Authors notes: New chapter is here! Hope you all enjoy it, leave a review to tell me what you think!
for ship size reference (since I can't put a link here) google "stargate ship size scale" then go to images and look at the first picture
Authors Note edit 1
This is the revised chapter 8. Hopefully it's better than the previous one. If it's not, be sure to yell at me! I have the backup somewhere around here...
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GenoBeast: Thanks for the reviews! Yes, Tim does think he can not be stopped at the moment, but he will get a wake up call... As for the Asgard point, that is pretty accurate actually. He has a very specific idea for the Asgard and he will pull it off, but will we ever see thor and frery and our favorite asgard again? Maybe...maybe not
Chapter 8
Sol Solar System
"My lord, our scout ship will arrive in a few moments." said the kneeling jaffa.
"Good, I want a report on their defensive capabilities, send two ha'taks." the goa'uld 'god' Atum said.
"As you wish my lord."
When the scout ship dropped out of hyperspace it cloaked on the dark side of the moon and moved to the orbit of earth. A few moments later two goa'uld ha'taks dropped out and moved towards the planet. With the defense satellites around earth not yet completed, it's only defense was the ships of the earth fleet and the ones left behind by the Altera. The goa'uld did not know that one of the cloaked Altera scout ships already detected the rest of the goa'uld fleet and the majority of them went to the Goa'uld fleet. The Altera let earth's very capable 304's handle the two ha'taks while the scout ships were getting in position.
The two 'test' ha'taks approached the planet quickly. One of earths 304's tried to open a channel to the ha'taks but they did not respond. The 304's got the order to destroy the goa'uld ships. The ha'taks were the first to open fire, shooting multiple orange blasts of energy at the earth ships. The 304's evaded some and their shields took the rest with ease. Then the 304's opened fire, one plasma beam from each for each ha'tak. They were destroyed instantly, their shields failing and the beams cutting into and through the hull of the ships, they exploded outward silently in the vacuum of space.
The jaffa reported, "My lord, both ha'taks have been destroyed, neither of the enemy ships were damaged."
The god stood up in anger, "Jaffa Kree! I will destroy this planet even if it takes ten thousand years!"
A jaffa turned around suddenly from the console he was at and said, "My lord, ten ships are uncloaking around us and powering their weapons!"
The goa'uld looked more angry than before, which didn't seem possible, and yelled, "Destroy them! Destroy all of them!" He was confident of his victory, he brought his flagship and forty ha'taks.
There ensued a massive battle, within seconds the scout ships opened fire and ten ha'taks were destroyed. The numerically superior goa'uld attempted to surround the Altera ships but they were too nimble, six more ha'taks were destroyed after a two minute recharge for the weapons.
The angered goa'uld system lord was furious at this point, thinking he fell into a trap. "Power the main weapons, fire at the closest enemy vessel!" The Anubis built motherships' central section started to rise and then the top of it opened like a flowers' petals. Out of one side of these 'petals', what looked like orange lighting shot out from the ship.
In a brilliant light show the orange lighting engulfed the Altera scout ship, making it's shield flare violently. For a moment nothing could be seen near the ship.
The goa'ulds' eyes flashed in pleasure and said, "They are not invincible after all!" Atum said smugly in his goa'uld voice.
Then the brightness faded and the scout ship was still there, intact. The 'lightning' penetrated through the shield a little and caused a momentary power surge on the ship, making some systems shut down, but only for a moment.
"My lord! The ship survived the attack and is re-powering it's weapons!" the loyal jaffa screamed.
The goa'uld yelled in anger and ordered a retreat, making the remaining ha'taks defend the flagship so it could escape. The goa'uld flagship jumped into hyperspace, getting away from the battle safely. Within twenty minutes the rest of the ha'taks were destroyed. A single scout ship had failing shields and minor hull damage, but otherwise the Altera fleet was unscathed.
Dakara
SG-1 stepped through the event horizon and took in their surroundings. A dozen jaffa guards formed a semi-circle in front of them, nearly all of them had different symbols on their foreheads.
"We are here to see Master Bra'tac." Teal'c said in his monotone.
Although the Ori had destroyed most of the 'civilization' of Dakara, the free jaffa still considered it the most holy of planets. The Free Jaffa Nation spared nothing in its rebuilding, though the ancient super weapon could not be rebuilt, they instead decided to make it into a memorial to remind everyone of past transgressions.
"You are expected SG-1." the lead jaffa said in a similar monotone to Teal'c's.
The jaffa guards stepped back into a line on either side of the path to let SG-1 continue on. They walked on in silence for a few minutes taking in all the new buildings and constructions that were taking place all around them.
"So, Teal'c, this place is going to be the headquarters from here on out again huh?" Mitchell asked as they were all strolling along.
"Indeed."
They arrived at the High Council chamber to see that everyone was already assembled. Bra'tac caught sight of his now older long time friend and walked over to him.
"Ahh, it is good to see you again my old friend." he said while doing the customary greeting between them.
"Indeed it is Bra'tac, though I do not relish the thought that you are now younger than I am." Teal'c said still smiling.
Bra'tac and the other members of SG-1 did their greetings and then Bra'tac said, "Well, let's get on to the business."
The members of the High Council all took their seats and SG-1 stood in the center of the room.
Mitchell, being the leader, spoke up, "Greetings friends, we come bearing news and talk of a new treaty."
"We'll hear the news first!" Ka'lel burst out.
Here Daniel came forward and began, "Earth was attacked by a goa'uld system lord." he said then waited for a few seconds and continued, "It was the goa'uld Atum, we know this because we captured one of their cloaked tel'taks observing the battle. Atum attacked earth with his Anubis class mothership and forty two ha'taks."
The High Council was alarmed at this news and turned and looked and whispered to each other. Bra'tac spoke first, "How fares earth? How many were killed?" he asked concernedly.
Teal'c spoke now, "The Tau'ri were able to defend the attack successfully, no one perished in the attack."
The High Council was stunned. They knew that the Tau'ri ships were indeed powerful but no one thought for a second that the two or three ships they possessed was capable of defeating that many ha'taks, not to mention an Anubis class mothership.
Cha'ra spoke, bewildered, "How is this possible? How did the small Tau'ri fleet defeat so many ships?"
He asked the question that every jaffa was thinking.
Daniel stepped forward to answer, "We had a little help..." few second pause, "...from the ancients."
This statement caused utter chaos in the council room. Every councilmen was shouting questions each trying to out-roar the next. After some shouting and banging on tables the room finally started to settle down.
Daniel spoke again, "Though they prefer their actual name, Altera. They recently...came back. They approached Earth and made some startling proclamations to the population and then offered to help the planet and protect it. We graciously accepted."
SG-1 took turns updating the council on all the recent changes that earth was going through and told them of the change of location for the SGC. They gave them the new address to be reached at then told them that earth could now be visited publicly and without fear. Then they updated the council on the Altera and said that they would get a hold of them for their sakes, the High Council really wanted to speak with them. After that came the talk of the new treaty, solidifying their alliance and making some new changes to it. Some of the changes included; earth could now be visited and traded with at will, no earth citizen was to be molested in anyway if they came across any Free Jaffa, there was speak of bigger and more frequent joint military operations, and that earth would give freely the method and means to make tretonin to the Free Jaffa Nation.
When the talks ended, SG-1 returned to the new base of SGC operations on the planet named 'Thor' in honor of their fallen allies, the Asgard.
Atlantis
Richard Woolsey tapped his earpiece three times and said, "I have some big news from earth. Everyone come to the gate room in fifteen minutes and we'll start there." He put down his earpiece and tried to make sense of the news. Seemingly in a state of trance Richard was tapped on the shoulder.
"Everyone's here. You ready for this big news?" asked Col. John Sheppard.
"What? Has it been fifteen minutes already?" he replied. He shook his head and tried to realize how he had been standing there for fifteen minutes and not realizing it.
"Yes...and we're all pretty excited to here this news so lets get to it."
Richard nodded his head and he and Sheppard walked to the stair case overlooking the gate room. John walked down to join the others and then Richard started, "I'm not sure how to properly explain this so I'm just going to say it." few second pause as everyone unconsciously leaned closer to hear Woolsey's next words, "The ancients have returned to earth and disclosed everything to the population. They all know about the stargate, Atlantis, and that we're not alone in this universe."
Half of those attending started shouting questions, the other half stood there with their jaws on the floor.
Richard put his hands up in the air and waved them downward trying to quite everyone and said, "I don't know much more than what General Landry said. He stated that the ancients returned in spacecraft of ancient design and pulled out all the stops on the citizens of earth."
Alteran Factory
I stepped into darkness and looked around for a moment, then the lights started to come on. Taking in my first view of the facility I smiled, This place looks to be in great shape. I thought.
The gate room was similar to Atlantis and Tarfino Hancores. I walked over to a window and looked out, I was in a building of epic proportions. Beyond the clearly Alterran structures was a picturesque view of large mountains covered in trees. There was a large lake before the mountains that looked like tranquility itself. I might have to live here...
I was in what looked like to be Atlantis' central spire, I looked down at the huge interconnected single building and thought, I wonder what this factory produces? To get that answer I walked over to the first console I came across and started to look up what I needed. Navigating through the lists of machinery and supplies, I got my answer quickly, this building produces potentia and power generators of all kinds. I was very excited about this find. As it turned out the factory is in excellent condition, it needed only minor cosmetic repairs for the structure itself.
While the potentia themselves were easily made, getting the large amounts of energy in them was a different matter entirely. It could be accomplished in time, though I couldn't do it here, they required very specialized facilities.
I immediately re-started up production of potentia and a few other power generators.
I know just what to do with this.
Tarfino Hancores
A few days later I was ready for my most recent humanitarian operation. I rerouted all potentia and power generators to the gate and dialed. When a wormhole was established I sent the lone replicator through with it's two very important items and silently prayed that Murphy's Law didn't come into effect for this particular mission.
Destiny
Destiny dropped out of FTL for the incoming gate activation. When the wormhole was established the replicator stepped through with it's two items. The replicator then proceeded to go to the engine room. Already having the Destiny's technical specifications the replicator was prepared for exactly what it needed to do.
Eli was very concerned when Destiny dropped out of FTL while still in the void between galaxies.
Oh no! Not good, not good!
What surprised and concerned him more was the sound of the stargate dialing. He went to one of the corridors leading to the gate room and peeked in. He expected to see the Lucian Alliance leading another attack on Destiny. What he saw confused him very much.
He was looking on as a very beautiful woman that looked to be around 24 years old steeped through alone. She was fair skinned and had long straight golden hair. She was carrying an item in a case in each hand, and had a strange tech looking belt on. She headed straight for one of the other hallways and Eli started to follow her.
When she entered the engine room he knew he had to stop her. She's going to sabotage the ship! He thought.
Running back to a spare storage room Eli grabbed a pistol and slapped home a cartridge and ran back to the engine room. When he got there he slowly stepped forward with the pistol trained directly on the woman. "Stop what you're doing now and turn around slowly!" he said.
His hands were shaky because he really didn't want to hurt her, he was scared of what he would have to do. The woman turned around without saying a word and just looked at Eli with no concern.
"Hello, I am here to help you." the replicator said.
"How do I know that? You look like you're sabotaging the ship, step back from the console!" he warned.
With inhuman speed the replicator stepped to the side and covered the distance to Eli. It grabbed the gun out of his hand and dropped the clip on the floor then threw the gun further into the engine room.
"How...how'd you do that?" he stammered.
"Relax, I am here to help." came the reply.
Eli watched as the replicator hooked up the small strange device to the main power relay. He walked over to a console and started trying to figure out what she was doing. The replicator finished what it was doing and pressed a switch on the device.
"Woah! There's a huge energy spike going into Destiny's power supply!" Eli exclaimed happily.
"Yes. I'll be going to the control interface room now, please don't try to shoot me again." it said.
Eli followed the replicator back to the control interface room talking on and on about what he could do now with all the power flowing into Destiny. The replicator did not respond back, letting him do all the talking. Eli watched as the replicator pressed a button on it's belt and saw two brilliant flashes of light.
The replicator picked up both new items and got to work.
"Those came from your belt didn't they? Wow! How come I didn't think of that! Of course! When the Asgard beaming devices beam someone they first store them into it's memory banks before transport. If you made some changes to how it operates you could use that method to just store things in the buffer and take them out again where and whenever you wanted!" he exclaimed while furiously thinking of all the practical applications that could be conceived with that technology.
When the replicator was finished installing the last two items it turned to Eli and said, "I think it's time to get all your people out of stasis now."
As they walked to the stasis chambers Eli talked constantly about all the things he could do with that kind of technology. The replicator still kept quiet letting Eli do all the talking. When they got to the stasis chambers they split up and started reviving everyone else on board.
Col. Young stepped out and looked to Eli, who had revived him, and said, "Eli! You did it! You fixed the pod!" He looked around and stretched a little, "Wow, that didn't feel like three years at all, that felt pretty good in fact."
Eli looked around and said, "Actually sir, it hasn't been three years. It's only been a few weeks."
Young snapped his head to meet Eli's gaze and all but yelled in a whisper, "WHAT? Why are we awake then? We are wasting what little energy reserves we have!"
"Actually, we're not." Eli said back to him calmly. "In fact, I'd love to tell you the rest of the story but right now we should wake everyone up so they can all hear it the same time as you."
Half an hour later everyone was revived and just running wild with questions and guesses as to what terrible thing happened and how soon they were going to die. Col. Young instructed everyone to meet in the gate room to sort out the situation.
When everyone arrived, Eli, and the replicator walked up a few of the steps in the gate room and started to tell the story. Eli told them how he hadn't been able to get the pod fixed and thought he was going to die, when seemingly an angel walked in and saved his life, and everyone else on board. He told them that the woman on the stairs with him had installed some sort of generator and saved their lives. The replicator then started, "Hello everyone. I was sent by Tim Fredricks to help with your situation. I installed a miniature half power subspace capacitor for the Destiny's energy needs. I then installed the latest Altera beaming technology and an energy to mass convertor."
Eli, Rush, and everyone else in the room dropped their jaw, while only Eli, Rush, and the other technical scientists knew why exactly they were dropping their jaws.
"That's right everyone, I am here to repair the ship, and find a way back home for you."
Tarfino Hancores
After sending the replicator to Destiny I decided to go find out another of my clones progress on the design of new warships. I walked into his private office and saw him studying the designs of a warship in front of him in a three dimensional holographic display.
"How are they coming?" I asked.
Cato turned around, just noticing Tim's presence and said, "Oh very good! I have three ship designs here that should more than fit our needs."
"Sounds good, proceed."
"The first will be the battlecruiser class "Clementia" (which means 'mercy' in ancient). It will be our most numerous war vessel, being the smallest capable of carrying fighters."
The battlecruiser would be the main fighting force of the Altera fleet. The design had the most powerful intergalactic hyperdrives, capable of traveling from one galaxy to another in less than a day. It had double layer shielding for protection. The main shield would be like the normal shields surrounding most ships in the Avalon galaxy (as powerful as an "O'neill" class Asgard battleship), the secondary shield would be like the one around Destiny, form fitting, but it would be many times more powerful than Destinys'. The weapons were extraordinary. It featured as main weapons two furia beams (twice as powerful as an ori plasma beam), like the beam on the defense satellite that once protected Atlantis. It had four Asgard like plasma beams, named forticus beams. These beams were the same style as the weaker Asgard beams but in addition to being made by Alterran technology and therefore more powerful, they were also more energy efficient. Lastly it had forty five point defense lasers, that were just much upgraded versions of Destinys' turrets. It also carried forty sub space grenades that could be beamed to any location to be detonated. It had one cavernous hangar, capable of launching and storing ten navis porta and twenty alacer fighters. The ship would be twice the size of a 304, it looked similar to the Aurora class ships but just bigger.
The second design mentioned was for the battleship class ships, "Ultra Probrum" (which means 'beyond reproach' in ancient). It would be the powerhouse of the Altera fleet, the biggest baddest ship in the galaxy. It had twice as powerful main and secondary shields compared to the Clementia class, and the same powerful hyperdrive. It had six furia beams, twelve forticus beams, one hundred and twenty point defense lasers, and sixty sub space grenades. Its hangar is capable of holding fifteen navis porta and forty alacer fighters. The ship is just a little bit bigger than an ori mothership, and looks like a cross between an O'neill class Asgard battleship and a 304.
The third and final design was for the new destroyer class ships, "Durus" (which means 'tough' in ancient). These were small, sturdy, hard hitting ships designed to be mass produced. It had the standard intergalactic hyperdrive, main and secondary shields equivalent to a 304 in strength, four forticus beams, twenty point defense lasers, twenty sub space grenades, and a small hanger that can hold two navis porta and four alacer fighters. It is the size of a 303 class Tau'ri ship.
Standard on these three ships were many additional systems including, beaming technology, e/m converters for expedited repairs and general needs, the best long range sensors the Altera could build, and cloaking capability.
After approving all the designs I had Cato transfer the specifications to all of our shipyards, of which we now had three. In 25 days the first Clementias will be done, along with many more Durus class ships. There is a total of thirty slips available for ship production. I stopped all production of alacer fighters and scout ships for the moment to produce the new warships. I assigned ten for Clementias, ten for Ultra Probrums and ten for Durus's. There would be ten Clementias, and forty Durus's done in 25 days. The first ten Ultra Probrums would be done in 40 days.
After that I decided that a little visit to Avalona would be in order.
In orbit of Avalona
Upon arriving a few hours later I beamed the head of Homeworld Security, General O'neill, up to my ship.
Jack looked around briefly and said, "This isn't an Asgard ship."
"I'm afraid not. You are aboard an Altera scout ship." I replied.
"Ah, it's just usually when I get beamed up... well never mind. What's up?"
"I came here to inform you that I will be having a number of ships coming here in the next few days to be replacing my scout ships for defense of your planet."
"Cool. Are they awesome?" Jack quipped.
"Indeed they are. That's not all though, I would also like to inform you I plan on bring Destiny home, and getting your people back to Earth safely."
Jack, walking around and touching things turned and looked at me, "Really? Well that's good news, may I ask how?"
I smiled and sent a mental command, Jack was beamed back down to his office.
P4C-970
The planet was still recovering from an incident with the stargate a few years earlier, but much of the infrastructure was already rebuilt. In a conference room very important matters to people all over the galaxy was being discussed.
"We shall begin the invasion in a few months." the speaker turned to look at another member of the conference, "I trust the ships are in order?"
"Almost, they are being tested and retested currently and we are doing diagnostics on all the main systems. They will all be available for the deadline though, I can assure you." came the reply.
"Good," here the main speaker turned and looked at another person, "how goes the progress on the bio-weapon?"
"It is complete, and waiting to be loaded on a ship. I'm afraid we out did ourselves on this one, it is extremely deadly." the speaker smiled proudly.
"Excellent. I can not wait to begin taking what is ours. We were set back a long time but now it is time to repay our debt, with interest." he said smiling. "Earth will finally be destroyed, and we, the Aschen Confederation, will rule this galaxy."