Hope you enjoy the Chapter. Would love to hear what aspects make up Picard. Please R&R - Spearhead
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Jean Luc is stood looking out a the stars. The planet below shone blue as the raising suns light reflected off of the planets atmosphere. Q had bought Jean Luc to his quarters aboard the Enterprise for an unknown reason.
"Why are we here?" Picard asks Q.
"There's a better question you can ask Jean Luc." Q says seeming depressed.
"When are we?" Picard understands.
"We, we are in your future. It has been four months since you formally met Earth and after much conflict and assistance you are now going to sign a treaty with Earth and the Asgard to bring peace to this damaged galaxy." Q replies. Q was drained. Normally this would have been an easy undertaking, but he was finding it difficult to draw power from the universe.
"Why have you bought me here? Why now?" Jean Luc asks outraged.
"Because Jean Luc, you were lost. You didn't have a sense of purpose. You were broken. In this time zone, Gaia is flourishing and the Federation is slowly growing. Your crews along with a barely extinct race of humans called the Tollan have built an urban marvel and the five Federation ships are now better suited for the challenges of this universe." Q tells Jean Luc. The Admiral couldn't believe it. He had been moved forward in time to a place where all of his hardest obstacles had been overcome.
"Can I stay in this time? Or will I need to return?" Jean Luc asks as he turns from the window to look at the drained Q.
"You can remain here if you wish." Q forces a smile. His power slowly fading.
"Can you tell me what happened that got us to this point?" Picard asks looking out at the planet below.
"I can. But only if you stay here. If you stay here then I can restore your memories of the past three months. But if you return then I can not tell you." Q says bracing himself on the chair as he stands.
"Send me back. Send me back now!" Picard demands.
Another white flash causes the Admiral to become blinded for a few seconds. He can't see.
"Remember, make it count." Q's disembodied voice says all around him.
When he opens his eyes again, the SGC marines in the gate room are looking at him funny. He had his arms raised like he was protecting his face. He slowly lowers them and turns around to see Worf and Thor looking at him.
"Admiral, are you alright?" Worf asks showing concern.
"Yes I'm fine. Shall we?" Jean Luc motions for them to follow SG-1 and General O'Neill up to the briefing room.
Earth, SGC
3rd January 2004
19:22 hours
When they arrive in the large room, General O'Neill was sat at the far end of the table with SG-1 sitting down his left hand side of the table. Worf and Picard sit on the side of the table close to them. Thor merely stands near O'Neill looking around the table.
"Okay, so where do we start?" Jack asks rubbing his hands together.
"O'Neill." Thor looks at his long time friend.
"Yes Thor?" Jack asks turning his chair slightly.
"Perhaps it would be best if we discussed a brief history and the goals we wish to meet from a possible alliance." Thor suggests.
"Fine by me." Jack nods looking at Daniel.
"Ah, well, we've been using the Stargate for eight years now. In that time, we've defeated two races, the Gou'ld and the Replicators, both were bent on galactic domination and we've recently achieved interstellar flight through our first star ship the Prometheus." Daniel tries his best not to give too much away.
"I see. Well, the Federation has been space faring for around one-hundred years. The Federation used to consist of over one-hundred worlds and states. Some of those races achieved interstellar travel hundreds of years before us. We've seen several wars and the most recent war was won because of a untied assault and we pushed them back to their home world." Picard says looking around the table. They all knew that this had taken place in an alternate reality, but not even during the Gou'ld or Replicator wars had they seen such a thing happen.
"The Asgard have been travelling the stars for ten-thousand years. We are currently rebuilding and expanding our sphere of influence. We unfortunately could not assist Earth in their fight against the Gou'ld, as we ourselves were losing ground to the Replicators. Earth has shown on many occasions that they are worthy of becoming a true galactic power. But unity escapes them." Thor sings the praises of Earth and the SGC.
"Well, what is it you wish to gain from an alliance between the three of us?" Worf asks bluntly.
"Well, we know that your technology isn't designed for the threats of our universe. Your shields and weapons could be ineffective against the threats this galaxy holds." Samantha jumps in.
"That still does not answer the question." Worf replies.
"Well, without knowing anything about your technology, we can't really ask for anything. We can only offer our help." Daniel adds his voice to the conversation.
"Your vessels have much knowledge and technology that will greatly benefit both of our races. In exchange the Asgard will allow you access to the technology we have shared with Earth." Thor almost jumps in the middle of them all.
"What technology exactly does Earth have from you?" Picard asks the Asgard commander.
"We have provided Earth with advanced shield technology, transportation systems, computer systems, advanced sensors, sub-space communications, FTL systems and our assistance in building your Federation." Thor says looking at the Admiral.
"I noticed that doesn't include offensive or defensive weapons." Worf points out.
"The Asgard do not provide weapons that could be used against them." Teal'c joins in.
"Please forgive my Tactical officer. That is still a lot of advanced technology." Picard nods.
"We can provide power generation technology, rail gun point defence systems, a database of safe stargate addresses for the possibility of expanding the Federation and samples of Gou'ld technology we have." Sam smiles.
"That would be most appreciated." Picard nods.
"What are you willing to offer us for this Alliance to work?" Jack asks bluntly.
"Well, most of your technology is advanced and I don't really know if we can do any better." Picard says looking around.
"By now you know that your Matter transporters can be adapted to create anything you need." Worf says looking at Jack.
"What now?" Jack asks shocked and confused.
"We had not given that knowledge to them yet." Thor says looking at the Starfleet officer.
"Thor?" Jack asks looking at the Asgard.
"It is true O'Neill. Many on the High Council did not believe you were ready to know that any Matter transports can be converted into Energy-Matter constructors." Thor says looking at the General.
"Carter?" Jack asks looking at the Colonel even more confused.
"Sir, what Thor's trying to say is, the Asgard transport beaming system can be altered to create anything we need out of energy. Anything meaning raw materials, ship parts, weapons, ammunition and much more." Sam simplifies it.
"And the Asgard High Council didn't want us to know?" Jack turns to Thor.
"They believed you were not ready." Thor bows his head slightly.
"Well our own Replicators are very power hungry and we've been searching for a way to decrease the amount of energy needed." Picard joins the conversation.
"Replicators?" Jack snaps his attention towards the Admiral.
"Its what we call our Energy-Matter constructors. Because it replicates anything we need." Worf nods.
"Right." O'Neill nods.
"We can assist you with that problem also. We will also help Earth alter their current transporter systems to create Energy-Matter constructors." Thor nods.
"Carter?" Jack asks confused.
"Sir, he's going to give us the technology to create anything we need from energy." Carter replies.
"I knew that. I'm asking what does this mean for us?" Jack asks.
"Well sir, I don't really know. Using it, I suppose we could become self-sufficient. We wouldn't need to buy ammunition or parts." Sam tries to quickly think of the possibilities.
"And food." Thor and Worf say in together.
"Really?" Sam asks.
"Yes every Federation ship uses them for food, weapons, materials, medicines and anything else a star ship would need." Worf replies.
"Not to mention ship construction." Picard says losing control of himself. He can only watch as he is being controlled and manipulated.
"Really?" Jack, Sam and Daniel ask.
"Yes, the Federation shipyards use Replicators to create ship frames, hull panels, internal wiring and so on. We can build a ship, depending on the size, in a matter of weeks. We use tractor beams to help in the construction process. Its completely automated. Robotic arms attached to the space dock and small robots are used to speed up the process." Picard says still not in control of himself.
"Thor?" Jack asks.
"The Asgard do not use such a construction technique. We materialise entire ships. It requires a lot of power to do so." Thor says lowering his head again.
"Really? Entire ships?" Sam asks shocked. Thor nods.
"We have never had the power needed to construct vessels in such a way. We've had to do it in segments or stages." Worf says looking around the table.
"Indeed. We then spend days checking for errors in the materialisation process. If non are found then the ship is commissioned. If an error is found then we break the ship down into basic elements and try again." Thor says looking around at the shocked table. They all knew that the Asgard had an advanced ship construction method, but non of them ever thought that is was anything to do with Energy-Matter conversion technology.
"I think that there are a great many things we can help each other with." Picard smiles. He was still not in control.
"Indeed." Teal'c nods.
"Most of our technology will no doubt be useless to you all. However I am willing to provide both of you with our full technological database as a gesture of friendship." Picard smiles. Jean Luc was fighting, kicking screaming inside to try and regain control of his body.
"That is most kind." Thor bows his head.
"Indeed." Jack steals Teal'c favourite saying. Teal'c looks at the general and raises and eye brow.
Earth, SGC
5th January 2004
14:00 hours
General Jack O'Neill is stood on the bridge of the Prometheus. The Prometheus is Earth's first interstellar battle cruiser and was her only space faring ship with the Deadulus still under construction/refit. The Prometheus was also being upgraded with several Federation technologies as well as a few Asgard tweaks. She was currently receiving several Asgard/Federation Energy-Matter Constructors with a large version in the ships main cargo hold, Asgard shields to replace the Gou'ld version the ship used and a new Naquadah/Neutrino-Ion power plant. The small hybrid generator wasn't nearly as powerful as a single Neutrino-Ion generator of an Asgard ship, but it would provide more than enough power for the ship and her new systems.
The Federation and the Asgard had sent technicians to do the refit, O'Neill was just here so he didn't have to do the mountain of paper work awaiting him at the SGC. He looks around to see a few Asgard, several crewmembers and the odd one or two Federation personnel dotted around the bridge. O'Neill had already got word that the Asgard have sent three O'Neill class ships to the Federation Colony/Home World to help them build, upgrade and for defence. Three O'Neill Battleships were more than enough for any Gou'ld designed ships that stumbled onto the world.
Jack looked around the bridge. He couldn't stop the smile that creped onto his face as he saw all three alliance members working together. He decided there and then to go for a walk. He would take his time to check out the rest of the ship. His first stop would be the mess hall, he was in need of cake.
P4X-942, Federation Colony
7th January 2004
17:40 hours
Admiral Picard walked through the grass on his new home world. The ankle length grass all around him was swaying in the gentle breeze. He continues to walk causing the grass that he walks through to bend and twist in different directions. He reaches the top off the large hill that had undisturbed trees all around it, even some of them had began to creep up.
As the Admiral reaches the top of the hill, he can see the entire Colony construction site. The flash-concrete with supports made from a trinium/carbon ally that made up the Colony foundations was all that had been laid so far. It was a slow process up until now. Not that the foundations were complete, the Asgard could literally beam the Colony into existence. In fact that's what was currently about to begin.
Picard looks up to see the clouds part to show the graceful form of an Asgard O'Neill class battleship lowering itself into a hover above the foundations. A large white beam of energy shoots down from the O'Neill class ship and impacts the foundations. The light begins to spread out and cover all of foundations. The light begins to raise from the foundations to reveal buildings slowly growing as the beams impact height increases.
It was truly amazing to watch. Buildings were just appearing from light. They were a mix of Asgard and Federation. It appears as though small buildings and tall spires placed where being placed anywhere, but that wasn't true. They all had a purpose. There wasn't yet much of a colony, but that would soon change. Already crew members on all three ships had handed in their resignations to become colony members. Out off all the ships, the least amount of colonists had come from the Rhode Island.
They had a total of one-hundred colonists from the crews. Which wasn't a lot, but it was enough to begin the growth of the Federation. The Federation as well as Earth (soon to be known as the Tau'ri when Earth was United) had been given equal responsibility to defend the planets under the Protected Planets treaty. Even though the Federation had only two ships capable of combat, they would be upgrading these ships as well as the Rhode Island with any advanced technology they could.
As well as the Colony (soon to be christened Terra Nova while the Planet would be called Terra) and the possible upgrading of his small fleet, The Endeavour had completed the first Miner class Mining freighter. It was currently undergoing tests to see if it was a capable class and if they should construct more. All initial tests had provided promising results.
While the Endeavour was busy with the Miner, the Enterprise had been deploying Phaser or Photon torpedo defence satellites in orbit and the Rhode Island along with the fleets shuttle compliment was currently setting up a sensor network using satellites that would orbit the entire system. It was merely an Early Warning System that would alert them to anyone or thing approaching them. The Asgard had helped improve them by adding a Sub-Space sensor that would detect any ship approaching in Hyperspace.
Picard continued to watch as the Terra Nova City was appearing from white light. He was impressed. Terra Nova would be a Fortress Colony with a shield, Anti-Air Phaser banks and Anti-Air Photon torpedo launchers. All of these defences wouldn't normally be built for a civilian Colony, but General O'Neill had persuaded Picard to use overkill defences to protect Terra Nova. Because as the General put it, 'This Galaxy is filled with a large number of unknowns and a lot of them could be threats. You need all the defences you can get.' and Picard agreed with him.
Picard was preparing for the worse. Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. Those works always lingered with him since the Dominion war when they had fortified Earth.
Earth, Area 51, Nevada Shipyard
10th January 2004
13:10 hours
General Jack O'Neill is stood on a balcony leaning against the railing. He was looking out at the construction of the X-304 Deep Space Battle Carrier Deadulus. The ship was being built with the help of the Federation automated equipment and Asgard technicians that were installing various systems to the new line of ship.
Without the Federation and Asgard, the Deadulus wouldn't be finished until the end of the year. But now that they had their help, the Deadulus would be finished in a matter of months. By that time, the new Federation-class shipyard would be ready to begin building more of the Deadulus class. The Federation-class shipyard was being built in orbit of Terra Nova and that's where it would stay. It would act as a Earth Shipyard and an Embassy of sorts.
Large cranes with Tractor beam emitters were moving back and forth across the hull placing panels or bulkheads while automated droids fixed them into place and connected wiring or power relays. This form of construction was slow and hadn't been used by the Federation in over fifty years, but it was the fastest way until the Terra Nova orbital shipyard was online.
Admiral Picard was busy having as many crew members on Terra Nova building construction or mining vessels while still running his small fleet with minimal crew available on each ship. They weren't able to fight off a Gou'ld invasion with success, but they had a fully operational defence grid around Terra Nova and a small fleet of Asgard ships.
The Asgard were busy rebuilding after the Replicator destruction and they only had enough ships spare to assist either the Federation or Earth at any given time. The Federation were in bigger need, they had gone from hundreds of stations and repair outposts to just having man power and limited experience with repair operations.
I'm sorry about the short Chapter. I've been swamped with ideas, unfortunately non of them for TttSG. I'll once again try to get another chapter up sometime in the next month if idea's come to me. I've hit somewhat of a speed bump in my writing. I hope I can get past it soon.
- Spearhead.