9: Breech Of Dawn
by Chaoseternus

Trust is broken and the rules rewritten when traitors are revealed and secrets released.

Chapter 2: Traitors

A weary, sleep deprived Thompson cursed as the message hit his inbox, General Hammond and his soon to be replacement, General Jacob Carter / Selmac were on their way, and they were not at all happy about something.

Perfect, just another thing to add to his list of reasons why today was not a good day. First, he had received news of a security breech on the goddamn news! Then he had had to deal with a two hour phone call from the Prime Minister, asking quiet politely what kind of shop he was running down there and what he was going to do about it.

Followed by frantic calls from all his senior commanders. In turn.

Then the latest report from Enerina had hit his desk and that even on a good day, would have been enough to make him scream. Twelve densely populated worlds destroyed, by machines, computers! Even worse, these computers had not only vowed to destroy the entire human race, but they could appear human. Shades of Terminator anyone?

There was also the little matter of the source of their information being a human, with a Cylon also resident, ready to takeover, Goa'uld style at any time.

Perfect, just… Perfect.

And now he had to deal with something bad enough to drag Hammond away from his base just as he was counting casualties from the Gatecrasher operation.

"Sir" a quiet voice sounded over the intercom, "Generals Hammond and Carter are here"

"Send them in"

A grim faced Hammond strode in, straight away handing him a battered, bloody copy of an official RSS Memo, followed swiftly by an equally grim Carter.

Thompson frowned, "I don't remember the SGC being on the distribution list for this memo"

"It was found during a break out by SG-24 from one of Maktenos's prisons where they were held, awaiting interrogation.

Thompson blinked rapidly, "Could you please repeat that?"

"I'm afraid somebody in your organisation is passing information to Maktenos" Carter replied, his voice carefully level and controlled.

"Not only to Maktenos, but the press as well…" Thompson swore, violently.

"The Press?" Hammond asked, shocked and annoyed.

"The Memorial ceremony for the Dauntless and the others lost in that scrap? Somebody leaked a copy of the video to the press" Angrily, Thompson rose from his desk and began striding about his office.

"How in the Sam-hells name did that happen?" Carter asked, disturbed and angry.

"We don't know, yet. But the timing is a little interesting isn't it? A breech to Maktenos and the press at the same time"

"You have any proof of a connection?" Hammond asked grimly.

"Just my gut-feeling, but we'll look into it, only ship and base commanders, and their seconds got to see that particular memo, that's about 25 people in total, all of whom have passed the most rigid security checks imaginable" Thompson noted grimly, he really didn't like the thought of one of his people spying for the Goa'uld.

Once again, the intercom bleeped, "Sir, check out BBC News 24…"

" Again?!?" Growling, he grabbed the remote and flicked the volume back up.

Then cursed, fluently and liberally.

"As you can see, this video sequence, captured by amateur astronomers last year clearly shows an unidentified ship in orbit over Earth, roughly geo-synchronous over Cardiff, the Capital of Wales.

Why this craft was there, and what the government has done about it is unknown, all that we know for certain is that the craft left, pretty fast a few hours later, and that this videotape has been verified by stills and tapes from at least 10 different sources.

So far, the Government has refused to comment"

"Isn't that a Prometheus?" Carter asked, unamused.

"Yes" Hammond replied, a worried frown lining his face.