Chapter Five.
Washington Dc, White house.
I was being led to the Oval office by the president's secretary, I was carrying some equipment I had made last minute with lab 3's virtual creator for this presentation, a holographic interface that would sync to my custom laptop and a little gift for the president, I had heard he was a fan of model ships and planes, well I ended up making a little ten inch model of the new BC-304 design I just got finished upgrading, (did that when I was at the base) I thought he'd might appreciate it, it even came with a little stand.
I was brought into the Oval office proper, behind the resolute desk sat the president of the united states who looked over at me and got up to shake my hand, he then led me over to the couches in front of the desk where three men sat, two generals and one admiral all representing all branches of the armed forces, in a separate seat alongside them sat the secretary of defense, I was happy to say I was greeted warmly as I was introduced to the other men in the room, the president got the ball rolling.
"So Doctor, here we are, how about you explain a bit more about what you got up too with the Asgard, then we can talk about what comes after that." He was giving me a chance, I could see that easily enough, but he also opened the door to even more massive opportunites for me if I played my cards right, so first things first, start off on the right foot.
"Sounds like a plan Mr President, but first, I have a little something for you," I took out the model figure and passed it to him, his eyes lit up like a kid at Christmas, I could also see a great deal of interest in the other men there, I continued on.
"As you can see sir this is a model of what will be our newest battle cruiser that we will be building not only to engage threats to our world, but to explore the galaxy, I am sure you can see a few visual differences between this model and the designs you took a look at when the 304 was originally shown to you – he nodded – we'll get to those differences a little later but first I'm going to perform a little show a tell for you all."
I took out my holographic projector and my laptop, which I turned into a tablet and placed the holographic base on the coffee table in front of me and switched it on. Using the tablet I brought up a crystal clear image of the Earth, I could here sounds of approval and curiosity coming from my little audience, good.
"Now to fully show you what it is I've done in terms of my deal with the Asgard I'm going to show some visual representations, first is the Earth to get a sense of scale, and this is Hala, a former Asgard world." Hala was in fact thirteen percent larger then Earth itself thanks to all the replicators on the surface and well as those beneath the original surface of the planet and I mentioned as much to those in the room.
"Now – I removed the Earth – imagine if you will this planet completely covered in replicator blocks – I showed an image of the standard block and its size – the replicators took complete control of the surface topography, meaning all mountains and hills, oceans and lakes all gone, it was pretty much a solid sphere of metal." The graphic showing everyone what I was saying, I switch the image to show a cross section of the planet. "Now according to SG-1's report, Major Carter made the assumption that the replicators also went deep into the planet since the Asgard had called all of the replicators in their galaxy to Hala to trap them there, that's a lot of material gentlemen, I later found out the depth was in fact a little over 12 kilometers – cue looks of awe – and we now own just about half of this material." I stopped talking to allow them to process what they'd heard, one of the generals spoke up, the one for the US Army.
"Although its hard to wrap my head around that amount of resources doctor, I think we do understand the magnitude of what you have secured for us, question is what are we going to do with it all, where are we going to store it?" The others agreed with his sentiment, good they were on the same page.
"A fantastic question sir and I'm glad your brought it up, the Asgard have agreed to deliver materials only when we ask for it at least in the meantime until we are ready and capable of receiving all of it, to that end one of the technological concessions I asked for was matter/energy storage technology, once I have my head around that we can store millions if not billions of tons of resources in something as small as a standard locker, perhaps we could build a small facility near by, lets say Mars, where we can create as many storage devices as needed, maybe even one massive one that could hold it all, while I am on this subject sirs, I do believe a ship construction facility on Mars maybe our best bet moving forward when it comes to starship construction".
The president started at that, curious as to why I would want to move such facilities there. "And why would we do that doctor when the idea was just to build them here on Earth?"
"Well sir, we already have problems with the public when trying to launch Prometheus from time to time, what would happen if we tried to launch multiple ships in case of emergency or what not, unless you plan to disclose the stargate and everything else to the world by the end of the year or so I do believe a facility off world but near by is the key, plus when you do plan to tell a few of our allies it could be said that the facility could be run by multiple countries since Mars has no jurisdiction, and I know they would more then likely make a stink about that, having it planned upfront would do a lot to alleviate the upset feelings we know they would have."
The president seemed introspective at that point, leaning back into his chair and thinking, he had heard of the stink that the ambassadors had made when Hammond had told them of the stargate and Prometheus maybe this would help smooth some ruffled feathers and although he was to leave office at the beginning of next year it would do well for him to have such things set up for the next in line for the president's office. "You make some good points doctor, I am sure you have some idea of how to get this done and in what time scale."
"Yes sir, since I traded 70 percent of the neutronium we would have gotten in the deal for 3 technological concessions, one was the storage technology and another was construction technology, I intend to use that technology to build the facility in mere weeks, this facility will be 700 ft underground and will be extensive, it'll have living quarters, science labs, and the ship construction facilities with an eight birth launch bay, we can add more later if necessary.
The facility will be accessed by Stargate, the gate will be locked out, it will only be able to dial Earth's Stargate and more over Earth's Stargate will be the only one that would be able to dial the facilities for the sake of security purposes." I could see everyone nodding their heads, they seemed happy with my ideas so far, now to give them a little more carrot so they might agree to my other ideas, best way to win over a politician is money.
"Mr President, I have many ideas that will make Earth an important world in this galaxy, the SGC is an incredibly important part of that as I am sure you will agree, problem is the amount of money it takes to run the stargate program, and the majority of that problem is electrical power to run the gate itself."
"Yes that right, it take billions just to switch the damn thing on, if that wasn't a problem I'm sure I could put that money elsewhere as well as keep the SGC properly funded for as long as they needed." the president said, I responded with my answer to that little problem.
"Mr president, I may be able to help with that. – cue the hopeful and curious looks – Sir the technology I developed to power the Prometheus can be applied here, I would simply build another powercore and attach it in the SGC's main power vault, effectively taking the entire SGC off grid, leaving all that tax payer money to be placed elsewhere, as well as give the SGC a little more of that funding for their work." If they were puppies their tails would be wagging so hard right now!
"God damn doctor, that is a hell of an idea! Definitely agree with that proposal right now, do you have any other ideas for upgrading the SGC?" asked the president.
"Yes sir, one of the things that always bothered me was how difficult it was to use the Stargate safely, the problem is that to use the Stargate at all we had to build a supercomputer that could read the Stargate's basecode, we then found a way to activate the gate that way through trial and error, but because of that, the normal safety features of the gate were not enabled which has caused no end of issues, if I may remind you of the time they connected to a black hole?"
"No need to remind me doctor, that was a scary time indeed, thought all of Colorado was gonna get sucked into that thing, are you saying you have away to make things safer son, because I can tell you right now that a lotta the problems the SGC has with funding comes from a place of worry for our safety you see, if you could alleviate some of that it would go along way for us to see that your other ideas are validated quickly."
Well this was all to easy, I'll be honest I never could really understand why they never did this in the show but I'm not about to bad mouth them to the president of all people. "Yes sir, we simply task the Prometheus with fetching a few DHD's and a Stargate from planets with no life or are incapable of holding life anymore, it would then be a simple matter to slave the Earth's Stargate to a new DHD then install the device into the control room, and then use the DHD for what it was intended to do, since that is the device that holds all of the safety protocols, the other DHD and Stargate we would use for the new facility on Mars, Major Carter would be more then capable of hooking up the DHD at the SGC."
They seemed floored by my genius, I decided to give them a few minutes and had a biscuit and some tea, the secretary of defense finally spoke up first. "Why have we never done this before, you would think that with so many smart people at the SGC that they would have thought of such a solution before now!" I decided to cut the SecDef off here before he started on a rant that might get the others involved.
"Who's to say they haven't sir? Because I'm pretty sure they have, problem with that idea until now has been logistics, how exactly were they supposed to accomplish this? Until now the Prometheus has been in no fit state to do anything other then limp around space, they couldn't take a DHD from a world they visited because they would never be able to dial out and bring it with them, they had no way sir, until I got my hands on the Prometheus, but now we can." I did my best to calm everyone down and get them to see reason, lucky for me it worked very well, I even got some sheepish looks from the SecDef and one of the Generals.
The president agreed to my proposal and said he would order Prometheus to fetch the devices and the stargate as their very next mission, I suggested he contact General Hammond to inform him of the mission as well as to ask about potential worlds where we could get them from since the SGC would have a list of no go worlds to choose from.
The president asked about the other tech request I had made with the Asgard, I explained the history of the device which they found interesting, I then explained what I had planned with it, after five minutes of dumb founded looks of awe, the president staring at the model of the 304 I gave him agreed whole-heartedly with my idea and actually made it an order, anything I needed he said, this was going great, just one more thing to speak about now.
"Doctor Felger I'm almost afraid to ask at this point, since you've blown us all way with what you have planned for the near future, but is there anything else you wish to speak with us about" asked the president
"Yes sir, just one more thing I promise, but its as important and the last thing I talked to you about is." That got their attention, I activated the holo imager again and I accessed the last brief I had loaded into it, it was showing an image of the F-302, I began my presentation.
"Gentlemen, I know this meeting has been long and I'd like to think you all believe it has been very fruitful – enthusiastic agreement – so I would like to finish up by telling you about one last design I have, as you all know this is the F-302 hybrid space fighter interceptor, it is effectively a quantum leap in space technology for us as a species and has recently been very effective in taking out Anubis' super weapon, the thing is sirs, its no way near enough for what we need it to be, speed wise it is comparable to the Death glider but it was also designed around that very same craft, a craft that represents fear, pain, enslavement and death all over the galaxy.
The F-302 is very limited weapons wise, four modified slammer missiles, that's all it has to defend us at the moment, no secondary weapons, although there talk about putting small caliber railguns on board but that's still some time away, its a two-seater craft when we don't even have the resources or the personnel and its wingspan is insane at over twenty six meters! This craft is I am sorry to say, poor if looked at objectively, a great first step but no more".
I had thought maybe I came on to strong but some of them were actually nodding and agreeing with me, would wonders never cease. "All good points son, do you have a better idea?" Asked the General for the Air force, mirrored by the others in the room, and boy did I ever.
"I think I do sir." The image of another craft slowly appeared next to the 302, the digital wire frame building the craft that would help us protect our world and people, a single-seater craft, it had a thin and streamlined profile from the front to the wings sweeping downward in a soft semi-circle look, from a top down view, sharp at the front of the cockpit and swept back, then once it passed twice the length of the cockpit the wings swept out a bit before sharply turning back to the rear leaving a two meter or so gap, there was also a dark discoloration at the front and rear of the wings. As the model rotated the three officers and two men saw four recessed engines that was seamlessly worked into the design, I continued on.
"Gentlemen, this is the SH-001 Star-Hawk space superiority fighter, powered by a mark two naquadah amplification generator giving this craft no lack of power, four ion pulse engines provide the thrust capable of out performing the Goa'uld death glider by a wide margin, gravitic pulse generators give the craft unparalleled maneuverability in space as well as giving the ability for vertical take off and landing".
The four men seemed enraptured by the design and my presentation, I smiled as I continued. "The Hull is composed of a more refined version of the naquadah/trinium alloy used for the F-302s, aero elastic wings allow for extreme maneuverability in atmosphere.
Now for combat abilities, let start with defenses, a regenerative shield provides the main protection, capable of taking dozens of direct hits from death glider level plasma cannons, the shield regenerates quickly once enemy fire is no longer sustained, followed closely by a molecular phase shift energy field reverse engineered from the Kull warrior armor keeping our fighters in the fight far, far longer then any other.
Now for weapons!
Two plasma repeater cannons provide primary weapons capability, the guns can tear apart enemy fighters with ease as well as cause serious damage to larger targets the longer fire is sustained, now this is something I am most proud of, the missile system".
The graphic model revealed a two launch bays underneath the craft that opened up, both mechanisms dropped down and began spinning slowly. "This sirs is the tumbler launch system, a dual launch bay system that can hold ten of the new Claw class missiles designed after the Talon missile system, this missile is only a meter long and is just as effective in combat as the capital ship variant.
As you can see their are two of the tumblers in each bay capable of holding five of the Claw missiles, each tumbler is capable of rotating independently from one another, or together to hold larger ordinance like the Talon missile system which is only two meters long".
The model showed ten Claw missiles from one launch bay and the other had five Talons, one of the Generals spoke up with surprise evident in his voice. "Son are you telling us this craft can carry twenty anti-fighter missiles or ten anti-capital ship missiles in one engagement!?"
Time for a bombshell. "No sir, I'm saying this craft can carry one hundred anti-fighter missiles or 50 anti-capital ship missiles in any combat scenario that would be needed." They were shocked, confused and more then a little disbelieving at my proclamation, if I wasn't me I wouldn't blame them either.
"I'm sorry Doctor Felger but I'm having a hard time believing that this craft could go into battle with that kind of ordinance, can you tell us how its possible?" Asked the same General who asked the previous question, I was more then happy to oblige.
"Three words General, matter. Energy. Storage." I could see their eyes light up with understanding. "We would simply have a small storage unit within the craft that can hold the extra weaponry, then when you run out of missiles simply re-arm from storage, a small Asgard beaming system could be added solely for that effect, giving us the ability to fight harder and longer then any of our enemies." They actually started clapping, maybe they thought I'd finished? There was still one last thing to tell them about the Star-Hawk.
"Please, please hold your applause, there is still one last thing. One of the biggest selling points of the 302 was the ability to go into hyperspace, we later found that that was a far more difficult feat then first appeared, the Star-Hawk although cannot go into hyperspace can in fact use another FTL drive, the spatial distortion drive or as we would call it, the warp drive." Hehe, that got em, the president actually stood up to stare at the design.
"Son, how long until this design can be built?" he seemed very excited at the prospect of an FTL capable fighter craft.
"Just give the word sir, and when I leave here today, in two weeks I can have four flights of three ready for trials, before the end of the year all our 302's would be replaced by Star-Hawks, not only that but once our 304's are ready they would be able to fit sixteen fighters per bay, rather then the eight 302's that would have been used thanks to being slightly larger then a third the width of the 302 itself." Now I was just waiting, waiting for the words to come out of the presidents mouth, the words that would let me really get started on project Earth badass!
"Doctor Felger, the word is given, get to it son!"
"Yes sir! Before I go though, lets talk about a raise" With a cheeky smile I felt I was a shoe in for a little monetary compensation, and I was right.
Authors notes: Hi all like I said in the first chapter I'm not the best at describing things in written word so I'm just going say google "Stealth Extreme Deep Invader and you essentially have the Star hawk, just imagine it the same gray as the 302's and a slightly large cockpit to make things more comfortable.