"Sir, two T-304s just exited hyperspace!" Walter warned. "Shields are up all over the EU."

"Where's the Odyssey?" Jack asked. Sam and Daniel ran in. "Two this time." Jack said.

"Which have been taken this time?" Daniel asked.

"The Antorphier and Digrian." Jack answered. "That makes nearly four in the last five months."

"They are opening fire on Britain!" Colonel Walter said. "Planet defences are uncloaking and intercepting."

"Fire back." Jack said. "Make sure they don't get a missile down."

"Yes sir." Walter tapped onto the keyboard frantically. "Ground-to-space APBWs are concentrating on the Antorphier."

The gate room shined open as the vortex of the gate whooshed open. SG-4 jumped through followed by a torrent of bullet fire.

"Close the iris!" Jack cried. "You were on a routine check of a, French off world colony, what the hell happened?"

"The trust attacked on our check-up sir, two 304s." One of the men said.

"Are there any casualties?" Jack asked.

"They launched two nukes as soon as we refused to surrender." He caught his breath. "Then beamed one hundred soldiers down and shot at anything that moved. We were lucky not to get killed."

"Sir, two more nuclear weapons have been launched!" Walter cried.

"Get the orbital defence system to intercept." Jack ordered. "Damn, where're Sheppard's elites when you need them?"

"Well, they can't even run around the complex once without having to stop for breath." Manning said. "But their aim is good enough with a normal rifle."

"Well, it is nearly twenty miles around the complex once Manning." John said. "I'd have to stop to catch my breath."

"Yeah well, they'll need it more. Endurance is the one thing they'll need if ten are going to have to take over and then fly a 304."

"Well, I'll show you the gear they'll have then." John said with a smirk. "You'll enjoy most of it."

"If it's lazy stuff like a HUD, then no, if its lasers, yes."

"We've got a mix."

"Fine."

"Now then you lot." Manning said as the group of one hundred men and women stood at attention before him. "This gear is pretty much lazy. You've got this thing," he held up a strange rifle, "which is a much, much smaller version of an APBW. It will fire a constant stream and will hit anything you want it to. But don't sweep, it's like a mini-gun, it'll chew ammo. But in this case its an energy pack. You can hold about ten of these, don't throw 'em away 'cause they recharge automatically and faster if you plug 'em into something."

He was standing in front of sheet of the Asgard super alloy about ten centimetres thick. The same thickness as a door on a BC-304.

"That is what you have to cut through on a 304." He shot four times on it with small sweeps to make a visible square then walked over and kicked it through. "And this thing will cut through it like a very hot knife through butter." You've only been training a month, but the Trust has started a war in the Milky Way. So you'll be starting your fight in a few weeks. Everyone was taken aback by this. "All of you knew this would happen. It hasn't spread here because we need to be united to defeat the wraith."

He picked up the armour. "This is the armour you've got to wear. It's comfortable by armour standards and won't chafe. It's bloody light and strong. It'll take P-90 bullets for sure and most energy weapons. It's made from the gou'ld Kull armour. They put a HUD in the helmet and some sort of sensor thing makes it so that you know where you're shooting. It has three modes: normal, night vision, and heat. It has a sensor thing in top right corner that tells you how your teammates are doing and what their vitals are and tells you what damage their armour has taken. To me, this is lazy stuff, but it'll probably save your life in close combat." He put on one of the arm bands and a knife shot out from his wrist. "Yeah, there're also a lot of cool gadgets in there as well as a cloak." He took the armour and shot at it with the rifle. "This stuff grows back as well. It's got nanites that take energy from a cell on the back to 'heal'. But, it will grow back whether it was a fatal wound or not." He took the helmet and shot at it with the APBR. It made a clean hole through the middle of the glass and went out the back. "But don't get cocky, you are not immortal. You can still die, so I'm going to train you how to keep quiet while being stealthy without the armour on." He raised his hand and four men jumped up from the grass behind him and raised their rifles. "This lot started from behind you."

The gate teams were slightly edgy for the rest of the day as they were running their twenty miles. Manning was keeping a steady pace at the front when his radio sparked to life.

"Manning, half the soldiers from the army have taken the generator room and two APBW arrays!" Sheppard said. "Get back here and gear the teams up for this. They're staying still for the moment, but their going to move soon."

"We're moving by the eastern APBW array, has that one been taken?" Manning asked while still keeping his pace.

"No, I'll beam you back to gear up."

"Ok, half of them are about to die anyway." He looked behind him and raised his arms, telling the teams to stop. "We're gearing up, it's started!"

"You look like you haven't gone two meters sir, how do you do it?" John Mellor gasped as he took deep breaths.

"I'm used to it." Manning replied as a white flash beamed them to the storage room where their armour and weapons were being secretly stored. "Gear up and get ready, no time to take the gear to changing rooms so men turn your backs and don't peak." He ordered.

When they were ready he told them to stay in radio contact and to keep cloaked. They were all silent, knowing that they might not see a friend again after this, knowing that most of their once good friends would be holding those weapon positions. Knowing they would have to kill to retain the peace of the base. The Tau'ri Civil war had begun.