Please forgive me if this story has gone downhill, I am having trouble writing right now. My new born Grandson died two weeks ago.
Chapter 29
Tripping in the Pegasus Galaxy
Sam and her family had now been in the Pegasus galaxy for almost one day, scouting and cruising around gathering a census of how many Wraith ships there are in total. It would allow them to figure out a military strategy to destroy this race of 'space vampires', the total is shocking: well over five-thousand hiveships alone then add in all the cruisers and support ships the total number hit well over fifteen thousand ships!
"Praesidos, this is O'Neill please respond. Come on you cranky ol' fart pickup! We have a curious wraith cruiser heading in our direction, open your hanger doors and let us in."
"This is Taggert, we are glad to see you. Your ship is too big to fit in our hanger please come over in a jumper and then use the MPSD onboard your vessel. Did you bring the extra Arcturus reactors? Trying to power up all five Pacifica class cities is starting to exhaust our Zpm supply."
"Yes Mark, Jack made a supply of two-hundred for your use. I am sending him to one of the ships now."
"Sam, send him to Lantana its systems are about to crash. Only one Zpm still has five percent power left in it. I am glad to have you drop by, but why are you here?"
"We need two a Pacifica class ships. It is the only way to rescue Destiny. Our Planet Movers will take all fifteen cities back to Orb world and rebuild them."
"Sam, this is Jack, Lantana is in real bad shape. Without the force field surrounding it there would be no atmosphere here, this place looks like a giant bomb went off."
"Mark here, its VI is on minimal power. Once two AR's (Arcturus reactors) are installed it will be able to tell us what happened. I think the structural integrity field failed at some point, buckling the main beams."
Jack had no trouble installing two AR's into Lantana's power-core room. He removed two dead Zpm's and their mountings fixtures. It would require a complete overhaul of the conduits for more of this newer reactor type. The VI came back to life immediately."
"Who are you? There is more energy running thru my conduits than with twenty Ancient power sources."
"Lan, I am Jack O'Neill. Can you tell us what happened to this city's systems? This place is a wreck!"
"My inertial dampeners went offline, fifty light-years from here. One of the main structural supports twisted when this happened. It will have to be replaced if I am to ever move again."
"Sam, send beam over a fabricator and three hundred Asurans. This is bad; the Stardrive will have to be removed before that beam can be replaced. Luckily I packed ten TD's.
LAN, it will be necessary to place a time dilation field around you it will speed up the repairs to your city. Do not worry my people have used this with great success. Your city will be just fine, allow me to load a program into the crystal matrix, it was used on Pacifica. This will allow you to control replicators for repairs, inform all VI's this will be done on their cities too."
"Very well Jack, you may proceed."
While O'Neill was working on this ship, Sam was laughing up her sleeve at the look Rodney was giving her. Still mad about Jack tinkering around in his spare time and figuring out what eluded McKay for close to twenty years. If it was at all possible steam would be coming out Rod's ears.
"Mark, I have a crystal for your fabricators with all improvements we have made."
"Sam, I want that to look over before any fabrication is done."
"Rodney, stop pouting, Praesidos has already approved what is on this. I think your wife is looking for you, how is the baby doing?"
Carter is trying to distract him from taking the crystal.
"The little one is in good health Sam. She is playing in the park with Mark's son"
"Mark, it is good to see you again. How goes the fight with the Wraith?"
"Real good Colonel, the improvements to our Scutin class warships has made it one tough ship. Shepherd always returns with a big grin on his face.
From what he reports anytime the Grodin shows up they run. He named it in honor of Peter Grodin the scientist who was killed fixing the last known Lantean satellite weapon. So far the count is over one hundred Wraith Cruisers and sixty Hiveships have been destroyed. If you look there are is a line of markers on the Grodin's Hull for each ship killed."
"I could not do that on Enterprise, it has killed too many Goa'uld class ships. The Lucian Alliance is on the run and we expect for this group to be completely gone in six months.
My Husband gifted me a newer ship, if this one we have now was ever to go up against our former Fleet flagship the older one would be scrap metal in minutes, oh and Mark please stop calling me Colonel its Sam now.
Once Jack is finished with a tour and installation of at least one Arcturus reactor in all of the cities, we will start towing them back to our corner of the universe for a complete overhaul. While we are here is there anything else you need?
Do not go to the old Asuran homeworld it will be ravaged by us on our way back home, we are running low on Neutronium because Jack decided to make thousands of replicators to help rebuild Pacifica when I was in Earth's solar system. Granted he did it to help save my fleet… There are plenty of us to fight now with both of our new worlds out of their time dilatation fields.
A section in our Asgard core explained the process of how to make their Neutrino Ion-Generators like the ones on our ship Enterprise, but knowing my husband he will get bored on day and tinker with the design. By the time Jack is finished it will be redesigned by him.
Rodney, stop pouting again! Go find Jennifer and help her."
Sam is getting really tired of the way he is acting, temping her to find the largest lemon tree pick some and make him drink a gallon of lemonade.
Everyone in the base waited for seven hours until the scanner shows citieships starting to enter hyperspace. This is what Sam was waiting for; this is her cue to leave.
On the way back to Milky Way galaxy, Jack's present to Sam. Their ship 'The Ohio' ran into a large fleet of Wraith ships, there is a massive culling in progress on a Genii homeworld. If it was allowed to continue they would become another extinct civilization in this galaxy. The only thing Carter could figure out is a Wraith worshiper must have found the location of their hidden tunnels telling them how to enter them, all scans were showing a massive number of Wraith underground.
"Ohio, change course to the Genii homeworld all crew prepare for battle. Huh Shepherd likes to make hash marks on the Grodin? This fight will put a large dent into his lead over us in destroyed Wraith ships. Jack, are you even listening to me? We are about to go into battle here, Hello earth to Jack!"
"Sorry Sam, I was just trying to remember if the Shields are calibrated."
"Governor we will be dropping out of hyperspace in one minute. My scanners are detecting an Aurora class ship in orbit; also there is an armada of Wraith Hiveships, Fifty Hives and over three hundred support vessels."
"Thank you Ohio. Call Praesidos; tell them we are going to need help. Even as tough as you are, taking on that many ships ourselves is suicide. When we dropout of hyperspace use Merlin's phase device till the Grodin arrives."
After dropping out and phasing it was a good hour before Shepherd finally showed up?
"Well it's about time you showed up!"
"Sorry Sir, Rodney held us up. He wanted to try a new weapon on the Wraith it is still not functioning."
"Well, what are we waiting for there are Wraith ships to take out."
This battle with only two ships verses an armada, was a real tough fight! By the time it was over both the Grodin and Ohio's shields were down to fifty percent, with large gashes in their hulls.
Come to find out that Aurora was not fully functional, Ladon Radim was not happy to see them.
"Colonel, why did you come I had a plan to evacuate this world and blow all of our nuclear devices at one time. It would have practically destroyed this Wraith faction with all of their warriors and drones on planet."
"Mr. Radim, we saw you were in trouble and came to help. Our ships will leave now, Ohio end com transmission. I want you to take control of the Ancient ship and send it to Elliot for a rebuild. It will make a great science vessel; if Ladon hails you ignore the transmission."
"Governor, that ship is not made for intergalactic travel. It would take too long; it should be sent it to Praesidos instead for an upgrade."
"Very well do it."
While stealing a ship is not what Carter had in mind, keeping it out of the Genii's hands would prevent them from bullying some poor unsuspecting world. A brief stop was made to the Asurans former homeworld, during a mineral scan there of the debris field.
Ohio found an extremely large deposit of Trinium and Naqahdah in excess of one hundred million tons each! This would solve help the ship building dilemma, currently affecting the city-ship rebuild schedule. It is known this planet is rich in Neutronium, Sam recalled the Planet movers that are currently moving all crippled cities. Once there their hallways and cargobays are filled with the precious materials.
Jack had another copy of Merlin's assemble wall with him, his wife told him to build one hundred more sets of P.M.'s. This would allow them to move most of this planet's large chunks back to Folly and Gem, She grabbed the Trinium and Naqahdah chunks using half of the P.M.'s the rest used their tractor beams on any available Neutronium for Sam's usage. The Ohio's hall is filled with refined metals making it hard to walk anywhere.
