[Sorry I am late with this chapter life gets in the way of fun some times. This was going to a single chapter but grow so here it is. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for reading.]
Chapter Nine Fragile Alliances part one
21 November 2014
Sol 1 Earth
White House, DC, USA
On the lawn outside of the White House, President Kerry was preforming a Presidential pardon for the Thanksgiving turkey. With full press access full of reporters all snapping photos and asking questions. When one of the agents moved in to give Kerry a note. After reading it he quickly finished with the ceremony and excused himself.
As he enters the Oval Office his staff already present looking to Hank Landry. "What have we go Hank?" he was asking even before he made it behind his desk.
"Mr. President a Goa'uld Mother ship and ten Ha'taks along with several Al'kesh dropped out of hyperspace about ninety minutes ago. We have made contact with them it's the Lucian Alliance. Their leader is wishing to speak with you. Sir. We have also sent word to Carter but we do not know how many ships she has in the range of Earth if this is an attack." Landry said
"Any idea what he wants?" General Tomas asked before the President had the chance.
"No Sir. He did not say as to why he has come and with so many ships. But I doubt it is just to say hi. We have a line ready whenever you are Sir." Hank gesturing a coms station that was waiting.
"Well how many ships do we have in orbit now and what of the rest of our defenses?" Kerry asked while setting at the station.
"At the moment we have three 304's the other nations have four and there are three of those IOA hybrid ships as well. The defense satellites are power up now. Sir." Hank answered.
"Well, let us hope they are here to talk," Kerry said activating the coms. "I am President Kerry of the United States to whom am I speaking with?"
"It is good of you to finely get around to getting back with me. It seems that it took you a while. I am Odai Ventrell the leader of the Lucian Alliance and I must apologize for bringing such a force to your world. But I am not familiar with your protocols of contact. An was afraid you would simply blow a smaller ship away before we could state our reason for coming."
"Well that is fine but I must warn you not to venture any closer are our forces will engage. So what has brought you to our homeworld?" Kerry asked taking a measure of the man on the screen when he gave the warning.
"Very well we have halted our approach." turning to one of his seconds to stop the fleet. "I have a proposal for a ceasefire between our peoples. Though we may hold some hostilities toward the Jaffa. There is no reason for us to be fighting. Under the old leadership of the Alliance, we did not always do what was best for our people. We are moving away from the Kassa trade and are growing food crops instead. Not that we are not still growing Kassa but we will only sell to worlds in our Alliance and we have stopped trading in slaves altogether. That was always a disgusting thing in my eyes." Odai said matter of factually. "Would this be of any interest to you?"
"Well this is a lot to take in but it sounds like a good start. Our mission has always been to explore for the benefit of all mankind. We believe in helping those that can't help themselves. So if you are sincere about this we can open up talks. I will have to discuss this with the other nations before we can agree on terms of this Armistice. I will notify them now and schedule a meeting." Kerry replied.
"Before you do that I would like to have a talk that may concern both you and me well as others in the galaxy," Odai said sending a data burst. "The data you just received contains a location where we can meet. You can send a ship to have it checked out. You may bring whatever you need to fill safe. I will only have my ship and two escorts. This was an old Goa'uld space station built just for such a thing. There is a minefield around it that only detects weapons fire from either side to keep people honest."
"Very well then. I'll have this checked out and send you a word back as to whether or not this can happen. I will speak with you then." Kerry said while ending the com after Odai Ventrell nodded end it first.
"Mr. President you can't go there it's not safe." Chief of Security Alvin Odell stated. "I have no way to assure your safety off earth there are on protocols. We know nothing about this place."
"Alvin it's your job to wright the protocols," Kerry said then turned to Hank. "What is your position on this?"
"Mr. President I'm not sure. This Ventrell did capture Mitchel once before the rest of SG-1 turned the tide on him. He is smart and if he is the leader of the Lucian Alliance which our lintel shows. We can't just ignore him if we want to stop the fighting. An if what he says is true then there is no need not to at least check this place out. Then move forward from there." Landry said when another officer got their attention.
"Sirs the Lucian Alliance fleet has left the system. We are picking up four more ships coming into the system fast. They will be here in moments." The Major said before looking back to her screen. "It is our other ship's sirs. General Mitchel is requesting a channel to here."
"We'll patch it through he did just come to our rescue." The President turned to screen when Cam's face appeared. "General Mitchel glad you could come so swiftly. We need to talk. Beam to my office when you get in range."
"Yes, Sir Mr. President. Sorry, we're late for the party. We will be there in three minutes. Sir." Cam cut the com.
23 Nov 2014
Space Station
The stargate opens within a massive chamber. Moments later JJ O'Neill and SG-1 stepped out along with three teams of marines and two teams of the Secreted Service lead by Alvin Odell. As they began to spread out to search the room three men and a red-headed woman walk toward them from a nearby door. They all had on the Alliance uniform and were unarmed.
"Welcome to Tar'nac. I am Ginn this is Varro and Simeon our commander is Kiva." The woman said as they approached the new arrivals. Raising her hands when the marines turned their weapons on her and those that had accompanied her. "We are not armed this room is safe but do not venture outside the facility the plant life has a life of its own. If you would follow me I'll show you the way to see her. Then give you the guided tour of this place."
"Nice to meet you I'm JJ O'Neill leader of SG-1 and this is Alvin Odell. He is in charge of the President's security and well be the one going over this place before he can come here." JJ said gesturing to Alvin.
After more pleasantries, they made their way to see Kiva. "Welcome to my little outpost." She said with a smile. "I am to allow you to look the place over as you see fit. There are some places you should not go into as the native plants and wildlife here are quite dangerous and vicious as well."
"What kind of plants and animals are you talking about?" Alvin asked as this was his first trip away from Earth.
"The kind that kills without warning there are some rooms we have not been able to clear yet. But the main builds are safe I can assure you. Just don't venture off the path." Kiva responded to Alvin's question.
"Alright let see what we have here then shall we," JJ said looking around his team had already started the tour with some of the others. Ginn was waiting to take them on their little tour around this massive place. When O'Neill's radio went off.
"Colonel O'Neill you have to see this. We are in a glass tunnel going through the jungle. This is like Jurassic Park ride in Florida these plants went extinct millions of years ago on Earth. This is not just a space station it has to be a planet or moon of some kind." Jenifer Hailey
"I'm on my way." JJ turned back to Ginn. "You know where their talking about?"
"Yes just follow me and I will show you," Ginn said with a teasing smile as she turned to walk out the door stopping to hold it for them to go through.
As they went along the path these were huge ten meters high and twenty meters wide with strange picture grafts on the walls depicting what looked like a battle with multiple races. One of the races looked a lot like an Asgard ship unlike any that JJ had ever seen before while the others he did not know of. This was a strange place indeed. Running into Nyan as he waved them over.
"These writings are like nothing I have ever seen. It will take some time to study these but from the artwork tells a good picture of how they were." Stopping in mid-sentence from the look JJ gave him.
"Save it for when we get home. I'm on my way to see the others for now. Just keep close to the Marines tell we get back." JJ said as Nyan nods understanding. Then they began to go farther into the complex. When they Finley got to Jenifer and Alyssa it had taken fifteen minutes.
"This is someplace just how big is it anyway?" JJ asked Ginn
"We are on a small moon that from what we gathered is made of Naquadah. The station is powered by the liquid Naquadah core. There is an outer ring going around the base of the two pyramids that form an octahedron. On the four corners, some corridors lead to the outer ring. The tips of the pyramids are where the older Goa'uld mother ships would land. It is on these ends where there are the transport rings are. They each go to the opposite side of the moon with the corridors that lead to the main chambers. The pictures of these massive creatures are everywhere. We have never seen them before." Ginn said knowing that she saw recognition from JJ as they looked at the murals on the walls.
"Yes, we have seen things that look similar in shape but without any skin just the bones. We have only guessed as to what they looked like the idea that these are the same thing. That it can't be can it Hailey?" O'Neill looking to the Major.
"What Dinosaurs? You got me, Sir. I've only seen them in the movies and at Disneyland when we went for our senior trip. But if these plants are real they went extinct millions of years ago on Earth. Whoa, what was that?" She said as she jumps away from the glass wall.
"That was one of the larger creatures that are out there. They are a hairy thing, that looks like people a bit. We haven't ever seen anything like them before." Ginn said.
"That was a primate." Captain Alyssa Bennett said lowering her weapon. "We have them in zoos on Earth, but that one was diffidently not from Earth."
The coms began to crackle. "This is Colonel Young on the Icarus calling for Colonel O'Neill."
"We read you Icarus this is O'Neill. We will have you beam us up in two more hours. I'll be ready for something to eat about then. O'Neill out."
"Will do. I'll send word to the mess so that there be something ready for your team." Young said shaking his head as the coms shut down. "I think he is always hungry. Just like the General. Helm keep us away from those mines and continue running the scans. This place is massive, to say the least."
Three hours later JJ and the others were seated around the conference room of the Icarus with Colonel Young. More teams had beamed down to Tar'nac to continue searching it out. The scans from the outside showed the ring around the octahedron had a radius of 1100km. With the square base of the pyramids was 1500km the four corners meeting at the ring with four spires that were reached up and down a 1000km that curve outward away from the structure. The planetoids inside the structure had a radius of 600km ruffly the size of Charon Pluto's moon. The tops of the pyramids was flat 300m squared with an iris-like spiral in the center that looked to open 100m.
"So what have we learned of this place so far?" Young asked to get the meeting started.
"We do not believe this was built by the Goa'uld the corridors are too big even for them to conceive of. The murals show pictures of what looks like dinosaurs fighting four other races one of which looks to be Asgard. While I am not sure this place could have been built by the enemy of the four races Asgard, Nox, Furling and Alterra. We only know that they formed the Alliance but never knew why. Maybe it was against the dinosaurs. We have only found bones back on Earth that are millions of years old. That just went entice overnight." Nyan Said as he felt it was his place.
"But that was the cause of an asteroid hitting Earth then. They were just animals noway they could have had space flight could they?" Young asked half laughing at the thought of dinosaurs in space.
"Look I'm no expert on this but it seems to fit. We can send word back to Springfield to search the Asgard data core or even notify the Altarra and just ask. But this is a find either way. I fill they would want to know about." JJ said looking around the table.
"There are also primates living on surface in the dense jungle around the complex. There is also a large body of water that takes up just over one-third of the surface and is swimming with Goa'uld symbiotes. Ginn said one merged with one of their people and they both died within minutes. The primates don't seem to go near the water but have made small holes nearby to collect it for their drinking. This place seems to have been designed to study the primates for some reason. There are some pictures with Unas in them. Which we know that was the first hoist to Ra and he had a four-sided pyramid mother ship that would fit in place here as the caps. The big question is did the Goa'uld put the symbiotes in the waters here is was it the original builders to be used as some kind of weapon against the other races." Jenifer Hailey said get a lot of eyes on her as what she said made some sense.
"Well that is one scary thought but how safe is the place for the President to come here for this meeting? That is why we are here even though this place needs more study. That isn't our mission at this time." Young stated.
"Yes, Sir you are right. As far as that can be told we will be able to keep the President safe. We can easily keep a lock on him at all times as another safety precaution." JJ said looking to see if Alvin was in agreement.
"We should know more in the next few days. But it looks like this will work." Alvin said as he was in agreed with O'Neill.
{Ok I wasn't going for a two-part chapter but thing started coming and this is where it is. I hope this was good if there are any grammar issues or misspellings please lite me know. All reviews are welcome so don't be shy I need all the help I can get. Thanks for reading. Hopefully, have a new chapter out soon.}