The Age of the 5th Race

by Hamburger73 and SilverInk

All rights of the mentioned TV series belong to the TV studios that produce them. I own unfortunately only the idea of the scenario.

First of all, I would like to thank all our readers. When I published the story I had never expected that so many would read it.

To all who are impatient to read new chapters of this story, first of all, I also know this impatience. But both my beta and I still have a life. And everything I write I send several times to my beta before I finally release it. I guess it will usually take about 1 - 2 months until I can publish a new chapter.

Marisares: I use the available information from the episodes and mainly from German wiki pages. Especially the one for BSG2003 is much more extensive than the English page.

It was never mentioned in the series how big Atlantis or the Tria is. It may be that I missed it, but I don't believe it at the moment.

But there are clues about the size of Atlantis. Dr. Rodney McKay stated that "It would be like searching every room in every building in Manhattan" to search the entire city. And McKay is not a character in Stargate who tends to exaggerate.

We know the size of the Daedalus Battle cruisers. It has the following dimensions 335 x 192 x 68m for length, width and height. If you look at the size of the Daedalus on the pier of Atlantis, it seems to be a bit small. That would mean that Atlantis has to be much bigger than the 5 km I found several times in the internet. Therefore, I really believe that the size of Atlantis is approximately the same as that of Manhattan. This would mean that the diameter of Atlantis would be about 24 - 25 km.

Now to the size of the Aurora-class ship. If you compare the few pictures where a Daedalus cruiser and an Aurora-class ship can be seen at the same time, it seems unlikely that an Aurora is longer than 500m. I may be wrong, of course, but I will use these values now anyway.


2. Revenge is a dish best served cold

25.06.2010 Honolulu, Earth

Finally this day had arrived. He couldn't believe his luck. Today his patience would finally pay off and his revenge would begin. Today the Ta'uri would begin to pay for what they had done to the Goa'uld. They would pay for every single dead Goa'uld and then they would start paying for what they did to him personally.

Looking back, the damn Ta'uri had been responsible for a hell of a lot since they killed Ra on the planet Abydos. They killed so many Goa'uld, first and foremost the System Lords as Apophis, Heru'ur, Sokar, Seth, Hathor, Niirti, Anubis and so many others. Of course he would have had to kill some of them himself in order to put his long-term plan into practice and take over the power.

And then there were the damn Tok'ra, who had been a constant nuisance to the Goa'uld System Lords for a very long time. And not to mention those damn traitorous Jaffa. This bloody Jaffa rebellion was also only the fault of the Ta'uri and the traitor Teal'c. Without their help, no Jaffa would have dared to betray their god.

Then, of course, there were the many small needlesticks against the Goa'uld Empire. And finally the priors came and with them the armies of the Ori. The cruelty of the Ori was equal to that of the Goa'uld, he had to grant them that. But the Goa'uld mostly left others alive when the losers still had some use. That didn't interest the Ori and the priors at all. They demanded submission to their religion – the only alternative was death. But even that was ultimately only the fault of the Ta'uri. If they had not discovered these communication stones, the Ori would never have been contacted by them.

Oh how he had amused himself when he had learned that the Ori had made the tretonin permanently unusable for the Jaffa. What he had not expected that Helia would then find a way in the research archives of Atlantis to turn a normal symbiote into a queen. Nor that the Jaffa would readily accept Tok'ra symbionts, at least those who had survived so far. But at least the surviving Tok'ra and Jaffa had been eliminated as power factors.

And then there was the improved Ori plague. SG 1 was on his heels on Earth and he had to seek refuge in another body. That he couldn't leave this host body because of this plague was also the fault of the Ta'uri, in this case SG 1 again. He hadn't known that this person had already been infected. Well he was then healed later just in time, but by the plague and the cure, he had changed and he lost the ability to leave his host. He had tried it often enough and failed every time.

At least that body wasn't completely useless. No, you really couldn't say that, not if it was the body of a member of the IOA Council. And so he finally decided that the Ta'uri would pay for what they done to him. Of course, he knew that as long as SGC existed on Earth, he would hardly have a chance to implement his plan. It was hopeless to see this facility disbanded. For that the SGC simply had too many supporters from too many countries. So he had to try something else, which would have the same effect.

And so he gradually convinced everyone in the council that to protect the civilian population it was necessary to evacuate all survivors of the SGC to a new colony, due to the fact that all veterans of the SGC were now telepaths.

And the simplest and most effective protection would be if the veterans lived in another world. O'Neill really had tried to convince the council members to the contrary, but in the end he had had no chance. More than 2/3 of the members just wanted the veterans to leave. OK Ba'al himself also had his share in it by making sure that the telepaths were feared. The rest after that was easy.

When he saw on the screen that Atlantis was taking off, he raised his glass with whiskey, took a little sip and threw it against the wall. "Have a nice trip, O'Neill. You lose and I win." Ba'al started to laugh.

Now all he had to do was make sure that the rest of the Ta'uri would suffer. Perhaps the simplest way would be a world war with nuclear weapons. But whatever he would do, he would make sure that as many Ta'uri as possible would perish.


28.06.2010 Washington DC

IOA Council

It was late at night and Ba'al was alone in his office. He enjoyed this evening very much because recently it was official, the contact to Atlantis was broken off and no one knew why.

For Ba'al, it was just amusing. All the council members sat together and debated why the contact had been broken and who was responsible for it. Maybe instead of continuing with his plans, he should wait and see what happened next.

However, one thing was clear to Ba'al in any case, these council members were not the sharpest tool in the shed. One could have called these people idiots and was still very reserved and indulgent.

Wasn't it clear to these idiots that the earth didn't have its own Stargate anymore and that no own spaceships could reach the Atlantis.

Maybe he should just let these idiots live, they would at least find it hard to prevent his plans.

And if all the other people were then dead, he could still show his gratitude to the other members of the council and kill them all by himself.