Chapter 6: New kids on the block
Location: Milky Way Galaxy
Planet SGD: PXZ-698
A few hours later Tenel Ka and her off-galaxy team had successfully installed the power module that the Yavin 4 team sent through the device. Immediately they proceeded to check the remains of the buried alien ship.
Tenel Ka was cautious "Check for any anomalies that could be booby traps!"
"We are not registering anything all that unusual, there seems to be some peculiar rocks around the site, they may have been fused with parts of the alien ship's hull when it crashed."
"Understood, lets proceed then."
After about 8 hours latter they had managed to extract the engine components and just about every technology that could be salvaged. Then they send all the materials they gathered through the device back to Yavin 4 for analysis and reverse engineering of the alien technology.
"We just send the last of the recovered items though the device milady."
"OK then lets get back home shall we, I need to fill a report and I think we all could use a bath!"
This time the whole expedition team went through the device 3 at a time and without hesitation, as they were all eager to get back home.
Once they all left and the artificial wormhole ceased operating, high above in orbit a Tel'Tak class Tokra scout vessel de-cloaked. It had been monitoring all the activity of the newcomers without their knowledge, immediately it jumped into hyperspace to report back to the secret Tokra headquarters about its findings.
And on the planet's surface the odd rocks surrounding the crash site morphed into AsGard transmitting devices. They in unison sent a powerful encoded message back to the distant Valhalla galaxy, the home and reign of the AsGard.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Jacen was puzzled at the information extracted from the stormtrooper "So its some kind of transport system? Do they have any idea how it works?"
"They were working on it at the time sire."
"I see! well... See that the stormtrooper is properly taken care of."
"As you whish sire."
Tarkin send instruction to his agent back on Coruscant to do as his commander had ordered. "You know what to do, Tarkin out"
Norys replied unemotionally
"Understood."
Location Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant
"Way ahead of you, Tarkin, way ahead of you!"
Norys mused to himself as he stood over the lifeless, battered remains of the stormtrooper, he took a vial out and place it on top of the body, instantly the vial broke and a liquid composed of nanobots poured over the corpse and rapidly began consuming it until nothing was left, the nanobots were programmed to self destruct by melting themselves into harmless vapor after performing their duty.
Location Valhalla Galaxy
AsGard homeworld
AsGard Defense/Intelligence gathering center
Supreme Cmdr Thor stood transfixed looking at the holorecording that had been sent by the monitoring devices where one of their ships had crashed so long ago, it was a very strange looking team composed of clearly some humans and aliens they had never seen or encountered before. Clearly they were not natives to the galaxy that they had come to through the Stargate.
Thor couldn't help but feel that this newcomers were somehow going to change everything sooner or latter and the fact that he did not know whether this was for good or ill really worried him.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
Tenel Ka and her teammates had assembled in the pyramid's main chamber to discuss the findings. The Mon-calamari researcher once again began to speak to the assembled crowd. "This is what we have found so far, the ship's engines appear to be far more advanced than anything we have ever previously encountered they can allow you to travel between galaxies the time it takes us to travel throughout ours or less. They also seem to have a very advanced matter teleportation devices. It will be all sent now for reverse engineering."
"What about the device?"
"Oh yes, as for the device is concerned we are pretty sure it can also be reverse engineered, so an artificial wormhole transport system within our galaxy will be viable in a few years, think about it, travel and commerce in an instant, where it took hours or days., on an interesting note for travel within our own galaxy only seven of the locking mechanisms in the device will be needed."
Tenel Ka stood puzzled at the statement "Why? When we first activated the device all locking mechanisms went active."
"Glad you ask milady, you see how the device works it needs a point of origin and 7 additional points in 3-dimensional space in order to establish a functional wormhole, but when we first activated it, because our galaxy is out of sync with the timeline were we got connected to, it activated the remaining locking mechanisms the 8th lock establishes a temporal connection, but by itself it would only go from point A to point A, in other words you would travel back in time and appear at the same point of origin. Here is where the last lock comes into place, it allows a time/space jump from point A to point B."
"Absolutely amazing, This has to be sent immediately to the emperor!"
"Are you going to send another courier?"
"Not this time, this is to big to keep a secret much longer anyway, I'll transmit a message directly to Coruscant."
Location: Milky Way Galaxy
Serrakin-Hebridan Alliance
Hebridan SGD: P4X-131
The StarGate established the incoming wormhole from Earth and the communications gear crackled to life as it immediately received an incoming signal, Major Carter saw the visage of her former SG-1 colonel & now SGC commander Jack O'Neal on the LCD display of her comm. unit
Gen. O'Neal spoke "Nice to see you Major! So what's the scoop?"
"Well the Ashen just attacked an alliance outpost a few barely escaped before they launched their bio-weapon, the Ashen cut through the outpost defenses with little trouble."
"Great! And?"
"This attack indicates given the fact they attacked a reasonably defended outpost that the Ashen could be poised to strike Earth at any time & sooner than we anticipated..."
"Any good news?"
"Well the council decided to spare a few ships to help defend the former Goa'uld colonies and earth."
"And that would bring just how many ships to defend earth?"
"One."
"Swell, let's hope their one ship makes a difference when the Ashen fleet come through our lake Edna woods!"
"I wish I had better news sir!"
"You've done all you can Major, we are expecting your return here."
"Sir?"
"Have you forgotten about your promotion Major or should I say Colonel."
"It's been so hectic I haven't had the time to think about it sir!"
"That's OK Major Err Colonel, get some rest you deserve it."
"I'm not Colonel officially yet sir."
"You are in my book!"
"Thank you sir!"
"Don't mention it."
"What about the news on your side sir?"
"The last Tokra report we received tells that the remaining system Lords and Baal himself have made an alliance to counter the Ashen. Quite remarkable considering that he was beating the crap out of them before the Ashen decided to strike."
"So bad news all around..."
"Pretty much!"
"Well Colonel get some rest that's and order!"
"Yes sir"
With that the transmission ended and the artificial wormhole closed, Dr Jackson cut in
"Well, this might be a bit early but congratulations"
"Thanks Daniel, you should get some rest also."
"Oh! I intend to!"
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Jacen was awakened from his slumber by the loud sound of his comm. unit at his bedside "Yes!"
"Sorry to wake you sir, but we just intercepted a coded message from Yavin 4 its targeted directly at Coruscant."
"I'm on my way..."
Location: Milky Way Galaxy
Planet SGD: PXZ-698
A few hours later Tenel Ka and her off-galaxy team had successfully installed the power module that the Yavin 4 team sent through the device. Immediately they proceeded to check the remains of the buried alien ship.
Tenel Ka was cautious "Check for any anomalies that could be booby traps!"
"We are not registering anything all that unusual, there seems to be some peculiar rocks around the site, they may have been fused with parts of the alien ship's hull when it crashed."
"Understood, lets proceed then."
After about 8 hours latter they had managed to extract the engine components and just about every technology that could be salvaged. Then they send all the materials they gathered through the device back to Yavin 4 for analysis and reverse engineering of the alien technology.
"We just send the last of the recovered items though the device milady."
"OK then lets get back home shall we, I need to fill a report and I think we all could use a bath!"
This time the whole expedition team went through the device 3 at a time and without hesitation, as they were all eager to get back home.
Once they all left and the artificial wormhole ceased operating, high above in orbit a Tel'Tak class Tokra scout vessel de-cloaked. It had been monitoring all the activity of the newcomers without their knowledge, immediately it jumped into hyperspace to report back to the secret Tokra headquarters about its findings.
And on the planet's surface the odd rocks surrounding the crash site morphed into AsGard transmitting devices. They in unison sent a powerful encoded message back to the distant Valhalla galaxy, the home and reign of the AsGard.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Jacen was puzzled at the information extracted from the stormtrooper "So its some kind of transport system? Do they have any idea how it works?"
"They were working on it at the time sire."
"I see! well... See that the stormtrooper is properly taken care of."
"As you whish sire."
Tarkin send instruction to his agent back on Coruscant to do as his commander had ordered. "You know what to do, Tarkin out"
Norys replied unemotionally
"Understood."
Location Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant
"Way ahead of you, Tarkin, way ahead of you!"
Norys mused to himself as he stood over the lifeless, battered remains of the stormtrooper, he took a vial out and place it on top of the body, instantly the vial broke and a liquid composed of nanobots poured over the corpse and rapidly began consuming it until nothing was left, the nanobots were programmed to self destruct by melting themselves into harmless vapor after performing their duty.
Location Valhalla Galaxy
AsGard homeworld
AsGard Defense/Intelligence gathering center
Supreme Cmdr Thor stood transfixed looking at the holorecording that had been sent by the monitoring devices where one of their ships had crashed so long ago, it was a very strange looking team composed of clearly some humans and aliens they had never seen or encountered before. Clearly they were not natives to the galaxy that they had come to through the Stargate.
Thor couldn't help but feel that this newcomers were somehow going to change everything sooner or latter and the fact that he did not know whether this was for good or ill really worried him.
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Yavin 4
Tenel Ka and her teammates had assembled in the pyramid's main chamber to discuss the findings. The Mon-calamari researcher once again began to speak to the assembled crowd. "This is what we have found so far, the ship's engines appear to be far more advanced than anything we have ever previously encountered they can allow you to travel between galaxies the time it takes us to travel throughout ours or less. They also seem to have a very advanced matter teleportation devices. It will be all sent now for reverse engineering."
"What about the device?"
"Oh yes, as for the device is concerned we are pretty sure it can also be reverse engineered, so an artificial wormhole transport system within our galaxy will be viable in a few years, think about it, travel and commerce in an instant, where it took hours or days., on an interesting note for travel within our own galaxy only seven of the locking mechanisms in the device will be needed."
Tenel Ka stood puzzled at the statement "Why? When we first activated the device all locking mechanisms went active."
"Glad you ask milady, you see how the device works it needs a point of origin and 7 additional points in 3-dimensional space in order to establish a functional wormhole, but when we first activated it, because our galaxy is out of sync with the timeline were we got connected to, it activated the remaining locking mechanisms the 8th lock establishes a temporal connection, but by itself it would only go from point A to point A, in other words you would travel back in time and appear at the same point of origin. Here is where the last lock comes into place, it allows a time/space jump from point A to point B."
"Absolutely amazing, This has to be sent immediately to the emperor!"
"Are you going to send another courier?"
"Not this time, this is to big to keep a secret much longer anyway, I'll transmit a message directly to Coruscant."
Location: Milky Way Galaxy
Serrakin-Hebridan Alliance
Hebridan SGD: P4X-131
The StarGate established the incoming wormhole from Earth and the communications gear crackled to life as it immediately received an incoming signal, Major Carter saw the visage of her former SG-1 colonel & now SGC commander Jack O'Neal on the LCD display of her comm. unit
Gen. O'Neal spoke "Nice to see you Major! So what's the scoop?"
"Well the Ashen just attacked an alliance outpost a few barely escaped before they launched their bio-weapon, the Ashen cut through the outpost defenses with little trouble."
"Great! And?"
"This attack indicates given the fact they attacked a reasonably defended outpost that the Ashen could be poised to strike Earth at any time & sooner than we anticipated..."
"Any good news?"
"Well the council decided to spare a few ships to help defend the former Goa'uld colonies and earth."
"And that would bring just how many ships to defend earth?"
"One."
"Swell, let's hope their one ship makes a difference when the Ashen fleet come through our lake Edna woods!"
"I wish I had better news sir!"
"You've done all you can Major, we are expecting your return here."
"Sir?"
"Have you forgotten about your promotion Major or should I say Colonel."
"It's been so hectic I haven't had the time to think about it sir!"
"That's OK Major Err Colonel, get some rest you deserve it."
"I'm not Colonel officially yet sir."
"You are in my book!"
"Thank you sir!"
"Don't mention it."
"What about the news on your side sir?"
"The last Tokra report we received tells that the remaining system Lords and Baal himself have made an alliance to counter the Ashen. Quite remarkable considering that he was beating the crap out of them before the Ashen decided to strike."
"So bad news all around..."
"Pretty much!"
"Well Colonel get some rest that's and order!"
"Yes sir"
With that the transmission ended and the artificial wormhole closed, Dr Jackson cut in
"Well, this might be a bit early but congratulations"
"Thanks Daniel, you should get some rest also."
"Oh! I intend to!"
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Jacen was awakened from his slumber by the loud sound of his comm. unit at his bedside "Yes!"
"Sorry to wake you sir, but we just intercepted a coded message from Yavin 4 its targeted directly at Coruscant."
"I'm on my way..."