Chapter 12: Connections

Location: Milky Way Galaxy

Inside Ha'Tak vessel
In orbit around Planet SGD: PXZ-698

A technician came to the bridge and addressed Tenel Ka "Mistress we have cracked the entire database and we are nearly finished translating it"

"What have you been able to find from it so far?"

"Well the Jaffa have helped a lot and what we have learned is surprising so far is surprising to say the least. Apparently and if their records are correct it's from this galaxy that we humans come from! The DNA tests will need to confirm this but is pretty tantalizing so far!"

"Unbelievable! We always suspected that we we may not have been natives to our galaxy but to find that this is where all our ancestors may have come from is beyond anybody's wildest dreams. As soon as you finish have it sent to the camp for transmission back to Yavin 4"

"Aye it will be so…"

"Oh and ask the Jaffa to prep one of their landing craft I'm going down as well"

Location: Milky Way galaxy
Earth, Colorado U.S, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, SGC.

The SGC gate room was in eerie silence except for the computer voice that announced when a chevron had been encoded. The anxiety that everybody felt as the world where the strange visitors that for some reason looked like they came right out of the Star Wars films was being dialed so the probe could be sent was so palpable that one felt that it could swim through it.

Finally the last chevron locked into place and the artificial wormhole that linked earth with that world came into existence.

O'Neal broke the silence and gave the order "Send the MALP in"

"Aye sir"

The MALP climbed up the ramp and vanished into the event horizon of the wormhole.

Location: Milky Way Galaxy

Planet SGD: PXZ-698

Tenel Ka had just arrived at the Off-Galaxy camp in the surface after taking a trip onboard a Goa'uld landing transport that the Jaffa had provided. Just as she had suspected once the myth of their leader being a god was dispelled they surrender the mothership. She also learned that in fact some Jaffa had been engaged in an actual rebellion against their would be oppressor and that the first prime of Kalibos had secretly been part of that movement. The first prime himself was piloting the landing craft and he had been adaman that his people would be allowed to go to join the rebellion. Tenel Ka had agreed to do so but that the Ha'Tak as she learned the designation of the vessel was to remain in the hands of the Empire. All the Jaffa were to go to their rebel headquarters by using the Chapa'Ai the name the Jaffa had for the artificial wormhole device.

The Jaffa were allowed to leave as she promised they dialed to their destination and left. As the wormhole vanished as the last Jaffa went in, Tenel Ka received a HoloTransmision from the Ha'Tak in orbit above it was the team's science officer "Mistress we have concluded the DNA analisis on the subject and is conclusive. Humans indeed are native from this galaxy! I had my doubts given the nature of this parasites or Goa'uld as the Jaffa told us they are called but the mithocondrial DNA doesn't lie."

"Excellent work lets prepare a full report so we can transmit it back to Coruscant"

"Were already on it milady"

Just in that moment the device came to life again

"Do we have any scheduled delivery?" Tenel Ka asked

"No mistress! The next delivery is not due for 8 hours and this is a local event only 7 locks have become active"

"Stormtroopers be ready for the possible arrival of hostiles through the device this is not a drill, repeat not a drill"

All the stormtroopers took defensive positions as the wormhole came to be, after a few seconds a strange device on wheels and what looked like a robotic arm came out of the event horizon.

"Nobody shoots unless I order it, is that clear" Tenel Ka shouted as she turned her lightsaber on.

Location: Milky Way galaxy
Earth, Colorado U.S, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, SGC.

Everybody in the control room was agape at the video transmission coming from the MALP. Had they not been receiving the images from a world light years away they would have thought that somehow the MALP had arrived right into the middle of a Star Wars convention because right in front of the MALP's camera was what looked like a textbook detail of white armored clad stormtroopers! Not only had that but the armor looked a bit different from the obvious plastic props in the movies. The armor in these individuals definitely had a metallic luster to them.

And the Kicker was the woman that seemed to be leading them. Wearing what looked like a reptilian skin outfit that combined with her fiery red hair made her look like a cross between Xena the Warrior princess and Red Sonja. And to top it all off what she all of a sudden held in her hands that looked like and honest to God lightsaber. Just like the armor it had a very lifelike quality to it. It had a small aura that obviously suggested that the thing was superheating the surrounding atmosphere, it also change colors slightly across the spectrum as she moved the energy blade around.

Again O'Neal broke the silence as he saw what the woman held in her hands "Wow, I want one!" everybody in the room looked at him as he said that. He just sighed and went on "Well colonel anytime now!"

"Yes sir" Carter replied and spoke into the mike to contact the newcomers at the other end of the wormhole.

Location: Milky Way Galaxy

Planet SGD: PXZ-698

Tenel Ka stood very alert in front of the armed detail with her lightsaber ready to strike at the slightest sign of trouble. Suddenly a voice crackled from the wheeled device "This probe is unarmed, we mean you no harm. We are from the planet Earth. We know that you are new arrivals in this galaxy and we would like to ascertain your intentions, do you understand?"

Tenel Ka shouted an order "Have that transmission translated immediately"

"Aye, Mistress" The translator droid began "For what I can gather they said the device which is most likely a probe is from a planet called Earth and that they mean us no harm. Also they apparently want to know what our intentions are!"

"Well that means they come in peace, respond to them that…" before she could finish a stormtrooper opened fire on the MALP wrecking it. Tenel Ka moved like a blur and sliced the stormtroopers weapon in two. He held his hands upright immediately as she held the lightsaber close enough to his neck to almost cinch his armor she yelled "What have you done? Why? I gave clear orders for nobody to shoot. Nobody!" The stormtrooper simply remained silent Tenel Ka shouted orders again "Remove him and confine him. He is hiding something!" all of a sudden a stream of metal came from the wormhole and hit a nearby stormtrooper in the shoulder making him fall backwards wounded. Tenel Ka went on "Everybody fall back, repeat we are not to fire back unless they come through the device guns blazing" as she said that the wormhole shut down.

Location: Milky Way galaxy
Earth, Colorado U.S, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, SGC.

As the SGC members in both the control room and the soldiers in the Gate room awaited a response they heard the woman speak in a language that reminded Daniel a lot about the ancient's dialect but not quite. Then a blinding flash of light came across the camera followed by nothing but static.

A soldier in the Gate room nervously let a quick burst of MP5 into the wormhole That incited a prompt and quick response from O'Neal "I have not given any orders to fire. Stop at once. Shut down the wormhole immediately!"

Merriman shut down the wormhole as ordered.

Daniel just said "That went well!"

O'Neal replied with a deep sigh "Yep!" Carter just pursed her lips and Teal'c just added "It would appear that these newcomers might indeed be hostile and they do look a lot like the foot soldiers from the Star Wars films"

"Thank you Teal'c for stating the obvious"

"Anytime O'Neal"

Daniel interjected "It may all still be a misunderstanding" O'Neal responded "That might well be the case Daniel however the fact that they destroyed the MALP after that woman shouted her orders doesn't make it look promising that and the fact that a nervous soldier fired into the wormhole. So we don't even know but we may have also even killed somebody on the other side right after saying that we were coming in peace, so for all intended purposes we might be at war and with Darth Vader and the emperor for all we know and as crazy as it sounds"

Carter added "Sir we need to learn as much about this people and their capabilities as we can, especially if they are indeed hostile"

"Yes, so what do you suggest?"

"Well since so far so much about these newcomers is so identical to the Star Wars films we will need to get in touch with people that have technical expertise on the technology the movies depict. Is a long shot but is a start Sir"

"Do it"

Location: Corusca Galaxy

Yavin 4

Jaina was awoken from her slumber by an imperial commander; the officer punched the comm. button at her door "Mistress Jaina"

"Yes, what is it?"

"We have an incoming wormhole on the device, you ordered us to notify you immediately in any such event"

"I'll be on my way"

Jaina hurriedly got dressed and went down the Device area.

The comm.. officer spoke "We are getting a holotransmision now"

A hologram with the visage of Tenel Ka appeared on the HoloProjector. "Attention Yavin Station we've had an incident. A first contact situation that has gone terribly wrong!"

Jaina anwered back "What happened?"

"We received an incoming wormhole in the device and it definitely originated in this galaxy as only 7 locks activated. Some kind of primitive probe mounted on wheels came through and whoever was controlling it on the other side tried to communicate with us. As we were about too, a trooper opened fire on the probe without any authorization frying it. In an apparent response we received some kind of weapons fire from the wormhole and it wounded another trooper. The weapons they use seem to be some sort of slug trowers. Had it not been for his armor the cadet would have not lived to tell this tale. I personally detained the trooper responsible for the incident. I strongly felt that he did it in purpose and not because he was nervous."

"Were you able to determine where the probe came from?"

"They said they are from a planet called Earth. For what I understand the Goa'uld and the Jaffa calls them the Tau'ri "

"I'm sorry 'Ka but I lost you there! The Jaffa, Goa'uld?"

"Sorry we were about to transmit the data we have retrieved from the captured ship which is called a Ha'Tak by the way."

"Ha'Tak huh? Whoever this aliens are they sure have a way with names"

"You don't know the half of it, we are sending the data now"

The comm. officer interjected "Receiving upload now"

Jaina once again continued the dialogue "So anything else?"

"As I said you don't know the half of it Jaina, First of all the Goa'uld is a parasitic species that seem to be the dominant power in this galaxy. But they are very much divided and prone to fight amongst themselves, Recently a Goa'uld named Baal had been very succesfull in taking over quite a large chunk of the galaxy once dominated by various Goa'uld including the most powerfull alliance they have that call themselves the System Lords"

"System Lords! This Goa'ulds do have a flair for the dramatic don't they?"

"Pretty much yes, anyway things were going well for this Baal until a human empire named the Aschen decided to make an all out attack on their territories as well as worlds that had long since being abandoned by the Goa'uld. The Aschen have been methodically using Bio Weapons to eliminate any population on the planet they intend to ocuppy and then repopulate with docile workers to use the planet as an agricultural resource or mining resource as the case presents itself."

"Nice people this Aschen! I don't even know who is worst for what you have told me and what is on the records! One group wants to slave that whole galaxy and rule as if they are gods and the other wants to nearly wipe the whole population on that galaxy to make room for farming and mining colonies! Have I got it right?"

"That pretty much sums it all up!"

"And I thought we had problems in our galaxy!"

Tenel 'Ka rarely ever laughed however Jaina's statement made her smile at least slightly from the inside out and she liked the feeling "This is a fact"

"So is there anything else?"

"Oh yes, plenty more! Did you know I felt through the force the presence of both the Goa'uld and his host and on a lower level even the Jaffa soldiers?"

"So? What is so strange about that?"

"Their Bio-Scans show no presence of midichlorians whatsoever!"

"But that's impossible 'Ka! If that were the case you should have not felt them at all, pretty much like with the Vong!"

"Yet I felt both that parasite and his human host even before they reached orbit!"

"Have you conducted any DNA analysis? It might provide some answers."

"We are already on it, we should get the results at any moment. Oh here they are... This is incredible!"

"What! What is it?"

"The analysis on the human host genetic makeup revealed that he posseses an additional gene and believe it or not it seems to act as a receptor of the force!"

"That's unbelievable!"