Chapter 1: First Contact

EAS Agamemnon

It was the year 2259, it his first month since James was promoted to captain of the Agamemnon and now exploring the rim. The Agamemnon herself in hyperspace was about to approach the first solar system to be explored.

On the Bridge, Captain James was getting bored of the hyperspace travel but it was soon to end for Lieutenant Julia Akinson was alerted that the ship was approaching its calculated position.

"We're approaching jump-coordinates." Reported Julia.

"Okay, let's see what do we have here, jump." James ordered.

Near a desert world with 3 moons, a jump point opens which the Agamemnon exits and arrives in real space. Back on the bridge the analytical officer 2nd Lieutenant Dennis Goldman starts receiving all the information that the sensors.

"What do we have Goldman?" James queries.

"We have a type G Yellow star system with one habitable planet sir." Goldman Responds "Captain, sensors is picking up heavy deposits of Quantium-40, mostly concentrated on the three moons of the habitable planet and we're picking up sentient lifesigns from the habitable planet" Goldman continues.

"Lifesigns? What alien species are they?" James questions. "Oh, god who could get here first, maybe the Narns?" James thought.

"Captain, they're human! But it appears their society imitates an ancient civilisation." Goldman responds.

"Human! It can't be! It's impossible how can they go that far without us knowing it?" James thought. "Okay, then lets see who they are, prep a shuttle and an escort we're going down. Commander Thomas, you have ship." Said James.

"Captain, we don't know how they're gonna react when they see us. I think you'll need a discrete approach. If we launch a probe and map the surrounding area of their colony, we can make contact from a less hostile situation." Quoted James's first officer Lauren Thomas.

"Hmmm, good idea, get a probe down there, while the shuttle is prepared, once again you have the bridge, commander" Agreed James.

Planet's surface near the colony

The atmospheric shuttle flew low and land behind while the Agamemnon orbits behind a moon of the desert planet ensuring that the locals don't see the omega earthforce ship. The shuttle's pilot had picked up a large pyramid building not far from the colony and landed the shuttle behind pyramid. With Captain James's escort was his linguistics and communications officer Lieutenant Arthur Hall. After surveying the cityscape with his binoculars he had identified that this human colony was based on an ancient Egyptian civilisation and called the Agamemnon for the translations necessary for communication the team encounters any of the local residents.

"Sir! There's no one in the pyramid but an artefact was found in the main chamber" Said one of the security officers who had been surveying the pyramid.

"Yeah, what about it?" James asked.

"Sir! The artefact, it's made out of quantium-40." The officer answered.

"Quantium-40! A civilisation at this technical level can't refine quantium-40, let alone make anything out of it. So who made this artefact?" James Thought.

"Captain! I had made contact with the locals and they're not hostile after I got through the language barrier." Shouted Hall as he approaches the captain with some of the locals behind him then the locals seen the shuttle and they start kneeling down in front of James and his crew.

"So I guess they know something about this pyramid?" James Questioned.

"You bet! They claimed that the gods travelled through that artefact and I guess they think we're gods too." Hall answered.

Some Time Later

It had been hours since Captain James and Lieutenant Hall made contact with locals and James contacted the Agamemnon regularly which they decide to contact Earthdome to inform them about their discovery. However James was alerted that a ship exited from some form of "Faster than Light" travel which appears similar to jumping to hyperspace.

"Okay, remain in shadow of the moon and avoid detection and alert me of any movement of that ship." James orders.

"Already done. The alien ship is nothing like we'd encountered before and we managed to get some scans of them. It appears they have technology level at least comparable to the Centauri and their current course is for the surface at your location to be precise, they'll enter the atmosphere in 10 minutes." Thomas Replied.

"Good work, but don't take any unnecessary risks, while we attempt first contact with these guys. James out." Said James.

"Hey Arthur, did you learn anything from the locals?" Asked James

"Yeah, a lot. They spoke about their god Ra, which he's about to return. Also they think we got the power to overthrow that guy so they stopped mining Quantium-40, I believe that Ra had enslaved these people to mine Quantium-40 which they called Naquadah for that civilisation." Hall replied.

Captain James quickly tapped his commlink on his hand to call his security. "Guys get your gear and head for the city, there's trouble coming from the sky." James ordered.

After some time the security detail had collected all their gear and managed to get to the city before a pyramid shape ship lands on the pyramid building, eventually heavily armed troops in dark silver armour with a snakehead shaped helmet which conceals the head of the trooper and each trooper was carrying a staff disembarked from the ship via the pyramid. Then a man who was dressed in gold armour with a gold sphinx face shaped helmet and then the helmet retract itself revealing a face of a teenage boy but his eyes glowed.

They approached the villagers, after some argument with the villager leader the troopers arm their staffs and start shooting energy bolts at the villagers, killing them instantly. Then the man in gold armour activated a hand device which slowly tortures the village leader. Captain James actives his commlink again.

"We had interfered with these people and they're dying because of us. It's now our responsibility to correct this situation." James thought.

"Hall, make contact with these guys but be cautious and have escort to back you up, if they shoot at us, fire at will." James ordered.

"Yes sir." Hall Complied.

Lieutenant Hall with security covering him attempted to approach these newcomers but they fired their staff weapons at the Hall and his security which they respond the same by firing their PPGs and PPG rifles killing the troopers after taking some direct hits from the PPGs and an invisible barrier deflects the PPG blasts from the man in golden armour but Hall had already lost half his security after taking a direct hit from these staff weapons. Then Hall had taken a hit as well and the rest of the security had to fold back. Then the man in golden armour order his troops to take Lieutenant Hall to his ship.

In the Alien Ship

Arthur Hall almost thought he was dead until he suddenly wakes up and learned he was in some kind of casket then the lid opened from the middle, then the troopers pulled the earthforce officer to a room where that same man in golden armour who was looking out from the balcony and it was now day. Then the man turn around and spoke in ancient Egyptian which he not able to understand for his equipment was confiscated.

"I don't understand." Arthur attempts to Answer.

Then man raises his hand and a beam of energy from his hand device then he lowers his device.

"Now you will for now." The man answered.

"Wait I hear English now did that device act like a translator?" Arthur asked.

"I'll be asking you the questions, you will not insult you god!" The man snapped as his eyes glowed.

"So you must be Ra … " Arthur was interrupted when Ra raises hi hand device again this time Arthur is now in extreme pain.

"If I were you, you won't mock me again!" Ra said, then turned to his troopers "Bring in the artefacts!" Ra ordered.

The Ra's troops came in both carrying a stretcher with a PPG, a commlink and translation device with earpiece. The troops put the stretcher down in front of Arthur.

"What are they?" Ra interrogates.

No response.

"Where did your people come from?" Ra continues.

Then a trooper reports that the ship is under siege.

"Launch the death gliders!" Ra Ordered

Outside Ra's Ship

Captain James wasn't convinced that Lieutenant Hall was dead and decided to perform a rescue operation and his combined security force and villagers who carried spare PPG rifles had successfully taken the pyramid building then he noticed two black fighters were launched from the ship and starts attacking the colony, James knew that if his people leave the pyramid, they will be attacked by the fighters and they'll be defenceless. James quickly activated his commlink.

"Thomas, we need fighter support down here, launch the new Thunderbolt squad." James Ordered.

"Captain, they're not tested yet and the pilots are not fully trained for …" Commander Thomas was interrupted.

"I don't to hear that, I want them, and I want them now or the colony will be destroyed by these aliens!" Barked James.

"Yes sir!" Thomas complied.

Not long later the six new Thunderbolt Starfuries arrived and start attacking the Death Gliders, but one of them got shot by a Death Glider and gashed in a fireball in a sand dune. The Starfuries countered and managed to bring down a Death Glider and another later crashed into the alien ship itself but an energy field protected the ship but after another Thunderbolt was shot down.

"These guys got shields!" James thought.

Then a column of rings appeared in the centre of the room inform of the artefact admitting another squad of troopers and everyone starts shooting their PPGs at them. Some of the enemy troopers went down instantly but some managed to shoot more energy bolts which eliminated a villager and more of security personnel, then James run to a body of an enemy trooper and checked his corpse and attempt to find a device that will activate the rings. Then after fiddling with a stone on a gauntlet of the trooper the rings came down and teleported Captain James onto Ra's Ship.

Then Captain James noticed Ra was torturing Lieutenant Hall and he pulled out his PPG and fired it on Ra, but Ra's personal shield absorbed the PPG shot and Ra noticed and released Arthur, using his hand held device Ra, generated a shockwave which sent both Captain James and Lieutenant Hall into the ring room. James recovered quickly enough to get up and pull Arthur near the gauntlet which was used activate the rings and before James activates the ring, Ra got Captain James and said in Egyptian "Now bow before your god!" and used his hand held device to torture Captain James, but Arthur noticed the gauntlet and noticed the stone on it and activated it. Then the rings teleports James and Arthur back inter the pyramid with Ra's Hand with the device.

Both Captain James and Lieutenant Hall were injured by Ra's torture but they were safe now. Then the pyramid shook as Ra's ship was about to leave and James activates his link.

"Thomas, that alien ship will bring in reinforcements , you got to shoot it down." James Ordered.

"Leave it me sir!" Lauren answered.

EAS Agamemnon

"Okay move her out, and fire main batteries at that pyramid." Thomas orders.

Ra's ship was leaving the atmosphere of the desert planet and the EAS Agamemnon, emerges from the shadow of one of the planet's moons and fired her main laser cannons. One of the laser beams hit Ra's ship but the shields had absorbed the impact. Then Ra's pyramid ship starts firing energy bolts at the Agamemnon and the Agamemnon counters with interceptors which deflects most shots and the Agamemnon had taken some damage and fires another laser beam which damages Ra's ship.

The Bridge of the Agamemnon shook.

"Give her everything we got! Fire on Target!" Thomas Snapped.

"Commander, there's seem to be a jump point forming!" Announced Goldman.

"What?" Question Thomas.

Before the Agamemnon fires her finishing shot at Ra's ship, it suddenly it jumped into faster than light travel. Ra had got away.

Later

Captain James, Lieutenant Hall and the remaining security escort returned to the Agamemnon. They later called the system after the locals called it Abydos and made a treaty to slowly integrate the colony into the Earth Alliance, which Earthforce will defend the colony also IPX will study the artefact that was out of Quantium-40 found in the pyramid. Also we left a Global Orbital Defence Grid in case Ra returns.

"End Log" Said James as he finishes his log.

"Helm, set course for Babylon 5" James ordered.

"Babylon-5, aye sir" Lieutenant Akinson complies.

"Jump." Said James

The EAS Agamemnon jumps into hyperspace and travels to Babylon-5.

To Be Continued