Attack of Heliopolis
[Set at the time when the Asgard , Furlings and Nox planned to attack the now Goa'uld ruled planet Heliopolis]
Penegal stands proud looking over the bridge of his newly constructed Asgard Morthership, slowly he paces across the spotless carbon floor waiting to hear from the Milky Way outpost. He thinks to himself; It has been over two weeks now, if we do not hear from them soon, then perhaps this ship will see far more action than planned. Just as a dull bleep jumps to action on the central control panel, Penegal rushes over to the panel and slowly moves the control stone over the newly developed long range holographic communication system. A short grey image flickers into life in front of him; it was the commander of the Milky Way outpost, finally.
The outpost commander speaks calmly his thick grey lips hardly moving, "Greetings from the Milky Way Pen...Commander Penegal, I come with news, the Goa'uld have moved deeper into Nox owned space.
So the Nox have agreed to meet and discuss the possibility of rebuilding the ties between us and them", Penegal nods slowly "make it so, we shall meet on the Nox home world, be sure to notify the Furling I'm certain they will wish to send a representative, and in the mean time I shall inform the council".
The holographic image of the Asgard disappears as Penegal walks toward the bridges teleportation panel, he types away at the controls selecting the coordinates to the council chambers, he knew they would be waiting for him so there was no need to just before going.
Within 5 minutes of getting to the chambers the council had come to their decision, an alliance must once again be formed between the Nox, Furling and Asgard. Penegal must go to the Milky Way and ensure this happens, and that an attack on the Goa'uld is planned. Penegal leaves the chambers a little shocked at the speed of the verdict, the council never came to an agreement this quickly, it would rarely take less than a week, these 'Goa'uld' must really be a threat to the Asgard he thought as he teleported back to his ship, the crew had now started to arrive on the ship and start prelaunch checks and final tests on the brand new intergalactic hyperdrives, the last thing I want is my brand new ship being ripped apart on entering hyperspace, that would be rather...embarrassing to say the least.
Penegal once again entered the bridges however this time the room was full of activity, several engineers where walking about checking the ships controls and running tests before its first flight very shortly. As Penegal stepped foot into the room of man in particular walked up to him and grinned "good to see you finally made it to commander, Sir, how does it feel to be about to set off on your first mission?" Penegal grins "just like any other day, just now it's me on the line if anything goes wrong, anyway are we ready yet?".
The engineer nods "yes commander just finishing the last tests and we will be away."
Penegal nods and takes his place behind the command post waiting for the go ahead from the engineers to start final boarding and ready the ship for launch, he runs his small bony hands over the controls, it was in fact his first time on a mission as a commander of a Asgard mother ship and he was starting to feel rather worried that something would go wrong.
"Commander the ships ready" Penegal jumps a little, he had drifted off a little, planning what was to be said at the meeting.
Even as he looked to the engineer that had approached him he was still thinking about the Goa'uld, while there technology was nothing like the Asgards they were great in numbers and had armies far larger than any Asgard fleet. He shakes his head before looking back up to the engineer "yes ok then thank you".
The engineer nods and walks out of the bridge with the others as Penegal switches on the ships internal communication systems "this is your commander speaking, all ground crew to leave the ship and all members of the flight time to make your way to your launch stations we shall be leaving shortly".
The remaining ship's crew make their way to their posts as Penegal starts to power up the nearly designed neutrino ion generators which gave the greater power output needed to power the new hyperdrive engines. He activates once again the internal communication systems as the engines start to hum into life he starts to count down "5" the inertial damping drives kick into life and the artificial gravity is felt throughout the ship as it adjusts to the required strength, "4" the engines hit full power and all secondary systems fire up as lights and information panels light up around the bridge. "3" Penegal starts the sublight engines and the ship starts to lift from the ground, the mounts holding it in place unclip and start to move away from the ship, "2" Penegal fires the ships sublight engines full power and mauves the ship out of the docking bay and into the upper atmosphere, "1" throughout the ship the crew ready themselves for what is likely to be a bumpy first 'jump'. "0" The hyperdrive engines rip open a hyperspace window and the ship is sucked into it, with a large judder the ship's hull and shields adjust to the jump.
"This is your commander speaking, we have now entered hyperspace, it will be at least 8 hours until we reach the Nox home world, all primary systems are now on autopilot, the ship will takes us the rest of the way, I recommend you prepare yourselves for the days ahead the Goa'uld are force not to be messed with" .
Penegal releases the communication link and heads for his personal quarters to plan for the meeting with the once close races.