'The Lanteans's made mistakes that you or I would not make during their campaign. This was their first war; they had battles before but their technological superiority lead to their victory in every case'. said Abilana.

The holo-room was now completely black, not even the control pedestal could be seen, as well as everyone in the room. A massive fleet of Leantean warship's appeared in space. There were about 900 of these powerful vessels amassed together.

'When the Lanteans' declared war on the Wraith, they built a fleet of powerful warships – alone they were powerful enough to destroy a Wraith Hive Ship one-on-one. This was the Lanteans' first critical mistake; they chose quantity over quality of vessel. They could've installed better shields, better hyperdrive's, could've made a warship as powerful as Atlantis itself; but that took extra time to construct, they felt more vessels of a lower quality would be better than fewer of higher quality.'

The life like hologram that was all too real changed, a battle was being played out. Above an Earth like planet eight Wraith Hive Ships, 16 Cruisers and 100's of Darts where battling with 19 Lantean Aurora Class warship's. A flurry of darts raced between the Aurora's, firing their small blue energy weapons at the Lanteans' hyperdrive's and drone launcher's trying their best to damage, or better yet destroy them. The blue weapons fire never made it to their desired targets hitting an orange shield that protected the powerful Lantean warships.

The Darts flew in between the action, some flying in intricate formations trying to attack the Lantean ship's, others where between the larger ships trying to intercept the agile, yellow drone's that the Lanteans' used as weapons.

The Lanteans' where in a purely defensive formation trying to defend the heavily populated planet bellow from the Wraith culling, the black of space was lit up with blue and yellow weapons fire, orange shields and explosions from both sides.

Wraith cruisers where manoeuvring fast trying to out-flank their enemy's and to draw fire away from the Hive's that were dealing most of the damage to the Lanteans'.

The Lantean warships where winning against the odds. Their yellow drones moved so fast that the Wraith darts could barely intercept them at all. And when they tried the drones would move out of the way and continue toward their target. The drones hit crucial parts of the Wraith hive ships and cruisers, aiming for weapons, sub-light engines, hyperdrive's and dart bays where the damage would be amplified the most.

Once these were destroyed the drones where tasked with destroying the rest of the ship.

'The Lanteans' spread their numbers out across the galaxy to protect the human inhabited planets. They took a purely defensive approach, which was yet another critical mistake; without going on the offensive they gave their enemy time to reorganise and rebuild. Secondly they built their vessels as tanks; they were very powerful but they were big and difficult to manoeuvre. If they had built smaller, faster and more manoeuvrable ships they would have gained an advantage over the Wraith, being able to deal vast amounts of damage while receiving little because they were too hard to hit. Their speed and agility would've been a defence as powerful as their shields.'

Slowly the Lanteans' defeated the Wraith ships, they themselves had lost a few in the battle but the Wraith were losing much more; it was clear now the outcome of this battle. The Wraith fleet reorganised, the Darts returned to their Hives and the cruisers defended the hive ships until they had safely made the jump to hyperspace. Followed by what remained of the Wraith cruisers.

'Yet another mistake the Lanteans' made was using the 'drone weapons' as you call them, as their primary weapons. They should have used energy based weapons which emitted radiation instead, the radiation would, in high enough concentrations destroy their organic hulls at a much faster rate, while they used the drones to inflict precise damage such as disabling hyperdrive's.'

The hologram changed to a self automated factory with Lanteans' using the control consoles. This was the construction factory of drones; it appeared to be just like an assembly line. The outer shells of drones could be seen moving around in mid air on one side, and the insides of them such as small crystals could be seen on the other side.

'Despite all their mistakes, their technological superiority gave them a big enough advantage to see them through to victory, so it seemed.'

'The Lanteans' where winning the war and the Wraith would surely lose, seeing this the Wraith changed their tactics and started to travel in mass; they sought protection in their numbers. They retreated to their now ever decreasing territory where they were where safest. The Wraiths defensive tactics naturally shifted the war, putting the Lanteans' on the offensive. They laid siege on the Wraith territory, as time went by the Wraith lost more and more ground; the Lanteans' victory was only a matter of time.'

'To speed along the process the Lanteans' installed Zed.P.M's aboard their vessels of war. With the increased power their speed and power increased tenfold, sending their now near invincible ships deeper and deeper into the Wraith territory the Wraiths defeat only hastened.'

The hologram changed again to a single Lantean warship battling two Wraith hive ships and four cruisers. A constant exchange of yellow and blue weapons fire was sent between the two, the yellow resulted in a bright white explosion as it hit the hull of the Wraith ships, the blue resulted in a orange flare from the Lantean shield; with it being powered by the ZPM it could easily take the weapons fire.

'Something happened though, the tide of war turned. The Wraiths numbers before estimated roughly 5,000 had grown into the millions. With their population boom new ships where created at an alarming speed putting the Lanteans' back on the defensive.'

'The technological advantage they had didn't matter, for the Wraiths numerical superiority was more of an advantage. The Lanteans' still won almost every battle, but the losses they sustained, although small accumulated over the years. They were losing ships and territory fast. The Lanteans' continued to defend the human population still, thus spreading their forces to thin, only hastening their losses.'

'The Lanteans' defeat was now emanate. There was a limit to their numbers and resources, unlike the Wraith whom appeared to have limitless.'

The hologram showed Aurora class warships being destroyed by Wraith weapon fire. It showed them self destructing taking their enemy's with them, showed them going on a suicide run's to the closest hive ship colliding with them; the Lanteans' were losing ships.

'Slowly history repeated itself, but the tables turned. The Lanteans' lost all their gained territory, slowly being pushed back by the never ending Wraith numbers until only Atlantis remained.'

The hologram morphed into the Atlantis' star system, one of the planets glowed blue signalling that it was the planet that Atlantis was on. Smaller blue dots littered the system; powerful defence satellites.

'A powerful satellite weapon network protected this system that kept the Wraith at bay for years, until they eventually broke through and only a single shield stood in the way of victory for the Wraith'

One by one the blue dots that represented the satellite weapons disappeared.

'Atlantis' powerful city shield resisted their weapons for weeks at a time before the power module's had to be changed, to save power they submerged the city to the ocean floor allowing the shield to last longer than it ever could on the surface.'

The hologram showed Atlantis on the bottom of the blue ocean floor. The lights from the towers lit up the ocean around it, the shield that was holding back the ocean could be seen. The Lanteans' could have thought it was a beautiful sight if it wasn't under such circumstances.

'The Lanteans' were desperate to beat the Wraith; they explored technological options such as sub-space distortion, creating artificial life and diseases. But it proved futile. The war could have still been won easily though, they still possessed a stargate to travel to other worlds, they possessed the technology to rebuild in secret; but they never did. They eventually left Atlantis and the galaxy all together to go to Earth. Their will crushed, they went back to Earth to just die.'

'It is a sad story; their lack of experience in war was their doom. Ironic that war wins wars...'

Finished Abilana as the hologram disappeared, the room returned to its original state; the walls, control pedestal where Abilana stood and the door could be seen once again.

..

Rao stood on the bridge of the powerful O'Neill class warship that belonged to the Asgard. Small, gray Asgard scurried around the ship hard at work trying to end a 200 year war that has brought countless amounts destruction to them.

Rao and Forseti had escaped the exploding Daniel Jackson class science vessel, which had been taken over by a Replicator, safely in the UFO escape pod. The pod had taken them straight to the stargate on the planet where they 'gated to an Asgard out post; luckily for them they had gotten what they needed from the ship before it had exploded, a line of code that was needed for their plan to destroy every Replicator once and for all.

With all they need for their plan, the Asgard were quickly preparing. Every capable vessel's weapons were being modified to shoot the sub-space disruptor pulses at the Replicators instead of the blue energy weapons the Asgard normally used.

Also every Asgard mind was being downloaded as a 'just in case plan', so the ones who died in this battle could be 'brought back to life' in a new clone body.

The plan was to amplify the command code that they had gained from the human-form Replicator through sub-space so every Replicator in the galaxy would pick it up. The Replicators would come to this old and lifeless star system that the Asgard had chosen for this historical moment to take place, unaware that the Asgard are laying in ambush.

On the bridge the commander of the O'Neill received a message from the Supreme Commander himself; Thor "The signal has been broadcasted. It is estimated that the Replicators will arrive in two hours." He warned. The fate of the Asgard would be decided in the coming hours...

Authors notes:

Sorry that this one's a bit short, but life just got complicated and busy again so I won't be able to write as frequently. But I'll still write when I get the chance.

I want to keep on writing because the confrontation between the 'unnamed enemy' is soon to come, and its going to be EPIC.

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