The Ascension War; New Birth
Chapter 20: Snowmane's Gambit, [part one]
John stared at the pair of feline women. Were they nuts? Go into the heart of their enemies territory and drop off a combat program? "Could you run that by me again?" John asked the pair.
"Sure, to put it simple, the Felinus can get anywhere, even onto Wraith ships, or Asuran held worlds. Do what we need to, then leave as quickly as we came." Teyilia said.
"With the Program, once near a computer terminal or otherwise, even if it is a Wraith or crude Genii machine. The Program can be uploaded and it will run in the background until something important is accessed on the machine, like plans for galaxy wide war or invasion or whatever. Then the program goes into action, first it locks the one accessing the machine out, then it attacks the program in qiestion, rewriting it, or destroying the basecode of the program itself" Snowmane said.
It was a long shot, but the odds, what were the odds. John never was a gambling man, but he just had to know the odds. "What are the odds of you getting in there on your own lonesome, uploading the program, and getting out without being seen by anyone?" The only other person on th Bridge of the Bane was Dr Rush.
"I am not much of a betting man, but I would say the exact odds of such a chance is ten to one." Rush replied calmly. He turned back to what he was working on, the database only gave off so much, and Teyilia had added some of her own information in terms of her race as a whole. It wasn't until the ship was built did those of Earth even meet the Furlings. Though they called themselves Felinus. It amazed Rush about a new race of people.
"OK, so, say you get into this place, place the data then run for it. The data finds something, takes on the program, or whatever, then what happens? Do we know if there is trouble or not?" John asked.
Snowmane nodded. "Yes, when the program is activated in the terminal or accessed from anyone using the terminal in question, we are informed by first location, then time, then what program, and type of action taken to prevent further activities from taking places through the actions set forth." clear and simple no?
Apparently so, for Johns case it was easier said then done. But he had to ask. "Do you know of this race?"
"Other then they are robotical, no, nothing. We've never seen them before." Teyilia replied. What she meant was that she and Snowmane had never met up with one of the Cylons, they were not yet born when the first war happened nearly thirty three thousand years before.
"Well, they know of nuclear weaponry apparently." Rush spoke up after reading over the battle data that he had before him on a screen.
"What do you mean?" John asked. If this new race knew of nuclear weapons, that was, in a word, bad.
"Whatever that race of robots used against us splattered harmlessly on our shields, but whatever they had on them on the ground when you set off the bomb and grenades on the ground, set off a nuclear fallout in one concentrated area." Rush replied. Grenades and C4 did not make that big of a bang did they?
"So you're saying that where I set off the going away gift it set off something else?" John said thoughtfully.
"Most likely the case." Rush replied. Seeing John's look Rush spoke quickly, "I'm not saying that it was a nuclear meltdown that you set off, we all saw the explosion from the Bridge when over the planet before coming back here."
"So whatever they had on them set off a chain reaction?" John surmised.
"Well, according to the sensors the Bane has, no fallout was found. So it's possible that it was a chain reaction and that the fallout, if there was any, was concentrated, and possibly burnt out." Rush replied. He left John stumped, and also apparently left both felines stumped also.
Snowmane spoke up. "Can you run that by us again?"
Rush gave them an odd look. "Whatever it is that those robots use, might be nuclear, the only thing being that even the fallout burnt itself up. So if there was any fallout, it'd be volcanic ash at best."
"So as if a volcano had gone off then." Teyilia said thoughtfully. Even with a simple breathing system, muchless a total spacesuit that those of Terra had to use, a Felinus could fare easier in such places.
"That is what I mean, yes." Rush said. "Basically a volocano had gone off in the space where General Sheppard set off his going away gift. Anything within the blast radius was vaporized in a instant, and whatever those beings carried were also set off, which enhanced the blast circle"
"Also destroying more of those robots and what they carried, possibly even destroying a town or small population center," Snowmane mused. She moved towards the holographic map of the galaxy and had the item zoom in on the planet in question.
"According to the database at Atlantis, and what small piece we have here on the Bane, the planet was uninhabited, nobody lived there, but there was a stargate there. It was a abondoned planet. The place was in ruins as far as we knew." Rush said.
"Unless it was a Genii world." John said. Normally the Genii used planets that were ruined, or in ruins from Wraith attacks or otherwise to hide under ground. Not even the Wraith could find them. Though sometimes they did. But not all the time.
"If it was, it is more or less blown up. And not just from that parting gift either." Snowmane said, the holographic map table showed a realtime map. Apparently that parting gift as she called it left quite a dent on the planet. "The blast, what was it that you set off?"
"A block of C4, handful of grenades. Some broken glass. Why?" John replied.
"That may have been what did it. The robots are metal, but that does not mean that a strong enough explosion could wipe out a two kilometer circle, or globe of similar size of a planet surface." Snowmane said, it must have been something more to tat explosion.
"What do you mean?"
"The planet showes only slight sign of life in the terms of energy like creatures." Teyilia said seeing through infared on the map where John had set up the gift only seconds before it was set off. "It could be possible that the energy itself could have aided the explosion."
"What do you mean?" John and Rush both asked. If someone helped them blow up a new power group. John turned to Rush, "You don't think..."
"... Its possible that they knew the robots where coming beforehand, but why..." Rush said completing the thought
"...help us, it doesn't make any..." John said looking thoughtful, recalling how he had to get Radek to make a program for the Wraith computers to infect them.
"...Sense" Rush concluded, he too recalled the same thing.
John had a odd look in his eyes, "You think..."
"... if it was them we'd have noticed by now..." Rush said shaking his head.
"No no no, think for a minute, if it were possible they'd try it wouldn't they?"
"Try what?" Rodney spoke up as he arrived.
"Tell me you have a plan that makes sense." john said.
"Nope better." Rodney replied.
"What could be better then a plan that make sense?" John asked.
"A plan devised by your wife?" Rodney said.
That got John thinking. "a plan my wife came up with? Lets hear it."
"If Snowmane told you, you heard it. Teyla says to go with it." Rodney said, OK, so, John was outnumbered. Oh well.
"Alright, Operation, Snowmane's Gambit is a go." John said. Now he actually wanted to see what would happen.