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?
8Discontinuity: ThundersdawnCommodore Peters grinned as she watched the Endeavour slowly slip out of the graving dock, her construction almost complete, another Prometheus in the fleet.
With a slight twist, this was the RSS07, not an SGC craft, this Prometheus was built, funded, crewed and commissioned by the Royal Space Service, the first Prometheus not to have a USS designation.
The barrier of exclusivity between warships designed had been broken, soon the USS designated Dauntless'es would be complete too.
Both of them.
For now, it was one less worry, the Endeavour had been completed with the hyperdrive fix in place, she was fully hyper capable, more so in fact then the 'fixed' ships.
Now that slip would be reset ready for Yorktown and that ship would have her hyperdrive fixed. Soon only Gettysburg would be restricted to the Solar System and she would be fixed soon enough.
This hyperdrive issue had dealt the Tau'ri a major blow but they had survived.
Peters smiled, and now they had a new tool to arm the fleet with, IMPulse drives.
They would be deadly aboard the small craft, the Lancers, F-302's, Shunters and the numerous support craft, even if it would take some time to introduce them to those and to the main fleet.
Already she had a draft Lancer II specification in her inbox, an early Christmas present from Albertine, the young prodigy of Chocky who was head of RSS designs and technologies bureau, as it was called this week.
Soon they would have redesigns for the next generation of all their craft, incorporating the far superior technology of the IMPulse drive.
Then they would build them, and the strength of the fleet would once again be bolstered.
Peters smiled, it would still be years before they could take the war to the Goa'ulds, but everyday they took another step towards that day.
It would happen.
She would make sure of that.
Discontinuity: RavenbrightO'Neill growled as the door closed behind Picard, an angry edge to the starship Captains stride as he walked from the room.
The feds wanted shield technology.
The Tau'ri couldn't give it to them.
It was that simple, the shields they used were based on Asgard technology and part of the Asgard/Tau'ri treaty specifically stated that that technology could not be shared.
The Tau'ri needed the Asgard, even if they were somewhat of fair-weather allies because when they delivered, they delivered big. Like the shields and gauss rifles big.
Systems used on every one of their capital ships.
A thought rose in O'Neill's mind, and he rose, a slight smile lighting his face, they couldn't provide the Asgard based shields, no. But they had enough examples of Goa'uld and Goa'uld based shields floating around, maybe…
He flicked the intercom, "Marissa? If Picard comes by you, please send him back into see me"
They could certainly arrange some shielding for Enterrpise, and if they could get a little something technology wise for it at the same time, well all the better.
Discontinuity: Cheops Class Mothership Bane Of Anubis, Maktenos Controlled ShipyardsMaktenos smirked, as around him ship after ship gathered, Ha'taks, Cheops, Ral'tecs, and Al-kesh, both cloaked and shielded variants. In all, over five hundred ships crowded this small area of space around his shipyards.
He was going to war.
He might not have the naked force to take the intergate from Anubis, if he tried, he would be left without sufficient forces to protect his territories, as would Anubis.
But he could force Anubis to divert forces from the gate.
He would lop off planets one by one, attack Anubis's ships with overwhelming force, every Anubis Ha'tak he detected; he would send ten off his own to destroy it.
Anubis would be forced to deploy forces from the intergate to reinforce the line and he would destroy those with overwhelming numbers too.
Then Anubis would deploy a fleet after him, the bulk of the forces from the intergate most likely.
Anubis would know the pattern of his attacks and would be ready for it.
But he had no intention of conforming to Anubis's expectations.
"My Lord, the second and third fleets have signalled they are cloaked and ready"
Maktenos nodded at his first prime's report, "Round up the spies now, we now who most of them are, make sure they cannot report to their masters"
He had no intentions of conforming to anyone's expectations of him, and they knew nothing and would know nothing of the Third fleet, until it struck.
His secret ace in the hole was finally coming out to play.
And the shol'va Jaffa, the pitiful surviving Tok'ra, the meddlesome Tau'ri, they had no idea of the storm he was about to unleash.
And his sister would know the folly of consorting against the gods.
Of consorting against him.