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"What's that Seven?" Janeway asked as she watched the AGF ships converge on the debris field and released what looked like stardust from their ships.
"My scans are inconclusive Admiral," she answered, checking and double checking her readings. "I cannot identify what that is."
They watched as the "stardust" attached themselves to the debris and it disappeared.
"Damn!" Janeway said.
"Admiral?" Seven asked with a raised eyebrow.
"We wanted to salvage the Ori debris and study their technology," she answered.
"There is nothing left of the debris Admiral," Seven said looking at her scans. "The Security Nets around Earth and Starbase One have been deactivated."
"I want a full report of everything on my desk by tomorrow morning Seven," Janeway said.
"Yes Admiral," she replied.
xxx
NORAD
Before the battle, Admiral Toddman found the appropriate place in Colorado to build the new Starfleet Stargate Command Center. It'll be in a National Park, surrounded by mountains, trees, near a river and secluded, pursuant to Admiral Rean's order. He informed his team of engineers and security teams that the stargate would be moved in the morning, with the help of AGF engineers, and they were to report for duty at 0700 hours, Colorado time, and then dismissed them. Admiral Toddman had another team of engineers at the site constructing the new building.
When Major Cho received orders to disconnect the Security Net, the AGF security and engineering teams were transported back to Thor's Hammer. She was informed that the other half of her engineering team will be transported to Earth, after she received permission from Admiral Toddman. When she was escorted to the gate room, she saw Admiral's Toddman and Grax and saluted.
"At ease Major," Toddman said.
She relaxed. "Admiral Toddman, my engineering and security teams have been transported back to Thor's Hammer and another team of engineers will be transported to this location, on your order," she said.
"Permission granted," he replied.
"Major Cho to Thor," she said pressing her small comm badge.
"Thor here Major."
"Transport the second engineering team to my coordinates," she said.
"Acknowledged Major," Thor replied, and thirty AGF engineers were transported to level 27.
"Ten hut," Cho said, and they saluted the Admirals.
"At ease," Toddman told them. "We've already begun building the new SSC Center and I understanding you've brought some materials with you for the new site."
"Yes Admiral. We'll transport the materials to the site along with my engineers, with your permission," Cho replied.
"Permission granted," he said, and a Starfleet Lieutenant beamed the AGF engineers to the site, along with a Starfleet Security Team.
Thor transported the materials.
"We'll like to discuss the schematics of the new SSC Center's gate room," Toddman said to Cho.
"They're unusual," Grax told her.
She smiled at them. "The schematics are similar to Atlantis' gate room," she said bringing up the schematics on her thin black tablet.
"Our gate room will be similar to the Long Lost City's gate room?" Toddman asked with a smile.
"Yes sir," she answered
They discussed the schematics, materials and security.
The SSC Center will have a sickbay, mess hall, offices, labs, transporter rooms, reception and dining room for guests, lounge and two conference rooms; one that would seat eight and the other fourteen. Homes and apartments were now being built for Starfleet personnel and civilians assigned to the SSC Center, along with restaurants, a night club and a shopping center; and a Federation Ambassador will be on call twenty-four hours a day.
xxx
General Gabriel escorted the Ambassador and Admiral to his office. When they entered, they saw two large leather sofas facing each other with a leather ottoman in the middle. Another seating group of four leather chairs with a round ottoman in the center, a round table that sat six, his desk, with family photos and three view screens.
Earth - Paris, France - Federation President's Office
President Logan watched the battle in her office and was greatly relieved when it was over.
"Madam President, you're being hailed by Thor's Hammer," her secretary said to her over the comm.
"Thank you," she said, and pressed a button on her computer.
"Madam President, President Chambers and General Wolfe would like to speak to you, Ambassador Yarn and Admiral Rean," Gabriel said, when she appeared on his computer screen.
"Of course General," she replied, and the screen switched and she saw President Chambers and General Wolfe.
"Madam President," President Chambers said with a nod of his head.
"Mr. President," she replied. "I would like to thank the AGF for their assistance."
"You're welcome," he said. "I've given General Gabriel permission to inform the rest of the Federation about the Stargate Program. We all know your ships know a wormhole opened on Earth when the stargate was activated. We'll discuss other gate addresses and information about other worlds in the Milky Way galaxy once you have your Stargate Program up and running. We suggest you keep the stargate in Colorado and away from your main Headquarters."
The Federation President told President Chambers they've already decided to keep the stargate in Colorado, but move it to a different location. "Ambassador Yarn, call an emergency meeting of the Federation Council tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m," Logan told him.
"Yes Madam President," he said, and they discussed the agenda for the meeting.
"Madam President, Ambassador Yarn, Admiral Rean, I'll be hosting a buffet dinner tomorrow evening for you, the Federation Council, the Admiralty and the Captains of the ships who fought in the battle today. Cocktails and hor d'oeuvres will be served at 1830 hours and dinner at 2000 hours," Gabriel told them.
"We accept," President Logan said for all of them.
"The Federation delegation on Furl are currently celebrating. Since Furl is 18 hours ahead of Earth, we request permission to transport them back to Earth via ship?" General Wolfe asked.
"Permission granted General," President Logan answered.
"They should arrive early tomorrow morning, your time Madam President," Wolfe said.
"We notice you use Quantum. When we return your delegation tomorrow, we would like you to take a look at it and see if it's the Quantum you use, and if so, we can discuss the details later," President Chambers said to President Logan.
"What's Quantum Mr. President?" she asked.
"We noticed you use it to power your engines," Gabriel answered.
"Do you mean dilithium?" Rean asked.
"Is that what you call it sir?" Gabriel asked.
"Yes," Rean answered.
"How much dilithium are we talking about?" Yarn asked.
"There's a large Quantum asteroid belt over 29,000 light years from Earth and more in our space. It's literally everywhere in our part of the Milky Way galaxy," Gabriel answered.
Rean calculated in his head how much dilithium that'll be. A lot, he thought.
"We can discuss this the day after tomorrow, if you wish Madam President," President Chambers said.
"I think that'll be a good idea Mr. President," she replied. Remembering the report she requested that stated the Federation needs more resources.
"Good night Madam President, Ambassador," President Chambers said.
They said good night to President Chambers.
xxx
"Admiral, the Chief Medical Officer of the Kingdom requests Federation Councilor's for the Kingdom's crew until we depart," Gabriel said.
"Of course General," Rean replied.
Gabriel opened a comm.
"Deanna," Picard said when he walked out of his ready room. "Doctor Kern, the CMO of the Kingdom, is requesting Federation Councilor's. Some of the Kingdom's crew saw Councilor Stone while they were at Starbase 313. We'll send coordinates to their bridge and they'll beam you directly to their sickbay."
"Of course Captain," she replied.
"Why can't we beam over to their ships?" Riker asked.
"We can't beam through their hulls Commander and they have no transporter rooms," Picard answered.
"No transporter rooms Captain?" Worf asked.
"They use transporter terminals Mr. Worf," Picard answered.
"We are being hailed Captain," Data said.
"Open a channel Mr. Data," he replied.
"Aye sir, channel open," he said.
"Hello, I'm Colonel Sonia Morales, First Officer of the AGF ship Kingdom. We're ready to transport your Councilor," she said when she saw the bridge of the Enterprise.
"I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise," he said when he stood up and walked a few steps forward.
"Sir," she replied with a salute.
"I'm Councilor Deanna Troi," she said when she stood up from her seat.
"Doctor Kern is waiting for you at one of our transporter terminals near our medical bay Councilor," Morales told her.
"Commander Data will send you the transport coordinates," Picard said.
Data sent the coordinates.
"I'm ready to beam over," Troi said.
"Acknowledged," Morales replied.
Councilor Deanna Troi was beamed off the Enterprise and the comm was disconnected.
xxx
AGF Space - Furl
Dorothy Chin laughed when she saw General Chow wearing sandals, dressed in shorts and wearing what looked like an Hawaiian shirt when he arrived at the party. "It's a wonderful party General," she said when he walked up to her.
"I'm glad you're enjoying yourself," he replied. "Let's dance."
They walked off the deck and started dancing.
xxx
On-board Thor's Hammer
After dinner General Gabriel invited Ambassador Yarn and Admiral Rean to his private lounge off his private dining room. The lounge had four leather chairs in a circle with a leather ottoman in the middle – and on the ottoman was a tray with three glasses and a bottle of Galaran brandy.
"Brandy gentlemen?" Gabriel asked as Yarn and Rean took a seat.
"Yes General, thank you," they both answered.
"That was an excellent meal General," Rean said while Gabriel poured and handed each a glass of brandy.
"Thank you sir," he replied and sat down and took a sip of his brandy. "When we entered Federation space our scans showed there had been a war here recently and Earth was bombarded, along with other Federation worlds. We also noticed none of your planets have adequate planetary defense systems except two, and there's still a lot of debris floating in Federation space; and there were over thirty Federation worlds that were completely destroyed by biological weapons." "What happened?" Gabriel asked.
Ambassador Yarn and Admiral Rean were surprised AGF scans could scan at such great distances. "How many light years can your ships scan General?" Rean asked.
"That's classified sir, but let's just say a very long way," Gabriel answered with a smile and noticed Ambassador Yarn nod in the affirmative to Admiral Rean.
"The Dominion War ended a little over two-one-half years ago and we're still rebuilding. It was a bloody and brutal two year war," Rean answered.
"Who're the Dominion?" Gabriel asked.
"We discovered a stable wormhole in the Bajor Sector in 2369 which leads to the Gamma Quadrant, over 70,000 light years from Federation Space...," Rean answered.
"You were prepared for war, weren't you sir?" Gabriel asked Rean, and by the look on their faces, he knew they weren't.
"We're not soldiers like the AGF General, we're explorers," Yarn answered looking him straight in the eyes.
"We're soldiers out of necessity Ambassador. We have a lot of space to patrol and defend, however, our science vessels are, as we speak, exploring the universe. We learned a long time ago – even before we went to the Pegasus galaxy – that space was a dangerous place and also wondrous. If all your ships are exploring the galaxy, who's defending your space?" Gabriel asked.
"Point taken General," Rean answered.
"Thor," Gabriel said, and the face of Thor appeared on the upright computer screen in the lounge.
"Yes General," he replied.
"Show us a star map of Federation space where most of the debris is located," Gabriel said.
"Yes General," Thor replied and a star map appeared in the room and showed that sector of space.
"I presume this is where most of fighting took place, and it must be a very important sector," Gabriel said.
Ambassador Yarn and Admiral Rean looked at the debris and bodies still floating in space.
"It's the Kalandra Sector," Rean told him.
"Thor show us star map of the Kalandra Sector and all worlds leading to Earth," Gabriel said. The map expanded and showed the Federation Core Worlds. "They invaded your core worlds."
"Yes they did," Rean answered.
"The Dominion didn't attack this world because it's very well protected," Gabriel said pointing to a planet on the map.
"That's Andor," Rean replied.
"Are all planets in the AGF well protected General?" Yarn asked.
"Yes Ambassador, and so are all of our installations – no matter how small." "Can you tell me more about the Dominion?" Gabriel asked.
xxx
After Admiral Rean and Ambassador Yarn returned to Earth, Admiral Rean sent General Gabriel the information he requested, including the coordinates to Dominion space. General Gabriel then contacted General Wolfe at Stargate Command and sent her all the information he received from the Admiral.
"The Dominion's Army are cloned soldiers?" Wolfe asked surprised.
"Yes ma'am, and so are their Vortas who control the Jem'Hadar, and they're also the Dominion Ambassadors," Gabriel answered.
"I see over 95% of the Dominion Fleet are small fast attack fighters that they use as scout, patrol and warships," she said looking at a Jem'Hadar fighter on her computer screen. "Dominion technology is also far superior than the Federation's and from reading this report, I gather the Federation doesn't have a lot of fighters."
"Not in the numbers we're used too. They also have a lot of gaps in their defenses," Gabriel replied.
"Ambassador Yarn told you they're explorers?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes he did General. They fight very well, and contrary to what they think, they do have warships. I don't know why they think the way they do, but it seems to me they want to please others and have others like them, and don't want to appear threatening," he answered.
"We're just the opposite," she said with a smile.
He smiled back at her. "I can tell they're still afraid of the Dominion," he told her.
"I can see why. One Alpha Quadrant power that sided with the Dominion was completely destroyed, and it'll take years for the others to rebuild, including the Federation, and they can't replace personnel that quickly," she said. "I'll also take your recommendation under advisement regarding a new AGF attack ship, and you have my permission to proceed Daniel. Wolfe out."
xxx
AGF Space - Furl - General Chow's Office
"General Gabriel is on your classified comm," Furl said to Chow when he appeared on his computer screen.
General Chow entered his code into his computer. "Dan," he said.
"Lee, I've just spoken to Deborah and received her approval for an intelligence gathering mission. She wants you to send 10 intelligence ships to these coordinates. They're to be cloaked at all times and they're to use their wormhole drives to get there. Scan that entire region of space and 5,000 light years beyond in all directions, looking for ships and installations with these signatures. I'm also sending you photos of the Founders, Vortas, Jem'Hadar and their vessels," Gabriel told him and sent the report.
General Chow raised an eyebrow after seeing the photos. "Who are they?" he asked.
"It's all in the report Lee. After you receive the information, send a copy of the report to Deborah and myself," he said.
"I will, Chow out."
After Chow read the report he sat back in his chair stunned. Now he knew why Deborah ordered an intelligence report on the Dominion. The Federation and their allies had been through a brutal war and, in his opinion, they fought the Dominion to a standstill, and that was without the main Dominion Fleet. The Dominion's cloned army were ruthless and brutal and they had thousands of attack fighters, and the Federation only a handful; and he wondered if the Federation knew that fighters are the backbone of any space fleet. General Chow contacted Colonel Dale of the Hank Landry and sent him the report and gave him his orders
xxx
Gamma Quadrant - Dominion Space
Ten AGF Intelligence vessels quietly scanned Dominion space and beyond and went undetected because of their Ancient cloaks.
"Well Hank," Dale said to his AI.
"It is an impressive operation Colonel. They have tens of thousands of ships and many installations. This one is of particular interest," Hank answered pointing to a very large installation on the star map.
"Why?" Dale asked.
"This is their main cloning facility and they can clone tens of thousands of Jem'Hadar per week, along with Vortas. They also have smaller cloning facilities in other sectors of their space," he answered.
"What about their shipyards?" Dale asked.
"There main shipyard is here Colonel," Hank said pointing to a shipyard on the star map. "However, they also have smaller shipyards located throughout their space."
"What about their relay stations?" Dale asked.
"They are located here," he answered and all the relay stations appeared on the star map.
"Thank many?" Dale asked whistling.
"Yes Colonel," Hank answered.
For the next seven hours the Hank Landry methodically scanned every meter of Dominion space. They gathered intelligence on Dominion facilities, installations, fleet movements and they also located the Founder's Home World.
xxx
On-board Thor's Hammer
When Ensign Brooks boarded Thor's Hammer she was shown to her quarters by Second Lieutenant Brenda Marlow, one of the new friends she made when she and Admiral Daniels had dinner onboard the ship a few days earlier. After she settled in and changed, Lt. Marlow escorted her to the Junior Officer's Mess and Lounge. When they arrived the party was in full swing and she noticed other Federation Junior Officer's mingling with their counterparts. She had dinner with Lt. Marlow and the other Officers she met a few days ago. After dinner the music began, the booze flowed and Ensign Carla Brooks had the time of her life.
After General Gabriel had dinner with Ambassador Yarn and Admiral Rean, he excused himself for a brief moment and went to his private lounge and had Thor show him the Junior Officer's Mess and Lounge. General Gabriel saw the twenty-three year old, 5'9", slender brunette with brown eyes named Carla Brooks standing on a table with a glass in her hand, looking up and yelling at the top of her lungs, with the encouragement from his Junior Officers. He smiled and disconnected the link.
Senior Officer's Mess and Lounge
"I'm Colonel Carlos Lazar," he walked up and said when Command Franks and Lt. McGuire entered and stood at attention.
They noticed he didn't have his side-arm or knife around his waist, but was wearing a short-sleeved black undershirt, instead of his turtle neck. They also saw he wore old fashioned dog-tags around his neck.
"At ease," Lazar said, and they relaxed. "These are our off-duty uniforms and help yourself to the buffet. The bar will open in an hour and then the music will begin."
"Thank you sir," they replied and walked over to the buffet and helped themselves. After they ate they had a few drinks, danced and mingled.
"They know how to party," McGuire said to Franks looking at the happy faces of the AGF crew.
"They certainly do," he replied.
The crew members of Starbase One were transported to the Enlisted Crew Mess and Lounge and they too had a grand time, which many talked about for a long time.
On-board the White Cloud
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Doctor Beverly Crusher had dinner with Colonel Rachael Osborne and were given a tour of the ship before they departed.
Senior Officer's Mess and Lounge
After Lt. Commander Worf had dinner on-board the Enterprise he was transported to the White Cloud and brought five bottles of blood wine with him. Will Riker, Geordi LaForge and the other off-duty Officers and crew members were also transported to the festivities.
"Everyone looks like they're having fun Commander," LaForge said to Riker.
"They are Geordi," he replied smiling. Commander saw Commander Worf screaming at the top of his lungs and the AGF crew member clapped and cheered with appreciation, and Riker laughed.
"No rank tonight, this is a party," a female officer said standing behind Riker and LaForge. "Let's get something to eat and drink."
They followed her to the buffet table, loaded up on food and ate, and afterwards she danced with both of them.