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The next morning everyone's luggage was taken to Atlantis and sent through the stargate to Earth.
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Atlantis - General Wolfe's Office
"How did Marie get along with Seven of Nine?" Wolfe asked Gabriel.
"They had a wonderful time and Marie's impressed with her cooking skills," he answered smiling.
"The meal was delicious," Chow said.
General's Wolfe and Gabriel agreed.
"Marie hopes to see her again," Gabriel said.
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Major Patricia Oliver, General Wolfe's aide, escorted Admiral's Rean and Tevan to her office when they were transported to Atlantis. When they entered, they noticed the view out of the window, which overlooked the ocean, and saw General Wolfe sitting on a sofa, with General's Gabriel and Chow sitting across from her.
"Nice view," Rean said with a smile.
"Yes it is," she replied with her own smile. "Have a seat."
Admiral Tevan sat in the empty chair across from her and Admiral Rean sat next to her on the sofa.
"We have a few pieces of technology for you." Chow said, and handed Rean and Tevan a small shoulder bag.
"We stole this technology from the Dominion," Gabriel told them.
"You stole technology from the Dominion?" Tevan asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes," Wolfe answered. "We wanted to know what they have and now we do."
"What did you steal?" Rean asked.
"One of their battle cruisers and everything else they have," Chow answered.
Rean laughed and Tevan smiled. The Generals also smiled.
"What's this?" Tevan asked when he took a piece of technology out of his bag.
"That piece of technology is what the Dominion uses to scan for cloaked ships," Chow answered. "We modified it and it now has a Federation signature."
"Can we detect your cloaked ships?" Tevan asked.
"No Admiral," Wolfe answered with a smile.
Admiral Rean saw another piece of technology in his bag and took it out.
"It's a cloaking device," Wolfe said before he could asked. "It also has a Federation signature."
"Is it your cloaking device? Tevan asked.
"No," Gabriel answered. "We got it from the Dominion."
"Neither the Dominion nor the Borg can detect that cloaking device," Wolfe told them.
"We're still studying the Dominion technology. Once we're finished we'll give you a complete report of our findings," Chow said. "After that, let us know which pieces you'll like to have."
"We will," Tevan said.
"Thank you," Rean said. "But we can't use a cloaking device in Federation space because of an agreement we have with the Romulans."
"Admiral Tevan can," Wolfe replied. "I suggest you hang onto that."
Admiral Rean nodded his head.
"President Chambers informed President Logan about these pieces of technology this morning at breakfast," Wolfe told them. "Since you've agreed to go with us to explore the other end of the universe, we'll provide secondary shields for those ships."
"How strong will those shields be?" Rean asked.
"They'll be 30% stronger than your current shields," Gabriel answered.
Rean and Tevan thanked them.
"Since you're now next to our space...," Wolfe told Rean and Tevan.
"We'll have them towed to your shipyard in the Avalon System in a few days," Chow said. "We'll go over everything after we return to the Milky Way galaxy."
The Admirals agreed, and they continued talking until it was time for them to leave.
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Admiral's Rean and Tevan shook hands with General's Wolfe, Chow and Gabriel when they arrived in the Atlantis gate room and then walked down the stairs. After President Logan and Ambassador Yarn arrived, General Wolfe shouted: "Ten hut," and everyone stood and saluted the Federation President.
President Logan smiled.
"Good-bye Madam President," Secretary Benjamin said.
"Good-bye Mr. Secretary," she replied shaking his hand.
"Dial the gate to Earth Sargent," Wolfe ordered.
"Yes ma'am," she said.
After the last chevron encoded, everyone walked through the star gate to Earth. General Chow and his party returned to Furl an hour later.
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General Singh and his battle group were on their way to Earth before anyone departed Atlantis, with the Delta Flyer and Commander's Paris and Data. He was to return Commander Paris and the Delta Flyer to Earth and then proceed to the Enterprise, where they're holding position. Tom Paris received the schematics for the shuttles he was ordered to design that will go through Earth's stargate from an AGF Engineer.
Admiral Janeway had the two transwarp coils in her shoulder bag when she walked through the stargate with the rest of the delegation, along with Commander Torres, Lt. Barclay and Seven of Nine and their luggage.
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Sol System - Earth - Onboard the USS Arizona
"How was your trip?" Lt. Commander Stevens asked Lt. jg Brooks when she sat down at the helm.
"Fantastic," she said with a bright smile. "I'll tell you about it on the way back."
"We've just received clearance to leave Earth's orbit Admiral," Stevens said when his comm beeped.
"When we leave Earth's gravity well take us to warp 6 helm," Daniels said to Brooks.
"Aye sir," she replied.
A few minutes later, the Arizona jumped to warp.
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Jake Sisko's Apartment - San Francisco - Five Days Later
"Congratulations Jake," Ambassador Sisko said smiling on the comm from Bajor.
"Thanks dad," he replied. "Did you see the vids of Atlantis and of our stay on Lantis?"
"Yes,' he answered. "I still can't believe my son has been to the Long Lost City, in another galaxy no less!"
"It didn't feel like I was in another galaxy or on a strange world dad. Most of the people there are human and their ancestors were originally from Earth," he said.
"I know," Sisko replied. "I saw the sign that read: "Welcome, Family from Earth."
"Do you think we have long forgotten relatives on Lantis or other AGF words?" he asked
"I'm sure we do," Sisko answered.
They continued discussing his trip.
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Admiral Stokes had lunch with Admiral's Chapman, Ross and Nechayev a few days after he returned to Earth and told them they met Fleet Admiral Lex Avari of the Alliance of Planets and got a tour of his ship.
"What's the engine room like John?" Admiral Chapman asked.
Admiral Stokes told them.
"I'll be damned," Chapman said.
"The Admiral's shuttle is the only vessel in that hanger bay; and it's very large and very comfortable.
"I sure it is," Nechayev said.
"How many escort vessels did Admiral Avari have?" Ross asked.
He told them.
"That's two entire Starfleet Fleets," Ross said surprised.
"He is the Fleet Admiral Bill," Nechayev replied with a smirk.
Admiral Chapman shook his head after Admiral Stokes described the Command Deck of the Vargas.
"They're like the AGF, in that they don't spare any expense when it comes to any of their ships," Stokes said.
"They call the bridge the Command Deck?" Ross asked.
"Yes," Stokes answered. "We could tell they're very good friends and the Alliance of Planets has an Embassy on Lantis and the AGF has an Embassy on Vargas."
"That relationship goes back 300 years," Chapman said.
"I wonder if we'll become that close with the AGF?" Ross asked.
"No," Nechayev answered. "They don't have a Prime Directive and we're not on par with them in technology or weapons, and we never will be."
"It's not about technology or weapons with them Alynna, it's about us being their fellow human beings, and they want to help us anyway they can," Stokes said. "As you know, they signed a defense pact and a science agreement with the Federation."
"That's good enough for me," Ross replied thinking about the Dominion.
Stokes told them about the rest of their tour on the Vargas, and answered their questions.
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Admiral Rean's Private Conference Room – Ten Days Later
Present: Admiral's Chin, Stokes, Jamison, Tevan, Toddman, Grax, Morgan, Tala, General Chow, Lieutenant General Margaret (Maggie) Brennan (Head of AGF Military Intelligence in the Milky Way galaxy) and Trax, the Intelligence Avatar
When General Chow entered Admiral Rean's Private Conference Room with Admiral Tevan and General Brennan, he shook hands with Admiral Chin and they talked for a few minutes before he took his seat. Admiral Tevan introduced the Generals to the other Admirals and everyone stood at attention when Admiral Rean enter and General's Chow, Brennan and Trax saluted.
"At ease," Rean said and took his seat and everyone else did the same, except Trax who stood behind General Brennan. "Before we left Lantis, Admiral Tevan and I had a meeting with General's Wolfe, Chow and Gabriel. That's why General's Chow and Brennan are here today. They'll go over in detail what we discussed. Tevan."
"Thank you Admiral," Tevan said. "Five days ago the AGF towed two freighters to the Alpha Planitia shipyards that had no registry or signature and both were hollowed. We're in the process of rebuilding those freighters from the inside and they're our intelligence vessels for the Avalon System. One will be the intelligence vessel for the Vega System and the other for the Tory System. Once they're completed, the AGF will put a registry on each vessel. General's Chow and Brennan will explain why."
"There's a large space station in each star system and your intelligence agents need to get to know who everyone is and the lay of the land, so to speak. Your freighters will have your own technology, however, when they disembark from their ships, the energy weapons they'll carry is a Zat'nik'tel or Zat. It can stun or kill and we'll teach them how to use it; and your agents must have martial arts skills. No Federation technology is to leave those vessels and we have a different scanning device for them to use, which has also been hollowed and you can put your own technology into them. Their communicators will also be different and they'll wear the same uniforms as all Nova Freighter Corporation employees wear," Chow told them and then turned to General Brennan.
"The Vega and Tory System's plants have an agreement with one another, in that they'll use one space station for their trade, commerce and negotiations and each is in a central location. Trax show us the Vega space station," General Brennan said.
"Yes General," he replied and a star map appeared.
"This is the Vega space station, and as you can see, it's quite large and has five bars, eight restaurants, shops, gambling and prostitution, which is legal, but very discrete. Security is very tight and the security officers are no fools," Brennan told them. "Trax show us the Tory space station."
"Yes General," he said, and said space station appeared on the star map.
"This station is also large and has four bars, six restaurants, shops, gambling and prostitution, which is legal and also very discrete, and security is also very tight. It's Ambassadors from those worlds who negotiate those trade agreements," Brennan told them.
"That's why security is so tight," Morgan said.
"You intelligence agents are now employees of the Nova Freighter Corporation, or Nova, and they're independent contractors and they'll get paid for the labors," Chow told them with a smile. "They'll also work with AGF Intelligence."
"What is the Nova Freighter Corporation?" Admiral Tala asked.
"The Nova Freighter Corporation does business all over the Milky Way galaxy and doesn't exist," General Brennan answered.
"It's a front," Admiral Stokes said.
"Exactly Admiral, in name only," General Chow replied. "The Nova Freighter Corporation is well respected in the Milky Way galaxy because we do our jobs well, which is hull freight from place to place. We're also well armed and the pirates stay out of our way. Which brings us to the next topic. Your freighters will have a different payload and another transporter system. You'll have your own transporters, however, everyone out there uses a different transporter system and we'll install one on each intelligence vessel, which will be in your cargo bay. When you transport your cargo to or from any station or world, you'll use that transporter. The weapons package each vessel will receive is standard for all Nova Freighter Corporation freighters, which are plasma weapons and lasers. The lasers are like your phasers, but more powerful and the plasma weapons are equivalent to your power torpedoes. They'll also have laser turrets and some of your plasma weapons will be pulse, while others will be plasma cannons. We'll also install an additional shield generator on each vessel and those shields will be stronger than your shields. Your agents will also learn the back door routes."
Stokes smiled.
"Why plasma weapons?" Toddman asked.
"They're very powerful Admiral. No one out there has upgraded their technology, shields or weapons to your level; and many of them are still using the same shields, weapons and technology that's over 400 years old," Brennan answer. "However, do not underestimate anyone out there."
"We won't," Tevan said.
"Trax show them what the new Federation intelligence vessels look like," Chow ordered.
"Yes General," he replied and a visual of the freighter appeared.
They saw a freighter that looked similar to the Al'kesh, but it's sleek, black and larger than an Al'kesh.
"Nice freighter," Jamison said. "It's looks like a ship."
"That's what it is," Tevan replied.
"That's what all Nova Corporation Freighters look like," Brennan said.
"I thought everyone out there traveled by hyper-space?" Grax asked.
"Not all races have hyper-drive engines Admiral, and in fact most don't. Everyone out there wanted hyper-drive engines many years ago, but no one was willing to share their hyper-drive technology. With the Stargate Network, many other races learned how to build other engines and some of those engines are warp engines, such as yours. Most of the ships in those two systems have warp or other engines, and only a few have hyper-drive engines," Chow answered.
"That's how you knew warp drives used dilithium," Rean said.
"Yes," Chow replied.
"But AGF Nova Corporation Freighters have hyper-drive engines," Brennan told them.
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"We received a disturbing report last night that the 'Alliance', and I use that word loosely, has been talking about a marvelous ship and its two escort vessels that's traveling thought the Vega System. They'd never seen a ship like that before and they want to know who they are and where they came from; and everyone on the Vega space station want to meet the strangers; and that information came from one of the Trader Worlds on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy," General Brennan told them.
"The USS Denmark," Tevan said.
"Yes," Chow replied.
"How did they know that?" Morgan asked.
"The Stargate Network Admiral," Chow answered.
"It's also a long story Admiral," Brennan replied.
"I will like to hear it," Rean said.
General's Chow and Brennan knew that was an order.
"In 2005 the Goa'uld Empire left a vacuum when they were destroyed by the Replicators; and that same year, the Lucian Alliance banded together to take advantage of the power vacuum left by the Goa'uld's demise. They were a human coalition that was made up of various planets in different parts of the Milky Way galaxy, and a few other races – one being the Oranians – when the Goa'uld's resources and technology fell into their hands. The Alliance members were former slaves of the Goa'uld when they formed the Alliance on the planet Lucia, hence the Lucian Alliance.
Their leadership was tenuous at best, because their ranks were made up of mercenaries, smugglers and criminals. They lived dangerous lives and were killed for failure, or if someone else desired their territory. They ruled with intimidation and fear and punished anyone who got in their way. They had one leader and his subordinates, who were called Seconds, who controlled their operations; which included extortion, smuggling, murder, gun-running and drug trafficking in a corn-like grain called kassa, which is highly addictive. They also had spies all over the Milky Way galaxy and a sizable armada, and were nothing but a criminal enterprise.
Anateo, an Alliance Second, thought Earth was their greatest threat and that we caused them more trouble than the Ori. He wanted Netan, the Alliance leader, to go after us, and he refused because he thought it was unwise. Instead, Netan sent Anateo on a suicide mission to get rid of him. When Anateo succeeded in his mission, it brought about the very thing that the Alliance feared; which is we decided to deal with them, and our retribution was swift.
We sabotaged their operations on a large scale and the Alliance put a bounty on the SG-1 Team Members, which led to their downfall. The Alliance was being squeezed by the Ori on one side and Stargate Command on the other, and it was known as the Tau'ri-Lucian Alliance Wars. Ten years later, we bombarded their planets and blew up their stargates; and we also had the planet where the kassa is grown colonized by another race, who are our friends. The Alliance induced that drug into the kassa and the rest is classified," General Brennan told them.
"The Ori were on the planets the Alliance had trade agreements with and they blew a few Alliance ships out of the sky. As we all know, the Alliance were no match for the Ori, however, we were destroying their trade routes and ships. Ten years later they only had a few ships left and they had to make deals with other groups because their numbers had dwindled," Chow said.
"No honor among thieves," Toddman replied.
"They all stabbed each other in the back, and they still do today," General Brennan said. "The Oranian's are the ones talking about the Denmark, and they're smugglers and bounty hunters and they always travel in pairs. They're also part of the Alliance, when it suits their needs. Trax, bring up a picture of an Oranian."
"Yes General," he replied, and they saw a race with reptilian skin and eyes when the Oranian appeared.
"The Oranian's are meeting with other like minded individuals in a few days at the Skull and Bones on the same Trader World to talk about Starfleet; and I suggest that you send a few agents to Furl after we leave," Brennan said.
"Make sure one of them is a Betazoid and an Andorian," Chow told them.
"Why an Andorian General?" Rean asked.
"We want someone who looks intimidating and they have military training and know how to use a knife," Brennan answered.
Tevan and Tala smiled.
"Why are knives so important?" Chin asked.
"Everyone out there carries one Admiral, and they won't hesitate to cut your throat,' Chow answered.
"Also send one agent from Security and one from Intelligence," Brennan said.
"Why General?" Jamison asked.
"You're the talk of the town Admiral," she answered with a smile.
"Are we now?" Rean asked returning the smile.
"Everyone's talking about you sir," Chow answered.
"They remember the Tau'ri-Lucian Alliance Wars," Stokes said.
"Yes, and they know the Tau'ri are back and they feel they're going to be boxed-in by the AGF and the Tau'ri," Brennan replied.
"They are," Tevan said.
"We know," Chow replied. "Now you know why we have human intelligence on the ground."
"Who owns the Skull and Bones? Stokes asked.
"It's a joint operation between AGF Civilian and Military Intelligence ," Brennan answered.
"What kind of place is it?" Jamison asked.
"It's a bar and restaurant with private gambling upstairs," Chow answered.
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When Admiral's Tevan, Morgan and Tala returned to Terra, Admiral Tala contacted Captain Quinn and told him about the smugglers who have their eyes on his ship. After he thanked the Admiral, he sat back in his seat in his ready room surprised.
