister convinced President Adar that attacking the 13th tribe is the best option. While he does not want a war he will order an attack." A Number 3 told the others.
"As I said earlier this is an opportunity. We can use our operatives to insight a war between the 12 tribes and the 13th. Despite the abilities of the 13rs ships the 12 tribes outnumber them. A war will be costly for both sides. And once weakened, we can attack the 12 tribes and destroy them." The 1 said
"Yes, we need to reassign some of our agents. Have some of our field agents send anonymous packets of information to the Colonial News agencies. Have that information paint earth in as terrible a light as possible. Make it seem that Earth has child soldiers, slavery,. Anything that will cause the colonies to think that they are liberating the Earthers from an oppressive tyranny." 4 told the others. "This way we can get the Colonial Populous behind the War."
"Are we sure that we need to destroy the 13th tribe? They may accept us." An 8 asked
"Are you malfunctioning? Humans will never accept us." Number 2
"I am asking a question and looking at a problem from all angles 2." 8 said "Like you should be. Right now attacking the 13rs is a death sentence as we have no idea of their abilities."
"We know that their ship can handle a barrage of 4 Battlestars main gun for a minute before they fail." 6
"No we don't know that." The same 8 as before said 6 glared then said condescendingly
"The Odyssey opened fire on the Battlestars after a minute of sustained fire. Which means that they had something to hide. I believe that it was that their shields were about to collapse."
"Or it could be that they wanted to know how much punishment their shields could handle before they lost a single percent. Look at how quickly their weapons punched through the Battlestars armor. I reviewed the gun camera footage recovered from a Viper that captured visuals of the beam. The Pegasus Armor did nothing to stop the attack.
Analysis of the damaged armor showed that the beam was a plasma weapon. The 13rs used plasma as a weapons system." 8 said in awe
"That is why I said that this is an opportunity. We need to incite a war between the tribes." The 1 said
"There is something else. The audio recordings of the initial meeting show that the 13rs believe that there are alien races among the stars as well. If that is true then there may be advanced technology that we can find and reverse engineer to use on our BaseStars." 4 told the others.
"That is a good point." Number 5 said "We will need to send ships out in search of these worlds. Do we know where the 13rs went after they left?"
"No and that is another problem. We can't fight the 13rs if we can't find them." 8
"Do we have consensus?" every Cylon agreed and their course of action was started.
