Code Name: "Small Packages"
Mission Type: Sigma 9 - Homeworld under attack
Earth Abandoned - Records taken from Alpha Site sources
Mission Report
Known information on Species classed as Replicators
Extremely Dangerous: Do not approach, call for military backup if there is the possibility of their presense
Believed extinct
Macro-robotic species
Individually Self-aware/ Group communication
Creators/ Planet of Origin/ Date of Creation - unknown
The Replicators are able to disassemble almost any known material or alloy and convert it into more of themselves. If loosed into a advanced planetary enviroment, they will consume all available resources before commondeering a ship to travel elsewhere.
Portion filed by - Thor, Asgard Warlord over the Milky Way galaxy
The disappearence of a number of Asgard ships recently has been troubling us. A couple managed to transmit a warning about some kind of transporter beam that went straight through their shields and some kind of intruders, then nothing. When ships were dispatched they couldn't locate any of the vessels.
I was at the SG-C when one of these vessels turned up. It appeared at around the orbit of the world Mars, apparently having gone straight through the Picket Line without stopping or bothering to activate it's cloaking device. It headed for the Earth and took up an orbit. A number of attempts at communication were made, to no avail. Whoever was within the ship did not want to talk.
When the Dreadnaught arrived and focused it's sensors on the ship, they discovered that there was in fact no crew aboard it. This concerned everyone as an Asgard vessel is able to pilot itself for a while (as proved by the existence of Surt, Loki's safeguard against death) but would be unable to get through a Picket Line without the right codes or anyone aboard.
After it had orbited for a short while, General Hammond ordered that a MALP be transported aboard. At the same time he requested that Colonel O'Neill call his son and ask if he knew what was going on. O'Neill apparently had some trouble with this as his son was at a friend's house for a few days.
When the MALP showed a perfectly normal ship, General Hammond ordered that we attempt to use it's remote capabilities to manouver the ship elsewhere. This proved impossible when a security system came on and destroyed the MALP. The next idea was to send an SG team with the correct access codes and shields in case to do the job.
Portion filed by Col. Jack O'Neill, SG-1, SG-A Military
SG-1 volenteered to go aboard the Asgard vessel with a group of Tok'ra Unas in backup. Choska seemed eager to help out for once and his Tok'ra seems to be adapting nicely to having an Unas rather than a Human as a host, though he doesn't speak much. We all arrived on the ship in the main Transport area and made our way through to the Bridge. As the MALP had suggested, there didn't seem to be anyone on board.
Reaching the Bridge we found that the access codes had been changed when the security system started up and nearly shot us out of existence. After we took out the security system's weapons, we melted down the door to the Bridge, deciding not to waste time hot-wiring the door. We walked straight into a scene out of a history video.
There must have been thousands of things that looked like Replicators all over the Bridge. In the centre of the Bridge, apparently tapping directly into the central power and control lines that ran through it, stood what looked exactly like a Replicator, but was about three metres tall. Realising that a number of Replicators must have escaped the purges, we backed out of the room, intending to leave before they noticed us enough to care that we were watching them.
It seems though that these ones were going to react better than the old sort. The big one spotted us and instantly all of them turned to face us. We began to back off and they began to follow, at speed. These new versions apparently have shielding as well as the usual ability to rebuild themselves (as proved when Choska took a swing at one with a force-axe). As well as this though they seem to have learnt how to join themselves together like Lego to make a larger version of themselves, with stronger shielding, more speed and weapons in one or two cases.
Our main advantage was that our shields were of the latest design while their's were (apparently) up to the level of Goa'uld personal shields a few years ago. Our TEMPER weapons could shoot straight through their shields and damage a few of the blocks but not enough to really slow them down. We called for Transport off the ship but got told that we would need to be near a viewport for them to be able to manage it. We headed back to the main Transport area, trying to hold back the Replicators as we went.
Choska managed a small victory when he brought down a section of the corridor with a well placed blow from his axe. We hurried off, managing to reach the Transport area just as they got through the blockage. They had almost managed to reach us when we were Transported out. Back at the SG-C, we brought the Planetary Defender Weapons to bear on the ship and managed it to blow it out of the sky, along with the Replicators just before it attempted to land.
Realising that the Replicators must have been responsible for the disappearence of the other vessels, we set out a plan to hunt them down. Given that these were lastest model Asgard vessels, we had little hope with anything short of a Planetary Defence system of taking out even one of them. The only ship we had capable of taking out an Asgard vessel is the Dreadnaught or the Braashek class ship that we captured (that we still don't know how to pilot).
The problem of piloting the Braashek was solved when we discovered that one of the Kordask that had been on it had come back to life after being declared dead several weeks ago when we killed him. Unusually he had purple fur rather than red. It was noticed that when he suddenly came to life, so did the ship. Sam suggested that he might be the pilot of it and somehow symbiotically linked into the systems.
Realising that this would give us a means of taking control of the Male'arn ship, we sent a message to the Alliance asking different groups to come and help us.
Portion filed by Choska, SG-A Military, Tok'ra God-Slayer
I and my troop decided to help against the Replicators in the best way we could. Heading for the SG-C Infirmary, we located Rengar, one of my troop that had been wounded by the Replicators. He was in stasis, preventing him from dying whilst people tried to work out how to assist him.
In a co-ordinated strike, we managed to remove him from stasis, carry him to the cells where the Purple Kordask was being kept and explain the situation to him. By the time anyone got to us he had transfered over to the Kordask and his host had died of his wounds. Rengar ended up unconscious along with his new host.
General Hammond was arguing with us about the merits of what we had done when Rengar awoke. When we were convinced of who he was, we all transported up to the ship, named the "Gene'ator Ra", a name from Tok'ra legend refering to the first Goa'uld ship to be captured by the Tok'ra and used against the System Lords.
We launched the ship just in time to witness a number of other Replicator vessels appear in orbit. They were accompanied by a Male'arn Togras ship and almost a hundred Warbikes. Realising that the Male'arn must have either converted these Replicators to their cause, or originally created them in the first place, we knew that we had to act quickly.
Almost before we could react we registered a huge number of Transports being made down to the surface of the Earth. Those that Transported down seemed to be carrying Transport inhibitors of some design for we were unable to get a lock on them afterwards. As more and more Kordask began to appear on the surface of the Earth, the Gene'ator Ra opened fire, taking out the Togras and a single Replicator vessel in the first shot. As we got reports that the Replicators were begining to swamp the SG-C's defences, General Hammond ordered an evacuation.
We did consider bombing the SG-C to prevent the Male'arn from getting hold of it, but then decided against it. There was no real reason to do it as they would probably just bring in a newer Stargate and we'd loose all of the information in the SG-C database. This wouldn't be such a bad thing in itself but much of the information was individually stored here.
Major Carter insisted that we Transport the technology from the Facility out of the SG-C. In this way we might at least gain some technology to fight back at the Male'arn with, as it was intended to be used. The SG-C command structure was moved to the Alpha Site, where it has been since then.
Mission Notes
Casualties or physical injuries to SG-A personnel:
- Host of Tok'ra Rengar - KIA
- Multiple SG-C defenders - KIA/ WIA
- Unknown numbers of forces on the Earth - KIA/ WIA
Casualties or physical injuries to off-world inhabitants:
- All known Replicator vessels - KIA
- Togras class ship - KIA
- Multiple Kordask - KIA