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?
13Discontinuity: NCC-1701-E USS EnterpriseRavenbright Drydocks
The cup of Earl Grey slid from Picard's lifeless fingers and he sat back on his command chair, a glazed expression of sheer shock and horror plastered across his face.
Two-hundred and fifty plus warships destroyed in one battle, more then two-hundred and fifty warships destroyed in the space of half an hour.
He shuddered, sheer shock and horror rolling through him, sickening him.
He had thought he had heard such reports for the last time when the Dominion war ended but this was worse, much worse.
For Goa'uld warships carried more crew on average than any Alliance or Dominion/Cardassian/Breen warship did.
Literally hundreds of thousands had just died, in one battle.
A cool dispassionate corner of his mind did some quick maths, assume all Ha'taks with the bare minimum crew most Goa'ulds use, that's five hundred per ship according to the most recent reports.
That's 125,000 dead.
One hundred, twenty five thousand minimum.
But most of the Ha'taks would have had a larger crew than that, not to mention a small complement of normal humans as slaves for the tasks too menial for any Jaffa to even contemplate performing.
And a significant number of the ships would have been motherships, with a crew of two thousand, minimum, not to mention what the crew of Anubis's Command Ship was, the Tau'ri intelligence officers gave a guesstimate of five thousand.
Five thousand dead, on one ship.
Picard shakily rose to his feet, ignoring the concerned looks of the few crew who were on the bridge, he swallowed, "I will be in my quarters, try…" he swallowed again, tasting bile in his throat, "try not to disturb me"
Star Trek ContinuityOsiris snarled furious as the news registered.
Anubis had been defeated, badly.
His power was on the wane. Pity, he had provided her with so much.
Including, the thought rose treacherously within her mind, the opportunity to set up her own empire in this new universe. All she needed to do was escape the nebula and conscript a base of operations.
She smirked, then she would build up her own fleet, she would 'acquire' technology from this universe as planned but she would use it for her ends not Anubis's.
It would take time but she could be patient.
Then she would rule this galaxy as a God.
Her decision made, Osiris began her preparations but a lone thought stopped her in her tracks…
The more warships she could persuade Anubis to send before she could decamp, the better.
Quickly, she began to fabricate a report, planning an attack that would nevr take place but which required at least two more warships then she had to complete.
One which would allow her to 'acquire' the technology of the shield-ignoring torpedoes.
If Anubis bought it, well a Ral'tec and three Ha'taks was a start, she could conquer a world with that and sow the seeds of her future empire.
Two days later, when a combined Federation, Klingon fleet breeched the nebula, they found the gate abandoned, the wreckage from the previous battle stripped.
The nebula was under control, but the remaining invader forces were nowhere to be found.
Discontinuity: RSS R&D Facility, Alpha PrimeThe refitted Lancer rolled slowly to the runway, its wing pylons bare except for a heavy duty telemetry pod on the starboard outermost pylon.
This was no ordinary Lancer; this was no ordinary test flight.
This rushed creation, using a craft 'borrowed' from 767 'Waterwings' Squadron, the only training squadron for Lancers was the prototype Batch II.
And she was a deadly beast.
Her Pulse Lasers were Type 17's, the latest model in a long line and the biggest improvement in the technology to date. These had two firing modes, the familiar rapid fire but lower power of all the earlier versions and a new mode, a technical break through possible because of a chance comment by LaForge when he was showing Albertine around the Enterprises engines.
This firing mode was slow, only one shot every two seconds but the power of the shot was four times that of other pulse lasers.
At last, the Lancers had a weapon which would allow them to remain in the battle once their missiles had been used. They would still not be able to single handily take on a capital ship but they had more power to support the fleet, to add their own firepower to the broadsides.
But that wasn't the biggest change.
For this Lancer had no Naquadah generator, no ZPE power source.
This Lancer had Impulse drives.
This Lancer had an empty bomb bay, something no other Lancer did, the space for it freed up as no separate power generator was required, the Impulse Drives provided enough for the whole craft, even in combat.
Still, it was a PDF variant, for Impulse Drives alone could not provide the volume of power required by the Hyperdrives but already an improved IS was being refitted, ready for its own flight tests.
Once again, the Tau'ri Resistance had gained another string to its bow, on the eve of some of the biggest losses in Goa'uld history.