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With Asgard shields I don't see the neck as a weak spot as anything strong enough to breach those shields probably could ruin the ship even if the neck was designed differently.
I made Scott blast those repair bots to hell because I wanted to add a moment which was a little bit lighter and more humorous. If I wanted them gone I'd have them lost in space while the crew was in stasis, much easier.
What Contest? Have I done something that I don't remember?
The outline way is how I do it, then I add some dialogue of how it could happen and then I fill it out.
Any suggestions is always appreciated, no matter what form they come in.
I've got a Beta reader at the moment, and you're not logged in, so I can't send you a PM either.
EvilTheLast: Then more time stamps it is.
Davycrockett100: More stamps it is then.
A/N: So the time stamps continue, but I've simplified them a bit and now I only use five minutes changes, which means no more :01, :02, :03, :04, :06, :07, :08, :09 etc.
Conference Room. Atlantia.
22:00 29/10 2012
Colonel Young was sitting in the conference room and sitting opposite him was Daniel, wearing his Atlas armor.
"So lets get started then." Daniel said.
"I take that this is Atlantis." Young said.
"No, this is Atlantia, but Atlantis is here too, we'll get to that later.
First you need to know that there's been some changes to the world and or society since you went into stasis, the SGC is no longer part of the US military, we've become an independent military force who recruit people from all around the world, this is made possible because of disclosure which happened around one and a half year ago."
"So everyone knows about us and what we do?"
"Yes, but not you, we've keep you a secret because we didn't know if you would come back alive. Of course there's plenty of secrets and classified things left, but the world knows most of it."
"So how did people take it?"
"Surprisingly good, there was some minor riots but at the time of disclosure a lot of alien tech was available on the market so people were already used to it, that together with an increase in military and scientific personnel from around the world who knew of the SGC made it a very smooth transition."
"So how does this affect us on Destiny then?"
"On Destiny? Not much, you'll stay in command of the ship, if you accept that role, the only difference will be that you'll have more people under your command and you'll have the option to dial us for extra back up."
"How many more are we talking about?"
"As many as you want, we've got more personnel than we have use for at the moment, but at least forty five in the crew plus gate technicians, science personnel, medical personnel and marines, so I'd guess around one hundred in total."
"Isn't that a bit much?"
"No, I don't think so, the Pegasus expedition has over one thousand people. But there's some more pressing things, like your initiation into SGC, because you went into stasis you are still part of the US military and not the SGC, so I'm asking you to accept the role as of Captain of Destiny and the rank of Major General."
"I accept."
"Good." Daniel said and pressed a few buttons on his FMC, which beamed in a box of new insignia's, the insignia was round and looked like the regular SGC badge, but in place of the chevron was an image of Destiny.
"You expected me to take the offer?"
"Yes we did. But that was just a formality, as is the next part. Colonel Young, you are hereby promoted from Colonel of the US Air force to the rank of Major General and the role as Captain of Destiny within the SGC."
"Isn't both Captain and Major General ranks?"
"I guess I should explain the ranks we use within the SGC.
Recruit is where most enter our ranks, they are just allowed here on base for training and are forbidden to travel through the Stargate.
Private is the first real step on the road and is where they are allowed to go through the gate on real missions.
Corporal is the next step.
Sergeant comes after that.
Lieutenant is the step after that.
Major is next and is where most will end up in the end.
Colonel is the last step of the foot soldier before being given his own command.
Then we have General.
Lastly we have General of the SGC, a position that is currently held by General of the SGC Jack O'Neill.
There was a committee above Jack before but in the confusion that happened when we became nu-affiliated he managed to get rid of them, don't ask me how.
Of course there's minor ranks in between these as well as the rank of scientist etc.
Even the rank of recruit is seen as superior to many of the regular armies ranks, at the moment we are considered the most advanced, highest trained and best armed force on Earth."
"So I just went up the chain of command like a rocket?"
"Pretty much, but after managing to keep the people on Destiny safe through all you've been through it's the least you deserve.
But I'm not done yet, we also have roles, your is Captain of Destiny, it's more of a title and a job description.
The lowest role is Squad Member, that's mostly privates.
Then we have Squad Leaders who command one squad, one squad is four people who each specialize in the same thing plus a squad leader, Squad Leaders are mostly corporals.
After that we have Team Leader, one team is four squads plus the Team Leader, which makes one team twenty-one people, most teams have squads with different specializations, a Team Leader is mostly a Sergeant.
Then we have Platoon Commander, one platoon is four teams plus the platoon commander, bringing the total number up to eighty-five, most Platoon Commanders are Lieutenants.
Next in line is Company Chief. I think you're beginning to see the pattern here? That's four platoons plus the Company Chief making a platoon three hundred and forty one people, Company Chiefs are mostly Majors.
Then we have Brigade Officer, same as before, four Companies make up one Brigade, so that's one thousand three hundred and sixty five people, a Brigade Officer is mostly a Colonel.
Lastly we have the top tiers were the chain of command splits into two different sections, ship and base.
The first two are Commander and Captain who are mostly lower ranking Generals, such as yourself.
A Commander is in charge of a small facility, installation or base with little to average value.
A Captain is almost the same but is in charge of a single ship such as Kevin Marks of the Hyperion.
Then we have the last two top tiers called Admiral and Supreme Commander.
An Admiral is in charge of a fleet such as Admiral John Sheppard of the Pegasus Expedition Fleet, Admiral Steven Caldwell of the Fast Response Fleet or Admiral Abraham Ellis of the Earth Defense Fleet.
A Supreme Commander is someone in charge of a large off-world facility or installation or a very important facility on Earth, the only ones to hold that title at the moment is Supreme Commander Elizabeth Weir of the Pegasus Expedition, Supreme Commander Samantha Carter of Atlantia and myself.
Lastly we have General of the SGC, since it's both a role and a title, Jack originally wanted his role to be Ultimate Supreme Commander and Admiral of the SGC, but we managed to stop him from taking that title.
Those are the roles you need to know about at the moment, of course there's all kinds of other roles, such as tank commander, wing commander, pilot and such, but since we use the Atlas armor all the time we don't have a dedicated tank group, instead we train everyone to use tanks and then, if the need arises, we simply put any squad inside a tank, same goes for other roles too, we make them up as we go."
"So everyone have both a rank and a role?"
"Yes, everyone, including the scientists, they're given basic military training and a rank, but their role will still be the same, that's just to create a clear chain of command."
"So what have highest priority, rank or role?"
"Rank, of course, but since role and rank is closely connected I doubt we'll have that problem."
"How many 304's have you managed to build over these three years if there's at least three fleets of them?"
"Well it's not all 304's, the Hyperion for example is the new class of 305's, it's a newly designed class which carry two big Rail-Nuke guns, four Asgard-quad plasma beams, a number of anti fighter turrets and of course drones, it also carries a wing of Extreme Long Distance Bomber or ELDB-C101 for short as well as a number of wings of the new F-55. The 305 is actually one of my favorite ships, mostly because I designed it, it's a mix of Asgard and Earth design, taking things like the vertical fins that the Asgard seems to like and mixing it with a large front head and double horizontal fins at the back which can be found on the Prometheus, then it's been given a much smoother hull and well, the result is just amassing even if it's the smallest of our carriers.
That said most of the 304's are under Caldwell's command and are part of the Fast Response Fleet."
"Is the Rail-Nuke gun a rail gun which uses nukes for ammunition?"
"Yes, it was Jack's idea actually, funny story, you see there was this planet that Jack didn't like and so... You know what, it's not so funny after all."
"Ok... So is there any other new ship classes I should know about?"
"There's a few other ships, like the C-306 Andromeda fleet carrier class, basically it's a huge carrier, modeled after traditional carriers, which can carry a very large number of ships of different kinds, ranging from the F-55 to the 305 and everything in between, as Sam said, it's a hangar with a massive hyperspace engine strapped to it.
Then there's the 307, a much larger ship than the 305, but a little bit smaller than the 306, packing shields rivaling those of a city-ship and more fire-power than a small fleet, or at least that's the plan as it's still in development."
"That 307 sounds like a real beast."
"That's because it is, we started design on it when we realized that our small ships were very effective against the Wraith and we wanted to see how effective a ship that rivaled a Hive in size was."
"Hm, how's that war going?"
"We've won it from what I know, we haven't seen a single Wraith ship in over a year."
"So why continue designing the 307?"
"You never know what's around the corner and a large ship could be good to have."
"Ok, well was there anything else or can I get back to my ship?"
"Yea, there are some more things you need to know." Daniel said as he prepared to retell the story of what had happened since they had gone into stasis.
Bridge. Destiny.
22:30 29/10 2012
Rush was standing on the bridge running diagnostic when a tech wearing Atlas armor stepped inside with a large package.
"What do you want?" Rush said.
"Are you Rush?" The tech asked.
"Yes, that's me."
"Then I've got a present for you from Earth, it's a subspace transmitter built from both Asgard and Ancient designs, with this you should be able to send messages in real-time to Earth and receive answer too."
"That's good to hear but why seek me out?"
"Well I need your help to find Destiny's current subspace transmitter, I forgot the blueprints back on Earth."
"I don't think that we even have a subspace transmitter on this ship."
"But you do, over so large distances it's just not effective and there could be a delay of a few seconds up to a year."
"I've checked the blueprints for the ship before, but they only show us the layout of the ship, not were any part is located."
"Not if you have access to the ships systems." The tech said as he put down the package and walked up to a console where he pushed some buttons and opened another level of Destiny's systems.
"What was that? We have already unlocked Destiny's systems with the master code."
"You know the door at the front of the ship? It's protected by this code, the DNA sequence that all humans have in common, that's the real master code."
"You and I are going to have a really long talk when we're done with this install."
"Sure."
"Here's the transmitter." Rush said and pointed to a location on the blueprint.
"I'll go and install it, wait until I call you on your FMC so you can test it."
"What's a FMC?"
"Oh, right, you didn't get one yet, but I should be able to send a message here via the transmitter when I'm done." The tech said as he walked out of the bridge and headed towards the transmitter.
Subspace Transmitter. Destiny.
23:00 29/10 2012
The tech was standing in front of the old subspace transmitter equipped on Destiny.
Putting down the package on the floor he un-packed it and then he put his hands on the old transmitter, a moment after his palms touched the transmitter two strings of nanites slipped out of his wrists and into the transmitter.
When the nanites came out of the armor they searched out the connections that connected the transmitter to Destiny and when they found them the transmitter was disconnected, not having any more use for the transmitter the nanites reformed it into more nanites.
When the nanites were done the tech picked up the new transmitter and placed it in the slot that was created after the old one, when the nanites touched the new transmitter they took hold of it and moved it into place and connected it to the ship.
"Transmitter installed." The Tech sent of to the bridge and a few seconds later he received confirmation from Rush.
Happy with the installation the tech put his palms back on the transmitter and the nanites flowed back into his suit, with a small amount left behind inside the ship to seek out and repair any damage, then the tech took up the box which had held the transmitter and let the nanites have a small snack while he walked back to the bridge.
Bridge. Destiny.
22:45 29/10 2012
"I take it all of these warnings I'm getting here is your work?" Rush said from a console when the tech walked back onto the bridge.
"Some of them, but I'd rather think it's the other techs and their installs." The tech replied.
"How many more are there?"
"Hard to say, I know that we're four people who are working on the internal systems of the ship, but most of us are working on the outside of the ship to improve weapons and shields as well repairing any damage to the weapons, shields and hull of the ship."
"So there could be anywhere from ten to a hundred people working on the ship?"
"Yes, I'd put my money on the later number."
"Hm, well as long as you don't mess anything up I'm happy to help you with any installations."
"Good, try to create a connection to the SGC so we can test the transmitter."
"And how would I do that?"
"Oh, forgot you've never done this before." The tech said as he showed Rush how to do it on the
console, then on the screen of the console a face appeared.
"This is Atlantia, identify yourself." The tech on the screen said.
"This is Dr. Rush aboard Destiny, we're testing the new subspace transmitter." Rush replied.
"Ah, sorry Dr. Rush, didn't recognize you."
"Well it's good to have a link to you, now I've got more stuff to take care of, Rush out." Rush said as he cut the link and turned around to find that the tech had already left to get working on the next system, leaving Rush to diagnose and get every new system working as they should, before the end of the day when he and the rest of the crew would go back to Earth.
At the end of the week Destiny had received a large number of upgrades as well as a small number of new systems, among the upgrades was the subspace transmitter, an increase in maneuverability of the main gun, stronger main gun, individual fire of the main guns barrels, stronger shields, three ZPMs as back up power, a new control chair instead of the interface chair, improved sensors which rivaled those of Atlantis, stronger anti fighter guns, repairs to all of the shuttles and some minor modifications to them as well as some other things.
Some of the new things installed was an Atlantis style brig, a small beam constructor, Asgard transporters, a holo-room, a small hangar which held a number of F-302's and F-50's as well as a single ELDB-C101 and two Puddle Jumpers among other things to make the journey more pleasant for the crew.
Three weeks after that, to Young's delight, Destiny's crew returned, or at least the ones who had chosen to and following them were the new additions to the crew.
Gate Room. Destiny.
08:00 19/11 2012
"Welcome back." Young said from the balcony that overlooked the gate, it too had received an upgrade, it now stretched all the way around the gate room and created a position that was easily defensible.
"And to our new additions I welcome you here for the first time.
I'd like the ones from the old crew to go to their assigned stations, there a technician will meet you to explain the new systems which have been installed or the difference between the old and the upgraded systems, if you like you have a few minutes to get to your quarters, where all of your belongings have been moved to, if you feel like you need something.
The new additions will have to wait for their explanations, first you'll have a few hours to install yourself in your assigned quarters, after that the old crew will come and pick you up to show you around the ship and to explain your duties here on the ship, Rush here has volunteered to show you to your quarters." Young said and pointed to Rush, who for the first time, to the old crews surprise, looked happy.
"Now get a move on, this ship has been on this mission for several million years, and it will soon be time to finally finish it, but first we'll have to get there." Young continued as he walked down the staircase to the crew.
As he finished his speech people begun to move away if they were part of the old crew or stay and wait for Rush to say something if they were from the new crew.
Corridor. Destiny.
08:05 19/10 2012
As the old crew, consisting of Scott, Eli, Greer, Broody, Chloe, Vanessa, TJ, Park and Volker, left the gate room they started to walk of to their assigned places and behind them came Young running.
"So how does it feel to be back here?" Young said as he caught up with the group.
"It feel really good actually." Eli said.
"Same here." Greer said.
"To bad there's less than ten of us left." Scott said.
"Well, not everyone wanted to stay, but who knows, they might change their minds later, there's always a spot open for them and I know for sure that Varro will join us as soon as O'Neill has gotten what he wants from him." Young said.
"I'm hope they change their minds soon." Chloe said as she walked next to Scott, holding his hand.
"We'll just have to wait and see, don't we? Besides, there are more of the old crew here than you think." Young said before making a right turn and disappear towards the bridge, leaving the rest of the small group to wonder what he meant.
"I'm going to make a short trip to my quarters and grab some things." Eli said as he begun to run of towards their new quarters, which he'd found one his exploration trip.
"Don't take to much time." Broady said as the group continued to walk of to their assignments and one by one they split from the group until only Scott and TJ was left.
"So why are you still here, thought the barracks was close to the gate room." TJ said.
"Well, I won't be running the marines on the ship, I've been reassigned to command the F-50's, F-302's, the Shuttles as well as the Jumpers." Scott answered.
"So you'll be in command of all the small ships?"
"Yes, but I'm sure as hell ain't going to get stuck behind a console, I'll be out there flying the ships too."
"So we'll have a couple in control of both the small ships and the big one?"
"Yes, I guess so. And I take it you'll be the Chief of Medicine on board?"
"Yes, but it's more of a title, there's real medical personnel among the new crew, so they'll have the real work, I'm just here to oversee things and to try and look through Destiny's database."
"Well I think most of us are here for that, cause most of us have been given some officer role, so I'd say we're all overseers."
"I guess you're right." TJ said and then, after realizing how long they'd been talking, she added. "Anyways, I've got to go now before the tech gets mad and leaves without giving me an explanation."
"Same here." Scott said and walked away towards the hangar.
Officers Quarters. Destiny.
08:15 19/10 2012
Eli was running through the ship to get to his new quarters, while excited to see and learn about the new systems there was a couple of things he needed to get from his quarters, among other things his Kino remote and the bags which contained tools and spare parts, he hadn't felt right without the bag so he'd decided to pick it up first.
When he entered the corridor he found it to be longer than he remembered, looking around in the corridor he saw nameplates sitting next to all of the doors, furthest away from the entrance was Young's quarters, then came Eli's to the left and Scott and Chloe's to the right, next was Greer and Park's to the left and Broody's to the right, after those came Vanessa's to the left and TJ's to the right and then Volker's to the left and Varro's to the right, coming after that was the last quarters with signs, those read Rush to the left and to the right was Franklin. After those were four rows of guest quarters.
Ignoring the other rooms, and not even reacting to the name of the assumed dead scientist, Eli ran past the doors until he reached his own quarters, there he pressed the button to open the door and as the door recognized Eli it opened, stepping inside he looked to the left to find the Kino station which he'd asked for back on Earth when he'd been asked what he wanted in his quarters, lying on the station was his remote and next to it was the bag with his spare parts and tools, walking up to the station he picked up the remote and the bag and attached them to his belt, then just as he was about to turn around he heard a noise from behind, turning around slowly what Eli saw in the other room was not what he expected.
Standing bent over the bed, wearing nothing but underwear, was a pretty, at least from behind, girl with long curly hair, recalling something General O'Neill had said about benefits for officers within the SGC Eli wondered if this was what he'd meant, but he soon pushed that thought away as he realized who was standing in front of him.
Having learned not to let a moment like this slip away he moved fast and silent until he was only a few centimeters away from the girl, there he stopped and enjoyed the view before making his move, putting his right arm around the girls waist and the left arm on the girls right shoulder he flipped the girl around and made her land on her back on top of the bed, before jumping up on the bed and locking her legs and hands in place.
"Hello Ginn." Eli said to the very surprised Ginn.
In response Ginn simply gave Eli a naughty smile.
Bridge. Destiny.
10:00 19/10 2012 (Use your imagination on what happened those 105 minutes ;-) )
"Ah, there you are Eli. A bit late are we?" Rush said with a wide smile as he saw Eli walk in with messy clothes.
"Yes and you don't have to ask why, because I can tell all the way from here that it's the same reason why you're in such a good mood." Eli replied with a smile.
"And how can you know what I've been doing?"
"You've got something on your neck." Eli said as he pointed at a red mark on Rush's neck. Realizing what it was Rush moved his hand to the spot and wiped of the lipstick.
"Ok, so you know what I've been up to, but don't you dare to mention this to anyone." Rush said with a playful smile.
"Oh, I won't, as long as you give me the walkthrough of the new systems." Eli replied.
"Fine, but I think it's better if you watch it for yourself." Rush said and sent a Kino recording to Eli's remote.
"You taped it?"
"Yep, thought it would be good to have for future reference in case we forget what happens if you press the wrong key combination."
"I'll watch it later, give me the good stuff."
"Well, the targeting system for all the guns have been improved, we have some fighters, a way of communicating with Earth live, better shields, stronger weapons, three ZPM's as back up power, which we can recharge the same way Destiny does normally, Asgard transporters, a beam constructor and of course that big chair, which you can't miss, that's the big parts and all the damage Destiny has suffered is repaired on top of that."
"Cool, let's see what we can do with this." Eli said and walked up to the newly installed control chair, which had replaced the captain's chair.
"Don't wreck the ship."
"Why would I do that?"
"That chair can control any system on this ship, the only reason there's still consoles here are so that we can help whoever is piloting the ship."
"Don't worry." Eli said as he sat down in the chair and felt the power of Destiny surge through him, after a minute the ship begun to accelerate slowly and then it turned to the left, followed by a roll to the right.
"Cut it Eli." Rush said in a slightly grumpy voice.
"Fine." Eli said as he stopped the ship, after that he pulled up the sensors and begun to play with them until Scott sent a message.
"Scott here, requesting permission to launch F-302's and F-50's." Scott said over a communications channel.
"This is Eli, permission granted." Eli said as he opened the hangar doors and allowed Scott and his pilots to take of for some maneuvers.
"Eli are you seeing this?" Rush said surprised from his console.
"Yes, a hyperspace window." Eli replied as he saw it open on the sensors.
"What's going on?" Young demanded as he entered the bridge just in time to hear the conversation.
"Ah, Captain." Eli said as he begun to move out of the chair.
"Sit. What's happening?"
"A small hyperspace window just opened and something slipped through, but we don't know what it was." Rush said from he console as he analyzed the data.
"Are all of our ships still here?" Young said as he walked up to the middle of the bridge and pressed a button on the side of a console, when he did that the bridge started to move, first the consoles moved apart, then the control chair moved back and lastly a new chair came out of the floor, in that chair Young sat down.
"Yes, no ships have left." Eli said.
"So what was is?" Young asked
"It's very small, had it not been for the new sensors we wouldn't have detected it." Rush answered.
"I might be able to help you with that." Daniel said from entrance.
"Should have guessed it was either you or O'Neill who was behind this." Young said
"So what is it?" Eli said curiously.
"A number of replicator blocks." Daniel answered.
"Replicators?" Rush said.
"Yes, we didn't mean for you to even notice that it left, there must have been some type of malfunction in the hyperdrive."
"So why send a block of replicators towards the galaxies we've come from?" Rush said.
"It's quite obvious Rush, isn't it." Eli said. "Replicators could very quickly bring the resources on an entire galaxy to the playing field against the drones."
"While that's true, it's not what we have planned, for the simple reason that replicators can be reprogrammed, those replicators are destined for one of the Novus colonies, we're bringing the people home." Daniel said.
"That's it? You tried to hide this from us for some reason?" Young said.
"Well it was a trial to see how effective the new hyperdrive is." Daniel said.
"Effective?" Rush said.
"Yes, it's a stealth engine, we've been designing it to allow it to enter hyperspace without leaving any traces." Daniel said.
"But in order to enter hyperspace you need a hyperspace window." Eli said.
"Yes, that's true and it's why we tried to cloak it, basically the engine gives of a powerful cloaking field that works in both subspace and normal space, that way it hides the window and makes it undetectable to sensors, but something must have gone wrong since you were able to detect it." Daniel said.
"Why hide this from us?" Young said.
"To see how easy it is to detect it." Daniel said.
"So this was a test?" Eli said.
"Yes, but not of you, of the drive, it failed." Daniel said as he begun to move towards the exit of the bridge.
"And just like that you're leaving?" Eli said
"Yes, I've got to get back to the drawing board to show Sam and McKay the results." Daniel said as he exited the bridge, a few minutes later they detected that the gate had activated and the moment it shut down Young looked up.
"Eli, since Chloe isn't here maybe you could take us away from this place as soon as Scott has returned?" Young said.
"Yes Captain, Scott is already back." Eli said as he powered up the FTL-drive and moments later Destiny jumped to FTL.
THE END
The scene where Eli haves a little fun was cut out due to the rating this story has, so instead you'll have to use your imagination.
God I hate how this site kills the layout of my documents.