Contact of Races

by wilkins75

Sequel to Contact at Kobol (Stargate/Battlestar). The Race has thrived for hundreds of thousands of years and who recently conquered their 5th world are heading toward Tosev 3, Earth believing the conquest to be ease against the sword swing savages. Little do they know that those sword swing savages are now one of if not the most powerful force in the Galaxy, the Tau'ri.

4. Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Contact

Former General of Stargate Command and former member of SG-1, Samantha Carter sat in her soon to be official Presidential office. It was over the top for her likely but so was so much of everything in the Presidential Mansion which was soon to be her home for the next 6 years likely 12 years if she won a second six-year term as President. She looked around at the office, it was shaped in a rectangle however one end of the office near where her hand carved new desk was oval with large windows that overlooked one of the grand avenues. From where she stood she could look over the large grassy area where trees where already growing from and down the avenue to the half-finished Tau'ri Congress building. She let out a breath and looked out over the glowing lights of the half-finished city ship which would serve as the Capital of the Tau'ri.

"This is an interesting turn." added her old friend and like her a former member of SG1 Dr. Daniel Jackson. The former laughing stock in all fields of higher learning was now the head of the University which bore his name in the heart of the Capital. He had professors and experts from the best universities from around Earth and Lanagara all under him. People who had headed whole departments in places like Oxford, Harvard, Kyoto University and others renewed places of higher learning where now simple professors at what was being built to be the very best in Tau'ri education. All of them now worked under Daniel who like Carter was trying to get used to his new position.

"I have had some of the people in the Physiology department look over some of the data you got from the Race's ships and they gave me some information that could prove useful to you." Said Daniel as he took a drink on his beer.

"And what is that?" inquired soon to be Vice President Jonas Quinn as he sat across from his friend with a low table between them All around them where multiple reports both in paper form and on computer pad.

"That this may be some slight trouble for us." expressed Daniel

"General Leong doesn't think so, military wise they are laughable behind us." countered Carter as she stood with her hands behind her back. "And I would have to agree with her, their technology aside from their space travel capabilities seems to be about the level of the early 90s with their military technology over a decade behind that. Even their space travel technology doesn't seem that advanced, they are only pushing out particles. By my own math Project Orion would have done a better job for us and we gave up in the 1960s."

"Project Orion?" inquired Jonas Quinn looking at Carter and at Daniel who had no real clue about it either.

"It was a project NASA had for a while to propel a space ship by setting off a nuclear explosion behind it and catching some of the force to move the ship forward through space." Explained Carter "Not a bad idea actually but compared to what we have now it is laughable slow."

"That may be true but the issue is not technological it is cultural." explained Daniel "The Professors at the University have looked over some of the data and have come to a rather interesting conclusion."

"Which is?" inquired Carter

"That the Race is self-centered." answered Daniel "Think about it, they call themselves the Race and their home world Home. They have built the universe around themselves being at the center of it."

"So did the Colonials." countered Carter, "They thought we would be under their control."

"But they knew Earth was out there, here they think they are at the peak of nature that they are the best and only truly cultured race in the Galaxy. They will not take it well to find out just how low they really are when it comes to power." stated Daniel

"It does make some sense, but how will they react to that?" inquired Jonas

"Not well." answered Daniel "Not well at all. We also have to take into account that as far as we have been able to see through the limited translations of their history. It seems that the only and I mean only form of Government they have ever seen is based around an absolute God Emperor. They will not process our form of government well, they will think we are a bunch of crazy fools."

"And the whole knight thing?" inquired Carter "I assume that is because they advance slowly like some of the other worlds we have come across."

"That is a likely answer, their dating system is weird because it goes of years of an Emperor rule on top of a standard yearly calendar." explained Daniel "But going off what we think is photos from before they left home and from the time they got the probe with our information on it. There was no visible change. That would be about 900 years to us or 1800 to them."

"They must move extremely slow." stated Jonas

"Like a glacier." added Carter as she processed the information. "Alright, so we have to take our time with them because they will not process the rate we move well."

"If at all." added Daniel "When will you get ships to the other worlds they rule? If we get a better picture of them then we will be better able to make then see just how outmatched they are."

"We are sending Akulas ships in first to scout, however the 1st fleet here around Earth only has three of them and they are all monitoring the oncoming fleet. The 7th Fleet is moving into a support position and sending their Akulas to the four worlds in question, we should have actually had contact a while ago but the fleet was near Lanagara." Explained Carter, she knew that Daniel didn't have clearance for that kind of information. He was no longer employed by Stargate Command which had been handed off to now General Cameron Mitchell. No one would have been surprised that he knew or say anything about the fact that he knew. It was an open secret that while not an official member of the Government anymore outside of being the head of a university that he was a top advisor equal to if not more influence than some of the Cabinet appointments. She checked her watch "Should take about another 5 hours, for the 1st Akula to get into position to gather information about their worlds, their home world I believe."

"Well one good thing has already happened from all of this." Said Daniel as Carter and Jonas looked at him slightly confused. "The history department is drooling over the images that the race had from their drone took in our past. We actually have images not only from the 1st crusade in Europe and the middle east like the siege of Antioch but how people lived across the world."

"Well that is something." Said Carter as she turned back to the issue of what to do about the oncoming fleet.

Colonial Heavy 786 appeared in a flash of light outside of the orbit of Aquaria, that is when the Drivas family saw that the former ice ball of a world had become thick with greens and deep rich blues. They ice which had once been the most dominate feature of Aquaira was now only up in the far north and the far south. They could see the rich greens of forests and grasslands, then they saw it. Over Aquaira was a large space station, from one view it looked like a long spire shooting through a thicker oval center area with a large arm shooting out of the center area. It was clear that it was Tau'ri in nature and was likely powerful enough on it's own to take on the entire colonial navy if they came after it however it wasn't alone. A massive black shape could be seen against the deep blue of the oceans of Aquaria. It was shaped like a sword with the hilt filled in. The running lights highlighted some parts of the ship, then a couple of Tau'ri space fighters, Eagles came into view. They stayed some distance away from the Colonial liner but they where visable none the less.

"That is a Tau'ri battleship and their version of Vipers." Said Nikias as the 15 year old looked out of the window transfixed as more Tau'ri warships came into view. These where not battleships but smaller cruisers and destoryers and the massive Hadrian class transport ships. The Hadriean class ships where the ones moving to and from the planet the other ships seamed to be in orbital protection station.

"Eagles they are called Eagle fighters and I believe the larger ships are Daedalus class Cruisers and the smaller ones are Galahad class Destroyers." Answered Adrea as the Colonial transport moved past the Tau'ri battleship and other ships as it entered the atmosphere. They looked down at best they could, the air/space port was near to the Tau'ri military base and from their current location they could see multiple Tau'ri space craft, their dark shapes standing out on the runways, the large hangers likely protected other things from view. They could even make out Tau'ri vechicals moving around including their tanks which was rolling toward whatever destination they wanted to go to.

"This is so amazing, my friends will near believe some of this stuff." Said Nikias as the liner's engines fired and it moved into the docking area.

"Right on time." Said Medea with a smile as she strained her head to look in through the window attempting to see through her window in an attempt to see who was waiting in the terminal. She thought she could see Robert already sitting there but his head was down so it hard to know for sure.

Only a few yards away Captain Robert Lefeld sat in the air/space port terminal waiting for the arrival of Colonial Heavy 786 from Libran. His carry on bag was beside him and his other bags was already across the field where the modified civilian Condor would be transporting him, Acacia and Medea to Valhalla.

"I wish I could take the stargate." Complained Robert to himself, however the stargate on Aquaira was used only for military reasons and it's location was a highly guarded secret. He like every other Tau'ri stationed here had to use a condor to get back to Valhalla. Then his thoughts changed as his wrist and four-arm mounted computer/video phone which was common now by all Tau'ri beeped, he checked it and saw that he had two emails. One was confirmation that he was no longer on call up in case of action, he was now officially on leave. The other one was a response to an inquest and he took his time reading the message. He was just finishing when he noticed the arrival of the colonial transport at the terminal. He stood up and double checked his outfit, he had taken off his work uniform and instead had gone with a simple black polo shirt with a tiny embroidered of the screaming eagle of the 101st on it and blue jeans. His jacket was simple as well, just a deep grey and nature and his bag was none military as well, he threw the jacket back on making sure it covered the wrist computer/phone. Then he braced himself as passengers began to get off.

He saw her father first he knew only from photos, a tall man not as tall as Robert himself but not by much, he looked as if he was a scholar but a scholar who had been an fighter in youth and a strong on at that. He was maybe in his late 40's with some of the dark red hair starting to show grey in it. Her mother was the next one he saw, she had given her daughter the same bright red hair and green eyes however she was shorter then Acacia and wore glasses and looked like she belonged behind a lector at a university and considering she was a professor that was understandable. The little brother had more of his father dark red hair but had the green eyes of his mother. Acacia and Medea were the last off the transport.

"And here we go." whispered Robert to himself as he moved forward with a smile on his face, he could feel both of Acacia's parents eyes on him almost at once. As Acacai moved to his side and guided him toward her family.

"Mom, Dad this is Robert Lefeld." Said Acacia as Robert as he offered his hand to her father.

"Pr. Divas, Dr. Drivas." Said Robert as the father eyed him for a moment before taking his hand.

"Well, it is good to finally meet our daughter's boyfriend." said Mr. Drivas with a smile "I am only sorry it was so long, but you are on this world and we are on Libran."

"Yes, that is an issue." Said Mrs. Drivas as she studied her husband and Robert with the eyes of someone watching an experiment, waiting to see what the results was going to be.

"Well it can't be helped and I talk to Acacia whenever I can and go to Libran whenever possible it is just our scheduled hasn't worked out well." Said Robert "However that is about to change we have a long vacation planned, we have a few hours before our flight why don't I treat you to something to eat."

"That would be amazing, can we eat somewhere Tau'ri?" asked Nikias as he looked around the armed Tau'ri walking around the terminal with wide eyed amazement. Here inside the airport the Tau'ri and the local civilian police where basically one in the same. Since this was the only spaceport in any of the colonies where Tau'ri hyper drive equipped civilian space liners where located they where guarded and by extent the rest of the terminals. Not that it was really that had, on Aquaria where the refugees from the religious camps of Sagittarian and the those who believed in other religions then the Lords of Kobol was welcomed the Tau'ri where nothing short of beloved by them. The issue came with visitors and the immigration of people from other colonies to the world which was now the equal in climate to Caprica. A couple of Tau'ri soldiers walked by in their full battle armor including power suits and full visor helmets. Their weapons where strapped to their backs, Robert knew this was a light duty assignment but it was more fun then dealing with guard post duty outside of the base.

"I have never been this close to Tau'ri before." Added Nikias as he stood beside Robert who chuckled a bit to himself.

"Well, there is a place called Texas Roadhouse where we can all enjoy a sit down meal." Answered Robert as he lead the Drivas family and Medea through the crowds and down into the main lobby area then to the food court where multiple quick Servius and full sitting restaurants where there as well most of them Tau'ri in nature. It wasn't that the Colonials didn't have their own local food it was that the demand for Tau'ri food like everything else was high and some would fly in to Aquaria just to try Tau'ri food which was something new.

They got a table quickly as the waiter moved around and got their orders, Nikias was in utter amazement at all the strange and new items on the wall and on the menu. The menu had two prices, colonial cubit and Tau'ri dollars on it. Everything costed less with the Tau'ri dollar but that was because the Tau'ri dollar was worth over three times the amount of a Colonial Cubit at the moment.

"I'll try this…bud light." said Mr. Drivas as he looked at menu "Don't worry I'll pay for myself and you as well."

"Please sir, allow me it isn't that big of a deal." Said Robert as he placed his order, everyone went around and ordered their meal. The waiter wasn't Tau'ri and neither was almost everyone in the room, only the atmosphere and the food was Tau'ri. There was a nearby TV which was showing the news and one of the top stories was the raid carried out a few hours ago by Tau'ri forces on Sagittarian to take back images. The camera zoomed in on Robert and Drugov, thanks to their power armor and body armor along with the full visor helmet which was darkened it was next to impossible to tell who it was. Robert could make out the 101st airborne patch on his arm and the Tau'ri flag above the American one and he knew it was him.

"The Tau'ri are fraken fools." Said Mr. Drivas with a shake of his head "The Sagittarians will throw a fit about that and enforcing the religious rules on them, better to just let them handle their own. If you let them do that they tend to keep to themselves and let everyone else go on their own way."

"Dad." Said Acacia before Robert could say anything.

"Right sorry not the time and place so you two…." said Mr. Drivas with a smile as he looked at Robert and his daughter. "You two have been going steady for a while now."

"Yes, Sir." said Robert

"Please, relax I am not going to bite you but now I finally get to grill you for information." Said Mr. Drivas with a chuckle "My daughter has been light on information and by wife has been even lighter. So lets start with some basic information how old are you, I can tell you are older then my daughter but not by much."

"I will turn 24 in a few months." answered Robert as Mr. Drivas nodded his head in approval, Acacia was 20 herself and less then four years difference was totally fine in his eyes. Little did Acacia parents know that in some ways, Robert was younger then their daughter but she like all the Colonials had been in a time lock for almost 4 years while the Tau'ri built up strength to invade.

"See, dear I told you not to worry there are five years between us." Said Mrs. Drivas as she studied her husband and her daughter's boyfriend like the published physiologist she was.

"I understand you are in the military still, kind of amazing considering the amount of people being forced out by the new government in Caprica City, so how did you two meet I assume it was on the battlefield?" inquired Mr. Drivas as both Robert, Acacia and Medea blinked and looked at him in confusion which confused Mr. Drivas as well.

"Ah…" started Robert "I meet your daughter in the battle of Lezbha, my unit was part of the battle."

"Wait…wait, you where fighting in Lezbha too? Perfect!" said Nikias as he pulled out his notebook. "My teacher is making us right a report about three interviews we had with veterans of the Tau'ri Colonial War. I have my sister and Medea, can I interview you?"

"Nikias this isn't the time or the place…" started Acacia only to have Robert laugh.

"How about I answer some of your parent's questions and then I will answer any questions you have." said Robert as Nikias nodded his head resigned before going back to studying the Tau'ri restaurant he was now in. "I understand you two are Professors?"

"Yes, I am a leader in the field of Physiology and my husband is an expert in colonial Military history most of all the Cylon War." explained Mrs. Drivas "What do your parents do?"

"Well, my mom is a teacher and my dad is computer technician." Explained Robert with a smile. "Sorry, neither of them is a highly educated as you two, I am taking college classes part time through my post but Acacia will have her degree before me."

"Yes, but you are in the military and considering how much the our own government have done to make our military as weak as possible, I find it amazing that you can afford a trip to Kobol, the costs must be off the charts." said Mr. Drivas as both Acacia, Robert and Medea all looked at him confused for a moment. He didn't seam to know that Robert was Tau'ri. "I personally can't wait to rent a ship here, I heard the sailing weather is amazing now that it isn't so cold. I guess that is something to be thankful for the Tau'ri for."

"It is." confirmed Robert "I come from a sailing family in fact, all my uncles, grandfather and father all own either motor boats or sailing boats. I basically grew up on ships, it kind of surprised my family when I went army not navy."

"Really you like to sail?" inquired Mr. Drivas with a huge smile on his face. "Maybe we can go out sailing sometime. Maybe do some fishing?"

"I would like that." confirmed Robert as the waiter brought their food. It was then that two Tau'ri soldiers both in their work uniforms came into the establishment both of them from Robert's own command.

"Shit." Cursed Robert under his breath so that only Acacia could hear him, he hoped they wouldn't notice him but they did. As they passed both of them stopped and snapped to attention and saluted him.

"Sir." said both of them as Robert saluted them back in return. When they passed he let out a sigh before looking at Mr. Dravis and Nikos, their reactions couldn't have been more different. Pr. Davis as glaring at him as if he had just done the most horrible thing imaginable while little Nikias eyes where wide as if Robert had just walked over water.

"Yes, I am Tau'ri." said Robert answering the question before it could be asked, it only caused another question.

"If you are Tau'ri then how could you have met my daughter." Countered Mr. Drivas before turning to look at his daughter. "You said you met him on the battlefield of Lezbha."

"And I did, I told mom the story I assumed she told you." Said Acacia as her father turned to glare at his wife.

"I knew your feelings about the Tau'ri and I thought it better for you to meet the man first hand without having your views colored by the fact that he is Tau'ri." Explained Mrs. Drivas

"As for how we meet, that is kind of funny, we where trading shots at each other from across a road just on the outskirts of the city. We had pushed the colonial army back all day in a full retreat. I was in one house and your daughter and Medea along with other colonial army units where in another house. They managed to disable a Leopard main battle tank and in response an airstrike was ordered. A dive bomber dropped a bomb on the house they where in and when it exploded we advanced." Said Lefeld as he remembered running though the thick smoke of battle. "I climbed a mound of rubble and Acacia was lying on the ground at first I thought she was dead then she rolled over and looked up, then she started crawling away. I moved forward with my weapon on her, if she had pulled a weapon I would have pulled the trigger instead I got to her and put my foot down on her back and my rifle to the back of her head."

"By the Lords of Kobol." Said Mr. Drivas before pointing at Robert with anger and defiance in his voice. "And your dating him!"

"Yes." confirmed Acacia with the same anger and defiance in her voice that was in her father. "He didn't know me then and he didn't kill me or Medea, he could have instead he restrained me and called for medical add for Medea. Later he showed a lot of kindness and gentleness to me, we started dating from there, why shouldn't I love him?"

For a moment father and daughter glared at each other from across the table, the Medea broke the tension.

"I find it kind of funny, also kind of romantic in a movie sort of way. Two star crossed lovers fighting for different armies, I could almost see a movie out of it." added Medea before turning to look at her best friend since elementary school. Acacia was more like a sister then a best friend and considering both of her parents had died in a car crash when she was 16 she had all but been assimilated into the Drivas family. "Just when or if you two get married and have kids, I would wait until they are older to tell them how their parents met. Kind of hard to explain to a little child that Daddy put a gun to mommy's head."

That caused both Robert and Acacia to blush as Medea laughed.

"By the Lords of Kobol, your Tau'ri." Exclaimed Nikias "I can't wait to tell my friends I met not only a Tau'ri but a Tau'ri soldier who is actually dating my sister."

"Also imagine what your teacher will do if you bring in a report with the point of view of a Tau'ri solider on it." Added Medea as the Nikias eyes widened even more.

"I'll get top marks for sure." Said Nikias as an idea came into his head. "Our school is having a multiple guests speakers come in to talk about their experience with the war. Maybe you can come, it will make my friends so envious. I could become the most popular kid in school once people know that I know a Tau'ri."

"When is it, I will have to clear it with my commander." said Robert as he thought about it the public relation officer would love the idea of helping smooth over hard feelings from the war.

"You kids shouldn't look up to the Tau'ri they are the ones who beat us." countered Mr. Drivas with some annoyance at his son and the upcoming generations view of Tau'ri. "They didn't fight with honor in a fair fight."

"Do you think we wanted the war?" Inquired Robert deciding not to address the who different in tactics aside. "I was there when the nuclear blast went off by Celin, I pulled scared children from wretched, I was one of those raised our flag once again after the blast, I was one who pulled dead bodies out of rubble. One of them I will always remember a mother was shielding her child. The bodies where so badly burned from the blast, I couldn't even tell you if the child was a boy or girl. Do you think we would have taken that lying down? Would you have?"

"There was better solutions, 75 million people died." Stated Mr. Drivas

"How, we gave your government ever chance to end the fighting and only once you where beaten did you call uncle." said Robert "It was your government who didn't want to accept that the Tau'ri people where not under their control and wanted us to give up a world for nothing."

"There is no point hashing this out here, the war is over and now we have to get on with our lives." Stated Acacia as she looked both at her father and her boyfriend.

"So your going to this place, Disney right tell me about it." Said Mrs. Drivas as Acacia's mom decided to get them on a different subject. It was an strained dinner for sure, Nikias was going after every piece of information he could get about the Tau'ri from Robert, the young boy almost jumped out of his seat in joy when Robert gave him a 101st airborne patch. While Acacia's father tried to keep his anger from showing. Finally, the group parted with Acacia's family leaving the airport to go on their vacation around Aquaria while Robert, Acacia and Medea moved to the other side of the airport to the terminal where the civilian condors where.

The process of actually getting onto the Condor was much easier than the colonials had thought. Their bags where checked and they had to give IDs and visas papers but aside from the travel visas Robert had to do the same thing. His Tau'ri Military ID did give him and the other Tau'ri on the flight perks that the Colonials didn't have but it wasn't much and it came at the end. The final part of the boarding was that each of them had to look into this strange device and answer some yes or no questions. The Questions mostly focused of confirming your ID and if you had any plans or know of any plans that might cause harm on Valhalla. The Colonials had to answer two additional questions about if they intended to carry out missionary work to spread the Faith of the Lords of Kobol on Valhalla and if they where spies attempting to gather information. A man in front of Robert answered no to the 1st question and the machine said he was lying. When pressed he admitted that he was traveling to carry out missionary work to save the souls of the 13th tribe since part of the peace treaty that ended the war forbade Colonial Missionaries on Tau'ri worlds just like Tau'ri faith missionaries couldn't go to the 12 Colonies he was removed.

When the three of them got onboard what stood out to Acacia and Medea was how much like an airliner it was. There were rows of seats with windows in the side, each row had six seats total with a center walking lane with a bathroom by the cockpit which was behind a large door and two more bathrooms in the rear. Overhead bins held room for carryon items and cargo had already been loaded under them. When it was all done the civilian airline of the Condor bomber pulled away from the terminal gate and began to taxi down the runway.

"This feels like a normal airline flight not a space flight." said Medea as she and Acacia sat nearest to the window while Robert sat on the outer most. To him this was a normal flight to Medea and Acacia it was their first time on a Tau'ri space craft.

"It can be one." explained Robert as the Condor made the turn onto the runway. It's wings where straight as its powerful engines kicked into gear pushing the full flight back into their chairs as the condor took off. As it left the ground it's landing gear folded in as it kept climbing and climbing, as it climbed the clouds began to disappear and the blue sky was replaced with darkness of space.

"That is a lot faster climb then I expected." Said Medea as the sound of gears turning caused both woman to look at him.

"Look out the window." Said Robert as both woman looked out the window and noticed that the wings had moved into a swept back position.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are about to entire hyperspace please stay seated until the fasten seat belt sign is turned off." said the pilot over the intercom as a vortex of energy appeared in front of the Condor and with a rush of speed it began its journey to Valhalla. For a moment both Colonial women just like every other colonial on the airline looked out in amazement at the tunnel of space which would allow them to cross the stars at speeds much faster then what was ever believed possible by the Colonial's before the War.

"Listen Robert, I am sorry about my dad, I thought he knew you were Tau'ri and I had no idea the anger ran that deep." Apologized Acacia as she turned and looked at the man she loves. Robert simply shrugged it off.

"I was actually expecting worse, there are bitter feelings about the war on each side. Your brother seemed to like me and your mom is ok. Besides isn't it kind of a rule that Dad's aren't supposed to like their Daughter's boyfriends?" Said Robert with a laugh, then he decided to make his own apologize. "I should apologized ahead of time, my Dad will likely joke about you being Irish."

"Irish?" inquired Acacia as she titled her head slightly in confusion. "What is Irish and why would he think I was Irish?"

Robert looked at Acacia's bright red hair and deep green eyes.

"Let's say, you kind of fit the stereotypical Irish look." explained Robert with a slight laugh. "But don't worry they know your Colonial and as far as I know they don't care, they want to meet you before they judge you. They would likely be more concerned about you if you where a Michigan fan then if you are Colonial, Ohio State all the way."

"Thanks that makes me feel so much better about meeting your family." said Acacia with a roll of her green eyes as the Condor kept moving toward Valhalla.

It was late evening on Valhalla, as the newly appointed head of Valhalla's military defense was a seasoned member of the Stargate Program who was among the small list of humans to travel far beyond either the Pegasus Galaxy or the Milky Way Galaxy, General Everett Young. He had been in command of the Icarus program when it had journeyed to the Ancient ship, Destiny on its mission to the very heart of the universe. He and the rest of the crew of makeshift expedition crew had been rescued from the far side of the universe by a team of Tau'ri soldiers traveling through a super gate that the ancients had programed drones to build for them to journey to Destiny on the final leg of it's long journey. That had allowed them to return but it hadn't allowed the Destiny to keep going, the ancient ship was too badly damaged from lack of upkeep to keep going. That was why a new program was underway and that program fell under Young's direct supervision.

"General Young, Doctor Rush is here to see you." Said a voice over the intercom as Young rubbed his temples.

"Alright, let him in." said Young as the doors to the office opened and one of the smartest people in the galaxy, the smartest person in his view walked through the doors. Young didn't rise from behind his desk to see another member of the Icarus program. "Rush how are you doing?"

"I am doing well." said Dr. Rush as he sat down across the desk from General Young without getting permission to sit. "I am sure you know why I am here."

"I know, just like all the other times you have come by." Said Young with resigned pain in his voice. "You already have five shipyard docks working on the Prometheus II what do you want me to do?"

"I want three things, first I want another seven shipyards we are building two of the Prometheus class deep space recon ships." Stated Rush

"No, the other shipyards are building warships and items you will just have to deal with 5 docks." Stated Young as the two of them repeated an old argument.

"But the Prometheus class will be 6 times the size of our battleships and it will have to carry all the parts we need to build a Super Gate in another galaxy." Countered Rush, as Young let out a sigh.

"Rush, you are on schedule to launch the Prometheus II to this galaxy in four years and then it is likely going to take you 18 months to get to this galaxy at full speed and then you have to assemble the Super gate near a black hole." Stated Young

"Yes, and that time will be cut in half if you gave me three of the ZPMs we took from the Colonials." Countered Rush

"No, we got 12 of them from the Colonials." said Young with force in his eyes. "Hell, the Colonials would throw a fit if they knew we switched out their holy relics with fakes."

"They are not holy relics we know how to make them." countered Rush

"You think you know how to make them but you can't because you are missing some element right." Stated Young pointing at the doctor. "Zephyr isn't that the name of the element that the Ancients had that makes ZPMs work and that element that we haven't been able to find in either this galaxy or the Pegasus galaxy, even the recon missions into the Ori galaxy has found none. The Ancients purged their data on the source of the element and the ones they didn't purged where destroyed or used up in their war with the Wraith."

"Yes but we know what it does, it has the ability to raise or lower the atomic mass of anything inside a small field. With it we would finally have the piece we need to make ZPMs of our own." Said Rush "However I still need those ZPMs."

"No." stated Young "That is two what is the last one?"

"I want Eli." added Rush

"No, once again I can't give you him." stated Young "He isn't in the military and I have asked him if he wants to work with you on this project and he has turned me down every time. He is happy in the private sector on Earth and from my understanding he is seeing someone and doesn't want to leave her."

Rush let out an angry sigh as he stood up.

"I will contact him myself to convince him to join my team." Stated Rush

"Go right ahead, it will not work." added Young as Rush left the room, he knew he would have to repeat the same talk in a week or two. Dr. Rush still didn't understand that while this mission of exploration was important and the force the Tau'ri where putting behind it showed that, it wasn't at the top of the list of important issues.

It was slightly cooler then what Fleet Lord Straha would have liked it but for a winter day it was decent enough. He was fleet Lord of the Conquest fleet of Vantic 5 and because of that he held the title of Viceroy for Vantic 5, his voice was law on Vantic 5 with only the Fleet Lord of the Colonization fleet Reffet being able to challenge his ruling. Even so he was slightly disappointed, he was fleet lord but he would never be considered one of the conquerors, that honor and place in history would remain with Atvar. That honor would be Atvar's for all time, he knew that some in the emperor court back on home had considered putting him in charge of the Conquest fleet of Tosev 3 but it was decided that Atvar would have the most experience and that he should go.

"Instead I am here fighting against terrorists who keep getting under the scales of the Race." Said Straha as he moved toward one of the large windows in his private office. His office was something else he wasn't happy about, shortly after the conquest Atvar had moved administration to the largest and most powerful city empire of Nuvia. While almost the entire city had been rebuilt into a normal looking city of the Race, the castle palace which had been the home of the ruling emperor remained. The Race had taken it over as a sign of their strength not that they needed it.

"I can't wait to tear down this horrible building down and replace it with a clean efficient design." stated Straha as he looked down out of the window toward the river which the castle overlooked. Along the water were multiple large stone pillars with the names of every member of the race who had died in the conquest inscribed on it. They had suffered slightly more losses then the planners and expected when the conquest was planned. Over a thousand names were on those stones and sadly another name would have to added, the terrorist had killed another male only a day earlier. "It should have been torn years ago but tradition demands we have to wait until the planet is fully under the rule of the Race."

The phone hissed for attention as Straha turned his attention to see a female in a lot less ornate body paint looked out at him from the other side of the video phone.

"Activate two-way voice." ordered Straha to the phone as she saw his image. She moved into the posture of respect.

"Exulted Fleet Lord, I have finished my report on the integration of the new citizens to the empire and I have combined them with what our top researchers know of the behavior of the Vantic people to get the most accurate picture of the path that would most wise to follow." Stated Senior researcher Felless, like all females she had come with the colonization fleet and had spent a lot less time dealing with the Vantics then the members of Conquest fleet.

"Go on." Ordered Straha

"Overall, aside from some unpleasant exceptions the integration goes well, slightly slower then we would like but well." stated Felless "The Vantic people are resentful but so where the Rabotevs and Hallessi when we integrated them into the empire and that passed in time."

"How long?" inquired Straha

"That is where the pattern with the other subject races differ, we believe that those Vantic who deal more with the Race, those in the city and more desirable places on the planet will be fully integrated within two generations." Stated Felless as Straha let out an annoyed hiss at the time frame. "The problem is the more remote areas where we are not fully established namely the far north and far south, there the natives are more likely to fight changes because they have not had as much experience seeing the higher standards of civilization that we have. That makes it hard for them to strive for because they can't see it with their own eye turrets."

"I see." said Straha as he let out a sigh, the far north and the far south was where the large oceans where and when the temperature dropped to near or even slightly below freezing. There was even some parts down there where snow which was almost unheard of even in the poles of home could come down so much protective wrappings was needed. Getting males and females of the colonization fleet to settle there was next to impossible, even males of the Conquest fleet didn't want to be assigned to those areas in Winter. It was also in those areas where the most terrorist attacks took place, that was the heart of terrorism on Vantic 5 and it needed to be crushed. "So we need to settle more in those areas."

"Yes, exulted Fleet Lord that is our current recommendations along with the removal of those structures that do not promote the Race, temples and other places of false worship need either to be converted to worship of the spirits of Emperors past or removed outright." said Felless as she cast down her eyes at the sovereign's name, as so did Straha. "We also need to build more of the modern apartment complexes to show the Vantic the better lives that await them."

"That has been a problem in other areas, our apartments are not designed to serve the bonded units called families that the Vantic use." Stated Straha

"Yes, that is a major concern we have found some Vantic who would rather live in the street with their "families" then live in clean modern apartments by themselves." stated Felles "However if we remove all other options most will accept the new living arrangements and that leads to something we didn't consider when we landed."

"And what is that?" hissed Straha

"The natives are eating a local animal which looks a lot like miniature versions of us." explained Felles as she pulled up an image of a small creature which looked a lot like the Race only it ran on all four and had a long tail. "They use the eating this creature as a sign of defiance against us, we should ban the eating of these creatures."

"Alright, I will have someone draft the orders and it will be carried out." stated Straha, it made logical sense to him. If the locals ate creatures who looked like the Race as a symbol of defiance then they wouldn't eat those creatures. "Is that all?"

"Besides the final capture of the Terror Prince, that is all." Said Felles as she reminded Straha once again of the need to capture the terrorist leader who's family home he now called his own. "Good day Exulted Fleet Lord."

"Good Day senior researcher." Stated Straha as he broke the connection before turning back to the window. "I should have pushed harder for the command of the Conquest fleet for Tosev 3, Atvar will be board out of his mind there and all the while I have to deal with the real pain under the scales but he will get the glory of being the "conquer" of Vantic 5. I get the hard job while Atvar gets the easy one."

The Conquest fleet was still over a day away at their current speed from the orbit of Pluto but they where not going to wait for them to arrive. The forces of the Tau'ri 1st fleet was moving into position to respond ahead of the defense line of battle stations.

"All ships are in position." Reported a deck officer onboard the flagship of the 1st fleet, the battleship Yamanto to the Admiral in command of the entire force. Even so he turned his gaze toward the woman standing beside him, the real power on this ship belonged to her.

"Then shall we begin Admiral?" inquired General Leong, she journeyed from Earth to take personal command of the contact force.

"Yes, General." Confirmed the Admiral as the orders went out.

On board the banner ship of the race the 128th Emperor Heto everything was going as it normally went. The Fleet Lord had entered the command center and was in the middle of his daily ritural of looking at the holographic image of Tosev 3.

"Show me the image of the warriors of Tosev 3." Ordered Atvar as the image of a Tosevite riding a beast with a shield and spear in his hands appeared on the holographic display. "Hold image I want everyone to look at this image carefully."

All the officers turned an eye turret away from their work and toward the image of the warrior.

"How well will their kind stand up to bullets, land cruisers and killer craft, how well indeed." started Atvar before opening his mouth in a silent laugh which was joined by every officer in the chamber. His laugh was cut short as alarms begin hissing for attention and all the officers snapped their eye turret away from the holographic image of the Tosevite warrior and to the multiple alarms on their own screens.

"Exulted Fleet Lord we are being illumined by multiple powerful radars!" Hissed the officer in command of the radar systems.

"Did someone turn on their radar too early?" inquired Atvar as he turned both eye turret toward his screen, he paused for a moment and Atvar noticed he was standing very still with the only his tail stump slightly moving, he was deathly afraid.

"Exulted Fleet Lord…." Started the officer before pausing "Exulted Fleet Lord the radars are coming from in front of us."

"That is impossible." countered Kirel as the radar operator without orders sent the live radar feed to the main holographic display. Atvar couldn't even be angry at the breach in protocol, he was too stunned the radar did show that the fleet was being illumined by at least a 100 different radar points coming from around the orbit of Tosev 9.

"Go active on our own radar!" ordered Atvar, the operator didn't even give the verbal confirmation of it shall be done. Instead he turned on the radar and instantly didn't believe his eyes.

"By the emperor." Hissed multiple members of the race as they looked at the massive ships which where surrounding them in a half circle pattern. Behind those ships in the orbit rotation of Tosev 9 was a massive space station and smaller ships. Even deeper into the Tosev system where more ships and all of them where in a defensive position.

"We have killer craft in coming!" yelled the operator as Atvar noticed all the dozens of smaller dots on the radar display, they where moving like Killer Craft would in atmosphere but that was impossible. In space they shouldn't be able to move like that but they where. Two flights of 16 killer craft each where heading straight toward them. Then they broke off and circled around the fleet at speeds that should have been impossible for a craft of that size, that is when Atvar noticed that there where more ships. Not as large as the ships nearest to his fleet but they where there behind his fleet. His mind began to race, he was trying to remember if the planners who had lied out the plan invasion of Tosev 3 all those years ago had thought of what to do in case of meeting a threat in orbit. When he didn't remember any he thought about if the Race had ever thought of what to do if they meet another space born power, once again nothing came to mind.

"We are surrounded. How…how are we surrounded." exclaimed Atvar as the radio came to life.

"Attention…you are in Tau'ri space. Stand down all weapons and explain yourselves at once!" Came a computerized voice in his own language. "If you do not begin to stop at once you will be destroyed."

"All ships, fire emergency braking rockets, all stop!" yelled Atvar as he looked around at the situation he and the Race now found themselves in. It wasn't good and he had no pre planned course to fall back on and that frightened Atvar almost as much as the fact that his fleet was now surrounded by unknown ships.

Well I hope you liked this chapter, contact between the Race and the Tau'ri is coming. I admit in my original plan I had Robert meeting Acacia's parents when both knew he was Tau'ri but I had multiple PM asking to see what their reaction would be to him being Tau'ri so I added it. Also if you have paid close attention I have placed the ground work for the Mass Effect/Stargate story which will be coming after this. One last thing, that I feel I must address. I don't know why but a lot of people think Admiral Cain from the last story is still alive or want her to come back. Sorry but she is dead and will not be coming back. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.