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Chapter 26 Family Ties

Terra Nova

Reach

20 DEC 2016

JJ O'Neill came running through the stargate and demanded to be beamed to the Olympus but was refused they had already departed. So he settled for the Delphi space station. "What is the status of our defenses?" He asked as he entered the control room.

"Defense satellites are being powered up now. We have scrambled all 302s and the Ion cannons are being powered as well." the technical sergeant reported.

"What about our ships?" JJ asked looking for the monitor with the relative information as the tech put it on the big screen. He could see that they were about there.

"Colonel O'Neill, I will take it from here. Don't you have some other place to be?" the Commander of the station asked.

"Where would you like me to be? Sir." he asked "Half my team is on earth and another in medical. I just want to be where the action is."

"I appreciate your enthusiasm but my crew has work to do and they know their jobs. There is a 302 in the hanger go take command of D wing. Major Fuller is still green and my wing commander is also on R&R on Earth." the Commander ordered.

"Yes Sir, I'm on it," JJ said with a smile and turned to run to the hanger bay.

General Ellis now had his flagship on the CV-750 OLYMPUS it was now over Terra Nova. He had four FE-350s, eight EC-200s, and two BS-700 under his command there. The TT-600 and TS-650 were also in orbit being load with supplies and other armaments. He had already deployed the two BC-550's with their escorts, one to Pandora and the other to Tollona. With most still only crewed with a fourth of the needed personal. But all ships fully functional and ready for battle. He had been running through battle drills while training the new crews that had transferred mostly from the US Navy. There was no shortage of recruits since the attack on Earth. There were even several Langaran's that was looking for some payback to the Ashen.

Delphi space station's sensor officer had informed the Olympus of the contacts. That was one short jump through hyperspace away or weeks by sublight either way they were to close for comfort. So it was decided it was better to meet them out there than above the planet.

"Have the fleet ready to jump in five minutes. We need to get out there before they decide to jump away." Ellis ordered taking his seat on the bridge.

"Coarse is laid in, Sir." Major Jennie Knolls.

"General Ellis, all ships report ready to jump," ALICE informed him.

"Let us get underway then. Have shields up and weapons hot as soon as we drop out of hyperspace." Ellis ordered.

Within moments all fifteen ships made the jump. It only took ten minutes till they dropped back out in front of the Goa'uld ships. With the ships taking up a defensive position around the Olympus. There were two Ha'taks and three Al'kesh they all showed signs of battle where they came out on the short end of the fight.

"Open a channel," Ellis ordered. When the coms officer turned and gave a go signal. "This is General Ellis on the Earth ship Olympus. You are approaching our colony. Please state your intentions."

"I am Or'sash of the Tok'ra, we are seeking sanctuary our ships are failing and we have wounded. We have been on the run from the Ashen for months now. Our Queen has fallen into a coma and we have no medical equipment left. Can you help?"

"Yes, we can help. How many people do you have on these ships?" Ellis asked.

"At last count, we have four hundred Tok'ra and three thousand humans who wish to join with us. There are also a thousand symbiotes that are too young for the blinding. This world was the closest that we could hope to reach. We lost our hyperdrives and long-range communications after the last attack." Or'sash informed him.

"Can your Al'kesh board your hangers? If so we can tow you to Terra Nova where we can better render aid." Ellis inquired.

"Unfortunately our hangers have taken to much damage to take them on, we are all that is left of the Tok'ra race," he replied.

"Very well have them board my hangers one in each. My two battleships will tow your Ha'taks. Let me make this clear if there are any acts of aggregation. We will destroy all your ships." Ellis stated.

"I understand we will comply with all your request." Or'sash said as he bowed his head.

Turning to the sensor station, "Major have those ships scanned for any explosives and keep a watch on them as well." Ellis ordered.

"Yes Sir," the Major ran the scans as they moved towards the hangers. "Sir, they are clear, nothing is detectable. There is only personal onboard with a few small arms nothing we can't handle if the need arises."

"Very well have the Ares and Zeus us their tractor beams on the two Ha'taks to take them back to Terra Nova as soon as possible. Have the other ships prepare to return as well." The General ordered.

Terra Nova

21 Dec 2016

It had taken over three hours to tow the two Ha'taks once there the medical ship began to take on the wounded while teams of engineers began repairs on the Tok'ra's ships. The repairs were extensive throughout all of them. They were going to need to deploy the Olympus shipyard which Ellis didn't care to do for it mint his ship was going to be stuck there till the repairs are done.

"How is your Queen Aniss doing?" General Carter asked after she had arrived through the stargate and was beamed on board the Olympus.

"She is still in a coma, even your doctors have been unable to ascertain the cause. The symbiote should be able to repair the most human elements." Or'sash said.

"Is there a way that you contact the Alterra? This may be from the gene therapy that Ryan performed on her." Dyllen asked the host to Or'sash

"I have sent word to Lord Bra'tac but he hasn't responded as of yet. Sorry" Carter said. "What about the rest of your people?"

"They are doing better now there is still twenty that is in serious condition but the doctors fill that they will pull through. Thank you for allowing our refuge. We have relocated four times since we had contact. There are only three members of our high council left. We had five Ha'taks when we left our last world. Three were sacrificed to assure our escape. We were being attacked from both space and by stargate, the mini-drones have found a way to activate the rings and found their way into our tunnels. They released their bioweapons gas in them killing most of our people. This is all that is left of us. If our queen dies we will not recover." Or'sash said.

"You are welcome to stay as long as needed. We do require your service in the removal of some Goa'uld that was captured on Earth after the last Ashen attack. Also, a member of SG1 has a symbiote in him from his last mission. It hasn't shown any sign of intelligence so far. We have a Tollan device on him now locking it out. According to our scans, the symbiote is showing a minimal brainwave activity. We also captured another one it is in a tank at our labs in Springfield." Sam informed the Tok'ra.

The door to the conference room opened as a hooded figure walked in pulling off the hood. Revealing a tall well-tanned woman with long black hair that flowed over her shoulders. She had a striking resemblance to Samantha Carter. "Please forgive my tardiness. I am Kasta of the Tok'ra my host is Tamara we are now the head of the High Council of the Tok'ra. It is a pleasure to finely meet you." she said outstretching her hand to Carter.

Sam took her hand as a chill ran down her spine. "The pleasure is mine," she said out of habit.

Bowing her head as the voice changed to a more human tone. "I can see by your expression that you have questions. It was the same when I first meet your father Jacob, of whom I got to know quite well. As you may remember there was a find on Earth where a ZPM was found with a videotape." Tamara reminded her. "To make this short I am your great great great great great granddaughter or something like that," she said smiling.

"It was you are at least a version of you that had gone back in time five thousand years to get a ZPM. She was executed by Ra but revived with his sarcophagus on his ship. After the revolt O'Neill, Dr. Jackson, Teal'c, and another version of you had questioned the Jaffa that was left on Earth. They found out that Ra had revived you couldn't stand the fact you were a prisoner of Ra. So they left earth through the Stargate before it was buried to try and find a way to free you or rather her. Unknown was the fact that you were pregnant and gave birth to twins boys in the cells of Ra's ship, for some reason Ra kelp you as a prisoner for many years before making you a host to his Queen Egeria. This is why Egeria began to question the Goa'uld." Kasta told the story as if she had been there all those years ago. "It took time for the others to find out your fate. But they were able to save you, boys. Jack and Samantha raised them along with their own three girls. Teal'c and Danial continued to spread the word of the false gods to however would listen. Until they were killed by Lord Yu after he had taken the world from Apophis. Where Teal'c leads a group of Jaffa against Yu."

"You have to be pulling my leg. This is some kind of a joke." Sam claimed as she couldn't imagine this.

"Even though Egeria was a Goa'uld she watched over your family for over three thousand years. It was then when Ra found out about them and he launched an attack against the world were they lived killing nearly all on the planet. But she had a few loyal Jaffa that was able to save one family. After that was when she turned against Ra and spawned the first Tok'ra. From that moment own there has been at least one from her line that has joined Tok'ra one every other generation are so. Sometimes two are three at a time. But I'm the last of this line now." Tamara said. "With all the chaos across the galaxy over the last twenty years has taken a toll. So in a sense, you are the mother to all Tok'ra."

"Why am I just hearing any of this now?" Sam asked filling way overwhelmed at all she has heard.

"Once you finely sought us out after Jolinar had died. We knew who you were though there was some doubted that you were the one. So we kelp you in the dark to allow things to happen as they should. If we would have told you from the start you may not of went into the past."

"Do to causality! I was a self-fulfilling prophecy to the Tok'ra. I have never believed in prophecy. Science doesn't support it but with all that I have seen, I still find it hard to believe." Sam said shaking her head. "I knew dad was wanting to tell me something but never did."

"Selmak warned him of what could happen. I was on a mission when Jacob first came to us. We talked a lot he even got to meet a few others of the family. I was so heartbroken upon their passing but was unable to say my goodbye's. It was after we learned of your mission that you didn't take on and the video from the past that was found. Now everything is in the past so there should be no fallout over this meeting." Tamara said. "This is why we have now sought you out in the hopes that you can help us yet again. You now know why your understanding of us and your compassion for our cause has always been so strong."

"We will help you in any way we can. I have never turned anyone in need away. We have fought the Goa'uld together we can fight the Aschen together as well. We could use some of your spy networks to gather information on worlds that the Aschen now occupy. You don't have to fight we can do that we just need to know where to hit them at." Sam said thinking of other uses they could fill. "Some can work as doctors on our medical ships. Well as your vast experience in battle tactics. I am well aware of the fact that we are new to galactic warfare but we are holding our own."

"Thank you. I will ask our people to help fill your needs. We will also remove the symbiotes from your personal. So where shall we start?" Kasta said.

When a speaker in the room crackled to life. "General Carter, we just received a message from the Stargate control room that, a Matt Stevenson has just arrived from Atlantis."

"Have him beamed to the Asclepius. We will beam over to greet him there." Sam said then looked at Kasta/Tamara that gave a nod if agreement. Hitting her earwig "This General Carter beam me and Kasta over to the Asclepius." without another word they gone in a flash of light.

Matt had already started to scan Aniss/Freya with an Altarran scanner. He then reached in his bag that he had brought pulling out a device placing it on her head. While laying a hand on her abdomen and closed his eyes. After a moment he then opened his eyes. As Aniss began to stir then she opened her eyes looking up to him.

"She will be fine now. Her symbiote was dying it was exposed to a toxin in great doses. It overwhelmed her immune system which was only able to maintain her basic functions." Matt said as he turned to look at Sam and Kasta as they were waiting by the door. "You have another matter that requires my assistance?"

"We have a few Goa'uld that has infested some of our people from Earth and a young Lieutenant. He was on a mission to a Goa'uld world and a young symbiote jumped from a tank and entered him. He is on the planet below while the others are on a prison plant we have set up to hold the Aschen prisoners that we have captured." Sam offered. "But the Tok'ra have agreed to help us with them and to join with us."

"We have?" asked Aniss.

"Yes, we have. There are so few of us now we must join with the Tau'ri. They have grown strong in recent years. They can help us to rebuild and we will help them with medical and information gathering." Kasta said.

"Very well then I need to return to Atlantis then. We have some wounded of our own. We lost a columnar and a city-ship in our last battle with the Wraith. They are now defeated for the most part. Some hive ships are spread out across the galaxy but Teyla and the Travelers are hunting them down." Matt said pulling the questions from Sam's mined.

"Wow! Thanks for coming to help. Just have them beam you down and they can send you anywhere you would like. Just give the address." Sam said offering her hand to shake. He took it and gave it a shake.

"I will, but I have the gate covered," he said smiling and turned to go to the ring room.

Terra

Springfield

DEC 24 2016

The Tok'ra successfully removed the symbiote from Lt Spencer and he was able to spend Christmas with his mom and dad. This was there first time doing it in a strange new world that has become their home. JJ O'Neill even stopped in to have dinner with them. It was better food then what he would have eaten in the mess hall. He even brought some back to his quarters were was able to watch the new Simpsons.

Sam and Narim were able to spend time with each other. It had been some time since they both were free of their duties. With Narim the leader of the Tollan people and her duty as the leader of Earth's defense force. There was going to be a meet of aliened worlds. It was set for after the inauguration day on Earth. For Kerry's second term to begin.

While matters on Earth have been heating up with the IOA. With Russia's withdrawal from the program, it left China holding the most power. The other nations were beginning to fill the pressure as the Chinese where dictating demands. That was even out of character for them. France and the UK had lost many people in the attack on Earth with most of their leaders missing or dead. The fact the china was moving thousands of people through the stargate and by ship. Had not let the others free use of it. With many more Chinese soldiers now at the IOA bass in Egypt it was clear that they were taken over.

Terra Prime, Earth

IOA BASE

JAN 03 2017

"Unscheduled incoming wormhole!" a tech called out as the iris closed.

"Have we received a signal yet?" the officer in charge asked.

"No Sir, we are sending a request to identify now." came the response from the tech.

Still no signal it was now five minutes with an open wormhole. When another tech was going through a diagnostic program. As her eyes began to grow wide. "Sir we are getting a build-up of radiation in the gate-room. It is growing at a consistent amount," she reported

"Close the blast doors and activate the shield around the gate," he ordered. They had placed shield emitters within the gate-room to prevent anything from getting out.

"We still have people in there!" The tech protested before she followed her commander's orders.

"Do it now," he demanded drawing out his sidearm pointing it at to her head. She complied without another word. Locking the eight men in the room. Through the monitors, they watched as the men began to show signs of radiation sickness. Which is well over a lethal dose at this point. The gate has now been open for thirty-six minutes only two more till the shutdown or so they thought. To their surprise, the gate stayed open. The radiation was still accumulating in the gate-room and the shield emitters were now beginning to heat up as well the men were long since dead.

"Sir the shield is starting to fail. We have less than twenty minutes until complete failure. The radiation has already begun to penetrate the control room. We have now been exposed to a near-lethal dose." She said holding up her hand seeing soars starting to burn.

"Shut down the transport emitters and have one of our ships beam the stargate into space." the commander ordered. Filling the effects of the radiation as the room was heating up.

"Yes Sir," she said calling for a ship to beam out the stargate. It took them five minutes to get the lock and the gate was in space. This did nothing for the radiation that was already in the gate-room.

"Set the self-destruct and to have everyone beamed out of the bass." the commander ordered. Within ten minutes the base in Egypt was destroyed with tons of concrete filling in the hole. As sand turned to glass covering the place where it once was.

On the Sun Tzu, the bass commander contacted the ship captain and ordered the get the gate out of the solar system. So the captain had a tractor beam locked on and jumped into hyperspace. Releasing the gate into interstellar space. Where it was set to drift for all time.

On the CV 750 America, General Ronson had seen the Sun Tzu make the rump into hyperspace only to return a few minutes later. It was then that reports of an explosion in the IOA's base in Egypt were coming in. "Open a channel to the Sun Tzu," he ordered. The coms officer gave him the go-ahead. "This General Ronson, what has transpired with stargate command?"

It took a few seconds before a reply came. "The gate came under attack and the base was flooded with radiation. The self-destruct was detonated to contain the fallout. Your country will receive a report as soon as we finish our investigation on the cause." the captain said and ended the coms.

"Well, we will be doing our an investigation of the cause our selves," Ronson said to his bridge crew. "Open a channel to our Home World Command they will need to start pressuring the IOA for answers."

"Yes Sir," the coms officer said.

TERRA

SPRINGFIELD

JAN 04 2017

Sam was standing in the large conference room looking out the window over the town that was growing at a faster rate then even she could have imagined. She had arrived early for a meeting that she had called for. After the reports, she had received from Earth the day before. How could have been behind the attack was the biggest question. If the Aschen has fashioned a weapon to attack star gates this was becoming a whole new war. She had faced this type of attack before and they were hard to defend against. She was deep in thought and had not heard the door open behind her.

"General, the Tok'ra are here the others are on their way up." the airman said showing the Tok'ra delegation in.

She turned to greet her guest. "Please come on in and have seat," she said while gesturing toward the table with thee chairs. There were six tables place evenly in a circular pattern. There was a hologram projector in the middle. The Tollan was next to arrive with the Langarans. Pandora had sent the leaders that had been chosen and Pangar's Prime Minister. These were the worlds, that had begone to send their people to join with the fleet. After they all had taken their seats.

"I am glad that you have taken the time to come on so short of notice. We have been attacked once again on Earth but it was our stargate that was the target. It was targeted by a focused beam of radiation that will cause it to explode if in caries on to long. The gate in question was beamed into space and thrust into interstellar space. During my time in the Stargate Command, we were hit with two such attacks before. Once by Sokar and the other by Anubis. We gave Sokar what he wanted and he gave up the attack we believed that this weapon was destroyed after his homeworld was destroyed later. While the weapon that Anubis used was of an Ancient design and was destroyed by Teal'c's son Rya'c." Sam said looking at each in turn. "We know of any way to defend from this sort of attack. The only thing I can come up with is to bury our gates." Getting gasp from those in the room this wasn't going well. Holding up her hand to quieten them. "I Know this sounds ex-stream but it will be better than losing the gate altogether. If a stargate explodes on the surface of a planet it will take out entire cities if not wipe out all life. We have come up with a way to set an iris to block incoming worm wholes. This can be done with the press of a button. With our communication network, we can schedule times to use the gate."

"That could work, provided that an attack doesn't come on a scheduled opening." Malek of the Tok'ra said.

"That would be the problem." Sam agreed. "If that does happen there would be nothing to do but remove the gate off-world. I will try to leave some ships at worlds with no space stations so that we could prevent an explosion on the planet. We must find and destroy this weapon before we can freely travel through them again. I know this isn't what you want to hear. I am open for any suggestions that you may have but there is only a limited number of stargates and though we have a few extras that came off dead worlds we can't replace them all if lost." Sam said then called out "ALICE"

"How can I help you, General Carter?" She asks as her hologram appeared in the center of the room.

"What is the status of task force four and five please?" Sam asked.

"Would you like that to be by ship or fleet?" Alice asked

"BY fleet," Sam said

"Taskforce four is seventy-five percent completed. While task force five is forty-eight percent completed." Alice reported.

"When will they be ready to launch?" Sam asked.

"Four will be ready in three months and five in six months. I would like to add that the mining sight at Mustafar has slowed by forty percent over the past week. While that does not affect the production of these ships it will slow the next line of projects. Material from other sites is increasing daily. It will take more time to accumulate the need material." Alice reported.

"What is the cause of the production drop on Mustafar?" Sam asked.

"Dew to the extreme heat and high gravity. The mining sleds are suffering from harsh conditions. They are having to spend more time being repaired then mining. We could mine the moons more aggressively but that would cause problems to their environments." Alice said.

"Understood. What of the ships for our guests?" Sam asked.

"The Tok'ra ships that were over Terra Nova have been relocated to Terra Miner to the New Angeles' orbital shipyard for the more intensive repairs they are now sixty percent completed with their repairs. The Tollan ships are being built over Tollona two have been completed while three others are sixty percent completed. The Langaran first three ships are ninety percent completed. With the keels of the second three have only just been laid. The Pangaran's have two ships that are twenty percent completed. There are no ships scheduled for Pandora at this moment." Alice reported.

Getting nods from those in the room. "So now that you know where we are on keeping our word in providing you your ships. You each have sent us manpower to train with us, while this has been a learning experience for us all. While these ships are not as advanced compared to ours. They can hold their own with the Aschen in small numbers but even we have trouble with the larger numbers. But they will let you learn the fundamentals and experience of space flight. We will keep a small contingent on them for the first year to help train your crews. These will only be scientists and engineers with an SG team." Sam concluded. She had gotten some looks from the Tok'ra but they didn't say anything though she had a filling they were going to question her later.

There were more discussions on the upcoming gathering that was less than a month away. Sam was taking notes on what they want to accomplish and any fears that they had.

After the others had left to head back to their homeworlds. Sam had already sent teams to install the new iris block mechanism on their gates. While the Tok'ra stayed behind along with Narim.

"We fill it is unwise to provide space-worthy ships to such young worlds," Malek said as the others had left.

"As I remember you said the same of us." Sam countered. "Yet we are now able to build ships that only a few can match in this galaxy. Yes, they may not be fully ready that is why we will guide them as the Asgard did with us. We will not advance other primitive races that haven't been exposed to the space fair races. But these to worlds have been through it over the last ten years. They have begun to make strides to defend their worlds. These decisions were not considered lightly which is why we are planning to bring as many worlds to join with us in an alliance where they can join in our space force and armies. To be governed by a council with each world having a say. This will also help keep the peace between the allied worlds. We will peacefully seek out other worlds to join with us. But we will not force any that does not wish to join."

"This is indeed a bold plan. But what is to stop a world that joins gains access to your technology then withdraws from your alliance and uses it against you?" Kasta asked.

"While I have thought of that. I would leave that to the leading council to decide. There may be problems and disputes. I fill if we all work together it could bring on a golden age to all races involved. Earth will take the lead on this for now our planet is the most populated that we have come across so for. But the leadership of the council will be open to all member worlds." Sam said. "We should table the discussion at a later date. I need to contact Lord Bra'tac to inform him of this latest attack and see if the Alterra know of a way to defend against it. So if you would please excuse me I will take your leave."

"Yes, no problem General Carter we to must get to work in the search of a new world to call our own. We will see you at our next meeting." Aniss said looking at the other two Tok'ra.

"I to have got to go. With our stargates being taken out of service there is much that needs to be done. I will need to be on Tollana for the next few weeks. So I will see you before I depart." Narim told Sam before leaving the room.

Sam left to head to her office. There was a lot of work to get done and it wasn't going to do itself. She went into a communication room that was just outside her office to contact the Jaffa on Dakara.

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