Little Lost Girl

Star Wars/Stargate Crossover

Disclaimer: I don't own star Wars or Stargate

Timing: Early season 7 of Stargate, after Daniel has returned. Post the New Jedi Order arc.

Summary: Sequel to the Healer. Sg-1 goes to investigate a downed starship on an uninhabited planet and encounter a lost woman.

Author's Notes: Hope you like this chapter. And I say, Review, Review, Review! I cannot say that enough times, ReviewJ

Chapter 7 Finally some answers

They were gathered around the conference room table with Master Offee sitting at the head of the table opposite General Hammond.

Once they were all seated, Jack demanded, his patience growing short, "Maybe we can get some answers now? What were you so worried about that you had to rush here and meet Jaya?"

"From your words, I believed her to be one of Palpatine's Dark Jedi," Barriss explained in simple terms. At least they were simple to her.

"You thought that she was a what?" asked Jack confused.

"What's a Dark Jedi?" asked Daniel with interest and with a little bit of alarm, the name was not reassuring at all.

"And who's this Palpatine?" added Hammond.

Barriss shook her head, "You would not understand without me explaining many things first."

"So start explaining," prompted Jack irritably, her infinite patience was starting to grate on him.

Barriss nodded and began spinning her tale, "My tale begins in my home galaxy, I was a Jedi Knight there. For a thousand generations the Jedi order were guardians of peace and justice for Galactic Republic-"

Daniel cut in excitedly, "A thousand generations! Thousand? How many years was that?"

"Yes, it was approximately twenty five thousand years," answered Barriss.

Daniel opened his mouth to say something but nothing came, he was too shocked, they'd never encountered any species that had a history that went back that far except the Asgard and Nox. He closed his mouth and sat back to listen in silence to the rest of Barriss's tale while his head ran through the possibilities and theories of how humans could have been in another galaxy twenty-five thousand years ago.

"The Republic had grown stable and began to stagnant. The bureaucracy had had become so convoluted and corrupt that that we Jedi spent all our time sorting out border disputes and minor problems. We were so distracted we did not see the first signs that the Sith had returned," she continued. She held up her hand to forestall any more questions, "The Sith are the antithesis of the Jedi. A dark and terrible order that misuse their powers for their own gains who arose from an ancient schism between members of the Jedi Order in ancient times. For millennia, the Sith empire had existed and expanded, enslaving numerous worlds much as the Goa'uld have, until it encountered the Republic and Jedi. This happened five thousand years ago and under the rule of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Naga Sadow, they invaded the Republic. The war was short and very brutal but eventually we shattered the Sith Empire. Eventually after a thousand years worth of conflicts and skirmishes, we believed we had destroyed all the Sith Lords…unfortunately we missed one. For a thousand years the Sith grew insidiously as a cancer, invading all aspects of the Republic, killing it from within." She paused and a dark look came over her face, "And we, the Guardians of the Republic…missed it."

Jack winced, no wonder she was so hesitant about talking about it. She was feeling guilty of her Order's failure.

"…Our wake up call came when Master Jinn was killed on Naboo by a Sith apprentice, Darth Maul. This Sith Lord did not escape to kill others afterwards, Master Jinn's then apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi. Afterwards, we searched for the Sith but we found nothing." Barriss stopped and took a drink of water from the glass in front of her before continuing, "During this time many systems and local governments wished to cede from the Republic, one man, Count Dooku of Serenno headed an alliance of systems and bound them together to form the Separatists movement, a former Jedi, Master Jinn's former master, who had left the Order when Master Jinn was killed. He was the cause of the Clone Wars that I mentioned before. A massive intergalactic civil war that savaged countless worlds all across my galaxy, some species were even driven to the brink of extinction," she proclaimed as she remembered the debacle that was Honoghr and the Noghri who were helpless to prevent their world's destruction, "You saw my memories of Geonosis, that was merely the opening salvo of the war, no civilians were caught in the crossfire of that battle."

None of the people listening to her were liking what she was saying. For Barakis and Luminara, they could feel their mother's turmoil, bitterness and sadness as she described events from her past life, a time from before she came to Miraan, a time she had sworn never to speak of again, if she could help it.

"The Clone Wars lasted three years and tens of millions died. The Republic Clone Army battled the Separatist Droid army lead by General Grievous, a monstrous cyborg that would drive fear into the hearts of the coldest and worst of the Goa'uld. Hundreds of Jedi died leading the Clones in battle, others left the order believing that the Jedi Council's choice to lead the Clone army was wrong and that the Separatist had the right idea, still others joined Dooku and became Dark Jedi, and slowly our numbers were whittled down and the Order was stretched to the thinnest it had ever been since the end of the Sith War."

She stopped speaking and looked at the varied expressions pointing in her direction. She saw her children's pitying and encouraging looks. Dr Jackson and Major Carter's rapt expressions, to them it was a mere story, they had not had to live through the strife and agony she had. Jack, Teal'c and Hammond on the other hand listened with dark expressions, she could tell that they had live though wars before and had seen at least a modicum of carnage, though she doubted it had been of the scale of the Clone Wars.

Well she wasn't finished yet, the worse was yet to come.

"Or at least that is what the Public thought they knew. The truth of the matter was that the entire war was a sham, a decoy to obscure the actions of the Sith. Tens of millions died so that the Sith could wipe out ten thousand Jedi. Count Dooku was a Dark Lord of the Sith! Darth Maul's master, Darth Sidious had seduced him to the dark side of the Force and commanded him to make war upon the Republic and the Jedi. Dooku himself then proceed to seduce more Jedi into his service as Dark Jedi, Sora Bulq, Tol Skorr and Kadrian Sey, but to name a few. And that was not including others, Asajj Ventress and the bounty hunters Durge and Jango Fett…and not forgetting Grievous." She snorted in disgust, "Many Jedi simply ran when Grievous showed up at a battle, it is one thing to be told of him, it was another to see him standing in front of you twirling four lightsabers." She shuddered at the encounter.

She paused again for a second before continuing with her explanation, venom in her voice, "But even with all that the worst betrayal was still to come. The clone troopers the army used were all specifically designed never to disobey a direct order from a ranking officer, with the Supreme Chancellor word being unquestioned law, except the original ARC troopers. They received none of the obedience training and therapies. They obey because the prime clone, Jango Fett, before his true allegiances were shown, had told them to obey. This has special relevance to what happened next," she paused again steeling her against the flood of emotions that these memories caused in her, she felt her daughter reaching her through the Force, comforting her. She smiled at Luminara and continued, "During the war were still looking for Darth Sidious, we found absolutely no trace of him and we did look everywhere. Well we found him eventually or rather he found all of us…I will tell you something that few know…the universe has a sense of humor-and a twisted one at that. Darth Sidious was revealed to be none other than…Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the Galactic Republic!" her voice dripped with venom as she revealed this statement.

She felt the shock of those around her hit her like a tsunami, they hadn't conceived of anything like that, the level of deception necessary to pull off something like that. She could even see their shock written all over their faces even the stoic one Teal'c appeared shaken beyond belief.

"Yes, the leader of the Republic was our worst enemy. At the end, with a single order he wiped out the majority of the Jedi Order in one fell swoop. He ordered the Clone troopers to kill the Jedi. Each Jedi had been issued an army of troops to command. These troops that we fought side by side with for three years turned against us on the battlefields! I was battling Separatists druids at that time and a tank was coming up behind me, providing artillery cover for me. I sensed the danger a split second before they opened fire on me. If I had moved any slower then I would have been vaporized, as it was I was only severely incapacitated, I was in such bad shape that my troops thought me dead left me on the battlefield. I clung to life and for days I was alone. Later I was rescued by the first generation ARC trooper known as Alpha. He and his squad had gone rogue and as they nursed me back to health they explained what had happened and why. The Republic was no dead after more than twenty five thousand years of rule and it its place was Palpatine's New Order, the Galactic Empire with him as the all powerful Emperor," she stopped again taking a deep breath and calming her self.

Her unrelenting tale of woe and betrayal of the worst kind wasn't finished yet, but this time her voice was filled with sorrow, "If that wasn't enough they also revealed another betrayal that was much closer to the Jedi and me, in particular. An old friend of mine, a fellow Jedi that I was proud to call a brother Jedi had turned against the Jedi. A Jedi Knight, who was my friend, called Anakin Skywalker. He killed Count Dooku and took his place by Palpatine's side as Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, the Emperor's new powerful enforcer," she sighed regretfully, "I couldn't believe it until we encountered him again. We barely escaped. My friend was gone and in his place was a hideous monster in black armor."

She looked at the indescribable expressions on the faces of those around her, "We escaped into the area in my galaxy called Wild Space along with another ship of refugees and there we came across a device in the space between systems. It was a gigantic circular device. When we neared it activated and sucked us in. It brought us to this galaxy and away from our pursuers. It was similar to a stargate, it was made up of Naquada, though we did not know this at the time…the rest of my story you know already," she finished her tale and sat back in her chair trying to still her emotions as she remembered the old memories, many of which she had shared with them.

Freshest in her mind, was that of Anakin, when they had been apprentices with their masters on Ansion and how he had fearlessly and selflessly jumped into the water to save her after she had been knocked off her suubatar by the gairaks into the river. He had come after her without knowing what the danger was. He was someone that would always have your back no matter what happened.

And yet he was now Darth Vader.

To this day she had trouble coming to terms with the change from Anakin to Vader.

Silence descended on the conference room as the humans of Earth tried to come to terms with such a complex and intricate a plot as Palpatine had come up with and the level of patience required.

But one thing was clear, the Galactic Empire was not an enemy they wanted to ever encounter, Palpatine had something both the Goa'uld System Lords and Replicators lacked…subtlety and patience.

Subtlety, patience and power was not a combination they could win against.

Author's Notes: Hope you like this chapter. As always, Read, Enjoy and Review! Next time Sg-1's and Hammond's reactionsJ