How do we recover from heavy losses?

The General Hammond's bridge was a sad place. The ships commander had just lost her friends. Daniel was stiff, Teal'c was calm as usual and had a worried expression on his face. O'Neill.. O'Neill was trying to comfort them. He had Sam in his arms.

"It'll be okey, Sam. It will be okey." Jack said. He kissed her on her forehead. Sam was crying like never before. The Apollo had rammed the superhives bridge. Vala, Landry, Cam.. President Hayes.. All dead. They gave their lives so that atlantis and the other ships could evacuate. Their lives also put an end to the superhive. The General Hammond had sent a squad of marines over to the hive and taken it's ZPM.

Atlantis didn't know what had happened. The Daedalus radioed atlantis.

"Atlantis, this is Colonel Caldwell. Are you okey over there?" Caldwell asked.

"We're fine, Colonel. Just lost a few secondary systems, but they're being repaired as we speak." Woolsey said. He had an expression on his face. An expression that he's never had before. He was worried. Very worried.

"Mr. Woolsey, we're sorry to report the loss of the Apollo, General Hank Landry, Colonel Cameron Mitchell, President Henry Hayes and Vala Mal Doran. They managed to evacuate most of the crew. As many as a hundred is how ever thought to have gone down with her. They eh, they beamed their nukes, equipment and their asgard weapons off before she was destroyed." Caldwell said, sounding sad. Or his way of sounding sad.

"Wha.. What are you saying… No. No… NO!" Woolsey yelled and he threw a laptop down from the control room to the gate room. Splitting it in two pieces. Amelia Banks, Chuck and a few other people there at the time looked at him. But they under stood his loss.

"We.. They.. They managed to destroy the superhives bridge. The General Hammond sent a squad of marines over.. They recovered the ZPM from the hive. The superhive is no more." Caldwell sad, this time, really sounding sad.

"Eh, okey. Thanks for the update. We'll se you at the Jaffa world.. Atlantis out." Woolsey said. It had been decided that Atlantis would travel to the Jaffa refugee homeworld. From there, they could coordinate their attacks much better. And put up a better defence in case of attack. Atlantis had a full compliment of ZPMs now. One from before, one from the Odyssey, one from the Daedalus. The Daedalus would be getting the ZPM from the superhive. Colonel Ellis and doctor McKay arrived in the control room as atlantis dropped out of hyperspace, being greeted by the dozen or so ha'tak class ships and al'kesh ships, along with a few tel'taks.

"Colonel Ellis.. Doctor McKay.. I'm sorry for the news I'm about to give you." Woolsey started. Ellis got a worried expression on his face, as did McKay.

"Just as we went into hyperspace, the Apollo rammed the superhives bridge. Colonel Mitchell, General Landry, Vala and president Hayes died. Along with a hundred or so crew members. They beamed off as many people as they could, but their transporter system failed. They ditched the nukes, Naquadah generators, supplies and asgard batteries in space. Most of it is still working. I'm sorry Colonel for the loss of your ship. Rodney, I know that you where friends with the people that died.. I'm so sorry, I really am. But we have other concerns right now. We need to get atlantis safely on the ground." Woolsey said. McKay's face dropped, Ellis was solemn. Woolsey activated the city's intercom.

"This is.. This is commander Woolsey. We are about to enter the atmosphere of this planet. Brace your self, this will get bumpy." Woolsey said. A few moments after that, the city started shaking. The Jaffa on the ground and in ships could se a giant fire ball crossing the sky. A few minutes after that, Atlantis touched down on one of the seas on the planet. The General Hammond, Phoenix and the Daedalus dropped out of hyperspace shortly after that.

"Thi.. This is Colonel Carter of the General Hammond. Bra'tac, do you.. do you read?" Carter said through the com. Bra'tacs face came up on the screen a few moments later. He noticed that Carter and Daniel was crying and that Teal'c seemed bitter.

"My friends. What is wrong? And why is your ship named after Hammond of Texas?" Bra'tac asked.

"Bra'tac. This is General O'Neill. General Hammond died a few months ago. And.. And a few hours ago, General Landry, Colonel Mitchell, Vala and president Hayes died. They rammed the Apollo into a ZPM powered hive ship. We have the ZPM of the hive here.. We'll be beaming down shortly." O'Neill said.

"O'Neill.. I am sorry for your loss. We will meet when you beam down. Bra'tac out" Sam was still crying. Jack had tried every thing. But nothing seemed to work. She was how ever slowing down with the crying. Seconds later, Sam, Jack, Daniel and Teal'c was beamed down to atlantis's conference room. In the room Colonels Ellis, Caldwell, Davidson sat along with Woolsey, Bra'tac and General Maynard.

"Guys. I'm sorry for your loss. Colonel Sheppard and his team also says that they're sorry, they went off-world a few minutes ago. But we got no time to think about that now. Apparently, the Wraith are massing for an assault. They are combining all of their forces, and I do mean all." Woolsey said.

"Indeed. This is not good news, how many wraith ships did you manage to destroy?" Bra'tac asked.

"The superhive was destroyed. About a hundred and fifty cruisers, twelve hives and almost all of their darts." Caldwell said.

"That should make our jobs just a bit easier. Then they might just come with thirty hives, a few hundred cruisers. But the darts, they are the problem. It's kinda hard to take them out." Ellis said.

"Indeed it is. But we really don't have any options. Colonel Davidson, I want you and the Odyssey to head out and try to find the wraith fleet. You will get one of atlantis's ZPMs, so that you can use your ancient cloak. Colonel Caldwell, you'll be going to the alpha site and pick up our personnel there. Colonel Carter, you'll be staying here. Colonel Ellis." Woolsey said and he sighed. "You will be taking command of the Phoenix. She's yours. But here's a note, the Phoenix is now the General Landry." Woolsey said.

"Thank you, Mr. Woolsey. I'll take care of her." Ellis said and he nodded. A few moments later, Ellis is beamed away by a flash of white light. The meeting ends, The Daedalus heads out, as do the Odyssey.

Woolsey is speaking with Amelia Banks about how many ZPMs they have. "Amelia, how many ZPMs do we have?" Woolsey asked.

"We have three here, one on the Daedalus and one on the General Landry. The Odyssey's borrowed one of ours, so we only have two at the moment. The Daedalus's is ninety-six percent full, the General Landry's eighty-two percent full. One of ours is ninety-seven, and the rest of the city's ZPMs are one-hundred percent full." Amelia said.

"Thank you, Amelia. I'll be in my office if you need me" Woolsey said. He turned and headed to his office, or what you'd call an 'office'. It was actually just a 'glas box'. There wasn't even a door you could shut.