Stargate Atlantis
Season 6
Episode 4
Flashback to when General Horton found the Hammer
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis isnt mine neither are the characters from the tv show or books. this story is along with the new characters
General Horton wakes up in the infirmary of the Hammer. Doctor Jennifer Keller comes and sees how he's doing. She looks at where she removes the blade from his ribs. "Your completely healed Heath your Wraith healing abilities must have finally begun to catch up with your Ancient abilities."
"May I go doctor?" He asks.
"I don't see any reason to keep you when there is nothing wrong with you," She answers. He gets up and heads for the bridge. He passes by soldiers and they move out of the way of the general and salute he returns their salutes. He arrives on the bridge. Colonel Caldwell, Colonel Sam Carter, and Rodney McKay are all busy on the bridge. Captain Dave is in conversation with another Lantian. Serenity hologram turns towards him.
"General Horton, I'm glad you could join us," she says. They all turn to look at him.
"How much damage did the Hammer take against those Super Hives?"
"We lost all shields, intergalactic hyperdrive is down one sublight engine is down, and we had to beam two ZPMs out because they were going to overload. All Lantian armaments are offline except for the drones. We have a couple of hull breeches but in unoccupied areas of the ship. Those areas have been sealed off until we can repair them. The Long Range communications array has been destroyed also. We only have life support for 4 days." Colonel Sam Carter tells him.
"Well it could've been much worse," he says.
"Why you say that?" Rodney asks.
"The Empress was on her way along with three more Super Hives and a few destroyers." Heath answers. They look at him trying to find out how he knows that. "Now I'm going to turn in we'll have a briefing tomorrow." He leaves and goes to his quarters. He begins to dreams about the Hammer's construction and when his team found it.
Ten thousand years ago the Lantian High Council calls Captain Dave and his officers to the council chamber. They enter. The Lantian Royal Family is present. "Captain Dave, we have a special assignment for you?"
"What is that milord?" Captain Dave asks.
"Our ship designer has come up with and idea for a new Lantian Battle Cruiser and we want you and your men to build the ship." Captain Dave is shock by the council decision to allow him and his crew to build a Lantian Warship. "Once it is completed you will be the commander of the ship." Once again he is shock by not only being allow to build the ship but gets to command the ship once it's completed. Captain Dave's last warship was crippled by the Wraith, but not before he mange to destroy two Hives and one cruiser before jumping into hyperspace.
"It shall be done milord," he answers. They leave the council chamber. Janis comes up to Captain Dave he gives him the A.I Serenity who will be for the new ship after its construction. Captain Dave and his small crew board Puddle Jumpers and leave through the Stargate. They arrive through a space gate orbiting a moon. A screen pops up showing where they are heading. They approach the Lantian Moon Shipyard. The updated versions of the Arcturus Heavy Batteries track them. The A.I Hope tracks them not because they are Wraith just out of percussion. The Jumper lands and Captain Dave is met by Commander Alex the person in charge of the shipyard. They go to the shipyard's control room and that is where Captain Dave shows the specifications of the new Battleship. The Lantians decide to call it the Hammer-Class. The specification reads:
Manufacturer: Lanteans
Designer: Lanteans
Model: Battleship
Class: Hammer
Technical specifications:
Length: 6,800 meters
Width: 800 meters
Height/Depth: 700 meters
Engine Units:
*Main Drives (4)
*Auxiliary drives (7)
Hyperdrive System:
*Intergalactic (2)
Power plants
*Power Crystal Cores (12)
*ZPM (3)-When Found
Hull:
2 feet of Ancient Naquadah Hull/Armor
Armaments:
*1: MG (Main Gun) Cannon
*30: Arcturus Heavy Batteries
*80: Quad PPG (Pulse Plasma Gun) Turrets
*14 Drone Launchers (700,000 Drones/50000 per Launcher)
Complement:
*10 Jumpers
*50 Ancient Unmanned Interceptors
Crew: 500 Crew/ 300 Troops / 1 Artificial Intelligence
Minimum Crew: 1 Person or 1 Artificial Intelligence
Passengers: 20,000
"That's one big ship," Commander Alex says.
"Its sure is," Captain Dave replies.
"Why does the Lantian High Counsel want this done anyway?"
"The other classes of warships are doing well against the Wraith 1 to 3 odds but the Wraith is outnumbering our ships one by one. They want a better ship that will destroy an entire Wraith fleet without losing shields. The new versions of the Arcturus Heavy Batteries are destroying Wraith ships as they attack worlds still under our protection with those as part of the Hammer's armaments we should be able to destroy numerous Wraith ships along with the Drones." Captain Dave tells him.
"When does the Lantian High Counsel want this ship completed?"
"They have given a set date but they want construction to begin immediate."
"We have Aurora-Class ships needing repairs and one being built to replace the one the princess lost."
"The council has decided to post pone those constructions until after the Hammer is built and 88% ready before construction on those ship may continue." Captain Dave tells him.
"I think we should get started." Commander Alex replies. That same day work began on the Hammer 18 crews over 300 Lantians working around the clock to build the Hammer. Two years pass without the Wraith entering the sector they received a transmission from Atlantis telling them more Worlds have fallen to the Wraith. They hear on one of those transmissions a year later maybe more after the hull of the ship was completed and portions of the inside was finish and only the Drone armaments installed and the MG Cannon. They hear of the princess intimacy with a Wraith and of the child she is pairing and that Atlantis has submerge itself under water. Another two years goes by recalling much of the shipyards crew to Atlantis. Captain Dave and 165 Lantians remained to continue to build the Hammer. They manage to install all the Arcturus Heavy Batteries, about 45 of the Quad PPG Turrets, and finish with the second bridge, drone chair, engine room, one barracks, captain quarters, AI core, and commanding officer's office, plus shields and beaming technology before the final message from Atlantis arrived telling them to go into stasis and wait the arrival of the princess son. The transmission ended. Captain Dave has them switch from getting all the armaments install to getting the ship finish such has the ZPMs install and the hyperdrives install. Once all the work with those is completed they headed to the stasis pods or Cryotubes that will keep them young. Serenity will be monitoring everything while the crew is asleep. Years pass and the Wraith finally arrived in the system and headed for the habitual planet within the system. However the weapon satellites protecting the planet made short work of the attacking Wraith. Thanks to the Artificial Intelligence protecting the planet from space kept the Wraith from Gulling the planet from space. However planet does have a gate on the surface. The Wraith sends Darts through the gate which manages to Gull the planet before Unman Lantian Interceptors are sent down to deal with them. The Darts didn't have time to destroy Lantian structures the Interceptors destroy a handful of Darts before they could escape through the Stargate. The Interceptors then move the Stargate to a structure similar to Atlantis minus the star drive and Hope manages to seal the gate until the Lantians return.
Five years ago Colonel Devon Horton is looking over Doctor Kay's shoulders at a screen from a gate address they found in the Ancient Database. "Looks like another spacegate," Heath says. Doctor Elizabeth Weir enters the control room.
"Heath, I like a quick word with you in my office," she says to him. Heath follows her to her office. "Have a seat." He sits down. "Colonel, why did you send a MALP through the gate when it was a space gate."
"Actually ma'am this is Captain Rhodes project he discover a gate address in the Ancient Database which says Lantian Shipyard. He brought it to me and I was hoping we could use some Aurora-Class ships to keep Atlantis from falling into Wraith hands if they return. He convinces Dr. Kay to send a MALP through the gate to find out what's on the other side. Doctor Weir with your permission I'll take a team and we'll recover the MALP in the process."
"Alright Heath take your team but I want a team of marines to come with you. I don't want to lose your team like I lost Sheppard's team."
"Elizabeth, we will find them," he tells her. He goes to get his team ready to go on the mission. They board two Puddle Jumpers and Heath dialed the gate. The Puddle Jumpers are lower one at a time and Heath's jumper is through the gate first. They retrieve the MALP by an underside magnet. Heath turns to Doctor Kay and asks if he's picking up any energy readings. Doctor Kay points in the direction where he picked up a faint energy reading. The second jumper comes through and they headed in the direction of the faint energy signal. As they approached the moons they see destroy Wraith ships.
"I wonder what destroyed these ships." Doctor Kay asks.
"I was asking myself that same question," Heath replies. A screen pops up showing him the weapon that caused the damage to the Wraith fleet.
"What kind of weapon is that?" Captain Rhodes asks. Heath looks at the screen and it tells him Arcturus Heavy Batteries. They approach the base and sees that everything is intact including the defensive armaments but just power down. Heath wonders how they are going to get into the Lantian shipyard until one of the bays opens. Heath heads for the bay and lands the Jumper and the other one land as well. The bay doors close. Heath is the first to exit the Puddle Jumper he sweeps his P90 around shinning the flashlight around but all of sudden lights come on similar to what happen on Atlantis. Everyone else comes out of the jumpers. Heath notices that this bay if full of Puddle Jumpers and he sees several doorways.
"Lieutenant Adams, take two men and keep these Jumpers secure. The rest of you let's find the shipyard control room," Heath says. They leave the Puddle Jumper bay. Heath checks out one of the doors in the bay which whooshes open to allow him to enter and he sees plenty of Drones properly for the Puddle Jumpers. He makes a not to remove some and take back to Atlantis to refill and couple of Jumpers that have depleted its supply of drones. They go through another door and enter the other part of the shipyard. He tells Doctor Kay to find a schematic of the base. Doctor Kay heads to the counsel and plugs in her laptop. They have no idea that they are being watch by an Artificial Intelligence. Doctor Kay downloads a schematic of the base to her laptop and she unplugs and directs them to the control room.
The Lantian Artificial Intelligence name Serenity wakes up when the Puddle Jumpers came through the Stargate because she has the bases sensors to detect two things Wraith, and Lantians. She sees no need to activate the bases weaponry since only those with the gene can operate Lantian technology. The Puddle Jumper lands in the Jumper pay of the shipyard. Once the ramp drops and she watches as humans came out of the Puddle Jumpers. She didn't recognize any of them and their uniforms are strange to her. She guesses they have to be Lantians because only they can operate those vehicles. She activates a scan to see for sure who they are. The scan comes back positive that they have the gene and only one of them has the gene plus an anomaly. She decides to wait Captain Dave and a security team to capture the intruders and find out who they are and where they come from. She begins the wake up procedure for twenty Cryotubes. She continues to monitor the intruders and the Space Gate. She is there to greet Captain Dave has he comes out of cryosleep. "Captain, we have intruders on the base," she tells him.
"Wraith," he says.
"No captain, they appear human in origins, but with the gene but they are not Lantians as far as I can tell."
"What do you recommend Serenity?" Captain Dave asks.
"Capture and interrogate to see who they are and where they came from," she answers. He nods his head. She gives the Lantian Security teams the locations of the intruders.
Colonel Horton, Doctor Kay, two marines, and two Rangers enter the base control room which looks almost looks like Atlantis control room. Colonel Horton has teams searching the shipyard. The team in the shipyards Jumper bay is hit first by a Lantian Security team. They are taken to the brig. One by one the Lantians take out Colonel Horton's teams and drag them to the brig. Captain Rhodes and Lieutenant Jack return to the control room. He sees Colonel Horton trying to raise the other search teams on the radio, but no answer. Doctor Kay is trying to find out what is going on because the Arcturus Heavy Batteries have come online for some unknown reason and several doors have sealed themselves from some odd reason including the door back to the shipyards Puddle Jumper bay until a stun round hits her on the shoulder and she collapses. A marine turns his P90 around to face the threat when a stun blast takes him to the face. The other soldiers didn't have a chance to defend themselves neither did Captain Rhodes, Lieutenant Jack, and Colonel Horton.
Colonel Horton wakes up. He blinks several times and notices he's in some sort of office. He sees two Lantians staring at him. "Captain, he's awake," a voice says. The Lantian captain turns to face him. Colonel Horton recognizes them as Lantians from seeing the crew of the Aurora.
"Who are you?" The Lantian captain asks.
"Colonel Devon Horton, United States Army," he answers.
"How did you come here?"
"We use a Puddle Jumper from Atlantis to come here through the Stargate."
"Where is the Lantian High Council?"
"Dead," he answers.
"Liar, you came from Atlantis where are they?"
"I told you they are all dead except for me, Chaya, and Chaya's daughters are all that are left." Heath can tell that statement cause him to be curious.
"How are you a Lantian?"
"My mother is Princess Merenwen," he answers. Captain Dave realizes that is where the anomaly comes from its Wraith DNA mix with Lantian DNA. Captain Dave also knows that he's in the presence of royalty not just on the Lantian side but also on the Wraith side. He turns to the two Lantians.
"Release those that came with him." The Lantians do as Captain Dave order. They do as Captain Dave tells them. The rest of Colonel's Horton's men are release. They join with them. Captain Dave looks at Colonel Horton.
"So everyone we knew is gone?" Captain Dave asks.
"Well I wouldn't say gone. They ascended to a higher plain," Doctor Kay says.
"So we manage to achieve ascension," Captain Dave says.
"Yes captain," Colonel Horton replies.
"Yet we are the only Lantians left alive?"
"We don't know for sure," Captain Rhodes says. "As far as we know you are."
"What are your orders milords," Captain Dave says to Colonel Horton.
"You don't need to call me milord, colonel will do just fine or sir," Heath says to them.
"What are your orders sirs?"
"Captain, tell me about the ship."
"Well sir it's not completely finish. The length of the ship is 6,800 meters, and with is 800 meters, the height/dept is 700 meters. The Hammer has 4 main drives, and 7 auxiliary drives. It has two intergalactic hyperdrives. The power planet is 12 Power crystals cores and 3 Zero Point Modules. The hull of the ship is 2 feet of Naquadah. The Armaments include: 1 Main Gun Cannon, 14 Drone Launchers that is 700,000 Drones/50000 per launcher), 30 Arcturus Heavy Batteries, and 45 out of the 80 Quad PPG (Pulse Plasma Gun) turrets. The ship also holds 10 Jumpers and 50 Ancient Unmanned Interceptors. It can hold up to 500 crew/300 troops/1 Artificial Intelligence and passengers up to 20,000. The Hammer has three shields, primary, and secondary, tertiary. The Hammer is even equipped with beaming technology."
"Can you finish adding the rest of the Quad PPG turrets?" Heath asks.
"No sit, we have to build them and we don't have the resources here to do that."
"We have some armaments on our Earth ships that I'm sure we can add onto the Hammer for additional protection. Do you have any Quad PPG turrets you can place onto the Hammer?"
"We only have three we can add them."
"Yes add them," Heath says. "In the meantime I must return to Atlantis and report to leader of the Atlantis Expedition."
"You mean you're not in charge of Atlantis you being of Royal Blood?" Another Lantian asks.
"No, Doctor Elizabeth Weir is in charge of Atlantis, I'm in charge of the military contingent on Atlantis?" Apparently Captain Dave didn't understand so he tries to explain it to him, but even though Captain Dave still nods that he understood the colonel doesn't believe he actually did. Colonel Horton gets onto the Jumper along with two of his officers and return to Atlantis. Doctor Kay and the others are giving a tour of the Lantian ship.
On Atlantis Doctor Weir is discussing with Colonel Horton and Colonel Caldwell about what to do with the Lantian ship. "So you actually found living Lantians?" Doctor Weir asks.
"Yes ma'am all still young except for a few I'm guessing over 50. There is also a Lantian Artificial Intelligence onboard the Lantian warship. The ship has powerful weapons that should destroy Wraith ships."
"This could seriously be a very great asset to us. With a Lantian warship protecting Atlantis the Wraith wouldn't stand a chance." Colonel Caldwell says.
"Colonel Horton, the ship isn't completely finished yet."
"Only the armaments aren't all installed and they get install any more. So I'm proposing we take the Hammer on its first real voyage to Earth to get it refit with some railguns and missile tubes."
"Do you think the IOA and Stargate Command will let you return with the Lantian Warship?" Weir asks.
"They probably will because I doubt the AI will allow them to replicate Lantian technology."
"You may take the Lantian ship to Earth colonel," Weir tells him.
"Have you found Colonel Sheppard yet?"
"Doctor McKay arrived and they are going to go and rescue Sheppard I'll explain later," she tells him.
Colonel Horton returns to the Puddle Jumper and dials the gate and goes through. They head to the ship base but he detects a planet. Colonel Horton still heads for the base. He lands. Three Lantians are there to meet the colonel. They give Colonel Horton a tour of the Hammer. The colonel was impressing by what he sees. The Hammer still need some work. The colonel tells Captain Dave that its time for them to take the ship on a voyage to test out everything. He agrees. First the rest of the crew is revived and they load stuff to use to build into the cargo holds. A hyperspace window is open and the Daedalus drops out of hyperspace. The colonel had to tell them that it's a human vessel. The Daedalus beams in supplies so the Hammer crew could make it to Earth. The Daedalus reenters hyperspace. Colonel Horton, Captain Dave, and the bridge crew enter the bridge. "Colonel you take the command chair as far as any of us is concern the ship is yours." Captain Dave says to him. Heath takes the command chair while Captain Dave takes the XOs chair. "Serenity brings engines online."
"Aye captain,"" Serenity says. They proceed out into space. The stations armaments track them but didn't fire. Heath sees a planet on the screen.
"The planets Defense Satellites manage to keep the Wraith from culling the planet from space but they manage to arrive through the Stargate and cull the planet that way it took Hope another Lantian AI to realize that the Wraith on the planet and Lantian Unman Interceptors failed to stop the Wraith fighters but after they left the Stargate on the planet was seal." Serenity tells the colonel. "Do you want to check out the planet?"
"No not this time," Heath replies. "Set course to Earth." The open up a hyperspace window and entered. Doctor Kay and the other Lantian monitor the ship they had no problems. Three days later they exit hyperspace above Earth. Heath radios Stargate Command asking for a secure site to land a Lantian Battleship. The Hammer lands and Stargate Command has the site secure. General O'Neil along with SG-1 is present when they ramp of the Hammer drops. Colonel Horton, Captain Rhodes, and Doctor Kay are the first to leave the ship follow by Captain Dave and three Lantians. Doctor Daniel Jackson couldn't believe his eyes neither to Carter to see Ancients.
"Colonel, we need to talk," General O'Neill says.
"Yes sir," Colonel Horton says. They go to General O'Neill's Office heath tells General O'Neill everything.
"What were you thinking to bring the Lantian Warship?"
"The Hammer needs more defensive armaments and needs missile tubes along with more rooms for crew and security teams along with labs." Heath answers.
"Alright colonel I'll try to keep the IOA away from the ship. We'll try to get everything done you need done so the Hammer can get back to Pegasus."
"Thanks Jack," Heath says.
"You're welcome Heath, just make sure you keep the Hammer safe and those on Atlantis safe," Jack O'Neill tells him.
"I will sir," Heath tells him. Five days later work began on the Lantian ship. Colonel Horton been helping some but General O'Neill gave strict orders to keep an eye on the Lantians. Two months later after everything inside of the ship was finish Carter comes out of the Hammer. "Colonel Carter is everything alright?"
"Yes colonel, just been have an argument with Serenity about the Lantian shields. We also argue about installing two Railguns to protect the bridge from enemy fighters' kamikaze runs. Captain Dave took my side about the railguns. He said and I quote, "if we go up against the Wraith we're going to need as many defensive and offensive weapons as we can get."
"I thank the Lantians are finally understand a lot have change since they went into cryosleep." Heath says.
"Daniel is really enjoying talking with the Serenity about the Lantians. She has vast knowledge about them. I could believe the inside security measures. Shields that will keep anyone or anything away from certain areas of the ship if a threat is detected and Mini Drones that sweep the ship for anyone that isn't welcome all control by Serenity or a person on the bridge."
"The Lantians don't want the Wraith or anyone else getting their hands on their technology," Heath says to her.
"I quite agree Heath," she says. Heath keeps in contact with Doctor Weir and gets status reports about the Pegasus Galaxy he heard about the problem with Colonel Caldwell, the replenish of the drones, and Jumpers. Heath and the other members of the Atlantis Expedition that accompanied him on the voyage of the Hammer went to see their family and see friends. Finally the Hammer is ready to return to Pegasus after five months. Doctor Weir wants his opinion on an experiment they are planning. General Jack O'Neill and the others wish the colonel good luck. The Hammer returns to Pegasus. They return the ship to the hangar bay and Colonel Horton, Captain Rhodes, Lieutenant Jack, Doctor Kay, and the rest of Colonel Horton's men return to the Puddle Jumpers than return to Atlantis.