Chapter 12-And then they Came in Swarms

The defenders stood and watched as dozens of hyperspace windows opened in the far distance, the number of contacts number 24, with one behemoth that the others watched over protectively. The out lying cruisers quick started engines, shields and weapons, in hopes of slowing down the fleet, however fruitless their efforts might be.

Dozens of hyper-jumps were made out of the inner system to engage the enemy, hundreds of fighters from all over the system swooped in also. The insanely fast Tau'ri hyperdrives took mere seconds to make and complete the jump, opening fire on targets of opportunity immediately. Fighters were launched, the 3rd SFW as well as the two interstellar lancer squadrons began firing their torpedoes at the Motherships, hoping to weaken the shields for the capital ships to punch through with ease.

The trio of MTB's engaged with a full torpedo salvo, and additional gauss fire on a single Mothership, forcing it away from the fleet. The opening on the shields was just enough for the Endeavour to fire its own onslaught in the opening, obliterating the command cruiser. It was then the allied reinforcements arrived, the MTB's jumped out to restock on ammunition.

Realizing the limited effectiveness of the prototype torpedo weapon, both Andorian and Vulcan ships began firing anti-matter reaction torpedoes, or Photon Torpedoes as the Tau'ri called them, while doing no where near the damage inflicted by the Tau'ri, they were far more effective then both disruptor or Particle beams. Multiple blasts fired upon a frigate fazed its shields spectrum back and forth, slowly pushing the recharge rate slower and slower under the constant barrage.

The twin Goa'uld Ha'taks began their assault, damage all over the escorts shields, slicing into the shields in rapid fire bursts, amongsts the dozen of possible targets, including whenever they got the chance the gigantic flagship.

Endeavour

The Prometheus class cruised in and out of the Aschen fleet, firing surprisingly concentrated fire throughout the gathering of ships, gauss rounds completely took down sections of shields, where the fighters would fire a salvo of torps into the limited opening. It was possibly one of the few effective strategies against the extremely fast regeneration rates of the shields. But despite the severe attacks the allies were displaying against the Aschen there was something that played on every person's mind, why weren't the heavy Aschen ships firing back?

Meanwhile

On board a ship of obvious Aschen design, a small chamber revealed a familiar figure, a man considered by some responsible for the tragedy his people faced, albeit unintentional. Alone stood the lone member of the former Aschen Confederation Command, and now the leader of his people, he was Supreme Commander Molum, formerly chief ambassador of the confederacy. Despite the fighting going on outside, the ship he stood on remained completely unharmed, even the shields have no been touched, the enemy they faced were clearly more engaged with his ship's escorts. He was waiting, for the prisoner to arrive, his scapegoat to use a Tau'ri term. As if on queue, a man escorted by two armed guards entered the chamber, while wearing the traditional Aschen clothing, it stood out amongst the other 3 clearly, if only you stared at his face you could see. His eyes held a look of long defeat in them, he was Tau'ri.

Molum turned to face him, "So Ambassador, it seems we are in need of you yet again."

Ambassador Joseph Faxon stood without motion, not even starring Molum in the eyes he muttered "You know I won't tell you the location of earth."

If Molum was a inferior emotional individual he would have smirked, "We do not require the location of your homeworld no longer, but that we do need is this" One of the guards removed a strangely built together medical device and slammed it into the ambassadors neck, catching him off guard and causing him to quickly lose consciousness. The guard removed the device, and revealed the formerly empty tube to contain the ambassadors blood.

"Send it to be scanned, and for the genetic code to be targeted in weapon 4." Molum ordered as the guard nodded and left, the other soon to follow with the ambassador being dragged along with him.