Sirius Sector, Omicron Alpha System, in orbit above planet 'Malta'
3 months beforehand, the Hispanic nations formed a coalition to send their own colony ship to the Sirius sector, the massive colony ship, launched from earth 4 days ago, had finally reached their destination, the Omicron systems, the best possible option for colonization was a world recently dubbed Malta, a world while not completely habitable to earths standards, could very easily reach it with further terraforming. The giant colony ship, with its few escorts entered the inner system, little did they know, their entrance tipped off the Goa'uld sensor relay.
A dozen Ha'taks exited hyperspace near the planet, taking advantage of the weakened force, and charged in for the kill, the small amounts of destroyers and cruisers turned to engage, they had to protect the Hispania, or hundreds of thousands of lives would be lost.
ESS Swiftsure
Captain Evans scowled as his ship was rocked by plasma fire again, the destroyer's shields absorbing the fire of at least 3 Ha'tak ships, he at least thanked the nimble frame and size of the Swiftsure, and more importantly, the inaccuracy some of the gunners were showing, the wedge like design flying into the gauntlet at insane speeds, pulling into a tight turn right against one of the Goa'uld ships, and let loose with its heavy railguns, the close range assault pushed into the Ha'taks shields down severely, the lone Victory Cruiser in the fleet, moved in and fired with its single Asgard pulse cannon, puncturing through the weakened shields, and slicing through the armour and hull like they weren't there at all. Satisfied with merely disabling the ship, and not having the time to completely obliterate it, the two ships broke off together, moving towards another Ha'tak.
"Sir, the Hispania's reporting enemy fire, it hasn't got much more then a firestorm shield, we have to help it!" The Comm. Officer of the Swiftsure informed the captain.
"Inform the Iberian, we'll move in push attention towards us, tell the Hispania to jump as soon as she's got her hyperdrive up again." Captain Evans ordered in reply, "Prepare starboard torpedoes, fire on my mark!"
ESS Iberian
The relatively large cruiser streaked in and out of the swarm of Ha'taks and Al'kesh, firing railguns and anti-fighter missiles at any glider foolish enough to cross it, the trio of Swiftsure class destroyers were forcing the Goa'uld from the Hispania, if only barely, it was a foolish mistake on the GDI's behalf not to bring any fighter escorts, hoping that each ships railgun network would hold off the enemy, and as Captain Costa ordered his ship to engage, gliders slammed up against the Iberian's shields, the cruiser ignored them mainly, the asgard shields held for the most part, and all the captain wanted to do was defend his people.
"Pulse cannon at full power sir, we can get a couple of shots in before recharging."
Costa grinned, "Looks like we got a Ha'tak to take out then, a full volley on the closest ship, nothing else."
"Aye sir, were moving to engage."
The cruiser turned to face the ship, the Goa'uld vessel opened fire with its dozens of plasma cannons, throwing energy and pure force against the powerful Asgard shields, they faltered with every hit, now was a time to end it. Despite it being over 4 times as large compared to itself, it stood strong, proud, as the main cannon glowed with blue energy.
"Open fire!" the captain ordered, watching as bolt after bolt of destructive ion energy escaped the complex and powerful cannon, the first slamming into the ships shields, completely dissipating them like water against fire, the next slammed into the hull, burning away a large section of the outer ring, and the last melting into the hull completely, threshing through the delicate mechanics of the hyperdrive in the process, the reaction was almost instant. The ship exploded with enough force, the throw the Iberian back slightly, and considering it was a good 30 kilometres away, that is saying a lot.
"Sir the Vengeance is requesting backup, their shields have failed!"
"Damn it, move us in to reinforce, I just hope we can hold out."
ESS Swiftsure
"Tell the Warcry to cover us, we're moving in!" Evans ordered, as the Swiftsure's engines burst to life with full fury, running up against the colony ships hull, it broke off and charged towards one of the attacking Ha'taks, spewing missiles from its bays in the process, railguns firing at max capability at all targets, the destroyer was willing to ram the Ha'tak if it meant that the people on the colony ship survived. Suddenly, half a dozen more hyperspace windows opened up near the disabled sister ship of the Swiftsure, the Vengeance, they immediately obliterated it in the process. Evans snarled, he knew the ships crew personally, both ships usually operating together on missions, and now one had fallen.
"Charge course, we'll force them off, even if we die in the process!"
"Sir we're detecting another jump hole near the Goa'uld reinforcements!" His ops officer informed
The captain sighed," Not more of them, prepare widespread bombar.." he stopped once he saw what emerged from the hyperspace window, while the same size as a Ha'tak, this ship was much more intimidating, probably because the crew knew what this thing was capable off, its metallic hull sported dozens of gun points, twin cannons on the upper deck, a mixture of Asgard, Human and Hebridian design made it them deadly weapons, the one below it, far more, as it was the next generation cannon. The mighty warship moved into a defensive position in front of the colony ship, the Goa'uld vessels firing hundreds of blasts towards it, the bursts erupted up against a shield mere metres from the hull, it glowed brightly under the assault, but never faltering, the ship was ready to return fire, the crew of the Swiftsure watched in awe, the captain in particular, "My god, that's the Thor?"
ESS Thor
"Ion Cannons charged sir, pulse cannons ready, Point Defence Network ready."
Ronson nodded, "Open fire, all targets."
The dozens upon dozens of railgun turrets jumped to life, cutting down gliders and Al'kesh by the barrel full, the anti-fighter missiles also spat out of their bays, cutting down those ones the railguns couldn't track. The 6 pulse cannons instantly burst out bolts of blue energy at the targets around it, the overwhelming attack took out 9 of the Ha'taks almost instantly before draining their energy, but that wasn't all the Thor had, the three mark one ion cannons also took aim, the beams stuck out in a instantaneous reaction, they burned through the shields and armour, cutting up the ships innards with ease, before the beams died out, leaving a nice big hole through the Ha'tak from one end to the other, as it floated, disabled.
The weapons officer reported "Main cannon online, prepared to fire on main Ha'tak group."
Ronson nodded again, "Fire on my mark, as well planned people, we play this right we won't just make a hell of a show, but completely obliterate them."
"Aye sir, we're in position, ready to initiate 'slice and dice.'" The officer grinned at the name.
"Fire."
The giant cannon on the ventral hull, jumped to life as it aimed for the closest Ha'tak, the turret was surprisingly fast for something so large, giving play for the tactic of the 'slice and dice' manoeuvre, that many of the Thor's crew called it. The cannon spewed out the magnificent blue beam, far more powerful then the mark ones, and also quite a bit larger, the beam slammed right through the targeted Ha'tak, causing an explosion that enveloped around the still visible beam, it wasn't over however, as the cannon swung around into a second Ha'tak, doing almost the exact same thing, then too another, and another, and another, and continued as such until the beam lost power, taking down 11 Ha'taks alone.
"Sir the enemy is preparing to retreat, orders?"
After draining the energy weapons almost completely in the attack against nearly 30 Ha'taks, the standard munitions of missiles and railguns remaining, left it more then capable to handle a retreating force.
"Prepare to fire long range torpedoes, get the heavy railguns online too, we'll close the distance and give off one last attack." Ronson answered after evaluating the situation.
"Aye sir, we're moving in now, hyper jump activating after the torpedo bombardment." The giant ship turned to face the enemy, unleashing a huge amount of heavy torpedoes towards the running Ha'taks, for good measure, the dreadnought did a small in system jump, exiting directly in front of the remains of the Goa'uld fleet. The ship did a slow turn towards the fleet, angrily firing its railguns and short range missiles, the Goa'uld ships, unable to hyper jump after draining so much energy from the drives in the battle, were forced to fight.
Ha'tak Glorious Victory
The close up battle of 4 Ha'taks against the Thor was furious, Point Defence weapons were used against capital ships, the closed in battle forcing them to forget about using heavy cannons, it didn't matter too much to the Thor's crew, they didn't really have the power to do so, but for the Goa'uld it was a different story, Ship captains were furious at the 'dishonourable Tau'ri tactics,' as each attempt to move away was thrusted back in by the surprisingly fast dreadnought, continually forcing the ships together, one would wonder why, until their sensors picked up not only a fast coming swarm of missiles, but 3 Tau'ri ships, charging in with a savage fury that could only be compared to an animal.
ESS Swiftsure
Evans was on the edge of his seat, as watched the fleet of Ha'taks growing closer and closer" Take us in, full power to shields and weapons firing!" The orders didn't even need to be said, as the Swiftsure, Warcry and Iberian together joined in the assault, letting their own torpedoes gather with the Thor's own swarm, the Iberian got in closer and unleashed its pulse cannons fury on a singled out Ha'tak, with its focus unfortunately on the Thor, it stood no hope against the barrage of ionized energy.
The twin destroyers both moved in for a joined broadside, unleashing dozens of torpedoes against yet another squashed in Ha'tak, the naqaudah enhanced explosives eventually cut through the shields and let then next swarm have free reign up against the unprotected hull, the golden explosion engulfing the ship under the bombardment.
ESS Thor
"Sir Pulse Cannons ready!" the weapons officer reported with a grin.
The admiral smiled, "Time to finish this, pull us out of close range, move us into attack position and fire when ready." The ship pushed the engines to the limit, forcing as much acceleration as possible, as it ploughed its way out of the engagement, before slowly turning towards them once again for the final attack, the pulse cannons unleashed their full fury, dozens of blue bolts sliced into the enemy, some out right destroyed, but most losing the a large section of the main hull, leaving them dead in space.
Today, the Battle of Omicron Alpha was won the Terrans favour, but it now gave the humans a worry, why were Baal's forces in the system in the first place? If to attack the colonies, why not in their direction and not an outlying system in the sector?
Unknown World, Baal Space, Sector 0042
Baal was most distressed at the news, his attack fleet was decimated by a new Tau'ri ship, one that rivalled even the Asgard's own Battlecruisers in power, but that was not the only thing that troubled him, the humans were getting dangerously close to the Don'Ka'Vosh homeworld, the region of space they colonized was once the home of a race that were powerful enough to challenge the ancients, and continue to do so for many years until they were defeated, but this was a great secret amongst the Goa'uld, originally deep down they did not actually consider themselves as gods, but not as merely advanced beings as the Tau'ri considered them. No, the Goa'uld were the children of the gods, as the name of their race actually meant, even since the destruction of the Don'Ka'Vosh at the final battle, it was the Goa'uld belief that it was now their own time to be gods, and took advantage on the weakened ancients descendants, the humans. But now the humans we're coming back, taking advantage of the weakened state of his rivalling people, he forced them under one banner, and for that day on, the war had been a total one. It was strange though, as Baal thought to himself, 'little do they know, their own arrogance blinds them as much as it does me, my brother will destroy them before moving onto me, ironic that living amongst humans, had made Kane, the master manipulator.'