Chapter 06: Ha'tak's and Super Soldiers.
Combat Log date 56481.2
Commodore Kira Hudson recording.
It is with a heavy heart that I must report the death of admiral James, G. Cutter. Admiral cutter passed away at 20:30hr last night due to a result of his injuries he sustained during the inter dimensional jump which has left the ship and her new multi-national crew stranded in this new universe, and has taken the total number of crew deaths since the 'Battle of Lantea' to two hundred and four.
The bodies of all the deceased, or rather those that we have been able to locate, are currently being stored in one of the secondary cargo decks in torpedo casings while the new command staff, which includes sub-commander Dvorak of the Hansa Imperial Star empire and Executor Granger of the imperial Intelligence service, discuss appropriate funeral arrangements.
Honestly however, I just don't know how the remaining crew is going to react when we have to deal with the numerous memorials in such a short amount of time or how we are going to do it, since every race has different rituals when it comes to death, so if we were to hold a simple general service it might not work.
The suggestion of ensign Styles, our only surviving physiologist aboard, that we hold as many of the funerals as we can around the home-worlds of their race, and while that plan is the best one we have had to date, long-ranged ghost recon drone probes have already discovered that the Trojan home world has been destroyed by a massive solar flare which has burnt off the atmosphere in this dimension. As for the others the only world that we know that exist for certain is Earth herself, so that will be our first port of call for funerals.
Currently however we are sitting in the Lantea system which is apparently at edge of one of these Goa'uld that calls itself lord Yu-Huang Shang Ti the jade emperor. This particular Goa'uld controls about 30% of the galaxy and is the least antagonistic towards the people of this Earth or Tau'ri as they are known.
Personally I would like nothing better than to just go on the mother of all Macross attacks and wipe these Goa'uld from the face of existence if one more of the recon flights are threatened for not bowing down to these parasites, but I made a death bed promise to admiral Cutter that I would attempt to keep my protodeviln heritage and not stir up any trouble in case it sparks a full scale galactic war. However, if one more of these so called 'Gods!' are dumb enough to even attempt to seize any of my fighters or demand that are forces bow down and worship them, then I reserve the right to beam over to their ship and open fire with a Detonator weapons system and blast the hell out of their ship and introduce their commander to a god!
Where was I? Oh yes.
We are currently sitting along sitting alongside the Prometheus while they conduct repairs to their FTL drive and major Murdoch's people finish repairing our own systems, which they have 'borrowed' to use colonel Ronson's phrase from a Goa'uld mid-range bomber about a tenth the size of the Prometheus.
And yet, given that they are currently fighting this war against these Goa'uld in secret I can't but be surprised at the level of technology in use on the Prometheus, but if there are more people like the XO of the Prometheus then I might just have to show them what a 'rain of death' looks like, but first we need to arrive at earth.
From what the command staff and I have discovered about this universe the general concessions is that it will be like dealing with a whole galaxy full of the Raul!
Anyway…
"Bridge to Commodore Hudson."
Hudson sighed and paused the recording, which he admitted was probably a good thing. It was the first time he had tried to sit down and record a proper report. When he had been in command of the ESMF Drake before taking over as the gun-sight commander on the Archangel, he had simply used cliff notes approach for any official reports, but since he was now the Archangel's new commander, he was expected to not only keep the ships combat log updated, but also explain his actions and what had led to them happening, but he was finding that his emotions where getting the better of him when he did so, especially when things were starting to annoy him. He tapped the comm.-link which was built into the desk of the flag-suites desk. "Hudson here."
"Sir, we're getting some strange readings from the far side of the system." Reported Dvorak, who it seemed that admiral Cutter, being a sly old dog, in an attempt to promote a sense of greater unit co-hessian had listed officially as the ships XO. There was no apology for interrupting him, since it wasn't the imperial way, and Hudson had to admit that it was growing on him.
After the nearly undetectable arrival of the Prometheus into the system, Hudson had ordered the scanners to be switched from passive scan to active scan, and at the last staff meeting in which executor Granger had purposed that with a little bit of re-calibrations that they would be able to install version of the Hansa's hyper-track system and a cloaking system similar to that of a Conquer class battleship to which he had agreed.
They had been lucky that five of the survivors from the Blood Haze had been engineers, and one of them knew how to adapt both of the systems that the Macross Fleet had on record for use on the Archangel. However, they had held off with the installations following the death of admiral Cutter.
Hudson stood up and walked out of the flag-suite and onto the bridge. As he was about to ask Dvorak for some more information about the unusual readings they had detected alarms began ringing out all over the bridge as the ship was hit by weapons fire.
"Report!" Ordered Hudson.
"Sir, four contact's just appeared on scanners, Goa'uld Ha'tak class according to the updated war-book sir." Reported Welsh from the tactical station.
"Shields are down to ninety-eight percent." Informed Granger as another set of alarms began to ring and crew ran to their stations to initiate damage control and other key tasks.
"Murdoch, we've got four very hostile ships bearing down on our throats, what's the status of the Prometheus's fold system?"
"Sir their fold system is still recharging. They have transferred power to their shielding system." He reported over the comm.-link from the Prometheus.
"Deculture!" Hudson muttered under his breath, as he turned to face the helm, "Newman, full sub-light try to keep us between the Prometheus, even in our current condition we can take more of a beating than they can."
"Full sub-light aye sir." Newman confirmed as he and his co-pilot lieutenant Campbell began to move the Archangel so that she was taking more of the incoming weapons fire from the approaching Ha'tak's.
"Shields down to eighty-three percent." Welsh informed the bridge just as major O'Neill and a few of the bridge staff that had been on a break came running back onto the bridge and nearly falling as the ship received another series of hits from the attacking Ha'tak's.
"Any reason why we've only got the Ghost CAP playing with these Spawn of Khyron?" Asked O'Neill as she grabbed onto the side of the flight-ops station for balance.
"The flight decks took and EMP type hit at the start." Stated Granger from the damage control board, "Engineering is working on it."
"Sir reading multiple fighter type craft inbound to the Prometheus." Said Dvorak just as they received a hail from the attacking ships.
"I am your god Ares. Bow down before me." Said a human who had a strange double flange to it, not to mention the fact that his eyes glowed gold.
Glancing over at the comm.-station to open a channel so that he could respond to this idiotic fool attempting to try and make his crew bow down and worship him as if he was a god. "This is commodore Kira Hudson commanding officer of the Zentradi Macross Fleet vessel Archangel you have entered protected space. Stand down and prepare to be boarded, this is your only warning."
"You dare to threaten your GOD!" Said Ares as his eyes glowed again, just before he closed the channel and the rate of incoming fire increased.
"So be it, tactical commence targeting sequence for the main gun full power. I want that this fool's ship's removed from my sky."
"Aye sir." Said lieutenant Welsh as she began to activate the very seldom used main reflex cannon.
"Sir signal from the Prometheus, its colonel Ronson."
"On screen." Said Hudson as he took a seat in the command chair. "Colonel we are a little bit busy over here at the moment, how can we help?"
"We were just going to say that we stand ready to assist and thanks for the air support, you've got half my fighter pilots and major Carter practically drooling over them and how manoeuvrable they are."
Before Hudson could respond Welsh announced "Thirty seconds to main cannon firing, all ghost drones have broken contact and are clear of the fire lane. Enemy ships one, three and four are in the lane, ten seconds and contact two will be in the lane."
"Well that answers that." Says Ronson casually before switching back to command mode, "We'll stay where we are and provide cover fire."
"Understood colonel, but if I was you I'd just sit back and watch the fireworks."
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Outsider the Archangel the bow of the ship split as the beam polarizing system which covers the bow activates and massive amounts of energy used in the over-technology super-dimension energy cannon.
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Sitting in his throne like command chair on the Pel'tak Ares' watches as the bow of these Zentradi ship split in two, intrigued he made his way down to the forward view port. As he reached the view port his first prime Trelak interrupted his musings. "My Lord, there is an energy surge from the Zentradi ship."
"What kind…" Ares' never got to finish his sentence as the main cannon on the Archangel fired vaporising not only his Ha'tak and the three others but all of the death gliders which had been launched to attack both the Archangel and the Prometheus.
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Back on the Prometheus everyone on the bridge was in shock as they watched all four Ha'tak's and over three dozen death gliders simply cease to exist from a single shot from the Archangel. The silence lasted for a few seconds till one of the marines from SG4 who was acting a security guard muttered. "Oh, colonel O'Neill is soooo going to want one." Which caused everyone on the bridge to burst out laughing.
After several seconds in which everyone mentally pictured colonel O'Neill's reaction to the fire power of the Archangel, colonel Ronson asks, "Major Grant, major Carter, what was that?"
"Unknown sir." Says Grant as she pulls up the sensor logs.
"If I had to guess," Says Carter, "I'd say some sort of high powered plasma cannon, but looking at these sensor readings I'm not sure."
"Well it looks like we've made a friend."
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Combat log date 56485.2
Commodore Kira Hudson recording.
It's been three days since we were attacked by the forces of the Goa'uld who had taken on the mantle of the Greek god of War, and though we took some damage the worst of which was to ARMD 2's launching system for our air wing.
Following the battle, in which I authorised the use of the ships main over-technology super dimensional energy cannon, we docked the Tau'ri battle-cruiser, although to call it that is very generous as even a Mk 1 Oberth class packed more of a punch, Prometheus and are currently taking it back to their homeport which through a twist of fate is Earth, and although we already knew that Earth existed in this dimension it was still a shock to learn that the birthplace of humanity is called the same as home.
On that note lieutenant Cochrane has discovered that the only log we have relating to how we were transported across the dimensional barrier is a visual log, as all other recording systems cut off on average point two milliseconds prior to the impact of the drone, and they do not reactivate until ten seconds until after our arrival in this dimension. When he reported this I immediately ordered him to work with major Murdoch to carry out a level one diagnostic on the scanners, their memory modules and all of the related sub-systems, but so far his investigation has turned up nothing.
I have held a preliminary meeting with this Stargate Command, or SGC as they call it, and have offered to assist them in upgrading and expanding their fleet into, well something that is actually worthy of the title by giving them the plans for some of the early Macross Fleet designs, namely first generation Drake class frigates, Nelson class battleship and Minerva battle-carrier class, in exchange for constructing a base on the dark side of Luna. While these class ships are three to four generations removed from the Archangel, they are easy enough to build with limited resources. The SGC's lead scientist, major Carter, expects that they can have the something to call a task force within six months.
Personally I feel that this is a breach of the SD 001, since we are advancing the people of this planet, but since they have FTL technology already and knowledge of other races, or at least some of them do, it was felt by the command staff that we wouldn't be doing too much damage.
Man why didn't I take that offer of leave that the admiral offered to me before the battle of Lantea.
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Hudson closed the log and sighed as he looked at the clock on his desk, 09:00 hrs and he was already on his fifth cup of raktajino of the day, he wondered how the devil the admirals of the fleet weren't always in medical with stomach ulcers, but he guessed that it was just part of the job now.
Standing up and stretching, he heard his spine pop in several places, making him realise just how long he had been sat cooped up in the flag suite reading reports of one form or another. Deciding that he needed to stretch his legs and see how the ship and crew where doing. Walking out onto the bridge the first thing he heard as the doors to the bridge opened was the room was filled with laughter, stepping on to the bridge he noticed that Newman was holding the bridge of his nose with a cloth. Curious he decided to ask, "Okay, what did I miss?" as he looked over at Dvorak who was standing next to the command chair trying to catch her breath.
"Newman… just… tried… to chat… up one… of the MACO's over the comm.-line not realising that it wasn't on private mode, that was at least until crew sergeant Sciuts came in from the rear hatch and hit him with a PADD from by the hatch before leaving and saying something about 'every dam posting'." Said Dvorak as she slowly caught her breath.
"Newman, tell me that you didn't say is that a map to your heart?" Asked Hudson, referring to the tattoos that the crew sergeant had, pinching his nose as he sat in the command chair.
"I neither confirm nor deny it sir." Said Newman as he gingerly touched his nose now that it had stopped bleeding, which was enough to get the bridge crew to start giggling again.
"Bad move," Said Hudson smirking as he remembered how flight lieutenant Blanc had asked that and ended up spending two full weeks in the tender care of medical, but before he could inform Newman on his possible fate captain Hill caught his attention.
"Sir we're receiving a text only message from the SGC."
"What's it say captain?" Asked Dvorak, instantly snapping back into command mode.
"They are requesting our help in analysing the armour of a warrior that was encountered off-world by an intelligence mission that SG1."
"Send a reply, message received and that we will be sending lieutenant Cochrane down shortly to assist with the analysis."
"Aye sir." Said Hill as she started to type the response back to the SGC.
"Well lieutenant, you heard the order grab whatever gear you think you will need from the science department and ensign McCloud and head down there, but try and keep Ace from hitting on every single woman on the base it's bad enough that colonel O'Neill and ensign Rockwell want to form a comedy double act dirtside."
"Aye sir." Said Cochrane as he attempted to not start laughing at ensign McCloud's disappointed face about how he was trying to be a Casanova for the ship.
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Several hours later and half a dozen security scans later, lieutenant Cochrane is standing next to major Carter and Selmak/ Jacob Carter as they all watch as the body of the warrior that Teal'c and master Bra'tac had encountered while they had been investigating some intel that they had gained about a summit of two minor Goa'uld.
"It looks like the suit is effecting the MRI scanner." Says Carter as the trio look at the MRI scanner results.
"As long as he is wearing that armour were not going to learn much more other than what we can see with the good old mark one eyeball." Injected Selmak/ Carter.
"I know, I don't understand it yet but even my own hand scanners can't get an accurate read on it, it's like somebody took the armour of a Promethean Knight and mixed it with the scanner blocking system of the Elvin collective's stealth armour and built it with a some of the element that is used in that stargate of yours." Says Cochrane as he uses his hand scanner on the warrior.
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"Begin recording." Said Cochrane as he tapped his communicator, "Combat date: 56486.9. Subject: Unknown warrior encountered by Master Bra'tac of the Jaffa rebellion and Teal'c of SG1. Present for this examination are major Carter of SG1, Lieutenant Cochrane, ZSMF Archangel science officer and Selmak/ Jacob Carter USAF general (retired). Of the Tok'ra." Glancing over at major Carter, who was in full surgical scrubs complete with full face mask, as she raised an eyebrow. "This way if something goes really, really wrong then they know who to blame."
"Funny." Said Selmak/ Carter as his daughter started to giggle.
"The subject is approximately 1 metre 98 centimetres in height," said Cochrane as he moved to allow Carter a better look at the figure, "and is wearing an armoured suit that according to scans taken of it appears to be a mix of Promethean Knight and incorporated the scanner blocking systems from Elvin Collective stealth armour, while constructing the system out of a mixture of elements including titanium alloy and the element used in the construction of the stargate called naquadah."
"His helmet appears to be made up of two pieces." Says Carter as she examines the helmet more closely so that she could see the seam where the two parts join. "Lieutenant could you pass me those forceps please." After a few seconds of trying to prise the helmet apart, they hear a slight hiss as the helmet breaks apart along the seam allowing them to remove it. "It looks as if he has been fused directly into this suit and has some sort of breathing filtration system."
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After three hours of examining the warrior in an isolation lab, Cochrane, Selmak/ Carter, master Bra'tac, SG1 and general Hammond are all gathered in the conference room that was located above the control room for the stargate while ensign McCloud silently had a staring contest with the two SF's stood by the stairs leading down from the conference room.
"It turns out that it's a Goa'uld, but quite frankly, this isn't half as disturbing as the appearance of the host." Says Carter as she looks at the room who are looking at the MRI scan that they had gotten of the host on the main screen in the conference room.
"That's a Meltron sized understatement, ma'am." Muttered Cochrane, causing McCloud to smirk at the age old Macross Fleet joke.
"How so?" Asks Hammond not understanding the joke.
"It has an unusual organ structure sir."
"Everything is out of proportion," States Selmak/ Carter with the same double flange that Ares had used, "physiologically the heart and lungs have had to be abnormally large in order to be able to supply enough blood and oxygen to all of the vital organs and its muscles. Basically it is as if someone attempted to create a genetically perfect athlete, with next to no care for the longevity of the host. Leaving it down to the healing powers of the symbiote to sustain the life of its host."
"An engineered host?" Asks doctor Daniel Jackson, his mind and the rest of SG1 instantly thinking about the experiments that had been done to their adopted niece Cassie and the rest of her people before they had been wiped out by Nirrti.
"Yes doctor, but it is an incredibly flawed clone since it was engineered without the use of any proto-culture within its cellular structure." States Cochrane as he typed some notes onto a PADD to show to doctor Morse and Joe when he returned to the ship.
"Correct lieutenant, and although I am unsure as to what this proto-culture os, even with the healing powers a Goa'uld symbiote it would only be a matter of time." Said Selmak/ Carter.
"We are still in the process of analysing the genetic data that the lieutenant gathered with his scanner, but from the evidence we have so far, there doesn't appear to have been any evidence of energy weapons trauma." Says Carter as if she hadn't been interrupted at all.
"What does that mean exactly major?" Asked Hammond, although the general already had a rough idea given that he was a closet Trekkie.
"The warriors armour appears to possess a highly advanced form of energy absorption technology, which if it works how both the lieutenant and I theorise it does, it wouldn't matter how many energy weapons or what type they are nothing short of capital ship scale energy weapons will be able to breach it."
"Lieutenant, sir, what about ensign Rockwell's 'Detonator' combat assault frame?" Asks McCloud, suddenly wondering if his own 'Sky Knight', 'Skybolt' or 'Space Interceptor' would as well.
"Negative ensign, they are just not powerful enough." Says Cochrane shaking his head having already considered the assault weapons packs that the ships special operations squad use.
"Are you suggesting that neither Teal'c nor Bra'tac didn't take this thing down?"
"Yes sir, apparently it would seem that the host was already on the verge of having a massive pulmonary failure long before they even encountered it."
"It had a heart attack?" Askes a clearly shocked Hammond, voicing the words that everyone in the room was thinking.
Slowly nodding Carter says, "I'm afraid so. Sorry Teal'c, I'm afraid that you didn't stop it, the pair of you just got lucky."
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Following the meeting breaking up, general Hammond went back into his office to the mountain of paper work that he had, Teal'c and Bra'tac to the gym to instruct some of the SG teams in the more basic moves of Jaffa combat while O'Neill and McCloud both headed for the mess hall muttering something about cake, as doctor Jackson and the three people that had already been examining the corps of the warrior return to the lab they had been working in.
"Its entire cellular structure appears to be less than sixteen days old, it is organic in nature but it was certainly grown in a lab." Say's Selmak/ Carter as he looks at the results on the computer.
"Well we've known for a while now that the Goa'uld have been attempting to prefect a host which is superior to that of a human." Says major Carter.
"Well from the reports I've heard in the last few days, I'd say that this thing is definitely as strong as a Zentradi without the use of a Flemenmik Nousjadel-Ger battle suit, but looking at it I'd say that it is far from being superior to that of you humans." Says Cochrane as he examines the results of the scans that he had sent back to the ship to get some input from doctor's Morse and Smith.
"Not to mention that traditionally the Goa'uld have always being somewhat… vain, when it comes to their appearance." Says Jackson after finishing his coffee from the briefing room.
"This was obviously intended to be a new form of foot soldier, maybe as a possible reaction to the recent uprising by the Jaffa, but what is the most interesting fact was that this, being was not alive when it was first grown, it was in fact given life once it had reached its fully grown and mature state."
"Sounds like Frankenstein's monster." Mutters both Cochrane and Jackson at the same time.
"Err dad, how do you know this?" Asks Carter.
"There are results of a very unique energy signature which was detected by the lieutenant's scans."
"Selmak?" Asks Jackson.
"Yes doctor, this signature is similar to that of the residual effects left behind by a sarcophagus." Said Selmak/ Carter as if he was reading a 1940's news report.
"Wait," They all asked at the same time, "could it even do that, give life to something that was in essence, never alive, to begin with?"
"No, a sarcophagus is designed to boost health, or heal someone who is terminally ill or has been mortally wounded. They are no were near powerful enough to be able to animate non-living cellular tissue."
"Theoretically what would be possible sir?" Asked Cochrane, the scientist in him coming to the front despite the fact that he was more of a weapons and armour systems expert.
"Thousands of years ago, a Goa'uld found a device which was originally created by the Ancients, he was able to determine that the primary purpose of the device was to heal, however, the device was so powerful that the effects on the host, be they human of Unas, proved to be divesting. However, after much experimentation, this Goa'uld was able to reverse engineer the technology so that he was able to construct the first sarcophagus." Selmak/ Carter informed them as if he was giving a history lesson.
"But if I had to guess, I'd say that this Goa'uld was unable to eliminate all of the negative side-effects of this device, right." Asked Jackson remembering how he had been addicted to the side effects years earlier.
"Correct, the Tok'ra have long sought this original device in the hope of using it to perfect the technology of the sarcophagus so that all could benefit from it. Now though I fear that this might be our only hope of defeating this new warrior."
"How so?" Asks Cochrane and Carter curiously at the same time, before it occurred to Cochrane. "With the original we could use it to develop a weapon which we could counter act the life generating properties of the device."
Quickly thinking over what had just been said about the devices history, Jackson asks. "Just out of curiosity who was the Goa'uld that first discovered the device?"
"He used the name Telchak." Says Selmak/ Carter with a quizzical look on his hosts face.
"Telchak," repeated Jackson as a possible lead comes to mind as he heads out of the isolation lab, "I think I might know where we might find some information on its location." Which gets the others to follow him.
A few moments later the group enter into Jackson's own lab which is in its usual cluttered state. "Nicholas Ballard, my erm, grandfather," says Jackson somewhat sheepishly, "one of his early obsessions was looking for the so called fountain of youth." He continues as he begins to look through the numerous books and journals on his selves. "He claimed that he had found out the location of the fountains power was a piece of alien technology which was used by the early Mayan tribes at some time around 900BC." Finding the old field journal which he was looking for half buried under a file with photos from SG6's recent mission to P9X-908, before turning back around to face the group that had gathered around his desk. "Nick traced the origins of the myth to Chaac, the Mayan god of rain."
"And you believe that this Chaac may have actually been Telchak?" Asks Selmak/ Carter.
"It's just a hunch."
"Maybe not so much of a leap." Says Carter leaning next to a pile of artefacts from one of the off world digs. "The primary function of the device was to heal the user."
"For the Ancients," Says Jackson, "for anyone else to see an effect it would have to be from a very low and limited exposure from a safe distance."
"Excuse me, but I have to ask who these Ancients are that you keep mentioning ma'am are?" Asks Cochrane, as he notices an artefact which looks like a proto-culture power cell.
"It's a long story," Says Carter, "but the short version of it is that they are the creators of the Stargate's and the first evolution of humans within the galaxy."
"Okay it sounds like they are the Praeambulus from back home."
"Pretty much Zee." Says Jackson, using the nickname that Cochrane had told everyone when he and McCloud had arrived and been introduced to everyone. "Anyhow, according to Nick's old field journal the device was hidden near a waterfall and a river. His field notes indicate that he believed that the temple was located somewhere in Central America. He, erm, spent decades of his life searching for it but he was ultimately unsuccessful. I've been going over his notes several time on and off for the last few weeks, and the majority of it is indecipherable."
"This is where I really wish I'd stayed awake back at the academy during xenoarcheology 101." Jokes Cochrane as he looks at some of the notes in the old field journal.
"This is written in a very old dialect of Goa'uld." Says Selmak/ Carter, as he takes the book off of Jackson and begins to read it while grabbing one of the pens and nearby notepads to start translating it.
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"So where is it?" Asks general Hammond as the small group, who had spent the last five hours examining every small reference, hint and myth that related to the fountain of youth and everything on Telchak/ Chaac, now sitting in his office.
"It's here." States Jackson excitedly, barely able to contain his excitement. "If the information which we translated with Selmak/ Carters and the lieutenant's help, then there is a good chance that the device is in southern Honduras."
"But how do you know that the device is still located there?"
"Well, erm, we can't be exactly certain, but erm…" started Jackson, clearly floundering now.
"We think that we have a lead on who created this super soldier sir." Says Carter, rescuing her team mate.
"This Telchak?"
"No sir."
"After Telchak created the first sarcophagus he and a rival Goa'uld went to war for possession of the original device, that rival was Anubis." Says Selmak/ Carter, once again in his teaching mode.
"This was long, long before he even tried to ascend with the help of Oma Desala." Injected Jackson as he scribbled some notes on a legal pad.
"Anubis defeated Telchak, but he was never able to locate the original device, it was believed by everyone from the System Lords and Ra to the Tok'ra and any number of minor Goa'uld under lords that it was hidden in one of the many temples that Telchak had." Continued Selmak/ Carter as if he hadn't been interrupted.
"You think that it is Anubis who is behind this?" Asks Hammond, suddenly wishing that he had retired before the stargate had reopened a little over seven years ago.
"Yes sir, it is but it is the most logical conclusion as he was aware of the technology, and if what Mr Selmak/ Carter says is correct and he was never able to locate the original device, it's my theory that he wouldn't require it." Says Cochrane before Jackson takes over.
"He would have gained access to the knowledge on how to create one when he was ascended and just built a new one in place of the original that he was never unable."
"But it's still just a guess though?"
All look at one another, confirming that they are all thinking of the same conclusion, and after a few seconds of having a silent conversation they all answered at the same time. "Yes."
"But it is a highly educated one based on all the research we've just done general." Says Jackson.
"The good news sir, is that the original Ancient device is most probably still here in Honduras." Says Carter before her SG1 teammate can go off on a rant about all the research he, lieutenant Cochrane and her dad had just done. "If we can locate it we could analyse how it works, once we know that then it might be possible to engineer some form of weapon for use in combating these warriors."
"Not to mention the possibility of being able to harness its healing properties." Says Jackson throwing in the civilian opportunities for the device.
"Very well then, doctor Jackson, Take doctor Lee see what you can find out."
"General sir, with your permission I'd like to contact the Archangel and see if I can continue assisting doctor Jackson in locating this device." Asks Cochrane.
"Its fine with me son, but only if commodore Hudson agrees to it."
"Yes sir." Responds Cochrane professionally.
"Dismissed." Says Hammond as the group leave his office to go their separate ways, with doctor Jackson heading off to the science wing of the base to find doctor Lee, the two Carters heading for the mess hall to grab a bite to eat while Cochrane headed down to the gate control room so that he could contact the Archangel which was in Luna orbit.
"Sergeant, could you please hail the Archangel please. I need to talk with commodore Hudson." Asked Cochrane as he walked over to sergeant Harriman who was in the control room, before noticing that the man was waiting to sit back down at his station where the general all-round fix-it man of the base, master sergeant Siler, is working.
"Yes sir." Says Harriman as he directs Cochrane over to a nearby computer that was currently un-used, "So Zee, what was with that meeting?"
"Long or short version?" Says Cochrane as Harriman begins to set up the link, "The gist of it is we may have a lead on the location of something to stop those Khyron spawn. I just need to get permission to go off base to help doctor Jackson track it down."
"Well if you don't get permission to leave the base, it's poker night at major Lorne's place if you fancy it?"
"I think…" Starts Cochrane as the face of commodore Hudson appears on screen. "Sir."
"Lieutenant Cochrane, having fun dirt-side?" Asks Hudson as he takes a sip of a raktajino.
"Yes sir, in fact that is the reason for this call. I'd like permission to accompany two scientist from the SGC to chase up on a lead to take out these warriors?" Asks Cochrane, before going over in brief about how they believed that they had been created. When he had finished he waited to hear what Hudson had to say.
"Ok lieutenant, just remember to keep an eye on kit, and have ensign McCloud remain at the SGC to be a liaison till you get back."
"Yes sir, thank-you." Said Cochrane and a moment later the connection was cut, and he was heading out of the control room after thanking Harriman on his way to the mess hall to get a bite to eat before heading off to find either doctor Jackson or doctor Lee.
Author's Note: I know that I have changed the time line of the series a little as Teal'c and Bra'tac encountered the warrior after the Prometheus was stranded in the gas cloud in 'Grace', but I personally think that the series was a little slow with regards to the Anubis arc so I have changed the timeline around a little so in my version of the timeline, it picks up after sg1 locate Daniel Jackson during 'Fallen' and 'Home Coming' but instead of the time line being about 6 months and major Carter is injured in 'Grace' I have shortened it to about six weeks to allow the crew of the Archangel help the SGC build up something more along the lines of a task force for defending earth.
Now don't worry I will still have SG1 racing around the galaxy to find out that they need to go back to Earth like in they did in 'Lost City', but it won't just be the Prometheus and a handful of F302's fighting against Anubis' fleet in earth orbit.
