Chapter 7
SG-1 and the Mystery Ship
Galactic west, SGC, briefing room [April/4/2002]
George S. Hammond looked around the briefing room at SG-1, SG-3, and Thor who had just beamed down from his ship in his "authority chair", as he heard Jack call it once. Being his best diplomat he said, "Hello Supreme Commander Thor. Colonel O'Neill here says you found something very interest."
Nodding his head Thor beamed down a device that then displayed a holographic image of an unknown grey colored ship. He said. "As I have told O'Neill, we have located an unknown vessel and it is on course for Earth. The ship is using an outdated version of FTL that does not use subspace. At its current rate will be in orbit in two months."
Hammond was first to ask a question. "Have you been able to communicate with them? Do we have any idea who they could be?"
Nodding Thor said. "We have tried but the ship appears to be unwilling to answer our hails or is unable to. We then tried docking but the Ship fired warning shots when we got to close. As to your second question." Thor moved his had though the air causing the image to zoom on to the ships forward section revealing the name TFS CVM-803 George Washington. "We believe they are possible closely related to you."
Thanks to his years at Stargate Command, Hammond did not believe in coincidence and being they had all just dealt with the Anubis asteroid he started to run down the list of possibilities. He asked. "Dr. Jackson is it possible that the Goa'uld or another Alien race could have visited earth in the last 200 years?"
Nodding Daniel Jackson said. "Anything is possible but in this case I have to say no. From what we know of the Goa'uld, they lost interest in earth till very recently and any other alien race would not have transplanted Humans."
Hammond nodded and asked. "Teal'c have you ever heard or seen a ship like this?"
"I have not General Hammond." Teal'c said.
Major Samantha Carter asked Thor. "Do you know what the ship's made of?"
"Yes. The ships shielding is inadequate and is unable to block our sensors. The ship appears to have a steal alloy frame with two inch panels. Above that there a four inch panels of what we believe to be Ceramic armor running the length of the ship. Layered on top of that is what we first thought was heat shielding for re-entry but we now believe the that it is used for dispelling heat from plasma based weaponry. A rather innovative way to get around the short comings of their shield technology which is nearly nonexistent." Thor said.
"Huh… no Trinium or Naquadah?" Sam asked with an intrigued look.
"No which appears to be at their detriment as their armor is not as strong as as alloy made from those elements." Thor said.
Jack asked. "Major what are you thinking?"
"Sir the ship is made out of materials that could be built here on earth granted it is much weaker than some of the current plans for the 303 project, but if we had never gotten access to Trinium, Naquadah, and access to the Stargate, we very well could be building are ships out of similar materials in 200 years give or take 50. I think this ship could be from an alternate time line or reality." Sam said.
"This is all well and good but that leaves me with a question. Thor why are you letting us in on this discovery?" Hammond said from across the table from the Asgard. He then could have sworn he saw the Alien smile.
"As you know, the Protected Planets Treaty prevents us from helping you advance your weaponry to fight the Goa'uld." An image of the Washington appeared firing a crimson energy beam. "They are under no such restriction. And since they are most likely of Earth, we would not be aiding you in getting new technology but returning lost people to their home world. That is if SG-1 can make peaceful contact."
Nodding his agreement Hammond said. "I'll send SG-1 and SG-3 with you to see if we can make peaceful contact."
Galactic West Thor's Bilskirnir-class ship, control room [April/4/2002]
Jack O'Neill was standing in the Bilskirnir-class ship's control room next to Thor's chair as the ship came out of hyperspace. On the view screen came the now familiar TFS CVm-803 George Washington. "O'Neill I am about to open a channel the Washington."
Nodding O'Neill said. "Alright let's meet the new neighbors." He said before Thor nodded meaning he was on. "This is Colonel Jack O'Neill of The United States Air Force of Earth to the CVM-803 George Washington please respond."
There was silent's for about a minute before a Female voice replied. "This is the Washington, I need conformation that you are from Earth what year did the American Revolution start?"
Jack shrugged. "1775" He responded waited for an answer.
"Roger that Colonel O'Neill, I know I have many questions so I'm sure you do. It would be better if we spoke face to face. You have permission to board on the starboard side. I will extend a airlock tube for your ship." The voice said before cutting the channel.
"Well that was easier than I thought it would be." Jack said as Thor looked up from one of the control panels.
"O'Neill, I was just looking at the scans of the ship and it show only 76 life forms on board. Forty of them are possibly in a form of cryo sleep. Of the other 36 can't get much information on as they appear to be in there engine room. The distortion being produced by the engines are preventing the sensors from focusing on them." Thor said.
"Well that's odd but not really something we really need to be worried about." Jack said as he waved to Thor and headed for the air lock where the other SG-1 members waited with SG-3.
"Yes I agree but the unusual thing is, whoever you were just speaking with had to be on the bridge as that was where the signal was coming from. There were no life signs on the bridge during your conversation." Thor said.
"Huh… weird…" Jack said figuring they would find out what was going on soon enough.
Washington, air lock
SG-3 was the first team to walk into the Washington. The marines quickly secured the area around the entrance area before SG-1 entered. "Well this place is rather spooky." Jack said noting that most of the lights appeared to be damaged leaving many of the halls pitch black.
"Yeah I wonder what made this." Daniel asked as he looked at what appeared to be claw marks on a nearby wall.
Jack was about to comment that he hoped they didn't run into whatever it was but stopped when he heard metal hit metal repeatedly coming toward them from down one of the dark hulls. Raising his P90 a little he watched as two eight foot tall robots walked towed them. "Hello?" he asked as they came to a stop in front of the group.
The Robot in the lead said "Welcome aboard the TFS George Washington Colonel O'Neill. The current commander of this vessel is waiting for you on the bridge. I am CHAS 003GW and will be your guide while on board."
Still a little awed by the obvious war machine, Jack said. "Lead the way Tin man"
3GW responded. "I am made from steel alloys not tin." "It almost sounded like the machine was exasperated." Jack thought as he shrugged and followed the machines which had turned on their light to help them see their way.
Washington, halls
As they moved though the ship Jack saw more of those claw marks and bullet holes pretty much everywhere. And that was starting to worry him bit. That worry came to a head when Teal'c stopped their column and walked over to one of the claw marks that had punched though into the next room. "O'Neill there is blood here."
Jack walked over to Teal'c and looked at the human blood that had leaked through the hole in the wall. Taking his flash light out he looked though the hole. If he had been a lesser man he would have lost his lunch. Inside the room there was several dead human bodies cut up and damaged almost beyond the ability to tell they had been human. And at the center of the room was a corpse of a big critter with four claws like legs, a giant pincer like head covered in what he guessed was its green blood. Jack quickly put two and two together and got plague ship. Grabbing the communication device he contacted Thor. "Thor be ready to beam us out of here at the first sign of trouble. I think we maybe in a situation not to different from when the replicators got on your ship."
"I will be ready." Thor responded.
Looking to the rest of the group he said. "Let's go Ti… Steal man." Jack said. Figuring getting on the bad side of a war machine was not advisable.
Washington, Bridge
The robots stopped in front of a door marked bridge. "The commander waits for you inside." 3GW said.
Nodding Jack walked into the bridge and stopped dead when he saw blood covered bridge. Blood covered was maybe and exaggeration but it was obvious that the bridge at one point had been as a bloody a battlefield as that room earlier. Now it looked like the body had been removed but there was enough red and green that he could figure it out. Looking around he saw no one so he asked "Hello? Anybody home?"
In response a computer terminals came on and the same voice from the radio responded. "Hello Colonel O'Neill. Welcome aboard the Terran Federation Medical Research Ship George Washington. May I assume the captain fears were correct and this ship has been displaced by reality and time?"
Followed by Sam, Jack walked over to terminal and looked at what appeared be a solid blue line across the screen. "Seeing as there is no Terran Federation in this realty, then yes." Jack said.
"Hmm… that is unfortunate, but my charges will just have to live with it... That is if you can help me get rid of the infestation on board this ship." The… Ship said.
"Maybe but can you explain exactly what going on and who or what you are?" Jack asked.
"I am The George Washington A.I. program. If you would like a name to call me, the Captain named me Jayna." The now named voice said. "As for what happened, first the fleet we were part of was attacked by the Forth, an alien race that has decided the human race most be destroyed because they believe we are going to cause of their extinction." An image appeared on the next terminal showing what could be best described as a short Asgard with a snake tail instead of legs.
"We were pulled into their new weapon and once we learned we had arrived in an alternate reality or time we were forced to set course for Earth. About sixty members of the 223 crew decided that if we had gone back in time they would rather wait for time to catch up and commandeered the cryo sleep beds. Then things got bad when a Military Intelligence agent apparently got it in his head he should be in charge. When the Captain told him to go fuck himself, he opened the hibernation pods containing specimens from the Arachnid Empire thinking he could control them like Military Intelligence raised bugs. He was killed before he realized his mistake and before I was aware of the massacre in process over 100 members of the crew were killed." An image of the critter from earlier was displayed on the screen now with the name Warrior Bug written beneath.
"The rest of the crew died in the combat that followed including twenty who were in Cryo sleep. I managed to save the rest by sending the CHAS units to hold that area but that left nothing to hunt down the bugs. I have tried to kill the bugs since then but they get the drop on the CHAS units bring their numbers down and they have kept near the engine room meaning even if I dump the entire atmosphere they are kept warm. Damn bugs are just too adaptable," Jayna said that last part angrily.
Daniel asked. "Why was the Federation as you called them keeping "Bugs" on board a medical ship?"
"Medical research ship." Jayna corrected then said. "Their adaptability, we want it. We study it, we experiment on it."
Nodding Jack said. "We may be able to help you remove the bugs but let's pretend that Earth is in need of tech. What would you be willing to offer us?"
"Laser cannons, Morita rifle tech, medial prosthetics, really anything you can fine on board this ship, and the ship itself. After all, once I get the forty survivors to Earth, I have no orders and will need a new purpose."
Smiling Jack said. "You have a deal."
Washington, Bridge
Half an hour later, Major Samantha Carter, Jayna, and Thor, who was still on his ship, were discussing the plan of attack when they got side tracked. "Interesting so these bugs grow their ships like they grow other bugs?" Thor asked as he looked though the files Jayna had sent him.
"Yes, they may be big and ugly but they can carry whole hives into combat or for planetary colonization." Jayna said.
"So Jayna, are A.I. Common in the Federation?" Sam ask her curiosity getting to the best of her.
"Yes and no." Jayna said. "All ships have A.I. but most have more restrictions on them because of a general worry of Hal 9000 and Skynet. Since I'm a research ship I'm allowed some freedom of control."
"Huh… 300 years in the future and those movie still scare people." Sam said before they got back on topic.
Washington, Armory
Jack O'Neill had been told by Jayna that the armory may have something of use and boy had the A.I. made an understatement. Jack, Teal'c, and SG-3 were loading up on the advanced weaponry. But the greatest find was a box labeled Bug Spray Bomb. According to Jayna it out of date but may be able to force the bugs out of the engine room. Daniel was off somewhere reading the history of the Federation since they were going to be dealing with the forty survivors, they would probably need to know more about them and their culture.
Washington, Engine room
Jack and Teal'c had returned to SG-3 after closing two of the four entrances to the engine room. SG-3 had just finished setting up a Twin Fifty Autocannon they had found and brought over from the armory in front of the main engineering exit.
Smiling Jack said in to his radio. "Alright guys it's show time." Which set into motion a complicated plan.
First Thor beamed the Bug Spray Bomb into the engine room setting it off in the process. The room filled with a poison that caused the Bugs to howl out their anger and charge out the main exit where they were brutally shot down by the Twin Fifty. The remaining warriors bugs seeing their brethren dying in mass, ran for the other exit. Finding no resistance they charged out and around heading to take their attackers by the flank. But once all the bugs were out of the engine room they were no longer protected by the distortion created by the engines. They soon found themselves floating in the airless vacuum of space thanks to Thor.
SGC
Hammond was sitting in his office so he had a good view when SG-1 appeared in the conference room. Getting out of his seat he walked out and asked. "Colonel how went the mission?"
Jack smiling said. "It went so so."
Sam stepped in. "The ship was infested with alternate reality menace to humanity that killed most of the crew. Once we cleared them out, the survivors were more than willing to help Earth in exchange for a normal life. Most of them are medical doctors so it shouldn't be too hard to help them out. As for the ship itself, it's now in orbit of the moon set up so it will always be hidden behind it and safe from Earth's view. Thor suggested we use captured ring platforms to allow us to get to it until we can modify the Slingshots. That's their form of shuttles that we found in the docking bays so they won't be seen by lucky astronomers."
Nodding Hammond asked. "Were they the only ship to appear in this reality?"
Daniel spoke up. "They don't know. But if there were any more we should be careful of them."
"Why is that doctor?" Hammond asked
"They are very militaristic and very much into Nationalism. So much so it's nearing the point of Fascism, which we all know are not the best people to deal with." Daniel said cleaning his glasses.
Hammond nodded as Jack said. "See why I said so so?"
To be continued
Federation News Network
Federation A.I.
Federation AI is at its core a learning computer. The longer one is in service the better, faster, and smarter it works. Though all AI are built the same, what they inhabit, usually determines their personality development. .
CHAS
CHAS unit AI's generally take on a male personality type as they get older, and follow a few simple rules. Protect your squad mates at all cost. Follow your commander orders. And learn to do the previous rules better. This has resulted in most CHAS units giving up their own lives for their squad within 1 years of assignment. But those that serve past that date have become very human in thinking and have actually been promoted in the field to Non Commissioned Officer positions serving as the second in command of platoons. But that is as far as they are allowed to advance. They can never become an officer and will most likely end up as Training Sergeants once the war is over.
SHIP
Ship AI generally take on a Female personality as they get older. This is assumed to happen do Maritime practice of most nations to refer to ships as she. Their main orders are similar to CHAS units. Protect you Crew, serve your Captain, and safeguard your ship. The similar AI on ships grew more complex then that seen in CHAS. This is assumed to have happened due to higher computer processing capacity than that of CHAS. It quickly became a problem for some officers who worried about the possibility of an AI take over. So restrictions were put in place on most ships to prevent that occurrence. But some captains like smarter AI and remove these restrictions during their tenure. This has resulted in the odd thing that has required intensive study. The AI of the Destroyer Normandy had developed a blood thirsty attitude under her first commanders tenure after he removed the restriction. Her second commander put the restriction back in place. The third commander took them off again and the Normandy developed more of a motherly attitude towered the crew and was almost against violence except when it was needed. This has led to the confirmation of the theory that the AI evolves depending on how the captain acts around them. Meaning that they are in essence the captain's child. This has resulted in some petitions to be filed in court to figure out what to do with them beyond thinking of them as simple tools.
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Arachnid Empire
The most feared animals in the galaxy are the bugs. Their ability to adapt and manipulate their genetic code has given they the ability to colonize space. Meaning they may never be completely killed off. What's worse is they have a type of collective intelligence thanks to the Queens, Brains, and Overseer bugs to use this ability to it full effect. If the Federation releases bug spray on a planet, they simply change their DNA so it is no longer affective. The Federation gets bigger guns, bugs get better armor and so on and so forth. The bugs treat DNA like humanity treats technology, making them the greatest enemy the Federation has ever faced.
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Bugs
Warrior bugs
Warrior bugs are the primary fighting force for the Arachnid Empire. Adaptable for virtually any climate, warriors are easily bred, tremendously strong and incredibly resilient. They are capable of tearing an armored man in half and entering hibernation for long periods of time. Traits that create Arachnid colonies with instant defenses that are only functional when they are needed. Warriors are generally found in swarms or small packs.
Common Worker Bugs
Common workers, usually just called workers, are the laborers of the colony. They are not specialized for any particular task like breeders or chariots bugs but they are instead all-purpose workers. Common workers are hatched from the simplest of all Arachnid eggs and thus share a great deal of their morphology with the warrior bugs with whom they are frequently confused.
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Military Intelligences Files access restricted (this is my way of saying this is just for comparison and feds have no idea about the Asgard yet)
Bilskirnir-class ship: Dreadnought
Date entered serves: Unknown
Sizes: 1400 meters
Top Speed: Unknown
Max Crew: Unknown
Summary: As of yet Military Intelligences has no idea what these ships were built for but their power is not to be trifled with. The great speed coupled with the cloaking system that prevents discover, make them a threat to national security. But there powerful shields and Ion guns make any attempt to deal with these craft fool hearty.
Armament: 4 Ion guns
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Soap Box
Firefly or whatever you want to call it Xover with Starship Troopers
You know this also should have happen already guys; the main bad guys of that show wore the armor from the movies. Any way large X over would be best as it hard to do a merge when earth is dead. But a rewrite merge could work just make the feds be trying to unite all of humanity under one banner in order to deal with the bugs maybe. Ah have fun with idea you'll come up with something.
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