The Zeus had just dropped out of hyperspace over the Swedish outpost, it has been a month since the incident in Pegasus. During the month, the Zeus had been doing missions into Lucian Alliance space, destroying more then one of their ha'taks. The US had launched another two 304s, France had launched one too. Denmark had begun to set up an outpost, using it's 304 Christian to ferry personnel and supplies. Sweden had also begun the construction of another 304, but it would not be ready for almost eight months. Colonel Lund arrived in General Walberg's office on the outpost. "General, sir." She said.
"Colonel. How'd it go on the raid?" The general asked. "It went well, sir. Three ha'taks destroyed, one heavily damaged and ten destroyed al'kesh. We took some damage, two fatalities. Five injured." Lund reported. "Okey, colonel. Write the letters to the families of those two men, and have the injured crew shipped back home. Oh yes, of course, Colonel, the IOA has approved a mission to a galaxy almost half a billion light years away from earth. Five ships are going to head out. The ships that will be staying here are; Daedalus, Odyssey, General Hammond, Tria, Mjolnir and your ship colonel, the Zeus." The general explained.
"Sir, is it wise to send most of our assets away from this galaxy? Sure, if it would have been Pegasus, we have an enemy there that feeds on humans, but we can't send half the fleet to un-known territory!" Lund said.
"I know. President Hayes nearly had a heart attack when he heard. He managed to keep most of their fleet here in the galaxy, as did our government. But the IOA… Sweden has two ships going, the Gothia and the Amateus. The IOA wanted two more of our ships to go, but we didn't want to pull ships of the line away from our outpost, or earth for that matter. So, we're expecting a big shout from the IOA, the US are awaiting the same. Matters got worse when their General O'Neill told the IOA to 'fuck off'." Walberg said. They both snickered at this.
"Oh, well. So, sir, rumours has been going around my ship… Is it true?" Lund asked. "Unfortunately, we don't know. That's why a lot of people don't want the fleet to leave the Milky Way, especially since it will take two years minimum to get to the galaxy in question, and back." "That's not good. If those aliens knows where we are, we're going to bleed." Lund said. "Yes, colonel, from what little we can gather, they can deplete Atlantis' shields if it's only powered by a ZPM, very quickly. But that's from the report that AR-1 wrote when they where trapped aboard the alternate Daedalus." Walberg said. "Colonel, if you where to run into those aliens, destroy them. Those orders comes from the top, and they are standing orders." Walberg continued. "Yes, sir. Oh, one more question, what happened with the doctor that downloaded the ancient repository?" Lund asked. "Dead, colonel. She started working on something, but she died before finishing it. Good thing she filled up those new ZPMs, though." "You got anything from the repository yet? Heard you where going to take it out and download the information…" "Yeah, we have. We've just started to go through the data last week, and the data there is massive! It's as big as the asgard database we have, too."
