Gundam Seed: A New Path

by readerofgoodfanfiction

The Second Bloody Valentine's War has ended. In the midst of it all, the Atlantic Federation forms a top secret military division called Stargate Command located deep within the heart of Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. The discovered Ancient relic, the Stargate, help raise back a nation from the ashes of its defeat like a phoenix and shows the galaxy what it truly means to be Tau'ri.

10. Chapter 10

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Chapter 9

Back Up Plans, for the Back Up Plan

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Oahu, Hawaii

After Jacob Carter dropped one of two bombs report, he dropped the second one with equal damage to his audience psyche "We have only twenty days…maybe less, before the invasion" he said gravely

"Ten days is how much time Anubis needs to get ready as many Ha'tak class Motherships given to him from the other System Lords as a sign loyalty to him, and another ten days of FTL travel to get to Earth" then Jacob gave some detail of what else is coming.

"These Ha'taks will carry his mobile suits, about a hundred each, five thousand Kull troops and three dozen Death Gliders" he said "now multiply that a factor of a thousand and that's enough to pound the Earth to gravel"

"A th-thousand ships… isn't that overkill, and why attack us with such a large fleet?" asks by Chairman Dresden as he feels his legs go numb on the news "Are we really that much of a threat to them?"

"It's more related to a Goa'uld tradition," Jacob answered, "An ascending new lord of all the System Lords will choose a world to destroy, a world capable of opposing the Goa'uld, and Earth is that world… given enough time of course" Jacob answered,

"Destroying the Earth will send a message to the others, an example to all, that no one can defy the System Lords," Jacob Carter exclaim

"Anubis has a particular interest of us in a number of reason, mostly due to SGC especially SG-1" Major Davis said and told them

"SGC have been fighting a guerilla war against the Goa'uld for ten years and they have been most effective. That is, until SGC was forced to pull out most of our offworld teams in the field, most of whom are supporting resistance groups and gathering intelligence for worlds capable of fighting toe to toe with the Goa'uld." He said, "They can't invade Earth, thanks primarily to the Protected Planets Treaty we have with the Asgard. Still, several Goa'uld are trying several ways to get around the treaty and strike at Earth…so far, we have been able to stop them"

"So far, yes but that change didn't it?" Cagalli said and the Major nodded in acknowledgement

"The Goa'uld fears the Asgard power, and it kept them in check for eons, but that change when Anubis came back bringing with him superior technology capable of challenging the System Lords and as for the Asgard, well, he can challenge them but he can't defeat them, at least not yet" Major Davis said

"So what about the Asgard, can we get any help from them?" Cagalli asks Davis and he shook his head which is not a good response

"The Asgard's have their own problems at the moment," Davis answered, "They are fighting a powerful enemy in their home galaxy of Ida, so what assistance they can give us will be scarce…we are on our own"

There was a long silence, everyone was thinking until Mr. Argyle broke the silence by asking the President what the AF plan are should something like this happening.

"What's your plan now Mr. President?" Mr. Argyle asks and all eyes is turn on him

"My Plan" the President took a deep breath and exhale and then answered, "Well Plan B is shot to Hell thanks to the System Lords stopped shooting each other…we go to Plan C instead"

"I thought what we are doing is Plan A?" Cagalli asks

"Actually this is Plan B as in 'the Back Up Plan' which we are doing right now," the President corrected

"Plan A, it started two years ago, that's the mass transport of as many people offworld mainly via Stargate…which got sidetrack when Ba'al was able to detect and track our Stargate activity. Therefore, without the Stargate we resorted in ferrying people via FTL capable ships to our secret evacuation sites across the galaxy. Unfortunately it's slow going, and we have only been able to sent out less than three and a half million people"

"Where did you get all the people you sent away?" the East Asia Republic President asks in astonishment of how they sent so many people without anyone noticing it.

"We have been moving people offworld ever since we opened the Stargate" Davis answered, "It only peaks two years ago. All in all, we got 3.5 million people offworld from our population of 350 million" Major Davis said

"When the threat of another invasion became more and more possible we started moving people from our outer planet colonies in Saturn, Jupiter and the Debris Belt. Those of the farthest ones with minimum lines of communications are all empty of people, holding only a skeleton population to keep the illusion of people is still living there."

"How do choose people you would move offworld?" Lady Cagalli asks and Davis answered that

"Most of the people we sent are family members and friends of our soldiers especially with skill sets. People who are capable of carving a living in the wilderness especially farmers, carpenters and others who we see as important to start up a new colony"

"Other than people, we also emptied all of our major libraries and museums of historical treasures, most notably, the Smithsonian Museums." The president said

"The Smithsonian Museums Wait a minute" Mr. Argyle remembers something he saw in news a while back "The Smithsonian was destroyed a terrorist bombing six months ago…you're saying it was a cover story?" the president nodded

"Save as much as we can, save as many as we can" the President remark

"So what's Plan C then?" Cagalli asks and the President

"Plan C stands for 'Contingency Plan when Plan B got screwed up' plan" the President answered with a touch of annoyance "Plan C is the installing of hyperdrive engines to our space colonies and turning them into spaceships" Lady Cagalli and the other couldn't believe what they just heard

"You just put a hyperdrive engine on a space colony and turn it into spaceship? If that so easy-"

"I-It's not Lady Cagalli, which I wish it was that easy" Major Davis began explaining "not every space colony we have can withstand hyperspace travel in mind and at a minimum, they can only do three maybe four jumps max before it's structural integrity starts to break apart from wear and tear caused by hyperspace travel"

"I have already called Governor Woolsey and informed him of the situation," the President said "he's not exactly happy initiating plan c, and it's because he knows that not every ship and colonies we have is fit for hyperspace jump, and even if they are, they don't have the long range capability of the Jupiter class ships"

The President then shows on a big screen, charts of populations, ships and space colonies in New Manhattan

"With the exception of the J1's (Jupitris class) and the J2's (Jupiter class) starships, there are ten space colonies on record, six can survive hyperspace. There are also ten under construction, of which only seven are operational and have begun accepting population. The Star Forces has over 245 ships, barely half of them are up to standards the rest are prewar vessel upgraded for current SF standards." The President then showed another chart

"The Merchant fleet has over 104 ships, 40 of which are J1's (Jupitris class) the others are a mix of ITS (Intersolar Transport Ships) and long range cargo haulers. Now apart from the haulers, all of them can be installed with hyperdrive within a day," the President said

"Total population of New Manhattan is over fifteen million, and if they can leave now they can reach Asgard protected space in a week and then sends most of the population to our offworld planets via Stargate"

"Why not go directly to your offworld planets?" Lady Cagalli asks and Chairman Dresden answers that in understanding the reasons

"Maybe because it's so far away, and that the journey there may take months, maybe even years and the energy requirements for an FTL travel must be enormous" Chairman Dresden, said, looking at it in an analytical view "a cobbled up fleet like this cannot sustain a population of millions on the move. Not to mention, we will be running from the Goa'uld that are hunting us, and even following us to the new world" he looks towards the president "and as you said before, the exodus don't have the long range capability of the Jupiter class"

"That's… impressively correct Chairman Dresden," the president confirms, "the Jupiter class has the range to get to our offworld planets on their own and back, ferrying people across the oceans of space which is actually what they are made for, especially the J2"

Then the President then show pictures of the frontier space colonies. Closed type O'Neill class space colonies are all mobile and in secret, all up to starships standards.

"In addition to ones we have on Manhattan, Eight of the fifteen mobile space colonies we have in the frontier are already capable of interstellar flights and with five million people plus the fifteen we have here, that will be a total of twenty million people. Ready to be sent to our offworld colonies" he said

"Wait, wait!" cried out the East Asia republic President who sees something not right "that exodus fleet you are sending away are all filled with your own people" he said pointing out "So what about the rest of us, where are we in your great exodus?" he said demandingly and

That started a flare of yelling demands from the other world leaders shouting 'what about us' 'what about the rest of us' they cried

"We haven't forgotten about you!" Major Davis answered shouting at the leaders and that got their attention,

"The exodus fleet can will be accepting more people, about five million more and we have set aside advance tech to be installed on your own ships and space colonies" hearing that pretty much calms them down and listens to Major Davis as he reads a list on his tablet.

"Orb will get ten hyperdrives, the Plants will also get ten, Eurasia and Scandinavia will get five, East Asia Republic will get three, along with Africa, Oceania and South America are the same and"

"Three! That's all you will give us!" Oceania President spoke up this time, Willard Hennessey was not happy getting only three "Why are you giving Orb and the Plants ten hyperdrives while the rest of us will get-" the shouting started up again, complaining of getting so little

"That doesn't seems fair that we-"

"It's not about being fair, this is about the availability of ships and space colonies capable of surviving FTL flights!" the Major is shouting again and slowly losing patience

"Several Orb ships and their space colonies were built using shared and traded knowledge and technology from us and used it to build their space colonies and that made them better and a lot safer for FTL flights as with Plants" Major Davis said explaining

"But Major Davis, surely we have-"

"Sir, you can't just install a V8 Engine on a car that's held together with glue and duct tape, and that's because the engine will rip out of the car frame like toothpicks!" Davis spat back "Meaning, most of your own space colonies and spaceships are built so below the standards that putting a hyperdrive will kill you, do you understand!?"

That said, everyone understood the analogy, but someone is still muttering in complain at the side and it was the East Asia President again

"Couldn't you at least give us some more than just three, I mean maybe we have one or two more colonies we could fix up and in a month or two-" the East Asia President started to say then suddenly Major Davis cut him off angrily

"We don't have a month or two, hell we may not have two days to wait for you to 'fix up' your colonies!" Davis exclaimed in anger

"And furthermore, Hyperdrives don't grow on trees Mr. President!" Major Davis said back to a quivering president as Davis finally lost his patience

"It took us 3 years of Research and Development and cost as much as building the 304s, not to mention that, finding the materials and building the manufacturing system for the engines parts themselves!" Davis is not finish yet as he berate the East Asia President like a child

"Be grateful that we are giving you something instead of nothing, and in my opinion were wasting valuable resources just to save your whiny miserable little-"

"That's enough Paul!" President Hayes spoke up in authority "calm down Paul, calm down" he said to him and Davis slowly calms down, and let his actions sink in

"I'm sorry sir…my apologies…I was out of line" Major Davis said sincerely as he could, as he tries to let go of being upset at the East Asia President as he give one last glare to a leader who seem to have no back bone to stand his ground

Hayes just heaves sigh in disappointment for one of his officers 'I'm gonna have a long talk with you later Paul' he thought which Davis seems to pick up via President Hayes 'you are in deep trouble jack' look on his face for a moment before facing the others with seriousness

"Let us continue this for another hour and after that Ladies and Gentlemen, you will have the grim task of choosing among your people…of who will live and who will die" the President said with dread "choose wisely now, for time is no longer in our favor"

When the others left the conference room, the AF contingent started discussing their evacuation plans that Jacob Carter turns to the others questioningly

"Are you sure about not telling them that, the Stargate is now under our full control again?"

"We just found out ourselves that, Ba'al have compromised their computer network and that Ba'al is receiving information from them without their knowledge including our plan for an exodus fleet. So yes, we have to keep it a secret from them," Major Davis answered that

"We need more than one way to get our people offworld and into safety, so keeping them in the dark will keep Ba'al in dark of our intentions. For if Ba'al found out that we have regain control of our gate, then you can be sure that he will try to shut us down again, and maybe even attack us earlier than we predicted,"

The president remembers from a tactical briefing with SGC analyst. They calculate that even if Anubis sent only just 10 of his modified Ancient tech Motherships, a full shipload of mobile suit, death gliders and Kull warriors all sent to Earth, they can cause considerable and even catastrophic damage to Earth before they could be subdued.

"We have to assume that, we have ten days left, so we better leave before that," the president declared

"Mr. President" Selmak spoke up "There something unusual"

"How unusual?" the President asks curious

Selmak replied in his usual creepy voice and then Jacob Carter suddenly spoke next "Tradition or not, I also agree that, gathering such a massive force of a thousand ships just to attack Earth is just plain overkill. A hundred Motherships could easily do the job, yet he is gathering a thousand ships, a complete waste of resources"

"So why do it then?" Major Davis question "what could-"

"It doesn't matter what" the President spoke up "our top priority is to get as many people offworld as possible in any way possible" the president then open a communication line to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maynard.

General Maynard appeared on a screen "Franc, initiate the national emergency shelter evacuation omega, andin 24 hours we go to defense condition four, coordinate with General Hammond…do as we planned and activate the second gate as well"

"Yes Sir" Maynard answered solemn as he knows that the national emergency shelter evacuation omega is a code word for moving people to offworld via Stargate.

"Ten days…this is the worst time for humanity" the president mutters and then face the others "any ships or colony ships ready to leave then do so now and head to the rendezvous point"

To evacuate as many people as they can without anyone in the world noticing it, is by getting as many people into the numerous underground bunkers and shelters across the country, where a network of ring-transporters are connected and that all of them leads to the Stargate and from there, to their offworld planets without Ba'al tracking them.

The second Stargate dub the 'Antarctic Stargate' the backup is now also on line in CONR, (COntinental NORAD Region) Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida as the other is in NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense) Colorado. Both gates will take turns operating thereby increasing the number of evacuees to be move.

The first people to evacuate are three million people from thefamilies of the armed forces and five million civilians are the first people to receive a notice and immediately went to their designated shelters.

Everyone who entered first had no problem getting in, as they knew what to do, thanks evacuation drills and practices. Evacuation drills are common and taken seriously by everyone who participates and to those who are not participating; they see it as just another exercise.

Some observers find the exercise suspicious as the last day of the G7 Economic Summit is about to conclude. Yet the armed forces deployed for the exercise, do not look like they are worried, for most sees it as another boring exercises.

Then twenty-four hours after the end of the summit, the Atlantic Federation suddenly closed their borders, their armed forces went into actual military readiness and no sooner than that, the other nations involve in the G7 Summit did the same.

When the world heard that the other nations began military readiness, everyone started to panic and soon, people started to flood into the shelters and bunkers for safety and many people started to speculate, suspected and presumed the worst. That, something has gone wrong during the summit. Their suspicion turns to fear when the AF government public speakers tell the people to remain calm and evacuate to their nearest shelters at an orderly manner.

No other explanations came after that, now the whole world panic level went to full throttle, as a mad rush of hording necessities, such as food, water and weapons in their personal bunkers while others go to nearest shelters and bunkers everywhere.

While this was going on, SF ships carrying the SF Corps of Engineers, quietly enters foreign territories under guard and heading towards the space colonies and spaceships they plan to augment to become FTL capable.

The government implemented Martial Law, and this helps hide the operation from prying eyes, meanwhile Ring transporters were set up, began sending people to New Manhattan, and into space colonies turn colony ships.

Tartarus Anubis' Stronghold

In orbit above the planet is Anubis super Mothership, his flagship surrounded by hundreds of Ha'tak class Motherships and more are coming every hour from every system lords as a way of giving tribute to the new supreme commander of the system lords.

Anubis, who is on board his flagship, is very pleased to see a sight outside his window, which is the massive fleet along with the bodies of his enemies and rivals now floating around lifeless. There was no one else to challenge his power and now he is planning to cement his rule by destroying the one world that has been a thorn to the Goa'uld for far too long…the Tau'ri.

He opens a comm. Line to Ba'al

"Yes my Lord"

"Prepare the fleet to leave for Earth immediately," he ordered which surprised Ba'al

"But my lord, we have just begun assigning our mobile suits to-"

"That will be unnecessary since our numerical superiority is with us," Anubis said before Ba'al could finish

"What is the status of their Stargate?"

"They have not used it ever since we are able to track their offworld travels," Ba'al reports, "but I do have information that, they are focus in building more ships to leave their system"

"To flee from us no doubt, how cowardice of them" Anubis said mocking "ready the fleet, I want to be on the orbit of the Tau'ri home world in seven days…I want to see it burned" he said with an evil laugh that echoes the corridors of his dark and foreboding ship

To be Continued

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