By Chaoseternus racheal: thanks!
johnyg: hmmm.... you wouldnt happen to want an update would you? :-p
Heres a joke for you, two ships, the Enterprise NCC 1701-E and the Dauntless class Indefatigable both investigate an unusual gate, which one ends up in the wrong universe?
5Star Trek Continuity: Edonia NebulaOn the edges of the Edonia Nebula a warfleet gathered, federation ships of the line alongside allied Klingon vessels as they gathered, preparing to neutralise the threat within the nebula that had killed the Crazy Horse in one shot.
Neutralise and investigate, the federation wasn't at war, not that it knew off, the Dominion war was over, the fleet was too weakened to support another full scale war so why were strange Pyramid ships attacking them, and what had happened to Enterprise?
Five ships had gathered so far, an Akira , a Galaxy , another Defiant and an Intrepid . With a flash of displaced light, a Klingon K'vort dropped out of warp, called from its patrol on the Federation/Klingon border a short distance away.
A surge of energy was detected from within the nebula and the fleet went to alert, raising shields in time as a massive, Pyramind shaped warship appeared before them.
" Weakling humans, I am your God Osiris, you will bow before me in supplication and accept me as your God"
'Like hell' rang through Captain Cohens mind as she spoke swiftly into the viewscreen, "Why have you attacked federation vessels?"
"You dare question your God?! Bow before me and submit to punishment or you will be destroyed!"
'Oh boy' Cohen thought, mirroring those of every Captain in the gathering fleet, 'pissed of megalomaniac in charge of a warship, shit!'
"Osiris" Cohen carefully replied, "the federation does not accept any one being as god, in fact…"
"You will learn"
The heavy menace in that voice tripped the danger sense of the Valliant's helmsman, a veteran of several of the bloodiest campaigns of the Dominion war.
Valiant dived, evading in time as a powerful blast of energy lanced at Valiant, its energy wash rocking the frantically manoeuvring ship in its wake.
Discontinuity: Cheops Class Mothership Bane Of Anubis, Maktenos Controlled Space.Maktenos shivered, goosebumps rising on his host in reaction to their fear. For once Pierce and he were in perfect agreement; Anubis would have to be stopped, by any means necessary.
He could not be allowed to control something as powerful as an ancient artefact like the Interdimensional Gate, it would give him the power he needed to totally dominate this galaxy and move onto others, it would give him power over Maktenos.
Dismissing his Jaffa spy, Maktenos turned to the window, gazing out into space as he tried to formulate a plan.
He had Anubis technologies, enough of Anubis's ships had defected to ensure that, swayed as their Jaffa crews were by his tendency to try and keep his Jaffa alive. But the technologies had been applied to all the fleet yet, his Cheops and Ral'tecs had the technologies of course, as did half of his Ha'taks but so far few of his Al-kesh had been upgraded and the Udajeet, well they were worthless and in need of a redesign.
He couldn't gather enough of them in time without Anubis discovering it and finding out, at which point he would either reinforce the gate with everything he could or launch a spoiling attack, and he still had the little matter of Anubis's allies to worry about, if they reinforced the gate as well…
Maktenos shivered, rubbing his hosts aching forehead with a weary sigh.
He would think of something, he had to.
He wasn't going to be anyone's toy again.
Discontinuity: RSS ThundersdawnPeters cursed as the order flashed up, priority one onto her monitor, Expedite all construction by any means necessary, prepare for Major Fleet Manoeuvres.
She had expected it to come; the fleet would have to gather again, to go to war again to try to remove Anubis from the Intergate, though she couldn't see how it would be possible, they had so few ships available.
Prometheus was under a full refit, and would be in the slip for at least another month. Endeavour, General Hammond and Stingray were still under construction, she would hurry them as much as she could but Endeavor was a Prometheus and would naturally take more time than the two Dauntless'es, they could be ready within a week, but she wouldn't. Devonshire was looking more and more of a hopeless case the more they opened her up, there was no way she would be ready before the month was out.
Independence and Persephone had been 'fixed' and were now available at least with Eisenhower having her hyperdrive torn apart now, that fix took a week regardless though and couldn't be hurried without compromising safety. That left Yorktown and Gettysburg waiting in the Sol system for their own hyperdrives to be fixed.
Merchant was available, they could load the missile pods onto her if necessary, turn her into a temporary missile cruiser but that wasn't recommended. Liberty should be ready within a few days though.
The eighth slip was unavailable, in the middle of a refit to prepare it to construct the prototype Brittanica.
Peters sighed, at least all five operational Dauntless'es were available, recalled into system. At least they now had four operational Ha'taks available, with another two rumoured to be leaving the Ravenbright slips within the week, she would have to have the two salvaged hulls dropped of by the Shunters ASAP for their refit to operational use.
Even with the imminent launch of more MTB's, that still left them with insufficient forces to do more than minor damage to the gates defences.
For them to defeat Anubis, it would take one hell of a curve ball.
Star Trek Continuity: Edonia NebulaFrantically manoeuvring, the fleet dived into the attack, fully evasive as they fought to avoid the massively powerful blasts from the Goa'uld warship, scared by the power levels there sensors were registering.
The Akira, USS Spector fired first, torpedoes volleying across space to spatter against the Ha'taks shields, joined by the lancing beams of phasers swiftly joined by those of the other ships of the fleet.
USS Magellan, Galaxy class spun off, out of control as a direct hit was scored, its shields destroyed in one blast. The fleet hesitated in shock fatally.
Magellan, veteran of the Dominion war, died, destroyed utterly as a second bolt scored a direct hit on the engineering hull, Intrepid fell, power lost as the energy from a single blast surged through the shields and into the ships power relays.
Sovereign, prototype of the Sovereign class and technologies testbed arrived to find a chaotic, devastating battle as the four surviving ships fought not to attack, or destroy but to survive.
Grimly, she ship charged forward, noting carefully the tactical upload from the fleet and grimly preparing her surprise.
The Ha'tak fired at the approaching Sovereign, destroying the mighty vessels shields, then followed it with a second shot as Sovereign righted herself, quickly regaining control.
The second blast hit, enveloping Sovereign in a corona of energy.
Satisfied, the Ha'tak turned back to the pesky flies which refused to leave it alone.
A volley of torpedoes spat from the energy corona, quickly arriving at the Ha'taks shields and passed through them, the torpedoes detonating, releasing their high energy plasma directly against the Ha'taks hull.
Shocked, Osiris cursed amazed as the energy corona vanished revealing a heavily damaged armoured Sovereign still holding position, unable to move.
A second volley of the phased-plasma torpedoes spat forth and Osiris ordered the retreat, cursing as her ship rocked under the detonations of the torpedoes directly against its hull.
This could be a little more difficult than she thought.