Chapter 10
A Wall of Lighting
DAY 2
Tilma , Eastern Tilmasa Forest [2002/MAY/4] 7:00
Arnak looked down at the city that had the gall to stand up to a god with slight confusion. As the night came the day before, a rider carrying a white flag had come up to his men out in the open and unarmed. Thinking he was there to ask for terms of surrender, he had let the rider speak. It turned out he had been sent to discuss a cease fire over the course of the night so both sides could gather their wounded and dead and to exchange any prisoners. At first Arnak had wanted to say no but the deal would save Jaffa lives as any wounded Jaffa the enemy found, would be considered prisoners and would receive treatment so they could get their own men back. Not willing to kick a gift horse in the mouth he had agreed. Sure Svarog had not liked it at first but he had convinced him that they may learn valuable Intel from those that had been held by the enemy.
It also allowed for another 1,000 Jaffa to come from Govreg, Svarog's capital planet via the star gate and had given his Jaffa time to rest from the fighting yesterday. Now that morning was here, the fighting would resume and by tonight, with the aid from Govreg they would have this world.
Tilma , over Eastern Tilmasa Forest [2002/MAY/4] 8:20
Alypia Aurelia wiped the sleep out of her eyes as she flew over the forest looking for easy targets. Since the enemy had started to win the air war, the fighters had been told to keep the enemy off balance and not to fly strait into the hornets' nest. Even if a fighter took down three gliders before it went down there were two more waiting. Not good odds for risking air craft when the info the fire foxes sent back was the only things keeping the ground war going in their favor.
As she was about to put the fighter in a lazy turn to head North, a plasma bolt hit the Fire Fox, from what she guessed, was some sort of anti-personnel cannon repurposed for anti-aircraft work. "HOLD ON!" She screamed as the Fighter crashed in to the forest below. She smacked her head on a console as the craft's wing smashed into a tree and lost consciousness.
Alypia later woke up, along with several other prisoners who had not been traded back, in a cell in one of the Ha'taks near the Stargate. Her gunner was nowhere to be seen. She hoped he had gotten away but she just didn't know.
Govreg, Stargate [2002/MAY/4] 9:14
T'al stood with the other Jaffa waiting to be deployed to this world that had dared to defy a God, when the Chappa'ai opened indicating incoming travelers. The Jaffa raised their weapons just in case it was an enemy. A mechanical creature bent low stepped though on two legs. It had no arms but had two multiple barrel guns in their place. T'al eyes widened as he realized what was about to happen but was not fast enough to warn his comrades. The guns of the beast let loose. Its fire chopping the Jaffa up like a hot knifes through butter.
T'al ducked behind a standing stone as another beasts stepped through, joining the first in clearing area of the Jaffa. T'al stayed hidden and backed into the woods. He watched as more of the beasts came through dragging several craft behind them loaded with soldiers. The craft then deployed fans that had been folded on the top so it could be dragged though the Chappa'ai. They then took off headed in the direction of the City. T'al decided he better head for the city and report what had happened so he made a hasty retreat.
Govreg, Capital City [2002/MAY/4] 9:30
Major Caius Lucretius Merula of the Mobile Infantry Fifth Brigade sat behind the cockpit of the F90-3 Pegasus Combat Skimmer as it headed over the streets looking for a good deployment zone for the squad who waited for their first off world combat. The Jaffa below fired at the craft flying over their city but the Anti-Plasma coating dealt with most of the damage. As the Skimmer came to a stop and landed at the steps of a palace, he had the landing ramp lower, then Caius deployed his squad out with the squads from three other skimmers that landed there. The Jaffa came charging at them firing their staff weapons, in response the 4 squads deployed their shield wall blocking the plasma bolts and began firing back at the Jaffa mowing them down.
As the Jaffa tried to get into cover, two M9 Chickenhawk Marauders came loping up behind them and leveled them with the fire from their twin six barrel rotary cannons. As soon as the Jaffa lay dead in the street the Chickenhawks moved on looking for their next prey. Caius smiled as he heard the gun fire throughout the city knowing that the city would be in the hands of the Fifth Brigade. The first conquest of the Federation in this new reality.
Velo Black Hole, TFS DD-136 Fremont, Bridge [2002/MAY/4] 11:30
Rear Admiral Edmond Tromblay sat in the captains chair looking out at the fleet that had gathered. Along with his own Destroyer there was the DD-120 Cindy Lin, two Corvette Carriers, (the CVC-1034 Doolittle and the CVC-05 Red Baron), four Escort Corvettes , the (ECV-08 through 11 Gelun, Ethon, Jokell, Stukkend) and two Corvette Troop Transports (the CVT-001 Volia and the CVT-002 Saratoga). He pretty much brought everything in the Federation but he did realize that this could end badly, so he left a few ships behind to keep an eye out.
Velo Black Bole was a small compared to most they had found but it was able to get them to Tilma in five days instead of the ten day trip it would take with normal FTL.
As he was about to ask for a check up on the first squadrons progress, the space in front of his ship was ripped opened by a subspace window. "Holy Shit, get us of the way!" He said as his helmsmen pulled the ship up out of the way of… "The hell?!" He said looking out the window as the First Squadron came out of the window tied together by the docking clamps and tow cables.
"Get the Walker on the line now!" He said awed and annoyed at the same time.
Before his communication man could put the call through, Mayo came on his screen. She had appeared by her own volition. "Ed guess what I found?"
"… You scavenged a Goa'uld subspace engine from a destroyed ship." He said not amused.
"You know? You are no fun." Mayo said annoyed.
"I'll be fun when we save Tilma. How many ships can you tie to that engine?" Edmond asked.
"Three comfortably. Four if we have to. But I wouldn't recommend we do that again." Mayo said looking at a hull read out. "It was a very shaky ride but the advantage is we could be at Tilma by tomorrow morning and not next week."
"Alright get your squadron unhooked. We'll hook the Fremont and the Cindy Lin on then head straight for Tilma." Edmond said, a smile forming on his face.
Tilma , Eastern Tilmasa Forest [2002/MAY/4] 12:30
Jake Silva smiled behind his helmet's visor as he dropped down behind a group of Jaffa and fired several round from his TW-99-S Belcher Shotgun, killing two Jaffa instantly. As the others tuned to fire he activated his jump jets to get above them and fired again taking out another and landing in front of the rest. He switched the Belcher to fully automatic, ending the conflict quickly. As he checked over the bodies he spoke into a recorder the Admiral had told him to carry to jaunt down any ideas he had. "Too bad we don't have the ability to make more power armor yet. We would win a war against these guys in a few months, well that's not quite right. We would win sooner or later, hmm… note to self look into the old M-1A4, and M-1S7 Stayker armors. They would be better than the M-1F3 Raider Light armor we're using now."
Govreg, Capital City [2002/MAY/4] 13:50
Brigadier General Kaeso Titurius Aquila Stepped down from his command Skimmer and looked up at the palace. Someone had climbed to the roof and put the Fifth's Flag up for all to see. "Hmm I'm going to have to get that for myself." He said as he walked over to several of his officers. "Alright, I want you guys to round up all the pillars of the committee and any military. We can't have them setting up a resistance before we even have a victory." Kaeso then went on. "Also, find the mayor or whatever and throw him though the gate to Tilma. Maybe we can draw some of their troops back here."
Kaeso then looked up to the Flag again. "And get me that flag, a memento like that just can't be passed up."
Earth, SGC, Gate room [2002/MAY/4] 14:10
General Hammond was having Walter dial P2A-036 hoping to make contact with SG-2. As the Stargate engaged he heard Walter calling for Major Michael Griff, wait a moment and then call again. Then over the radio came. "SGC this is SG-2 good to hear from you guys." There was an audible sigh of relief from around the room.
"SG-2 this is General Hammond what is your situation?" Hammond said glad to hear his soldier's voice.
"Well, we're better than we were yesterday Sir. Right now we're in the besieged Tilmasa, a major city on P2A-036 or Tilma as the locals call it and their putting the Goa'uld though the ringer. Apparently they are part of the Terran Federation."
Hammond moved his head in confusion. "Come again, did you just say the Terran Federation?"
"Yes Sir. I'll tell you all about it when we're back home but from what I have been able to learn several other ships appeared and believing Earth was around the industrial revolution, decided to set up shop out here."
"Roger that Major, is there anything we can do to get you home?"
"No Sir, we're dependant on this Federation for our escape unfortunately."
"Alright Major, stay safe, Hammond out." He said giving the signal to close the gate.
Tilma, the outskirts of Tilmasa [2002/MAY/4] 16:10
Arnak walked behind some of his soldiers as they made the final push into the city. Soon this fight would be over and he could give his god a victory he deserved. As he took another step, he heard something whining like it was charging up. He looked around and saw several lamp posts coming on. "Why are those coming on…" He realized something was up and yelled to the Jaffa in front of him. But it was too late as wall of manmade lightning fried and boiled them alive then began jumping from one armored soldier to the next.
"Retreat!" He called knowing the enemy enough to figure this was just the beginning. And he was right because four more of those trucks from yesterday came driving out of corner streets in front of them and began to fire at the Jaffa who had entered the city before the wall went up massacring them. The Jaffa, for the most part, managed to escape the onslaught and the Death Gliders and Al'kesh would go on to destroy the trucks and damage the lightning fence. But Arnak would have to call off the attack so they could replenish their losses with reinforcements from Govreg for at least an hour.
Tilma, Tilmasa, Third Brigade headquarters [2002/MAY/4] 16:20
Brigadier General Stu T'rock stood on a tower near the eastern side of the city and smiled as he looked out at the edge of the forest. The Stalwart bug field generators had worked as advertised and the enemy had been sent back to the forest with the tail between their legs. He was now glad that the Tilmasa council had decided to spend their money to get that tech from the Federation, even if it didn't give them much in the way of offensive capability compared to the other planet in the Federation. It sure was coming in damned handy today. Looking through his binoculars, Stu saw the enemy using their bombers to destroy the heavy Geckos. It was a loss they really couldn't afford since that meant he had only one of the armored cars left since most of them had been taken North with the National Army. Sighing he muttered. "We bought ourselves some time. I can only hope we can make good use of it."
Things were starting to get desperate. A good portion of the army, mainly from the 9th regiment, had decided to desert, believing that the Third could not hold the city and that they would have a better chance fighting a guerilla war or just not fighting at all. Add in the wounded, dead, and captured, he only had about 2,700 soldiers left. The enemy on the other hand had somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000, maybe a little less thanks to the bug field. Which their bombers were now trying to tear down. "Huh, that's about what I figured they'd do." He thought as the anti-aircraft cannons they had hidden in the city began to fire up at the enemy trying to force the craft away with varying success.
"Tell the troopers to take up defensive positions near the breaches in the field and kill any Jaffa who try to enter through them." Stu said. It would take the Jaffa well into the night to make a hole in the wall big enough for them to enter so until then he just had to make sure that where ever the electric wall was open, there was a wall of bullets waiting for Jaffa.
Tilma Northern Ha'tak landing site, Svarog command ship [2002/MAY/4] 18:12
Svarog stewed in his anger. This planet's people apparently had off world allies and they had organized an invasion through the Stargate. How could they even pull that off? He had no idea. An invasion through the Stargate was almost always a failure because you could not provide air support for the ground forces. But apparently they had been able to bring something through and assembled them afterwards. They even had the gall to send his old first prime through to tell him this information and challenge him. Well so be it. He had sent a message to the four Ha'taks that were heading to Tilma so that two of them would turn and head back to Govreg.
And he was going to take a little revenge on the Tilmamen or whatever they called themselves too. He had sent out an order to transfer several hundred of the prisoners to Anubis' hands in order to gain some favors from him. He didn't care what happened to the prisoners, he just wanted some reinforcements for his battle here.
Tilma, Eastern Ha'tak landing site, prisoner cells [2002/MAY/4] 18:30
Alypia Aurelia heard yelling and then her Jaffa captors ordered everyone in the halls. Then they marched the prisoners to the rings where they were transported down in front of the gate. Everyone realized what was about to happen as the gate opened. They began to struggle resulting in several prisoners being shot. The survivors were gathered together, including Alypia Aurelia, and pushed through the gate to an unknown fate.
Day 3
Tilma, the outskirts of Tilmasa [2002/MAY/5] 7:10
Arnak watched as the Al'kesh came in for another bombing run on the fence that kept his Jaffa out. It had taken all night to get an opening in the wall, a task that should have taken half that time. But apparently they had more of those towers hidden under the street that came up to fill the holes in the wall.
Well it didn't matter now, his Jaffa were free to attack. He gave the order to his command and his Jaffa came out of the woods charging the enemy city. As he was about to walk down to the city he received word that the two Ha'tak had arrived. This would end today.
Tilma, Tilmasa, barricade on main street [2002/MAY/5] 7:30
Major Michael Griff fired the TW-201-A he had borrowed from one of the troopers. His M4 had run dry a few minutes ago but he was not going to complain. This gun worked as good as M4 only with a lot more kick. Griff and his squad had decided that they were dead if they fought or hid so they might as well fight. So here they were on the wall firing their borrowed guns at a wall of Jaffa that were firing back surrounded by a lot of desperate soldiers doing the same. Well it could be worse, the enemy could be bombarding them from orbit.
Tilma orbit, [2002/MAY/5] 7:55
As the two Ha'taks came in to a stable orbit over Tilmasa to bombard the city, not caring about the anti-ship fire coming up at them, a subspace rip appeared behind.
Edmond smiled as the he felt a bump run though the ship as the destroyers detached from each other, their docking clamps and tow cables slowly pulling into their hulls. Wasting no time he hooked the tactical read out to the Third Brigade headquarters and decided how to deal with the Goa'uld.
"Fremont to Walker and Cindy Lin launch your heavy slingshots to engage the enemy ships that landed near the Stargate. I will send my own to engage the North and the two of you will attack the two in orbit."
"Roger that, Admiral!" Was the response of Captain Jonathan Drake as his ship moved off to engage the ships. Followed by Captain Mayo Shinya saying. "Don't do it Ed! I know what you're thinking! Don't do it."
Edmond smiled and said. "I have no idea what you going on about." Then proceeded to do exactly what she was thinking.
He tapped his helmsman on the shoulder and said. "Unless you know what the Freemont gambit is, I would suggest you leave your seat." Being she was a Talmarkian and had only joined his crew a month ago, she had no idea what he was going on about. But he was the Admiral so she got up and left her seat. Edmond sat down and grabbing his com said though ship wide. "This is the Admiral speaking. Hold on tight and don't look out the windows." And he engaged the engines at a rather unsafe speed for re-entry.
Tilma forest, behind Jaffa lines [2002/MAY/5] 7:58
Jake Silvia looked up as he heard a rather loud screech from the Eastern sky. Looking East he saw a destroyer coming in fast. "Too fast…almost like….oh no, the Goa'uld are screwed!" Jake thought with a smile as the destroyer turned upside down bringing her main guns into line with the Ha'tak. With dazzling crimson lasers bursts, the tops of the Ha'tak were sheared off as they were not prepared for assault from the air. Grinning Jake saw four Slingshots come in behind to take the Stargate and then he saw the destroyer had yet to turn right side up though it was staring to slow down. Not that that will help unless the pilot was crazy lucky. He thought it was it was going to crash into the hillside. As he watched the destroyer flew toward the hills around Tilmasa and without making any course corrections. Its shields took out the trees at the top and flew out of his line of sight.
"Damn… I guess I really should have looked up the pilot back then now I have to wonder if that standard training or the same guy." Jake muttered.
Tilmasa, barricade on main street [2002/MAY/5] 8:02
Griff looked up when a low flying ship came in over the city and began to fire Crimson lasers down at the perimeter of the city incinerating anything they touched. The Death Glider and Al'kesh turned to attack the ship but were hit by smaller anti-aircraft lasers. "Well that's one way to make an entrance." He said as most of the Jaffa had stopped to look up when the ship arrived giving a slight lull in the battle which the Third Brigade was happy to use. With a roaring of rifles Jaffa began falling like stones. Then Griff heard something he did not expect from people who seemed to like to fight from cover.
The call "CHARGE!" went up and soldiers broke from hiding running at the Jaffa only pausing to fire a burst at the Jaffa every now and then. Griff stood up and watched as the Jaffa, thrown into disarray, were pushed back down the street towards the edge of town. Griff looked up again looking for the name of the ship figuring he should find out to whom that ship belongs to and thank them.
Tilma Orbit, TFS DD-163 Walker, Bridge [2002/MAY/5] 8:06
Captain Mayo smiled as her ship blasted the shields of the enemy craft into submission. The Cindy Lin had already destroyed their enemy ship but Mayo had a reputation to keep. So as the shields fell, she had her destroyer to forcibly dock. She was going to get another Sub space engine for her name. She looked at the screen and sighed as she saw a playback of the Fremont and wished Ed would stop doing that maneuver.
Tilma, Over Tilmasa [2002/MAY/5] 8:06
Edmond let go of the controls and yelled back. "Clean that mess up!" At the two individuals who had puked from flying upside down. Technically they were right side up thanks to the gravity created by the Fremont but they had looked out the windows which crossed a few wires in their brains. Getting up from his seat he said. "Organize a landing party. Let's go teach these guys why you don't fuck with the Federation".
Northern Ha'tak landing site [2002/MAY/5] 8:10
Svarog was trying to find out what was happening at the Stargate. The last thing he had heard was that a ship was coming into orbit before he had lost all contact with both ships. When he was about to order his ship back into orbit the doors behind him blew opened and Soldiers in black and white stripes charged into the room killing his guards. They ordered him on the ground so Svarog lazily raised his hand planning to simply blow them away and walk over to the emergency ring platform. But three knives impaled his hand destroying his Kara Kesh. Then the Soldier tackled him to the ground in short order. "Unhand me! I'm your god!"
"Sorry but no, my god is the Christian one." Said Brigadier General Timothy Simpson, Commander of the 7th Brigade, as he entered the room looking at the golden walls. "But thanks for telling us you're the leader. Now we know who to prosecute for this atrocity. Take him to the slingshot and hold him there."
Tilmasa [2002/MAY/5] 8:20
Arnak had tried to rally his Jaffa but with the Soldiers pushing his forces into the red beams of death waiting on the outskirts of the city. If the reports he was getting from the Jaffa at the Chappa'ai and from the capital ship were right, he had no choice. He ordered his warriors to surrender. It was better to live to fight another day then die for nothing.
Tilma Stargate [2002/MAY/5] 13:50
Major Michael Griff and SG-2 were walking from the slingshot that had brought them back to the gate to finally head home. It looked like he was going to be having a conversation with an Officer who was standing in front of the gate with several black and white striped Soldiers first. Griff approached the man and said. "Major Michael Griff, SGC, USA, Earth. And you are?"
The man smiled and said. "Rear Admiral Edmond Tromblay, 7th Fleet, Terran Federation, Earth. So Earth is further along than we thought. You guys already embroiled in the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance-Chinese Hegemony War?"He asked looking at their weapons to determine about what decade they were from.
"Um no, its 2002 should we be worried about that?" Griff said curious.
"Maybe, the war began in 2041 but the roots of the war are as early as the 1980 when China started to invade Middle Eastern countries. So if that hasn't happen yet it probably won't happen." Edmond said then asked. "What is the current date other then 2002?"
"It's May 5th." Griff said as he processed that bit of info.
"Hmm… Okay. Well, assuming you're willing to give us the gate address for Earth, how about we hold a meeting on June 25th? That should give us plenty of time to fix up Tilmasa and handle the Jaffa was it?" He asked a nearby Soldier who nodded. "And also give you time to let your allies know we're coming for a meet and greet. Sound good to you?" Edmond asked extending his hand for a shake.
"I'm just a Soldier but as far as I'm concerned it sounds fine to me. I'll tell my commander and let him decide." Griff said taking the hand and shaking it.
Tilma Stargate [2002/MAY/11]
Arnak and several hundred Jaffa were standing in front of the Stargate. they were the first batch of warriors being sent back to Govreg since there were too many for the Federation to hold on before they were sent home they were being held here to see something.
As he was about to take a guess what was happening by looking at the strange contraption on the stage next to the stargate, several Soldiers marched out pulling Svarog with them then pushed him head first in to the contraption. A Soldier took out a pad and started to read ."For the mass murder of many of Third's troopers and the Invasion of Tilmasa…" He continued on listing several other offences while Svarog yelled he was their god demanding to be let go. Some of the Jaffa stared daggers at their captures but they could do nothing with the guards pointing their guns at them ready to fire. "Svarog of the Goa'uld Empire is to be sent home after his execution by guillotine." On that word a blade hidden from view above Svarog's head, fell cutting it from his body which fell into a basket. As the body was dragged away and dumped in a shallow grave, the Soldier read the last bit off the pad, "What follows is a message to the Goa'uld Empire. From now on, all Goa'uld found on Federation planets without our permission, will be executed and sent home since death has no meaning to them. However, the guillotine will be used only on Goa'uld who have committed crimes against the Federation and their body will not be returned to assure that they stay dead when they are sent back."
to be continued
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M9 Chickenhawk
M9 Chickenhawk Marauder The main fire support platform of the Mobile Infantry Chickenhawk Marauders are just as likely to be found mixedwithin power suit squads as their larger cousins, the M8 Apes. Capable of being fitted with a variety of weaponry, the M9 is faster and more lightly armored than the Ape but has a considerably harder punch and at greater ranges. A small squad of Chickenhawks will not simply hold off an Arachnid swarm—they will drive it back and annihilate every bug present, sparing only those smart enough to retreat underground.
Weapons/Equipment: An M9 Marauder NCO is equipped with a Javelin missile launcher, a Six barrel rotary cannon and a Lizard Line.
Blizzard Missile Pack
9 Inferno Support Flamer or Twin Fifty auto-cannon & Utility Claws
F90-3 Pegasus Combat Skimmer
F90-3 Pegasus Combat Skimmer is just a F90-2 modified to go through the gate.
F90-2 Pegasus Combat Skimmer
SICON recognizes the need for both high-speed response and air support for the Mobile Infantry. With this in mind, the F90-2 Pegasus combat skimmer has been developed. Capable of serving as a mobile command center in much the same way as the GK-12 Gecko APC, the Pegasus is considerably faster, more maneuverable, and is smaller than many Fleet fighter craft. While the Pegasus does not have any mounted weapons systems it does have the capacity to carry two Piranha jet skis or two Sprite reconnaissance skimmers as well as a Bullfrog combat dingy. The F90-2 Pegasus combat skimmer is becoming the workhorse of many a Mobile Infantry squad.
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TW-99-S Belcher Shotgun
Belcher Shotgun is a auto shot gun produced for the engineers, other than that it does not see much serves as under slung shotguns are more common then under slung grenade launcher but it kept around mainly for it full auto ability.
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Stalwart bug field generators
Stalwart Bug Field Generators Bug Field Generators are a defensive measure designed to protect Mobile Infantry positions and emplacements. They consist of a relay of field emitters (portable metal pillars approximately twice the height of a man). These generate a powerful electrical charge covering the area between each pillar so can be used to form a perimeter or defensive line. The Arachnids' sensitive antennae can detect the field and find its frequency particularly unpleasant and so generally stay away. However, in a frenzy the Arachnids will still attack the fields. Contact with the field converts its charge to an explosive shock, incinerating bugs as they hurl themselves at the line. Notable weaknesses of the Stalwart include the lack of protection underground, leaving positions vulnerable to tunneling attacks but particularly strong tanker sub-species have also been known to pass through the field unharmed.
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M-1S7 Stayker armor
The M-1S7 is a version of power suit used on earth like planets. It is not sealed to the environment but still provides all the major benefits of a powered suit.
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