Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate or Gundam SEED Destiny
The Rise and Rebirth of a Nation
CE 84
Ten Years Later
White House
The Oval Office
President Re-elect Henry Hayes, of the Atlantic Federation and some say the chief architect of the country's restoration from the ashes of destruction and humiliating defeat, to once again, a world superpower in its own right.
Today he is watching a live broadcast from the AF, New Manhattan Orbital Group on its fifth anniversary, its shipyards the New Annapolis Shipyards unveils its crowning achievement and a milestone in space exploration.
One dockyard dominates the view of the shipyard; it is there that the christening of the first of 5 new spaceships at that moment led by his wife and several Commanders of the Atlantic Federation Star Forces.
The spaceship that has just been christened is a new class of long-range vessels, built with the most advanced state of the art technology their nation has ever developed, and they are called
'The Jupiter Explorers'
It is a new spaceship with the functions and the full size of an O'Neill class space colony that's over ten kilometers long, two rotating sections and over 24 billion tons and with propulsion systems of four of the largest ION engines ever built, numerous navigational thrusters and one Nuclear Fusion Engine called the LINAC Drive
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L.I.N.A.C. or LINearelectromagnetic ACceleratorDrive, an engine that the AF claims that it can push the Jupiter Explorer up to speeds of 700km/per secondfaster and farther and longer than the current Ion drives installed on it, and this means that, JE Ships are vessels capable to reach sublight speed, making the ship viable for long range or deepspace travel.
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The JE ships can sustain a population capacity of over 500,000 to 1,000,000 people along with all the necessities of a self-reliant space colony.
The JE-Ships are also, Mobile Space Fortress, which means they are heavily armored with 10 to 15 meters thick composite armor, a layer of trans-phase shielding and advance positron barrier capable of withstanding tactical nuclear weapon strikes.
(I am using Babylon 4 design as the Jupiter Explorer class ship in the story but a bit different; it's the same design except for being 10 kilometers long, armed with a mix of GSD, Stargate SG-1 weapons technology)
The JE ship embodies the AF moving onwards, an opposite outcome where many people (mostly critics) gave a harsh prediction that the AF will be spiraling down to chaos and anarchy to its eventual demise. That prediction never occurred thanks to the creation of their new orbital group and the opening of new frontiers. Now the AF government is on an advertising campaign to the whole world, saying that the AF has established gateways to the vast frontier of deep space and they are inviting anyone with the courage to step forward and join them in the adventure of a lifetime.
In the ten years after the war, the AF made many reforms and this brought a lot of changes to the AF as they reevaluate policies and laws made since the start of the Cosmic Era. Many reforms were made some of which were changes in policies under the demand of the international community. The AF complied to most them; one AF policy that was lifted is the ban on coordinators from traveling and working in the AF
Even when the ban was lifted, only a small number of coordinators (courageously) have visited the AF, lately they started working and living in the AF as the employment demands skyrocketed mostly in the private sectors ever since the establishment of the new orbital group.
The President, sitting comfortably on the couch as he watches his countrymen's hard work being field tested before the commissioning, though what the world is seeing is barely half of what the AF has achieved and gained over the years, the rest of it is not even in the solar system.
When the time comes, he will give thanks to the men and women of the Atlantic Federation Military for their dedication in serving country and people in one of the most difficult years the AF was ever in, he will especially give thank a to a division known only to a dedicated few commanders including the president, vice president, the joint chiefs and key government officials.
Stargate Command or SGC for short
Its existence and the work they have done is the reasons why their country recovered so fast and prospered so quickly as their actions, achievements, success and even their failures have affected the Earth without anyone even knowing it.
The JE ships are one of many the SGC have influenced for some of the technologies incorporated on the ship are analogue versions from reverse engineered alien technology, technology that's partly responsible for the AF economic recovery.
"Everything is going very well, eh General?" he asks with enthusiasm to General Francis Maynard, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Maynard answered the President Hayes in agreement but gave a word of caution
"Yes sir, however, the number of specific colonist that we are taking has come up short and most of them we sent invitation has yet to respond"
"That's not unexpected unfortunately" said the president "most people in the world are still skeptical of us and our motives…take time to build or rebuild trust"
"Time is a luxury we may not have Mr. President"
"Yeah…I know" the president replied
"Whether we get a full list or not, the mission is a go" he pointed out "Officially, we are sending them to Mars, the Debris Belt and Jupiter to reinforce our claims in the outer planets. A permanent presence will make other nations think twice in trying to a claim jump in our territory"
"And the unofficial part sir?" Maynard asks
"Unofficially," he stood up and went towards the window looking out and seeing people in Washington DC celebrating the holidays.
"Unofficially that is... should the worst case scenario comes to Earth...we are sending them to places no one in this world has ever seen or heard of, for the purpose of defense, protection and the preservation of the species" there was a look of sadness in his face, of guilt and disgust on what they will have to do in the near future.
"We just got this country back on its feet after ten years and now it's going to be plunge into another damned war, only this time it's an exported threat and not a local one"
For the president, it is an anxiety and the feeling of hard work was about to be wasted. The AF countries have only recently got back up to its feet after going thru a painful reconstruction efforts, then falling thru a recession and edging into a depression, no thanks to doing business with nations that are hostile to them at times which did not make their life easier, worst yet, 3 quarters of the AF member nations seceded from them on the third year of the post war years.
Seven years after that, what remains of the Federation (namely the original USA) is standing tall ever since they built their new orbital group, prosperity is everywhere thru out the federation and no one else is more happy than the president himself.
The president heave a sigh, as he's about to disrupt their peaceful time of his people who are oblivious of what is happening in the galaxy.
"Soon after this is finished, we can begin 'Disclosure' 'sigh' every government in the world is not gonna like what were about to tell them" he said dreading the reactions of their neighboring nations
"Our relations with them is fragile as it is and now we are about to drop a very big bomb on their laps"
"With all do respect Sir, but the other governments and those back stabbing bastards can choke together and die after what they put our country thru!" he said almost growling which shows his dislike to the other nations of Earth. Quickly Maynard apologize to his president for his outburst remark of his
"I'm sorry sir"
"It's alright Maynard" the president said
"But if it wasn't for the threat Anubis and his forces represented, we would never have decided to do this right now" Maynard pointed out the reason and admittedly he said
"Still, Anubis the Egyptian God of the Dead and Lord of the underworld, he's a threat to everyone" the name pretty much brought dread and despair to those who hears his name, that is, if you've been terrorized by the Goa'uld for thousands of years except for those on Earth.
"Anubis" the president muttered
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Around Five years ago, the secret military division of the AFM known as Stargate Command or SGC, first encountered the Goa'uld named Anubis andhis forces for the first time at the battle of Abydos.
According to Goa'uld records, Anubis was exiled eons ago by the other system lords for committing acts of unspeakable horrors, but now he has returned with a powerful army and superior technology at his disposal.
The threat he represent made the leaders of the Atlantic Federation worry, his presence has tip the balance of power among the Goa'uld System Lords as they fight a do or die battle all across the galaxy for over a year which is a stalemate until Anubis started to take on alliances.
Anubis offered alliances and resources to minor Goa'uld who wants to become System Lords and so within the next four years the war rages with Anubis side will likely becoming the victor very soon.
The Tau'ri as the Goa'uld calls the members of SGC were considered a threat to them and would have attack Earth if they weren't stop by the 'Protected Planets Treaty' that they have with the Asgard's, a powerful alien race that the Goa'uld fears and dare not cross.
Still there were some attempts to take out Earth, some openly some covertly but were all stop by the SGC especially by flagship team, SG-1.
The SGC current worry is Anubis and he is a problem even for the Asgard and they have no doubt that Anubis will be aiming for Earth very soon.
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"The space fleet we have now is still in a disadvantage for us" General Maynard said "wish we have more time to build more of our forces. Anubis finding our shipyards and blew them all to kingdom come has set us back badly"
"A major loss on our side...and it's pretty clear that Anubis will be hitting very soon"
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Fearful of Anubis attacking Earth and defying the Asgard's Protective Planet Treaty, the Joint Chiefs of the AFM decided to increase the construction of more technologically advance ships. The Star Forces Fleet under the command of SGC is far different than those seen around the Earth Sphere as they are capable of holding their own against a Ha'tak in a battle.
The SGC has only one offworld base with a shipyard and it's where the SGC interstellar capable ships are built in secret. They started one shipyard building 2 to 3 ships a year for seven years using human and alien technology
Then when Anubis came to town, SGC orders the construction of more shipyards in order to triple ship production but at the height of construction, Anubis forces found the planet where the shipyard is located and destroyed it along with the ships under construction, and so ending the SGC plan to increase their fleet size.
What ships they have numbers only about 35 ships led by the BC-304 Daedalus flagships (formerly X-304) and the new BC-309 Cerberus (formerly X-309) and the BC-500 Nimitz-class (formerly X-500) battleship/carrier.
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"Contact General Hammond, tell him to have the SGC the Fleet on standby. Should the meeting heads south, initiate 'Operation Homeward Bound' and also, put the entire military command on yellow alert, should our next door neighbors try to do something stupid"
The president is thinking about the worst outcome of the disclosure should the other government decides to expose the AF most kept secrets.
"Get everything we have out in the field, from land, sea, air and space I want nothing to get thru if the rest of the world started to act hostile on us especially around our Orbital Group"
"Yes Sir," Maynard step back and step out of the office then the Secretary of States a gray hair man, step forward to receive the president's orders
"Call all our ambassadors overseas…tell them to watch the streets" he told him "If the other governments decide to go public, hooligans with issues with us will start to stir trouble" and with that, the Secretary of State's respectively walk out of the office and
The president look back outside his window took a deep breath and muttered to himself
"It's gonna be a long day"
To be Continued