Chapter eight
It had been a month since the Ori attacked. The crew of the Zeus had gotten that month off, to spend time with their loved ones. Cause they knew, it would be some time before they could do that again.. During this month, Sweden had finished it's two 303's on the ancient outpost, and they had traded two ZPMs for 304 blue prints AND an asgard computer core. Just like the one on the Odyssey. The new 304 had been put under construction the moment they'd gotten the blue prints. The Swedes two al'kesh had been stripped of their ZPMs and those ZPMs had been given to the US. The General Hammond had given back the ZPM that they borrowed during the Ori attack, and all Swedish ships, save the two al'kesh, had ZPMs.
When Sweden first had gotten that 304, other countries where pissed. Even more where angry now that Sweden had gotten 304 schematics AND an asgard core. Great Britain, France and Russia wasn't angry, they all had a 304 each under construction by the US.
The Tria, Zeus and the two 303's, the Mjolnir and the Amateus had all been upgraded. The Tria, Mjolnir and Amateus with asgard beam weapons, and all Swedish ships had also been retro fitted with asgard pulse weapons. During this month, the Tria had been searched by engineers and scientists, they had gotten every thing online. Colonel Hagberg arrived on the bridge of the Zeus. She was ready for take off.
"Major Lund, retract the roof, inertial dampeners to maximum, take us out of here." Hagberg ordered.
"Yes sir. Roof is open, dampeners are set, taking off." Lund replied.
The Zeus entered the atmosphere and seconds later, vanished in a hyperspace window. The travel to the Swedish outpost on P1X-279 was a calm one. Every one sat and talked with each other, having a good time. About twelve hours later, the Zeus dropped out of hyperspace over the Swedish outpost. He beamed down to General Walberg's office.
"Colonel, welcome back!" Walberg said.
"Thank you, sir. Every thing's been calm around here?" Hagberg said
"Yeah, kind of. Until a few hours ago actually."
"What's the problem?"
"The Americans. Or to be more exact, the IOA." Walberg said
"Those damn bureaucrats! What did they do?" Hagberg asked
"They've cut us off from the mining facility on P3X-403 for the Naquadah and P9C-971 for Trinium. With out those materials, we won't be able to build another ship after that 304 is ready."
"WHAT THE?! They're kinda selfish there! We sacrificed one of our ships to save earth from the Wraith, and this is how they repay us?!" Hagberg said, clearly angry.
"I know. But the bright side is, the US government takes out side in this one. Plus, we've already located another planet where there's both Naquadah and Trinium! Naquadah on P3X-270 and Trinium on PYX-887" Walberg said.
"GREAT! But isn't PYX-887 the planet that didn't want the US to mine there because of 'harsh' methods?"
"Well yeah, but we managed to pull it through last month. And P3X-270, they would actually mine it for us, in exchange for medical supplies and such. We've already got our first shipment of Naquadah, the goa'uld that ruled there once left he mines, and they weren't even dry." Walberg said.
"Well that is good. Have we got some thing from the asgard core yet?" Hagberg asked.
"Well we have all of the asgard weapons, shields, drives and power generators. When we get that shipment of Trinium, we'll start to build one of those generators."
"Wow, that's great. Sir, do you have a mission for us? I don't want to sit in orbit.. I know that we got here like ten minutes ago, but still."
"Well, Atlantis is not going to reside on the moon any longer. The people of Europe saw Atlantis, but it was explained that it was a satellite. You can escort them, but the IOA will with no doubt not allow you to escort them. But there's one more thing. With Atlantis here in the Milky way, the IOA want to set up a new base in Pegasus. It's going to be an international one, like the Atlantis expedition." Walberg said.
"Okey.. Well, the base in Pegasus doesn't sound so bad." Hagberg said
"The Daedalus, Tsun Tzu and the British 303, Queen is going to head out in two days to begin setting the base up. We could arrange so that your ship will accompany them to Pegasus and help out"
"That seems like a really good idea sir. We'll take on some supplies and personnel"
"If we get the go ahead, you will transport Swedes and some people from other nations, Colonel. And supplies of course"
"Yeah, sure. But are you sure that you'll be okey out here? I mean the Ori still have a few ships out there."
"We'll be fine. We have the Tria, Mjolnir and the Amateus. You can lay a course for earth now" Walberg said.
"Will do sir. Hagberg to Lund, beam me to the bridge" Hagberg said. Seconds later, there was a brilliant flash of light and Colonel Hagberg was gone. A few minutes later, the Zeus broke orbit and headed into hyperspace for earth.
During the trip to earth, they got the go ahead from the Swedish government and the IOA. When the Zeus dropped out of hyperspace, it wasn't much time left before the Daedalus, Tsun Tzu, Queen, one of the Swedish 303s, the Amateus and the Zeus. There had been a change of plans. The 304s, Daedalus, Tsun Tzu, Zeus, would be taking some engineers and equipment. The 303s would mostly be taking personnel, so that when the 303s arrived, the base would already have begun construction. Since the Tsun Tzu doesn't have a ZPM, the Swedish government borrowed the Chinese the ZPM from the Amateus. This way, the Amateus would arrive at the same time as the Queen and not with the 304s. After a few hours, five ships broke orbit and headed into hyperspace for M9R-193 in the Pegasus galaxy.
