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Its been a long time but since I keep getting hits on this story I will try to continue. The biggest problem has been the 'mary sue' position I've dug myself into: the need of a competent adversary in some way related to cannon, The desire to integrate some of the Enterprise time line specifically how to kick off the temporal cold war and the federation temporal enforcement service, and also dealing with the burned husk that SGU left of the franchise. The Title/theme of this chapter is taken from/adapted from "Back in the saddle again" by Gene Autry and Ray Whitley 1939. Also I am interjecting some of the backstory of the Silurians from Doctor Who (BBC 1964-present) to the Voth as suggested by memory alpha.

-Ch 5 Back in the Saddle

As Admiral Riker and the rest of the away team make their way down the corridor to the conference room that the Taur'i had prepared he couldn't help thinking to himself on what they had gotten themselves into. From the conference room a large viewpoint gave a vantage of the Enterprise and numerous Taur'i ships of various sizes and classes all much more refined than the earlier examples he had encountered. As he took in the view there was a flash an the fleet of ships representing section 31 appeared.

Jack spoke up: At last our other guests have arrived. Who walked in was a great surprise to Riker as it was the vice president of the federation and several other council members. Jack began Ladies and gentlemen please find a seat at the table. Sorry for the show of power but the current situation does not lend itself to political pleasantries. The 1st threat to put it bluntly there is an assault force headed for earth that will arrive in about 3 days. 8 hours ago one of our intelligence probes detected a transmission from deep in Voth held space. To summarize: the distant origin proponents have found sympathy among the commands of several of their city ships and plan to remove the endothermic infestation from their ancestral home meaning earth. They launched 3 hours ago. The Voth council of elders has sent a broadband subspace transmission to the rest of the Voth fleet to peruse the supporters of the heresy against doctrine and destroy the offending star system. The second threat is that some components and technology have been stolen relating to temporal core drives. It will take time to trace the theft but we wanted to equip section 31 ships with the temporal shielding we now have in place on this station.

Commander Sheppard, and Rogers you are to take the expeditionary force with the reseeding ships to Pegasus and find out if any of our friends are still there, reseed if necessary after dealing with any remaining Wraith since those ships are to lightly armed to deal with the threat here. Sam will give rest you technical details on what you are facing.

Sam began, The Voth heretics have 3 city ships with a dozen escorts each. Each ship has firepower and shields equivalent to our flagship. Their Trans warp drives don't penetrate as deeply into subspace which is giving us time. The Voth counsel of elders has dispatched most of their fleet. They have 50 city ships whose weapons will come to bear 5 hours after the heretics arrive at earth. We currently have only the 2 prototypes with sufficient firepower to match the city ships. But they will be insufficient against the main fleet. We are rushing construction on more but we are having to cannibalize material from other ships to do so as we did not expect a problem of this caliper from the races that we had encountered thus far in this galaxy. But the initial production won't be complete for several more days. We have dispatched a courier to the Baku home world to try to reach Admiral Pickard as he was seen as the best living negotiator in an attempt to negotiate with the Voth elders.

From the Ancient data base it appears that the Ancients upon reaching Terra found a group of the Voth in suspended animation beneath the crust. The earth at the time was in a snowball condition. The assisted them in relocating to a world more suited to their physiology and preserving them and reseeding their sector after the plague. In addition they provided defensive technology. It would appear that they have continued the development. Thank you

Jack returned to the head of the table. We need you permission to defend earth since it is sovereign territory, even though it was our home the ownership has changed so to speak. Also I need to know if you are agreeable to the formation of the Temporal enforcement core. We have in the database a record for time wave 0 as recoded by Janus an ancient scientist during his initial development of the technology. And as there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the Ancient were the 1st technologically advanced race we believe this to be accurate. Are you in?

The Federation vice president spoke: We accept you offer of help to defend earth and will consider the formation of the temporal enforcement core.

Riker jumped in. Whats the Catch? Humans of this time seek to better society, but that wasn't the case in your era.

Jack responded, It was once my home and I lost many friends there. I owe it to their memory and the hope to make new friends. The only catch is that you keep the technology secret as its dissimulation could have dangerous consequences. That will be all we've got work to do.

There was a loud chatter of discussion among the attendees as the SG personnel exited the conference. Riker ordered B4 to look around and find out what he could and ordered the rest back to Enterprise.