This story is a work of fanfiction and any similarities to the characters of any television, film or literary work is completely intentional. The author does not in any way shape or form profit from the following work nor claims any responsibility for the efforts of others. Said author acknowledges that they simply weren't cool enough to think of something like this on their own. The following story is a fanfiction cross-over.

The Willed Future

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They looked on as their descendants proceeded with the titanic endeavor. The potential that they had long ago foreseen within these children all those millions of years ago had finally come to fruition. There were many who contemplated returning to the physical realm to share in new adventures as equals. There were a few who had already done so. There were others who yet remained to observe from a higher plane of existence as their second evolution tackled problems that had plagued their ancestors and found solutions that equaled if not exceeded the works of their forebears. The gateway that they had created was an achievement as monumental and potentially troublesome as the first Astria Porta.

Even as he watched the final preparations the ascended being once known as Daniel Jackson could not help but contemplate how far mankind had come nor recall how easily it could have fallen both to threats without and within. The Great Alliance had once again been reborn and by this time had stood for nearly half the length of time that its previous incarnation had lasted.

An alliance that still lasted as the Nox and Alterans yet existed, the Asgard lived on in the spirit of the fifth race if nothing more. There was talk of one day seeding a few worlds of the Ida Galaxy with proto-forms of Asgard life, but such an undertaking required careful study, millennia of planning and constant observation to ensure that what life came into being did not constitute a threat to the survival of the species of the alliance and more importantly that those beings who were created were wisely and responsibly cared for.

The Terrans had learned from the errors of the Alterans and through hardship the races of the Alliance had learned to treat the words of the Nox with the careful deliberation that they deserved. Parenthood on the individual level was a daunting task and on the level of creating an entire species was an exercise of love, hardship and care, where too much or too little could lead to disaster. The Cimmerian Trbal Home Worlds were adamant in their lobby but the magnitude of the task required deep deliberation from all involved.

As Daniel Jackson viewed the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy in his mind, a place known to the Alterans as Avalon, he contemplated the fact that the alliance territory actually encompassed three Galaxies. The Origin Galaxy so named by the members of the Human Systems Confederation founded by Tomin, and the Lantea Galaxy named by the Federation of Allied World and Atlantis. Combined with the Terran Federation, the Jaffa Federation and numerous other species and territories in Avalonan Galaxy's United Federation of Allied Systems, the Great Races Alliance had attained a size and power that greatly dwarfed its predecessor and was still growing. More than twelve trillion known sentient life-forms and thanks to the actions of the Alterans, the machinations of the Goa'uld and the pseudo-benevolent plots of the Ori nearly nine trillion of these life-forms were humans, human-like, human-hybrids or modified humans like the Jaffa.

The Ori had long ago exterminated the majority of non-human life-forms in the Origin Galaxy in their quest to maximize the amount of power that could be extracted from the worship of their followers. The Wraith of the Lantea Galaxy had held to only one type of diplomatic tactic when dealing with species that were not compatible food sources or were possible sources of competition, extermination.

While the Avalonan Galaxy still held several thousand species of space-faring and non-space-faring, non-human species the Goa'uld had dominated most of the Galaxy for close to six millennia, spreading their human slave races across conquered worlds ever since the System Lord Ra discovered the viability of humans as a new type of host body. The irony of the situation was that predominance of humans in galactic and extragalactic affairs was entirely the work of various superior species and at least one egomaniacal group of parasites with a tendency toward megalomania and delusions of grandeur.

"The meek really did inherit the galaxy." Daniel muttered.

"What was that space-monkey? I didn't hear ya." Someone called out from behind him.

Turning around in response, the vastness of space was replaced by the scene of a familiar sixties diner. The patrons of the of the cozy eatery were clustered around square tables muttering to each other with rare excitement while periodically pointing to an article in copies of a newspaper that they all held. One of the waitresses was a short dark-haired woman with an aristocratic nose and angular cheek bones who simultaneously winked at Daniel, refilled cups of coffee and pocketed a stolen watch in an oddly bulging apron.

Shaking his head in exasperation Daniel made his way to the counter where he waved away a waitress who went back to talking to a handsome dark-haired cook with rolled up sleeves after she placed a plate, heaped full of hash browns, eggs and gravy on a tray that was passed along by a dusky-skinned waitress to a slightly over-weight man who was currently berating his thin, wild-haired companion over some trivia of unified field theory in imaginary dimensions of unique spin flavor. At the other end of the counter, a grey-haired man was filling out a crossword puzzle while pointedly ignoring the taunts from a couple of eighteen year old boys who hung over his shoulders like the devil and angel characters from old cartoons.

One of the boys was of Arab descent and leaned away as he smirked playfully at something that the other boy, who could have passed for the son of the grey-haired man, had said. A younger blond woman and a muscular black man, with a solid horizontal strip of white hair passing around the back of his head from temple to temple looked on in poorly restrained amusement. After glaring at the harrying teens, the grey-haired man seemed to look at Daniel with visible relief as he sat next to the blond.

"Jack-"

"What's a nine letter word for a very satisfactory state of being?" Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neill, two l's, asked.

"You're not supposed to tell him Daniel." Samantha 'Sam' Carter interrupted as Daniel began to respond.

"Indeed, O'Neill has come very far in the two hundred years since he started this puzzle; I have faith that he will finish it on his own, eventually." Added Teal'c.

Shooting the two a dirty look Jack instead decided to follow up on his first question, the one that had drawn Daniel's attention.

"So how's it going?"

"Well, I was just thinking about how far things have come since we first found the Stargate, who would have thought that it would have lead to this? They're building an inter-dimensional gateway now." Daniel answered.

For a second Jack looked pensive, before stating, "Shouldn't they be exploring their own universe, or maybe doing something useful like, fishing?"

Sam rolled her eyes but initially spoke up in agreement, "There are already several expeditions to other Galaxies they should be supporting but they've also been planning this mission since they rediscovered how to create a quantum mirror. To be fair, if they can master this method of travel then the exploration of distant galaxies should be even easier to undertake, I have to admit that it sounds exciting."

Daniel smiled at the woman's enthusiasm but Jack raised an eyebrow as he raised another important point. "What about the endothermic facade whatchamacallit?"

"It's called the entropic cascade effect and they were trying to get around that problem by opening a portal to a completely divergent quantum reality, in theory the effects should not be as pronounced as it would be if they were to travel to a parallel earth. They've already launched multiple probes to measure the rate of entropic failure and so far it seems like they've accounted for that possibility and they do have ways of counteracting the effects until they can hopefully return. There shouldn't be any problems" Sam lectured.

A broad-chested man with graying brown hair sitting behind them snorted so hard at those words that he dropped the spoon that he was balancing on the end of his nose. After glancing at the man and Vala who had come over to see what the commotion was about Jack began to sneer sarcastically. "If I had a nickel… You'd think that after all that we've been through someone would finally get a clue, that messing with the weird, glowing ring/pedestal/box/door/book/wall ornament/jewel/chair/bug/plant/crystal/mushroom/nipple-ring/what have you, especially if you don't know what it is, especially if its humming, humming and glowing! Is a bad idea! It's like humanity's mission is to go where no-one has gone before, and to piss 'em off in new and interesting ways."

Sam sighed and Daniel looked as if he was going to speak up but it was Teal'c who spoke his mind. "Indeed O'Neill, I have found that humans have a curious tendency to engage in what may at the time seem like ill-advised endeavors that others would find in their best interests to avoid. I have witnessed this tendency bring disaster to many human civilizations, yet I feel I should point out O'Neill that this trend has also resulted in many of your race's greatest achievements..." Looking at his companions with a measured gaze he finished his sentence with a slight nod of respect. "You learn from your mistakes and grow and improve becoming more than you were before."

It was the lightening of the atmosphere of anxiety in the diner that alerted the small group to the fact that all of the occupants had actually been eavesdropping on their conversation. The Alterans were worried. Jack shrugged with an unconcerned air and went back to his crossword puzzle uttering only a final bit of wisdom. "I wonder how's the fishing in that quantum reality?"

"Copasetic." Vala said.

"Whuh?" Jack turned to her puzzled.

"The word that you're looking for, copasetic, a condition that's very satisfactory or acceptable, copasetic." She answered with her hands on her hips. "I don't know what you're all so worried about, compared to what the Alliance went through before I doubt that you have much to worry about. Right Daniel?"

Daniel was already remembering the early days of the Alliance when the Wraith and Micheal were still a threat and for all intents and purposes the Terran Federation was largely on it's own with sporadic help from the Tok'Ra, the Jaffa Nation and very rarely, the Nox. He thought back to the days that he had lived in a physical body, the founding of the fledgling Earth Space Forces and the machinations of the most annoying megalomaniac that SGC had ever encountered. He remembered the war he had caused that had very nearly turned an annoyance into the means of extinction of all humans on earth.

They sat together in a diner that was not a diner thinking about the past and the willed future.

"Do you think we should warn them?" Daniel asked.

The others paused and considered the proposal.

"Nah" Jack said after a moment's contemplation. "They'll do just fine. We did good, didn't we?"

Those at the counter shared an intent look as Daniel silently informed the Others of the fact that he was just going to keep an eye on things. After all, what could go wrong?

Vala grinned and threw an arm around Daniel's shoulders, "Sounds interesting…What were we talking about? And what's my take?"

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Terran Federation Space Binary Star System Symplegades

The structure floating in the depths of space at first glance would have fooled the eye into believing it was much smaller than it actually was. Those who were familiar with the superficial design, among whom numbered the combined races of the Great Alliance, would have recognized what seemed to be two disconnected halves of a Star Gate like the ones located in what was formerly called the Pegasus Dwarf Galaxy, Lantea.

The true scale of the construct could only be understood once one realized that the outer circumference of each half-ring when joined together was a little more than half that of the circumference of the stars that composed the lifeless binary system. However, what was staggering about the scale of the construct to the onlookers was not simply its size but the fact that the entire project had only taken fifty years to complete and twenty five of those years involved lobbying for permission to begin construction and the allocation of sufficient resources. This was of course after several centuries of failure due to the governing council's stance that the Alliance wasn't yet ready for the challenge that such an endeavor would present and the need for more research into the safety of the technology.

Some had argued that in the first days of the Stargate program, the event that was widely credited for setting the humans of Earth firmly on the path to the stars, the legendary Jack O'Neill the First and Daniel Jackson, subjects of many historical studies, hadn't known if they would return once they stepped through the Stargate or if the artifact that they were going to use was really anything other than an elaborate guillotine or molecular blender. Those who were for the construction of the dimensional gate felt that the potential risk was worth the gains, those who were against using it felt that humans had thankfully evolved past the stage of leaping without wondering just where they would land.

The technology was in actuality born from the McKay-Carter Dimensional Bridge theory one of the possible solutions put forward by those seeking to improve upon the ZPM design using what was learned at the Alteran science station Avaria and from Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay's first stint in an Alteran evolution accelerator. The theory behind the ZPE or zero point energy extractor was that it drew its energy not from subspace or local space but from a parallel reality. The problem that had been encountered was that the method of extraction warped the physical laws of the local region of space where the extraction process occurred.

This prevented the accurate prediction of the proliferation of exotic particles and the formation of containment fields capable of shielding against the hard radiation that resulted. The McKay-Carter Theory and the McKay mathematical proof allowed for the interaction between parallel realities. This could be used to extract dark energy from another reality, while at the same time leaving the problem of dealing with the exotic particles that formed as a result of extraction in a separate universe.

The problem with this approach had been that finding realities where no life existed was much harder than first thought. The problem had been that most inter-dimensional windows that opened into parallel realties were attracted to realities similar to the one in which the Alliance existed as stated in the Hailey-Lingham Theory. Finding an uninhabited quantum reality had turned into a game of roulette with the odds stacked against the player.

The solution to this was the re-discovery of the theory of Quantum Tuning. Through centuries of experimentation and pooling resources with oblique aid from the Nox, the Alliance had gained the ability to crudely seek out dimensions using a method of exclusion. After a few decades of encountering both good and evil twins from other realities the ability to discriminate against parallel realities had been partially attained and the ability to enter divergent quantum realities was in part, gained. Sentient beings throughout the Alliance celebrated; then they buckled down for a war of elimination against a genocidal race of giant telepathic squids. As a great Jaffa warrior once said, "The more things changed, the more they stayed the same."

The Nox had partially withdrawn during this period from Galactic affairs after typically offering cryptic advice on how to deal with the problem. The Psychic War had seen a marked rise in interest in the study of metaphysics throughout the Alliance. The worlds that had been settled by people with these talents pooled their knowledge together under the guidance of the Nox with the stipulation that their talents would never be used to create Psionic Weapons. While many races had protested this stipulation as an imposition that the Nox had no right to make, the worlds with peoples who possessed metaphysical talents had long held the Nox in high esteem and they along with the larger population of organic and inorganic life-forms that composed the Great Alliance agreed with the Nox.

The Alteran upgraded Asgard based shield technology and the O'Niell Crystal Defense Screens presented a powerful defense against the psychic weapons used by the Intruders. These were weapons that acted on hyperspace and subspace carrier frequency bands directly transmitting a type of metaphysical psychic intrusion to the crews on board Alliance ships.

Unfortunately when things had first began to go spinward the Alliance taskforce that had been charged with guarding the experimental Quantum Gate had been composed almost entirely of a Jaffa Federation dreadnought, mother ships and mid-class Ha'taks. While the Jaffa Dreadnought vessels were the most formidable ships of their class exceeded only in sheer firepower by the defense stations of the Core Worlds of the Alliance and the Langaran Battle Moons these vessels were not shielded against psychic intrusion.

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The following is a record of the 666th activation of the quantum gate during Project Symplegades as taken from the mission records of Colonel Victor Stromner TFSF Cmnd. DSB Ajax and Colonel Dr. Anezka Dvorak TFSF Cmnd. DSRC Radek Zelenka.

A mature human male sat in an ergonomic chair that seemed to be made from a glowing blue liquid. The chair looked as if it was molded to the form of the man sitting in it and it seemed to be suspended above the floor by nothing other than faint threads of light visible as they stretched across its base and back, fading from sight as they came out of contact with the chair, looking like a delicate spider-web. The man seemed to be in his late forties, mid-fifties and had graying dark hair that burned silver at the temples in the brilliant light of the small room.

His elbows were propped on the armrests of the seat that was made from the same gel-like substance. His hands were clasped in his lap instead of in the complex bed of viscous psuedo-crystalline circuitry that pooled in the hand-rests. A virtual desk made of coherent light and ions held in suspended fields of bosonic force was arranged before the man and on this desk and floating above it were several reports of seemingly similar insubstantiality.

Images flickered about quickly as lines of information and raw data scrolled through the air, quickly replaced by holographic displays of three dimensional objects that revolved in place quickly before settling on a display of what seemed to be a fleet of disparately designed spacecrafts. The man blinked and all other displays cancelled, bringing up a enlarged view of the fleet. His attention seemed to be particularly focused on a single craft more than any other.

It looked like a wedge-shaped isosceles based pyramid that was turned on the widest face relative to the system plane. The widest face was 720 meters in width at the base and the entire body was 1242 meters in length. The other two faces were 440 meters in length at their base. Three massive neutrino-ion engines were attached to the base of the vessel and eighteen comparatively smaller gravimetric projectors were attached in groups of six along the vertices of the craft for maneuvering, deceleration and use in deflection force screens.

Array upon array of directed energy weapons covered every available surface of the Star Destroyer themed vessel that was designed by and made for Jaffa. Shielded launch silos for antimatter/naquadriah missiles that were of a design vaguely reminiscent of Alteran drones, naquadah-enhanced, cherenkov energy masers, and well, as Colonel General Jonathan 'Jack O'Neill once said, big honkin' space guns were arranged in staggered rows along the length of the hull on three of the four faces along with disguised and heavily armored shield projectors on all four surfaces.

Weapons like these composed the vessel's arsenal along with twenty-four squadrons of which eight wings were made of 192 aerospace domination gliders while the other four wings were divided between twelve heavily shielded troop transports and thirty-two cloaked and shielded bombers capable of carrying ground, orbital and anti-capital ship bombardment and weapons load-outs. three massive flight bays were capable or raising out of the hull on each face opening toward the rear of the ship behind massive rear-facing cannons and anti-fighter batteries.

Point defense and close in anti-fighter support was provided by weapons platforms capable of firing phase-modulated bolts of plasma constrained within a degrading subspace bubble the size of a late twentieth century Terran city bus at a classified rate of fire that was well capable of lighting up a region of space within a range of fifty thousand kilometers with incandescent bolts of neon yellow plasma. The point defense batteries sacrificed range for power as the dynamic energy fields that contained the plasma could only contain the glowing star fire for a few seconds before releasing their payload in clouds of high energy particles.

The shields were based off of designs used by the former System Lord Anubis to protect his vessels and had been upgraded over the centuries in accordance with the twenty-fourth century Terran and Tollan Remnant Treaties.

To things sum up, a 1242 meter long Jaffa Federation Dreadnought was a super carrier with the equivalent of half of a Lagrangian Defense System's fighter compliment and capable of carrying more during war time. These vessels put emphasis on offensive weaponry with lesser priority on shields that while not as powerful as the ones found in the Terran Federation or the Human Systems Alliance could endure a frightening amount of damage before failing. In turn a Jaffa Dreadnought's all weapons strike was capable of cracking an unshielded planet open and reducing the pieces to rubble.

In the Captain's console a mental command brought forward an image of what appeared to be an ordinary asteroid save for the ridiculously high energy readings and the planetary weapons installations visible on its surface.

A Langaran Battle Moon mounted more destructive weaponry over a comparative surface area than that of a JF dreadnought but possessed of shields that were several orders weaker relying more on structural integrity fields, inertial dampening fields and heavy amour capable of withstanding multiple gigaton matter-antimatter veapons strikes. A few were in possession of planetary-grade shields reverse engineered from those left behind on the Langaran home-world after the end of the Ori War. The power generation requirements however meant that these systems could not be activated while the battle moon's primary ion cannons or hyperspace window generators were active and that hyperspace travel was much slower than the galactic standard for military craft.

The Alliance taskforce had been composed of the Dreadnought Ka'lel with a half-strength flight complement, two Bra'tac class Mother ships with two peace-time flight wings each, six Skywalker-class Midrange Ha'tak and one Langaran Battle Moon on loan to the Terran Federation. A McKay class science vessel supported by a single Orion-class Deep Space Battlecraft completed the taskforce.

Dark eyes set in a creased olive skinned face scanned the holographic display before sighing deeply. While on paper converting a mined out asteroid into a manned installation would have been an ideal economic solution for building a space station or orbital habitat, the Langarans had taken things a step further during the late twenty-third century and used the knowledge acquired from their then provisional membership in the Terran Federation to construct a mobile system defense network after the model of the mid twenty-first century Sol system defense. The difference though was that the Langarans had slapped on some hyperspace window generators and used the things as a heavily armed Mobile Space Battlestation.

The downside to their plan was that the Langaran Government had created too damn many of the things. The power systems and hyperspace generators were inefficient; the gravimetric projectors were vulnerable to attack and when compared mass to mass they moved the Battle Moon at velocities little better than twentieth century chemical rockets.

Due to the large economic drain that operating these mobile installations presented, the Battle Moon project had turned into a white elephant that no-one wanted to touch and only as a concession during intense negotiations in the interest of keeping the damned things out of the hands of the Lucien Alliance had the Terran Federation acquired six of the twelve behemoths, removed the hyperspace generators, put in more gravimetric projectors and a better shield system. Then they towed them through hyperspace and distributed them to protect outer-lying colonies and Colonial Space as semi-militarized orbital habitats.

As a result an Alliance science team was aboard the battle moon attempting to calibrate their sensors to take more accurate readings of the gate and what lay beyond it when the device was activated.

He had been against the activation and use of this device, making his opinion clear when asked to report to the General's Desk at HIGHCOM and it was perhaps for his skepticism that he had been placed in charge of protecting the science spacecraft that was directing the experiment. Since the isolated Binary star system they would be using was situated 'close' to the border of Jaffa Federation space in cosmological terms the majority of the vessels were under the Jaffa Banner and had been tasked with a different mission from his own. If anything that came through the gate seemed even remotely hostile the Dreadnought and its companion vessels would open fire and destroy anything coming through while the science teams worked to deactivate the gate.

A faint musical tone interrupted the man's musings and his eyes flickered to a holographic floating musical note. Silently acknowledging the signal Colonel Victor Stromner commander of the DSB Ajax issued a mental command that caused the energy fields, shields, and holographic projectors to collapse the bubble of force containing the illusionary whiteout that surrounded him and cut off all light and noise from the rest of the CDC save for emergency alarms and queries from his operations staff like the one that had interrupted him.

"-siR, Sir?" Senior Operations Officer Captain Katherine Yaxley spoke to him from her station on the second tier of the CDC, her voice warped slightly in his ear as the last of the privacy screen dissipated.

"Report!" Victor commanded.

"Commander Zhu of the Battle Moon Panangeneira has just signaled that his team has completed calibration of the sensor package and is ready for the Zelenka to send the Activation signal to the Gate." Yaxley stated in her calm and measured tone. "Major Hussein has indicated that his Marines have secured the facility and verified that the subspace transponders are nominal."

"Set Alert Condition One throughout the craft." Stromner ordered as he sent a mental query to the operations station causing the Shipboard Asgard AI Jarnsaxa to query the readiness of all duty station officers. In Victor's mind an abbreviated list of answers appeared showing that all CDC stations were nominal.

The Combat Direction Center or CDC was the tactical center of the battlecraft under the control of the craft's commanding officer. It was composed of three tiers each connected by three wide steps with the rest of the area separated and enclosed by five foot tall trinium-carbon-titanium barriers that surrounded each tier. The first and highest tier enclosed an area of 64 square meters enough space to seat a commander, embarked general officer and a civilian observer.

The second tier was a three meter wide strip three steps lower where the 2IC who held the position of Senior Operations Officer and two assistants worked. The third tier was a wider strip of area three steps lower than the second tier where different groups of action station officers worked including communications watch, engineering watch, defensive and offensive weaponry watch, defense screens watch, navigation, tactical and security. .

The only entrances or exits from the bridge normally was a sealed matter to energy transport room on the second tier that could only be used by CDC officers and was under the watch of a marine detail. It was deactivated during battle situations when the Commander was in the CDC and the only other method of entry was through a Neutronium blast door below and behind the CDC accessible from the third tier and guarded by marines in defensible positions on all three tiers.

The Ajax was a Battlecraft.

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The activation of the Dimensional gate was a beautiful thing to see. The two halves of the gate slowly moved together propelled by gravimetric drive systems. Upon completion of the assembly the Radek Zelenka sent the activation codes to the gate. Wisps of star fire was drawn from the twin red stars and danced around the ring before seeming to be absorbed by the gate. The activation of the device was obvious from the window of an alien field of red shifting light and nebulous clouds of gas that could be seen through the ring.

Later, data forwarded from the damaged Battle Moon to the Orion-class DSB Ajax before the vessel was forced to retreat under fire would eventually shed light on the incident that followed for OMI analysts. The first indication Colonel Dr. Anezka Dvorak had that the situation was going spinward for the DSRC Radek Zelenka was when her telemetry specialist Dr. Volgen assumed a fetal position and started muttering from the floor.

"P-power…beyond comprehension…hunger…hunger!"

Well, things got worse from there.

The science vessel DSRC Radek Zelenka had taken the risky move of lowered its primary shield system in order to fully utilize its impressive sensor suite to the fullest potential. It was the sensors that very nearly doomed the vessel more than its lack of a primary shield. The research craft looked like a hexagonal cylinder, half the size of the Ajax measuring little more than 300 meters in length and approximately 100 meters in width. Its hull was covered in sensors under the O'Neill CS system and the craft was unarmed save for two silo's capable of carrying up to twenty Terran designed variable payload drones used more for research than combat.

The telemetry officer had been among the first to fall under the thrall of the invader's signal being received by the sensors. The weapons control officers on several Jaffa ships including the one aboard the Dreadnaught Ka'lel had also fallen under alien influence and had fired upon and destroyed a Mother ship and damaged another before he was wrestled to the ground by his vessel's second in command.

So when the space around the opened gate lit up with weapons fire from half of the Jaffa Federation ships while cover was provided by the other ships Anezka didn't apologize for kicking her crazed defense screens officer out of the way and undoing the damage caused by the man in order to raise shields. The battle moon and dreadnought were engaged in a pitched battle and less than twenty minutes later there was confirmed contact with the unknown life-forms beyond the gate.

The sensor logs would later reveal the existence of mental patterns being broadcast to all ships using the lens effect of hyperspace on subspace carrier waves to magnify the power of their psychic weapon's tachyon emissions. The shields of the DSB Ajax had been fully activated from the moment that the gate had been opened and had proven immune to the influence of the carrier wave weapon and largely unaffected by the massive plasma bolts unleashed by the alien's titanic ships which were slow moving and easily avoided. Even in their confused state the task force had managed to destroy several of the vessels called caldera ships by OMI analysts due to the way that their primary and only weapon fired in massive eruptions.

The Science vessel had withstood several direct hits from the cauldron ships before being hit with a full salvo of antimatter/naquadriah missiles that overloaded the shield capacitors and initiated a catastrophic failure in the O'Neill Crystal Shield system nearly breaching hull of the ship. The Commander of the craft had only enough time to order the ships AI Huur to transmit a warning and the collected data to a HIGHCOM relay satellite before a second salvo aimed at the automatically sealing recovering system arrived.

The only thing that saved the vessel from being filled with hard radiation and nuclear fire was the blitz of defensive fire from the Panangeneira. A second later the Ajax was in a screening position between the dreadnaught and the research craft and the Marines aboard the Battle Moon had set the power core of the battle station to overload sacrificing all power including life support to the main plasma cannon array destroying the ships coming through the gate.

The Marines and the science teams were taken aboard the Ajax which quickly followed the Radek Zelenka in a retreat through hyperspace after Colonel Anezka lost control of the gate deactivation program. Probes sent into the system a half hour later would find that the taskforce had been annihilated and the system fortified by the intruders. It would take the better part of a year to drive the invaders back and the controversial use of the ZPE system to irradiate the Invader's universe with exotic particles to win the Psychic War.

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In the end the data gained from the final test had allowed the Terran Federation to gain access to an infinite number of divergent realities many of which were found to be devoid of life. And a few held life forms that greatly interested Alliance scientists especially those interested in resurrecting the Asgard genome.

After many more years of lobbying in the early twenty-sixth century, the Aliance would once again move into the unknown of the Willed Future.

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Battlecraft Profile: Orion Class Deep Space Battlecraft

Length: 662 meters

Width: 410 meters at propulsion block

Height: 250 meters

Offensive/Defensive Weapons: Four hundred type one dedicated combat drones, two hundred type two variable payload drones, two hyperspace-enhanced, neutrino ion accelerators, six phased plasma beam cannons, two of which are rear mounted, 16 exotic particle weapons placements, 42 naquadah/yttrbrium/helium point defence masers, quantum teleportation array, Tollan ion beam weapons array, weapon emplacement fabrication grid. Spherical feild of fire.

Defense Screens: Asgard based shielding using partial application of the Mackay Alteran shield upgrade algorithm. O'Neill Crystal Shield Defense Grid using partial application of McKay algorithm. Gravimetric force deflectors. Inertial and energy dampeners contain educe the damage caused by explosions and physical impacts.

Armour:Trinium-Carbon-Naquadah hull one meter thick and energized, Neutronium-trinum support frame.

Engines:Asgard hyperspace window projector systems utilizing Carter-McKay Ancient hyper-drive engine upgrades. Carter-Hailey Neutrino Ion sub-light engines powered by one zero point energy module. Gravimetric maneuvering projectors.

Notes: Terran Federation Capital Military Spacecraft. Possesses artificial gravity, inertial dampening systems, energy dampening systems, localized bosonic forcefield technology, matter-energy transportation technology, matter replication technology, holographic systems, neural interfaces, nanotechnology repair systems, phase technology.

While these vessels are capable of being equipped with phase cloaking technology, such upgrades are currently prioritized for the Office of Military Intelligence and as of 2431 T.C.E were a controlled technology.

Battlecraft sacrifice carrier capacity for weapons emplacement and are equipped with a twelve compact antimatter-naquadriah generators six of which are on standby while the rest power tertiaryary systems. These craft also posses a secondary CDC a Combat Information Centre staffed by assigned OMI analysts along with secondary duty station officers and tactical staff.

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AN: This is something that I've been working on in my spare time. It's a first for me trying to write a space drama and I ran into several blocks along the way particularly since I couldn't fid much in the way of research material on spacecraft design, military structure, and weaponry; and generally the economics and tactics involved.

It was hard enough deciding on a design for the Jaffa Federation Dreadnought. My first thought was let's do a Star Wars Star Destroyer, and the Battle Moon became a miniature Deathstar but then I went and read a helpful little article entitled Space is not an Ocean.

So feeling like an idiot I went back and corrected as many things as I could. I do have a good grounding in physics so I had already added the gravimetric engines as a literary device to help explain how they could possibly slow down something mounting an engine the size of a small apartment complex without flipping the spacecraft and pointing the engine in the opposite direction. Inertial dampeners were helpful too.

If the Battlecraft thing seemed a little bit forced, it's because I desperately wanted to avoid the using word ship. Starship, spaceship, battleship, science ship, mothership…oops.

Well I did what I could to avoid making the space/ocean connection. Just how the armed forces resolved the space-force, space navy issue is going to be in one of the following chapters. I'll try to include all of the various sources in the disclaimer but for the sake of my sanity I'll list them as the pop up.

Finally, I'd like to acknowledge that this story was inspired by a lot of things including two other fanfics that I have read however this won't be a carbon copy of them and the majority of the story will actually be taking place during a five hundred year period before this the events in this prologue. I'll be sure to proofread the content but I've rewritten this story several times so bear with me. TTFN.