By Chaoseternus
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?
6Discontinuity: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-EPicard watched anxiously as the Ha'tak was dragged slowly carefully out of the large bay, the craft being tugged by the Shunters across the breadth of the station to its new home, the airlock where the final stages of its refit would be completed.
Then they would move the second Ha'tak in the same way, leaving the two bays free. One would be prepped for another Ha'tak refit, the other, re-rigged for their use.
For Enterprise to be repaired.
Picard grimaced; they had paid dearly for that. It had been inevitable, Earth was at war, frantically building up a fleet to defend themselves, they could not afford to give so much, one of their few repair bays, all the resources without some compensation.
And Picard had to admit, they choose sensibly.
Internally Metered PULSE drives were far more capable than the STL drives they were currently using.
They would increase the capabilities of every craft in the Tau'ri arsenal, having direct military application and yet were not weapons and so could be granted to them. The Prime Directive may be lax where other dimensions were concerned, but it was still pretty specific about one thing, avoid giving weapons technologies.
He dreaded to think the effect it would have on the Tau'ri Small Craft, no need for the sheer volume taken up by the Naquadah Generator as the Impulse drives themselves would provide the power to go FTL.
All that space, released for other purposes.
He almost felt pity for the Goa'uld. Almost.
Discontinuity: Cheops Class Mothership Bane Of Anubis, Maktenos Controlled ShipyardsMaktenos smiled, a little more secure as ship after ship manoeuvred across space before his eyes, vigilantly guarding his most prized possession.
A dedicated shipyard.
Few Goa'uld used them, instead preferring to construct their ships on the surface of a planet of their choosing, but he appreciated the increased rate of construction and repair a dedicated facility could bring.
Even if it was vulnerable, requiring a significant fleet presence to protect.
It did show quite clearly and unarguably who controlled this part of town.
His eyes widened with pleasure as movement caught his eyes towards the bottom of the massive construct, a new Ha'tak deploying swiftly out of the bay in which it was created.
A new ship, another weapon with which to strike at Anubis, But not enough, he had to have more!
But he couldn't.
He sighed, grimacing at Pierces laughter echoing through his head.
It was ironic really; the biggest bar to his expansion was not ships, not weapons, not technology but trained warriors, trained Jaffa.
Pierce was just in stitches over the irony.
The scourge of the Tau'ri forces was hitting the Goa'uld at last.
Too many valuable warriors had been lost in viscous fighting ever since the Tau'ri had opened the gate, Systems Lords attacking Systems Lords had happened forever, but System Lords dying in droves, System Lords becoming stronger, Supreme Systems Lords changing, Anubis returning, all those were recent developments.
Since the Tau'ri had arrived, the System Lords had been perpetually st war with one another and their Jaffa had brone the brunt.
It was beginning to show, they were slow to train, taking years to achieve any real skill and they were dying faster than they could be replaced.
Maktenos sighed, he may have to change the rules again.
Discontinuity: R&D Centre, Alpha PrimeAlbertine rolled her eyes amused at the boys as they practically tore the Impulse specs and designs out of the bemused engineer's hands, practically going hard at the thought of the advances contained within those specs.
It wasn't those she was enthusiastic over though, it was the device embedded within his eyes.
"So they were actually able to provide you with sight despite being born with none?"
"Of a kind, I can see just not as you or the General would, these ocular implants, a more advanced version of the visor I used to have to wear, see the electromagnetic spectrum, not colour"
Albertine frowned, and then nodded, her brilliant mind quickly grasping the specific meaning, "Human eyes receive and the light is interpreted by our eyes as colour but the implants see the electromagnetic spectrum and the mind, not the physical structure of the eyes does the processing so you see what is there, not what your eyes perceive to be there"
Laforge smiled, impressed with the young ladies quick take on the situation, "Close enough, it also means I am not limited to those parts of the electromagnetic that the eye can see too, Infrared, Ultraviolet and more are visible to me"
"The human mind isn't set up to process that" Albertine instantly commented, impressing Laforge even more.
"Exactly, with practise, experience and improvements in design it has gotten easier but I do still suffer headaches as a result of using the implants, about twenty people have successfully adapted to them now and each one is told the same, spend a least one waking hour a day without the implant on"
Albertine glanced over at the boys and rolled her eyes, "They will be drooling over those for hours. May I see them in action please?"
Laforge chuckled, and tapped his COM badge, "Laforge to Enterprise , two to beam up"
"Nothing like seeing to aid the understanding is there?"
Off Albertines nod, he continued as they faded into the blue sparkle effect of the transporter, "I doubt they will even notice we've gone"