Thundersdawn PT5: Chocky's Thunder
by Chaos_eternus
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Chapter 5: Scouting
The fleet dropped with a flash out of hyper, the bulk of the ships accelerating quickly to the Paladins top speed, the slowest of the fleet. Indomitable and Indefatigable however surged ahead, their vastly superior speed and manoeuvrability making them the perfect scouts for the Tau'ri fleet. Quickly, the destroyers dived towards the fringes of the system, dropping to a halt at the orbit of the 12th planet, their sensors picking up the ZPE generators field with ease.
The ships turned and edged around the field, their scanners probing into the system, triangulating on the massive bulk of the oversized ZPE generator with ease, all attempts at stealth abandoned now the generator was online.
Their sensors swept across the system, there was no way the Goa'uld would have left such an important facility as this unguarded, and it wasn't, the bulk of a Goa'uld mothership filled the sensors of the two Dauntless class destroyers, slowly moving towards the Indomitable and Indefatigable.
The two ships turned and fled, pushing their engines hard as they sought the relative safety of the fleet.
Maktenos turned away from the Jaffa with a nod. The Jaffa were ready, as were the scientists he had 'encouraged' to work for him. Already the population of the world below were dying in their thousands, soon he would be able to land and seize the technologies and information he needed to put Anubis where he belonged, kneeling at Maktenos's feet.
The 'incident' had set him back severely, he had wanted as many Tau'ri of the SGC as hosts as possible for the lesser Goa'ulds who served him, and unfortunately Enerina's treachery had derailed that plan. Derailed, it was his host's phrase, thrown at him at every opportunity and Maktenos had scoured Pierces mind for it's meaning, before deciding that it fit, perfectly. He would catch Enerina and her Tau'ri servents and teach her the price of treachery, before subduing her mind. A Goa'uld queen could not be allowed to remain in the hands of the Tau'ri, but unfortunately was too valuable to just kill. Queens were rare.
"My Lord" His first prime interrupted his thoughts "Sensors picked up a weak trace just outside the field, we moved closer to gain a better contact, but the two ships moved away before we could identify them."
Maktenos turned an exasperated glare towards his first prime, the field had degraded sensors beyond belief, and he had been forced to send the other vessel assigned to this mission, a Ha'tak away to summon reinforcements. Naturally someone had discovered him before the reinforcements came.
"Best guess?" he snapped.
"Dauntless class, my lord."
Maktenos was surprised, though considering it he realized he shouldn't have been; Pierces memories indicated ZPE technologies that the RSS had to get from somewhere. It appeared he had found their source, now were those new Dauntless's reporting back to Thundersdawn or to a fleet already on its way?
"Have ten Al-kesh sweep the field boundaries, have them look for vessels inbound."
"My lord" his first prime nodded respectfully and turned from the room.