Chapter Eight

30 Aug 2001

Teal'c is a happy man or Boy did Tanith get his butt kicked

It had been two weeks since Jacob had come the Earth to brief the SGC on the Yu problem and Anis had made an Impression on the People of New Kobol, most of them at the same reaction as O'Neill had of her, when she and some of the Tok"ra visited it, the surprise was Dr Wilker seemed to have fallen for her and Both Anis and her host Freya have fallen for him.

He was back in the conference room to be briefed on the Tollana Situation, all that the Tok'ra knew was that Tanith was working for an unknown System lord and had attacked Tollana and that the Unknown Lord had some new Technology that allowed Tanith to with stand the ion cannons on Tollana.

Jennifer was nervous to be doing the briefing; she got the job because the rest of SG1 was still on Tollana helping out on the aftermath of the Goa'uld attack on the world there. She was standing by the monitor facing General Hammond, General Carter, Major Davis and Commander Adama. The briefing was more for Jacob and the Tok'ra, because the others already new most of the story.

"A week ago the SGC received a message from the Tollan that a member of the Curia, one Omac had died of heart failure and that he wished from the SG1 to be at his Funeral. At the Funeral, High Chancellor Travell mentioned that the Curia was thinking of reopening talks about sharing Tollana Technology and Narim slipped a message to Major Carter saying that Omac before he died believed that Earth was in grave danger. Over the next several days it was found that Tanith had shown up two months ago it a Ha'tak that had Shields strong enough to withstand the ion cannons and had forced the curia into building bombs with the phase technology for the Goa'uld, which caused the murder of Omac and the first target was Earth and the Tollan were to send it for Tanith. Narim destroyed the Factory and the bombs in which caused the Tanith to attack Tollana, SG1 got back to Earth just before the Tollana Stargate was destroyed."

Jacob ask "if the goa'uld were attacking then why are we sending them food and supplies now?"

"That's the rest of the story General. Both Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter Talked the Joint Chiefs into sending our Prototype Gunship the Kennedy to Tollana, the idea they gave the Chiefs was we could live fire test the weapon systems as well as the new shredder anti Missile /fighter missile and the Wraith capitol ship missiles as well as test the up graded shields on it and by doing this, the distraction might give the Tollan's ships a chance to escape."

This time it was Selmac that spoke "we read the file on the new ships that the Tau'ri was testing but they were a little vague on the capabilities of the ships just that they were based on the technologies of the Kobolians."

"Yes sir, it was decided by the Joint chiefs that by saying that, the Goa'uld who might come into this information would get the wrong Idea on the capabilities of our infant fleet. By going thru the data that the Kobolians gave us we came across some ideas that they considered failures and that they considered impossible and we made them work. We combine what the Kobolians do best with what the Tau'ri does best and mixed in what we have learned from our Allies and enemies and created our new toys."

Jennifer put the schematics of the Kennedy class multi purpose Gun/Scout ship on the monitor and continued.

"This is the X-304 Kennedy class Gun/Scout ship a modular multi purpose ship, It has a Laser/particle beam hybrid pulse cannon in the nose with a power out put roughly one ten that of a Tollana ion Cannon but has twice the range, two twin barrel retractable phased plasma pulse cannons that have twice the power of the guns on a death glider and three times the range and twice the rate of fire, one on top and one in the belly, four hard points on each wing that can carry anything from dumb bombs to capitol ship missiles, the wing tips have attachment point for extra weapons pods, ECM pods or long range sensor pods for WAC or scout missions. It also has 6 inches of the new Polarizing armor and a Capitol ship strength shield generator and two jump drives, a primary and a backup, all of this is powered by a Carter Tylium reactor with two naquadah reactors as backup or to power the shields during a battle."

"On paper your ship sounds like it could easily take on an Al'kesk."

"Yes sir, the SG1 took the Kennedy to Tollana with six Wraith capitol ship missiles and two pods with seven shredder missiles each and long range sensor pods on the wing tips, with the new ECM generator created from one of Doctor Felgar's failed attempts to duplicate the Tollana phase shift generators. The shredder missiles are based on the aim 9 anti aircraft missile it has a range of 5000 miles giving it ten times the range of the death gliders' guns. It is a fire and forget missile that homes in on the drive field emissions of the glider or Cyclon raider, the war head has a canister containing steel BB's that spread out in a cloud and hit the enemy at combined speeds up to 10C shredding (actually at that speed one BB moving at 10C could vaporize a aircraft carrier) the fighters or enemy missiles. The wraith Missiles are based on the Harpoon missile. It has a super charged one time use reflex engine capable of 80C and a range of 100,000 miles putting us well out of range of the Goa'uld mothership weapons, it like the shredder homes in on the drive field emissions of the mothership. The kinetic energy on impact should be enough to overpower the shields and destroy the mothership but for that to work the missile has to hit the enemy ship. The wraith warhead contains a bomb pumped X-ray laser, on paper, capable of punching through a conventional Goa'uld motherships shields and hull in one shot. Both types of missiles also carry a compact version of the Felgar ECM generator. The generator makes what ever object that it is on, invisible to all forms of active scanners and weapon targeting systems used by all known Star faring races."

"How did it they work in a real world situation, against Tanith?"

"From the report by Col. O'Neill and their ships sensor logs, they caught Tanith by surprise, he was busy blowing Tollan ships out of the sky when the First Wraith hit him from behind and he couldn't see where the missile had come from. The next two missiles dropped his shield strength down to 30, low enough for the last remaining Tollan ion cannon to punch through his shields and severally damaging his ship, taking out both drives and his communications so he couldn't call for help. The Kennedy moved into Nose cannon range and in three shots punched through to the reactor core and destroyed the ship, after that it was as Col. O'Neill said a turkey shoot using the shredders to remove the death glides and al'kesks from the area."

Both Jacob and Selmac was in shock on just how much fire power the little ship could carry and they didn't get with in range of the Goa'uld weapons at all.

Chapter Nine

The briefing Part two

Wait there's more

After a ten minute break Jennifer started on the second part of the briefing which should have been done by Daniel.

"Ok the next part of this briefing is on the Forth tablet found on what we are starting to call the Library planet. Like the Tablets before it is a history but of the Furlings, we have got some information to back up what the tablet says from the Nox and the Asgard. What we were able to piece together is that the Furlings and the ancients were close partners up until they both disappeared and it appears that Iblis was some how the cause. Iblis didn't start out as a bad guy, he was a scientist along the lines of what we call a geek or nerd, to put it bluntly he was the Furlings version to our Dr Felgar, Great at coming up with the Ideas but his experiments have a tendency to go wrong. The plague that we assumed that he created to kill the ancients, was an accident, it was the only thing that he did that we can say wasn't a malicious act, all of the stuff after his banishment was. The Furling had been around just as long or longer than the ancients, most of the technology that they used was organic "living" tech. Iblis was trying to create a way improve on their version of nanobots a programmable virus to use in their ship building, as you know it didn't work as planned he gave us the ancestor to the Influenza. How he was ascended, is he volunteered to be a guinea pig, to test the device that the ancients were building, in an attempt to atone for his mistake with the virus. It worked as we known, he ascended but since the device was designed for humans and he wasn't, it altered his mind. He also made copies of the device for his people, what he didn't know is that the device used on him was an improve version, the device that he copied from had a flaw in it and when the Furlings did a mass ascension it only took them half way, leaving half of their population in a half ascended state causing a mental back lash thru the entire Furling species, a sort of mental civil war, resulting in the half ascended and the nonascended, splitting into separate races with apposing philosophies. Before they split and went their separate ways they, with help of the ancients quarantined themselves off from the rest of the universe."

"Your talking about the Reservation."

"What is this reservation?" asked Adama

"It is an area of the Galaxy 30,000 light years spinward from here. An area inside an invisible subspace bubble 5000 light years across that no one can enter. You can see into the area only in the Gravic and electromagnetic spectrums the Bubble blocks all subspace sensors and prevents travel into and out of by Hyperdrive. The bubble's wall is a light year thick but it limits the top sub light speed at 1C. So nobody has known what is going on in there for the past 1 million years since it was put in place." Answered Selmac

Jennifer continued "Before things fell apart the Asgard had a small colony in that area that were doing experiments under the supervision of the Furlings in the area of genetic manipulation and the Ancients were doing a terra forming /Time experiment in the area as well. You know about the time travel experiment that the ancients attempted on P4X-639. Well when it failed one of the scientist decided to go another route, they decided to Terra form a star system, a complete copy of the solar system down to the atom level only have it running around 200 to 250 years ahead of the original and before you ask they never stated the propose for it and it took them 200 years to do it. One more thing at the time of their self impose confinement the Furlings changed their names, the half ascended called them selves the Vorlon and called the nonascended the Shadows, the Vorlon's started to follow a philosophy of order and logic and the Shadows went for a philosophy of chaos and survival of the fittest. "

"Lieutenant Hailey you haven't said what the Furlings looked like."

"According to the tablets, Major Davis, and pictures that the Asgard and Nox gave us they were an Insect type species a 5 foot tall 300 to 500 pound black Spider but the half ascended look very much like the ascended ancients."

"It would have been interesting to see an Earth that was from the year 2200 to 2250 just to see there history and see how close it came to ours" said Hammond.

"Sir, we may be able to go see what's going on in the reservation."

"Lieutenant Hailey, the bubble blocks any attempt to enter by Hyperdrive and none of us would want to wait the 100 plus years to get a report back from whomever we sent in at 1 light speed to look around for us."

"But that's just the key Selmac, and it was Dr Felgar that stated the obvious, the Bubble blocks subspace based sensors and FLT travel, but allows Gravic and electromagnetic based sensors and drives to work and the Tau'ri/Kobolian Jump drive isn't Subspace based like the Hyperdrive but magnogravic, we should be able to enter and exist at will, and the Asgard would jump at a chance to meet with there brothers if they are still alive and compare genes."

Chapter Ten

Hi we're messengers from the Asgard looking for a lost colony

Feb 02

It was six months before they could start their exploration of the reservation. During that time they found out who the mystery System lord was Anubis, another half ascended being and the area 51 and Kobolian scientists had actually came up with a EMP cannon that worked on the replicators, with quite a few anonymous E-mail hints from O'Neill and the Asgard were starting to win against the replicators. They now had four full Squadrons of Barracudas, ten shuttles and six Gunships, but the engineers were still arguing over the planes for a Battle Cruiser.

With some testing they found that the barrier was no problem for the jump drive and that a tachyon based radio could send a signal thru the barrier and inside they could use the subspace radio to stay in contact to the tachyon beacon on the inside of the barrier

SG1 got to take the AOE Kennedy as their ship (the Prefix was changed from X, experimental, to AOE, for Fast Combat Support Ship Scout). They had the same weapons load as when they fought Tanith. They were able to do a single jump to a system touching the barrier using the stargate as a nav beacon, drop off their communication relay beacon and then jump to a system just inside the reservation and drop the other off. The one problem the had inside the reservation was that there wasn't any Stargates to use for long range travel and they had tens of Billions of square light years to explore and a general idea of were the Asgard colony was and were the Earth clone was and do to a Slayer dream that Jennifer had before they left, they were going to use audio only for communications with the Natives and use Asgard or Ancient as their language of choice when speaking and use a mild form of ECM to block them from scanning the inside of the ship. While they were setting up the Inner relay beacon and testing it, they started to pickup a whole range of tachyon signals and some appeared to be some sort of nav beacons, the nearest was 500 light years away, straight in.

"Captains log Day two of our exploration of the area of the galaxy known as the reservation, haven't seen any scantily clad female aliens and I'm bored already, the space monkey is in his cubicle practicing his Asgard and Ancient, my XO and Daughter are trying to figure out what the heck we are looking at and my chief of security is doing his meditation thing. End log"

"Colonel that was a horrible Captain Kirk and you know it and I think Jennifer was looking for Daniels sword for a minute there. I think that the structure is some form of dimensional portal generator; it might have something to do with how they travel between the stars here. We are picking up what appears to be some powerful fusion reactors on each strut and there appears to be some sort on variation of Tylium used in the field emitters on the structure."

"Their not using Tylium as a fuel?"

"No sir, not on this structure anyway and our scans say it's about 150 years old but in good repair."

"Is there any evidence of subspace technology in use any where?"

"No we haven't pickup any Hyperdrive wakes or any type of artificial subspace emissions with in a 300 light year radius."

"Major we're picking up a power spike coming from the Structure" yelled Jennifer from the cockpit.

"Take us to the inner moon of this planet and bring the ECM to full power" Yelled O'Neill as he left the Break/kitchen area.

As the SG1 watched from the moon as the four stanchions of the Jump gate moved apart and a blue vortex formed in the center they picked up another vortex formed ten miles on the other side of the jump gate from them. They watched as ships of various sizes, none smaller than 195 feet long, came out of the jump gate and a huge ship almost four miles long came out of the other vortex

Somewhere near the Rim

Earth Alliance time Feb 2246

Captain Ann Cranston sat in her command chair, thinking about this newest mission, to save some of the smartest and brightest of Earth, mostly children, by taking them on a trip past the rim to save them from the Minbari. Her command ship was one of the new Explorer class ships, the EA Magellan and her flee consisted of six Olympus class Corvettes, two Omega class Destroyers, one Nova class Dreadnought, all escorting four Icarus class scout ships, six Skylark class commercial transports, six Cotton Class Long-range Tenders, all supporting ten Asimov class Commercial Transports (starliners) filled with civilians. The Skylarks and cotton tenders were full of food, spare parts and equipment to start a self sufficient colony and her ship had enough material to set up ten jump gates if needed. The Olympus, Omega, Nova, Cotton and the Asimov class ships all had jump capability. Her orders were to go past the rim and find a habitable planet set up the temp colony and wait for the end of the war one way or another, depending on the end she was to decide what to do after that.

On the moon

"Carter why does this look so familiar?"

"What do you mean sir?"

"Oh I don't know maybe it's the fact that we have several heavily armed war ships escorting about twenty cargo and passenger ships at the edge of their known space heading for the unknown, and the writing on the ships is in what appears to be English making me think that they are Human."

"I see what you mean dad; it's the Colonial refugee fleet all over again."

"Here we go again."

The AOE Kennedy slowly put the moon between them and the fleet, then went to full power and went out to the edge of the system and circled around heading back in to just out side the fleets sensor range, where they slowed down to around 100 miles per second and put their ECM in low power mode and waited to be found.

Lieutenant James Adams was in his command seat on the Icarus scout ship EA Lewis, his first command, scouting out the star system they were in making sure that there alone here when his passive sensors picked up an object at extreme range that appeared to be a ship slightly smaller than his. He turned to his com operator "inform the Magellan of the ship here, then sent first contact greets to the ship."

On the AOE Kennedy

"They are contacting us Jack, in English and they look human."

"Do as we planned Daniel and I think we'll use Ancient when you do. What can you tell us about that ship out there?"

"They are powered by two compact fusion reactors, have a crew of seven humans, four pulse cannons similar to what we have and their ship is covered by armor two feet thick, no shields or artificial gravity making their max acceleration around 5 to 7 Gs and their engines are similar to the ion engines that's on the Galactica."

"From what we saw of the other ships, none of them have artificial gravity or shields of any kind. How does their armor compare to ours?"

"Sir, it's an ablative type of armor that is very strong but the old polarizing armor that the Galactica had is way better than what we see here."

"So Daniel what have our friends out there have to say for them selves?"

"Just that they are friendly and are only passing through wondering who we are and were we come from and they come from the Earth Alliance and are part of the Earth Force."

On the EA Lewis

"Sir, it's audio only and they appear to be speaking in a strange dialect of Latin."

"Put it on the speakers"

"Nos adveho in pacis, nos es vultus pro lost colonia Asgard. Nos es notus ut Tau'ri."

"Can you translate it?"

"Yes sir, basically they are looking for a lost colony of somebody called the Asgard and that they are called the Tau'ri."

"What do our sensor tell us?"

"Not much sir, just that it is there and its size and dimensions, their power signature is higher than ours and they appear to have magnogravic engines similar to the Centaury and appear to have some sort of missiles under their wings. Our sensors are being blocked by the hull."

"Is their armor blocking our scans?"

"No sir it appears to be an ECM field in the hull it's self."

On the Sharlin class War Cruiser the Valen's way

Alyt Denronn of the Star Riders clan, had been following the Earther fleet for past three weeks every since they left Earth. His orders were to follow them to a possible hidden colony and to destroy them or destroy them if they try to head for the rim. This was the last jump gate before the rim in this area.

"Pilot take us out of hyperspace and prepare for battle."

On the EA Magellan

"Captain we have a jump point forming near the Jump gate it's a Minbari Sharlin War Cruiser."

"Recall the scouts and put the escorts between the transports and the Minbari cruiser and tell the transports to run."

On the AOE Kennedy

"What the hell is that?"

"The scout ship just told us that that is a Minbari Sharlin class War Cruiser and the Alliance is in a loosing war with then and it's a war of eradication and they are being recalled."

"Ok bring shields up, ECM to full, hull polarized, weapons on stand by Carter what are we facing?"

"The ship is a mile long with a gravic drive, has 33 feet thick crystalline armor designed to dissipate 80 of the enemy fire, it's stronger that the Alliance armor but brittle, picking up 3000 life signs, it appears to have a Quantum Singularity as the main power and 8 Fusion reactors as backup, it also has 127 gun ports made up of six different type of weapons and four missile tubes, a weak gravity based shield and a ECM field that would cloak them from us if we were using a EM based sensors."

"Did you say 127 guns?"

"Yes sir and from our scan the alliance ships don't stand a chance, they would have to get into point black range just to hit that ship."

"Since we are in range will our main missiles hurt them?"

"Best guess if we target the main power, one shot might destroy them if, we go for the engine we can cripple they."

"Daniel sent a warning to that ship in Ancient, these people are under the Tau'ri protection and they are to back off or be destroyed."

"T target the engines."

On the Valen's way

"Alyt we are receiving a transmission from a small ship that does show up on active sensor only on passive and they are using the language of first ones know as the road builders."

"What did they say?"

"The Earthers are under their protection and to leave or force will be met with force."

On the EA Magellan

"Why aren't they attacking?"

"Captain the small ship that the Lewis found just disappeared off our scanners, and they told the boneheads that we are under there protection and to back off. It looks like they are thinking about it"

"Oh god their powering up their weapons."

On the AOE Kennedy

"Fire."

On the Valen's way

The same time that the crew pickup a nuclear detonation 50 miles off their port side a 50 gigawatt X-ray laser pulse hit their ship over the engine, the hull dissipated 40 gigawatts back into space, 10 gigawatts smashed through the ship vaporizing everything in its way. At the same time the shockwave from the nuclear detonation hit the side of the ship at 0.8C, fracturing the hull and throwing the crew and any loose equipment around, 50 died instantly, hundreds were injured, some severely.

On the EA Magellan

"What the hell was that and were can we get some?"

"Report."

"Captain it was a bomb pumped X-ray laser as a war head on a missile and it was cloaked."

"The Minbari ship?"

"Aside from the obvious damage its main engines are dead but most of the weapons and Cloak still work and they can still move using their maneuvering thrusters."

"Contact that ship that just gave us more time I want to talk to them and get us away from the Minbari!"

On the Valen's way

Alyt Denronn was shocked at the attack and the damage it caused, in all of the Minbari history they had never come across such a weapon, except for the Shadows they had never had to fight some one with the ability to take out one of their ships with a single shot. The ship was more or less dead in space, they still had weapons, shields and cloak but they didn't work again that tiny ship out there that, at well out of their weapons range, hit them will such ease and accuracy. His engine crew that was on duty and the engine was gone and the Eathers were running away as fast as theirs slowest ship could go and their was nothing he could do about it.

"Alyt we are receiving a transmission from that ship again."

"Lets here it."

A voice cold as ice was heard in Ancient say "Minbari ship, you still live because we want you to send a message to your people. We ask why would a people who claim to be allies to the Vorlon, a race of people claiming to be honorable, will kill civilians, women and children in cold blood, only followers of the Shadows would do such a thing. Let it be known as of this moment that the Tau'ri, the direct descendants of the People you know as the Road builders, are watching you and if this war continues and you commit Genocide, we will return the favor, an eye for an eye. You have been warned now leave!"

They opened a jump point and stared limping home calling for help and Alyt Denronn Took a Fast Courier shuttle, hand carrying their ships logs to the Grey Counsel.

On the AOE Kennedy

"You Know sir that there is no way we can back this up and the President and the Chiefs might have a few words about us declaring war on the Minbari."

"I know Lieutenant but I'm hoping that it will cause a seize fire for a while and give the Alliance a break, plus they pissed me off. So let's hear what this Captain Cranston has to say."

After several days of negotiation and O'Neill getting his but chewed by several Generals and Adama, it was decided to send the Earth Force fleet to the star system just out side the barrier, they were calling the Back Door, where they would meet a delegation at that systems stargate. They used the Tau'ri outer tachyon relay beacon as a hyperspace nav beacon. After some more negotiating and pleading it was decided to sent the Galactica there to open a Jump corridor to send the Earth Force fleet to New Kobol for safety and to get a chance to look over the technology of the ships (especially the technology used to enter, exit and travel in the dimension they called hyperspace, hey they already had three types of FTL travel what was one more?), for this the SG1, SGC and the Kobolian Warriors got all of the info and star maps of the reservation, that Earth Force had.

After all that and replacing the missile that they used, they continued to Vree space to make contact.

Once the civilians where settled on New Kobol, Captain Cranston fast talked the Tau'ri/Kobol Alliance into sending the Nova class Dreadnought, the EA Defiant back to her Earth with specs for the Tau'ri/Kobol subspace sensors, artificial gravity and polarizing armor, as well as their ships and personnel logs and that they were safe. For this the Tau'ri/Kobol Alliance asked her to set up a Jump gate route from New Kobol to the Back Door star system just out side of the barrier and they helped by increasing the range of the nav beacons on the gates and mapped the route to miss hostile territory (the route also made sure that each system that got a jump gate had a stargate), so that the ten Jump gates that she had would cover the distance.

TBC