AN: Next chapter! Sorry for the delay, school kept me busy, hopefully I will have some more time the next few weeks

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Sorry for the long delay, my beta just didn't respond to me anymore so I had to check it all myself.

God(s) Room, Battlestar Mercury

Picon orbit

T plus four hours

The room next to the CIC was called the God room; it was called that way because it gave a god like oversight of the entire colonies. Now about a dozen Admirals were standing around a table displaying the overall status of the colonies. All the Admirals wore their best uniforms, something the fleet was very precise at. In the corner of the room a lone colonel stood waiting to be introduced.

"Admirals, thank you for coming, you have all been briefed about battlestar group 16, with the permission from president Adar Supreme Admiral Nagala will take up station aboard the Mercury which for the time being will remain at Picon." Baker introduced Admiral Nagala.

"Admirals, thank you all for coming on such short notice. Our current task is to defend the remaining colonies. We've lost Virgon, Aquaria, Gemenon, Libra, Sagitaron and Tauron, for now we do not have to concern ourselves about the safety of those colonies. On a darker note we've lost almost half the fleet. If you haven't noticed there is a colonel in the corner." Nagala winched at the colonel who walked over to join the admirals at the table. "This is Colonel Paul Emerson of the Tau'ri battle cruiser Odyssey; he's in command of any and all Tau'ri space forces in this fight." Emerson shook hands with the admirals who were close by while others simply nodded to him. "Thanks to Tau'ri sensors we have spotted several Cylon staging grounds, we intend to attack them using the Tau'ri ships and the Valkyrie, in the meantime the rest of battlestar group 16 will spread out over the remaining colonies. Admiral Greer, your group is to requisition all civilian ships necessary to evacuate all non essential outposts and civilian installations which are not part of the six remaining colonies." Nagala said. The Admiral simply nodded in understanding. "Colonel Emerson, you said that you had reinforcement's incoming, what's their ETA?"

Emerson, a little bit impressed by all the admirals in their shining uniforms while he was just in his regular military clothes walked up to the table and pressed some buttons. The chart zoomed out and focused on three ships at the Alpha site. "These are the Phoenix, George Hammond and Normandy, they are currently at the alpha site to take on supplies but they will set course for Picon in about two hours, and they will arrive in two days." Emerson said. He again pushed some buttons and zoomed in on another ship, it was moving at an incredible speed. "This is the Asgard vessel the Samantha Carter, she is picking up the Galactica to bring it to their homeworld to upgrade it, and the upgrade will take a week or so." The Samantha Carter was an improved O'Neill class battleship, it was commanded by Thor. The Asgard survived because Sam found the answer to their downloading problem in the Ancient database. Early 2009 a Wraith ZPM powered super hive attacked earth, in response Atlantis was brought back to earth, after the battle it was decided to keep Atlantis close to earth. Because it was impractical to keep it at earth it was sent to the moon where it became part of the new moon base, thanks to Atlantis the construction of the shipyards on the moon was increased drastically. When Atlantis was settled on the moon it was decide that the Asgard core had to be integrated into its systems to make it even better and more complete. (The core had been acquired in 2007 when the Asgard retreated to the Ida galaxy; there were no threats after all and earth needed to take over the protected planets treaty, for that they needed advanced weapons and knowledge). One of the first things that had been done was a simple search for the cure of the Asgard cloning disease, they found a cure but it was old and had to be upgraded, in a joint afford between the Asgard and Earth scientists they located a cure, it took them a year and in the end they saved the Asgard. The new ship was called after Samantha Carter because she got the idea to test the integration of the Asgard core by searching for something she hoped to be in there.

"Those three ships will form a second attack group and fight the Cylons behind the lines." Nagala continued. "Admiral Cain, I want you and Battlestar group 62 to head for Canceron to take control of the fleet and to relieve group 91 so they can return to Picon to take on additional supplies and make emergency repairs, you are also going to assist the ground forces in retaking control of the planet." The map showed the situation of Canceron and group 91 which was dangerously low on munitions and fuel, they had been on a life fire exercise when the call to return was sent, and they used a lot of their fuel to jump back to the colonies.

"Sir, are those Asgard going to fight with us?" Cain asked.

"This may be a question for Colonel Emerson." Nagala said as he motioned Emerson to answer.

"The Asgard are only going to upgrade your ships, they do not want to interfere too much with current galactic affairs. The people of the Tau'ri took that task when they gave us the core; we had to use quite some favors to get them to upgrade your battlestars." Emerson said.

"And we are very grateful for that, but don't they see we need their help and that we are the good guys?" Cain asked. Cain was known to be tough on her people; Emerson had heard that much when he was talking with the commanders of the other battlestars in group 16.

"That's why we are helping you, in the eyes of the Asgard you started all this yourselves when you built the Cylons to make your own life easier, you also enslaved them, they think that a people that can enslave other beings, even robots might not be ready to use their technology or have their support at all." Emerson said. Some of the Admirals looked quite pissed at the end of his explanation.

"Admirals, I know you want to shoot this man on the spot but he is right, we started it ourselves but we have to be lucky that the people of the Tau'ri are willing to help us, they have the technology of the Asgard but also from those they call the Ancients who appear to be even more powerful. This will have to do." Nagala said. "The rest of you will remain on their positions and rotate, if you are not fighting try to resupply as we might be in a big fight at any moment. Dismissed."

The admirals left the room for their personal raptors which were waiting to take them back to their own ships. Emerson contacted the Odyssey and requested a beam out. In a bright white light he disappeared surprising some of the remaining people. They still had to get used to the advanced technology of the Tau'ri.

CIC Battlestar Galactica BSG 75

Ragnar munitions station

T plus 7 hours and 25 minutes

BSG 75 consisted out of the Valliant, Victory and the Galactica. The Valiant and the Victory had already been destroyed over Virgon. The Galactica was ordered to go to Ragnar to resupply, they were also told that they would be joined by an alien vessel that was going to upgrade the ship. Only moments ago an immense object had appeared over the planet and was now hailing them.

"Battlestar Galactica, this is the Asgard vessel Samantha Carter, we are here to tow you to a shipyard for immediate repairs, if I am not mistaken you have been informed about this, please respond." The voice of Thor called out of the loudspeakers.

"Asgard vessel, we are preparing to exit the cloud ETA eight minutes, be aware of the Cylons they have been spotted by our recon units." Adama replied. He wasn't happy about trusting some alien to take care of his ship. He had heard what the upgraded ships had done over Caprica and Picon and was impressed but he also knew that those ships were heavily computerized and he wasn't about to let that happen to his ship. "XO take us out of the clouds and prepare for a tow." He ordered his XO and old friend Saul Tigh. He had served with him for almost forty years and considered him his best friend. Adama walked over to the communication station as his XO started to yell the orders required for the things that had to be done.

The Galactica exited the clouds and moved towards the Samantha Carter; in the distance several white flashes announced the arrival of four Cylon baseships.

"Sir we've got four DRADIS contacts, Cylon baseships have been detected, and they are launching raiders." Gaeta yelled.

"Battle stations, set condition one throughout the ship and hail the Samantha Carter." Adama ordered. All over the ship sirens started to blare rushing crewmen to their stations.

"Sir I've got the Samantha Carter on the line sir." Gaeta said.

"Asgard vessel, we have picked up four Cylon baseships, I suggest you take actions to protect yourselves, we are launching fighters, if you have some yourself I suggest you launch them yourself." Adama said.

"Negative, do not launch your fighters, this vessel is strong enough to take on anything the Cylons can throw at it, just remain at your current position so we can take up our position." Thor replied.

"Are you sure?" Adama asked. Nothing could stand that long against four baseships, then again, these were aliens he was talking to.

"Yes Commander Adama, Docking procedure will be finished in two minutes." Thor replied. Adama looked at Gaeta who simply shook his head.

"Recall all fighters and prepare for docking with the Samantha Carter." Adama ordered. Tigh gave him a look as in to say what are you doing but Adama ignored it, something said that this was the right thing to do.

"We have missiles incoming, 26 at the Samantha Carter and 6 for us, most are nuclear." Gaeta said.

"Tell our batteries to target the incoming missiles and…" Adama was cut short.

"The missiles are disappearing; maybe the Asgard vessel has a defense against missiles." Gaeta said.

"Asgard vessel is that you?" Adama asked.

"It is Commander, no worries, you will be completely safe." Thor said.

"The Cylons might be able to jump very close, maybe beyond the point where you can stop it." Adama suggested. "I'd like to get my hand on those." Adama said to his XO.

"That is very helpful; I will keep that in mind." Thor replied.

Almost immediately after Thor replied like the Cylons could read the commanders' thoughts Gaeta reported Cylon heavy raiders jumping close to the Samantha Carter. Most were splashed against the shields but two actually jumped inside the wide force field. One was unable to arm its missiles but the other was able to arm and fire a nuke. The nuke almost instantly disintegrated the raider and did considerable damage to the Samantha Carter. The Galactica was on the other side so it didn't get hit by any shockwave. In response the Samantha Carter opened fire with its main weapons destroying a baseship per shot.

"Commander, the Cylons detonated a nuke against the hull of the Samantha Carter. In response they destroyed the four baseships." Gaeta reported.

"My gods contact them and ask them if they need assistance. Call Picon Fleet HQ and apprise them of the situation." Adama ordered.

"The Asgard say they will be fine but are unable to escort us out of the battle zone to the shipyards for now." Gaeta said.

"Picon is sending two Tau'ri ships to help the Samantha Carter, they will arrive in fifteen minutes, and until they arrive we are to guard and protect the Samantha Carter." Dualla said.

"What, we are undermanned, under strength and under armored, that ship has just been hit by a nuke and I don't think it was designed to handle that much fire power." Tigh said in disbelieve.

"The Asgard said they would be fine, and you've seen them take care of the Cylon baseships. Launch all fighters and have the CAG send out raptors to scout for hostile units or probes." Adama ordered.

Fifteen minutes later with no noteworthy incidents the Odyssey and Korolev exited hyperspace, they weren't far, as all the colonies were located inside a few systems that had almost merged into one another. The two ships immediately took their positions, the Odyssey over the Samantha Carter and the Korolev over the Galactica.

"Commander, the Samantha Carter is hailing us." Gaeta said.

"Put them through." Adama said.

"Commander Adama we are ready to transport you towards the shipyards, prepare to be docked." Thor said.

"Is that wise, you've just been hit by a nuke." Adama replied.

"I can assure you that we can handle things here, it is your ship that I am more concerned about, it might be too fragile to withstand the sudden acceleration and deceleration of hyperspace." Thor replied.

"This ship has been around for fifty years, it can handle it."Adama assured Thor.

Meanwhile the Korolev moved away to allow the Samantha Carter to take up position over the Galactica. The Samantha Carter used energy restraints but also old fashioned cables to dock the Galactica. It soon entered hyperspace and left. The Korolev and Odyssey at their turn powered their hyperdrives and took a course for Caprica.

Cylon command Basestar

Orbit of Virgon

T plus 9 hours

All seven models were assembled in the room; the representatives of all lines were standing around a screen which showed their casualties and those of the colonials.

"Their resistance is larger than we anticipated, but we must not stop now, we've given them some serious blows." The Cavil model said.

"But we've received an even larger blow in return, we've lost three quarters of our initial strike force, our back ups are the only thing that is allowing us to occupy the planets we've already captured." The six replied.

"Well if our intelligence would have picked up on those allies of the colonials we might not have been in this position at all." Cavil shot back. The number Six model was built for seduction to gain access to the most secret things of the colonies, for some reason this wasn't with it.

"Apparently it was deeply buried as there is no chance a Cylon was discovered, they only adapted their technology at the last moment, some battlestars didn't have enough time to do it and were dispatched off right away." A number 2 said.

"We can stay here and keep blaming others for our collective mistakes but we can also find a way to turn the war in our favor." The three said.

"Have you seen those energy weapons, they slice through our baseships like cutting through butter, our ships are very vulnerable against this kind of weaponry. The central axis of our baseship was supposed to be the strongest place, now it is the thing that destroys our baseships." The six replied.

"How about our old baseships, those of the first war?" The number 4 asked.

"That might be possible; we need to check them out." The number one said. They all voted on it and it was unanimous.

"Then we all agree we resurrect the old baseships." The three said. The group scattered to go back to their usual business.

CIC, Battlestar Pegasus (BSG 62)

Orbit of Canceron

T plus 11 hours

The modern CIC of the Pegasus was fully manned and on combat alert. For the moment there were no enemy attacks expected but Admiral Cain didn't want to take any risks. Her XO Jurgen Belzen was working on their supply manifest, in all the rush at Scorpion Fleet Shipyards some things weren't loaded and now they might be short on anything. For the last eight hours there was an intense fight going on at the surface of Canceron, they had already sent out over three quarters of their viper and raptor compliments. The ground forces were currently being pushed back by Cylon centurions and more and more decided to show up, where they came from they did not know, but she would have to stop them.

"Admiral we have reports of an additional four Cylon divisions heading for Carman fleet base, the troops defending it are requesting help ASAP." A comm. Specialist said. Carman fleet base was an important support base for the fleet, it had several Viper production facilities and had over six hundred vipers under repairs, and they couldn't afford to lose it. Unfortunately they did not have many reinforcements and the Cylons seemed to know that as well.

"Do we have any conventional space to ground missiles left?" Cain asked.

"Eh, Don't think so, these manifests are kind of a mess admiral, we've already launched a lot of them." Belzen said.

"Show me a map of the Area, for one hundred miles in any direction." Cain said.

"Admiral, we cannot do that, there are over four hundred thousand civilians in the region with little to no protection." Belzen said already knowing what his Admiral was considering, even though he took the map of the area that showed positions of friendly and hostile positions.

"Lieutenant Shaw, start nuclear launch cycle for missiles one through four, fast launch." Cain ordered.

"Yes ma'am." Shaw replied and she immediately started working on it. Shaw just came aboard a few hours before the attacks, after the initial attacks she fit straight in with the rest of the people.

"Admiral we can't do this, it is mass murder, we can't launch those missiles." Belzen said.

Cain took her key and placed it into the slot; she also entered her personal code. "Colonel Belzen, insert your nuclear key and insert your code." Cain said. When she saw that Belzen wasn't moving she turned towards him. "Colonel, are you refusing to obey my orders?"

"I cannot and will not execute this order, it is illegal." He said.

"Give me your sidearm." Cain demanded. Belzen gave her his sidearm; she immediately aimed it at his head. "Colonel, normally I should shoot you but you have too much talent to waste, now consider yourself dismissed and under arrest." She motioned for the guards at the door to take him out. She immediately turned to Colonel Fisk. "Colonel Fisk Insert your nuclear key and enter your code." Fisk afraid that the Admiral would shoot him obeyed.

"The use of nuclear weapons is now authorized, prepare to fire at these coordinates." Cain said.

"Ready sir." Shaw said.

"Fire!" Cain ordered. The ship shuddered a bit by the launch of the four missiles.

Down on the surface the colonial soldiers who were a mix of a dozen units and marines sent down by the Pegasus were ordered to prepare for a nuclear attack, they had all changed into their nuclear warfare suits. They were uncomfortable but were great at holding back large amounts of radiation. All of the sudden a young soldier jumped up as four missiles trailed overhead, unfortunately for the soldier he was cut down by Cylon fire marking the new attack. The four nukes hit their mark and incinerated everything in a 50 miles radius of their detonations, over 40000 Cylon centurions were destroyed by the shockwave. Unfortunately there were several cities in the area, over 600000 civilians died in minutes after the detonations.

"We have four successful hits; ground forces confirm destruction of Cylon forces in a 50 mile area around the blast sites.

God room, battlestar Mercury

Picon orbit

T plus 11 hours and 25 minutes

Several colonels and majors who made up the staff of Admiral Nagala had come over to the Mercury to help him; even though they were all new to it they quickly learned.

"Admiral, the Pegasus just launched four nukes on ground targets, readings so far estimate over 500000 casualties but expecting to climb." A colonel said.

"What, has Cain gone mad?" Nagala asked. He knew that Cain was a though one but didn't expect this to happen. He picked up the phone to call someone: "Get me the commander of the marines aboard the Pegasus." Nagala waited for a minute while he was being transferred when someone on the other side picked up.

"Colonel Fisk here." The man on the other side said.

"Colonel Fisk, this is Admiral Nagala, is it true that Admiral Cain launched nuclear weapons on ground targets?" Nagala asked.

"Well, we didn't have any regu…" Fist started but was quickly cut off.

"Colonel, did she or did she not launch those missiles?" Nagala said angry, he knew how loyal the crew of the Pegasus was to Cain.

"Yes sir, she did." Fisk replied.

"I need you to relieve Admiral Cain and her XO from command immediately and contact the second in command of your battle group, tell him that he is in command until I assign a new Admiral." Nagala said.

"Admiral, Colonel Belzen, the XO opposed the launch and was put in the brig for it, I was forced to enter my own code and key." Fisk replied.

"Then arrest Cain and tell Belzen he has temporarily command of the Pegasus, after that tell Belzen to contact me." Nagala ordered.

"Yes sir." Fisk said. Nagala put the phone down into the slot.

CIC, Battlestar Pegasus

Orbit of Canceron

T plus 11 hours and 40 minutes

Colonel Fisk had already sent a detachment of his Marines also called razors to get Belzen out of the brig. He just arrived at the CIC where Admiral Cain was going over some data. He stepped up to Cain and his marines took positions around them.

"Admiral Cain, I have orders to take you into custody for launching nuclear weapons to surface targets." He said.

"What the hell are you talking about Colonel?" Cain asked. She had expected someone to come and relieve her of her command but didn't expect it was someone of her own crew. Normally if a commander or admiral was being relieved of command it was done by Special Forces boarding the ship by auxiliary docks.

"Admiral Nagala just contacted me and ordered me to take you into custody for launching those missiles. Admiral, please come with me." Fisk said.

"Who is replacing me?" Cain asked.

"Colonel Belzen has been given a field promotion to the rank of commander. The commander of the Victorious will take command of Battlestar group 62." Fisk replied. He motioned for the marines to take Admiral Cain to the brig.

Bridge, Samantha Carter

Asgard Home World Orilla

T plus 16 hours

Thor was currently upgrading the Battlestar Galactica, his people had taken a good look at it, even though it was of an inferior design it was a good ship, especially as it was over 50 years old. The Commander of the Galactica had requested a meeting and he had agreed. The commander was beamed up and was now finding its way around the Samantha Carter. The ship was named after Colonel Samantha Carter who had more or less saved the Asgard race. After many directions Commander Adama had found the way to the bridge.

"Commander Adama, welcome to the Samantha Carter. You wanted to talk to me?" Thor said.

"Yes, I wanted to know what exactly is happening to my ship." Adama stated.

"The ship is receiving an upgrade. Weapons, shields, armor, sensors, power and propulsion are being improved greatly." Thor stated.

"And my ship is being networked right, what prevents the Cylons from hacking into it and turning the ship against us?" Adama asked.

"I can assure you that the security measures installed on the ship are capable of repelling any kind of attack that the Cylons can launch." Thor assured. "Speaking of the Cylons, we've detected several on board your ship. We discovered them when we did the initial sweep of the ship and we found 4 of them, two seem to be constructed in a different way than the other two. What do you want me to do with them?"

"Who are they?" Adama asked.

Thor manipulated several buttons of his console and a screen showed the four Cylons. "These are the four."

Adama was shocked when he saw the faces. One of the four was Adama's XO Saul Tigh, the other one was a deck chief by the name of Galen Tyrol, yet another was a raptor pilot who couldn't land a raptor with the call sign Boomer, and the last one Adama didn't know by name, he only knew that the man was with the museum. "What are you going to do about them?

"That is up to you, I am capable of removing any programming in them, this way they will not execute their mission whatever it is." Thor said. He had already taken a preliminary test to see if he could hack into the programming and possibly reprogram them.

"I need to speak to my superiors about that, for now I would request if you can transfer them to a place where they cannot do any harm." Adama said.

Thor manipulated some more buttons and a chime informed him that the transport had been completed. "They have been secured in a cell on the surface of Orilla, I have also set up a direct line with the colonial base at Andara, the home of battlestar group 16."

"I've never been there before, never even heard about it. How can I communicate with them?" Adama asked.

"The line is already open commander" the voice of Admiral Baker said through the PA system. "I'm Admiral Baker of battlestar group 16. What do you want to talk about?"

"Sir, the Asgard have discovered several human looking Cylons aboard my ship, they've counted four so far and they have been taken into custody." Adama said.

"I will send a group of marines to take them to Andara, we will interrogate them here." Baker said.

"Sir, the Asgard named Thor said that he could remove the programming?" Adama said.

"Supreme commander Thor, is it possible that the science vessel Rodney McKay remains in orbit a few days longer so that the Asgard on board can help us with determining what the programming is?" Baker asked. It would be great to know what the objectives were of those Cylon agents.

Thor checked some readings and sent a message to the Asgard High Council and the Rodney McKay. "Admiral Baker, the McKay will be available for research purposes only for three additional days, after that it is required elsewhere."

"Thank you supreme commander, the marines will be there is about ten minutes. Andara out." Baker said.

Ten minutes later the marines arrived and took the Cylons to Andara.

Situation room, White House, Washington DC

USA, Earth

T plus 19 hours

Currently there were about a dozen people in the room, the president, his security advisor, General O'Neill, General Landry, a Colonial general and some other people. They were discussing the war raging on the colonies. Thanks to Asgard technology the president got a complete overview of the battle.

"Mister President, my president has requested me to ask you if we can expect if any of your ground forces can help us?" the Colonial general asked. The colonial forces were able to hold out for now but that might soon change as there was only fighting on a few planets.

Hayes gave O'Neill a nod. "For now we cannot commit large units, maybe special forces but nothing more as long as the program is secret." O'Neill said.

"We are currently looking at speeding up the disclosure to the end of the month." Hayes added.

"A month! That is not soon enough, our forces are dying over there, they might not hold out long enough for you guys to play your politics." The Colonial general said.

"For what it's worth I said the end of the month, that's in two weeks, we need to prepare all our units and assets for this, there will be a lot of riots and other disturbances when we announce the gate to the public." Hayes said.

"Even so, how do you want to transport our units to your colonies, we have quite some vehicles and weapons, then add all the spare parts, ammo, medical equipment and other stuff, you need quite some room for that." Landry said. "Most of it is too big to go through the gate either."

"We have several marinestars ready to transport your people, each one is capable of transporting 30000 men with all their equipment and supplies for about a month, and in addition we will send freighters to be able to take even more supplies." The colonial general said. A marinestar was an old or smaller battlestar converted for the marines. It had virtually no weapons but instead had a lot of decks for vehicles, supplies and living quarters for around 30000 soldiers to rest comfortably."

"How long until those ships can be here?" Hayes asked.

"With their current computers about half a year but with your help we will be able to make it in about two weeks." The colonial officer said. "Right in time for your disclosure.

"Mister President, I support this plan but there are some things that might make it more difficult, we expect that when we disclose the program there will be a lot of riots for which we might need the army, if we take, let's say a hundred thousand soldiers, our abilities to maintain order will be significantly less." The director of homeland security said.

"How about asking the Europeans to deliver some units, they have been training with us over the last sixty years because they are part of NATO, we might be able to convince them to send some divisions." Landry suggested.

"In exchange we could give them even more access to the program; they are going to demand it anyways when the program gets public." O'Neill said. The Europeans had requested access to the military part of the stargate program, they already had access to Atlantis through the IOA but they also wanted military hardware.

"I like this idea, how many divisions can we spare if we mobilize the National Guard and reserves?" Hayes asked.

"I think about five, maybe six armored divisions, each numbering around the 15000 personnel." The army chief of staff said.

"So we would need 3 or 4 of those marinestars depending if the Europeans are going to send some help." The colonial general said.

"That's correct, tell your commanders that help is on the way, they just have to hold on a little while longer, in the meantime we will do whatever we can to support you." Hayes said. "Now, I need to inform the IOA about the disclosure of the program." Hayes stood up which prompted the others to stand up as well and Hayes left followed by his chief of staff.

"Now begins the fun part." The army general said.

"Which one is that?" O'Neill asked.

"Informing and training about a hundred thousand soldiers about a war fought far from earth." He replied.

"Good luck with that." O'Neill said.

"If you want I can ask my commanders to send some people over to help you with the training, our soldiers have been training to fight the Cylons for a long time." The colonial general said.

God room, battlestar Mercury

Picon orbit

T plus 26 hours

Now that things had calmed down people were just bringing reports and left. The damage done to the colonies had been huge, billions dead and even more injured or dying. On the other hand the fleet was doing pretty well, after the initial heavy losses there had been few losses, mostly due to the advanced battlestars.

"Sir, the Aerilon battle groups are reporting heavy attacks by the Cylons, Rycon reports moderate damage to the whole fleet and their shields are at 67 percent, the enemy is focusing on them." A communications specialist reported.

"Where is the first joint Tau'ri colonial battle group?" Admiral Nagala asked. He was still not used to all the technology. He knew that by pushing some buttons he could zoom in on the battle group but he didn't want to push any wrong buttons so he had a lieutenant do it.

"Admiral, they are helping out over Caprica, the enemy is pushing quite hard." Baker said.

"Have the Odyssey and Korolev break of their attacks and redirect them to Aerilon, they are to help there." Nagala said.

"Yes sir."

Bridge, Tau'ri battle cruiser Odyssey

Aerilon Orbit

Same time

The Odyssey was in combat, the lights were red and the bridge was lightened by the flashes of exploding fighters or baseships. They were dishing out quite some damage and didn't receive many.

"Colonel, we are receiving a priority message from the Mercury, we are to disengage and engage the hostile forces over Aerilon." Major marks said.

"The entire group?" Emerson asked.

"No just us and the Korolev, the Valkyrie is to stay behind and support the fleet here." Marks read.

"Tell Colonel Chekov that he is to break of his attack and join up with us and prepare for hyperspace towards Aerilon." Emerson said.

A minute later the Korolev had joined up with the Odyssey and they entered hyperspace together. Due to the close proximity of all the colonies to one another a hyperspace jump never took more than 5 minutes.

"Sir, we are exiting hyperspace in thirty seconds." Marks said.

"Open fire with all weapons as soon as we have exited hyperspace, also raise shields to full power and active all ECM systems." Emerson ordered. Marks manipulated some buttons on his console. At major Marks countdown the blue-green color of hyperspace faded to reveal the black space with a desert like planet in the background. Over the planet were two fleets fighting, one with long ships while the others were more star shaped. Immediately after exiting hyperspace half a dozen missiles were launched while blue beams reached out for the star shaped ships.

"Sir, we are reading five heavily damaged battlestars and another three with moderate damage, the Rycon's shields are at 28 percent." Marks stated.

"Then let's take some of that work of their backs, target the Cylon resurrection ship." Emerson said.

Two blue beams stroke out of the ship towards the Cylon resurrection ship. The resurrection ship tried to evade but had no chance, with its jump drives not spooled up it came to a certain and final death.

"Target destroyed sir." Marks reported. "The Cylon fleet is bugging out."

"We need to target those ships more often, they always leave when they lose that ship, did the colonial intelligence service find out what that ship does?" Emerson asked.

"Not a clue, they think it is some kind of control ship or something." Marks replied.

About the numbers on Canceron, they are all estimates by the characters so don't think I screwed up or something.

Replies to the Reviews:

Ketz3r

Way too easy. I mean they just met and started exchanging critical techs?
Don't get me wrong I like a positive first contact between SG earth and the colonies but frankly I'd expect a lot more mistrust on both sides.

I'll give you that, it was kind of easy, but the fact that the Tau'ri rescued and returned a pilot of their own without asking for anything, just a request for a meeting could give them something to thrust.

NtMast

Good chapter.

I liked the treaty idea between Earth and the Colonies although you could have included shipbuilding techniques and space engineering as valuable tools to offer Earth. The Colonials know how to build shipyards in space and build ships "ten times the size of a Nimitz carrier".
You're right, it was a little bit shallow, but I hope this chapter ahs explained some of the reasons why they didn't bargain for the shipbuilding techniques.

Even training in space military tactics for both ships and fighters would be useful to Earth since they've only been in space for a couple years while the Colonies have been in space for hundreds of years.
True, I initially had a little training part at the moon but I cut it out as I didn't like the part.

Also, at what point in the Stargate series are you at, are all the Goa'uld defeated, are the Ori around?

basically, they are where they are now in the year 2011 or 2012, after season 10 SG1 and after season 5 of SGA, the Ori story line did not happen, instead the galaxy went quiet which allowed the Asgard to get back to Ida galaxy and they gave the Protected planets treaty to Earth and also gave them the Core. All the thing the Ori did either didn't happen or was done by other people, so instead of destroying a planet for the Supergate Ba'al used it to create a base with a lot of power or something along those lines. Also things like the destruction of the Korolev just didn't happen.
Keep the updates coming...

I will.

Tamatoa

Are the SGC getting any old battlestars? It seems the Colonials are getting a lot out of this. While the upgrades are lower that what SGC currently has, moving the ship threat assessment from virtually non-existent to "can seriously take us out" due to the far far larger ship numbers, means they have made their new allies far more closer in power to themselves.
Why should they, they have ships way more powerful that their own and while the battlestars do have 'Advanced' technology compared to the Cylons, to the Tau'ri it isn't that powerful, especially after the Asgard upgrade.
I like the scenario of the Colonies doing the same convert thing with a stargate, a new take on the BSG/SGC scenario.

Dur'id the Druid

nice to see another chapter, even if we roughly know what's going to happen in the future. However, could you please get a beta reader? Or if you can't, wait a bit after you finish, print it up and read through it and mark it up yourself, you'd be surprised at how many thing you catch. A spellchecker isn't everything.

For the first two chapters I did have a beta, unfortunately he didn't reply to my messages so this chapter isn't beta'd. I will try that but time is short, I have a lot to do for school. Next time I would appreciate it if you could give me an example of what I need to improve.

JC

Great seeing the Flashback.
Will they discover the Human from Cylons too?
Will you tell why no Cylons infiltrate the Upgrade base and shipyards?
Bad luck, they just didn't know it was there so they couldn't infiltrate it. Or maybe they did? Who knows. Maybe the infiltrator just didn't report back.
I think Colonials are a boom to the SGC, they can help with Civilian space tech.

Love this story, keep it coming.

Sithking Zero

I like the premise of the story. It's very interesting, and fits into a rare dynamic of being based in and around the Colonial Home Star System. Of the few of those that I've read, this is the only one where the Colonials weren't xenophobic.

I like how you're integrating the two, but your grammar is not all that great. Not to mention, you aren't going into a whole lot of detail while telling the story. You're literally TELLING the story, not showing it to us.
I'll try, that's all I can say about it.
It's a good story, and I like the idea of Battlestars with Tau'ri tech, so the story gets an eight out of ten.