Disclaimer: I never have and never will own the characters, Ideas or anything else based on these 2 shows. The TV studios that produced them, do. This story is also free as it is a pet project. Enjoy.
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Wireless/communication"
Chapter 7: Changes, large and small
Earth, SGC, 1 day before the assault
The SGC was busy. More so than usual. First off, they were preparing for a meeting with many worlds in hope to establish an alliance in the future. The 3 great races played an important role here. They were the ones, based on the information of the future, that contacted the worlds in question.
Daniel and Jack were having a workout in the training room.
Flashback, 12 days before the assault
Jack, Sam, Daniel and Teal'c were having a discussion with Bra'tac, Jolan and general Hammond. They were discussing the assault plan when Thor, K'orang and Anteaus were beamed into the briefing room.
"Oh, wow! Hey Thor, you never call, you never answer the phone... you don't even send a post card! And Anteaus, nice to see you again. Still going with the hippy look I see. But... emmm... who is your tall friend?" O'Neill asked.
"Greetings O'Neill. I am sorry for the long delay, but there were things that I had to do based on 'that' information. As for K'orang, he is a representative of the Furling race." Thor answered.
That made the room so silent, you could hear a pin drop.
"Aha! I knew it. I told you guys that Furling sounded fuzzy to me! And I was right. Not the cute part however."
K'orang looked at Thor. "Is this one of the humans you told us about, Thor?"
"Indeed, this is colonel O'Neill, the human that survived the downloading of the Ancient database. The one next to him is Daniel Jackson, the man who is responsible for our reestablished alliance."
"Ahh. Interesting. Well, human. I am indeed furry, but if you want to test the cute part, I can show you what a warrior can do!" K'orang responded, feeing slightly insulted by the cute remark.
"Emm, yes. While I know that Jack can sometimes put his foot in his mouth, I can't begin to express how exited I am to meet you. I have so many questions..." Daniel began to respond.
"Yes, and I for one would like to know, why you have come, Thor?" Hammond demanded.
"It is simple, general. The old alliance of the 3 races is being restored. We have already made a first step to that end, by capturing a Nox that was working with Apophis. She was trying to give him the knowledge of the Nox cloaking capabilities."
"Then so much the better. The less power that false god has, the better. We are already planning an attack on him. But I must say, it humbles me to be in the presence of the great 3 races." Bra'tac spoke as he lowered his head in respect.
"As it does me." Jolan agreed.
"So, Thor, what is the plan now?" O'Neill asked.
"We will find all the worlds from 'that' data and contact them. We will support your plan for an alliance in every non military way possible, but you will have to convince them. Also I suggest that you establish a base for your alliance on a neutral planet. We are already looking into it."
"During this time, we will be aiding the Asgard and Nox in the containing of the Goa'uld." K'orang added.
"For the moment, all that is required is that you enforce the PPT, while we are busy dealing with the replicators." Thor requested.
"Even if we can make all of this happen, how will we convince the other nations on this planet?" Carter asked.
"I believe that a limited form of intervention should help. Will you join us O'Neill?" Thor asked.
"Emm, sure. But for..." Just then, he and the 3 representatives were beamed away.
"OK, where did they go?" Daniel asked.
SGC, 1 hour later
O'Neill and company beamed back where they stood 1 hour ago.
"You know Thor, beaming all of us into the white house in front of the president when he was having a private discussion with Kinsey was not what I had in mind!" Jack raged.
"It worked, didn't it?" Thor responded.
"And besides, your emotions betray you, human. Your feelings about the discomfort this Kinsey was having were more than obvious." K'orang added.
"Yeah, that was fun, seeing that SOB sweat, when all his plans went down the drain. Hey... wait a minute! How do you know what I felt?"
"We Furlings are empathic. Would you like to know what this Kinsey felt about you?"
"Not really. Maybe 2 monkeys grooming each other? Or hearing a cricket in the distance?"
"Emm, sir? How did it go?" Carter barely wanted to ask, seeing the discussion before her. After O'Neill disappeared, general Hammond got a call over the red phone. Daniel just smiled while Sam was pale. Thor really just went for it.
"Oh, went swell, Carter. The president was nothing but pleased, once he heard of the plan and how we would get new tech, resources, build our fleet... and all the rest. Even liked the alliance idea, you know, spread the burden. Was a bit pessimistic about getting the other world nations on board, but we will try it. Kinsey on the other hand... well you know him. But he didn't have the guts to say much, when K'orang spoke."O'Neill replied. Then he looked at K'orang: "You know what, I think I will ask you to come along every time I have to deal with him. Heck, I'll even take you fishing. The woods there have a small big foot legend around them. Any chance that is based on you?"
"Jack, really? You ask something like that?" Daniel responded.
"In a way, yes. We did visit your world in the past. But that was before my time. As for the fishing proposal, maybe, when we have time for that." K'orang replied.
"And you did not have to respond to him... uhhh" Daniel face palmed.
"Anyway, what have you kids been doing? Finish the plan?"
"Indeed we have, O'Neill. Now we just need the Tok'ra to arrive. We have already contacted them." Teal'c responded.
O'Neill looked out the window and down the gate room. The gate was still active, many parts being moved thru it into the SGC.
"OK, what is that?"
"Sir, It is the shipment from the Eurondans. After the end of this one, we send our supplies to them, included 30 engineers. We already put the majority of the first fusion reactor together with the Eurondan scientists help. We put it in the storage room right next to the main power room. There we can access the power lines directly and plug it in. We test it in one hour." Carter explained.
" Sweet. Those guys are dependable. Next is the force field generator. But is that generator not a bit small?"
"It is the first step, sir. This one is a small variant. We will use it here for extra power needs until we redesign the base for the big one. The Eurondans will be shipping the parts for the big ones as well, but there will be some components too big for the gate. We will have to find another way to get them. Or we will start to build them ourselves."
O'Neill nodded. Then he realized that Thor and company were still there. "Oh, right, anything else, Thor?"
"I wish to speak with Daniel Jackson in private for a moment, so I will beam him with me for a few minutes. After that we will depart and begin our operation. Also..." a small device was beamed into the conference room "this is an Asgard communication device. A way for you to contact me. Once your meeting with the other world leaders is arranged, we will return to help you there as well."
After saying that, Thor, Daniel, K'orang and Anteaus were beamed away.
"OK, so, let's see this plan of yours." O'Neill said as he turned to Carter and the rest of the company.
Earth orbit, Thor's ship
Daniel and Thor were beamed into the bridge of the Biliskner.
"So, Thor, why did you want to talk with me?"
"Simple, Daniel Jackson. I believe that you will recognize these?"
Just then, boxes and other materials were beamed on board as well.
"Emm, yes. This is all of my research from my room. Why?"
"Simple, I want you to remove all the research on the monoliths and leave them here. I will return the rest to your room, when your done. I will also scan the planet for these monoliths and remove them. I will not risk anyone else finding them and translating them. After your finished, I will show you the entire text that I translated. I must confess that I lied to you and O'Neill at first. I was able to read it the moment I saw it. But there was allot of information I had to act upon immediately. I hope that you understand."
"Emm, sure. But how will I write this info down if I'll leave all of my material here?" Daniel asked as he was removing the pictures and papers that were linked to the monoliths.
"You won't. You will have to remember that information. The safest place at the moment is your memory. And I believe, while O'Neill is not stupid, by human standards, you are a better choice for this task."
After several minutes, Daniel was finished. The rest of his research was beamed down. During that time, Thor had beamed several monoliths into the room, but continued to scan the planet.
"OK, now what?"
"You learn."
A large holographic wall filled with text appeared in front of Daniel.
"Is this the complete translation?"
"More or less. I will keep some information that is not important at the moment for myself. When the time comes, you will be informed. Do not be angry with me, the holographic program of the Ancient that wrote this text said something similar to me."
"So the Ancient looks at you as a child and you do the same to me? Sounds a bit insulting, but whatever." Daniel began to read while Thor continued his work.
After about 15 minutes, Daniel was finished and Thor as well. About 6 monoliths were now in the room.
"I will beam you down in a moment. I should also inform you that I believe that I know of the perfect place for you alliance control planet, but I will scout it out myself first."
"Oh, and how did you find it?"
"I did not. The program of the writer of these texts on the monoliths did. Don't worry, you will meet him sooner or later."
"Interesting, if a bit confusing. So, anyway, I am ready to go back." Daniel said.
"One more thing" Thor replied as he pushed a control stone. Just then, a strange green, cylindrical ship was beamed on board.
"OK, this is different? What is it?" Daniel asked.
"It is an Ancient gateship."
"Wait a minute! The one buried near the same site where the Earth stargate was found, according to this text!? So why bring it here? We would have found it anyway."
"Simple, this gateship is modified with a time drive. It was developed by the same Ancient who wrote these texts. It is also the one used by SG-1 from the other time line. They used it to travel into the past and set off the chain of events that ensured Ra abandoning of Earth."
Silence followed. For several minutes, Daniel did not know how to react to something like this.
"So, let me see if I get this straight. This ship was used by SG-1 from the other time line to ensure that history develops as it should... but if that is the case, how could that other SG-1 travel back in time and do all of that, if we have changed the time line here and now in a way that we know all of this. Would this fact not mean that the other us would not exist, this ship would not be here and... Ahhh! My head hurts. Jack was right. Time travel gives people migraines."
"I assure you it is possible. Temporal physics and mechanics are not easy to understand, but to put it simply, the 2 time lines have merged, the events in the past of the first one remain, but the changed future is now our present. To use a simple human term, sometimes, there can be more than one egg that came before the chicken and that one chicken still came from all of the eggs.
"OKeeeeyyyy, that makes is so much simpler, but I will take your word for it. So what will you do with it?"
"I will remove the time drive from it and then beam it with you to the SGC. Also, this was next to the gateship." Thor points to a object wrapped in cloth. As Daniel removes the cloth, 2 objects become visible. A crystal and a camcorder.
"OK, so the camcorder is from 'us' of that other time line, I assume? But this crystal is what?"
"A power source of the Ancients. A vacuum energy extractor. I believe you humans use the term zero point energy. The point is, it is yours. I suggest that you use it to power the Ancient outpost on your southern most continent. It is near the location, where you found the 2nd stargate."
During this discussion, Thor's ship was scanning the gateship and removing the time drive with its transporters.
"OK, so, anything else?" Daniel asked, wanting to leave, before Thor dumped anymore bombs on him.
"No, I am finished with the gateship. I will return you with it to the gate room. "
With that, Daniel, the gateship, the ZPM and the camcorder disappeared.
Earth, SGC, moments later
Everyone inside the conference room went to the observation window when they heard the beam-in sound and the solders responding to it. They did not expect to see a ship in the gate room next to Daniel. As O'Neill and company came down to Daniel, O'Neill spoke first.
"So, I see you two were busy. So, Daniel, what's with the ship, this camcorder and... crystal?"
"Long story, Jack. I mean reaaaaalllllyyyyy long story. But to summaries it, this crystal is an Ancient power source we should use to power the Ancient outpost in Antarctica near the 2nd gate we found, that behind me is a gateship, also made by the Ancients... and this camcorder. Well, let's just say, It contains a message from SG-1 for SG-1. Also, I got the info Thor promised. Any more questions?"
"OK, you two were busy. So, when you say from SG-1 to SG-1, I suppose you don't mean from the robot me for the 'me' me?" O'Neill asked half serious. The remaining people in the gate room did not have a clue what was going on.
Earth, SGC, 1 hour later
"Seeing myself talking about things that will now never happen, since the me in that timeline had no info about the future... is so unsettling." Carter said.
"Indeed. Which time line is the real one?" Teal'c added.
"Thank you Teal'c, that is what I said." O'Neill replied.
"You replied in the same manner when the 'which reality is real' question was asked." Teal'c responded.
"OK, can we get back to the point here." Daniel tried to get everyone back on track. "We will need several hours to open the silo doors to the gate room, Jack you are the only one of us with this so called ATA gene, so you will have to fly that thing."
"Oh, goody. Can't wait."
"And no road trip, sir." Carter added.
"Oh, why not. It can cloak, for Pete's sake!"
Just then, general Hammond entered Daniel's room, where SG-1 was having this private discussion.
"Sorry, Jack, but this ship is now US property. Unless it will be needed for future missions, it is going to help us get to this outpost on Antarctica. Also, the Tok'ra will be arriving in a few minutes and our Sodan Jaffa are getting a bit restless."
That said, SG-1 followed the general back to the conference room. As they arrived, Jacob Carter, Martouf and Freya were already there with Bra'tac and the Sodan Jaffa. 2 Tok'ra guards were flanking the new arrivals.
As the pleasantries were exchanged, the teams took their seats.
"So, Sam, what is the purpose of this meeting?" Jacob Carter asked.
"Well, dad, there have been some developments that you need to know about. First off, theses Jaffa here are the Sodan Jaffa. We have contacted them and they have agreed to join our alliance. With their help and the armbands that Freya has broth with her, we hope that we can capture the ship Apophis is building."
After a brief silence, Martouf spoke: " Samantha, how could you know about the armbands that we found? Or the new ship Apophis is building? We only found out hours ago."
"Let's say that some info came from Jaffa informants and the rest from Thor. "O'Neill lied for the moment, he still had to keep this info about the future limited.
"Yes, as the colonel said. We can use the armbands on me, Daniel and the colonel to give use super speed and strength. Armed with that and Sodan Jaffa with their mobile cloak for support, we should be able to capture the ship. It is mostly finished, as far as we know. The rest we can finish ourselves, with your and the Jaffa help." Sam added.
"Also, we know how the Ataniks armbands have a limited time of duration and can't be used on anyone with a symbiote, so we will have to plan the timing perfectly." Daniel said.
"That said, Martouf," O'Neill turned to him" when was the last time you were on an outside mission?"
"Less than a week ago, O'Neill, why do you ask?"
"Another question: Do you have any other missions planned, before the meeting of our representatives with the Tok'ra high council?" O'Neill continued.
"No, not really. Why are you asking all of this?"
In that moment, a zat shot was fired from a cloaked Sodan, stunning Martouf. The Tok'ra jumped up and went for their weapons.
"Jack, what is the meaning of this!" asked Selmak, who clearly took over.
"Relax, we suspect that old Martouf here is a Za'tarc. Since there will not be any missions for him until the meeting, we assume that he has already been programmed." O'Neill replied.
"There is no such thing as a Za'tarc. Anise has made her case of this infiltration technology of the Goa'uld and the council..." Selmak began to respond.
"Well, guess what! He is one! Deal with it! Best you listen to Anise a bit more. That is why we incapacitated him, and not killed him. A Za'tarc is programmed to kill himself after the mission is completed. Now you have an undamaged one. Keep him unconscious and find a way to fix him and the others!" O'Neill replied.
After a moment, the Tok'ra guards restrained Martouf and removed him from the room. They returned with him to the Tok'ra base thru the gate.
The talks continued normally, until O'Neill mentioned something.
"By the way Selmak, we have some info that will interest the Tok'ra. It is about one of the planets, Pangar I think, that the Asgard will contact for us."
"And why should we be interested in those people?" Anise asked.
"Well, you see..."
"Jack!" Daniel intervened "you see, your queen, Egeria, she is not dead. She is on that planet right now."
Silence followed.
"Our queen is still alive?!" Selmak shouted. Then he looked at Anise who looked equally shocked.
"Yes. But you have to understand, the people there don't know that yet. They think that they have a Goa'uld queen. She has been spawning and they have experimented on them in order to create a medical cure that uses the Goa'uld healing and immune system."
Jacob took over to let Selmak regain his temper. "How? How is it possible?"
"Look, Ra did not kill her, he imprisoned her on that planet. That is about as much as we know about how she is still alive. We hope that she will be able to survive, if we get to her in time, but we can't rush it. We will have to help the Pangarans as well. OK?" Daniel tried to be diplomatic.
After about an hour of talks, the Tok'ra returned to their base. anise would return to begin the Ataniks armband experiment, while Selmak and Jacob remained to be briefed in private by Daniel about their knowledge of the future.
During all of this, O'Neill snuck off outside the base and pulled out his mobile phone. After a minute of waiting, someone answered.
"Hello? Who is this and how did you get this number?"
"Hello Harry. How have you been? Sold any government secret to the Russians lately?" O'Neill responded.
"Jack?" Maybourne replied. "What secrets? How did you get this number? And why are you calling me anyway?"
"Oh come now, Harry. I know more than you would like me to. Your plan to sell info to the Russians just went down the drain, since the president will be briefing the other world powers about the SGC program soon. And since you are a 'rogue' agent right now because of your 'steal stuff at any cost' program, you are in a bit of a pickle. So, here is my offer, approved by the SGC and the Pentagon. Work for us, dig up dirt on Kinsey and his flying monkeys and anyone else you can think of that would like to profit off the SGC."
"So...You want me to be your private little informant? Is that it? And what is it in for me?"
"Oh, I don't know, how about a clean slate. A fresh start. You and I may have had our differences, but I think that your heart was in the right place. Just your methods need a bit of work. But those methods can be useful in the underworld. If you get my hint. You would also get hazard pay as well as complete anonymity. I would be one of few people that would know about your double play. So, what do you say?"
"Well, I guess I have little choice in this do I? I accept. But Jack, next time we talk, we talk face to face. And when we do, you will need more beer in your house than you have at the moment."
"My house...? Maybourne! Are you plundering my fridge!?"
"I wouldn't call it that. Also, that pizza you have in there, it's almost alive. I would throw it away if I were you. Until next time, don't call me, I'll call you. Bye."
The phone went silent. "Harry!? Harry! You son of a ... Now you give me another reason to make sure you never become a king on a backwater planet and have multiple wives." Jack raged.
Earth, Pentagon, 7 days later
The representatives from the countries that were invited by the USA, had taken their seats. The ambassadors of UK, China, France, Canada, Australia, Japan, India, Germany and Russia had been invited for the first round of talks. Other countries would follow later, if these talks go smooth.
"So, anyone want to take a guess as to why we are here?" the UK ambassador asked not one in particular.
"No idea, but it must be big for the Yanks to invite all of us all the way down here." the Canadian ambassador replied.
"I believe that it would have something to do with some info we almost got from some rogue agents of the USA. Maybe they just want to come clean, before someone succeeds in selling illegal stuff to any of us." the Russian ambassador replied with a heavy accent.
"Perhaps we will find out today, comrade ambassador." added his military advisor, colonel Chekov.
At that moment, the US president and general Hammond entered the room and greeted everyone.
Once everyone took their seats, major Paul Davis began his briefing. During the first half of the briefing, the ambassadors just shook their heads, not believing anything , except the Russian ambassador, who had some leaked info.
"And you expect us to believe this... what is that description you Americans are so fond of... ah, yes, bull shit." the Chinese ambassador replied, obviously annoyed.
General Hammond turned to the president: "Sir, I think it is time for some drastic measures."
"I agree George." the president replied and took a strange shaped stone from the suitcase next to him. After tapping it, a flash of light appeared in the middle of the conference room. Seconds later, 3 figures stood in the middle of the room. The representatives of the 3 great races. The ambassadors were clearly shocked to complete silence.
"Greetings, I am Thor, supreme commander of the Asgard fleet."
"I am K'orang, military commander of the Furling race."
"And I am Anteaus, representative of the Nox race."
Another moment of silence followed.
"Emm, hello?" the UK representative responded first.
"If you are asking, what the president and general Hammond were telling you until now was fantasy, as you can see, everything that was told is the truth." Thor responded.
After another moment of silence, the 'real' talks began. The other nations were shocked, when the 'big picture' was shown to them. The representatives of the 3 great races said that they would help in establishing this alliance, but would force no one in any way, be it militarily or otherwise, into this alliance. They also said, that while they would help them develop technology, they would not share their tech, yet. Not until the human race has reached an acceptable level, both politically, technologically and culturally. After that, the representatives of the 3 great races left, leaving the rest to the US president and general Hammond.
When the 2nd half of the briefing began, Daniel Jackson joined the conference, giving them insight of the politics in the greater galaxy, the history of the galaxy and the achievements of the SGC.
It took several hours, but in the end it was agreed that for the time being, the SGC and the military leadership would remain in US hands. The SGC would start to be upgraded to add the acquired technologies for use as well as the additional SG teams that would be available now. The SGC would eventually be turned into the Earth defense command center. when that would happen, the SGC would be moved to the Antarctica outpost, once it was excavated. For faster movement of the nations personnel, once they would be available, ring transporters would be installed in each nations SG center, where they would keep their SG teams and other personnel ready for deployment. Each ring in a base would be connected to the main SGC base. Once the Antarctica base would become the main SGC base, the rings would be rerouted there. That also meant that the new SGC nations had work ahead of them. They needed to find a suitable place to build their gate bases, where the rings would be deployed. Security was an issue, until it was discussed that the ring-in rooms could be force field locked to present any unauthorized forces to gain access or a nuke going off.
Each new nation to the SG program would get one team with only their nationals, but the rest would be mixed teams. It was also agreed that 4 people for an SG team was too little, so the minimum number was raised to 8 per team as well as an increased rapid response team always present in the SGC for emergencies. The talks with the other potential allied planets that would come soon, would be lead by dr. Weir, as it was suggested by dr. Jackson. No one argued against that.
Another matter was what to do with the 2 ships already being build by the USA. The construction on the 2nd ship was started after SG-1 made one successful mission after the other, but now the 2 under construction ships were a big question mark. In addition, the Earth nations agreed that a base for their one day existing space forces was needed. Since for the moment the entire SG program was still a secret and would remain so, the moon was chosen. Once it would be possible, a lunar base would be constructed and ring transporters would ensure fast movement to and from that base.
The one remaining question that lingered in the room was which nation would get what position in the political sphere. Unofficially, each nation would have a seat at the council, that the world would have no knowledge of, for the moment. The US kept the military leadership, but the rest was up for grabs. So the arguing and debating began.
Pentagon, guest room, hours later
Daniel entered the guest room after several hours of debating. He was finished with his part, so there was no point to remain.
"So, Daniel, how did the meeting with the soul sucking politicians go?" O'Neill asked. He had waited for Daniel, so that they could return to the SGC together and debate on their next move.
"Went better than expected. But now I don't want to be there anymore. I felt sorry for the general."
"Yeah, that is why I did not go in there. I would have gotten the urge to shoot someone."
Flashback end
"So Jack, since we now get 4 more members for the team, any ideas?" Daniel asked a bit sarcastically. They were both working out, even if the machines were holding them back, now that they had the Ataniks armbands on them.
"Oh yeah, some ideas. Captain Mitchell, captain Sheppard, major Young and dr. McKay."
"OK, I get the 3 military guys. Mitchell replaces you one day, Sheppard will become the SG leader himself and Young becomes an SG leader as well. We just don't have the details for them. Yet. But McKay? As far as we understand, he is nail pulling annoying."
"Oh, I know. But this is my secret weapon" O'Neill pulls out a lemon "lemon boy's kryptonite. Everyone of us will get one, Carter maybe 2, just so that he doesn't hump her leg. Besides, he is almost as smart as her. If he gets some hands on experience in advance, that can't be bad, right?"
"Whatever, Jack. I'm just glad that you did not pick Rush. That guy is really arrogant."
"Hey, I would like to take this Vala person, but we have to find her first." O'Neill looked at Daniel with an amused look.
"Don't even start."
SGC, next day
The day of the assault had come. The armbands were at peak efficiency. 10 Sodan Jaffa were in the gate room, with Jolan leading them. Teal'c and Bra'tac were also there, now equipped with the Sodan cloak armbands. Teal'c also had the eagle guard helmet on, just opened. The rest of SG-1 was also there, with Jacob Carter as the additional member for this mission, also now equipped with the cloak armbands.
"OK, everyone ready?" O'Neill asked.
"As ready as we will ever be, O'Neill. Let's anger a false god." Teal'c answered with a smile.
"Indeed." Bra'tac added.
In the dialing room, Hammond gave the order to start the dialing. Once the connection was established, SG-1 ran thru, while the Jaffa and Jacob activated their cloaks and followed.
As the Jaffa appeared on PX9-757, the Jaffa guards around the gate were all either dead or unconscious.
"Well, let us hurry, SG-1 will need our help." Bra'tac said.
Planet PX9-757, Apophis ship under construction
"Well, this is easy. These Jaffa guards don't know what is hitting them." O'Neill grinned.
"We can't get cocky, sir. These armbands do have a limit." Carter reminded him.
"And we also have a mission. We must disable this ships defenses and alarms. Our Jaffa friends then clean up." Daniel added.
"Yeah, yeah, killjoys."
They continue moving ad super-speed thru the corridors, ignoring the guards, so that they would not alert anyone to the attack. The passing thru force fields was a bit painful, but manageable. Once they reached the main engineering , they knocked out the guards and Sam went to work.
"OK, this should not take allot of time. It is a good thing that the Tok'ra Intel was good." Sam said.
"For once." O'Neill added.
"OK, the barriers are off-line everywhere and I have cut off the alarm and communication."
"Nice" O'Neill then took his communicator "Teal'c, were ready here, doors are open, the bells are down. Have fun, kids."
"Understood, O'Neill. We have arrived at the entrance of the ship." Teal'c replied.
"OK, the Jaffa will have some fun now. Carter, what is this ship's status anyway. Can it fly already?"
"Yes. It is mostly finished. Just some hull construction and some internal systems that need a finishing touch."
During all of this, the Sodan Jaffa, Selmak, Teal'c and Bra'tac were cleaning house. The defending Jaffa did not have a clue of what was going on. They only knew that they were under attack. On a defense point, 4 Jaffa defenders were being shot at from what appeared from nowhere. The lead Jaffa realized what was going on.
"It has to be some sort of cloak! Ashrak assassins! It has to be. What fool would be stupid enough to attack lord Apophis!?"
"Who cares, we can't hold them off!" another screamed as he too cover from the staff blasts.
"All of you hold the line here, I will inform the first prime of this. We must warn lord Apophis of this treachery!" the lead Jaffa ordered and retreated to the pel'tac via ring transporters.
Moments later, he materialized on the pel'tac deck and approached the first prime. "My lord, we cannot hold this ship much longer, we either must take off or inform lord Apophis so that he may send reinforcements."
"Am I surrounded by cowards!? Incompetent fools! A ship full of Jaffa and you can't defeat a few attackers?!" the first prime screamed.
"Sir, the enemies are cloaked, we do not know their strength or number. We do not even know who they serve!"
"Hmm, this bold attack has Heru'ur written all over it, but the stealth has Nirrtie's name on it. Very well, I will inform lord Apophis. The emergency communication is still functioning. Apparently, they have not found it yet to deactivate it."
As the first prime activated the communication console, he kneeled down. Apophis face appeared on the screen.
"What is it? This had better be important!" Apophis demanded answers.
"My lord, the ship is being attacked. We suspect that it is Heru'ur, Nirrti or both. We can't hold this ship. Should we destroy it to prevent it from falling into their hands?"
"You incompetent fools! That ship is the first of a new class of battleships! I can't let it fall into anyone's hands!" As Apophis eyes stopped gloving, he continued "Initiate the self destruct, and try to die with some honor! And..."
The first prime never heard anything else, as he and the other guards were killed by a Jaffa with an Horus helmet. as this Jaffa approached the communication station, Apophis anger grew.
"You dare to steal from me! Which Goa'uld do you serve!? I will carve your heart out for this treachery!"
"We shall see. But this ship will serve my lord now." The Horus Jaffa then deactivated the communication station. Moments later, he removed his helmet. Bra'tac approached the Jaffa, who was revealed to be Teal'c.
"Well done, Teal'c. If you had told him who you 'served', he would have been suspicious, but now..."
"Now he will blame Heru'ur, he is one of the few Goa'uld that still use Horus guards. It was also fortunate that the Jaffa here did not realize that Carter intentionally left the emergency communication station untouched."
Just then, a Sodan Jaffa entered the Pel'tac. "The ship is cleared."
Teal'c nodded, then went for his communicator. "O'Neill, the ruse was a success. Now, if major Carter can restore the pel'tac control systems, I can take us off this planet, before any reinforcements arrive thru the stargate."
"Acknowledge. She is doing her magic now. During all of that, Selmak will search for any hidden trackers or return home devices that might be hidden on this tub. Good job T."
Near the stargate, the first Jaffa reinforcements from Apophis arrived, only to see how the new ship of Apophis took off into space. They knew that their lord would not be happy.
Apophis prototype ship, hyperspace, minutes later
SG-1, Bra'tac and Jolan gathered on the Pel'tac. The remaining Sodan Jaffa continued their patrols while Selmak continued his search for any traps or beacons.
"OK, so mission successful. Now I could really go for a steak. These armbands are making me hungry." O'Neill said.
"Sir, it will take several hours to get to our destination. Until then, you'll just have to endure it." Carter replied. Then she went to work on the engineering console. "Well, this is interesting. The ships tactical and technical database. Hmm... oh wow."
"What. Does it have Pong on it?" O'Neill asked.
"Sir, according to this, this ship design is a step forward in Goa'uld ship building."
"Emm, and how is that. You seen one flying pyramid, you seen them all. Hey, Teal'c, why do the snakeheads have such a pyramid fetish?"
"That I do not know O'Neill, nor is it of any importance at this time. Major Carter, please continue."
Carter pulled up a holographic schematic of the ship. "It is a good thing that we waited for a week before this attack. The ship's hull is mostly build, including the superstructure surrounding the pyramid. "
"Yeah. But there is something different with this ship, when compared to their standard BS that they have." O'Neill argued.
"You mean besides the fact that this one is almost 900 meters long and wide instead of the 650 on the Ha'tak class?" Daniel asked.
"I believe what O'Neill is referring to is that this ship has a four point pyramid stricture instead of the typical 3 sided pyramid on the Ha'tac." Bra'tac added.
"Yeah. Looks more like an oversized ship from Ra with the black thing around it." O'Neill argued.
"I guess it must be a Cheops design fused with the Ha'tac design." Teal'c observed.
Carter in the mean time looked at the engineering panel in detail. "Uh oh. I think I now know, why the Tok'ra were so worried. This ship has an upgrade to all of its energy systems. Shields, weapons, sensors, engines... the works."
"Which means... what exactly?"
"Sir, energy systems in advanced technology are controlled and manipulated on an insane level. The phase of energy and it's control has a huge impact on the ship's performance, in battles the most. This ship now has inter-phase energy systems instead of the old quad-phase. That means inter-phase shields, staff weapons... the works... On top of that it has the first generation of dimensional energy manipulation, making them even more dangerous."
After a brief silence, O'Neill spoke first. "OK Carter, let's pretend that I have no knowledge on technical matters."
Daniel replied: "Jack, in simple words, the other Goa'uld have steel armor, Apophis has titanium armor. Add the dimensional part and you could say he has put ceramic armor on top of that. If you compare shields to armor, this is a good comparison."
"So, bad then?"
"Yes sir, bad." Carter nodded.
"OK, but is the phasing thing not something the Tollans do?"
"Sir, you are mixing matter phasing with energy phase manipulation. Apples and peaches. Not the same thing. Phasing matter is another thing completely." Carter argued.
"Not to even add dimension technology. The matter dimension shifting tech is also another thing." Daniel added.
"I never heard of any such tech." O'Neill replied.
"Emm, sir, the Sodan cloaks? They don't just cloak, but shift dimensions for the person wearing them. That is why they are so much smaller and better than that of any other Goa'uld. But that is why only someone with a symbiote can use them. Radiation from the other dimension can be dangerous."
"Indeed, that is why only we used them, O'Neill." Teal'c responded.
"OK, OK. So this tech is better than the other snake heads have. That is all I need to know."
"But it is a good news/ bad news situation. It will only take time for the other Goa'uld to get some if not all of this information for their forces. But it will also take time to upgrade the existing fleet to these standards." Teal'c continued.
"What has me worried is the following. Tollan ion cannons use inter-phase and inter-dimension energy manipulation. It was this tech advantage that made their ion cannons so good vs. the Goa'uld ships. This new ship would still be destroyed by a massive bombardment from the Tollan planet, but with the shield upgrade, it could withstand the bombardment for a while and inflict damage itself. I fear that with a large enough fleet of upgraded ships, Apophis could, in theory, conquer Tollana, it would just cost him an arm and a leg. If Anubis will take the upgrades to the next level, ...well, you know what will happen, if we don't do something about it. I guess that Apophis just has other issues and no interest in Tollana. I think that once we land, we have the Tollans have a look at it as well." Carter explained.
"OK, we will ponder about that later. What about the other specs on this thing, Carter?"
"Well, sir..." She again looked at the engineering display "it had about 50% more weapon ports than a standard Ha'tac, the shields are also 110% stronger, not even counting the phase and dimension tech on top of that. The sensors also have the phase upgrade, but still lack any basic dimensional adaptations. No difference in transporters or communication, but the sublight and hyperdrives are about 12% more efficient and about 8% faster than standard Goa'uld tech. Their hyperdrives are still limited to the delta band, like most Goa'uld ships, but this one has reached the upper limit. If Apophis takes it to the next level, he'll reach epsilon band. The hangar bay has no death gliders, guess they did not come to that part yet. It's hangar is 40% larger than a Ha'tac hangar, but there is something... what are those?" Carter points to a ship image shown in the hangar.
"It is an Al'kesh. A new Goa'uld design." Selmak replied as he entered the pel'tac "A medium bomber and support craft. Apparently, Apophis has added cloaking capability to them."
"Hey, Jacob. Checked the ship? No booby traps?" O'Neil asked.
"No, it is clear. Apophis was clearly not prepared for a raid on an unfinished ship."
"OK, I would like to know how the Goa'uld got any cloaking tech in the first place?" Daniel inquired.
"Probably from Nirrti, the Tok'ra have learned that she gave the other Goa'uld her knowledge on that tech for her freedom. How she got it or developed it, is unknown, but it is inferior to the Nox cloak by far. Even the Sodan cloak is superior. As for your findings on this ships specs, it is indeed troublesome." Selmak said as he sat down next to Sam to inspect the engineering console. "I believe that this tech is from Sokar, he just never got the chance to upgrade his fleet with it. Apophis will also need time for it. By the way, this ship class was named Ko'tac."
"Whatever. How long will we need for this trip?" O'Neill asked impatiently.
"At least 2 more hours. Since this ship is not completely finished, we can't push the engines. When we arrive at the Tok'ra planet, we will finish it, while you and your allies inspect it. Then the Jaffa can use it. But we would ask for a one time use to relocate our base to a planet without a gate. A ship like this would enable us that."
O'Neill looked at Teal'c.
"Of course you can use it for that. The Jaffa would be honored to help."
"Yeah, and I think that besides the specs on this ship, we would like to take one of those Al'kesh ships, if you don't mind. Some spoils of war." O'Neill asked.
"That too should not be a problem. We should however analyze this cloak to see if we can modify the sensors to penetrate it. Otherwise planets could be infiltrated even without the use of the gate." Selmak added.
Hasara class space station, 2 days later, meeting of the System lords
The meeting had been called. The growing danger of both Apophis and Heru'ur were the main topics, but the return of the Furlings, who were now aiding the Asgard in the reinforcing of the PPT was troubling news.
"So, anyone know why the Furlings returned? The time is too convenient. It can't be a coincidence." Kali asked.
"Who knows what plans they have. But we have learned that they struck at Apophis." Yu added.
"All of these things are of no importance at the moment. It is Apophis and Heru'ur that worry me." Amaterasu argued.
"You would. You suffered heavy losses against Heru'ur. You face defeat if someone doesn't come to your aide." Yu replied.
"There is one good news on that front. "Ba'al said. "Our fears of an Apophis/Heru'ur alliance is now dead. It appears that Apophis lost a prototype ship that he was building in secret. He believes that it was Heru'ur."
"Really? That too is a bit convenient. How sure are your sources." Cronus asked.
"My spy in Heru'ur's ranks can't confirm it, but an Horus guard was part of the assault. That was the clue that Apophis needed."
"If that is true, then it definitely was Heru'ur." Olokun added.
As the talks continued, one System lord did not pay much attention to it anymore.
"Fools. It was a ploy, as any imbecile could see. But you have all been too focused on your own egos. Best let them stay in the dark and destroy each other. Victory belongs to the patient strategist. This assault has Tok'ra and Tau'ri written all over it." Ba'al thought.
Tok'ra hidden base, unknown planet, same time
The ship, now christened 'Jaffa pride', was parked on the planet surface. The Tok'ra, Earth and Tollan engineers were inspecting it and finishing what was still needed to be done. The Tollan were, to put it simply, surprised to see the Goa'uld develop the next gen of energy manipulation and control. While the vote was still out if the Tollans would participate the ever close coming summit of the potential alliance worlds, this inspection would help swing the vote to the alliance favor.
O'Neill approached Jacob on the pel'tac, when he was busy inspecting the computer systems.
"So, this ship ready?"
"Almost, Jack. A day of two and it will be. Guess this is the advantage, when you build something with something else than slave labor. You get the work done faster."
"Yeah. As for your relocation plan? Found a planet you liked?"
"Yes we did. And another thing. since you can now provide info of the future to a degree... and don't worry, I haven't told the council of my source, we will not be recruiting this Tanith, once Teal'c friend Shan'auc arrives. We will just kill him."
"Good to hear. T will be pleased too. Any info on Apophis? He has to be pissed."
"Oh yeah. He restarted his campaign against Heru'ur. No alliance between them this time."
Colonial refugee fleet, Cloud 9, same time
Lee Adama was enjoying himself. He was in a bar on Cloud 9, on a date with Dee. That was, until the hostage situation arose. Sesha Abinell had demanded that all Cylon prisoners be handed to her and her associates.
On Galactica, Admiral Adama was having a discussion with the commanders of the military ships.
"That woman. She won't budge." the admiral spoke.
"She wants all the Cylon prisoners?" Saul asked.
"Yes. I am willing to give her everyone, but Sharon. Not while I'm alive. She helped us to get everyone off the colonies. Saul, I want you to double the security on the Kobol ship and any other ship that our military personnel or the politicians go to. This can't get out of control."
"Yes sir. After this is over, I'll talk with the ship captains."
"Mr. Gaeta, has Starbuck called us?"
"Yes sir, she and a group of marines that were on shore leave on Cloud 9, are preparing an assault. They are just waiting to get beck up. The ring system thankfully extends to Could 9 now, so we have send our experts there."
"Very well. Helo, I want you to get the Cylon prisoners to Cloud 9, your wife NOT included. But take Boomers corpse. Maybe that will appease those lunatics. Also use the raptors. Don't need the skin jobs to know about the transporters."
"Sir, no matter what, we can't let them get what they want. If they succeed this time, the next group will be not far behind, if they see that terror works." Cain replied over wireless.
"I agree with admiral Cain on this sir." commander Nash added.
"I gods damn know that. We just need to buy time. Helo, get going!"
On Kobol ship, Baltar was having other problems. He now had a staff of scientists, those that survived the holocaust and were rescued. Gaeta had to leave, because some morons took hostages. But Baltars task to understand the alien tech and solve the puzzles was a slow and antagonizing process. And he did not like slow. He wanted to understand it all.
He did find out that the Kobol ship has a refining plant itself. It can refine tylium into this other element, now known as naquadah, as it was named in the database. No point to give it a new name. What it could be refined into afterwards, still needed to be uncovered. But if this material can produce more energy that tylium, the question arises, could their FLT systems use it, or would they just blow up?
He also proposed the usage of the smaller ships that had these transporters on them. Placing these ships on strategic ships in the fleet made travel so much faster and efficient.
Curing the president of her cancer with the help of dr. Cottle and Kobol ships medical equipment was another achievement of his.
"Sir, did you hear?" an assistant asked him. A beautiful blond woman. Just his type. Or so he thought. He only thought of Caprica.
"You have to be more specific. I hear allot of things."
"The hostage situation, it has been resolved. Only a few injuries among the hostages. The terrorists are mostly captured as well. Only their leader is dead."
"Interesting. Maybe now Felix will be able to return and help me..."
Just then, the door to the laboratory opened and the marine guard entered. "Mr. vice president, sorry to interrupt you, but you are needed in the medical facility. Dr. Cottle will need your help with the equipment there when he handles the wounded. One is in critical condition."
As they left for the medical facility, Baltar asked: "Who is the one in critical? Anyone we know?"
"The president's assistant."
Planet New Caprica, Orbit, terraforming satellite, same time
Chief Tyrol was currently in charge of the shift for the terraforming mission. It was just a babysitting job. The satellite was big, but living space was limited to around 200 people. Since the fleet was underway here and would still be needing a few weeks to arrive, starting this project as fast as possible was a priority. Baltar, with the help of Dee, managed to get the satellite working again. Now it was just a matter of monitoring the progress. The crew on the satellite was currently cut off from the fleet, since the fleet was not in a solar system, so no ring connection was possible. They would be relieved on the next contact. Until then, they just killed time anyway they could.
Some explored the satellite, others the planet. They were well stocked on food and water, but entertainment was not a priority. Therefore, most just used this opportunity to get some much needed shut eye.
The chief however wanted to see what this satellite was all about, so he was poking around the database, now that Dee had managed to translate it.
"Eh, all this boring technical stuff. WAY beyond my pay grade. Let's see what else is here. Hmm." Just then he opened a file that was marked 'stellar body mineral analysis.' "Well, this is interesting."
A marine approached him. "Sir, you need any coffee?"
"No thanks, I'm fine. Just found something interesting."
"What would that be sir? Sorry if I'm nosy, but I'm going to bounce off the walls here of boredom."
"I understand. According to this, the planet below has some tylium deposits. But that is not the big thing. The moon that orbits New Caprica, it has big, and I mean BIG deposits of this... emm what is it called..."
"Naquadah?"
"Yeah, that stuff. This just keeps getting better and better. Marine, you stay here and keep watch. I'll go to the comm room and inform the fleet about this new finding."
Cylon rebel fleet in search of the Colonials, days later
Caprica was furious. She had to turn back and get resupplied. The reason was simple. While on the course that Cavil gave her, she found a beacon. Well, the other Basestar did. And it got infected. They jettisoned the beacon, but it was too late. That Basestar and all on board was deemed a total loss. Once she returned, she got 2 more Basestars as back up, but learned that the war turned into a different direction.
The mole in the other camp was indeed a Four, just like Cavil predicted. That Four had to leave, before he was discovered. So he did, but not before he inflicted some damage on the alien craft, destroying its engines. He also managed to take with him one of the four weapons that were mounted on it. The Cylons had already removed them off the ship, so getting one was allot easier. He managed to get away with it and reach the rebels. The bad news was that the other One's, Four's and Five's had a head start in reverse engineering the alien tech. And even without the engines, the other systems would prove to make a big difference, if they ever managed to understand them.
Caprica had returned to her original mission. With 3 Basestars, even if she had to plead to get the other 2, the search would go faster. Cavil even noted that this pathogen could be, if the situation became desperate, weaponized. How to do that, since ALL Cylons were susceptible to it, was another matter. But now they knew where to find the beacon.
But only a few days after her 2nd attempt to find the Colonials, Caprica's fleet encountered a old Basestar, belonging to the Guardians. A battle ensued. Her forces were victorious in the end, but one of her Basestars was damaged. Returning a third time without results would be beyond humiliating. So she decided to hold course and repair that Basestar en route.
With a more precise course that was given to her by Cavil, she made good progress. Unknown to her, however, the Colonials changed course, so they were not parallel with them anymore.
"Caprica, according to our scouts, we should reach a dense star and gas formation in 2 weeks." an Eight informed her.
Caprica was in the command room, looking over the navigation data.
"Just as Cavil said. But in 2000 years, things would have changed. There should be a habitable planet on the other side of this mess. We should start to calculate where we can fly thru it."
"Do you really think that we will find Earth?" A Two asked.
"What does it matter? It is a dead planet according to Cavil. Our mission is to find the Colonials, we are just going to their destination."
Higher plane of existence, same time
"Well, I hope you are happy. The others are beginning to feel the changes to the time line." Oma spoke.
"It was inevitable. As ascended beings, we can feel the temporal changes. This ongoing temporal incursion would have been noticed, no matter what." Janus replied.
"But if we can feel it, the Ori surely will to!"
"Yes, but they won't know the origin of the disturbance, who created it or what the changes are. Only that something has happened, but nothing more. You worry too much."
"Oh, I worry too much? You also changed the fate of these Colonials, by reprogramming the Discovery to stop in front of their fleet."
"The original plan of Maros, Erian and Kaira was a failure. The Colonials find a planet similar to Earth on the edge of that galaxy and settle there. They never make contact with the real Earth. Now, they may contribute to this revolution."
"It is what they might contribute that worries me. Tell me this, did the Cylons in the original time line find a ship belonging to the Jötunn?"
Now Janus looked at Oma with curiosity. "No, they did not. You think that this will make any difference?"
"Action and reaction, the basic principles of the universe. Someone as smart as you should know of that!"
"Like you are the one to talk! All I have to say is Anubis!"
"You could have warned me!"
"Like my hologram told Thor about the replicators, that they are a necessary evil, so is that bastard. For the moment."
"You are really playing a dangerous game, Janus."
"Hey, look it like this: Now Erian will not be frozen in that stasis pod forever."
Earth, SGC, 5 days before the summit
"Well, this is interesting." Daniel spoke.
"What is, space monkey?" O'Neill asked as he walked in to the briefing room, where the rest of SG-1 and the general were waiting.
"Oh, Jack, Thor just delivered the info on the worlds that will attend." Daniel responded.
"Yes, and since your previous mission was such a success, the president has asked SG-1 to be part of the negotiations." general Hammond added.
O'Neill almost turned green. "Emm, si... with all due respect. You know how I feel about politicians."
"Well, I hope I can make a better impression." A female voice responded from behind. It was dr. Weir.
After the greetings, they all sat down and continued with the briefing. "Since it was SG-1 that recommended me for this task, it is only fair that I request the best support. You four are the leading experts on what is out there." Weir said.
O'Neill massaged his forehead. "Karma is a bitch."
"You might want to say that after you see the entire list of guests, Jack." the general replied while smiling.
O'Neill looked at the list. "NO, not him!"
"Sir, he could be helpful. We could help each other." Carter tried to calm the colonel down.
"Help us? He made a robot me! You guys can barely stand me, how could I stand myself? No, I am not staying if Harlan is coming."
"Jack, you have little choice in this. The president has green lit it." The general said.
O'Neill put his head into his palm. "No good deed goes unpunished."
Unknown galaxy, edge of unknown system
A large, blue ship was holding position on the edge of the system. It was a large vessel, over 3 kilometers long. It was made of 2 parts. The front section was large, in the shape of a hammer, the rear section had large engines and allot of hangars. It was shaped in the form of a sphere. But it was the middle part that connected them both that was strange. It was a ring that had a glowing orb inside of it and 2 other rings circling it.
On the ships bridge, the commanding officer sat on his throne like seat. He was of the Jötunn race, with his dark blue skin, sharp edges on his fingers and blood red eyes looking in front of him.
"Status?" He asked.
"Sir, we are ready. It will take us around 2 years, but we will reach our destination." the helm officer responded.
"And the space rift device?"
"It is charged. Once we arrive, we can create a temporary space tunnel to our staging area in this galaxy and get an entire fleet to our position."
"Good. Then let us not waste anymore time. Set course and engage. Once you set the autopilot, we go to sleep in the stasis pods."
With that said, the ship entered hyperspace.
Unknown location, void between the galaxies, somewhere between the Ori and Milky Way galaxies
A large space station floated in the darkness. It was massive, over 20 kilometers in diameter. Its purpose unknown.
"There has been a change! A big change. And it is still happening." a dark, terrifying voice spoke from the darkness. It was heard on the station itself, in the corridors and halls.
"What is, master?" another voice asked.
"A change in time. It has to be them! Or the others. Either way, I will be free! We just have to be patient. "
"Yes, master."
"And once I am freed, you will get your revenge, Malekith. We both will."
Outside the station, a massive fleet of ships de-cloaked. Malekith needed to consult with his council.
The middle part of the ship of the Jötunn look like the mass effect relay from Mass Effect, just to give you a picture.
Also, shout out for The Big 1984 Dog and his father.