This is a crossover between StarGate SG-1, StarWars, StarTrek, StarCraft, Warhammer 40K, Farscape and other sci-fi series. I don't own anything from the sci-fi series I write about. I am just writing it for fun.
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This is a tech-spec chapter... of Earth fleet. Enjoy!
I just noticed, thanks to Lord of Daemons, that I forgot to replace Chapter 14 so that GEK doesn't know that Dr Leed exists! If you find any other inconsistencies, please tell me so I can fix it!
Chapter 37
I walked down the corridor on my White Palace with my twelve Guardians. These guys were special… well, I made them special. With nanite embedded in their spinal column as well as inside the brain and the internal organs, they were proto-Space Marine minus the genetic manipulation. Clad in armor so powerful that only two other beings, namely me and Grazak, were wearing them, my Guardians were really the best. They worked in three 4 men shifts, cycling every 6 hours, with two staying with me all the time… especially after my first death at the hands of the two women.
During their shifts, they would watch over me with a vigil that even I would be afraid of. Thanks to the command and authority I gave them, they could technically override my commands for my own protection. Grazak could order them to do so as well. If I get too excited and ignore chances of my death, then Grazak would give the order and the Guardians would drag me to safety, whether I like it or not. Their faith and loyalty was so strong that I can never blame them. I absolutely believed in their loyalty and the infallibility of my brainwashing, and it proved to be true throughout the millions of years I spent with them.
During their rest cycle, they would enter a special barracks built just for them. They were provided with best of everything, and their barracks was equipped with time dilation device that allowed them 60 hours of training and rest during the 6 hour rest cycle. While the barracks could hold all twelve Guardians and their 'current' family, the Guardians would spend 6 hours with their families while another shift would train within the time dilation field. I wanted them to have stable family life, after all. However, it appeared that several of them, about ten of them, divorced and decided to live to serve me. This was surprising, and the fact that their ex-family supported their decision. It was obviously a positive side-effect of my brainwashing.
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"Athena, report!"
~My lord, I have discovered that the SGC has hired 4 more psychiatrists and three psychologists just to analyse you.~
"Just as I suspected… How about the real mission?"
~Everything is in place, my lord. When the opportunity arises, the SGC will discover the false operation, then find the second false operation…~
"Good. What is the second operation's objective?"
~The Ark of Truth.~
I raised my eyebrows.
"It still exists? I thought that they destroyed it."
~The device was dismantled, but the parts were transported to Area 51 and…~
"Ahh, the curiosity of humans of Earth… cannot be denied. It is their strength and weakness… A fitting objective, System Lord Athena."
~Thank you, my lord. The primary false objective would be this child called Orlin… a supposed descended Ascended Ancient…~
"Orlin… Yes, but his mind was destroyed. The SGC would not guard him properly…"
~Yes, my lord. We will pretend that we still intend to extract what information he has… and divert the focus of SGC to that operation.~
"Well done. Your meticulous plan is truly commendable. What of Anuraks… Bob Kinsey?"
~He made a return as a public figure, always staying in public's eye or inside the protected house of his.~
"I will provide him with few gadgets to aid him in accomplishing his missions. As for you, I shall dispatch a cloaked Ha'tak to pick you up."
~A cloaked Ha'tak, my lord? I thought only Apophis had such… technology.~
"Take care to remember who you are talking to, Athena. I am God Emperor, the single most powerful being in this plane of existence."
~Yes, my lord. I do not doubt your power.~
"See that you do not."
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As I ended the long range communication, I closed my eyes and frowned. Grazak asked.
"My lord? You frown again…"
"Hmmm? Ah, yes. There is something troubling about this new capacity held of SGC in predicting my moves and motives… Not only that, they somehow silenced the spy I planted in SGC. Though it would technically only transmit without being detected when their gate connects to a world where my replicators are, this highly unlikely that they were discovered… highly unlikely… However, such is nothing. Soon, I shall depart, and when I return, the galaxy will tremble at my coming."
"As you will, my god. All shall be yours."
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Landry threw down a report on the conference table where SG-1 and Kevin Leed was sitting.
"Dr Leed, you were right. NID found several Trust operatives searching our personnel lists to find how many psychological experts we hired."
Kevin nodded grimly.
"I would have thought that if I knew I was here… Thanks to the purge of those nanite spies, he doesn't even know my existence."
Captain Hailey frowned.
"He will eventually find out."
"The operative word there is 'eventually', captain. I just hope that our fleet and defences will be ready by the time he does."
Mitchell nodded.
"Yeah. Hey, I saw the new ship's design. Nice work, Dr Leed."
"Kevin."
"Kevin."
"Yes, I did work on the Daedalus' computer programs, and me and few other guys wanted to come up with new designs."
Landry nodded as he gave out files with several ship designs in them.
"It was a good thing too. The Asgard Class dreadnoughts and Titan Class carrier were met with enthusiasm. However, the Aquila class assault frigate and Hedgehog class cruisers seemed to be less powerful."
Kevin sighed.
"I know this other Kevin. He would not like the lack of diversity in his fleet. He will have fightes, big ships, small ships and whatever technology he can get his hands on. Then he will bring those against us. Aquila class will allow powerful strikes against a small enemy fleet without needing to send out more powerful ships. They faster and more agile than even an Alkesh. As for the Hedgehog class, because I know my preference for star fighters, and what he can make them into, we need anti-fighter capability… a lot."
Daniel shrugged.
"I thought the modified Prometheus class and the Daedalus class were quite good at that."
Kevin shook his head.
"Both ships are obviously designed just to show that they can accommodate the technologies. They are mostly defensive and not a dedicated warship. We need dedicated warship if we are to fight the oncoming storm that is the other me."
Mitchell nodded and looked at the designs.
The modified Prometheus class was redesigned to contain all the new technological advances SGC has made as well as the Asgard tech. It was now 225m long instead of 195m, and 90m width, 70m height. With the new manoeuvring thrusters, made from a mix of the Goa'uld sublight engines, Asgard thrusters, located on the sides of the ship, the new BC-303A could theoretically do a high-energy turn without damages to the main thrusters. The two forward manoeuvring thrusters located at the both side of the 'head', would allow the ship to turn side ways faster, and the thrusters located above and below the 'head' would force the ship up or down. The rear-side manoeuvring thrusters were the same, located at the other side of the ship. This was ignoring the primary thrusts located at the very rear of the ship where the sublight engines were. Technically, these thrusters could allow the BC-303A to move sideways… strafing. Of course, the thrusters were thrusters not sublight engines, and therefore it would be impractical, but they did make the BC-303A to be a formidable ship with its agility.
Another major change in BC-303A was that the hanger bays were gone, replaced by another set of 'wings' as they called it. Instead of mounting radars and sensors on the 'wings', three railgun turret batteries were mounted on each side of the 'wings', adding total of twelve railgun batteries. The command tower was reduced in height, while the whole ship had another floor added it to. Instead of the command tower, it now had a Plasma Ion Cannon turret that reminded people of the three barrel 16 inch gun aboard USS Iowa. It would fire powerful ion burst, of Asgard design, with plasma core. This green colored energy weapon was a modification of ancient Asgard weapon, the basic armament of a Beliskner class, useful against Ha'taks but something that only fed the Replicators with energy. The green color was due to the different gas used by the humans. The PICs (Plasma Ion Cannon) were slow to recharge with heavy use of the total power output of the ship, but they were about twice the strength of the Beliskener's firepower, nearly 90% of O'Neill's firepower.
The doubling in the number of missile bays and 36 railguns instead of 24, made the BC-303A a formidable weapon. This had suited the IOA and the leaderships of the Earth's major nations, who upon suddenly becoming a galactic superpower thanks to SGC, began to dream of off-world colonies and a powerful Earth based star empire. Fuelling these initial desires were the new designs.
The latest BC-304 series, BC-304A, was bigger and meaner ship than the original BC-304 and thanks to the new Asgard Beam Assemblage system, designed by Captain Hailey, they could make many of these ships. Reaching 275m length, 100m in width, 80m in height, the BC-304A were equipped with 6 APB ports instead of 4, and 40 railguns, 36 missiles bays and the top mounted single PIC turret, the BC-304A was much more deadly heavy hitter than BC-303A, but with still the same number of thrusters and engines, it was slower. This lack of additional engines were to minimize auxiliary energy to the engines and redirect them to the weapons.
The new designs were also formidable. Based upon the years of expertise in war, the designs were suitably… war-like. The Aquila class assault frigate and Hedgehog class cruisers were the small ones. The Aquila, or the X-305, was a ship no bigger than BC-303, being only 190m/L, 80m/W and 60m/H, the ship lacked hanger bays or missile bays. However, it was protected by same grade shield as the Daedalus with same number of shield emitters and generators, which was about 45~65% stronger than Prometheus class. Also, it had what the designers called it 'broadsider cannons'. Two modified PICs were installed on the sides of the ship, giving six barrels of the powerful weapon against any enemy to the port or starboard side of the ship. Also, it had a turret on the top and the bottom of the ship, which could turn in 360 degree angle. This meant that the tiny X-305 could potentially fired 12 PIC shots to either the port or the starboard side, and six to forward or rear. With the sublight of BC-304, and similar thruster capacity as BC-303A, this agile ship could literally move between the enemies and shred them to bits before the enemy could retaliate. The one thing lacking on X-305 was the limited railgun emplacements. Numbering only 12, they could deter the enemy fighter but not take on a swarm of fighters.
That's where X-306 would come in. The Hedgehog class cruiser was small. Only 75m in length, width of 25m and the height of mere 20m, it was only about double the Alkesh in size. Also, it lacked the heavy firepower of other ships. Armed only with railguns and the same missiles used by the F-302s, the modified AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles. The missiles, now called AIM-120 AMRAAM-SG, was guided by a tiny but sophisticated Asgard computer and sensor and its propulsion and fuel remade with various alien technology, that they could chase down enemy fighters with ease. While lacking in firepower like the PICs or the fearsome but power-hogging APBs, the Hedgehogs had impressive 4 modified RAM launcher missile turrets that reloads thanks to Asgard technology. Also, the X-306 is armed with 16 multi-arc railgun turrets, which was surprisingly many for a ship of the size. Kevin and his team had designed this ship to be mass produced and sent as escorts for the bigger ships who carried firepower but susceptible to future incursion against the Galactic Imperium's suspected powerful fighter capacity.
The two heavier ships already approved and the prototypes under construction were the Asgard Class dreadnoughts and Titan Class carrier, DN-307 and SC-308. The DN-307 was to be the new flagship of the growing Earth fleet. Named after the most honoured ally of Earth, it was a truly a massive ship, especially when compared to the other ships Earth has built as yet. Also, it was the most expensive even considering the ABA system. Unable to hide such monstrous structure on Earth, the construction is happening on Alpha site along with the Titan carrier, about 10km from the base within a large valley, hidden through the Asgard shield and hologram of the original forest that was there before the humans cleared it. The flagship, with the length of 1.65km, width of 750m and the height of 500m, was filled with the best technologies Earth has managed to get their hands on over the years. Protected by two layers of shield, the basic idea this was from Dr Kevin Leed, though he did not know that God Emperor Kevin Leed did the same.
The outer shield was that of the Asgard shield, with proportionally double the shield generating cavity that Daedalus class, and was also protected by a single layer of close-fitting Ancient shield, created from six Puddle Jumpers' cloaking devices modified into shields. These shields were powered by dedicated Asgard Power Cores, one each for the Asgard shield and the Alteran shield, with three Mark2 Naquadah Power Generators as backups. The Asgard class held impressive power output. With a single ZPM port in the heart, where one of the ZPMs from Atlantis, specifically one of the two given to Colonel Carter by the God Emperor, was to be installed as the primary power source, and with one APCore fuelling the propulsion, and another powering the weapons, the ship was brimming with power. Of course, the backups were powered by four Mark2 NPGs, plus two dedicated for life-support systems. The propulsions were just as impressive, with the latest Asgard sublight and hyperdrive engines, the ship would be quite fast for its size.
The array of weapons of the ship was truly awe inspiring. The ship itself was large, and it 'almost' looked as if the size was to accommodate the weapons… which were mostly true. Armed with 18 APB ports, 16 PICs including 6 'broadsider' modes, 300 VLS missile tubes spread over four groups, and 98 railgun emplacements including 38 multi-arc emplacements, the Asgard Class dreadnought 'Thor' was the pride and might of Earth. However, that was not the end. When Dr Leed and his team, including Captain Hailey, designed this ship, it was specifically to counter the rising power of the Galactic Imperium, thus several prototype weapons were installed as well. A single nose-mounted energy weapon, to be powered by all the back-up generators and auxiliary powers, it was a derivative from the Asuran Stargate Satellite that was used to attack Atlantis and Sokar weapon against Earth. It is a focused beam of highly charged, super-accelerated energy, capable of quickly draining enemy shields. Though the name given to this prototype supers weapon was SAPB (Super Accelerated Particle Beam), the infamous General Jack O'Neill was not hesitant to report this as 'the Phaser'.
Another prototype weapon was named by General O'Neill as 'the Tractor Beam', which was actually named GCB (Gravity Condenser Beam). Capable of working like a tractor beam from Star Trek, it actually creates a path of hyper gravity toward the Asgard Class, dragging the target closer while crushing it with super gravity at par with 75% of a black hole. Though unable to maintain the firing for more than 1 minute 22 seconds at each charge, this weapon is reported to be theoretically powerful, but costing a lot of power. The weapon would require all of auxiliary power and the power from the propulsion and the weapons. O'Neill called it 'waste of energy on an immature ejaculation'.
Finally, the Titan Class space carrier. It was larger than BC-304 but smaller than the Asgard Class ship. In truth, the Titan class looked liked two 304s stuck together back to back. The width and length of the ship were same as 304A, but the height was 120m, and with five hanger bays including the one underneath the ship. While only armed with 4 APBs, 2 PICs, 16 VLS missile tubes and 32 railguns, the Titan class stocked impressive 48 F-302s, thanks to the elongated hanger module. While this ship was not really different from a larger version of BC-304, it had a special feature. Its hanger modules were detachable. Each hanger module was equipped with its own power source, a shield generator and emitter, life-support capacity, sensors and Asgard beaming capacity, and the Titan could theoretically detach a module and place it in orbit as a portable hanger defence system. Also, the module could be replaced by a heavy weapon module. In fact, Titan, also being built on Alpha site along with the Thor, 2 BC-304As and 3 BC-303As, was built with two extra hanger modules and four weapons modules. Two of the weapons modules were covered with 20 multi-arc railguns with an Asgard computer, sensor and tracking system to maximise anti-fighter capability, while the other two weapons modules were armed with two PICs and four railguns.
