AN: Sorry for the long wait everyone I had to plan out what I wanted to do for the next few chapters and honestly I was lazy enjoying Christmas and New Year's. This chapter is a little short for my tastes but it's only the beginning and I hope to have the next chapter out soon so look forward to that!

(Stargate Universe, unknown Goa'uld world)

The armor I was wearing was based off of Forerunner combat skins similar to what the Didact wore, a skin tight nano weave body suit covered in interlocking armor plates. I had enhanced the suits power supply with some Naquadah though I didn't have much left from the Janus key it allowed me to pattern a Alteran style personal shield generator onto the Combat Skin. For design the armor was white and silver with glowing green energy lines, the inspiration for it came from back in my home reality.

A variant of the Ur-Didact armor on DeviantArt by a designer named StellarStateLogic had created the original armor and I patterned my personal armor after it. Besides the cloth like material on my waist I also had a large cape on my back as well, the armor was armed as well naturally. A Forerunner hardlight sword that was made up of interlocking segments that could re-arrange themselves was on my left hip and on my back seeming to float in midair were six forerunner particle cannons. There fired what was primarily Incineration Cannon shots but could re-conform to fire scattershot or binary rifle shot, the floating was because of the gravity anchors the Forerunners used to lock seemingly free floating objects in place.

I really had no need for the technological firepower with my Ki abilities but I was trying to project an image and letting the Galaxy know I could use Ki would be a bad idea right off the start, at my feet were 100 block type bug Replicators but with a twist. I had given them an extra set of legs so they had 6 instead of 4 and giving them a new skin for lack of a better term, now they looked like Forerunner constructs with the shiny metal and glowing green energy lines. They could have been the little swarming cousins to the Forerunner Crawlers and Promethean Knights from Halo 4.

My Halo style Stargate activated with the Anti-Ascended shield fully active, I knew the Ascended could travel through the gate regardless of which way the wormhole was actually going and I stepped through. On the other side I was greeted by about 20 Jaffa all holding staff weapons pointed at me, I could see their surprise at my 6'7 armored body and they recoiled even more as my Replicator bugs swarmed through the gate behind me.

"Kree Jaffa! FIRE!," The man who was obviously the leader of this group of Jaffa cried and 20 staff weapons fired as one. I could have let the relatively weak plasma bolts waste themselves against my shield but this was the opening act of my show and I wanted to impress. Plasma, even large amounts of it, had relatively little mass. Despite that it only took a small amount of my Telekinetic power from my Alteran DNA to reach out and stop the golden bolts midflight. From the Jaffa's perspective I simply raised my hand in a stopping motion and the plasma bolts stopped.

"Foolish children," I said aloud in an exasperated tone of voice as though I was talking to unruly children and not people who just tried to kill me. "You really must learn to treat your guests better."

With that I used my TK to gather all 20 plasma bolts into a single ball and blasted it back toward the Jaffa. It hit the ground directly in front of them and exploded, the force of the blast knocked them off their feet but luckily for them the plasma itself was spent against the dirt. Death by splashing plasma would not have been pleasant and while they were disoriented I summoned their staff weapons from where they dropped them and from lose fingers and walked up to the downed Jaffa leader.

"What are you," the Jaffa asked me as he looked up at me.

"I am many things Jaffa; I'm an Ancient, a Gatebuilder, an Ascended in flesh and a God to be. I am Cayleb a Valteran the last of my people and I have come to bring order to this Galaxy of my ancestors in my name and you have two options. Reject the false god parasites known as the Goa'uld and swear your life to me or die here a slave to the parasite in your belly, if you choose to join me you and your brothers and sisters will become the warriors you were meant to be not the tools and playthings of megalomaniacs," I said.

The Jaffa looked up at me with wide eyes, legends of the Ancients covered the Galaxy and my claim struck something deep inside him. I also reached out with my mind to the minds of the Jaffa around me and instilled a deep sense of wonder and awe at my presence before them and the intense feeling that I was telling them the truth. The Jaffa before him stared at him a moment longer before moving to Kow-Tow at his feet, "I…will obey my God."

"Good, now rise and tell me your name Jaffa," I commanded.

"Darius my lord," the Jaffa said. He looked about 30 with short dark hair grey eyes and tanned skin and was dressed in standard Jaffa armor with a grey sash around his waist confirming him as the leader of this group of Jaffa guarding the gate.

"Darius which Goa'uld rules this world," I asked.

"Kor'tet my Lord," Darius said still kowtowing at my feet. "He serves the system Lord Ba'al."

"Naturally, Ba'al is the only remaining System Lord with any real power base in the Milky Way galaxy after the Ori invasion. Any Goa'uld still in practice serves either Ba'al or one of his clones, rise Darius and lead me to him I would have words with your false God," I said.

Darius did as I bid and after I gained the loyalty of the other Jaffa around me led me down the road to the main city on this planet. I left the Replicators behind except for a dozen and asked questions of Darius as we walked, the planet's name was Jova and it was Naquadah mining planet. There were about 5,000 Jaffa warriors 10,000 when you counted women children and elderly and just over 50,000 human workers. 100,000 when you counted the whole population not just the miners and Kor'tet had a pair of Ha'tak hanging in orbit with 30 Death Glider apiece.

The Replicators I left behind were instructed to begin building a fortress city around the Stargate, they would travel into the mountains surrounding the gate and begin harvesting minerals replicating till there were 5 million of them before stopping. They would use the resources to build the city around the gate to the designs I created that would serve as the home for the people of the planet, something I decided they desperately needed as the city came into view.

It was mostly stone building in the middle surrounding the pyramid shaped palace but the outer rim consisted of a combination of stone wood and mud housing. Walking through the city his Jaffa escorted him as he had their staff weapons returned to them no one approached. The humans seemed to live in the outer ring and they stared wide eyed as he passed, children hugging their mother's skirts and the elderly seeming to standing in front protecting the women and children. Probably hoping that if I attacked I would kill them first and be satisfied, there were almost no Jaffa warriors as most of them were probably off in the mines guarding their human slaves.

Walking through the middle ring the nicer buildings I saw many Jaffa women and children who were healthier looking and better dressed. There were a few Jaffa warriors here and there but none of them stopped my group only looking on curiously, a mistake on their part. In fact they weren't stopped until they reached the entrance, "Darius halt what are you doing," a largish mean looking Jaffa warrior barked stepping in front of his group with a half dozen Jaffa behind him all looking mean.

"Well Darius, introduce me to your friend here," I said politely and gesturing at the angry looking Jaffa.

"His name is Corris my God and he is charge of guarding and punishing the human workers in the mines," Darius said in a low voice. From the emotions I was getting from him he was concerned about how to react in this situation.

"I'm sorry Corris," I said in a sad resigned tone of voice as I read his and his men's surface thoughts to confirm what Darius had told me. "But I'm afraid there is no room for men like you in the Galaxy I'm building."

Corris opened his mouth to retort angrily but my drone turrets swung up in scattershot mode and all six fired at once, all 7 men disintegrated as the anti-matter filled hardlight rounds ripped into them with barely a scream. The Jaffa following me balked in surprise and I felt their emotions solidify into fear and awe, any chance that they might turn on me was long gone. So I was left unopposed until I reached the throne room doors which were as large, gold and gaudy as anything Goa'uld I had ever seen on Stargate SG-1.

Turning all six of my floating pods to Incineration Cannon mode all 6 fired a deep crimson beam of anti-matter encased in hardlight which blasted the doors right off their hinges, though they vanished into wisps of energy before hitting the floor.

"Kree! What is the meaning of this impudence," the Goa'uld on the throne called Kor'tet cried rising up in shock. "Seize them," he cried pointing at them and the dozen Jaffa in the throne room rushed me and my Jaffa. It was really quite sad actually.

"Seriously," I muttered under my breath and made another gesture with my hands, a come hither gesture this time. The staff weapons of the dozen Jaffa were pulled out of their hands and the Jaffa themselves were pulled off their feet and across the floor until they came to rest at the feet of my Jaffa. "Seize them Darius but don't kill them, their only fault is being tricked by this snake head."

Darius and his men instantly moved to seize the fallen Jaffa who were so shocked they didn't resist when my men brought them up on their knees with their arms behind their backs. Kor'tet was just as astonished and I was halfway across the throne room before the Goa'uld managed to react, unfortunately for him it was the typical Snake Head reaction.

"You cretin how dare you defy your GOD!" He shouted and raised his Kara'kesh sending a blast of kinetic energy at me, I could have withstood it easily with a little bit of Ki but I didn't want to give away any supernatural powers just yet. Pulling the Jaffa forward like I just had could easily be explained away with a little bit of technology if I wanted to so before the wave hit me I pulled my remote turrets forward and switched them to hardlight shield mode.

The wall of blue hardlight easily took the blast and I smirked at the horrified look on Kor'tet's face and kept walking forward. He panicked and activated his personal shield as though that could stop me from getting to him, "wrong move," I said out loud and my turrets shifted again to Incineration mode and fired.

The personal Goa'uld shield was supposed to be indestructible to anything short of a capital class weapon, normal Staff weapons or even Tau'ri P-90's could not penetrate it and even the Staff Cannons on a Death Glider could not take it down. However it did have weaknesses, slow moving objects could pass through and while it was on the person inside the shield could not move but otherwise it was supposed to be foolproof.

The Forerunner Incineration cannons proved to be the acceptation to the rule and the Goa'uld shield shattered causing the Kara'kesh to overload and shoot off sparks. Kor'tet only had a moment to look shocked before he was thrown back into his chair and knocked his head giving me time to walk right up to him. I picked him up by the scruff of his neck and sent a mental probe into his mind, it did two things. It got him to fully concentrate and told me the status of his host's mind.

"Bad luck for you Kor'tet, your host is already brain dead. That means your useless to me," tossing him up high into the air I aimed my cannons one more time and fired. By the time Kor'tet's body hit the ground it was nothing but disintegrating particles. Turning around I sat down in the now empty throne and looked at the gathered Jaffa before me. "Darius, recall all the Jaffa and Humans from the mines. There is no more reason for them to work there. Have all the Jaffa come to me and make sure they know that they are not to harm or abuse the Humans anymore. There are going to be some changes here soon for both your peoples."

"Yes my God," Darius said bowing as my Jaffa let the others go and they all bowed to me then with a wave of my hand they went to work. I had some of the Replicators guard the Stargate just to make sure no one tried to get off planet and when Darius sent a message to the two Ha'tak up in orbit they landed just outside the crappy city. I instantly called all the Jaffa off the ships and set my Replicators on them, I had no intention of posing as a Goa'uld so I had them break it down into raw materials to learn everything they could about the ships and then add the data to my database.

The City around the Stargate was forming quickly, the Replicators combined with the Forerunner hardlight construction were very quick constructors and a city that combined design aspects of both the Alteran and the Forerunners made for a beautiful sight. Just from looking at it you could tell it was similar to the Ancients but changed like it had evolved on its own away from the Alteran from the Milky Way Galaxy.

Within a day or two I would be able to move the population into the city but there were things I had to do first. "You called for me my God," Darius said as he kneeled in the throne room before me with 20 or so Jaffa kneeling behind him. It had been a few hours since I had sent him off and now he was back.

"Yes Darius thank you for coming so quickly," I said with a kind smile. I had removed the mask on my face and now they could all see what I looked like and they looked surprised at my kind words and gentle smile. "Tell me Darius, what do you think of the Humans?"

"I don't understand my God," he said after hesitating for a moment.

"I mean do you despise them or maybe pity them, do you consider yourself human or something else entirely," I asked.

"All Jaffa know that we were once human and then changed by the Goa'uld," Darius said slowly. "Some consider them lesser than Jaffa like Corris but you killed him and his primary supporters. Most of the rest of the Jaffa including myself are mostly indifferent to them, Jaffa or Human we were both slave to the Goa'uld."

"That's good," I said kindly. "Because you are human, your bodies may have been modified by the Goa'uld but your people never stopped being human. However what has been done to your bodies is a curse, forced to bare Goa'uld symbiotes. I'm going to free the Jaffa from that curse."

"How my God," Darius asked interested.

"With these," I said, and 20 pod like machines entered the room moved by the Replicators. "These pods will modify you much like you ancestors were by the Goa'uld. Let me show you, please come forward Jaffa and don't be afraid. Remove your symbiotes and place them in the containers and enter the pods."

The Jaffa Darius brought moved forward hesitantly but I sent them some reassurance mentally so they wouldn't panic or freak out. They took out their baby Goa'ulds and locked them in the clear jars next to the pobs before entering them, once they were in the pods closed over them and within moments the 20 Jaffa inside fell asleep and the pods began to fill with light.

"Don't worry Darius," I said as the Jaffa looked worried at his men. "These pods will rewrite their DNA to remove the need for a Goa'uld or Tretonin while actually increasing their lifespan, health and strength. They will be enhanced humans with nearly a 500 year life span and the best thing about this process is that it works on regular humans as well as Jaffa."

"You intend to do this to the Jaffa and the Humans my God," Darius asked awed.

"Yes all citizens within my Empire will be given this gift and in doing so there will no difference between them, no human or Jaffa just my people," I said with a big smile on my face. Minutes later the pods opened and the Jaffa now turned Enhanced Human or simply E-Humans walked, only a light X impression on their stomach betrayed their Jaffa origin. I left that on purpose so my Jaffa could show other Jaffa the truth of their transformation, "rejoice my sons you are free of the shackles the parasites placed on you and have become true humans once again," I said aloud and the 20 x-Jaffa looked at me awed and pleased with their new bodies.

"Now that you are free you can have your revenge on your slave masters," I said pointing to the Goa'uld still in jars. "Why don't you show those snakes your gratitude for all those years they took care of you?"

The First of my true citizens turned on the jars and gleefully smashed them against the walls killing most of the parasites before taking up their old staff weapons one last time and blasting the survivors with plasma blasts. After that they threw away their staffs and Jaffa armor with my promise of new equipment for the battles in the future, with a little cajoling Darius went next also becoming a E-Human before following me out of the Goa'uld palace.

"Soon the city will be complete and we can begin moving the citizens into it Darius," I said walking outside with the man following me. "Every citizen will have the registered so we can keep up with all of them and their families and as we do so we can begin converting them to E-Humans, but before we can begin to move out into the wider universe we have to increase our population and lay the groundwork for our military, research and development, and our civilian infrastructure."

"That would take some time my God," Darius said. "We only have a small population here, about 10,000 Jaffa and 100,000 humans that still only means 110,000 citizens when all of them have been converted to E-Humans."

"This is true," I said smiling. "Luckily for us there are literally hundreds of planets out there were the humans have either been abandoned or only have minor Goa'uld and a few Jaffa guarding them. If we take those people and bring them here, offering them a place in my Empire with the chance to make their lives better then we can drastically increase our population in a short amount of time."

"But my god, we do not yet have the strength to assault other worlds," Darius said with a worried tone of voice as if he thought I was going to get angry or order him and his men to their deaths.

"Worry not Darius I have no intention of setting you out to fight until your men have been properly armored and trained. No I have a different means of saving those poor lost souls observe," with a wave of my hand we were both looking out over the plains from the Goa'uld palace overlooking the town. Forerunner themed Replicators and Forerunner Constructors moved across the town gathering up the citizens and cataloging them, they might have been afraid if not for the fact that the Jaffa were no longer threatening them with the Replicators and Constructors there.

Also special modifications to both allowed the machines to perform medical scans and the little bots were busy healing wounds or curing diseases, taking care of the elderly and the sick children while beaming in supplies of food and clothes and doing quick repairs to the humans living conditions while they waited for the city to finish building. All the while projecting announcements of what was happening to them and their situation, being told that they were now under the protection of a Gate Builder and that they would no longer be considered slaves but citizens of his new Empire meant that the people were very hopeful that their lot in life was about to get much better.

But while the people in the town were getting happier by the minute for their sudden reversal of fortune it was not what I was motioning Darius to see. Out across the planes a sudden hole in space opened up that was nothing like the Hyperspace portals Darius was used to seeing. This was actually Slipspace another form of FTL travel which was in most was equal to the Stargate universe's Hyperspace, and out of the giant portal a great mechanical construct suddenly emerged.

"W…what is that," Darius stuttered looking startled. "It's gigantic."

"Don't be afraid Darius, this is a Guardian," I said smiling at the giant Forerunner construct. "It does basically what the name implies; this one alone can defend our entire solar system by itself until we have our own defenses built. Others just like this one will travel to other planets with Stargates that we know have been abandoned or only have minor defenses."

In retrospect the differences between Alteran tech and Forerunner tech were pretty simple, Alteran's built their tech relatively small because Naquadah allowed them to build small reactors with large power generation. Forerunners on the other hand had no superconducting elements so their most powerful reactors were artificial black holes or singularity reactors, but those could only be put in the Forerunners largest constructs like the Ark, Greater Ark, Halos, Shield Worlds and Super Dreadnaught class ships like the Mantle's Approach. Anything less than that was too small for a singularity drive to fit into, so the second most powerful power source the Forerunners had was solar core reactor.

Basically a small artificial sun using synthesized heavy elements and gravity manipulation, the Forerunner Guardians had a Solar Core in their primary chest piece and all the rest of its floating parts were connected by gravity tethers and hard light links and the Solar Core was basically the pinnacle of fusion based technology. Because what was better than nature's own Fusion reactor in the form of stars.

While the Elysium was currently outside the Milky Way Galaxy it was fairly close to several satellite galaxies, little more than nebula clusters, orbiting the Milky Way. Those satellites were close enough to send Forerunner pillar ships, those skyscraper structures you flew around in Halo 4, that were between 1 and 5 Kilometers in length to them through Slipspace. The vast majority of those satellite nebulas had little to no life to them but what they did have was deposits of Naquadah, Neutronium and Trinium.

The Pillar ships located and then mined the resources to take back to Elysium itself and to begin making modifications to the Forerunner technology with the Stargate minerals. The first thing he had managed to do was modify the Solar Core of 6 Forerunner Guardians with a dense Naquadah sphere basically making Naquadah enhanced Solar Cores increasing the fusion output of the micro suns many times their original power.

It had only been a few days since he had arrived on Jova and all the resources the Pillar ships on Elysium had been used to modify my three Guardians but they were collecting more resources all the time the same as my Replicators here on this planet so it was a good trade off. The Guardians had been modified with Stargate style energy shields which were just plain better than their Halo universe counterparts especially since they were based on Alteran designs. The Head of the Guardian had two main weapons, the first was an EMP type weapon designed to disable entire planets in an instant, as it was it would disable anything not protected by a Stargate universe type energy shield though Naquadah reactors would recover eventually regardless. It also had a 500cm Z-8060 type Particle Cannon, the same as the tertiary weapons system on the Mantle's Approach.

The Wings of the Guardian had multiple weapon types of both Halo and Stargate types, the secondary weapons consisted of 6 50cm free electron particle cannons or Energy Projectors of the Covenant. The tertiary weapons consisted of 16 Ion Cannons, the same as the Asgard weapons but of an Alteran pattern, they fired green bolts of energy as opposed to blue. Finally the Quaternary system consisted of 50 250mm Incineration Cannon turrets. But while these Guardians could kick plenty of ass if necessary they were not being sent out for that.

In the chest piece protected as much as the Solar Core was an Alteran beaming system and Quantum Crystal based computer core, the device was designed to beam up and store people for safe transfer to Jova from their various planets. The beam color was gold as opposed to white like the Asgard but otherwise the same, finally the Guardian could also deploy a small army of Promethean Knights, Soldiers, Watchers, and Crawlers all lead by a Warden Eternal.

"You will send these Guardians out to gather people from other worlds my God," Darius asked looking away from the Guardian and up at me. I smiled at him and nodded.

"Only those that need saving, there are plenty of free worlds of various levels of technology that would not welcome the intrusion, the Free Jaffa Nation will also be avoided and since I'm not looking to kill many people with the Guardians they will only go to abandoned or low key worlds and bring their people here. All the while we will be building up our defenses and fleets so we can begin moving into the wider Galaxy," Darius looked impressed by my words and I liked that.

"But for now we must concentrate on those we have here Darius and get ready for those who will join us it won't be long before the rest of the Galaxy notices us. And I don't doubt that Ba'al will eventually check up on why this world is no longer responding to him, we would be remiss if we did not welcome him when he arrived." The smile on my face caused Darius to shiver in fear and sympathy for the Goa'uld even if he did hate them.

(1 Month Later, Earth, SGC)

5 Star General Jack O'Neill now Supreme Commander of the Unified Earth Forces (UEF) sighed heavily and rubbed his eyes in the dim light of his office as he filled out form after form in triplicate. It was a necessary, if cruel and unusual, task given the circumstances. It had been little over a month since the disappearance of the Janus Key and the destruction of the city of Atlanta, like Samantha had said the Janus Key was a total write off. They had no way of going after it with it being a one of a kind device, there weren't even any records of it in Atlantis according to their inquiries.

But the Janus Key was quickly forgotten about with the reaction to the destruction of Atlanta, if it had happened even a few years ago they could have claimed that it was a meteor strike and written it off as a freak accident. But pictures, videos and eye witness recordings of the attack had appeared on the internet even before relief forces had reached the crater. The members of the Stargate States had spent less than an hour trying to take down the videos before giving up to the rapid multiplication and reposts that appeared faster than they could destroy them.

With just the video of the strike several civilian institutions with high power telescopes had tracked the location in space where the battle had taken place and pictures of the BC-304's, Ori Motherships and even a few Free Jaffa Nation Ha'tak's that had arrived to help had appeared as well. They weren't very good pictures but they were good enough to make out that they were ships of some kind and they spread just as quickly across the world appearing on news channels in every country with demands for answers seeming to come from every direction.

If he hadn't known better he might have thought someone on earth was doing it on purpose for some reason. But the fact had been that the Stargate Nations, The United States, The United Kingdom, France, India, Russia, China and Japan had decided they needed to get ahead of this fast. Within 24 hours the leaders of all those nations assembled in America of all places and told the world the truth, well they gave them the de-classified truth. The existence of the Stargate, alien threats and allies, the years of exploration and discovery and the Alliance they had formed between the most powerful nations on Earth.

On one hand the US took the brunt of the flack for being the ones to open the Stargate and running it, on the other hand they also got to claim the credit for bringing the world powers together for the first time in history. And that's how they were spinning it, that these 7 nations were in a long term plan to unite themselves as one nation and move the earth up into space. Naturally it was a plan in its infancy and had decades to go before even the most basic aspects began to appear but it was the end goal, in reality it was a cover that the big 7 had come up with on the fly to hopefully prevent the world from devolving into WW3. Already the Middle East and other third world countries were rioting and North Korea was already demanding that the Stargate be turned over to them while the United Nations was frozen in panic.

Not even the big 7 nations were free from discord and rioting, to hopefully head off an explosion the Big 7 had decided to do two things. First as a show that the Earth had allies multiple Ha'tak and Ori motherships along with the Earth built BC-304's had entered the atmosphere over Atlanta and were already entering aid to the affected area. The Big 7 were quick to point out that the destruction of Atlanta was a tragedy it was also a fluke and that the culprits had already been destroyed by the Earth's own space fleet and their allies ships. Actually seeing space ships and seeing that the Earth nations also had them had set plenty of people back on their feet, nothing was said but the threat was implied that these ships could be used against other nations even if none of the big 7 had so much as alluded to the possibility.

Second the Stargate R&D division run by scientists from all 7 nations released several medical and innovative technologies as proof that venturing into space had serious benefits. For example a non replicator based medical nanite designed to fix genetic diseases was announced and released, before the advanced technology couldn't be used without exposing its alien origin but now hospitals all over the world were getting rushed these one use nanites to cure otherwise terminally ill people, the news agencies were eating it up.

Along with that clean energy tech and the ability to clean up the planet were shown as well now that secrecy wasn't a factor. Dozens of other minor things were announced as well but it all boiled down to throwing shiny things at the people to make them happy, there was even the suggestion that other planets could start to be colonized now to get rid of the overpopulation problem.

Everything was still in flux as the Big 7 scrambled to stay ahead of the PR disaster that had landed in their lap but there a light at the far, far end of the tunnel. Suddenly the base's alarm went off pulling his attention from his paper work, thankfully, with the now familiar words of unscheduled off world activation. Getting up and making his way to the Gate room the alarm was off before he was half was there and by the time he walked into the room their guests were already being greeted by General Landry and SG-1 including Mitchel, Daniel, Vala and Teal'c along with Samantha who was being reassigned to Atlantis soon.

"Well well well if it isn't our old buddy Anise," Jack said spotting the Tok'ra scientist flanked by a pair of male Tok'ra body guards. "We hadn't heard from you guys in a while, was afraid that either the Ori had gotten you or that the whole lot of you found a nice deep hole and pulled yourselves in so far you didn't realize the fighting was over."

"Jack O'Neill," Anise said giving him a short bow. "It is good to see you again, you are not wrong in your assumption. The Tok'ra managed to avoid the Ori for the most part, they seemed to concentrate on the Goa'uld, and I will admit if nothing else we Tok'ra enjoyed the Goa'uld getting hunted down for once. But that is not why I'm here; the Tok'ra High Council has sent me to request your aid."

"What for," Daniel aske his voice genuinely concerned from the tone of Anise's voice.

"For at least the last three weeks several minor worlds have gone dark. The worlds in question have all been small ones either with abandoned human populations or ruled by minor Goa'uld warlords, we Tok'ra interact with these worlds often exchanging resources and offering chances for humans to become hosts for other Tok'ra that need it but at least 7 worlds we have recently visited have bene found empty of all life. No Tok'ra have been lost yet but another world we just tried visit we lost contact with the Tok'ra sent there and they have not returned," Anise explained.

"Could it be a Goa'uld kidnapping more humans and Jaffa for slaves," Vala asked looking interested. "I mean after what the Ori did to them the ones left would want to gather all the resources they could."

"If that's whats happening we need to investigate it as soon as possible," Samantha said. "What can you tell us about this planet your people went to Anise?"

"The world is ruled by one of Ba'al's men along with about 2 dozen other Goa'uld under him a few hundred Jaffa and a few thousand human slaves. There are two parked Ha'tak on the planet's surface and a few wings of death gliders, we have an agent in the Goa'uld's ranks which was how we discovered that the Free Jaffa nation had turned a good portion of the planet's Jaffa to their cause and were planning on taking the planet from Ba'al. Our agent was helping the FJN covertly when we lost contact, however we know the guard rotation on the Stargate and the Jaffa currently there are on our side. If we go now we can get there and discern what is happening," Anise explained.

"What do you think Jack," General Landry asked looking at his old friend.

"If I were in charge of the SGC I would go," Jack said. "As it is it's up to you but I will support your decision whatever you decide. If there is another Goa'uld vying for power against Ba'al then we need to know about it and decide how to respond."

"Then it's settled," Landry said nodding. "SG-1 suit up! You will join Anise go through the Stargate and ascertain the situation on the other side."

"SIR," all the members of SG-1 said and then went off to suit up. Less than ten minutes later they were back in the gate room and the address was being dialed in. The gate opened with its usual whooshing sound and a MALP was sent though just to be safe.

"There," Anise said pointing at the screen as the camera projected what it was seeing back to the SGC control room. "Standing with those Jaffa, that's our guy."

"Look he is pointing at something," Mitchel said. "Turn the camera."

The tech complied and the camera began to turn only for something to fly in front of it. To those looking it sort of looked like a flying check mark on its side with a glowing blue eye in the middle, it flitted back and forth and a glowing blue light washed over the MALP obviously scanning it. "Hey is that Ancient writing," Vala asked pointing to some writing on the side of the strange floating construct.

"Could that be the reason why no one has come back through the gate," Sam asked.

"Possibly," Jack said. "Either way it's an Ancient device on a Goa'uld planet and that makes me twitchy. Sam go through with SG-1 and see if you can figure out what it is."

"Roger that," Sam said earnestly. With a final salute Samantha along with SG-1 and Anise walked through the gate and came out on the Goa'uld controlled planet. Right after walking through they could see the Goa'uld city in the distance along with the two Ha'tak. But their attention was on the Jaffa and the Tok'ra along with them who were waving with Staff Weapons held at their sides in a non-threatening manner.

"Titet," Anise called identifying the Tok'ra and walking towards him, "the council was worried when you failed to respond."

"Anise forgive me but those things prevented me," Titet said pointing behind them. Turning with P-90's raised SG-1 looked back toward the still active gate and noticed a half dozen of the strange check mark shaped machines floating there passively.

"Do they attack," Mitchel asked not taking his eyes off the machines.

"No," one of the Jaffa answered. "They only block us from the dialing device when we try to use it. One of us tried to hit it with a staff bolt but they have shields of some kind and they destroyed the staff weapon in retaliation."

"If only I could get my hands on one then maybe I could find out what it wants," Sam said eyeing the devices with a glint in her eye. They were unlike any other Ancient tech she had ever seen but the ancient writing was there on the side, "Hey Daniel can you read what that writing says?"

"A little hard form this distance but I think it says Constructor," Daniel responded. "As for what they're doing here why don't we just ask, maybe they will answer."

Walking back toward the gate which had just deactivated Daniel peered up at the Constructors and called out, "Uh excuse me but can you tell me why you are stopping people form dialing out through the Gate?"

The 6 constructors stared down at him as one for a moment before one of them floated down to right in front of his face. It paused for a moment longer, studying him as much as Daniel was studying it before it answered in a feminine sound synthetic voice. THE RECLAIMER IS COMING

"Who," Daniel asked confused.

"I don't like the sound of that," Mitchel said softly looking edgy.

THEY ARE HERE, the constructor said. Suddenly there was a boom like thunder causing everyone to whip around in shock. Off in the distance beyond the Goa'uld city a blue black mass of energy and lightning popped into existence before suddenly ripping open the fabric of space and time in a massive black hole 3 kilometers in diameter. But that was only the prelude, suddenly dozens of pieces of blowing metal began flying through in a twisting pattern and seemed to put itself together into a ever growing shape.

The members of SG-1, Tok'ra and Jaffa could only watch in awe and fear as a giant floating mechanical construct appeared with jagged floating wings and glowing blue eyes, it was almost a kilometer and a half tall and it was eyeing the Goa'uld city like a juicy piece of meat.

HAIL THE GUARDIAN, the Constructor cried suddenly.

HAIL THE GUARDIAN, the other Constructors echoed.

"I hate it when I'm right," Mitchel muttered to himself.