WAR – PART 1
The fleets have arrived at Astrobaga, on one side, the Earth alliance fleet is lined up with Atlantis out in front, hundreds of Ancients line the decks of the ships ready and waiting. On the other side, a line of Verdain ships wait for orders with hundreds more behind and stacked like a wall, behind them sits the great battle ship, menacing and huge.
The line of Verdain ships start slowly pushing forward, advancing on the Earth fleet, as they continue to advance an order is given and 10 Jumpers and 10 Tel'tak ships de cloak ahead of Atlantis.
"Attack." screams the Commander in a prolonged wail.
The line of Verdain ships quickly gain speed and advance on the Earth fleet, the hulls of their ships glow as they build a charge ready to fire their weapons. The Jumpers and Tel'tak advance on the Verdain and release drones and cannon fire as they push forward, the Verdain fire their weapons to counter the approaching weapons fire.
A lot of weapons fire from both sides collide in to colourful explosions, some weapons fire makes it through and although many dodge out of the way many ships on both sides are hit, ships on both sides show damage but all still remain.
The weapons fire intensifies as they continue to advance, two Jumpers lose their drone pods in the strike and appear dead in space, another Jumper was lost, 4 Tel'tak vessels show damage with scorch lines all over their hulls from the enemy weapons fire, two Verdain ships were thrown off course and as they collided they explode setting off a chain reaction which takes several other ships with them.
Both the advancing Verdain and Earth ships break formation and scatter, soon the space between the fleets turns in to a garbled mess of explosions and weapons fire, the ships are all mixed together making it difficult for either side to tell who's is who's.
The Commander orders more ships to advance, another line of 100 ships manoeuvre out of formation and head in to the battlefield, they speed towards the Earth fleet and fire on the Jumpers and Tel'tak as they go.
As the second wave of Verdain ships reaches the Earth fleet, the Ancients step forward and hold out their hands with looks of intense concentration on their faces, they appear to form an invisible barrier between them and the approaching ships, as the Verdain open fire their weapons get through but their ships do not, they explode as they strike the barrier.
The Ancients successfully take out around 70 Verdain ships, while the rest turn and veer away back towards the battlefield.
Several of the large ships in the Earth fleet were hit by the weapons fire, all survived but their shields have been weakened by the attack. The Odyssey was scraped by a powerful energy blast which weakened it's rear shields, part of the blast struck the hull and life support has been lost on two decks.
Atlantis' shields are down to 82% but holding.
"We could use some help out here." shouts Sheppard over the radio.
O'Neill orders the deployment of more Tel'tak, Jumpers and Al'kesh to the battlefield.
As the Earth fleet deploys more ships, 100 more Verdain ships break formation and head in to battle.
More Jumpers and Tel'tak are lost in the the battlefield but the war wages on, as many of the Jumpers run out of drones they're forced to head back to Atlantis to reload, on their way back they're followed by a large number of Verdain ships.
Once again as the Verdain approach, the Ancients create a barrier between them, loads more ships are destroyed against the barrier but then the barrier drops and the Verdain make it through.
Ancients on board the all the ships hunch down from exhaustion as the Verdain open fire on the fleet.
On Atlantis, the crew see the Ancients hunching over and Raina spots Chaya fall against a console using her arms to hold herself up, "Chaya, are you ok?" asks Raina as she goes over to see what's wrong.
"We're running out of energy, the Verdain ships are too powerful, we can't hold them back for much longer." says Chaya as she gets her balance.
The Verdain ships that made it through the barrier are attacking the fleet and the ones following the Jumpers are able to pass directly through Atlantis' shield.
Military personnel stationed at the railguns take aim and open fire, Carson Beckett is in the drone chair of Atlantis and he starts firing drones at the enemy ships as they zigzag around the buildings of the city.
The Al'kesh spread out from the fleet, some head for the battlefield to help the smaller ships while others remain and fend off the ones that made it through the barrier. 8 Verdain ships descend on a single Al'kesh and unleash punishing weapons fire, the Al'kesh fires back but it's too late, within seconds their shields are down and the ship explodes.
Atlantis manages to destroy the Verdain attacking the city and the Jumpers have been reloaded and sent back in to battle, the Alliance, Daedalus and Odyssey advance forward.
O'Neill orders all X-302s and Death gliders be deployed, a few moments later they burst out of the ships bays one after the other.
The battle wages on and more ships are lost on both sides, the battlefield looks like a junk yard full of debris from broken ships, all that remains of the Earth fleet is Atlantis, Daedalus, Odyssey and 7 Al'kesh, luckily they've managed to take out a few hundred Verdain ships, but this war is far from over and their numbers are dropping quickly.
"General, we're out of this fight, we've taken too much damage, we're dead in the water." says the captain of the Odyssey over the radio.
"Ok captain we're coming to get you." says O'Neill and he gives McKay the order the head over to them.
"Sir, this is the Alliance, we're closer..we'll get them." says Swanson over the radio.
"Alright." replies O'Neill.
"There's more ships coming." shouts McKay.
As hundreds more Verdain ships are sent in to battle, the Nox on the surface of the planet join hands in a circle, look up the skies and start gathering the planets energy. The energy collects in to a sphere at the center of the circle and then in snaking streams of light they shoot out in to space attacking the Verdain ships.
The energy from the Nox is causing damage and slowly destroying Verdain ships, but it's taking a while to penetrate their armour, and with hundreds heading towards the main Earth fleet it's starting to look grim.