For King and Country
Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1
Summary: When earths newest ship aids a Colonial colonization mission. They inadvertently lay the foundations for the greatest war in the history of the human race.
Disclaimer: I do not own either star gate SG-1 or Battlestar Galactica
A/N: This story is set about four years after 'unending' on the SG-1 side of things while for BSG the story begins around 18months before the mini-series
Chapter 1
"CIC, sensors." the voice of Sub lieutenant Williams from his position in the sensor control room came blaring through the speakers in the CIC.
"Sensors, CIC go ahead" Captain John Simpson commander of Earths newest and the second British BC-304 class Battlecruiser R14 HMS Royal Sovereign. She is one of the most powerful vessels in know space with an onboard arsenal capable of destroying entire continents if required . Unlike their American counterparts all four ships of the royal navy space force two BC-303 destroyers and two BC-304 battles cruisers were operated by the Royal Navy, with navy Personnel and Fleet Air Arm pilots also embarked on ship was a platoon of Royal Marines for security.
"We have 60 plus contacts coming in on Bering 175.24 by 2654.9 CBDR"Simpson was very disturbed by the fact that the were 60 plus contact in the Alpha Centuri system, which was practically on Earths doorstep and the future site for colony operations. Earth already had several offwold colonies but these were all military bases or mining operations with very small populations
"Size and disposition of contacts" he said while tying to look a lot calmer than he was feeling.
"War book reads as 5Lucian Alliancemotherships10 Al'kesh and 25 Gliders. That was a very large force and for the alliance to risk so much the ships they were chasing must be worth it, current SG-C command intelligence would point to that force being nearly a quarter of their total space assets.
"The rest of the contacts read as unknown. 23 fighters and 2 capital ships one Class C the other Class F." that meant that the larger ship was nearly 3 times the length of his ship and the smaller one was about the same size as the Prometheus class destroyers. The royal navy had been the first to come up with the class system for ships and they had also been the ones who had put together the warbook on every ship that Earth or one of her alleys had ever come across in either the Milky Way Galaxy or the Pegasus Galaxy. It contained vital information about the ships they were fighting and the organization operating them allowing the Earth forces to accurately gage the threat level of what they were facing at nearly any given time.
"Captain we are receiving a radio transmission on all frequencies." Lieutenant Johnson spoke up from the Comms station to his left.
"Let's hear it."
"To any nearby ships this is the Battlestar endurance we have come under attack from unknown vessels and require assistance"
"Helm how long to intercept"
"16 minutes at sublight, about 20 seconds at hyper."
"Standby for a short hyperspace jump. Plot the jump to take us out as close to the motherships as you can, hopefully we can get the jump on them."
"Mr. Murray if you would." Simpson said to his XO Commander Tom Murray.
"Aye sir." He said before reaching for the radio and putting it onto to ship wide allowing everyone to hear what was about to be said
"All hands this is the XO set General Quarters around the ship. This is not a drill I repeat this is not a drill. Prep all fighters for launch; remove all missile safeties and Damage control teams to your stations. All stations report once ready"
"By the numbers commander."
"Aye sir."
"Weapons."
"Go."
"Helm."
"Go."
"Navigation"
"Go"
"Sensors"
"Go"
"Com"
"Go"
"Red squadron"
"Go"
"Blue Squadron"
"Go"
Within a minute all stations were manned and ready and the Battlecruiser was fully capable for combat. The ship then jumped to hyperspace and HMS Royal Sovereign was about to make history.
Commander James grunted as he was thrown across the Plotting table from the force of another hit from whatever weapons it was that the aliens were using. His mission was to scout out new systems for colonization that's why they had a civilian survey vessel with them. They had been looking at their last system to survey when they had been jumped by 7 unknown ships. They had immediately tried to open communication with them. But there messages of peace and friend ship were either not hared or ignored. And moments after they started firing on his ship and released hordes of fighters.
"Commander, we have a new contact."
"Is it the same as the aliens." Aaron Jame asked worried they would not be able to handle another one.
"No sir. Wait … we are receiving a transmission."
"Let's hear it."
"This is Captain John Simpson of HMS Royal Sovereign to the attacking Lucian Alliance vessels you are ordered to cease your attacks immediately and withdraw from Tau'ri space immediately or we will open fire."
The CIC was filled with a mass of reports as the new Tau'ri ship engaged one of the enemies ships. Different stations all reported at the same time and it became difficult to pick out the reports
"The aliens have opened fire on the new contact Commander."
"They seem to be using some kind energy weapon"
"Wait Alien capital ships are converging this new Tau'ri craft"
He watched the DRADIS as the ship launched 16 fighters; according to reports from his vipers the new fighters looked very much like old style Cylon riders but that must be only superficial as the cylons had not been seen in almost 35 years. The new 'Tau'ri' fighters proceeded to make very short work of the alien fighters using Missiles; he did not have any fighter missiles onboard as back in the colonies no one used missiles.
"All five Alien ships are ignoring us and heading straight for the Tau'ri."
Commander Aaron James grinned at this, with now need to protect the unarmed Civilian ship he could concentrate all his firepower on the Aliens and show them why you don't turn your back on a Mercury Class Battlestar.
"All batteries target Tango 4" the closest ship to them.
"Fire"
With that one word command the Mighty ship, The pride of the navy, unleashed all its power towards a single target for the first time in combat. The bow of the ship had been orientated so that all spinal guns had a clear shoot. The massive projectiles quickly accelerated away followed some distance behind by the dozens of rounds from the main gun batteries that run down the spine and sides of the ship
The first of the rounds hit just seconds after a Tau'ri energy beam, meaning that for the moment there was no shield in the way to protect the under armoured hull of the vessel. The first round was then lucky enough to hit the main shield generators leaving the ship basically defenceless to the ensuing attack as it had no way to raise its sheilds and protect itself.
It didn't take long for the ship to crumble under the firepower arrayed against it. This was met by cheers from all the CIC.
"Quite down there are still 2 enemy ships out there, Let's get them!" James shouted. The Tau'ri ship had managed to take out two other Alien capital ship while they were busy fighting their own, and a fleeting moment in the heart of battle he could only wonder what kind of power that ship possessed.
The Tau'ri ship then proceeded to destroy the few reaming fighters with some incredibly accurate rail gun fire. The reaming 2 Capital ships decided to cut their loses and retreated using the same unfamiliar method they arrived with.
Once all the enemy forces were gone the received a message that shocked every person in the CIC to the core.
"This is the earth ship HMS Royal Sovereign to the Battlestar Endurance do you require any assistance."