Here's the next chapter for you all, questions will be answered and others will be asked. Note: Sergeant Major Richards is the property of DaniWilder, so thanks for letting me borrow him. Echidna however is mine, and so are any of the ships that I proudly create.

I intend to look at all reviews and try to clear up any questions you may have, so if you have any stick them in your reviews and i will try to answer them without giving the game away at the start of each new chapter.

A thank you to Scotius for letting me bounce ideas off you, the design is probably much better now than when i started it.

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Langara – Kelowna Republic Capital City

It was early evening in the Kelownan capital city, with the low sun balanced on the edge of the horizon seemingly threatening to fall off the invisible line. In a top secret location the planets stargate dialled, and once the correct codes were received and verified an iris similar to that on Earths stargate retracted revealing the shimmering puddle of the event horizon. At the same time the iris retracted panels on the floor opened and a long thick metal bar rose from the floor. One end was situated millimetres away from the event horizon while the other end had travelled away from the stargate to the mouth of one of the many tunnels leading out of the gate room where it connected seamlessly to another bar. From the stargate shot out a monorail car followed by a half dozen cargo cars, which proceeded to hurtle along the rail and quickly disappeared into the tunnel. The monorail continued on along the tunnel for a short distance until it came to a halt when it reached an underground station where ten armed soldiers were waiting on both platforms to meet the train and inspect the contents. As the soldiers approached the train the doors on either side of the last two cars slid open a crack and two small silver balls shot out of the cars onto both platforms before the doors slammed shut again. A wave of blinding white erupted from each of the balls and every guard on the platforms collapsed, unconscious before they hit the ground. In the control room overlooking the station technicians were still reeling from the effects of the weakened stun waves, and trying to desperately fight off unconsciousness while the train had begun to move again after disconnecting the last two cars in the line. As the train disappeared into the tunnel the doors on the cars slid open and twenty leather clad men and women carrying rifles poured from each of the carriages onto the platforms and towards the doors leading deeper into the complex.

On the far outskirts of the city were several installations dedicated for material processing and manufacturing purposes. It was in one of these locations that a monorail tunnel, capped by heavy trinium doors, emerged at ground level. To the surprise of the nearby base personnel the doors to the tunnel slid open just as a familiar cargo train shot out of the tunnel mouth. The thoughts of the non-military personnel were that they hadn't received the usual announcement of the train's imminent arrival. The thoughts of the military personnel were that the train hadn't been expected and for some reason it was missing two cargo containers. But these thoughts immediately fled their minds as the doors of the cargo cars opened and twenty armed men and women charged out of each car towards the main buildings. The rifles they were carrying immediately came into play as they fired at anyone who tried to shout out or even move towards or away from the invading forces. Red energy bolts spat from the weapons of both the invaders and the staunch defenders as the two forces engaged each other. Civilians unable to react fast enough were mowed down as they attempted to turn and run, while the mass forces of, what appeared to be, Lucian Alliance troops took losses as they felt the pressure of too many people and not enough cover to make use of. The defending troops were scattered around the tunnel entrance which meant that while the Lucian Alliance troops charged forwards they were protected by the train from half of the defending forces and they were seemed determined to press that advantage.

The defending forces were quickly being brought down by the unrelenting fire of the attackers. Out of the fifteen soldiers that had stood to face the eighty strong enemy forces only six were still standing after the first volley, and those surviving members were quickly succumbing to enemy fire despite finding cover behind whatever unloading equipment happened to be around. Unfortunately that was the very reason that they were taking such heavy losses, most of the first casualties had occurred when the defenders had dived for covered and found none. As it stood the Lucian forces were quickly advancing through the scattered and disused equipment picking off the few survivors where they stood and having taken few losses in return. Only four of their men were down and that was only the result of the first team charging into the attackers having fallen to a chance ambush. That was the only lucky break that the defenders got before a lone squad snuck around a pile of crates and brought down the last Kelownan soldier in a hail of red bolts.

By this point the rest of the defending forces in the immediate area had made it to the train and were climbing through the carriages and bringing their own weapons to bear. A salvo of red erupted from the carriages as they opened fire on the retreating Lucian figures, catching a team of four with their backs turned, while simultaneously the inside of the control car briefly lit up as the Kelownans engaged the operating crew.

The situation in the stargate facility was pretty bleak. The Lucian forces were advancing deeper and deeper into the facility and they had taken the defence teams completely by surprise. The Lucians had quickly taken down any resistance between the station and the station control room. This allowed them to remotely open the tunnel exit and allow the main force to invade the construction facility.

With this objective accomplished the other force were working on completing their own objective, taking the stargate control room. Working in teams of four the Lucians spread deeper into the complex preparing to assault the control room from multiple directions. Advancing in pairs, while the other two covered their advance, the teams moved further along the corridors, quickly neutralising any threats they encountered. The teams soon met up at the ends of the corridor leading to the control with a team staying at the end of each corridor to guard against any reinforcements that may turn up. By now the alarm had been raised and the defence teams were beginning to respond to the threat, but it was already too late.

The three teams charged down the corridor to the armoured door to the control room. Placing a C4 charge on the door the teams quickly retreated before the charge detonated, the shaped charge sending a sizeable amount of shrapnel into the control room and a fair amount of smoke into the corridor. The teams quickly advanced on the ruined door, one person throwing another stun grenade into the hole in the door before the rest of the team moved to pull the door open while the other two teams covered them. When the twisted remains of the door were pried open the teams advanced into the control room firing at anything that was still moving. The teams quickly moved to the DHD by the viewing window with control consoles on either side. Dialling up an address into the DHD they briefly established a wormhole long enough to send a signal through.

Once this was done the group leader pulled out a radio, "Attention all forces. Control room has been seized, conformation signal has been sent."

This message was sent out on a wide band frequency which meant that everyone in the facility received it. The invaders wanted the defending forces to know that they had complete control of the facility now and that reinforcements would most likely soon be on the way through the stargate.

The wall of firepower from the still standing defending Kelownans taking cover in the train quickly ceased when they received the signal that the stargate facility had been taken over. Standing up from their crouched position they powered down their weapons to the minimal setting before walking over to the troops they had shot.

A groaning soldier rolled over, having been shot in the back from the Kelownan counter attack. The leathers he was wearing having made the rough landing a little easier but not by much. Looking up he grimaced at the smug looking Kelownan standing over him but grasped the helping hand firmly as he was pulled back to his feet.

He groaned again, "Damn it that smarts."

The Kelownan chuckled, "Be glad the thing wasn't set to maximum. Believe me getting shot by an intar set to maximum hurts like hell afterwards, and that's after you wake up."

"Well since you haven't taken a second shot I'm guessing its game over?"

"Yep we lose. Shame really I still think we could have taken the rest of your buddies down," was the cocky reply he received.

The marine, who had been pretending to be a Lucian and was still feeling the intar shot, snorted. "I doubt it. They may have been taken down eventually but not by your group. Fifteen SG teams versus fifteen Kelownan soldiers, sounds a like Little Big Horn to me."

The Kelownans only response was a raised eyebrow at the alien reference so the marine quickly translated. "You were outnumbered and you were going to get your asses kicked."

The Kelownan sighed in defeat. "I guess your right, and more are probably on the way now that the facility is captured. Oh and I think you'll find its less than fifteen since you and your buddies were taken out of the picture."

The marine's only response was to lean heavily on the Kelownan as he hobbled back to the barracks. For a weapon designed to be non-lethal those intar's really packed a punch.

In a room filled with video monitors back in the stargate facility two men stood watching the two forces helping each other to their feet and heading back to the barracks to recover.

Jonas Quinn sighed. "Ok Colonel I see your point, we really need to overhaul security."

Colonel Reynolds turned away from a monitor showing the platform covered in unconscious Kelownan soldiers. "I think adding a few new security measures should certainly improve your chances of repelling a security threat. We should also upgrade the defences around the gate room, not to mention replacing the control room doors with trinium ones."

"You mean like the ones they were still trying to get for the SGC before I left?" asked the Langaran Council member.

Reynolds chuckled, "Well back then all the trinium was going towards making the Prometheus so it's a lot more feasible now. Don't tell anyone I told you but I think those are actually being installed now."

"So what are we looking at so far; stronger doors, blast doors maybe, additional security teams and defence turrets around the station and the tunnel exits…"

"I'd personally recommend defence stations being built around the tunnel exits so that any threats can be contained. We also need to put some doors on the tunnel entrances in the station and around the gate room, reinforcing the station with barricades would certainly help."

"Well I appreciate your help and the 120 marines you brought with you to prove your point to the guards," said Jonas.

"Don't mention it. It's amazing how many volunteers from SG teams we actually got. Of course I'm sure they were just eager to lend a hand to an ally and not to just show off." He added.

Jonas grinned at the Colonel, "I'm sure that's what it is."

"At least your construction is still going ahead smoothly despite this little test."

"Yeah, the first hull should be ready in the next week for you to take up to your station for fitting. I still can't believe how far you guys have come since I came home."

"Well it's nice to know we should have the first ready. It'll stop the politicians back home from complaining about all the supplies we are sending you on a regular basis once we can tell them that we are getting what we paid for. You'd think people who deal in favours would have a little more faith."

"Well let them know that my people and I really appreciate what they have done for us. It wasn't easy when the Ori were occupying the planet but at least they didn't have a chance for a full invasion."

"To be honest it was a good thing you surrendered right away. It was certainly better than having your cities destroyed from orbit, and to be honest with the limited forces they had in the galaxy at the time that's what they would have done. They couldn't afford to sit around and fight a siege."

"Still a lot of people did die anyway when they tried to publicly object to the new religion being forced on them," said Jonas with the sadness evident in his eyes.

Reynolds sighed, "One thing I've had to learn as a soldier is that you can't always save everyone and you just have to be thankful for those that you can. It sucks but that's the way it is."

Jonas' only response to nod, he knew that Reynolds was right but it wasn't exactly comforting.

A week later and the first hull for the new Night Fury-class destroyer was finally completed. Powering up its antigravity drive, the only major piece of technology on board besides the naquadah generator, the ship rose through out of the atmosphere and into space. The next ship in the line wouldn't be completed for some time as the Langarans would be refocusing their time on internal construction, rebuilding their own civilisation as well constructing new shipyards where future destroyers could be built. In the mean time the Night Fury would receive its internal fittings and be put through its paces to test for any design flaws.

The Ori invasion of Langara had left the planet in need of major repairs to their infrastructure. The only solution the Ori had to the lack of initial invasion forces was to destroy the major mining and farming operations of the three main nations. Strafing runs from Ori fighters had ravaged farm lands and buried mine entrances, forcing the planets surrender. After that the nations of Langara had been forced to band together to fight off their own extinction from lack of resources, and with the Ori pulling out of the galaxy they were finally able to receive help from Earth without fear of destruction.

It was obvious however that a more stable form of income would be necessary if the planet was going to fully recover and begin to expand again. Unfortunately the ever shortening hand outs, courtesy of a lack of free resources all round, was not going to help solve this problem. The solution was actually rather simple and took the form of a simple business arrangement. Earth would provide food and medicines which were desperately needed on a much larger scale than what could be given freely and in return Langara would produce destroyer hulls for Earth. This arrangement was actually beneficial in both the short and long term for Earth and Langara. The Langarans were able to establish off world mining sites with assistance from Earth to provide the raw resources necessary for production of the hulls. The man power was only available because of the sizeable resources provided by Earth more than made up for the loss of man power, and the more hulls that were built the more the Langarans would receive. In the future however as Langara fully recovered from the devastation to their infrastructure the resources being provided would not become necessary so the list of things that the Langarans would want would increase and become more varied. Of course such a valuable future investment would require protection, especially if the planet was to potentially be the sole supplier of destroyer hulls for the immediate future. As such a single Valley Forge class station, basically a Midway II-class without the second stargate, was placed in geo synchronous orbit over the shipyard. When more shipyards were completed and production levels went up more stations would be placed in orbit increasing both the production numbers and the protection levels for the entire planet. Once the completed hulls reached the station they would then be fitted with all the bells and whistles, so to speak, making them fully functioning ships ready to serve in the ever expanding Tau'ri fleet.

The destroyer class was first considered to combat the Wraith threat that was still present in Pegasus at the time. Now that the threat had become an ally asking for help a new job had been allocated to them, namely acting as patrol ships and defence forces for guarding members of the Protected Planets Treaty. They would also make wonderful escorts for the more powerful ships of the Tau'ri fleet. The initial design of the destroyer was a shrunken version of the Daedalus, to that the end the ship was only 150m long, 50m wide and reach a maximum of 40m high. However since the ship was primarily designed for combat purposes the ship lacked the twin hanger bay pod space, instead the front of the pods were lined with two diagonal shunts, with two ICT's along each. The front of the destroyer was still shaped the same, with three double barrelled railgun turrets on each of the wings, two on the top and one on the underside, while the two APB emitters were still on the front of the ship. However because of the reduced size there were only four missile tubes along the shrunken neck section. On the back of the ship on the top, in a trapezium shaped formation, were four DBRT's, with another two on the underside of the ship guarding the hanger bay located there. As was now standard on all Tau'ri vessels the ship was equipped with a cloaking device, rings and Asgard beams, and to provide power for all of this was a single Neutrino Ion Generator.

Since the entire ship had to be internally fitted by Tau'ri work crews, because of the advanced nature of the technology compared to the Langaran standard, it would arguably have been easier for them to contract out the work to some of the galaxies more advanced worlds like the Serrakins. Unfortunately the Serrakins had been hit relatively hard by the Ori invasion of the Milky Way, their ships having been unable to stand against the sheer power of an Ori mothership. Since they were now in the process of rebuilding their own ships and shipyards they really couldn't afford to use the resources building ships for others. The only advantage was that the Aschen had been hit even harder than they had. The Aschen and the Serrakins had been in a cold war state for a long time now, with the Serrakin advanced hyperdrive systems giving them a distinct advantage over the comparatively slow ships of the Aschen. But given Aschen bio-weaponry the two sides ended up being a fairly even match for each other. However the Ori had recognised the Aschen and their biological weapons as a serious threat to their armies and done their best to wipe out both the weapons and the technology to create them, which had largely been successful. This had left the Aschen in a much more weakened state for the time being, and the Serrakin took advantage of this by closing the web around Aschen space preventing them from advancing outwards further and harm more civilisations in the process. The Serrakins were a proud people however, and had been resisting the Aschen for so long that when they saw their chance at finally stopping the Aschens advance they were seizing it for themselves, and so they were refusing help from Earth.

Kolumna - Gate Room

The sun had set on the Alteran City Ship many hours ago and midnight had long since passed. The two people manning the control room were half asleep and the four guards present were lax in their vigilance of duty. After all anyone who normally visited the planet knew that it would be the middle of the night so who would bother to come? And anyone who would visit was probably some wondering traveller looking for new places to explore and people to trade with, right? And it was this naivety that would soon cost them.

With a low hum the stargate powered up, chevron after blue chevron lighting up until the seventh chevron locked and a wormhole materialised. The guards were jolted into awareness but they were not overly cautious, standing in front of the gate once the kawoosh had passed without even drawing their weapons. They expected an ordinary civilian type character to step through the gate at any moment and they would be standing there to greet them, but what they got was a lot more than they bargained for.

Emerging from the event horizon came four Genii soldiers, armed with holstered pistols. The guards thought nothing of it, after all the Genii were supposed to be part of the same alliance as they were and even the Tau'ri carried weapons with them.

The guard in charge of the shift, a young man by the name of Kadier stepped forward to greet the visitors. The apparent leader of the Genii group, a middle aged man with short dark hair, stepped forward to meet him.

"Greetings people of the Genii, my name is Kadier, what brings you here…?" Kadier's mouth remained open as if he had more to say and for a moment everyone froze, waiting for the words to come.

In a split second the Genii soldiers drew, aimed and fired at the other guards in a bold display of their professional skill. At the same time the group leader stepped back pulling the knife in his left hand from the guard's chest and, drawing his own pistol, shot the two gaping civilians standing on the control room balcony.

As the soldiers spread out through the room the leader sheathed his knife and raised his wrist, the movement of fabric revealing a communicator.

"This is Commander Nadier," he said. "All troops are cleared to come through and are to establish a foothold immediately. Send our message to our kin that the dream of Commander Kolya has been fulfilled, this city of the Ancestors is ours."