This story is a rename and rewrite of an old story I have written and forgotten. That was until I came across an old USB. I had an abusive guest reviewer who said the last story I deleted was stolen. I can assure everyone that this story is mine and was once called HMS Thunderchild.

It is a Battlestar Galactica 2003 and Stargate crossover. This story is for fun only and is completely different, or non-cannon story from the original series. As always, I do not own anything. Also, I suck at names and summaries. Not sure what name I gave it, so I put Starfleet, but I can change it to Starforce. But I will mention names from other franchises and shows, so give me cues and time to fill it in.

"The Cylons Were Created by Man. They Rebelled. They Evolved. They Look and Feel Human. Some are programmed to think they are Human. There are many copies. And they have a Plan."

The Eagle of the Tau'ri had always been handed a lucky break, but this time. The Lion has found a lucky break as well. Will the Lion bite off more than it can chew? Or will they build their forces and wait until the Americans open the Stargate?

HMS Starfleet

Chapter 1

Natural forming wormholes seem to pop up at the weirdest times, whether it was thanks to the gods playing around with the mortals or just randomly forming wormholes that may send many ships anywhere from a hundred! To a hundred thousand light years away. Some of these wormholes have been recorded as the size of a tennis ball, while others are big enough to swallow whole systems and even a small galaxy. The rarest form of these phenomena is time-traveling ones that could send you so far away and either send you back or forward in time.

In another plain of existence, a being named Janus was watching and studying these wormholes to learn how to create them for his own use. He wanted to help the humans of Earth and the other beings of the lower plain, but he was told they could not interfere. But he couldn't accept this and planned to interfere without his elders knowing, and to change the timeline as it stands. With the knowledge of the future, and his time-traveling devices, Janus began his planning.

The first wormhole Janus created was in the Cyrannus star system during the first Cylon war when one of the colonies' wealthy families had complete control of the Daidalos mobile shipyards. They devised a plan to build a brand new Jupiter-class Battlestar for their private use at the expense of the colonies. After receiving the contract from the government to build twelve Jupiter-class Battlestars. The family played with the figures and cooked the books for them to build a thirteen Battlestar. This Battlestars was given the name, The Sword.

The ship was built at their secondary shipyard, called the little Daidalos. Deep in unexplored space, Little Daidalos was the prototype of the larger Daidalos shipyard that the colonies freely used, but with only one level. Unlike the other twelve battlestars, this Battlestar was built carefully, with no cutting corners, and always with top-grade materials. When the sword was launched, it was twice as good as the other twelve and given to Commander Mary "Shotgun" Thomas to command the Battlestar Sword.

Towards the end of the first Cylon war, the Cylons decided to attack the secret base to expand their territory. The Battlestar and its small fleet defended the small mobile shipyard until the last of the workers' ships had escaped and protected it until the last Basestar was destroyed. The small shipyard was full of everything they would need to build a new base, including new vipers and the newest FTL raptors. Prefabricated structures, Earthmoving and construction equipment, weapons and ammunition, ground vehicles, uniforms and clothing, shop and fabrication equipment. The Battlestar and the shipyard were severely damaged, and they tried to make their way back to the colonies, but that was when disaster hit.

The Shipyard and Battlestar were caught in one of these wormhole anomalies. The two were still severely damaged from the battle with the Cylon and had lost all FTL systems. The commander knew they couldn't jump away, so she ordered them to abandon the fleet. But it was too late, and the fleet fell into the anomaly. The surviving crews that abandoned the ships would later report everything that happened to the small fleet. They had watched helplessly as the shipyard began to be pulled apart completely as it entered the wormhole. They also reported that Battlestar and the small fleet with it held together as they all disappeared into the wormhole.

They didn't see the force field that Janus had created around the ships and brought the crew and Battlestar to Earth 10,000 years ago when his people returned to earth. The ships' crews stabilize the ships on the other side of the wormhole, straight into a battle with two different types of alien ships. Their story would be told ten thousand years later.

Janus then created another of these wormhole's appeared at the start of the second Cylon war. The Cylon surprise attack on the colonies after 40 years of peace using a computer virus to shut down all colonial warships. Except for Commander William Adama's ship, the Galactica. The Jupiter class Battlestar was ready to be a Museum and was not considered a threat. Unknown to the Cylons and other Colonials, other Battlestars had also survived the battle and, along with their refugee fleet started new colonies far away from The Cyrannus star system and far away from the Cylon threat. However, one ship and its crew didn't survive as well as the others, the Mercury-class Battlestar Thunderchild.

Admiral Athena Adama commanded the Battlestar, and she was Adama's half-sister that was lost in miles of red tape. Athena and the Thunderchild were thought to be lost during a top-secret mission a few months before the fall. William, or Bill as he liked being called, had no clue where she was until she appeared at the firefight that was known as Ragnar Anchorage battle.

The Thunderchild was the last Mercury Battlestar to be launched from the construction docks without the new program within her computers, which is why the virus did not affect the ship when they appeared at Ragnar. Athena was standing firm at her console when her ship and the Galactica survived another Cylon nuke impact on the hulls of the ships, "Bring this ship to broadside and give them all we have! And tell the Galactica that we have their back if they want to jump!"

"Yes, Ma'am, helm! Show them our guns," said Commander Paul Butcher

"Commander Adama said, "May the gods be with you," Athena just nodded as she watched the last of the refugee ships leave, with the Galactica close behind. The Thunderchild and the Galactica were up against 5 Cylon baseships blocking the path of the refugee fleet when they came out of the Ragnar Anchorage, they quickly took care of two but still had to hold the line until the last civilian ship, and the Galactica jumped.

"What's the status of the civilian fleet?" by the time they had destroyed the third and fourth baseships, the Thunderchild was starting to suffer. It was time to get out of this mess.

"They are almost gone, Ma'am," said Butcher

"We can't take much more of this! We already have hull breaches on all decks."

"The last one is gone now, ma'am! And there goes the Galactica."

"Well, for the love of the Lords! Jump!" said Adama

The Thunderchild jumped and landed in trouble. As the ship's jump drive activated, two Cylon nukes detonated next to the engineering section, giving the jump drive a massive power boost. To the Cylons and colonial humans, the malfunction created a giant wormhole that forced the Thunderchild, Ragnar gas, and the anchorage into its mouth in a blinding white flash. When the flash died, there was no trace of the Battlestar, the gas cloud, or the anchorage. As the huge energy wave approached the Cylon Raiders and Baseships, they quickly jumped away from the danger, thinking that was the end of the Battlestar and Ragnar.

Ragnar was considered a gas giant located on the outer edge of the Helios Gamma Delta system and was the site of the Ragnar Anchorage munitions station. Ragnar was wracked by violent storms of gas and radiation and, unknown to the colonials, had become very unstable. Ragnar Anchorage appears to be located in an area of relative calm within the storms. The storms themselves create a high level of electromagnetic discharges, which interfere with various systems, including a ship's ability to plot FTL jumps.

While this effectively hides the Anchorage station from enemy scans, it also means that a ship must cross the "EM threshold" above the main bulk of the storms before attempting a jump. Another side effect of the storm is the emission of radiation that adversely affected the Cylons' silica pathways, a technology integrated into humanoid Cylons.

Ten thousand years ago, before his people returned to Earth. Deep within the Wolf system, a few light-years from Earth, the Gou'ald Ra decided to build a huge construction station and shipyard around one of the planets. After the station was built, Janus decided to send Ragnar a gas cloud around the station to force the Gou'ald and Jaffa to abandon the station. Janus then realized that without the planet, the gas quickly dispersed into space as soon as it was released from the wormhole, and his first plan for the shipyard failed.

Then he saw something else that he didn't count on, sabotage. A Tok'ra agent released a deadly toxin into the station, killing him and all the Jaffa and Gou'ald that were on the station. Later a signal was sent from the station, warning anyone of the danger. Ten thousand years later, the Thunderchild arrived. With the Gou'ald shipyard, anchorage, and Battlestar secured in the Wolf system, the surprise was set for SG1 to help the people of Earth survive the future. But when you change the future, nothing will work out how you want them.

Earth 1928

Two alien devices were discovered and unearthed at Giza in Egypt by Professor Paul Langford. With the looming war approaching, The Professor loaded the artifacts on an American ship named Achilles to bring them to America in 1929. This was to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Nazis. Janus smiled as the first part of the story began. He failed to realize that a different story began just two years later, in 1930.

Earth 1930

Simpson Desert, Australia

Geologist and surveyors Exploration team camp

50 kilometers west of Dalhousie Springs

The Winds that blew in this part of the desert were hot. The winds were picking up the grains of sand and throwing it against anything that stood in the way, practically sandblasting any metal surfaces and stinging your face when they hit you, the reason why that most times you had to wear a hanky or covering over your face. Whirlwinds, or as the local Aussie call them, Willy Willys, came in many sizes and even raced in all directions across the desert sand, giving the area a look of a primitive Armageddon.

It was coming close to 6:00 pm, the sun was still high in the sky, and it was still hot. The survey teams had spent the last week walking across this ground, measuring the smallest hills and testing the ground stability. These teams would finish up for the day and will soon return to camp for a good meal. Brendon Timothy James is the team's cook, and he had earned his trade as a cook in Sydney. After getting his trade, this was his first job, and it offered good pay.

He had answered an ad in the paper for a cook with a mining company and learned fast that most of these blokes preferred their food to be good and simple and lots of it, primarily stews. The camp oven was lit hours ago, burning just enough to simmer the evening meal. In the pot was a mixture of meat of Kangaroo and Rabbit, with spuds and onions thrown in. The beef was hard to get out in the desert, and the closet butcher was in Alice, which was a few days' travel. It had taken him a few days and all of his skill to learn to cook the meat tender enough.

The first few meals were disasters and had to be thrown out to the dingos. Some of the blokes were also thinking of throwing him to the dingos if he didn't improve. Thankfully for him, he did. The teams would shoot something every few nights to supplement the evening meals. Kangaroo, Rabbit, and a camel or two, anything that came into the sight of the rifle scope was shot. Brendon thought when he returned to civilization. He might even open a restaurant with some of these dishes on the menu.

Brendon noticed the kitchen firewood pile was too low to keep the evening meal warm until the workers came in. The evenings and nights out here became very cold, and they still needed the fire to keep them warm before turning in for the night. So he walked towards the large pile of wood staked near the sandhill close to the camp. He would spend the quiet time during the day gathering wood. The survey crews would get some firewood while they were out working or even when they were hunting and would throw it into the ute for the camp. Brendon knew that they would be moving on in a few days for the next section, and what was left also needed to be taken.

Some nights or even in the middle of the day, some very deadly creatures would try to find shade or shelter and hide within the woodpile. The worst of them were the snakes. Most Australian snakes are the deadliest snakes in the world, and out here, death comes quickly. The nearest doctor was in Alice Springs, and the person would die before getting to the car. He had seen it once in Queensland when he was on a working holiday before he started college. One of the harvest workers fell into some cut cane when a snake bit him on the forearm. All he could do was watch him die.

It had taught him to be careful, so as he was picking up the first log, A Mulga snake (Pseudechis australis) is one of Australia's most venomous snakes. First described by the English zoologist John Edward Gray in 1842, it is a robust snake between 1.5 and 3 m long. It is one of the longest venomous snakes in the world and is the second-longest in Australia (surpassed only by the coastal taipan).

Its alternative common name is king brown snake, although it is a species in the genus Pseudechis family (black snakes) and only distantly related to true brown snakes. The snake stood up on his tail, ready to strike, and without any hesitation, Brendon threw the biggest piece of wood in his hands at it. A good 6 inches in diameter, the log struck the snake just below its head and crashed it into another log.

Then the log and the snake started disappearing into the sand as Brendon watched! A hole appeared and began to expand faster and faster to swallow the woodpile. Walking backward, he saw it grow faster as it began swallowing the sandhill in front of him. Brendon then turned and ran as hard as he could, watching as the sides of the hole expanded further and further out until he had to jump onto a ledge as the ground fell from under him. Then he heard the biggest thump as the sinkholes turned into an even bigger valley than the grand canyon behind him.

TBC