Chapter 2: The calm before the storm
Location:
Milky Way Galaxy
Sol System
Far side of Earth's moon
Cmdr Hammond looked outside the view port of his bridge in the Prometheus; he could see the other 2 brand new first generation true space faring vessels. They had all been emblazoned with the logo E.D.F as for Earth Defense Fleet, Although 3 ships hardly qualified as a fleet. He though to himself. Although is better than nothing, ever since the planet nearly went on the brink. When Anubis came with his Ancients based weaponry and Cloned BioCybernetic Goa'uld army. He had been assigned as Captain of the Prometheus during the incident and had it not been for O'Neal's fortunate finding of the Atlantean weapon's platform in Antarctica, Earth would be now a Goa'uld Human harvest farm, he cringed at the though. After that incident the remaining mayor powers in the planet decided not to take any chances.
So they rushed in to build ships based on the Prometheus, and even though they had the E.D.F Logo they also had each one the flag and official names of their respective countries the R.F Gaggarin from the Russian Federation and the P.R.C's Sun-Tzu from the People's Republic of China. And he was the commander of Earth's first defense fleet in history. They hoped that they would find weapons to fight the Goa'uld in the lost city but since they had lost contact with the Atlantis StarGate team, for now they were Earth's first line of defense.
He turned his attention to the comm. officer "Patch me to the rest of the fleet."
"Aye sir!"
"Prometheus here to the rest of the fleet lets get these 2 new ships ready for their first dry run shall we?"
"Capt. Van Zhang of the Sun-Tzu here, I got to say Cmdr, I'm surprised for how long you kept this technology to yourselves. Your country should have..."
"Spare me the politics Capt. now is not the time
"Capt Stephanovich here, should we get on with this. When we are through you're both invited to my ship for vodka."
"Fine but this discussion isn't over Van Zhang out"
Hammond sure remembered quieter days back at command in the SGC and although there were plenty of hairy moments, he knew he could completely rely on the members of the SGC. In this case however because it was an internationally concocted team, politics got in the way more often than not. And he had to make this Fleet worked as one well oiled team if they were to even stand a slight chance of repelling another attack.
Even though according to the Tokra and Rebel Jaffa intelligence reports suggested that Anubis had decimated most of the forces of the System Lords and the remaining Goa'uld. He felt that this was just as in the matrix character Morpheus said "The calm before the storm."
Location:
Sol System
Earth, Virginia, U.S
Former Senator Kinsey was not a happy man this days... Not by far. All his plans for taking control of the SGC had fallen apart during Anubis invasion attempt on the planet, it was obvious that somebody had betrayed him because the President whose rise to power he carefully orquestrated now had 'Enough dirt on him to put him on a cage for life' recalling those same words from the president himself during the crisis.
To make matters worse the person he had chosen to take over SGC had dismissed him also in favor of the SGC personnel advice. For a diplomat Dr Elizabeth Weir had shown to be more gutsy than he ever anticipated, not long after the incident Dr Weir Joined the StarGate Atlantis team and subsequently they lost all contact with them.
'Serves her right' Kinsey though to himself as he drank from his bottle of beer.
Still everything was not lost he still had a few aces up his sleeve, one way the other SG-1 and those that had sided with them were going to pay and were going to pay dearly, he was going to make sure of it.
Location: Earth
Washington DC, White House
U.S President Thomas Sinclair sat uncomfortably in his chair. None of his years in politics had prepared him for what he encountered upon assuming office the top secret SGC program, the covert war with the Goa'uld and to top it all off, fend off an invasion by Anubis that according to reports was a half transcended being whatever the hell that meant. And a close call it was, too damn close and this time regrettably severe casualties had occurred.
As the invasion attempt had unfolded a single Goa'uld Mother Ship had destroyed an entire naval carrier group from orbit, all hands were lost. Their desperate voices still haunted him as he heard their last transmission as it was patched to the white house 'Holy hell the whole damn carrier just blew up! We are receiving incoming, Where the hell it's coming from.... Transmission abruptly cuts'
The Spin Doctors at the Defense Dept sure had made a cover story about a terrorist using a zodiac carrying a suitcase 20KT Nuke as being the culprit for the loss of the carrier group. But given the severity of the incident and the number of casualties involved even this spin off was full of holes and the press was poking at those holes like piranhas. Specially O'Reilly and Gerardo Rivera they were having a ball showing inconsistencies with the story.
To them it had to be a much bigger and organized attack involving at least 5 zodiacs or small boats in order to effectively destroy the whole fleet. But then that would have too conspicuous for the Carrier group to have not noticed it. So an inside job conspiracy involving surveillance equipment sabotage was forming.
With all this going on he wondered just for how long could they keep up the charade, like it or not it was just a matter of time before the truth as he knew inevitably would have to come out. Then there was the memorial for those whose lives where lost. He was supposed to address the nation and particularly the families that had lost loved ones in the incident & he couldn't help to feel like a hypocrite by having to lie to them about what really had taken place. But for now at least it couldn't be helped.
He would have to keep up appearances and try to prepare his nation and the world as best as possible for what lied ahead. And that given the circumstances did not made him feel any easier at all.
Location:
Milky Way Galaxy
Sol System
Far side of Earth's moon
Cmdr Hammond looked outside the view port of his bridge in the Prometheus; he could see the other 2 brand new first generation true space faring vessels. They had all been emblazoned with the logo E.D.F as for Earth Defense Fleet, Although 3 ships hardly qualified as a fleet. He though to himself. Although is better than nothing, ever since the planet nearly went on the brink. When Anubis came with his Ancients based weaponry and Cloned BioCybernetic Goa'uld army. He had been assigned as Captain of the Prometheus during the incident and had it not been for O'Neal's fortunate finding of the Atlantean weapon's platform in Antarctica, Earth would be now a Goa'uld Human harvest farm, he cringed at the though. After that incident the remaining mayor powers in the planet decided not to take any chances.
So they rushed in to build ships based on the Prometheus, and even though they had the E.D.F Logo they also had each one the flag and official names of their respective countries the R.F Gaggarin from the Russian Federation and the P.R.C's Sun-Tzu from the People's Republic of China. And he was the commander of Earth's first defense fleet in history. They hoped that they would find weapons to fight the Goa'uld in the lost city but since they had lost contact with the Atlantis StarGate team, for now they were Earth's first line of defense.
He turned his attention to the comm. officer "Patch me to the rest of the fleet."
"Aye sir!"
"Prometheus here to the rest of the fleet lets get these 2 new ships ready for their first dry run shall we?"
"Capt. Van Zhang of the Sun-Tzu here, I got to say Cmdr, I'm surprised for how long you kept this technology to yourselves. Your country should have..."
"Spare me the politics Capt. now is not the time
"Capt Stephanovich here, should we get on with this. When we are through you're both invited to my ship for vodka."
"Fine but this discussion isn't over Van Zhang out"
Hammond sure remembered quieter days back at command in the SGC and although there were plenty of hairy moments, he knew he could completely rely on the members of the SGC. In this case however because it was an internationally concocted team, politics got in the way more often than not. And he had to make this Fleet worked as one well oiled team if they were to even stand a slight chance of repelling another attack.
Even though according to the Tokra and Rebel Jaffa intelligence reports suggested that Anubis had decimated most of the forces of the System Lords and the remaining Goa'uld. He felt that this was just as in the matrix character Morpheus said "The calm before the storm."
Location:
Sol System
Earth, Virginia, U.S
Former Senator Kinsey was not a happy man this days... Not by far. All his plans for taking control of the SGC had fallen apart during Anubis invasion attempt on the planet, it was obvious that somebody had betrayed him because the President whose rise to power he carefully orquestrated now had 'Enough dirt on him to put him on a cage for life' recalling those same words from the president himself during the crisis.
To make matters worse the person he had chosen to take over SGC had dismissed him also in favor of the SGC personnel advice. For a diplomat Dr Elizabeth Weir had shown to be more gutsy than he ever anticipated, not long after the incident Dr Weir Joined the StarGate Atlantis team and subsequently they lost all contact with them.
'Serves her right' Kinsey though to himself as he drank from his bottle of beer.
Still everything was not lost he still had a few aces up his sleeve, one way the other SG-1 and those that had sided with them were going to pay and were going to pay dearly, he was going to make sure of it.
Location: Earth
Washington DC, White House
U.S President Thomas Sinclair sat uncomfortably in his chair. None of his years in politics had prepared him for what he encountered upon assuming office the top secret SGC program, the covert war with the Goa'uld and to top it all off, fend off an invasion by Anubis that according to reports was a half transcended being whatever the hell that meant. And a close call it was, too damn close and this time regrettably severe casualties had occurred.
As the invasion attempt had unfolded a single Goa'uld Mother Ship had destroyed an entire naval carrier group from orbit, all hands were lost. Their desperate voices still haunted him as he heard their last transmission as it was patched to the white house 'Holy hell the whole damn carrier just blew up! We are receiving incoming, Where the hell it's coming from.... Transmission abruptly cuts'
The Spin Doctors at the Defense Dept sure had made a cover story about a terrorist using a zodiac carrying a suitcase 20KT Nuke as being the culprit for the loss of the carrier group. But given the severity of the incident and the number of casualties involved even this spin off was full of holes and the press was poking at those holes like piranhas. Specially O'Reilly and Gerardo Rivera they were having a ball showing inconsistencies with the story.
To them it had to be a much bigger and organized attack involving at least 5 zodiacs or small boats in order to effectively destroy the whole fleet. But then that would have too conspicuous for the Carrier group to have not noticed it. So an inside job conspiracy involving surveillance equipment sabotage was forming.
With all this going on he wondered just for how long could they keep up the charade, like it or not it was just a matter of time before the truth as he knew inevitably would have to come out. Then there was the memorial for those whose lives where lost. He was supposed to address the nation and particularly the families that had lost loved ones in the incident & he couldn't help to feel like a hypocrite by having to lie to them about what really had taken place. But for now at least it couldn't be helped.
He would have to keep up appearances and try to prepare his nation and the world as best as possible for what lied ahead. And that given the circumstances did not made him feel any easier at all.