Tianguo
Major General Rachel Lin-Lao
She was currently in the briefing room with her adjutant, the CO and XO of the 1st Stormtrooper Battalion, SG-1, well what's left of it anyway and their guest Jaffa. Whose head tattoo she was not familiar with, which led her to conclude it was either a minor Goa'uld that they fought or someone whose power did not survive until the mid 1990's.
This gave her flashbacks of her time, the time where she and the Sun Tzu came from, a time that will never happened. Although she never fought the Jaffa, she was assigned to Atlantis for a few months and she remembered fighting the Wraith. She really hated those life sucking motherfuckers, hopefully she will never see the likes of them ever again.
The briefing room was very utilitarian in design, grey colored and clad with metal it was meant to sit no more than thirty people. It was quite a contrast compared to the conference hall where they had their ceremony for the first Stargate mission outside of Earth or Tianguo.
She was currently sitting on one side of the table with her Adjutant beside her but a few steps back. The rest were sitting in the opposite side of the table.
"…. we captured several of these Jaffa. They are currently individually celled in basement 32. We could have captured more but I decided to use overwhelming force to subdue them not to risk more of my men's lives than we had to." ST- Senior Storm Command Leader Ryu Shi-jin finished his report. He was the CO of the 1st Stormtrooper Battlation, he was well built but bit thin. What made him stood out compared to others was not that his high, full cheeks, more oval face, longer, better-articulated nose that was evidence of his Korean ancestry (as he was a Chinese Korean) but it was his big facial scar that ran from his left ear to his cheek then to his chin.
"The correctness of that decision is up to the board to decide, but I am inclined to agree with your decision. As I think you brought more than enough prisoners to produce enough amount of intel." She stated.
"Thank you ma'am!" Ryu said in a snappy manner.
"Now that the after action reports are over. Let us hear what your friend has to say." General Lin said towards Colonel Lou, who in turn nodded towards the Jaffa.
"I am Arkantos first Prime of Athena…" he paused for a while then corrected "former First Prime of Athena."
"I am very pleased to meet you Arkantos, I welcome you to Stargate Command." General Lin said.
"I offer my knowledge of the Goa'uld, I offer my skills of a warrior in defeating them, I pledge my life and my honor to this world."
"Well thank you." General Lin replied. "What can you tell us about the Goa'uld?"
"They rule by force, their numbers are very few. They forbid anyone the knowledge of their magic."
"It's not magic Arkantos, technology! They just want you to think that." Colonel Lou butted in.
"Colonel must I remind you to speak on your turn." General Lin said.
"Sorry ma'am."
"Now where were we? How many worlds do these Goa'uld control?" She asked, although she already knew the answer to that, well the approximate number anyway. She had to maintain the illusion that she did not, as was the directive, as to not let anyone else find out that they were from the future. Not that she agreed with the directive, but orders were orders.
"Many thousands, although my former master herself controls only a handful. As she is mid-tier in the Goa'uld hierarchy. A System Lord would have hundreds."
"So we fought the Goa'uld equivalent of Greece." General Lin heard someone mutter.
"What are these System Lords?" Lin asked
"They are the ruling body of the Goa'uld composed of the most powerful Goa'uld they are led by the Supreme System Lord Ra."
"Is there a way there a way to negotiate a peace?"
"None, they have no need for peace. If they could kill you they would. They rule over these worlds as gods."
"We fight then, where did your people come from?"
"No Jaffa really knows how we begun, but there is a Jaffa tale that a primitive world the Goa'uld discovered millennia ago, the Tau'ri, First World, where beings of different types evolved. It is said the Goa'uld harvested among the primitives, some were graced to become Goa'uld hosts, others rest were taken as slaves and seeded among the stars to serve them. But the greatest warriors of those primitives were brought to Dakara were the Goa'uld made them stronger, faster, and more resilient. These were the first Jaffa. But that world has been lost for melenia." This earned several glances from the people in the room.
"Arkantos, we are from that world." Lou butted in again.
"We all are Colonel Lou."
"No, Arkantos. I mean that lost world is the capital of the Celestial Empire. Several of us were even born there." This time it was Arkantos'es turn to stare.
March 1887
Arkantos was finally allowed to freely roam around the base, but he was still not allowed to go to restricted areas of the SGC but then again only a few were. Colonel Lou and the rest of SG-1 hoped that at some point Arkantos would be allowed to go outside the base and into the general populace, but they do understand the cause of the mistrust.
The Fallen God
She was lying in fetal position in her dark cell, she couldn't see anything or hear anyone else. Her cell lit up a few times a day in her stay here. It lit up every time food was sent to her then it went dark again three minutes later. It was as if her captors mandated that she finish her food within three minutes. It was not as if she couldn't as the food given to her was some kind of porridge, although it tastes far from that.
She tried to escape a few times but the walls were too hard and her food were simply placed on a slit in the door, so there was no way for her to attack the one giving it. And specially now as she was too weak to even try. She has never seen nor heard her captors.
"Clang" the metal door sounded, she thought at first that it was another delivery of food. But it was not. The door squeaked as it opened letting in light, which hurt her eyes as it was accustomed to the light. She saw half a dozen figures outside. Then the lights suddenly went on. She could hear chatter outside but it wasn't by a language that she knew.
"Nike! The goddess of Victory, I am honored to be your host." Said a man in dark clothing, he looked like someone from Yu's stock with his slanted eyes and smooth skin. This guy seemed to have a broken nose, but other than that he looked unimpressive even in human standards.
"Who are you? Identify yourself." She replied in her deep voice.
Smack! He slapped her in the face, it was very painful, she could feel some steel in that smack.
"I am the one asking the questions here. Never ask me questions and never speak if it is not your turn. You could say I am your god in this cell."
"Insolent human pest!" she cursed. This earned her two more smacks.
"Now where were we?" He said to himself "Tables and chairs!" he then commanded his men.
In went four men, two carrying a table and another two carrying a chair each. He then proceeded to sit on one of the stool, and motioned for her to sit. She complied in order not to be hit again.
"Ahh, good it seems that you are in a mood to cooperate." The broken nose man said as he gave a smile.
"Are you hungry goddess Nike, I know I am." He said, but before she could have replied the broken nose man shouted "Food!".
In came a man who brought food then set it up on the table, it was a piece of meat and other side dishes. It looked very appetizing as she was forced to eat porridge since she was here and its aroma was absolutely tantalizing.
He however didn't bother offering her food after the table was set up, he went straight away to devour the food in the table. Watching him eat such a delicious meal made her stomach grumble a few times. After consuming the food on the table. He proceeded to drink the goblet of liquid that was also placed there. Then he cleaned up his mouth with a piece of cloth and begun to speak.
"Your friends told me that you have killed and tortured thousands of innocent Humans and Jaffa. Sometimes you did it because it was fun."
"They mean nothing to me! They are mere…..." She cut in before he could finish, and before she could finish as well she was again greeted with two smacks and this time one of her teeth was sent flying outside of her mouth. She could now taste the blood in her mouth.
"Now? What did I tell you about speaking your turn." He said with a smile. He then placed a Zat'nik'tel on the table.
"Now tell me what are the sciences that make this side arm of yours work?" he said.
"Never!" She protested, this earned her another smack.
"Never say never, oh goddess Nike. Since now is such a long time from never, and I am a very patient man." He smiled.
June
Another cold dial worked. As standard proceedure a probe was first sent into the Stargate to make sure that the other side was safe for humans. However, before the cart was even sent through, a radio message was received.
Unfortunately, SGC technicians were unable to decode the signal, and the gate closed with it unanswered. Some work was made on decrypting it, but some was determined to be some kind of video image that didn't seem compatible with their existing display units. The audio segment however was able to be decoded and a crude mechanism to allow the staff to converse back and forth was built. However, there was some surprise at the content of the message. Although there were a few stumbles in recognizing it, it was soon found to be a derivation of the Ancient Celtic language, mixed with some Gallic.
The message was a simple wary response telling those who opened the other side that they were prepared to defend themselves if necessary and no assault through the gate would be tolerated.
This made a bit of jubilation in the SGC as it was the first time that they encountered a technologically advance (advanced enough at least to have radios) civilization, not counting the Goa'uld of course.
The next day the gate was dialed again and this time the transmission was answered. It was General Lin herself who spoke to the other side. At first translation books were hastily put out, though needed to be updated as time went on and more detail was extracted from transmissions.
The first two-way contact was wary, but cordial, and by radio only. It was obvious that the Eurondans, as they called themselves, were considerably advanced, in fact more advanced than Earth or even Tianguo though they had not deciphered any codes to use with the gate. Nor did they have any database from an ancient civilization to use, while Tianguo did not have one, but four.
After several of such conversations the Eurondans suggested a meeting in person.
SGC personnel had already hotly contested what to do if the Eurondans asked for the code for Tianguo, but in the end they opted to rapidly increase defenses around the gate in case they were attacked, but to allow the meeting. They would ask if the Eurondans would not observe them dialing home, but wouldn't force the issue as they had Stargate shields anyway.
SG-1 and a few additional diplomatic staff who were former underlings of Dr. Ting before her reassignment to SG-1 was chosen to go through the gate and go to Euronda. Initial contact by the gate on the other side was stilted, as SG-1 and the additional diplomatic staff were not terribly well versed in the Eurondan tongue.
They were escorted deep into the Eurondan base and met their leader. A charismatic statesman who was apparently a former army officer and a failed scientist who rose into the political ranks due to his charisma and great orating ability. The leader called himself Alfric, everyone refered to him as "the leader", and though he was elderly he seemed to govern the huge underground facility the Eurondans inhabited well. His people certainly seemed to trust Alfric and followed him like a cult.
The meeting ended however with nothing really decided. Itseemed that the aliens had all they needed in supplies for the time being.
When asked why they were living inside an underground facility they simply replied it was a precaution just in case they were forced to execute their "Final Solution".
Beyond that cryptic statement they refused to comment further. It seemed to go well as the Eurondans were perfectly happy to not observe the team when they dialed home.
July
Two more meetings occurred before some interest was shown in anything the Chinese had to offer. Some of the SGC staff suspected that the Eurondans did want something but were holding back, hoping to get a better deal if the they became desperate. However, at the end of the third meeting one proposal was given. Luxury food stuffs and consumer goods they did not have in stock as their economy was according to Alfric in war production and production of those goods were either not in priority or scarce. This made they Chinese to think that the Eurodans were either at war already or gearing up towards it.
However, they were rather restrictive on what they would trade. They said this was in part due to bad experiences their Cold War with 'The Breeders' in which the Eurondan's superior technology was constantly under attack from spies and other agents wishing to take their machinery. They decided to ask for assistance with factory design and medical drugs in exchange.
This was turned down, but in the following meeting they did offer to give the Chinese medical drugs in exchange for several tones worth of consumer goods. When these medical drugs were analyzed, it was found out to be very advance in fact it was even more advance than medical technology in 2009 Earth.
Finally, they have finally found a civilization more advanced than Earth.
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"oh are they going to recover egeria on pangar before she is placed under experimentation?"
At this point in time according to the wiki, she wasnt found yet by the Panagarans, they found her 50 years prior to SG-1
So yeah, they MIGHT find here before that.
-"BTW, I hope they went in Glastonbury Tor (with either transport rings or Asgard beaming) and destroyed the intergalactic communicator"
Only transport rings could penetrate the ancient shielding in the Glastonbury Tor, but im steering away from that. No way im touching the Ori arc (not as of this moment anyway)
-"Hmm,if they returned from the future,shouldn't they have told all of the sg teams about goa'uld?"
-"Ting does not know the Goa'uld and Jeffa before traveling the stargates?"
They kept the fact that they are from the future secret.
-"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
is was waiting for WW1! you betrade us all.
but but more stargate related chapters in quick succesion will help in easing the betral and we might forgive you XD"
Yeah, its really hard for me to write if I left the Stargate part back a few years more. As im planning for the real action in that part to transpire right after WW1, as to not clutter the plot, which is what would happened if I did during WW1.
-"Let me start off by saying how much I enjoy the creativity you demonstrate in weaving this tale and moving the story forward. Although there are many fics in the "another country gets a shot at running a Stargate program" genre your fics stands out due to the nation you have chooses to write about and the maner by which China gets their gate. You have also shown you grasp the ideas of the butterfly effect and parallel historical developments."
Thanks for the support! Means a lot to me XD
-"And the above is why I find the Jaffa's defection in this chapter so disappointing. I understand the need to have a character like Teal'c or Teyla to help the explorers understand the situation in the galaxy... but did you have to copy that event so completely from "Children of the Gods", complete with lifting dialog straight out if that episode? There are many original ways China could have found their own "Teal'c"."
Well I really wanted someone Jaffa, plus I thought it was quite funny and a bit ironic when I copied a line or two. Plus did anyone noticed I got a few lines from Monty Python as well? XD
-"HOLY MOLY! China in control of the first island chain!"
Not all of it (Northern Borneo is still British) but mostly yeah.