In the first week of July 2009, the first Luna base detected a small wormhole inside the Sol system. Within minutes a 304 was dispatched and captured a Colonial Raptor. The crew of the Raptor was taken to Luna facility and interrogated with an Asgard memory recall device while the Raptor was taken to Aries and studied. Three days later another Raptor was detected but it managed to escape. Another day and a Colonial Battlestar jumped into the system. A short skirmish was fought followed by the Battlestar jumping away.
Two months later a fleet of 80 Battlestars and 400 support ships Jumped into the System and opened fire on the Lunar Defense Grid (LDG). With the shields down dozens of Satellites were destroyed in seconds. Moments later the Grid opened fire and raised shields.
"What the Hell happened, how did they manage to destroy ¼ of the Defense grid?" General Jack O'Neill yelled once he entered the Command center of the Entire Earth Defense System.
"Sir they jumped into the system from a much farther range than we thought possible." A Sensor operator said.
"Sir, the 1st defense group reports that they detect Naquadah in the Colonial ships. We believe that they are enhancing their systems with it." Another station reported
"Prepare to beam C4 into their ships, target their power conduits?" Jack asked
"We can't sir they are generating a magnetic field. The field is strengthening their hull armor and preventing matter from rematerializing."
"Oh hell." Jack muttered "What about the APB's are they working?"
"Yes Sir, but they are reduced in effectiveness. The magnetic field and the Colonial point defenses are causing the beams to lose containment very quickly."
"Wonderful" Jack said under his breath "Put me in contact with Luna."
The Terran fleet is split into different combat groups for all battles. In total Earth has; Forty of her Fifty Four BC-304, Twenty of her Sixty BC-303, and all Twelve Fortress-305's and 5 Aurora's. There are 20 strike groups made up of 2 304's and 1 303. And six combat groups with one 305 and two 303's. The remaining 303 worked in groups of two using guerilla tactics against the Colonial ships. The Aurora's sat in orbit of Earth shooting down any missiles or fighters that got to close.
The F-305 was the Terran's equivalent of the Lantean Aurora. Armed with 16 APB's, 18 Tollan Ion Cannons as point defenses, 40,000 drones, Asgard shielding, and three Neutrino Ion generators they are not as strong as the refitted Aurora but they are equal to the Asgard O'Neill class. The 305 class was built at Asura in place of the Lantean Aurora. The Aurora class ships were no longer built.
Moments after the Colonials first salvo at the LDG, the fleet in orbit of Luna beamed a mark 10 Naquadria Nuke into the Colonial formation. The detonation took place with the Colonial fleet in between the explosion and Earth and the Moon. Within seconds the explosion melted the Trinium enhanced Armor of dozens of Battlestars and destroyed hundreds more support craft.
"Sir, the Mk 10 destroyed 100 hostile support craft and disabled 24 hostile capital ships and damaged another 30." The Sensor operator yelled from his console looking over the number of energy signatures that vanished from his screen.
"Ok, Jam their communications and have the LDG target ships with most nuclear material first. Have the Strike groups move in on the support craft while the Combat groups attack the Battlestars." O'Neill yelled"Make sure that the combat groups move in between the Colonial ships. Use the Colonials own weapons against them."
"Yes Sir." The communication's officer said as the battle continued. Less than a minute after General O'Neill gave the order. The 20 combat groups moved into position. Weaving in and out of Colonial formation the Terran ships did not even need their point defenses as the Colonial defenses were keeping their fighters from getting close to the Terran ships. At the range they were engaging the Colonial ships the Colonials main guns were useless because they were unable to be aimed as well as not being able to fire for fear of taking out thier own.
On the Bridge of the Apollo, Colonel Abram Ellis was ordering the helm officer to move the ship out of the combat zone. Moments ago Ellis ordered his ship to fire on a BattleStar that was lining up its primary cannons on the Lunar Colony. The Apollo fired and the Asgard plasma beams sliced into the BattleStar Archeron Impacting the reactor, and cutting the ship in half. Unfortunately for the Apollo, the pilot was expecting the ship to break apart like a Wraith Hive or an Asuran Cruiser. The Pilot flew the ship right through the explosion.
The Apollo's shields were immediately buffeted by massive chunks of extremely heavy armor. The Apollo was suffering a massive drain on the shields. Reacting quickly, the weapons officer fired all four APB's forwards. The plasma impacted the sealed fuel tanks on the BattleStar. The resulting explosion was the size of a small nuke and threw the battered Terran ship out of the debris field of the destroyed BattleStar, having lost 75% of its shielding.
Coming up alongside him two 303's and one 304 extended their shielding around the battered Apollo escorted the bruised ship out of the combat zone. Until 10 BattleStars finally got a clear line of sight on the 4 Terran ships.
The upgrades made to the BC-303 moved her a step above and beyond the first 303, Prometheus. But 80 1,100 lb. slugs hitting the shields quickly caused severe damage inside the ship. The shields were powerful enough to hold back the punishment but the shield generators themselves were not. The generator supports were quickly overwhelmed and snapped severing the power conduits causing the shields to fall. After the 303's lost shields the 304 Leo's overextended shields were overwhelmed and fell.
In moments the two BC-303s and two BC-304s were destroyed, torn apart by the main cannons of 10 Mercury class BattleStars.
"Sir, two Dozen Battlestars and their support ships have jumped into orbit of Earth. The EDG is engaging. Somehow they managed to get Nukes within the shield perimeter of the Defense satellites and destroyed them."
"How are they able to do that?" O'Neill yelled
"They used their FTL drive aboard their Raptors to bypass the shields, Sir." Samantha Carter said from her 305 in orbit. "We haven't been able to block their FTL drives yet. McKay is working on it, but we don't expect anything soon."
"Strafing groups, target all Colonial Raptors with Nuclear ordnance." O'Neill ordered as looked over the Colosseum. A massive table with holographic emitters showing the entire solar system. Right now it was focused on the battlefield.
"Sir we just lost the Apollo, Leo, Caspian, and Da Vinci."
"Survivors?" O'Neill asked against hope.
"None sir. It was too sudden. We weren't able to get a positive lock."
Back in the battle field, the DGs (Defense Grids) had reduced dozens of Colonial ships to debris fields. Not all casualties were on the colonial side. Thirty five of Luna's Defense satellites out of the original 100 were destroyed and 120 of earths were gone. Ten 303's were destroyed and 3 – 304's by colonial Battlestars ramming them. Thankfully, the crews were rescued by Luna base. For another hour the fighting went on until the Colonials began retreating
"Sir, the last functional colonial ship has left the system." O'Neill fell back into his chair and let out a breath he did not know he was holding. 'It's over' Jack thought to himself.
(CIC, Battlestar Atlantia, Sol System, One minute before the battle)
"Jump complete. We are in Earth's solar system." The Atlantia's helm operator said from her station in the CIC
"Sir, Dradis detects a massive defense satellite network."
"Destroy them."
"Yes sir, Weapons firing." Moments later the ships fired using their main weapons batteries along the Battlestars spine. Bullets quickly filled space and impacted the defense satellites unprotected hull tearing the satellites apart. Dozens of Satellites were destroyed in seconds as the massive shells of the Colonial Battlestars weapons systems tore the Terran defenses apart.
"Sir, the Earthers defenses have activated energy shields. Our weapons are no longer having any effect on the Earth Defenses." Major Taylor told the Atlantia CIC.
"Is their anyway past the shields?" Admiral Nagala asked Major Taylor.
"We could try a raptor's FTL drive and jump past their shields. If that works they can shoot a missile at the satellites."
"Very well major. Atlantia will run the Jump coordinates."
"Sir, detecting multiple missiles launched from the Moon's surface."
"Weapons, Target the missiles. Alternate firing solution; Even, target the satellites, Odd, target the Missiles. Helm, turn the ship. Give us a smaller profile for the Missiles to target. Communications, order half the fighters to target the missiles, the rest are to cover the raptors."
"Yes Sir."
"SIR, energy buildup on the Moon."
"Atlantia Actual, This is Bulldog. I'm nearing the Moon's surface. There are dozens of weapon emplacements on the surface. I'm not sure why they have not fired yet."
"What is your recommendation Bulldog?"
"I recommend you nuke the surface Sir."
"Underst…"
"Sir, there are ships on their way from Earth and the Moon." Bulldog yelled.
Suddenly the Ship shook violently as a massive shock wave hit them. "WHAT WAS THAT?" Nagala yelled jumping to his feet.
"That was a nuclear shock wave Sir. The detonation point placed us between the Moon and Earth. We shielded the Earth defenses from the detonation flash and the EMP."
"Sir, our fighters are gone. The blast wave destroyed 80% of them." The CIC was silent as the crew absorbed the deaths of over 24,000 people. "Sir our ships armor is heavily damaged. All ships within 30 Km of the detonation site are gone. And all ships within 60 Km have lost all armor."
"Tell 24 BattleStars and their support to Jump into orbit or Earth." Nagala Ordered the fleet wide comm officer.
"Yes, Sir."
After the Battlestars jumped things got worse for those ships. The Earth's planetary defense grid was far more powerful than the moons, the Ori energy beams were also fully charged. After the colonials jumped every satellite within range fired at a ship.
"Sir the Earther's ships are moving in and around our ships too quickly for the main guns to get a lock. And the Dradis is having trouble targeting the ships. They are having to use visual targeting."
"Have our remaining vipers move after the 13rs ships. They were armed with nukes for this battle."
"Atlantia this is bulldog. We can't get a fix on the 13rs ships. They are flying through your flack field. The vipers can't follow."
"Damn." Nagala swore under his breath as he watched the Dradis' display. Nagala knew that the flack fields were the only reason the fleet was still intact. The ship shuddered again as he watched the port side hanger bay got pierced by a plasma beam.
"Sir the BattleStar Archeron has been destroyed." Nagala hung his head The Archerons commander was a dear friend.
"Sir a 13rs ship tried to fly through the debris field. It looks to have lost its shields and is in very bad shape."
"Fire on it now." Nagala yelled wanting some measure of revenge.
"Yes Sir." After checking the display the officer reported again "Sir 9 other BattleStar's are turning to fire on the ship as well."
"Good it looks like three other ships are trying to escort the 13rs ship out of the combat zone. Fire when ready."
Moments later the BattleStar opened fire. It took 30 seconds for the 1,1000 lb. slugs to destroy the shields and 3 seconds for the shot to shred the ships.
(Homeworld command, Earth, SOL, After the battle finished)
"What's our status?" O'Neill
"8 nukes hit Earth. Moscow, Boston, Paris, Rome, London, Berlin, Las Vegas, and Beijing are gone. Tectonic activity has been reported near Pompeii and Radiation is spreading. Evacuations are proceeding and the 305's are beaming radioactive material into orbit." Carter replied as her terminal beeped. General carter looked at the report. "Another report of Tectonic activity, Yellowstone is acting up sir." Carter let that sink in. Almost everyone in the room knew what happened to Taranis when its super volcano erupted. That something similar could happen to earth was inconceivable.
"Ok we will get back to that in a bit. What about the fleet?"
"We have 75% material loss of our 302's and 30% loss of manpower. We lost 13 303's while losing two 303 crews and Sixteen 304's were lost and we lost 2 full crews. No 305's or Auroras were lost however. But we lost 160 defense satellites."
"How many enemy ships did we destroy?"
"Of the 80 Battlestars, 40 were completely destroyed and a further 17 are disabled with no atmosphere. We also destroyed 463 support craft ranging from missile boats to destroyers. Sensors detect 36,000 survivors among the wreckage of the Colonial debris fields. There are 200 Colonial support craft in orbit disabled. Our cargo ships are already beaming the debris that is in danger of entering the atmosphere into its hold."
"Send combat group 5 to beam the Colonial survivors into the lunar prison facility. Then have Groups 3, 7, and 9 move the unexpended Colonial ordinance into a separate debris field. I don't want any accidents with them. Groups 13 and 15 are to begin rebuilding our Defense grid. Now is Yellowstone going to erupt?"
"We can't be sure Sir. Most likely not. It is just a few tremors. However I am not a Volcanologist."
"A what?"
"A person who studies Volcanoes Sir."
"Ahh, right."
Over the next week, the remainder of the Terran's space forces moved the Colonial ships into a stable orbit around Mars. The Colonial prisoners were in the lunar prison where they would remain in stasis pods. Until they were interrogated with a memory recall device. Once interrogated they on the Prison Planet where the Pegasus crew were sent.
Technicians were going over every type of the colonial ships, studying their systems and what, if any, use they could be to Terran defense. With the capture of the Pegasus, raptors and the FTL (now called fold drive) had already been studied.
Cargo ships quickly got to work salvaging all of the materials left from the destroyed Colonial equipment into their massive holds. The material would be taken to Aries for reclamation. The cargo ships were Ha'tak vessels with the pyramid sections removed. The black superstructure was then sealed with trinium and a small reactor, computer core, hyperdrive, and sublight system was installed at the base. Material would then be beamed into cargo compartment and using artificial gravity the cargo would remain floating in the center of the barge.
The replicator version of Doctor Weir was rescued from open space and her mind downloaded into an Altarian (Harlan style) android body. Once this was done she was given back her citizenship and using her new technical expertise she helped design new ships and build facilities to construct ZPM's. Doctor Weir also became the representative for all artificial life forms within the Terran Federation Senate. On her word, the remaining Asurans were rescued and given android bodies. No pure Nanite bodies would ever be built.
The critics of the Asurans were silenced when a biology specialist fixed the dependency on Tretonin. This allowed humans to use Tretonin without having their own immune systems being shut down. The Asurans were even more valuable when they improved the Tratonin. The new version would allow humans to live in perfect health and live for close to 400 years. While this technology was available it was not widely used for another 3 years.
One month after the Colonial attack on Earth, two days before the survivors of the battle arrived back at the Cyrannus system. 4 Hyperspace capable missiles were launched at the Colonial system. The missiles were a prototype designed to fly themselves to their target then drop out of hyperspace and cloak before detonating their payload against the hull of their target. The Missiles payload was a prototype Mark X Naquadria/Naquadah/Potassium explosive. A Naquadria sphere encased a barbell of Naquadah. On impact with the target the Potassium would impact the Naquadah detonating the Naquadah and Naquadria.
Two missiles were sent to major Colonial military location, Picon and Scorpia anchorage, Colonial fleet bone-yard, plus the main tylium mine for the Colonies. The Odyssey followed and tracked the missiles under cloak to recover them should they malfunction. Once on site the missiles detonated cracking the anchorages in half and detonating the largest space born tylium mine that the colonials had. This attack set their war effort back years and prevented them from using mothballed ships.