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.

5. Chapter 5

Chapter 5 The Game has Changed

Across the Conquest fleet of the Race emergency rocket motors where firing as the fleet began a emergency protocol designed to bring them to a stop. The rockets which where mounted across each ship was designed to bring a ship traveling nearly half the speed of light to a stop as soon as possible in case of an oncoming threat. That threat as far as the planners who designed the ships was to come either in the form of an asteroid, comet or body of some kind. It was because of that threat that the ships where armed with missile tubes capable of firing missiles designed to knock those threats out of the way. Now the race had on their claws something no planner back on home every imagined before them was a line of unknown ships and stations all of already in battle formation while their ships where in standard cruising formation meaning that ships near the heart of the fleet couldn't fire on their enemies without hitting their own ships.

"Exulted Fleet Lord, the unknown ships have not moved to come any closer to us." Reported the Radar operator on board the 128th Emperor Heto. Atvar like all the other officers on board and in fact every officer on every ship in the Conquest fleet who was out of cold sleep was trying to get to grips with what was going on. That was a major problem because no one in the Race had ever dreamed of the possibility that they could come into contact with another space fairing empire.

"All Ship Lords are to report in on the emergency communication channel at once, bring all ships with missile launchers to combat ready and prepared to fire explosive metal missiles but only under mine command." ordered Atvar as he consider his combat options in space. There wasn't much to consider, beside the few missile launchers on his ships the only other weapons he could bring into a battle was the couple dozen space killer crafts. The space killer craft was pretty much a glorified shuttle craft but with extra armor and weapons mounted to its side and belly. Like the missile launchers on the ships they where suppose to go after asteroids and comets not take on other killer craft. "I want our space craft crafts launched at once."

"Exulted Fleet Lord, I am not sure if all the pilots we will need to crew those ships are out of cold sleep." explained Kirel "It may take time to awaken their crew and prepare the ships for possible combat. In the mean time what are we going to do with these Taru demands"

Kirel was struggling with the name of these new group and Atvar couldn't blame him he didn't know if he could make the strange sounds himself. The message which had come across the radio moments after their radars went live had that word in what was likely their native launage, the rest was in the launage of the race.

"I do not know yet." admitted Atvar as he looked message which was repeating on all radio frequency.

"Attention…you are in Tau'ri Space, if you do not begin to stop at once you will be destroyed." Read Atvar as he looked at the situation again. The fleet was slowing down and to make matters better using computer models his fleet would come to a stop well outside of missile range. Then a scary thought entered his head, they would be out missile range based on his missiles but what about these Tau'ri. Their space born killer craft were impossibly fast but no they couldn't be in range of them when their ships came to a stop, they had some breathing room.

"The only thing I can think of is that we have come into contact with something all our experts believed impossible." stated Atvar as Kirel's eyes scanned the room for a second before both turrets locked on him. Among the Race that was a sign that Atvar had Kirel's total attention. "We have come into contact with another space born Empire and they have conquered Tosev 3 before we did."

"By the Emperor, that should be impossible we are the most advanced civilization in the galaxy." said Kirel before looking at the screens once again. His eyes turrets moved up and down the screen as his mind tried to find a different answer. "But as much as I hate to admit it, your answer is the most likely answer. Which opens up a whole new line of inquiry how many other empires are there across the galaxy."

"A very true point, but you fail to see a much more important point now." stated Atvar "How big of an empire are we dealing with? We know they have Tosev 3 and the we got transmissions from Tosev 2 and 4 as well as from 3. The empire which colonized Tosev 3 must have set up doomed colonies on those worlds as well. We must send a message back to home at once and inform the Emperor of this development."

"It shall be done." said Kirel as he went to carry out his orders.

On board the flag ship of the 1st fleet the Battleship Yamato the Tau'ri commanders monitored the entire situation with a calm boredom. The ships of the Race where coming to a stop as fast as possible but it was taking them an extremely long time by the standards of any of the space faring civilizations that the Tau'ri had meet so far. Monitoring them was as easy was keeping an eye on a blind man in an empty parking lot at high noon on a cloudless day. Some of the Tau'ri technicians had split their time between monitoring the Race and monitoring the civilian traffic moving around the system.

"Are they in weapon range?" inquired the Admiral in command of the fleet to the weapon's officer.

"For us no." admitted the weapon's officer as he sat at his command station. "They will be out of range as well in the spot they are likely going to finally stop. That is only for us and our other ships. They are already well within range of our defense stations main weapon."

"I see." confirmed the Admiral

"Be calm Admiral, we can destroy them at any time." said General Leong as she stood beside the Admiral. Even though the Admiral was in command of not only this ship but every ship in the 1st fleet he was outranked. General Leong was command of all Tau'ri military forces and therefor his superior. "Now we need them to start talking among themselves."

"Ma'am, if I may be so bold couldn't we just make official contact with them. Our computer system can translate well enough and we know why they are here. Why wait?" inquired the Admiral "With our holographic technology we can transmit an image straight on board their flag ship."

"I understand your point; however it is better if we find out their current thinking and these aliens from what our brief study has shown do not adapt well. We need to give them time to adapt to one major change before we give them something else to adapt to." answered General Leong "Also it will give our Akula's from the 7th fleet to move into monitoring positions near their worlds. We know some of the field however I want to know it all before I commit our forces. The force is slowing down we will wait until they stop to make another broadcast to them."

"Very well." Said the Admiral clearly, he disagreed with the General's move but he understood the reasons behind the move.

"General, Admiral we are getting multiple broadcasts going between each alien ships." Stated the radio operator, as he pressed a large headphone to his ear. It was giving him an instant translation of the broadcasts. "Sounds like they are mostly confirming that they are coming to a stop and that they are arming explosive metal missiles and space born killer crafts."

"Explosive metal missiles? Could that be nuclear weapons?" inquired the Admiral as he turned toward another technician. It took the technician at the terminal which had access to the Race's computer system only a couple of moments as he typed in Explosive Metal missile and the image of a nuclear explosion. "Well there is the answers that. Killer craft could they mean fighters?"

"That would be a likely answer, did our search into their computers find any designs for their killer crafts?" inquired General Leong

"Yes, General." Confirmed an aid "Most of them are atmosphere bond jet aircraft similar in performance and capably of a late third generation fighter such as MIG 29 or early F-14 Tomcat all before being upgraded of course. Our Eagles will beat them senseless if it came to it."

"Very good and their space born killer craft?" inquired General Leong

"Even more one sided then their air born jet fighters." said the aid as he pulled up the image of the Race's response to an Eagle Space Superior Fighter. It looked as if someone had put a handful of weapons on a shuttle craft, there was no high performance turning jets, no way to quickly move in a dog fight in short it was a laughable excuses for a true fighter. The only benefit it had was that it did carry more missiles then an Eagle did but that meant little if it couldn't move itself.

"So we are in no real danger." stated General Leong "We will let them get their act together. Are we on the news yet?"

"Yes, but no one is worried, they all have come to basically the same conclusion you have General." Said the communication officer as General Leong nodded her head.

The Condor liner exited hyperspace in the assigned corridor for civilians' liners, it was far outside of the defense stations and navy warships. Even so Acacia, Medea and the other colonials on the liner looked out their windows in amazement at the massive 3rd fleet of the Tau'ri. The 3rd fleet was assigned to the defense of Valhalla and a response force to anything either the Colonials or the Cylons attempted to do. Robert was quietly laughing to himself as he watched Acacia's and Medea's reaction to the sight of the 3rd fleet and Valhalla. The Condor flew past the defense stations and the ships and joined the mass of civilian ships which were moving through the system. The Condor didn't move toward the large space port which was clearly visible in orbit of Valhalla. Instead it dove toward the dark side of the planet. The condor shook a bit as it went from the vacuum of space to the atmosphere of Valhalla.

"So your family fly in tomorrow morning and we get the Disney hotel then?" inquired Acacia

"Well they are coming by the Stargate but yes." Confirmed Robert as the landing gear of the Condor came down. Below them they could see the space/air port which had three large runways with two large terminals one for passengers the other for cargo. The condor landed with no issues and taxied to the assigned terminal. Then came the madness of getting off the condor but when the three of them got off the condor and through customs which took longer for Acacia and Medea then Robert. With that done Robert lead the way down a level to where they got their store away bags and then down yet another level where multiple high speed trains came in and out. The entire place was amazing to the two colonials, they couldn't help but notice all the new technology which graced every corner. The high arched ceilings and gleaming perfectly cleaned floors.

"We need to get on the one for Celin." said Robert as they got onto one of the cars. To their amazement they had the traincar to themselves as the train took off with a smooth grace.

"We are now departing the Celin air and space port, next stop will be Valhalla Nuclear Attack Memorial." stated the announcer as Medea and Acacia looked out over the darkened country of Valhalla. It was just past 9 at night and people were heading to bed and turning out the lights. At first it didn't look that different to the two colonials they saw trees, street lights and lights from homes. Then they saw a darkened lake and across the lake they could see the bright lights of their resort.

"Wow…that looks even more amazing in person." said Acacia as they could the lights bouncing off Elsa's Ice Castle at the heart of Valhalla Disney. Then the train made a turn and they saw a solemner looking area which was a massive stone wall with somber lights glowing on them from below. Out of the corner of her eyes Acacia saw Robert snap to attention with sadness in his eyes. Then it hit her, that was the memorial for the nuclear strike on Valhalla, something he lived through and saw with his own eyes. The monorail stopped for a moment before moving on.

"Robert, why don't once we check into our hotel we come back here?" inquired Acacia as Robert looked at her stunned for a moment.

"Are you sure?" inquired Robert as Acacia nodded her head as the monorail turned the corner and they saw the skyline of the capital of Valhalla, Celin in the distance. The tall towers reached up into the darkened sky with, they were impossibly thin and impossible tall. The tallest of the towers was located in the heart of the city with multiple slightly taller towers spread around the city.

"By the Lords of Kobol." Said Acacia as the train made a few more stops before they passed through of all things a wall and into the city itself.

"Why is there a wall?" inquired Medea

"The shield falls from the top of the command tower and drops down over the city until it reaches that wall." explained Robert "Without the shield the city would have taken a lot of damage from the nuclear strike however with it, it and the people inside at the time were saved."

"Even your cities have shields." Said Medea as she looked down at the people and cars moving around the street. She could see that even as people where calling it a night the city was alive with life, she could people hard at work in one job or another. Finally they reached their stop and headed toward the hotel. The hotel lobby was grand in nature with marble and wood work, a grand reception desk sat before a line of elevators.

"Welcome to Hilton Hotel Celin." said the clerk at the desk. "Can I help you?"

"Yes, we are here to check in." said Robert as he handed over his Military ID. "Under Lefeld."

"Ah…yes here you are." Said the clerk "Captain Lefeld welcome to Valhalla, we have you as a one night stay with a check out early in the morning. A single room with a double bed, is that correct?"

"Yes." confirmed Robert

"Alright then with your military discount the total comes to $90." said the clerk as Robert paid the bill clerk. "The pool and gym is open until 2 am with it open again at 6am, check out is no later than 11 am."

"Well by then we will be in Disney." Said Acacia as the Clerk smiled.

"We get a lot of people coming from Earth and Lanagara to visit Disney." said the Clerk with a warm smile "Can I get your two IDs and I an issue you access clearance."

"Ok." said Acacia as she and Medea reached into their bags and pulled out their colonial citizen ID and their travel visas. The clerk paused for a moment stunned as he checked the colonial IDs of the two women.

"Oh…I didn't know you two where colonial." admitted the Clerk with no smile on his face and with slight harness in his voice but he went to work. When he was done he handed over the IDs and looked at Robert. "Sir, put your hand on the pad."

Robert placed his hand on a clear pad built into the top of the desk. With that done, he told Acacia and then Medea to do the same.

"Alright, the computer has you in the system, Room 417. Thank you for staying with us."

With that the three of them headed toward the elevator.

"He doesn't like Colonials." said Medea as the elevator closed behind them and it start up.

"We did nuke this world, they aren't going to be jumping for joy to meet us." said Acacia before looking at Robert. "That must be what you have to deal with all the time."

"Not really." said Robert with a shrug "On Aquaria they seem to love us but on Sagittarian it slightly different, more likely to be dodging bullets than anything else."

"Well let's go check out our room and then we can go back to that memorial." said Medea as they got off on their floor and walked to room 415. The two colonials looked at the door with some confusion, there was no key slot for a key card nor any visible lock. There was a handle and nothing else that made the door stand out. Acacia reached out and tried the door but it wouldn't open.

"What the frak? Wait that guy never gave us any keys." inquired Acacia as Robert moved beside her and ran his hand over a small vatical strip of blue on the wall beside the door that the two colonials had assumed to be a hallway light of some kind. Instead the door unlocked and it opened for Acacia.

"DNA scanners, when we placed our hands on the scanner it took a touch DNA sample and that allows us to open the door to our room and other places without a key card." explained Robert "I heard the Ancients used these all the time in their cities and they are catching on here."

"My brother would flip out at that." said Acacia in wonder as they entered the hotel room to find what they expected to find two beds, a small table with two chairs with a sink with a mirror and a bathroom off to the side.

"So I'll take this bed, you two can share that one." Said Medea as she placed her bag on the table. "No funny business I want some sleep."

On board the ships of the Conquest fleet no one was sleeping as the multiple ship lords tried to figure out what to do. They were talking to each other using their most secured radio communication channel not knowing that they were in fact being listened into in real time by the Tau'ri.

"Exalted Fleet Lord, how could these Tau'ri be real? We are the Race no one is equal to us." stated a ship lord form one of the larger ships as the entire bridge staff of the Tau'ri battleship Yamato listened to their conversation.

"We outnumber them, we should push through and take Tosev 3." advised another Ship Lord, the computers slightly changing the computerized translation voice to make them easier to ID. "Who knows maybe the sword swing savages will welcome us."

"Maybe." Admitted Fleet Lord Atvar "However I am concern if you notice the ships that surround us all appear to be warships, if those stations are also armed pushing through them will cost us a lot of ships."

"Truth." said a lot of males "And how would the Emperor take it if we declared war on another space fairing power without his say so. We should send a message back to Home at once."

"Truth." Said more males

"A message is already underway." Confirmed Atvar

"We blocked the message." reported the communication officer to General Long "And it was traveling at the speed of light, it would have taken the message around 10 years to get there."

"Still better safe than sorry." Stated General Leong as she put a hand under her chin. "How hard would it be to patch me into their channel?"

"Cake walk, General." Confirmed the communication officer as he did the work on his computer pad, before handing it to the General. "Just touch the button on the corner there and it will patch you in."

"Then it is time to shake their cages once again." stated General Leong as she waited for the right moment.

Far away from the situation by Pluto Captain Lee Adama sat on the park bench in the still being rebuilt Caprica City. The young man had risen through the ranks for his skills inside of a Viper space fighter, he had been shot down two times over Tauron during the war only to be captured by the remains of his father's own Battlestar which had crashed on the planet. Lee still shook his head as he remembered seeing that might old ship lying on its back partly in the surface. There had been talked about recovering the Galactica and putting her back into space, that wasn't meant to be. The government including now his father Admiral William Adama who was in command of the whole Colonial Military decided there was no point. The Galactica was an old ship when this all started and was on its way to becoming a museum before the Tau'ri war. The Tau'ri had made all current battlestars useless and spending the now much limited colonial military budget raising an outdated old ship from the surface was seen as pointless and wasteful. Lee had watched as the metal workers from Tauron had begun to cut into the Galactical as the once military ship was turned into scrap metal to be melted down to rebuild people's homes and lives.

"Weapons of War turned into tools for a new age of peace." repeated Lee outload as he said the tag line which the government had come out with when selling the fact that the military budget was almost nothing compared to what it had once been. Lee out another sigh as he stood up and looked around at all the new buildings going up as the Capital City of the Colonies of Kobol rose again. In the distance, he could see the Quorum building which was going up, it would be an almost perfect copy of the old one however instead of 13 statues of the Lords of Kobol there would only be 12. The statue for the goddess which was supposed to look over Earth would no longer grace the building. Same was true for a lot of symbols which had been in place as reminders that the Colonies had one world missing. In all those symbols places a much more visible reminder of the fact that everything had changed stood.

Across from where Lee sat stood a very large building with a large wall which went about 10 ft tall was the Tau'ri main Embassy to the 12 Colonies of Kobol. While each world had an mission building that the Tau'ri had set up in their main city to help with relations the one true Embassy was here in the Capital City. Overall it was an impressive but semi-simple building. It was surrounded by the 10 foot wall but there was no barb wire on top of it, the building was five stories high and made out of pure white marble with a small part of the building shooting out with a simple colonnade which marked the entrees. The whole building, he knew was shaped like a block O with an courtyard in the middle. Colonial Military Intelligence knew that the court yard was big enough to land a Tau'ri Owl transport if they had to and the nearby parking structure had a large hanger on the top where at least three Owl transport sat. A massive blue and silver Tau'ri flag flapped from a tall flag pole located just outside the building.

The Tau'ri Embassy wasn't alone either, while the other great powers in the Galaxy hadn't seen fit to form any formal ties with the Colonies, the Cylons had. Across a large fenced in park which was open to the public even though it was owned by the Tau'ri sat the Cylon Embassy. It was a five-story windowless building with multiple communication towers poking out the top. There was a yard but no trees or landscaping graced it. Six old Cylon Centurions stood post outside, it was believed that they had a new updated version but the Colonials had never seen them. No one went into the Embassy and no one went out, it was more of a place for protestors and there were some there now.

"Time to go." Said Lee as he stood up and cross the road toward the two Tau'ri guards which stood at the checkpoint. These Tau'ri where armed and wore bullet proof vests but they lacked the power armor and full combat gear that they had used on the battlefield.

"Stop." Said one of the Tau'ri guards as Lee stopped at the checkpoint. "Who are you and what is your business."

"Captain Lee Adama, here to meet with the Military Consular." explained Lee as he held out his papers. The guard studied the paper and studied Lee for a moment before checking a small computer built into a mount on his wrist.

"Sorry about that Captain Adama, he is expecting you." Said the guard as Lee was allowed to pass and entered the ground, here more Tau'ri guards where visible however they were dressed like the ones outside. Lee knew that if he had gone to Sagittarian all those guards would be in full combat gear, the wall would be much thicker and everyone would be expecting an attack to happen at any moment. Lee entered the building to find a Tau'ri he was looking for waiting for him in the lobby.

"Ah…Captain Adama how are you doing this fine day?" inquired the man, he was slightly taller then Lee but almost every Tau'ri he meet seamed taller than the average Colonial. He wore a Tau'ri duty uniform but with no visible weapon on his hip, the only thing that made him really stand out was that he wore rather thick rimmed glasses.

"Hello Colonel Chopra." Said Lee as he greeted his counterpart, this man like him had the job of making sure that the each military didn't end up shooting at each other.

"Well why don't we go to my office and we can discuss our plans to increase the shipments of goods around the colonies." Said Colonel Chopra as the former Indian Army Officer and veteran of the war guided Lee toward his office. "I understand that your efforts of rebuilding your shipyards is behind schedule."

"Yes, so we will need your ships to help longer than we thought." admitted Lee with some shame not well hidden in his voice.

"Shouldn't be an issue but I am afraid I will have to wait to check it out with Earth at the moment." reported Colonel Chorpia "A small situation has arisen back home and we are currently focused on that."

"Is it a threat?" inquired Lee

"Hardly, more like a buzzing insect but it is taking the focus away from you all for the moment. I would expect an answer within a few hours." explained Colonel Chorpia as they reached his office. "Now let's work out the details and we can see if we can help you all along."

Open air markets had been a the heart of every city on Vantic since civilization was young now the multiple open air markets were one of the last places was almost totally for the natives on their home world. The Race looked down on these markets preferring their shopping centers and clean organized stores not the wild mess of the open market. The Vantic natives moved through the market buying and selling items like they had done for years before the arrival of the Race. On the outside it looked just as it would have been generations ago however it was very different, soldiers of the Race moved through the market with weapons ready for a fight, the cube like buildings which Race preferred was slowly pushing out the market for their own shopping centers and apartments. Temples to Ancestors which could have been beside each market had either torn down or replaced to the Race's religion. The domed buildings with a tall spire shooting out of the center where a bell would ring out every hour were gone. Instead standing in their place where more cubed buildings detected to Emperors past.

"How much for the Yauas?" inquired a female Vantic as a youngling hid under her main body. It was common for young children to hid under the main body of their parents when they were scared and so it was true for this boy.

"Not cheap." Said the seller as he eyed the female, it was clear that she was poor her cloths where torn and her hardened shell showed spots of white in it, a sign that she had hadn't been eaten well lately. Then he turned his head toward the container beside him which contained multiple yauas, the yauas was a staple of everyone's diet and surprising looked a lot like their overlords. The female looked disappointed and as about to turn to leave when he spotted the little boy hiding under his mother, he was thin and hunger looking. Pity filed his two hearts as he thought about what he could do to help. "I could part with one of the smaller ones."

"Really?" inquired the female as the seller pulled out a small Yauas but to the amazement of the female it wasn't the smallest one but it was still on the small size.

"Yes, normally I would charge 15 race credits for even this one." Said the seller "For you I'll do 8."

"Thank you." Said the female as she paid the seller the money and was about to turn to leave when an armed squad of soldiers appeared.

"Stop what you are doing, selling of those creatures are now banded by order of the Fleet Lord." ordered the small unit commander.

"But why? We need these to eat." Said the female as the male of the race aimed his rifle at her.

"Release that animal or you will be taken into custody." Said the small unit commander as other members of the squad gathered up the containers holding the rest of Yauas. When the seller tried to stop them one of the males arrested him and then with just as suddenly as it started it was over and the poor female was left with no money and no food to feed her son.

"Mom, I am hungry." pleaded the boy as the mom lowered herself to his level.

"Don't worry I will get you something to eat, don't you worry." said the mom as she pulled him into a hug, behind her son's back she began to blinked rapidly, a sign of crying among them.

She never saw when arrived or how long he had been there, she just felt a shadow on her. When she looked up she saw three males, all of them had traveling cloaks on with their hoods up. That was strange enough but then she saw that one of them had a Race's pistol in the belt around his middle and another had multiple one-shot pistols that used to be the height of technology before the Race came on him. The other one, the one in the middle didn't have a gun not that she saw but her black eyes widened as she looked up.

"It can't be." She whispered.

"Yes, I am Prince Unia." said the last living member of the royal family of their city, he was among the last still fighting the Race openly and was the most wanted male on the planet. She turned her head to look at both of his guards, they must have been some of the last of the order of Protection which had once numbered in the thousands. "Where is your mate? The Boy's father?"

"Imprisoned by the Race, for speaking out against that." Said the female as she pointed toward the Shrine to Spirits of Emperor's past. "He tried to stop them from building it and they took him away."

"I am sorry." Said the Prince as he reached behind him, this lifted his cloak a bit and that is when she saw the ancestral blade which every member of his family had carried since the founding of the city. It was a sure sign of his right to rule and that it was indeed him. When his hand came back around he had a small bag.

"This isn't much, I am sorry for that but it should be enough for you get a couple of meals and a place to stay." said Prince Unia as the female bowed her head low and touched her forehead a sign of respect and thanks. "I am sorry I couldn't do more but someday we will be free again and your boy like all the children on our world will be free of the Race."

"Thank you." said the female

'My Prince, we need to go." advised one of the guards as the three males headed away from the market and the shrine to spirits of Emperor past. As they walked away a boom filled the air followed by alarms as a bomb went off inside the Shrine to Spirits of Emperors past.

The night was pitch black on Sagittarian as a heavy duty semi-truck rolled into a warehouse in the middle of an overcrowded warehouse district. The warehouse on first glace was rather small and unnoticeable, a loading dock that allowed the semi to back a trailer up to a position where forklifts could unload it with ease. Along the walls where small boxes marked with light machinery and when someone opened them that is what they would find. Only thing that really stood out where the multiple men in civilian clothing with military grade rifles and assault rifles in their hands.

"Right on time." Said the head guard as he tapped the side of the truck. In the driver jumped out of the cab as the garage door lowered cutting them off from anyone who might pass by in the middle of the night. "What did you bring this time?"

"We got some Siri bolt action rifles and pistols with enough ammo to supply five squads." Said the arms dealer "I have a line on some grenades and high explosive rounds maybe even some anti-tank rockets."

"Great, that will teach those Fraking Tau'ri a lesson." said the terrorist cell leader as the two embraced. "Good Job my friend."

"Thanks, it was actually nothing, bribing a few supply officers isn't that hard a lot of them want revenge against the Tau'ri most of all if they are Sagittarian. So they are willing to cook the books." laughed the armed dealer "Now I will give your boss the normal discount this time but when it comes to the explosives I will not be able too. Having a few old rifles go missing is one thing high explosives is another."

"That is fine." Said the cell leader "However I know we are in the market for Tau'ri weapons can you get ahold of any of those. We can strike the fear of the Lords of Kobol in them when we turn their own weapons against them."

The arms dealer lowered his head before shaking his head.

"Sorry, I have gotten my hands on a handful of Tau'ri firearms left behind from the battlefield on Tauron but our wayward cousins have designed their guns with computers in them." Explained the dealer "We have tried to fire them but they will not fire, we have tried to hack into the computer system in the guns but every attempt we have tried ends with the computer being fried and the gun is scrape metal. We don't have enough Tau'ri weapons to keep experimenting until we find out how they work."

"The Tau'ri love technology so much that they even their guns have computers." Spat the terrorist cell leader as another member of the cell walked up with a briefcase. "We will cure them of their love of technology after we bring them back into the embrace of the Lords of Kobol."

"Yes, we shall." said Dealer as he took the brief case and checked the gold inside before closing it with a with a smile "Now let's unload my goods."

"Alright." Said the terrorist as they began to unload the weapons when it was done and paid for the dealer left. Moments after the truck pulled out the power went out pitching the warehouse into pure darkness. The darkness was suddenly filled with the sound of whispered quiet gunfire, when the lights flickered back on all ten-terrorist lied died with bullet wounds in their chests and heads. Moving out of a crouching positions around the warehouse came five Tau'ri special forces members dressed in black.

"You got the tracker on the truck?" inquired the commander

"Yes, sir." Confirmed a member of the team "We will follow him back to his base and then go pay him a visit, once we cut off their weapons our task becomes much easier."

"Alright, check to see if anyone else is here. Then get ready for a burn job." ordered the commander as the Tau'ri moved around the warehouse with their life sign detectors scanning for signs of life.

"Sir, I got something." Said one of them at the far wall, "Looks like there is a large group of people behind this wall."

"Sir, I got a door." added another as one of them pushed away a small shipping container to find a hidden door. The Tau'ri formed a breaching line and with one quick move they breached the door with weapons raised and ready to fire. What they found caused all of them to lower their weapons, there where multiple children ranging from just over a year old to teenagers. All of them where chained to rows of bunk beds, the children recoiled from the sight of armed men.

"Get on the horn to command, we can't do a torch and burn job here." ordered the commander with a small amount of complaint in his voice. "We will have to make this look official."

The Tau'ri all of whom where former members of agencies such of the CIA, MI5, GRU and other intelligence agencies which were now blending together into a central agency. This mission was a black mission in which the Colonials had not been informed of their operation and if everything had gone as planned they would never had known.

"Yes, sir." confirmed the radio man as the one female member of the team moved forward and using her power armor began to break the chains holding the children in place.

"And find something to cover the bodies, we don't want the kids to see what happened out there." added the commander to the radio man.

"Sir, what the hell are a bunch of children doing at a terrorist arms deal?" inquired the explosive expert, his job would have been to make the warehouse suddenly catching fire look like an accident.

"My money on these being some of the missing religious refugee children." Added the commander as the two Tau'ri looked at the children, some recoiled in fear thinking they would be hit again. "Taken from their parents because they didn't accept the lords of Kobol and beaten into accepting by some."

"Sir, sometimes I wish we had fired the Ragnarok on this world. It is like we are dealing with one massive cult here." Said the explosive expert

"I can't say I totally disagree with you." added the commander "However do you remember how all our religious groups fought each other for years? Also aside from Sagittarian and Gememon the Colonies aren't totally bad."

"Sir, a team from Aquaria is on route." said the radio man

"Alright, now we wait." said the commander as he ran the numbers in his head, by the time the regular soldiers arrived if the Colonials Police Officials did any type of forensic work then they should be able to tell that the 10 dead colonial terrorist had died before the arrival of the official Tau'ri forces. "This might get messy politically."

Atvar had remained quiet for most of the time as he let the multiple different ship lords share their views. This was something that the Race in general didn't allow, it was up to the higher ranks to provide structure and proper planning so that the lower ranks could carry out their duty as easily as possible. The race was built on four strong pillars that guided every member of the Race. First that the spirits of Emperor past would guild them and watch over them in the next life. Secondly that discipline and long planning was most important for a social society. The third pillar was a twin to the second, that while every citizen had rights the good of the empire and the Race was the most important thing for any citizen of the Empire. The last pillar was the fact that they were the most advanced civilization in the galaxy, that pillar was now under attack. There was no planning for a situation like the one they found themselves in now and as such Atvar had to do something alien to the Race, he had to think on his feet.

If he had proper time he would have teams of planners going over every possible move he could take and every possible outcome of those actions. This would have allowed Atvar to carry out the plan that would work 100% of the time and would prevent any negative effects to the Race, in a perfect universe that plan would take a couple of years to plan at least maybe decades however he had to do things in a few hours. To help him he had opened the floor and letting a rare very rare debate to take place between the ship lords.

"Exulted Fleet Lord I believe we have heard all the possible recommendations and counter points to them." stated Kirel as he turned an eye turret toward his fleet Lord.

"Yes, I do think we will drive home that we outnumber these Tau'ri and that we are warriors of the most advanced empire in the galaxy." stated Atvar "We will determine their strength and how long they have ruled Tosev 3 and from there we will move forward and force them into line."

He had a plan and was about to put it into action when a strange slight barking sound came over the wireless.

"What is that?" inquired Atvar, having never heard a chuckle before he had no idea what it was.

"I must admit, listening in to your talk about how powerful you are and how you outnumber us has been slightly entertaining it is time to bring that to a close. This is General Leong of the Tau'ri on board the Flag Ship of the 1st Fleet the battleship Yamato" said a computer voice at Atvar's head snapped toward Kirel.

"Sir, we are on our most encrypted channel there shouldn't be a way they could listen to us." explained Kirel

"Yet they appear to have." hissed Atvar

"General Leong, I am Fleet Lord Atvar of the Conquest fleet of the Race. We have come to this system to claim it in the name of our Emperor…" started Atvar

"Yes, we know." Said General Leong interrupting the Fleet Lord to the amazement of every Ship Lord listening into the conversation. By rights the Fleet Lord should never be interrupted in any way, he was appointed by the Emperor himself and had the right to rule. "Now let's clear some things up right away, you are not the most advanced civilization in the Galaxy not even close. Your numbers mean nothing besides giving more targets for my ships and stations to hit so don't count on them to carry you to victory."

"We have 514 ships you have a faction of that, your stations are large but we have already mapped a path to avoid them." Started Atvar "You are the one outnumbered and out gun."

"Really?" inquired General Leong, even with a compute translating for her a cold cockiness came thought. "Let me show you just how out classed you are…Cairo Station fire a warning shot."

The third and the one the greatest distance away of the three Kusanagi class defense stations which had the conquest fleet of the Race within range turned its massive ancient beam cannon slightly so that it would pass just in front of the Conquest fleet. The station which was named after the city of Cairo on Earth just like all of her sister stations in the system, the tip of the massive cannon glowed green for a moment before a beam of energy capable of cutting through the shields and armor of all but the most powerful ships in a single strike came shooting out. The beam shot forward cutting right infront of the Conquest fleet, they didn't have as many live video broadcast sensors as the Tau'ri on their ships but it was enough for them to see the beam of energy pass them by before traveling even deeper into space before breaking apart and fading into nothingness.

"By the Emperor they have energy based weapons?" exclaimed Kirel beside Atvar, both of them had toured factories where machines where cut out with high power lasers but no one in the history of the Race had ever dreamed of turning them into weapons.

"I would recommend you reevaluate that opening you claimed to have found?" advised General Leong as Atvar turned both eye turrets toward a technician who was putting in the range that beam of energy had gone into the combat conquer, once the new data was put in the narrow path which they had found that would have taken them to Tosev four without being in missile range disappeared. They were in fact already within striking range of three stations and as they went deeper the interlace of fire became thicker and thicker. "I assume I have your attention now?"

"You do." admitted Atvar as he took a different path. "I hereby request and audience with your Emperor or his Viceroy to discuss the current situation and the way forward for both our Empires. I believe a face to face meeting would be for the best."

"I agree." Confirmed General Leong "I will order the launch of a transport which will take you to Earth or as you call it Tosev 3 to meet with our leaders. It will launch shortly."

"The journey to Tosev 3 will take about a year, I would like to meet your leaders as soon as possible." Stated Atvar as he bit down a hiss of anger, he was a Conquer he shouldn't have to request anything. By rights they should be coming to him not the other way around, however that beam weapon that changed things.

"By your technology it would take about six of our months to get into the system, with us it will take about an 90 minutes at civilian cruising speed." stated General Leong "I will launch the transport within the hour, until then Fleet Lord."

With that the line went dead as Atvar turned both eye turrets to Kirel.

"Things have not turned out as we had planned." stated Atvar, to a member of the Race that was a sure sign of how much of a mess they now found themselves in.

Back on the Battleship Yamato General Leong turned to the Admiral in command.

"Have a Condor ready to for flight within the hour, I want the door into the cockpit reinforced and two armed marines in the passenger area with another on in the cockpit as backup." ordered General Leong, the Condor had room for three pilots with one resting so a marine could fit easily. "I should have inquired if the Condor can dock with their ship?"

"General we have studied the blue prints of their ships that we have taken from their computer system and yes using a universal docking kit it can dock with the ship." confirmed the Admiral

"Good." Said General Leong as she checked her watch. "We should get our first reports from the Akulas we sent to their conquered worlds by the time the Condor takes off."

Unknown to General Leong at that same moment the first of four Akula class ships from the 7th fleet appeared out of hyperspace a fair distance away from the home system of the Race. Since it couldn't travel in hyperspace with it's cloak on it cloaked at once and began to map the system all the while being undetected by the Race. The system had a total of five planets, two large gas giants on the outside of the system, with two more planets in the habitual range and the final one closer toward the star but that one had an atmosphere like Venus before it was terraformed. The two planets in the habitual range were on opposite side of the scale. One of the was far too cold with no atmosphere at all, the other one had an atmosphere but an environment so much on the warm side that it made the deserts of any world that Tau'ri had settled on seam cool. That world however had a lot of ships, stations and satellites moving around it.

"Well I think we found it." said the Captain of the Akula class ship, Key West as she moved moved toward the very heard of the Race's Empire, Home.

Sorry for the slight delay in posting this Chapter, the last week has what I like to call Murphy's Law Week, whatever could go wrong did go wrong and that caused a delay in writing and posting. Now I hope you still enjoyed this chapter. Until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.