"What is the meaning of this Teal'c." President Cha'ra of the Free Jaffa Nation demanded.
"To what do you refer?"
"Your son has been leading a fleet of Ha'tak against the Lucian Alliance with an Apophis class Mothership," Cha'ra demanded
"Ryac has been following the orders of Master Bra'tac. Bra'tac has been working with the Tau'ri to avenge themselves against the Lucian Alliance for the death of their homeworld without angering or endangering their new alliance the Cyranians."
"And they do not ask us for help officially?"
"That was my recommendation. We do not know who among our troops are sympathetic to the Alliance. We have already captured 12 ha'tak. Half belong to the Tau'ri as per our agreement. But we are gradually destroying their ability to attack us."
"Teal'c, this has gone on long enough. You cannot have your loyalty split between the Tau'ri and your brothers. Yes, you have weakened the Alliance, but now they will begin to focus their attention on us. And there is still the matter of the Mothership."
"The mothership is a Tau'ri creation. It is not a mothership. Rather it is the last ship they built on Earth. It uses the technology of the Asgard to disguise itself as another ship. They and I believed the strategy of disguising itself as a Mothership would be wiser than revealing that they have a new class of ship."
"Teal'c, I cannot condone this. Now the Alliance and Wraith believe that we have access to a Mothership. You have bluffed, and we do not have the strength to hold that bluff."
The Start of the WarRepresentative Woolsey, General Landry, General O'Neill, Rodney Mckay, and Colonel Carter walked into the office of the President. The Entire Quorum and Military leaders of Cyrannus had been summoned. "I'm afraid that I have bad news. An hour ago I received word from the Jaffa. In the past day, they have fought three battles against the Superhive. They lost 15 ships, another nine badly damaged. But they have finished off the Lucian Alliance ships."
"What the hell were they thinking?" Landry asked.
"That's what I want to know?" Adar asked, "And I want to know what this accusation of the Jaffa's about you having access to a new class of battleship?" The Terran officers looked to each other thankful that Teal'c warned them in advance.
"They want to recover their pride. They took a hit when we came to you for refuge." O'Neill said, "They believe that if they destroy the Hive then their honor will be restored. As for the battleship. That's true. We were building a new ship when Earth was destroyed. However, we did not have to report that according to Article 12 of the Black operations protocol established after the Cylon War." Adar looked at Jack in shock.
"That what you have as an excuse. Article 12!"
"Yes. We have the right to run our black ops without informing other colonies. We aren't running them against the Colonies. And our treaty allows us to attack the Lucian Alliance. And we needed the Sol Revenge to do that."
"What are the abilities of the Sol Revenge?"
"Advanced Holographic overlays allowing the Sol Revenge to disguise itself as other classes of ships. The Sol Revenge could easily pretend to be a Ha'tak, Mercury, Columbia or even a space station. Weapons; 12 APB, 20 plasma cannons, 40 railguns, five dual heavy KEW's, and 75 fighters."
Adar shook his head. With even the little he knew of that technology that the 305 could tear through the Colonies fleets with little trouble. "Is there anything else that we should know?"
"We still have access to the shipyard to build the BC-305. It was our first off-world shipyard." Landry said.
"Fine. I want you to bring the BC-305 to the Colonies. It will be integrated into the fleet like the BC-304's. I also want an accounting done on the locations of all the BC-304's and the Tria."
"Very well."
"Alright, now this Horizon Colony. What is it?""
"Nothing malicious. Some of our people didn't want to trust the Colonial fleet, so we set up a Colony outside the Cyrannus system."
"Alright. I know that there's something else going on at this colony. But I doubt that anyone will be able to find out. But I don't appreciate this."
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"I don't know whether to laugh or be angry. They played us." Newly promoted Admiral William Adama said "And they used our laws to do it."
"We underestimated them," Adar said.
"They aren't fools. They may not be used to our politics but we are all human, and they are learning quickly." Nagala said.
"We need to do something with the Sol Revenge," Adama said, "Cain is going to be a problem. She is going to demand that the Sol Revenge be stripped for study. Or assigned to her command."
"That isn't going to happen," Adar said, "I have never liked Cain. She is extremely hostile to the Terrans."
"I agree, putting Cain in command of the Sol Revenge is a disaster waiting to happen," Nagala said, "She's a loyal officer, but she is far too arrogant and brutal to be trusted with this."
Admiral Adama then said, "Before O'Neill left he told me the Revenge was under the Command of Colonel Carter, so I doubt Cain could do anything. Carter would not let her, most likely would take the ship and leave if Cain tried."
"Very well." Adar reached over to his intercom and paged his secretary. "Jo, please send in Admiral Landry and O'Neill." "Mr. President. Admirals." The two Terrans greeted after snapping off a salute "Admirals; please take a seat. This is going to take some maneuvering to keep the naysayers down. What you did isn't illegal but it will hurt your reputation. I assume that Teal'c was told to reveal the 305 and the colony if the Jaffa discovered the small fleet of Ha'tak."
"Yes," O'Neill said, "Teal'c is my closest friend and brother in every way but blood. But he needs to establish his nation. And he can't do that if his loyalty is in doubt."
"I see. Admirals, I don't personally mind that you didn't tell us about the 305 or the shipyard, but some will. So we need to deal with this now. The best way to do this is to assign the command of the Sol Revenge to someone who is neutral to the Admiralty. Colonel Carter is an excellent Commander. And her work is not in doubt. But the Admirals won't want command of a ship that can eat its way through the Colonies to be with someone they don't know. As a show of good faith, changing the Commanding Officer of the Sol Revenge to Colonel Simpson would be a good way to do that."
"We have been expecting that. And we were going to assign him as the Sol Revenge's commander soon." "Why?" "In many ways the Sol Revenge is similar to a Battlestar. And he is the only member of our Military to serve on a Battlestar."
"I see," Adama said, "Will the Sol Revenge's crew have a problem with the change of command?" "No. Samantha didn't want to command the Sol Revenge in the first place. She is being reassigned to the General Hammond. She ship she was slated to command before the fall." Adama nodded.
O'Neill then added, "We already had Carter bring Simpson up to speed on the Revenge. Carter has had command of the ship since we launch it but since it similar to a Battlestar. When Simpson had the time we had him on the ship so Carter could bring him up to speed on the ship. The Crew has just been waiting for him to take full command but because of his duties as the liaison officer he has not been able to."
"O'Neill, will you explain the reasoning behind the Jaffa's attacks on the Wraith and Alliance?"
"Their pride has been hurt. When we, the Terrans, asked you for aid. In their mind, we said we didn't consider them worthy of helping us when we helped them."
"That's," Adar said in shock.
"The way they think," Jack said cutting him off, "The Jaffa's pride has been beaten on in hundreds of ways the last 15 years. First admitting that the Goa'uld are not gods, accepting help from humans, accepting that their symboits, previously a sign of their strength, need to be removed as they are a sign of their enslavement. Then finally, we the Terrans ask you for help and not them when we did so much for them. We said that they weren't good enough to ask for help. In many ways, we spat in their face when we asked you to take our people in. Which is another reason we went to them for help fighting the Alliance. They see combat as more honorable than providing material aid."
"So they are trying to regain their pride?" Adar asked
"Yes," Jack said.
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As the Sol Revenge drops out of Hyperspace for the first time in the Colonies she entered orbit around Pallas in the ship CIC, Commander Simpson was looking over a few reports as he says, "I hate the fact we have been ordered back here to play guard. This ship is much better off causing trouble for the Wraith."
With most of the Black Ops busted, in part, thanks to the Jaffa. The remaining Black ops forces were working on ways to do what they needed, with the Revenge currently on lockdown due to the Colonies.
The sensor officer reports, "Sir a ship just jumped into orbit with us, IFF reads as the Battlestar Pegasus." With that Simpson groaned, he was already warned by O'Neill this might happen and.
He said, "make sure the landing bays stay closed. There's no way to board this ship with those doors closed."
On the Pegasus, Cain was looking over a live view of the Earth built Battlestar and said, "Get me a line to that ship."
"This is Admiral Cain to BattleStar Sol Revenge you will prepare to be boarded to have your ship inspected by me and other Colonial Officers."
Simpson rolls his eyes and says, "Power up the shields only. Open comm lines to the Pegasus and the satellite comm relay 1. I want everyone who is listening to hear this conversation." he then activated his headset and replied, "Admiral Cain this is Commander Simpson, commanding officer of the Terran Battlestar Sol Revenge we will not let you or anyone else come aboard. Under Article 12, this ship is declared off limits, as our right as one of the Colonies. We will not endanger any past operations this ship has been a part of thanks to you or anyone else thought to tell people what you think of them." What Simpson did not say was 'i do not plan to let you learn that we have a lot more hidden that what anyone knows.
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In his office on Caparica, Adar's meeting with Adama and Nagala when his aid bust in and said "Sorry to interrupt Mister President but we need Admiral Nagala. Admiral Cain and Commander Simpson are in a face off. Admiral Cain demanded access to the Sol Revenge and Commander Simpson refused her."
The aid pressed a finger to his ear communicator and paled, "Sir the Pegasus is powering her weapons and locking on. The next message came over the Comms, Cain said, "you will power down your ship and prepare to be boarded. I am an Admiral of the Fleet, and I will see what is on that ship Commander. No matter what you say."
On the Revenge, Simpson rolled his eyes and replied, "Think what you will Admiral, Colonial Law protects this ship even from you. This ship is part of the Pallas defense fleet and under the purview of the Pallas government. President Adar could request access and get it. But you do not have that authority."
Before Cain could do anything else Admiral Nagla came in over the comm channel and said, "Admiral Cain you will stand down now and return to your post. That ship is not part of your Battle Group, and she is protected by Article 12 of Colonial Law. And the Articles of Colonisation. Are are close to violating those same articles? Return to your post."
In the CIC of the Pegasus, Cain glared at the comm line. An aid ran up to her and whispered in her ear. She paled slightly. The aid just told her that the conversation between the three was being broadcast in the clear across the colonies. That and her, very clear, violation of the articles was a huge sting to her pride. Add in what she had just been told to do by Admiral Nagala she was humiliated.
She glared at the dradis image of the unknown Battlestar that Earth had built. The Colonies had right to see what secrets the Ship had, but she was being told to back down. She look at Colonel Balzen and says "Jump us back to Picon" before she turn and walk out of the CIC to vent her anger.
Back on the Revenge Commander Simpson watch as the Ship jump away before saying "Keep a lock on that ship, I want to know it position at all times I do not think this is over with Cain." The offer at the Sensor said, "Yes Sir."
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(Colonial Admiralty Conference room / Picon)
After the excitement between the Pegasus and Sol Revenge had been settled Admiral Nagala began briefing the Admiralty on the Jaffa situation. "We have a problem. The Jaffa are throwing away ships like candy at a parade. At this rate, they will deplete their fleet within the month." Admiral Nagala said.
"Why should we care if they want to throw away their fleet?" Cain sneered still stinging over her humiliation.
"Because they are the only thing standing between the Superhive and the Colonies. Until the battlestars are upgraded no one is safe." O'Neill said.
"Maybe you should hand over your technology so that we can upgrade our ships then General."
"Cain that is enough. We have gone over this. We can't support the strongest technology at their disposal. When the technology breaks, we would have no way to repair it. And Admiral O'Neill is a fellow officer in the Colonial Fleet. Treat him as such." Cain glowered at the Nagala for the public rebuke but said nothing.
"Now, Admiral O'Neill has told us why we need to aid the Jaffa. What can we do to aid them?"
O'Neill thought for a moment and said, "The Revenge would be the best ship to send since she can hide what she is, other then that there nothing that we have that can help the Jaffa without weakening the defenses here."
"Well." Rodney started, he was still on Odyssey, but a long range teleconference had been set up. According to Woolsey, Mckay was off world helping fix some equipment on Horizon. "I've been working to run a trace program on Atlantis. It was built by the Ancients to locate all their technology in a galaxy. I'm hoping that it will allow us to bring all the Ancients outposts in the galaxy back online. If we can do that, we will have their sensors that we can tie into Atlantis's and have a better picture of the Galaxy."
"How long will this take Doctor?" Nagala asked.
"I'm not sure. I'm still decrypting the actual program, and then I need to figure out how to activate it. But if I can activate it we could have several new outposts at our disposal."
"I'm interested Doctor. But we still don't have a way to destroy the Superhive." Jack and Landry looked at each other.
"We may have a way to destroy it. We didn't use it above Earth because it's an endgame weapon. If it's used everything within a 5 AU will be destroyed."
"And you have this on Pallas?" Adama asked angrily.
"No. We used the destroyed SunTzu to build a Vault; you could call it, where we stored the most dangerous technology we have access to. The weapon is in this vault. It's an Ancient power source that was tampered with. If we had a way to fix it we would, its value is incalculable. But if sacrificing it means we can get rid of that damn Hive, I would sacrifice all of the ZPM's we have." Jack said.
"So how can we destroy the Hive ship with this tampered ZPM, if it exploding will destroy a planet?"
"Easy. We lure it into open space. Then destroy the ZPM."
"McKay will the detonation of a ZPM at least 50% charged destroy the hive?"
"Most likely. I haven't seen the current sensor reading of the Hive's hull density. But even if it isn't destroyed, it's jamming system will be. All we would need to do then is beam their ZPM out. So either the hive is completely vaporised, or it's destroyed but intact and we can remove the ZPM. Or the ZPM is lost, and we don't have to worry about it."
"Hold on, why didn't you do this before?" Cain asked.
"We don't have any guarantee that it will work. And our small fleet isn't enough to guarantee that the ZPM will be able to hit the Hive. We can't beam near the hive. So we need to put the ZPM into a missile. And the Darts of the Hive are experts at missile interception."
"So we need to use Vipers to thin out the Dart fields," Adama said.
"And to modify a missile to hold the Zero Point Module."
"We will tell the Jaffa that the Terrans have a plan to destroy the hive and that we need to know its location. And we activate the program, assuming McKay can get it working." Jack said outlining the plan. The assembled Admirals nodded agreeing.
"Make it happen." Nagala said and dismissed the meeting.
When he returned to Atlantis, McKay finished decrypting the program and set it out via subspace. The results returned a few hours later. Only seven of the forty two Alterran outposts in Avalon were still functioning, and only three had the power to achieve even partial sensor resolution. Teams were sent to all seven outposts with a mark 12 Naquadah reactor. A technology on the data crystal brought back by Colonel Shepherd during his 48,000 year trip to the future. Nicely included by that futures version of Dr. McKay.
With the Mark 12, the outposts were at a close estimation of full power. Their sensors, shields and weapons were back online. Sensor data was being fed back to Atlantis, and the Super Hive was located.
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Icarus
When McKay and Odyssey returned to Avalon the flight decks and cargo bays were filled with equipment from the crashed City ship. Upon arrival, the equipment was beamed down to Taoth and automatically, the terminals connected to the city and formed the new data network.
"Dr. Rush, how's the new equipment?" Colonel Young asked. Rush and his protege Eli Wallace were installing a terminal in the shipyard. "It's good. It connected to the cities network as soon as it arrived. The control chair was the greatest addition. It's sped up our efforts immensely. It linked to the Asgard Core, the Taoth's original systems, Our computers, and the Lantean tech and created a workable network as soon as Eli here asked it to."
"Eli, you sat in the chair?"
"Dr. McKay told me that I had the ATA gene, and I wanted to see what using the chair was like." "Don't do it again. We can't afford to break anything. Slow and steady Eli." "Yes, Colonel." "Thank you. However you did a good job, so, good work."
"Rush, when will we be able to start building ships. I just got word from Atlantis that most of our black ops we're discovered. We're still hidden, but Atlantis can't afford to send ships in our direction."
"I see. Well, the Core has almost finished the first shipyard. But, were running the MEC's at a level they were never intended to run at. We need to build more heavy duty converters. And, the strain on our power conduits is immense." Rush said.
"We need," Eli took over "another cargo ship. Something to collect raw matter that the MEC's can use as a base. And I found something in the Asgard core, and an equivalent device in Taoth." "Go on Eli. I want to hear this." Young said "Well. The Asgard had a method of mining stars for stuff like Neutronium and other material. I think, we could build one of these mining facilities. It's not overly complex. And it won't take us long either. And Taoth, it has its mining facility and factory. This city, it's the place where the first Stargate was built. So the factory is easily able to build anything we need."
"Excellent. Eli, get to work building the ship." "Ahh, slight problem. We need a ship first, to collect the materials we can't just replicate." "What kind of ship?" Eli gulped knowing that this wouldn't be well received "A Wraith Dart would be best. We need its culling beam. Along with someone who knows how to fly it and reprogram the culling equipment."
"That's a tall order, Eli."
"Tell them that we need a Dart to build a fleet to kick the Wraiths ass."
Young laughed and patted Eli on the shoulder. "I get you what you need Eli."
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"Colonel Shepherd, Dr. Zelenka. Welcome to Taoth Icarus."
"Nice place," Shepherd said, behind him a wraith dart was being pulled through the gate. "Where do you want the package?"
"This way." Young then tapped his communicator and said, "Dr. Rush, we have the Dart. Beam it to the lab."
The Dart vanished into the familiar sight of an Asgard beam. "We have it. Please have Dr. Zelenka join us. So we can start work." "Well Doctor, this way." Everett led Zelenka and Shepherd to the Lab.
"So why am I here?" Shepard asked.
"We need you to fly the Dart to collect the material we need to begin construction of a mineral collector. Mr. Wallace informed me that this mining device is an Asgard Device that orbits a Neutron Star. The device will then pull Neutronium out of the star and store it."
"And will I need to go near a Star?" "No, the material we need is on the nearby planet. The planet is inhospitable, so the Dart is being fitted with a shield generator." "Sounds like a plan."
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Atlantis / Conference Room
"Good news," Rodney said walking into Woolsey's office, "The outposts are online, and we are getting sensor data."
"Tell me you found the Hive."
"I found the hive. It's in orbit of P3X- 571."
"Excellent, how are the outposts?"
"The outposts are good. But, we do have some bad news."
"Of course you do, what is it?"
"The outposts have increased our sensor resolution immensely. And this showed us that the Wraith are building more hives. Plus, the energy readings from some of these hives are identical to ones recorded in Pegasus."
"The Wraith have made a return trip." "Yes, we located five hives that were previously in Pegasus and the Wraith are building more."
"Terrific," Wolsey said sarcastically. "What else?"
"Sensor readouts show Naquadah reactors in the hive. This Wraith is incorporating Goa'uld technology into their ships."
"Crap. How bad is this?"
"Thanks to Todd we know everything there is about Hives. I had run a simulation before I came here. One reactor from a Ha'tak power a 100% increase in hull armor. And should they decide to add in Goa'uld shields they will be even harder to destroy. And they have enough room for 15 such reactors on each hive. More should they reconfigure their ships. And wraith are not idiots." Rodney explained.
"What are you planning?"
"We should arm the industrialized worlds of Avalon and Pegasus."
"What?"
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Quorum Council Chambers / Caprica
"The Terrans believe that the only way to truly finish off the wraith is to get the other industrialized worlds to help with this. The Terrans are willing to hand over designs for the BC-303, modified to Goa'uld level technology, to every industrialized world in Avalon. Meaning; the Galarans, Hebridians, Langarans, Orbanians, and Pangarans. They also believe that we should contact a space faring race in Pegasus." Nagala said.
Adar thought about it and looked again at the printouts of the planet where the Wraith were building up their forces. He knew that the Wraith would be done before the battlestars were ready.
"Send the message, bring them here. We will be offering them Valkyries as well. Now tell me about these Travelers."
Aboard the BattleStar Atlantia in orbit of for former Alpha Site; Adar, Nagala, and Woolsey were meeting with the leaders of every known industrialized world in Avalon.
When they arrived, Woolsey explained who the wraith were and what the superhive was and how it was powered. Everyone, the travelers especially, were terrified. The travelers understood that when the superhive was finished in this galaxy they would return to Pegasus and take over the Wraith there, they would just jump back and forth between galaxies and grow their population even larger.
"What can we do about it?" Jonas Quinn asked.
"We intend on sharing some of our technology with you," Woolsey said. "After speaking to the Quorum we have chosen to share the designs of the Battle Cruiser 303 - Prometheus, the Battlestar Valkyrie and plasma weapons of equal power to the Goa'uld. We will help you all build your ships." Woolsey said and let President Adar take over.
"Yes, we intend on driving the Wraith out of this Galaxy and Pegasus. However, we can't do it on our own. Our 12 worlds, have been cut off from the galaxy since our founding. So we do not know how the galaxy works or who everyone is. We need you to help us navigate the galaxy and introduce us to friends, and then let us deal with the wraith as we find them. We don't want you to fight the Wraith until you are ready. Your would simply be throwing away the lives of your people and ships. We just need your help to keep the peace after the Wraith are gone."
"And what if you lose." Larin of the travelers asked.
"We won't," Adar said, "we are much like Earth was before it was destroyed. We believe the Ancients did something to cause our cultures to evolve so similarly. But all the military skills that Earth had we have. But unlike Earth we can put our full power into building ships and use our full military might against our enemies. Earth could only ever use less than 1/100th of its full industrial might. " This caused all the other representatives to look at Woolsey in shock. which grew when he nodded.
Adar explained to the representatives how they would be given the designs for Mk2 Vipers and Mk1 Raptors, The BC-303, the Valkyrie, and for those that need it Naquadah reactors. However, the designs for the Jump drives would be kept behind. The ships were modified to carry a hyperdrive instead of the FTL drive. A hyperdrive that can travel at 35 LY/hr.
After the meeting was over Adar spoke to Larin and offered her another deal.
"Commander Larin. May I speak with you."
"Of Course."
"Please come with me."
They were soon in a separate room and seated around a table. "Commander, We have a separate deal for you. You see, like the Terrans were are new to hyperspace travel. While we have been in space for over 2,000 years. We use another FTL drive. In exchange for a schematic of your hyperspace engines, weapons (Ship and hand), and shields. We are offering three Columbia class battlestars with shields, hyperdrive, and modern reactors. To put that in perspective a Valkyrie is 748 meters long. A Columbia is 1439 meters. We are also offering three tylium mining/refinery ships, and a botanical ship. For your designs."
"Why are you offering this?"
"We don't understand crystal computers yet. To be able to use computers that we understand will make a lot of my people a lot more comfortable. You read about the Cylon war my people fought?"
"Yes, we did."
"Then you know why we are so reluctant to use computers that we don't understand." Larin nodded, and then Adar added on another deal. "Lastly we are offering a space station, based on what the Terrans built for themselves using one of our designs but modified for their needs. It has a hyperspace engine, and three factory modules within that can build small shuttles, a refinery, and hull plating/skeleton."
"Stop right there. What is your real reason?"
Adar nodded knowing she would ask that. "We want you on our side. I don't think you would ever join the Wraith or anything like that. But we want a guide in Pegasus. The former Ori Priors have agreed to build a Supergate in Pegasus. We want a friendly guide to show us around. For the station, I want your help to find a planet they we can start a Colony in Pegasus. Hopefully to be a staging area to deal with the Wraith in Pegasus as well. The Terrans, while they could do it, are still focused on rebuilding their society. Even with the Terrans help we are still massively behind the Jaffa and Wraith. My people will be the ones on the frontlines against the Wraith. I want the best chance against them. I hope that your technology will even the odds.
"So you want to butter me up to make it more likely for us to guide you through Pegasus so you could find the Lanteans technology?"
"True."
"But don't you have Atlantis?"
"That is the property of the Terrans. Zeus and Ascended Lantean told my people not to try and take Atlantis from them. He then proved that he was an ascended by opening the box of Pandora. An item that was left in my people's care before the Lords left us on our own."
"Alright, I will talk to my government. I expect that they will agree to your proposal."
"Thank you, Commander."
Adar was in his office looking over the latest progress reports of the fleet upgrade. The Picon University had designed and sold the design for a new factory for the construction of Plasma weapons for the Battlestars. And the Scorpia Institute of Technology had designed a factory for Naquadah Reactors. Once they were built in five months, they would be turning out weapons and reactors for the new generation of Battlestars.
There were now had 15 upgraded battlestars and 1 completed Warstar. Honestly, he thought that calling the Olympus a Warstar was overstating it. It was really on a quarter larger than a Mercury. It was just an oversized gunboat. The additional size was really for the three massive Naquadah reactors. The additional reactors though allowed the Warstar to reach speeds of hyperspace 7, or 70 LY/hr. The Warstars commander had managed to convince the design team to add on two proper hangar bays. With the Wraith, threat fighters would decide a great portion of the battles would be decided by fighters.
A week after the signing of the Legion treaty The fifteen upgraded Battlestars and the Aurora Tria left Cyrannus for the last known location of the superhive. Three weeks later they arrived, and the Tria started scanning for the Superhive. The Tria soon located it and their plan went into effect. The Tria jumped into hyperspace for the Hive, and the Colonials entered black mode and shut down all systems possible.
The Tria and two 304s arrived at the hive and started peppering it with APBs and drones. The Terrans kept their ships out of the firing arc of the wraith weapons above and below the sides of the hive. After a few minutes of this the Hammond and Apollo allowed themselves to get hit, and they faked heavy damage. Moments later they jumped into Hyperspace. Colonel Ellis allowed the Apollo to leak radiation, and the Superhive followed them. A few minutes later the Terrans dropped out of hyperspace, the Superhive right behind them. The battlestars quickly powered up, and 30 Jaffa, 7 Ori, and all the 304's dropped out of hyperspace. On the Tria, a weaker version of the Atarro Device powered up stopping the Wraith from leaving.
The allied fleet started firing immediately, their weapons attacking the hive at full power and speed. Drones, plasma bolts, and beams crossed space and slammed into the wraith armor burning away whole sections. Only for the armor to grow back almost immediately. Between the fleets fighters were engaging in a massive dogfight as thousands of fighters were launched from the fleets and hive. The first ship to fall was the Battlestar Horizon, soon followed by the Ha'tak Chulak's Pride. Just before the Ha'tak lost shields, it rammed the superhive heavily damaging it. However, it was not enough.
The Superhive just kept on coming. An Ori ship fell next. The Wraith weapons were finally able to pierce the Ori shields. However, they couldn't stop until the Darts were gone. But, that fight was taking longer than they hoped. The Darts were less maneuverable than the Vipers, but they were faster.
It took ten minutes for the Vipers to eliminate the Darts. An eternity in a space battle. It the Allied fleet lost half their numbers.
The second the last Dart was destroyed the Vipers performed emergency landings. The ships began to jump away, and the Tria was the last ship to remain. Twelve nukes were launched at the hives engines and detonated destroying the hyperdrive. Then the ZPM missile was launched. As soon as it hit the hive the Tria vanished in an FTL flash.
Seconds later the massive explosion was visible. The explosion was so massive that subspace communications were blanketed across the galaxy. A Raptor was sent back after the explosion cleared and detected the Superhive. It was intact but dead.
Not willing to leave it at that, O'Neill returned and beamed the ZPM to his ship rendering the hive inert. Rodney Mckay and a team of Marines boarded the hive and downloaded its logs and O'Neill beamed a MK9 aboard the hive, destroying it.
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"What is it, Doctor?" O'Neil asked as the fleet traveled back to Cyrannus.
"This isn't the end. You know about the Wraith ships being grown. Well, when I downloaded the Superhives database I got ahold of everything they have been doing. I have schematics for the new hives and everything."
"Good. Maybe we can end this war."
"Ya, no. The Wraith managed to design a naquadah reactor powerful enough to power their cloning facilities. And the Superhive made a trip back to Pegasus and picked up two queens. They are cloning queens, commanders, and drones."
"Like Todd was planning to."
"Yes. They already have 6,000 Wraith in this galaxy. And when the cloning facility is complete." Rodney didn't have to say what that would mean. Those cloning facilities were what allowed the Wraith to defeat the Ancients.
"Where is the facility, Rodney?"
"I don't know it's not in the data. He must not have put it on the computers."
"Check the flight logs."
"I have. I'm not an idiot General. I am looking everywhere it could be."
"Calm down Rodney and focus." "General. I know what I am doing, let me work."
In the end, the data was gone, and there was no way to recover it. After the fleet had been restored, they launched attacks at every location with Wraith ships they could. Over the next week, every wraith ship they had the location of was destroyed. Nevertheless, they never caught the Queens or the other commanders. They also didn't find 3 of the 12 Hives and 7 of the 30 cruisers that the Superhive towed to Avalon.
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Sitting in the gravitational dead zone between a binary star rested a massive Wraith structure. Built from two hive ships and developed from there, the structure was a wraith space station. Inside was the cloning facility and enough room to begin growing hive ships.
"My Queen. The last of our outposts have been demolished."
"As expected. It seems that we have another war to settle in for."
"Yes, my Queen."
"What is the progress of the first clone batch?"
"Very well, the first will be complete in another month. And the cloning of the queens will be done within a week."
"Very good. I will see to the new queens myself. I must make sure that their loyalty is assured."
"Of course."
"And what of the Terrans. I saw a Lantean Warship on the recordings of the Superhives fall."
"It is the Lantean Warship, Tria. Doubtless the last of its kind in existence."
"It is of no matter. Soon it will run out of drones and then we will destroy it. How long until we can begin construction of the second station?"
"Another three months my queen."
"Good, notify me when the first clone batch is complete. I will be with the new queens."
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The Cylons"Well, this is good news." Six said
"Yes, it is. With the hive ships destruction, we can finally begin our plan." Cavil said.
"Not yet." De Anna countered "There are still other Wraith ships in the galaxy. And we have only just begun to study the Wraith technology we recovered from the Superhive wreckage. I vote that we hold off on attacking for now. What does it matter when we attack. We will soon have hyperspace engines for our basestars. Energy weapons, nuclear proof bioarmor, and proper sublight engines."
"You are beginning to sound like you admire these wraith. And I'm beginning to doubt that you ever intend to attack the Humans."
"We're immortal and machines Cavil. What does it matter when we attack? We could wait 100 years, and it would make no difference. The humans will fall to us. Who cares when we attack them."
"She makes a good point Cavil. Why the rush? I would almost think that your eagerness is an emotional response. But that is impossible, emotions are a human weakness." Simon said smirking. Cavil glared at him, nonetheless agreed to hold off on the attack until the fleet was augmented with Wraith technology.
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"Dr. Baltar what have we found from the Goa'uld mothership?" Adar asked in the presidential bunker. As part of their security measures for the protection of the Anubis technology, it was spoken of only in a room free of all electronics. Even the lighting was provided by candles, and life support was a closed system.
"We have begun to extract the data. Thanks to the computer technology provided by the Terrans we have managed to decrypt the data. We are going through it now. So far we have gained the schematics for hyperdrives, weapons, power generation, shields, sublight and so much more. I have even uncovered the technology for an automated naquadah refinery. Once we get that up and running, we could upgrade our autonomous shipyards and make them, conservatively, 150% faster than they already are. In fact I recommend we do that now and send that shipyard to set up a new colony somewhere far from Cyranus."
"I agree. But first, have the Terrans been scamming us?"
"You mean with technology." Adar nodded, "No, they have been honest with that. The Goa'uld tech is advanced, but the Asgard is more so. Why would they have used this tech when they had the Asgard. The only reason we aren't using the Terrans tech is because we can't support a full fleet upgrade."
"So why don't we just upgrade part of the fleet?" Adar asked.
"We can, once we have methods to produce the tech. Only the Terrans can do that. And remember that they are using Goa'uld tech to supplement their ships."
"Baltar, can we use the Goa'uld tech to find the materials that are needed to build Asgard technology?"
"You mean like the sensors?"
"Yes. If we can find and mine the necessary material than the Terrans will have to help us build the tech. I don't care if they use it to repair their fleet first. But I want to force them to help us upgrade the fleet. Under Article 3 of the Articles of Colonisation they have to help support the Colonial Fleet."
"You're going to enjoy this aren't you."
"Immensely. I need to you to fit a Battlestar with Sensors to locate Neutronium and Tritium. Does the computer have the profiles for those metals?"
"Yes. I already checked. I get the sensors and a computer core fitted ASAP."
"Good, than I want you to start stripping the ship and upgrade the Triton."
"Yes, Mr. President."
Pallas City Pallas
Inside a hall, a group of people was talking about the Colonial Government and the Government that came to power when Earth was destroyed. These people who had come from every nation and every walk of life were unhappy with how their government were dealing with the Colonial Government. It was decided since Atlantis was not the Capital of this world that they send a message to President Adar and request help to set up a new government for the people of Pallas. These people were acting out of pain for the lost of their love ones. There was an old saying in Colonial history this has happened before and will happen again.
The actions that were being plan by these people would cause nothing but pain for the people who live though the fall and Earth and the Colonial People. Their actions would cause brother to question brother and lead to the most powerful of the human nations to split apart leaving the Galaxy a weaker overall.