This is war
The following weeks had been hard. Almost five traveller ships had been destroyed, the General Landry had been in battle twice with the Tartarans, the Odyssey had also been in battle with them. The Tartarans had a massive fleet, but they where also in a massive disadvantaged when it came to technology. Colonel Carter had just walked onto the bridge of the General Hammond, it had just been repaired from the opening battle of the war. The ship took off and headed into the atmosphere, where it was greeted by the General Landry, Daedalus, the Odyssey along with four traveller ship, one being the aurora, and a fleet of ten ha'taks and one Hak'tyl sat in orbit. The Hak'tyl class looked like a stretched, beefed up version of the Ha'tak class.
"Adams, scan the space. What do you se?" Carter asked.
"I'm picking up three asteroid belts in this system. I'm also reading the Odyssey entering hyperspace along with the Daedalus." Adams said.
"Okey. Major, hail atlantis. Ask if they have some more ancient outposts for us?" Carter said. Adams tapped his keyboard and he got a response from atlantis.
"They have already done that. They've found another five ZPMs, three where depleted and the other two where thirty or fifty percent full." Adams said.
"Wow.. Well, we're still on a ZPM shortage. Hey, you wanna do some thing funny?" Carter said, almost laughing out the words.
"Sure, what should we do?" Adams asked. Carter laughed a bit, and then said the plan. Adams smiled the more of the plan she told him. A few hours later, General Jack O'Neill had just landed his jumper on the mainland, and he was walking towards the beach. The General was in full fishing gear, and he was smiling, it was his fifty sixth birthday, and no one knew about it. That was until he was engulfed by a white, bright light and appeared on the Hammond. There where party hats, cake, songs and a hell of a lot of other things.
"What the hell is this?!" Jack yelled.
"It's your fifty sixth birthday, sir. I couldn't just dismiss it." Sam said.
"Well alright then, thanks guys. I had actually planned on just going fishing, but now that the cat's out of the bag, I guess we'll party." Jack said. The Hammond's crew and senior personnel from the other earth ships where there, along with Larrin of the travellers. The party went on a few hours, that was until an alarm started blaring.
"General quarters, all hands to battle stations!" A voice barked through the intercom, every body started running for their stations, Sam and Adams ran for the bridge while Sheppard, McKay, Caldwell, Ellis, Davidson, Teal'c, Daniel, O'Neill, Teyla and Ronon beamed away. As did Larrin. Sam arrived on the bridge.
"What's going on?" Sam asked.
"Sensors just detected a number of Tartaran vessels one point two light years from this location. They detected us and have now set a course. They will be here in less then one minute." Adams said.
"Damn it. Transmit to Jaffa, we're under attack. Request emergency back up from you." Sam ordered. Atlantis's shield was raised, ships powered weapons, jumpers and 302s soared in space, ready for battle. Sam herself and Adams where a little bit drunk, but all that had been at the party was at the same state. The enemy fleet of fifteen ships now dropped out of hyperspace.
"Sensors are reading fifteen enemy ships. They are all launching fighters, and they are firing." Adams reported.
"Return fire. Tell atlantis to hold off with the drones. We don't want to waste them." Sam said. The battle raged on outside. Fighters where firing missiles at each other, earth ships where firing asgard weapons, and the enemy ships was firing some sort of plasma weapons, having little effect on the shields of the earth ships. But the traveller ships wasn't so lucky, they where taking heavy losses.
"Cover that wing of traveller ships! Fire a Naquadria enhanced nuke!" Sam yelled. The Hammond moved into position to cover a wing of four traveller ship as a single missile launched from the Hammond, leaving a smoke trail behind it. It very soon impacted one of the enemy ships and the ship exploded. That left only five enemy ships. When the Landry took down another one of the ships, the remains of the enemy fleet entered hyperspace.
"Colonel, the enemy fleet has entered hyperspace. We lost five fighters and three traveller ships. That brings death tole up to five hundred. Only two people in each fighter, the rest on the ships." Major Marks said.
"Okey. Send a message to all earth ships commanders, and Larrin. I want them in the conference room of atlantis ASAP!" Caldwell ordered. He was beamed down, and met by the other commanders along with, Sheppard, McKay, Maynard, Woolsey and Davis.
"Sirs, fellow commanders. We need to device a plan against this new enemy. I have one plan, but your not gunna like it" Caldwell said.
"Yes, we need to device a plan. And Caldwell, I think that you and I are aiming at the same thing here; an all out attack on their homeworld." Sam said. Woolsey, Sheppard and McKay stiffed, not prepared to hear these kinds of things from their former CO.
"That was the plan, Carter. I mean we just take the Daedalus, Odyssey, Landry and Hammond out to make a few dents in their war effort." Sam said.
"It does seem good, but may I point out what happened the last time we did one of these pre-emptive strikes? It ended up with Dr. Elizabeth Weir dead, and Atlantis dead in space." Woolsey said.
"We know. But this race has weapons as weak as that of the Goa'uld. Shields are that of first Prometheus design, and well, their ships are surprisingly familiar to the Prometheus design. You have a GO Colonels Carter, Caldwell, Ellis and Davidson." Maynard said. The commanders beamed up to their ships and had fighters re-called and had as many nukes as possible beamed up, that being Naquadria nukes. All of the earth ships entered hyperspace, leaving atlantis under guard of an aurora class ships, five traveller ship, ten ha'tak and an hak'tyl.