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?
10Discontinuity: Cheops Class Mothership Bane Of Anubis,Maktenos grinned triumphant as his fleet reformed around his Mothership in orbit around Ragnarok. He had annihilated a fleet of Anubis; he had destroyed thirty of his enemy's mighty vessels.
He could be strong, he had proven it now, he could destroy he enemies not cower before them like so long ago.
Now he would defeat Anubis himself, now he would prove to everyone, the Jaffa, the Tau'ri, the Asgard who really was strong here, who their loyalty should really belong too.
"Send out the orders, Anubis comes and we will vanquish him just like we destroyed his fleet, we will defeat him in Ambush"
Maktenos smiled as his Jaffa, already primed before they had even engaged the gathering fleet went to spread the word.
His First Fleet, the largest would wait here amongst the ruins of his enemies vessels and Maktenos noted with a wince, the ruins of several of his warships too, not many but still he had lost ships.
His second fleet would be cloaked in orbit over Ragnarok.
His third would also be cloaked and lying in wait only unlike the Second fleet they would not be detected, they used a cloak designed after the capture of one of Anubis's Ha'taks and its sensor array. They had been designed to be immune to the sensors which breeched most cloaks with ease.
Anubis would never know he was truly ambushed until the trap had sprung.
Discontinuity: Personal Command Ship Of Anubis"My Lord" the Jaffa gulped as he approached his volatile God, "We are detecting far more drive signatures from Ragnarok then we should, it appears a fleet lies in wait"
Anubis considered this, "How many drives?"
"At least one hundred My Lord"
Anubis replied, "Prepare the fleet for battle"
He considered briefly killing the Jaffa but decided not to, he would have enough fun crushing Maktenos's forces, no-one else could gather that large a force together.
Then he would be undisputed master of the Intergate and from there, the Galaxy would be his at last.
Discontinuity: Cheops Class Mothership Bane Of Anubis"My Lord, the forces of Anubis approach"
Maktenos smirked, "How many vessels?"
"Two Hundred, plus Anubis's Command Ship"
The smirk vanished, replaced by a worried, nervous frown which he quickly dispelled. He couldn't appear nervous to his Jaffa, not before a major battle.
Even if Anubis had arrived with far more warships then he had anticipated.
Still, with the Third fleet he outnumbered Anubis but that might not be enough, far too few of his vessels had been upgraded to the standards of Anubis's vessels.
But he was committed now, if he tried to run, Anubis would just overtake him and overrun his forces.
There was only one thing for him to do, and that was win.
He gave a disgusted sigh as he heard Pierce start to jump in with a few suggestions. That figured, struggle for months to control him and what happens? He ends up giving you advice.
"It's called enlightened self-interest" Pierce commented smugly within his mind.
Maktenos thought on that and for a moment, almost admired the RSG-1 team member who was now his host.
For the Tau'ri, this was win/win.
Regardless who won this day, the victor would be severely weakened a large proportion of their forces destroyed.
And they would still have to deal with the remnants of the opponents forces and maintain order within their own borders.
Either way, the Tau'ri would get a lot of breathing room with which to build up their forces, to prepare for their inevitable offensive.
Maktenos shook the thought of, if he had a later, he would deal with it then.
For now…
He called his bodyguard to him and began his final preparations for battle.
He had much more important things to deal with.
Discontinuity: Personal Command Ship Of AnubisAnubis dropped the hulk of the Jaffa, his mind assessing the former Jaffa's report.
So Maktenos thought he was being clever, bring a cloaked fleet with him.
No matter, he could easily destroy the one hundred warships of the main fleet, and with his two hundred ships, the extra eighty or so of the cloaked fleet would be no problem.
After all, his ships were technologically superior; they would smash the ships of Maktenos like flies and then there would be no force large enough to drive him from the Intergate.
With the technology he could get from the other dimension…
The possibilities! Two dimensions, both rightly his to dominate.
Then more…
He would control every dimension there was through that gate, he would duplicate it too, the better to send more forces swarming through to spread his divine right.
And any who got in his way, they would die.
Slowly. Painfully.
First, he had to crush Maktenos's forces.
Then he would be unchallenged.
