Disclosure
by Chaoseternus

The Truth Is Out At Last, Are You Ready For It?

Fifty-Two

"Allied military commands maintain a high state of alert today despite the surrender of the last Goa'uld forces known to be loose in the countryside surrounding London. The city itself is in tatters, a firestorm the likes of which has not been seen since the Second World War raging through its streets, the citizens themselves having long since fled.

Fire-fighters both from the surrounding area and airlifted in from as far away as Edinburgh are slowly moving into the city, supported by reserve engines manned by the military and under heavy armed escort. The city is not under control, the government and the military are not even pretending it is, what they are saying is that their priority is to get the city back onto its feet as fast as possible, a task that will prove exceptionally difficult given the extent of the fires raging out of control and the hordes of looters and escaped prisoners rampaging through its streets.

All this is complicated by the possible presence of alien troops and perhaps even alien booby traps inside the city itself, most likely troops who have not yet received word about the surrender.

All we can say for certainty at this time is that rebuilding is likely to take years and will cost perhaps hundreds of billions of pounds, and that is before the clean-up cost of the Exeter Exclusion zone is entered into"


"Here I stand on the edge of what was at one point fertile farmland. As far as the eye can see, it still is, yet I can hear no birds in the trees, nor can I see them. The small thicket behind me is totally quiet, only the sound of the wind whistling through the trees disturbs that.

This is a dead-zone, radioactive, unsafe and unliveable.

We are just on the out-skirts of what is now known as the Exeter Exclusion Zone, the cathedral city reduced to glowing ruins by a Cylon 'dirty' nuclear missile.

Yet, just beyond me you can see people moving inside the houses, smoke slowly drifting out of chimneys and children playing in the snow.

The military was forced out of this area, redeployed to London and that allowed these people to move back in. They did so, ignoring all warnings from the government.

Now, the Army is moving back in and they are not sparing them.

These people are being detained and slowly but surely every unprotected person within the exclusion zone is being moved in contained camps under heavy military guard. They are not being allowed to leave roam uncontrolled and unprotected.

Our sources within the army are being quite blunt; they do not expect most of these people to survive long. Those that do survive are almost guarantied to suffer from cancerous tumours at some point in their lives, even the children.

I at least am protected by this cumbersome radiation suit, as are the army units moving back into the area. Everyone else has just brought a world of hurt down upon themselves"


"Thundersdawn station, battered, but unbroken. This facility is the oldest defence the sol system and our Earth has, it is the only major repair facility for Earth spaceships in the system, and it is overloaded.

This station has nine warship slips; each is occupied with new construction or ships under repair. The same is true for Ravenbright and we are told for the secretive Edonia station.

And there is a queue, two Earth warships await repairs inside the Sol System, the Defiant and the Yorktown, the queue for Ravenbright station, mostly consisting of allied warships in desperate need of refit is even greater. It is a sad and sorry situation, another shipyard is obviously desperately needed, yet with the expense of the cleanup around Earth herself and the need to reinforce Earths weak static defences as fast as possible, it looks like Naval repair and construction will be taking the backseat for quite some time.

Yet, despite all this gloom, there is some good news. Commodore Peters, who has commanded Thundersdawn station since its inception, reports that she expects at least two warships, one a Colonial refit, the other the prototype Britannica to launch within the week.

Will that be enough to ensure Earths security? Only time will tell"


"Behind me you can see the entrance to what was once Earths primary line of defence, Stargate Command, the first facility dedicated to defence of this Earth against a known alien race.

Now, it lays abandoned, empty, the Stargate that changed the Earth as we know it so much removed to another, classified location. The only movement below now is dedicated teams of engineers working hard not just to make the structure safe but to remove numerous booby-traps, bombs and explosives left behind by both sides.

So far, we know for definite of two devices which have accidentally been triggered in the last few hours alone, all that means is more damage to the mountain, certainly a larger repair bill, and more families in mourning"


"A city at calm at last.

Los Angeles, heavily effected by rioting and chaos in the days immediately following Disclosure is at peace, the Guard units which have been harshly enforcing Martial Law have stood down, the Police are once more in control.

But for how long?

This is a city, that like so many others, is drawn tight, ready to snap, full of anger, tension, fear, just waiting for somebody to lash out and start the chaos once more.

The Guard may not be controlling the city anymore, but they haven't left, not yet. The feeling on the streets certainly appears to be that they shouldn't, at least not for quite some time"


"Paris. Once the city of lights, once 'Gay Paree', now just a burnt out ruin, uninhabitable, shattered, gone, its heart torn out, destroyed by the unwilling actions of its citizens, the desperate attempts by the allies to retake the city and finally, the nuclear device that placed the final nail in the cities coffin.

Yet, and perhaps this is the worst, Paris is not alone, Los Vegas, Buenos Aires, Vladivostok, Exeter, all these cities are no more and London may join them yet if the British Government can not bring order to the city and get the rampaging fires under control.

Once, we looked to the stars and we saw hope even as the American and British governments and their allies attempted, perhaps as events have shown us, wisely attempted to hide the truth from us until we were ready.

Now, we look to the stars and see only fear, hatred and uncertainty.

The question we all must ask ourselves now is do we stride those stars as vengefully as the blood of our fallen demands? Or do we finally stand up and truly be counted? Do we go forth in hope?

That is not a question for me, for the press, for the military or for the government, that is a question whose answer can only be decided in the hearts and minds of every human being alive today"