Carter turns to Mitchell "How did you.." questions Carter "The General sent us on a mission." replies Mitchell "When we got back to Earth after Teal's saved my a*** I asked Mitchell and Vala to take Teal'cs ship and Lya back to Gaia and look for the other Nox." says O'Neill, Carter thinks for a moment "Because you knew they could heal her. But how did you know any survived?" she says "I didn't, but come on, they're the Nox. Avoiding confrontations and hiding is what they do best, I knew there had to be some still alive." replies O'Neill.
O'Neill gets up from his seat and walks around to stand near Lya "Good to see you" he says in a very happy tone of voice, Lya bows her head "It is good to see you" she replies.
Lya turns and walks over to the table where the Novum are sitting and stands in front of them, she gives them a gentle bow of her head "I am Lya of the Nox" she says softly to the Novum. The Novum stand and bow their heads at Lya, then look at each other with smiles on their faces "Where are the others?" asks Lya and the Novum's happy expressions turn to slight sadness "We are the last." replies Jomar.
Lya's expression turns to one of regret and she turns around to face O'Neill "What has happened since our last encounter?" she asks "I went to Gaia to see what was going on but when we got there we didn't see any Nox and we saw your city was destroyed, then we bumped in to one of these Verdain and it almost killed us. The Verdain attacked us again but in one of their ships and almost killed us, if it wasn't for these kids we would probably be dead right now." replies O'Neill, "I see. I am thankful you are alive." says Lya "Back at you" replies O'Neill.
Daniel moves around the table to Lya "Hello" he says while smiling "Hello, Daniel" replies Lya "Lya, who are they?" asks Daniel wanting to know more about the Novum. Lya is a little surprised by his question "You don't know?" she replies "Not really. The Ancient Chaya Sar said they were her children, but we didn't know what she meant and before she could tell us more I think the other Ancients stopped her, they pulled her away." explains Daniel "They stopped her?" asks Lya "Yes." replies Daniel.
Lya steps back, closes her eyes and raises her head as if looking to the sky and after a few moments she says the words "Release her.". Then for a short while Lya doesnt say anything, Daniel and O'Neill share a look of wonder "Lya" says O'Neill who is taken back when Lya shouts "I said release her." she shouts quite loudly, Lya takes in a deep breath of frustration "I will give you a moment, but remind you that my patience will only last so long." she says.
"Erm...Lya?" says O'Neill and Lya opens her eyes and lowers her head to look at O'Neill "You ok?" asks O'Neill, Lya smiles at O'Neill "Yes, I am fine" replies Lya "We must take our seats" she says then walks around the table to sit down, O'Neill is still standing with Daniel, Vala and Mitchell in the center of the room and watches Lya walking around the table and sitting down "Rite." says O'Neill to those around him and everyone moves around to sit down.
With everyone seated, a few minutes pass by with no one talking "General, what are we waiting for?" whispers Woolsey leaning towards O'Neill and O'Neill shrugs his shoulders then faces Lya "Now what?" he asks her "We wait." replies Lya "Ah" says O'Neill and turns back to Woolsey "We wait." he says "What for?" asks Woolsey.
Suddenly in a flash of white light, Chaya is back. "I'm guessing that." says O'Neill to Woolsey.
"You're back" says Jomar "Yes" says Chaya smiling at the Novum. Chaya looks around the room and then steps forward towards Lya and bows her head "Thank you" she says to Lya who bows her head back at Chaya, "You can speak now. The others will not interfere." says Lya.
Chaya moves back to the middle of the room and begins to tell them about the Novum...
When my people first arrived in this galaxy we settled on a new world we called Dakara, and from there we set out to explore the galaxy. The galaxy and it's inhabitants were very different then to how it is now, we eventually came upon two indigenous races, the Nox and the Furlings who both had a wealth of knowledge and technology that was close to our own but that did not include space travel and they were unaware of each other.
Using the Stargates we introduced the Nox to the Furlings and eventually we realized what we could accomplish if we worked together and we soon formed an alliance to share our knowledge and technology.
Over many years the alliance grew strong, all our knowledge and technological advancement increased faster than it would have if we worked alone.
As the trust and friendship between our races increased over the years we decided to create a colony on Sehabo consisting of members from all 3 races, and many of the people in this colony began forming relationships and naturally they had children.
Due to these children having parents of different races they had amazing physical and mental abilities, they could learn very quickly and live a long life.
These children grew up really fast and in just a couple of years their physical form was that of a teenager, after reaching their teenage form their ageing slowed considerably.
These children, by their own choosing would eventually come to be known amongst our people as the Novum, children of the alliance.
"The new." says Daniel, O'Neill looks over to him "Excuse me?" he asks "Novum, it means the new." says Daniel who looks at Chaya "With members from different races having children they basically created a whole new race." says Daniel "Yes." replies Chaya.
"Why haven't we heard of them or met them before?" asks Daniel, at that point Lya leans forward in her chair, placing her hands on the table "Continue, Chaya." she says.
Most of the Novum were happy with who they were and did not believe they were any different to the rest of us, but there were a small few who believed they were. Those who believed they were better than the rest of us refused to work with the alliance and began fighting with the other Novum, as the fighting continued amongst them many of our people were injured and the rebellious Novum proved difficult to control.
Soon the rebels behaviour grew more destructive and they began a reign of terror on all our people, they destroyed many of our research facilities killing hundreds of people in an attempt to break up the alliance. The council branded their actions unacceptable and ordered their immediate detainment, but the rebels fled Sehabo before this could happen.
We didn't see or hear from them again until a few years later when they unexpectedly handed themselves in to the council.
Although their actions were clearly unacceptable and they had killed many of our people, they were still our children and we were pleased to see them again safe and well.
The rebels were brought before the council to explain themselves and they expressed genuine regret and apologised for their actions and wished to rejoin the alliance, but they also knew they had to be punished for what they had done.
The council ordered they be detained and transported to a planet without a Stargate where they would be given tasks to help all our people, such as growing crops and mining minerals until such time that we believe they're ready to rejoin the alliance.
They accepted this punishment and they were taken to a carrier ship and began their journey to the planet.
Shortly afterwards we lost contact with the carrier ship and then received a distress call from Sehabo, it was reported to the council that Novum children were vanishing from the surface before their very eyes.
Two of the alliance's ships were immediately dispatched to Sehabo and we arrived to see the carrier ship slowly being pulled in to a strange energy field behind them. We received a visual communication from the carrier ship, it was the rebels taunting us, calling us stupid and inferior and they were going to make us suffer.
We saw and heard the Novum children in the background of the transmission and we pleaded with the rebels not to harm them and asked them what they wanted. They replied in anger telling us they wanted nothing from us except our destruction and that we were an abomination.
We tried to move...
At this point Chaya can barely speak and is once again visually upset and crying, she drops to her knees and Sheppard gets out of his seat and quickly walks around to her "Chaya" he says as he gently lifts her back to her feet, Chaya looks at Sheppard and nods at him a few times "I'm ok" she says "Please continue" says Lya in a calming tone of voice.
Sheppard slowly lets go of Chaya's hand as he takes a few steps to the side and Chaya tries to compose herself and continues.
We tried to move our ships closer to the carrier but the energy field was too strong and it was preventing us from getting closer. We pleaded with them again asking them to stop and how could they do this to their own people, but again they refused and as the carrier was almost fully inside the energy field the rebels told us that this was just the beginning and one day they will destroy us all.
We watched helplessly as the carrier with Novum on board was engulfed in energy and their screams for help echoed through our ships as the carrier slowly disappeared before our eyes and although it felt like a lifetime, within moments they were gone.
At the final moment, the rebels sent us a message that simply read 'Verdain'.
We tried for years to find them, using every resource at our disposal we left no idea untried, but it would prove hopeless, the rebels being Novum were a lot smarter than we were and wherever they went we couldn't follow.
The alliance mourned the loss of our children but the alliance was never the same after that.
The Furlings, who were already a small population of just a few thousand lost most of their children that day and could not handle the loss, although they wished to remain a member of the alliance, they decided to gather what remained of their people and find a new home where they could live in peace and try to come to terms with that had happened.
After the Furlings left to find a new home, The Nox also found it tough to deal with and could not understand why this had happened. The Nox were unable to find any answers through technology so they began searching for them in a nature and the universe itself.
The Alterans also found it very tough and with the alliance unable to continue as it once did, we made the decision to leave Dakara and we built a new settlement on Terra where we continued to advance our technology in the hope that one day we would discover a way to bring back the children.
Chaya, who's face is wet from tears of sadness looks over to the Novum "We tried so desperately...Forgive us." she says in a shaky voice. The Novum with teary eyes jump from their seats and rush to Chaya and embrace her once again "It's ok, we don't blame you." whispers Raina.