Thanks for the reviews guys

For the dude that asked about the Kryons, Kryons are energy particals, they are not indiginous to the Milkyway and they are key components of advanced synthetic devices. Asking how they apeared in the Kobol galaxy is like asking how the Colonials build ships made of metal.

Jack put the bio regenerator down and picked up his scanner. It had completed its sweep and revealed very interesting results 'Shes pregnant' Jack sighed.

Sharon looked at him 'the babies okay isn't it?' she asked.

Jack smiled back 'It's fine, but im going to have Carter go over these readings just to be sure'.

'So why did she burn like that?' Apollo questioned, he figured that this could be used to destroy all the Cylons in the fleet.

Jack stepped out of the cell with Apollo leaving Halo with Sharon 'she has something we called kreon particles in her body, it's a sort of energy particle we have dealt with in the past. The device I used but out a massive amount of energy that excited the particle enough to actually burn her organic parts.'

'You're incredibly smart for an officer' Apollo smiled.

'Yeah, well sometimes you just get sick of playing dumb…' Jack replied.

Daniel and Starbuck were deep in conversation when Jack and Apollo walked in on the pair.

Jack walked up behind Daniel 'Well having a good time are we?' he commented as the archeologist turned to face him.

Daniel took off his reading glasses before replying 'Actually, yes'.

'So have you figured out where the ancients went?' Jack asked.

Daniel shook his head 'No, but I have found something you might want to look at' he replied pulling an ancient looking scroll and unraveling it. 'Does that look familiar'

Jack gasped 'that's Atlantis!'.

'Actually, that is Olympus, city of the God's' Starbuck replied.

Jack looked at her blankly.

'Sir, I believe its another city-ship one stationed in this Galaxy' Daniel clarified.

'But the Alterians built the city ships' Jack questioned.

'The Alterians and the Lords of Kobol, that's what they call the ancients here, were from the same race before Avalon, its logical to presume that the city ships were a design from long before their races parted' Daniel explained.

Jack sighed 'Great, so lets find this Olympus!'

At that moment Carter walked into the library escorted by Lt Gaeta and caught the last part of Jacks reply 'Olympus?' she questioned 'as in mount Olympus city of the Gods?'

Daniel and Jack turned their attention to the new arrivals 'yeah it appears there's an ancient city-ship in this galaxy' Jack informed.

'Well that's good, because I don't think we'll be getting home using the FTL equations the Colonials have' Carter announced.

'What do you mean?' Jack asked.

'I went over their equations, it turns out that the formula's change depending on how far you want to jump. Now I uploaded the equations into the puddle jumpers computer because its way faster than the Colonials, and its begun extrapolating jump equations for longer ranged jumps but the further the jump the longer the equations take to extrapolate. Right now I'm extrapolating jump equations for 1000 light year jumps, its going to take over a week.' Carter turned to Jack 'Looks like we're still stuck here until the Asguard arrive or…' she paused for effect 'until we find some ancients that have the equations'

'ALL HANDS CONDITION 1' a voice came over the speakers followed by red flashing lights and a very loud beeping sound.

'What the hell is condition 1?' Jack asked.

'It means the Cylons have been detected, I have to get to the Hanger bay' Lee announced.

'Well I'm coming with you' Jack replied and set off after Lee and Starbuck while Halo escorted Daniel and Carter to the CIC.

Adama entered the CIC and took up his position at the Dradus consol 'Status' he asked, his words directed at no one in particular.

A voice replied from behind him 'we have a Cylon Raider, it looks like its scouting the area'

Tigh stepped up beside him 'Launch Alert fighters' he ordered, just as two of the Earthers entered the CIC escorted by Halo and Gaeta.

Adama turned towards the Earther named Samantha 'Your ship has more advanced sensors than ours, can you tell if there are anymore Cylons out there?'

Sam was surprised by the Commander and quickly pulled out her scanner, interfacing it with the jumpers long range sensors. Sure enough the moment she accessed the scanners she picked up the Cylon raider, and several light minutes out she picked up two base stars and many more raiders all preparing for a FTL jump.

Her head shot up to look Adama straight in the eyes 'You have to get out of here, there's an entire fleet ready to jump on you'

Adama didn't even hesitate he turned to duwala 'Order the fleet to jump'

As they had done hundreds of times before the civilian ships began to jump in sequence while the Galactica stood her ground. This time, however, the Galactica had assistance in the form of a modified puddle jumper.

'Im detecting multiple dradus contacts, all Cylon… looks like two base ships and at least five squadrons of Raiders' Gaeta reported.

Adama looked up at the consol screens and sure enough hundreds of red blips appeared marking where the enemy ships were. But something caught his eye, every two seconds a blip would disappear long before his own vipers were in play. 'What the hell is going on out there, get me Lee'

Lee's voice soon came over the speaker 'Sir, you're not going to believe this but the Earther ship is tearing right through the Cylon raiders, I've never seen anything like it, he's not even attempt to evade them'

'Give him as much support as you can Lee' Adam stated just as another voice came over the transmission.

'You guys can sit this one out' O'Neill smirked. The puddle jumper was tearing through the Cylon ships without breaking a sweat. Already he had wiped out half the Raiders while the Base ships began launching missiles at him.

Duwala's voice filled the CIC 'Radiological alarm, they're firing nukes!' she shouted.

The vipers scattered as the nukes headed straight for the jumper 'Jack, those are nukes coming at you!' Lee watched in horror as the jumper made no attempt to fire on the nukes but instead concentrated on the fleeing raiders. In an instant the entire sky went white sending out shock waves that crippled his viper.

On the CIC the Galatica shuddered from the impact of multiple nuclear blasts on the jumper. 'We've lost sensors' Gaeta shouted 'We picked up at least five 50 megaton detonations… the haul is keeping out the radiation but the viper pilots most likely got a leathal dose, if they survived the impact…'

Adama dropped his head, even if the pilots survived the Base Stars would soon get them 'What's our FTL status?' he asked.

'FTL drives one and two are offline, FTL drives 3 and 4 are on standby, it will take ten minutes to spin them up' Gaeta replied.

'What about the fleet?'

'All ships are clear'

'Spin up the FTL drives and recall all vipers'

As the light from the explosion dimmed and then vanished Lee was startled to see that the Earth ship was still intact, what was even more startling was the fact it was continuing towards the Base ships at impossible speeds. Several miles from the Base ships two glowing stars left the ship and sped towards the base ships, each flaring bright white. The Base ships fired multiple interception missiles that hit the stars head on, yet didn't even slow them down. Seconds later the stars burst through the Base ships tearing them in half and causing secondary explosions that engulfed each ship. Then, out of the explosions the stars returned to the Earth ship.

'Sir, im getting a transmission from the Earth ship' Duwala announced, she was clearly surprised.

Tigh turned towards Sam 'Your ships can survive 5 nukes?' he questioned.

Carter smiled 'Its Asguard and Ancient technology, it can stand up to far more than 5 nukes'

'Put him speakers' Adama ordered.

Moments later Jacks voice came over the speakers 'He guys, looks like some of your pilots are going to need a hand getting back… I'll beam their ships directly into your holding bay, you'll need medics on standby'

Adama was shocked again, he knew they could transport people, but entire vipers was something he did not expect. 'Thank you General' he replied, then turned to Gaeta 'Order medical personal to hanger bays'

Down in the Starboard hanger bay Chief Tyrol was roused by a very loud hum that accompanied a blinding light. The light subsided to deposit several very damaged vipers in his hanger bay. The entire deck crew just stood for almost a minute in pure shock at what had happened. 'Ok don't just stand there these people need help' the Chief shouted as he himself snapped out of the shock.

After Jack had docked Adama asked that they have another meeting with the Colonials. They met again in the same conference room, this time however, the Colonial representatives were Starbuck, Adama, Tigh, Apollo and a scientist named Giaus Baltar.

Adama took of his glasses off and rubbed the bridge of his nose 'Your technology is very impressive' he stated 'Is there any way we might acquire some of these technologies?'

Jack smiled, he had anticipated this at some point, and the truth was he was authorized to trade all the technology at his disposal for anything the Ancients might possess and clearly the FTL technology was ancient in origin. 'That can be arranged' Jack replied.

Sam took over 'Some of the technologies on our ship are well beyond your ships ability to support short of a complete strip down and refit' she stated 'But some of our basic technologies might just give you a heads up against the Cylons'

Giaus Baltar seemed to stare off into the distance for a moment, his attention then snapped back to Sam 'What kind of basic technologies are we talking here?' he asked.

Sam placed a device on the table in front of them and a 3 dimensional holographic image of the Galactica appeared above it. 'Well first we need to address your guns, for a ship this size your current guns and ammunition take up a lot of space.' She placed a crystal on the device and the image of what looked like a turret appeared 'This is what we call a rail gun, the rounds are one twentieth the size of your current shells but deliver a kenetic energy yield six times that of your current guns. On top of that, the guns themselves are one forth the size of your current turrets, meaning you can add 24 times the fire power by replacing one turret with four rail guns. And the best part is they can be adapted from your current weapons'

Apollo looked to Jack 'That's great, but the weapons you were using appeared to energy based… well except for the two star looking devices that cleaved the base stars in half, what were those?' he asked.

'Ah, those are drone weapons used by the Alterians, they are the most powerful weapons in our arsenal, it's one of the technologies your ship cannot support' Sam answered.

Giaus was intrigued 'How exactly do these drone weapons work?' he asked.

'That's a little complicated' Daniel answered, 'the drone weapons are keyed to Alterian DNA, something you don't seem to posses'

'What other kind of offensive technologies can you give us?' Adama asked.

Sam pressed a button on the holo emitter and schematics of a naquidah enhanced nuke appeared 'This is a very powerful nuclear weapon' Sam replied.

'We already have nukes' Giaus announced.

'Not like this you don't' Sam smiled 'This is an enhanced naquidah warhead, capable of a multi gigaton detonation'

'Multi gigaton!' Adama gasped 'That would vaporize everything within at least 100 miles of it… why would your people require such weapons?'

Daniel chose to answer this one 'Well you see, we have enemies in our home galaxy who can do a lot more damage then the Cylons'

The Colonials reeled at this thought 'exactly what kind of damage are we talking here?' Starbuck asked.

'Well take your pick, first there's the replicators who were a bunch of robots like your Cylons but far more dangerous. Then there are the Goaúld who took humans to other worlds and enslaved them, and then there's the wraith who feed on human life energy, and finally ther'es the Ori who are ascended beings bent on converting all humans into religious zealots' Jack quipped 'Still feel like coming to Earth?' he smiled.

'What exactly made these races dangerous?' Giaus asked.

'The replicators were originally a race of mindless machines, much like your original Cylons, however they were made up of blocks that could come together to form different bug like machines, that served various purposes. They were created by an android, and had only one purpose, to replicate at all costs. They almost wiped out the Asguard Galaxy, but fortunately we managed to wipe them out first. There were also human form replicators but that's another long story' Carter stated.

'As for the goáuld' Daniel Jackson continued 'They are parasitical race that take humans as hosts. They took humans from earth and transplanted them across our galaxy, enslaving some and genetically altering others to carry their young. Their technology is very advanced, though we managed to defeat them.'

Daniel turned to Jack giving him a certain look 'Okay I guess I'll explain the Wraith' Jack replied 'Lets see, they are humanoid creatures evolved from the blending of a bug and human. They keep an entire galaxy full of human worlds as farms and feed upon them every 500 or so years. We woke em all up and now they are descimating the Pegasus galaxy and are trying to get to earth to suck the life out of all of us'

'What exactly do you mean by suck the life out of us?' Starbuck questioned.

'I mean literally suck the life out of us, they put their hands on your chest and a few seconds later your nothing but a skeleton, or if you're lucky you find yourself a couple years older' Jack replied.

'But they are not the worst' Daniel explained 'The worst is the Ori, they are ascended beings'

'Whats an ascended being?' Adama asked.

'Well you see, we found that once a human, or any other creature, unlocks a certain amount of their brain capacity, they are able to shed their physical form and exist on a higher plain of existence as pure energy' He replied 'From this plain of existence all the knowledge of the universe is available to you'

'You also gain the ability to control the forces of nature' Jack piped in.

'Thank you Jack I was just going to mention that' Daniel quipped back 'Well see they can't intervene directly with our plain without incurring the wrath of the others'

'The others?' Apollo asked.

'Yes, the others are another group of ascended beings, they hold the majority among the ascended and band together to stop interference with the lower plains of existence. If the Ori were to directly interfere with our universe, the Others would expel them in a war that would probably destroy half the universe.' Daniel replied.

'Then how are they a threat?' Starbuck asked.

'They found a way around the Others rules… you see they are modifying humans who serve them, giving them powers that can only be described as godly' Daniel explained 'The Priors can read minds, stop weapons, survive in atmospheres that would kill a normal human, create biological weapons that can wipe out entire races, bring back the dead, heal any illness, and reverse the effects of time, and theres no level of technology we've been able to find that can stand against them'.

'That's why we are hoping the ancients of this galaxy might have something' Sam finished.

Adama just stared at the humans, they had obviously been through a lot and faced dangers greater than the Cylons. He had heard stories from Gaeta during his conversation with Carter about the Earth and Asguard fleets, and according to Jack a Asgaurd mothership was on its way.

Sam reached down to pick up her scanner, she had it actively scanning for Cylons ever since Jack had asked her to examine his scans of the prisoner. Because of the size of the Kryon particles, only a close range scan could detect them and right now her scanner was beeping frantically. She pulled jack to one side and showed him her sensor readings. Jack pulled a modified Asguard hand weapon from his side and quickly stunned Giaus Baltar.

The remaining Colonials stood up in shock and drew their side arms, pointing them at Jack.

'What have you done?' Lee demanded.

Jack put the stunner on the table and raised his hands 'Woe there, I only stunned him'

'Why?' Adama asked, while Starbuck scooted around and picked up the weapon.

'He's a Cylon, well at least part of him is a Cylon' Carter answered.

Jack dropped his hands slowly to his side 'Look, you people wanted us to scan for Cylons'

Adama looked at the fallen Baltar for a moment 'put your weapons down' he finally ordered. 'What do you mean part of him is Cylon?' he asked.

Carter took her scanner and attached it to the holographic generator, in seconds an x-ray like image of Baltar appeared on it, its seemed perfectly normal except for what looked like pin prick sized blue dots dispersed around his brain. 'It seems Mr. Baltar here has Kryon particles in his Brain but the rest of him appears to be human'

Lee looked down at the unconscious Baltar 'So you mean all this time he's been working for the Cylons?'

Baltar awoke to find himself in a cell next to Boomber, he desperately slammed on the door demanding to be set free. A guard walked over and activated the intercom 'I demand to be let out of here, I'm vice president of the Colonies for god sake!' he demanded.

'We'll considered yourself impeached CYLON!' the guard replied then walked away.

'Im not a Cylon' Giaus cried before collapsing in a corner of the cell.

Starbuck had invited Daniel to the officers mess for a drink and some kind of card game that was supposed to resemble Poker. Against his better judgment he had agreed, mostly because he felt some attraction to this woman, and he felt she held some attraction for him. The problem was that he had picked up underlying sexual tension between her and Apollo, but figured that since they were both officers nothing would come of it.

Starbuck picked him up in the guest quarters he was assigned and the pair made their way to the officers mess. 'So, tell me about Earth' she asked in sort of a dreamlike tone.

Daniel cleared his throat 'Well there's a lot to know about Earth, do you want to know anything in particular?' he replied

Starbuck thought for a second 'Well, tell me about where you live, and the people there' she asked.

Daniel closed his eyes trying to remember what Earth was like, it was not that he had forgotten, more the fact that he had been to so many other more exotic planets that it was difficult for him to picture his home. And then he realized, he never really considered Earth his home, his heart belonged to Abydos 'Well, I live in Colorado Springs' he began, searching for anything interesting he could remember 'It's a rather uneventful place, except for that it's the place where I work, Stargate Command'

Starbuck bucked, she recalled Carter mentioning the stargate but she didn't really explain what it was sued for 'what exactly is a stargate?'

Now this was a topic Daniel was well versed in 'Ah yes the stargate, I was wondering when one of you Colonials would ask about it' Daniel smiled 'It's a device used to travel between planets all across my galaxy almost instantly'

Starbuck's eyes almost popped out of their sockets 'How is such a thing possible'

Daniels smile grew even wider 'you see the ancients terra formed many of the planets in my galaxy, they then created a vast network of stargates on each of these new worlds. Traveling across the galaxy was as easy as dialing a 7 symbol address and stepping through a vertical pool of water'

'And the travel was instant?'

'In a sense yes, but Carter could explain it in more detail'

'So how many worlds have you visited?' Starbuck asked.

'More than I can count… I even called one home for about a year, where I had a wife' Jacksons tone turned sullen.

Starbuck looked at Jackson sympathetically 'Did something happen to her?' she asked.

'She was taken as a host by the Goaúld, that's why I joined the SGC… we eventually tracked her down, she had me in the grasp of a Ribon device and Teal'c, that's the 4th man on our team, was forced to kill her in order to save my life' he didn't know why he shared such an indepth story with her.

Starbuck took Daniels arm in an attempt to comfort him 'I'm sorry for asking' she stated, 'I hope this doesn't sound insensitive but what is a Ribon device?'

Daniel looked up and gave off a little laugh, he had no idea why he laughed but it just felt like the right thing to do 'Did you see the golden gauntlet device on Carters right hand?'

'Yes' Starbuck replied, a little phased by Daniels sudden burst of laughter.

'Well, it's a ribbon device, she can use it to fling people across the room with a wave of the hand, or activated a personal shield… if she's really talented though she can use it to scan thoughts…' Daniel broke off, if the device could be used to enter another mind Sam might be able to enter one of the Cylons and retrieve valuable information from them.

'What is it?' Starbuck asked.

'Nothing that can't wait' Daniel replied.

TBC