AN-okay this is just a chapter basically involving the backstory of what happened between season 8 of stargate and the start of the fic, as well as the revealing of a threat far greater then Baal could ever hope to acheive
Toledo, Unknown System in the Sirius Sector, October 13th, 2021
In the disaster filled system, the inner planets we're engulfed in a massive asteroid field, the dense layers of particles blinded even the most powerful sensors, making it seem like the most useless place to stretch the Terrans growing sphere of influence too, yet beneath all the layers of devastated planets, asteroids and such, lay a single world, free from the devastation that plagued this world thousands of years ago, stood the artic world, of Toledo, home base of the GDI top secret agency, The Order.
In orbit of the crystal like world, was a buzz of activity, transports and freighters exited hyperspace, before heading to the surface, the tundra and ice plains of Torledo could not possibly support the tens of thousands of people living and working on the world, so it relied on continuous convoys of food stocks from Earth, officially sent to the colonies, but never arriving. This sort of manipulation of the system was the simplest The Order would have to do, in its former years as a part of the Homeworld Defence, a scout ship came about a single opening around in the system, since that day, the colony grew and grew, to its state today.
Walking out from the hanger bay, the commander of the Order, only referred by his name, Orillion, entered the facility carved out from the mountain of ice above, the bald headed commander wore an almost continuous scowl, as it were perfectly natural for him, some speculated the he was always annoyed at the cold, and hides his discomfort with a 'glare at you for no reason' attitude. The smallest hint of a smile, drew its way up the commanders face though, looking out the massive towering like windows of the base, to see dozens of construction drones working on the suspended ship, 'give it a few more months and she'll be ready.'
"Orillion sir!" a young man said, running up to the commander from the nearby corridor, the echo of footsteps made the commander long aware of his aide's arrival.
"Yes Mister Marcus?" Orillion asked, without taking his view of the ever growing form of the ship in the far distance.
Snapping to quick attention, no matter how useless it was, "Message from General O'Neill, he said it was urgent."
"Transfer it too my office, I'll be there shortly." The commander said with a commanding tone, its unlikely that you would hear any other from Orillion, as he gave a final glace at the soon to be complete flagship of his organization, before walking calmly to his office, 'O'Neill wouldn't say it was urgent unless it was, but with all this crap that's coming up, what isn't urgent anymore?'
'Nod' Sector, aka Sector 003, Unknown System
The now General Slavik, cautiously walked across the soft glowing purple floors, the transparent effect didn't help, he felt like he was walking on space itself, and that was a worry. The innards purple layer was the spread out like veins, pulsing from light blues to sharp violets, almost as if the ship was alive, which really wasn't far from the truth. Two stolen German fighters flew up to the ships fins, Slavik smiled, 'Perfect', sitting in the strange, but surprisingly comfortable chair. His hands digged into the jelly like interface, closing his eyes and letting his mind meld with the ship, 'Sirius Sector' he thought, the command echoing to the ships engines, how kane got a hold of this technology, let alone 6 fully capable ships would most definitely surprise the general, after being informed that he was blessed by the gods, he had the capability to use such ships as these, an accomplishment very few in the world, let alone the entire brotherhood could achieve. A hyperspace window tore through the surprisingly fragile realms between space, the purple coloured dimension spewing out into real space, 'move in' Slavik thought, as the glowing ship, and its two fighter escort moved in.
'Revelation' Earth
The massive headquarters of Nod, was ever growing since the day it was first begun, nearly 550 B.C., up until recently it was re formatted to its new purpose, Kane continued to be amazed at the progress he was making on earth, 'it must have some uses.'
In actual fact, Kane had left earth hundreds of times, even more so recently, making a run to former Don'Ka'Vosh territory, and taking as much technology as possible, before returning back to earth. The leader of nod approached a small chamber like room, while entering it, the doors closed shut, a slight whirling sound reached Kanes ears, he was used to it now, internal dampeners are a must when your on a 'turbo lift' going 600 kilometres per hour. After a minute pondering inside the extremely fast moving transport, it opened at the end of the Revelation, at the command centre. General Vega was occupying the command seat, almost fidgeting, as he went over the reports of occupations all over the planet, Greece had just fallen and now Turkey was about to be taken, soon they will bring the war to the rest of Europe, no coops, but a pure, unstoppable assault on the European Union.
Kane was waiting patiently beside the general, almost amused at his ignorance, 'if he wasn't so skilled at drawing outraged groups in the middle east to our side, he would have been killed years ago', "Vega." Kane said with menacing tone.
The General fumbled with his reports, throwing them across the floor as he hastily tried to make himself orderly to his superior. "Kane sir! I was just going over the re.."
"Save your excuses!" Kane looked down on the man, 'he's worse then Seth!' the leader of nod thought to himself, remembering his former lieutenant, killed off by sg-1 two decades ago. "Why are you here, I was under the impression you we're ordered to control the eastern front."
Kane smiled inwardly, the fool's hands we're shaking, "I..I was sir, but I came to request additional forces, the occupied nation's forces are not enough to stop the Chinese advances, we need the forces of Nod." It was not unexpected, the Chinese had the numbers to push through any army that didn't have the technological advantage, which many of the nations under Nods banner didn't.
Kane though the idea over, they still had forces to spare until the push through Europe, and more we're being constructed, "You may have 3 divisions, possibly a squadron of banshees if we can spare It." He pointed to the ground at the pile of reports, Vega gave a quick look to the ground, looking back at Kanes stern look, before finally getting it. Taking the reports from the ground, and bowing to kane, General Vega left the command centre.
Kane just shook his head, cautiously sitting in his chair, 'after his arse was in it…' he thought over what to make of the man, he came up with one word, 'idiot.'
SGC, Earth
Narim was shocked, what he saw was senseless destruction that rivalled the attack on his own world, plasma blasts slammed into cities, al'kesh flew into bomb anything left, human fighters engaged against hundreds of gliders, above the remains of once great cities. The battles took place in the period of no longer then 30 minutes, but the devastation world wide was easily seen. At the end of the video, a clear statement in bold white letters over looked the destruction of the city of Chicago 'Total Global Death Count-65 million people'
"My…." Narim was at a loss for words, he remember the attack on Tollana vividly, he essentially caused it, to sacrifice ones own world for thousands of others, he kept telling himself, but it did not stop the pain of killing millions of his own people in the process.
"The fleet was under the impression that a Free Jaffa farming colony was under attack, when our fleet arrived, there was nothing." Davis explained.
"Then those bastards took earth by surprise, two dozen of them exited in orbit, bombarding it, the few fighters we had to defend against them we're cut down with ease." O'Neill said, his tone willed with venom, he was on earth when they attacked, unable to stop it, the populous panicking, to them judgement day had come.
Davis continued," By the time our fleet returned, the damage was done, over 60 million people died, but we we're sure as hell going to make them pay for that cowardly attack."
The Tollan nodded, "yes as I clearly saw, and ever since you've been in full scale war?"
"Yes, before we could rely on the Goa'uld feudal nature, constantly fighting with themselves, yet this time Baal has toppled all opposition, and is the sole remaining system lord. Our only option now is the formation of a coalition against him, talks are currently underway with other nations, but even then its going to be a long and hard war."
The younger general explained, the remnant Tollans must have been out of the loop, every space faring nation now knew of what was considered in most parts, a holy war against Baal.
"And I assume, you wish my people to join this alliance?" Narim asked of both generals, despite already knowing the answer. On their nod, he sighed, "Ever since the attack on Tollana, the remains of my people, myself included, began an evacuation during the assault, thousands of ships made it to orbit, hundreds to hyperspace, but only dozens meet together on our new homeworld." He paused slightly, "Those years on the planet we're hard, we had already suffered a mass evacuation of our people, our own callousness causing both, arrogance lead to the downfall, our belief that our technology will shield us, had fallen, we we're a devastated people, and those 40,000 of us left, believed put all our efforts into hiding from the galaxy, possibly forever."
"I've wondered that, our scanners are Asgard based, how did you hide yourselves from it?" Davis asked.
Narim, happy for ever the slightest change of subject, smiled, pointing at the strange device on his arm, "Our phase technology was researched to the point that we could literally phase out of sight, and for that matter the entire electromagnetic spectrum, observe." He pushed a button, the space around him distorted, like the standard effects of the Tollan Phase Device, but it continued, till he slowly disappointed into nothingness. Soon after he reappeared. "We merely incorporated the technology on a wide scale, extensive testing of the long term effects of being phase cloaked turned out to be nil, so the field has been active for over 15 years, only when we discover more survivors, or in this case, discovered our distant cousins, have we exited the field"
"We gotta get some of..woah" O'Neill started, before a low bleep cut him off, reaching into his pocket, he brought out a small electronic device, based of a long distance Goa'uld communicator, it was essentially a mobile phone capable of reaching distances 3000 light years away in real-time. Pressing the speech button, he brought it up to his ear "O'Neill"
"Sir, its Orillion, you said it was urgent." The voice recorded from a 250 light year distance.
"Yes, prepare for a video conference at the SGC, we've got someone for you to meet."
New Berlin System
On the outskirts of the German colony, outside its sensor scans, a hyperspace window appeared, spewing out the giant glowing ship, its escorts moving ahead, as the behemoth cloaked merely by its pilots will, flying as a shadow behind the German fighters. The trio flew at max sublight speed towards the colony, Slavik watched, but without the use of his eyes, almost as if he saw what was happening from the ship, the dark side engulfed the lone city, a speck of lights the only light the people will have for the planets extremely long night.
"Fighters One and Two, you know what to do, preparing to uncloak." Slavik's voice echoed telepathically to the ships comm. systems.
"We don't take orders from you human!" the distorted, double voice of Fighter ones pilot yelled to Slavik, "Make it look convincing, or kane will have you head."
'It's a shame I have to spare them, Kanes plan would stir chaos in the colonies, and that's what we need. ' "Uncloaking" Slavik informed the twin goa'uld agents, as the giant alien ship fazed into view, firing wildly, but purposely inaccurately with dozens of blue and purple bolts of light. The two fighters swung around, firing into the extremely advanced shielding of Slavik's ship, purposely drained to minimal levels. Railgun bolts, missiles, particle blasts slammed and sliced into the ship, its shimmering armour reflecting and absorbing the damage with a stride, though it didn't look it. Slavik sensed several GDI ships moving in, 'perfect', they could not have given him more a convincing escape, he turned the ship around, seemingly running from the approaching ships, the westerns fleet gained on him, it was the only true advantage they had on his ship, the small Battlecruisers pulling up to the alien behemoth, it was time to end this, 'jump.'
ESS Unity
"Captain its jumping!" the ops officer reported, watching the massive glowing vessel move into the equally colourful hyperspace window.
"Stop the cannon charge up!" Captain Fitzpatrick's ordered, the ion cannon gradually died down, power to the beam cannon cut. "What the hell was that?" she asked to no one in particular, suffice to say, no one even had a guess.
Beliskner, Luna Orbit, 3 hours later
The ambassadors watched curiously at the direct image from New Berlin, the unknown just appeared behind two fighters and started firing, quite ineffectively at that. With the approaching battle group of the colonial fleet moving to engage, it wisely left the system
"Well they don't seem to be much a threat, they can't even take on a pair of fighters!" General Hagar said boastfully.
"General, it's an unknown, and should be treated as such, for all you know they might be using its weak appearance to its advantage." Ambassador Jackson said in retort.
Thor stood in silent shock at the image, he had never let himself be taken by such strong emotions, one thing plagued his mind, repeating over and over, 'how?' It didn't take long for Daniel Jackson to notice the Asgard's silence.
"Thor? Is something wrong?" the middle aged man asked in concern to his long time, yet undeniably strange and close guarded friend, the asgard turned to face him, opening his mouth, but the words didn't come out, no one had seen an asgard this terrified, not even in the face of the replicators threat, if it was any other situation it would have been an amusing sight.
"It….it is the ancient enemy..The one the in which the great alliance was formed as too." The commander stuttered, "They slaughtered anything in their path, this life was once filled with life, many we're in the alliance, only 4 of us remained in the end."
"Wait…I thought the great alliance was one of peace, between your people, the Ancients, the Furlings and Nox." Daniel questioned.
"No Doctor Jackson, the ships you see before you, are those of the Don'Ka'Vosh, the enemy we fought for centuries, in what was known by many names, the Ancient Civil War, the war of extermination, Armageddon and too ourselves, Ragnerok." Closing his eyes, painful memories surfaced from millennia beforehand, the chaos, the devastation, the genocide that plagued not just the milky way, but the his own as well. "If they have surfaced once more, this alliance will have to face not only the goa'uld threat, but their creators, a darkness of unimaginable power.