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.

15. Chapter 15

Chapter 15 Meeting of the Race's

Prince Unia of the Opochti city of Nysha and the main leader of the resistance entered a large room on the Capital City of the Tau'ri on Earth. He could tell by the hardwood lining the bottom half of the walls with expertly made molding around the ceiling and floor that this was an upper scale room. The chairs and furniture was not designed for his kind however he could spot three chairs designed for his kind, that amazed him until he noticed how freshly made they seemed.

"I hope the chairs work, we have not had much time with the design of your furniture." said President Carter through a translator as she moved to take the seat across from the three designed for his kind. Water and food he didn't recognize covered the table. He was looking at it when he noticed that this President Carter had a combat knife in her hands. "I understand from our limited time that it is customary on your world to place your blade on the table whenever a meeting happens?"

"Warriors do that." confirmed Prince Unia as Carter placed her knife on the table, she didn't stab the point into the fine hardwood coffee table. She also placed a small copy of the Tau'ri blue and silver banner onto the table. There was a much larger one to his right beside a large table, only this one had silver fringes around the edges of the flag. Prince Unia pulled his own knife, this one edged in gold and made of the best quality metal his race could make. He saw the two-armed guards behind Carter tense as he put the knife down onto the table. It was clear that the Tau'ri where attempting to honor his culture something the Race never even attempted to learn about, only destroy.

"I may be a political leader now, but I spent most of my life as a warrior and made to the 3rd highest ranking commander in the Tau'ri military before I became head of the government." explained Carter

"And what happened to the two above you?" inquired an aid beside the prince, in the history of his world multiple times people have claimed power by removing their rivals at the point of a blade.

"One General O'Neill who is one of our greatest heroes wanted to retire from military life and our second in command wanted to remain where he was to stay close to his wife's family." explained Carter "Now let us turn to your world."

With that she tapped a small computer pad beside her knife, the lights dimmed and a holographic image of the planet Ovea appeared with the Race's ships in orbit. He had never seen his world from above in this way, the Race had shown his world on their own hologram system, but it was nowhere as clear as it.

"This is a live rendering of your world, this is the position of all the ships of the Race." explained Carter as an image of a Tau'ri ship appeared on the outer edge of the system. "The Akula class vessel the Spartan is currently in the system with four more Akula class stealth ships are on route. The 7th Fleet is over the Race home world of Home and can be redeployed over your world within minutes."

"So you can liberate my people." Said Prince Unia as Carter nodded her head.

"With ease, the question is how do you want to do it?" said Carter "We can crush the Race within hours breaking apart their Empire, the question is do we want to follow that route."

"What do you mean?" inquired Prince Unia concerned that this was a trap of some kind.

"We can crush the Race for sure, however how will that effect your world after that." said Carter as she remembered Earth's own history. In WW2, it was Free France forces under De Gaulle who liberated Paris from the Nazis and later in the 1st gulf war it was Arab forces who liberated Kuwait City. "If we just take your world for you, then it will not mean as much for your people will it. No you need to be an active part of taking it back."

"I agree, the people need to see us retake our own world, if we don't then we can never regain or confidence in ourselves." said Prince Unia before lowering his head slightly before admitting his weakness. "However, we are not strong enough."

"With us you are, we are not going to let you do this alone we are going to help you drive the Race off your world." said President Carter "My military leaders are drafting plans as we speak, however we need to decide what general path we are going to follow so that they can focus on those options for our review."

"The way I see it we have three general paths that we can go down if talks fail." said Carter as Prince Unia's head snapped up and his clicks picked up.

"Talk?" said the Prince in anger "You are going to talk to the Race?"

"We have been." admitted Carter "Well we have been trying as best as we can, the Race doesn't seem to understand that this situation is something that needs to be resolved in days not years. Our fleet has Home surrounded but a war is expected to break out between other powers near one of our major worlds so that fleet will have to be redeployed to protect the border in a couple of days. We will have to end all major military operations by then."

"We are going to give them a simple choice, leave your world and in return we will make habitable two barren worlds within their own system or we liberate your world by force and possibly the other worlds under their rule, destroying their Empire." said Carter

"Why not liberate the other worlds?" inquired Prince Unia "Are they not worth the time? Do you not care about the need of their people to be free from the overlords of the Race?"

"We care." said Carter with a sigh as she remembered the reports from the other worlds, "Sadly the Race has totally taken over their worlds and their culture to the point that nothing is left. The populations of the worlds appear to be almost 2/3rds Race with only a third of the population being the native species and like on your world the animals from Home have totally taken over. Maybe even to a worse extent, in our brief time observing the worlds we haven't been able to find a place where the local animals are still the dominate life. In almost every way those worlds are copies of Home. We will not let your world become a copy."

"I understand, what are these options that we can take?" inquired Prince Unia

"The first option would take the longest amount of time but it would allow you to retake your world with almost no help from us." explained Carter, she didn't want to carry out that but it was something she had to offer to them. "We can supply you with weapons equal to what the Race has and we can give your people a place to train and master your new weapons. With those weapons in time you could reclaim your world without our help outside of training and supplying weapons. I do not recommend that because it would take years for you to reclaim your world and cost a lot of lives and leave your world damage even more."

"I agree what are the other options." stated Prince Unia "Could we get help from your people while we use these weapons you give us to fight alongside of you?"

"That is was the path I was going to recommend, now this is where we get our second and third options are cousins. The second option is that we can provide you with air and space support along with special forces and retake your world. The third option is that we do the same along with sending in a larger more heavily armed force which includes tanks called…" Carter took a moment to check the Computer file. "Land Cruisers by the Race and the like, this method would likely be the fastest, but it would also bring more Tau'ri visibly into the fight with you. We do not want to be seen as conquers by your people."

"And you shall not be seen that way." stated Prince Unia "With children being ripped away from their families to be turned into blind slaves of the Race, we cannot wait. The faster the better."

"Very well, I will inform our military leaders." Said Carter as she took a breath. "The delegation from the Race will arrive shortly and I will offer them a deal, leave your world in return we will make two of their worlds capable of supporting life, if they don't accept that we will at once begin to arm your fighters and begin more operations against the Race."

"Thank you, however I must admit I am concern." said Prince Unia "What will be the status of our world in the view of your people, your warrior informed us that we have a mental you want. Will you just take it from us, or will you deal with us as equals."

Carter let out a breath.

"We will deal with you as equals however your world falls under a somewhat tricky situation under the current treaty which guild the powers in the galaxy." Said Carter "Your world doesn't have faster than light travel or a Stargate but yet you know about life outside of your world. As such you fall under the protection of the power who's planet you reside in, that is us. While you are an independent world you are under our protection, that way another power can't conquer you without answering to us."

"Like the Race?" inquired Prince Unia

"Actually, since the Race doesn't have faster than light travel or a stargate they too fall under our protection from other major powers." explained Carter she didn't add that this was more for the benefit of the major powers since someone could conquer a primitive world and use it as a staging ground for a major attack into another power. She also didn't add that powers like the Cylons and the Colonials fell into a gray area, they had a very limited FTL but at the moment where not recognized by any outside power. That was partly because they were deep in Tau'ri space and none of the other powers wanted to deal with upsetting the Tau'ri and secondly because during the Colonial Tau'ri war, the Colonials had claimed control over all the galaxy before attempting to kill a Nox diplomat. "So according to the treaty of Gaia the settlement of what happens falls to us, however we would like to solve this peaceful."

"Hence the offer to the Race." said Prince Unia with distain in his voice, he hated the Race if it was up to him he would march every infantry male to the block and to take their heads. The civilians he would force to rebuild the homes and farms they destroyed when they knocked down them to build their shopping centers. Still for the good of his people he pushed the need for vengeance aside. "Very well, we accept this. We will offer the Race a chance to leave if not then together we will take back my people's world by force."

"Agreed." said President Carter

A dark shape landing in the court yard outside the grand Imperial Palace, the ship was unlike anything ever designed by the Race and its black paint clashed with the rich sandstone walls of the Palace. Standing by one of the upper windows which was once designed as an arrow/rifle slot stood Emperor Risson. In his pure gold body paint he stood out, the only one who came anywhere close to him would be the half golden body paint of his son and future Emperor would wear someday. The little terror was still young and hadn't even started speaking yet. He was biting and clawing the special teachers and raisers which tended to him and him alone. In most educational centers there would be teacher/raiser to every 40 to 50 little biting monsters but for the future Emperor he had 20 just for him to bite and claw until he began to speak, and the real work of education could begin.

Risson watched as the back ramp of this Tau'ri spacecraft lowered and a Tau'ri solider walked off with another two staying within the shadow of the spacecraft with weapons clearly visible in their hands. The unarmed solider walked forward to a waiting Protocol Expert, the head Protocol Master had been sent off by his own orders to the Tau'ri capital world of Tosev 3. The Tau'ri didn't take the position of respect, instead he looked down at the Expert and pulled out a letter before turning around and headed back to the transport. Once on board the transport took off vertically like a helicopter but with no rotating blades, once it reached a certain height it shot forward and disappeared into the sky. The Protocol Expert carried the letter into the Palace and up to the Emperor himself.

"Emperor Risson, this request should go to the audience committee for review." said the Protocol Expert as Risson took the letter from the expert and opened the letter and scanned the multiple pages which looked at first glace of the eye turret to be in order but under closer inspection issues began to arise. Risson scanned the first page before handing it to a nearby Protocol Expert. The Expert eyes widened as he read the first paragraphed of the opening letter to the Emperor for an audience. It was a simple paragraphed which was taught in every school within the Empire and was basic information that everyone who was civilized knew. Here the Tau'ri had failed in the very simple task.

"This is unbelievable offensive." stated the Protocol Expert before turning the others gathered by a large table. "The Tosevites dare change the wording of the letter."

"How so?" inquired one of the younger protocol experts

"Your grace Emperor Risson of the Race, we request and audience to discuss the multiple issues between our two powers." Read the Protocol Expert who was leading the meeting, without the Protocol master it was him who was in charge. "They do not show the proper respect and glory, they do not add all the honorifics and they act like they are the equals of the Emperor and the Empire. They don't even admit that they are the inferior to the Emperor and humbly request to interrupt his day."

"Savages." Stated another one of the protocol experts as more of the letter was read outload. Words about how the person was unworthily and how it was a great honor to take a small moment of time away from the Emperor's day was a something he or she had no right to ask for was all missing.

"We shall refuse this request and demand that they write a new and proper formatted letter." stated the most senior Protocol Expert

"No." stated Risson who had been standing by the window the entire time listening to them talk. "I want to meet them, and they are not part of the Empire, we can't expect them to treat me like their ruler."

"Emperor Risson, they must you are the Emperor of the Race." stated the Protocol expert

"Yes, I am but they are not my subjects they are the subjects of a different ruler." stated Risson "Would you want me to admit that I am below their ruler to meet them?"

"You are the Emperor, you are not below them in any way. You are the Emperor of the Race, the most advanced and we are the source of all culture in the galaxy." countered the experts

"Still I believe we understand your point." said the Protocol expert before letting out a sigh. "Alright over my own objections and by the will of Emperor Risson I will approve this audience and request that this request be transferred to Imperial records for filing. Inform the Imperial Laver and Limber that an audience will happen as soon as tomorrow."

"Forgive me, superior sirs and your majesty." said the youngest of the Protocol Experts at the table, she was almost 30 years younger than any of the other experts but was still almost double the age of the Emperor himself. "But the Imperial Laver and the Imperial Limber remove and add on body paint."

"Correct." said the Protocol Expert leader his announce showing. "Everyone knows that."

"Yes, but the Tau'ri they don't seem to use body paint do they?" stated the youngest expert "How can we have an Imperial audience without them?"

"By the Emperor she is correct, I hadn't considered that." admitted the head expert "And if they are from an free empire what is the protocols for an audience like that? We haven't done that since unification."

"Don't you have records for that?" inquired Emperor Risson

"Yes, your majesty however they are likely not on the computer database for a pull up. We will have to go into the records by hand and find the scrolls." said the Expert "No one within the Empire had to think about an audience like this since home was unified a hundred thousand years ago. It will take time."

"Very well, inform the Tau'ri that we accept their request for an audience but we will need time to do research on how to do it properly." ordered Risson

"It shall be done, your majesty." Said the expert

"How long will that take?" inquired Risson

"We have to be concern about damaging some of the older scrolls and the wording may have changed depending on how old they are. We may have to interrupt them. If we hurry, a few weeks maybe a month or two." Said the Expert as Risson nodded his head in approval, to the Race that was fast work indeed.

"Very well, inform the Tau'ri we accept their request for an audience but we need time to decide what form it will take." Ordered Risson.

"Yes, your Majesty it shall be done." said all of them as Risson left the room secure in the knowledge that in a few weeks at the earliest he would be the 1st Emperor to meet with these Tau'ri. Then he stopped and corrected his thinking a few weeks was asking too much; two months was far more likely to be the earliest.

General Jager walked into the main conference room onboard the flagship of the 1st fleet the battleship Yamato. Each of the current 12 fleets of the Tau'ri had a Missouri class battleship as the flagship of each fleet and the situation wasn't likely the change as the number of warships in the Tau'ri navy kept building up. The main shipyards on Valhalla, which so far had the rare combination of all the needed elements in large amounts in one spot had not stopped turning out warships because the war had ended, in some ways it had actually increased as the civilian shipyards on Mars and Lanagara took up those jobs along with building Hadrian class transport ships. Rumor in the high command was that the 15th and 16th fleets where likely ready in the next two to four years. They were skipping the numbers 13 and 14 because 13 was considered an unlucky number to more western nations of Earth while 14 held the same type of reputation for bad luck in the East. Even Lanagara had a traditionally unlucky number, 23 but they were still far away from having a 23rd fleet at the moment.

Jager walked into the conference room to find that he was among the lowest ranking members in the room. Everyone around the table was a high-ranking officers of at least matching rank or even higher than the single star with a tank above it which marked him as a one star Brigadier General in the armor brigade of just under 5,000 men. There was of course lower ranks in the room, Majors, Lieutenant Colonels and their counter navy ranks who were acting as aids to their generals and admirals in the room.

Jager took his place at the table and waited, he didn't have to wait long as the far door opened and everyone snapped to attention and saluted as a small Chinese woman with jet black hair, a slim frame and a height that made her small even compared to other Chinese woman walked into the room. Even without the five silver stars on her shoulder bars or her collar tables everyone would have given her respect. It was those dark eyes, those eyes which seemed to be more in kind with a tiger or another great predator in the middle of a hunt then anything close to human which made everyone fear and respect her. Here was the General Leong herself, the Tigress, the woman who had commanded the forces which had taken down the 12 Colonies of Kobol in 26 and half hours of fighting and the supreme commander of all Tau'ri forces.

She moved to the head of the table and saluted back before speaking.

"At ease." She ordered as the men and women all let out the breath they had been holding in.

"I just got off with President Carter and unless we get very luckily we will be going to war again." stated the Tigress "I don't expect this war to be long in any real way, however the better we plan the better we will be able to pull it off. Our target it the world of Ovea or as the enemy we are facing the Race calls it Vantic 5."

A holographic image of a world appeared, it wasn't much of a world in Jager's view looked from the surface images to be kind of like the African savannas or maybe the great plains of North America. Wide open land with small by Earth standards forests in some areas. Information about the insectoid like aliens, the locals and the lizard like occupies followed.

"Our job is to go over possible military plans to win control over this world as quickly as possible, we will be getting help from local freedom fighters armed with older weapons given by us." Stated General Leong "Likely AK-74 and RPGs for the most part, they will have limited training and experience with their weapons, but we will have them with us anyhow. We are liberators not conquers and having them with us will go a long way."

General Leong tapped a control panel in front of her station as the hologram above the center of the table changed to a above view of a large city and the surrounding area.

"This is the seat of government for the Race on Vantic 5 and will be our main ground target." stated General Leong as the officers gathered around the table studied the images. It was clear that the Army and Marine generals paid it more mind then the Admirals in the Navy. "Now our best launching point will be these woods to the South East and then we will drive hard to the Capital. We will take it as a symbol of conquest while the 7th fleet arriving from Home arrive and take control of space and carry out air attacks on key bases around the rest of the planet."

General Leong laid out the details of her plan which included a raid against a re-educational center which lied in the middle of the path that the armor would have to take to get to the capital. Since that held a large amount of children they wanted to get them out of the combat zone. Then it was a simple strike into the Capital while two armored wings moved around to envelope the city and take the military base on the other side of the Capital.

"General Leong, if I may." Said General Jager as everyone looked at him, he was a low rank in the room and it wasn't normal for a man of his low rank to speak up so soon.

"Go ahead General Jager." Said General Leong, she didn't seam put off by him speaking up.

"I must admit I find some parts of your plan concerning." admitted Jager as he looked down at the small computer screen in front of him and quickly drew a few marks on the screen, these appeared on the hologram projection for all to see. "The Capital city is surrounded by a large wall, looks to be about 45 ft tall and 20 meters thick, the Race has cut holes in it for highways but if they get armor their it will bottleneck our forces into a single line of attack which they could defend easier."

"Those walls are a concern to me as well." admitted an Turkish three star General "They are just like the walls Theodosuis the II put around Constantinople. We can bomb holes in them for sure but going over the rubble will be hard even so and General Jager hasn't even pointed out the smaller outer wall and dry moat which are also bottle necks."

"I agree but this woods here is our best launching off point to take the Capital." countered General Leong "Our armor is faster, and we will have the element of surprise and air superiority. With that those it shouldn't be a major issue. The forest is the only place we can gather our armor and prepare to launch an attack without being discovered."

"True, but why take the risk when we can lure them out to play." Said Jager as he used his computer to bring everyone's attention to a town on the outskirts of the Capital. It sat maybe a 10 minute drive from the Camp they were going to hit and just off the main planed thrust. "This city Likna, I believe it is called is by all reports a stronghold of resistance support and is still has a totally local population. It hasn't been torn down and rebuilt in the style of the Race like all the cities closer to the Capital."

"Your point?" inquired General Leong

"When we raid this camp we lure them back to Likna where our special forces and newly armed freedom fighters in the resistance will be waiting." stated Jager "They give the race a bloody nose or whatever they have and they will respond by bringing up the armor from the base on the other side of the capital. Once they arrive we will be in position behind them."

"And then when we launch off from the forest they will be out in the open and have even less time to react to our attack." stated General Leong as she rubbed her chin. "We turn this city into a mini Stalingrad and have the Race beat themselves for a bit, bring in mortars and some field guns and anti-air with drones finding the targets and may have something."

"If the bulk of the forces in the city are freedom fighters it would also help show their people that they played a major role in the liberation of their world." Said another General

"Very true, we are not conquering and returning this world solely to their control is our main objective." Added General Leong

"Our major worry will be civilian losses." stated Jager

"Yes, but that we maybe able to find a way to evacuate the city before we touch off the battle." stated General Leong "I will take this idea under advisement and offer it up to the President and the Prince of the Opochti people."

It happened just as a late dinner meeting with the Governor of Valhalla was wrapping up. General Young's and the Governor's dishes where just being taken away by the navy man who was serving the food for the private dinner meeting in the General's office. The door flew open as a very angry Doctor Rush stormed into the room and after seeing that Young wasn't in his normal seat behind his desk but instead in the small meeting area to the side.

"General Young." Said Rush with anger in his voice.

"Governor Rindy, can we carry on with this meeting at some other time." Said Young calmly as he stood up. "It appears that Dr. Rush needs my attention on an important issue."

"Yes, I think that would be best, about time I head home after all." said the Governor as he gathered his things and left the room, leaving Rush and Young alone.

"So you have heard, I thought it would be longer." Said Young with a smirk which only caused Rush's blood to boil even more.

"I should have been the first to made aware, this discovery is a game changer it will advanced everything we are trying to do…" started Rush

"Which is too bad, considering your no where near the top of the list of people who will be getting a ZPM once we get ahold of the element and start producing ZPMs." Stated Young as a look at Rush. Rush had a look similar to a man being kneed in the gut after finding out his girlfriend had cheated on him with multiple different men. "There are others who are in greater need of the ZMPS, you will have to wait."

"This project is the single most important project…." started Rush

"No, it isn't." snapped Young with force behind his voice which actually got Rush to shut up for a moment. "You don't understand do you, that most of the high command wants to kill your project or slow it down to a near standstill, myself included."

"We are talking about uncovering possibly the greatest mystery in science." said Rush

"I know, which is why I am in the group wanting to slow it down, not kill it outright but there are others who see it as a waste of resources at the moment." explained Young as he saw that Rush still didn't understand. "You just don't get it do you Rush, the Galaxy is much bigger than your project. Right now we are dealing with military action against this Race, which while minor could be only the opening act to a greater war brewing near Lanagara. Fire powers, 3 Lucian alliance and two free jaffa nations are on the verge of going to war against each other right on the border with Lanagara which could draw us in. The military is very concern about us getting dragged into that fight."

"We are more powerful then them." Stated Rush "Our ships can take them out…"

"One on One or even fifteen to one we out power them, but four out of the five powers outnumber us in ships almost 20 to 1 on their own together it goes to 80 to 1." stated Young "Why do you think we are still building warships as fast as we can? They outnumber us and while our ships are better they have more ships and your ship is taking up seven construction bays, that is seven ships that could be being built that isn't."

Rush glared at him but didn't say anything for a moment, in that moment Young went on.

"And that isn't the only thing going on, we are still doing a lot of building across multiple worlds and upgrading what we already have with our new technology." said Young "We are even in talks with some of the smaller powers within our area to bring them into the Tau'ri alliance like Lanagara was brought in. We have terrorist activity still going on in the 12 colonies and helping the Cylons with the terraforming of their worlds and the transferring of conciseness of their Centurions into new flesh bodies. Even the free Jaffa and Lucian Alliance powers are in flux, they are not used to being unified and instead used to fighting each other. The major powers are breaking apart as we speak into smaller nations that are more willing to fight each other. The entire galaxy is in in a state of major change and your project isn't as important as you think it is."

The Cylon issue was kept highly secret with only the highest members of the government knowing it, as part of the deal to transform world under Cylon control the Tau'ri had wanted the total freedom of the pure robotic Centurions. That hadn't happened because the humanoid Cylons where afraid that the Centurions would turn on them, so a deal was made. Using Asgard technology they transferred the mind of a centurion to new flesh clone body leaving an empty husk of metal behind. The new clone bodies where babies so there was some debate if they would even remember the memories of being a centurion when they got older but brain scans did show matching patterns in the new baby humanoid clyon that had been in the former Centurion. There was of course going to be some exceptions, the Centurions keeping up a false front of Caprica for one but the bulk of the Centurions where being turned into flesh and blood humanoid Cylon newborns. Not the best solution but it was the best one they had and as the new humanoid Cylons grew they would gain new memories and form the base of a new Cylon society.

"And our issues aren't limited just to this galaxy, there are still bands of Wraiths raiders Pegasus Galaxy, a possible sighting of those rogue Asgard in the Pegasus Galaxy and on top of other projects there is the construction of our super gate there. In the Ori galaxy the civil war between their factions is only getting worse, whole fleets are doing battle against each other and it is only a matter of time until one of those groups either takes full control or decides to come through the super gate to our galaxy because of what we did to them in the last war. The only thing we haven't really had to worry about is the home front, the Colonial War brought us together by giving us a common enemy to fight and our economy is booming. Rich people don't fight as much, too damaging on all the nice things they have now." Stated General Young "Can you understand now why the high command isn't that happy about tying up a whole fleet of ships for your mission."

With that Rush stormed out in anger leaving General Young alone once again.

The delegation from Home with the addition of Fleet Lord Atvar and senior researcher Ttomalss arrived at the Capital just as the sun was rising over the horizon. The delegation from the Race was greeted at the spaceport with an honor guard but it was nowhere near as grand as the arrival of Prince Unia. No high political leader was there to welcome them, instead a larger police force was there to counter a large group of protestors. The Protesters waved signs showing the images taken from the news which showed the reeducation camps and the words on those signs was not kind. The delegation of the Race looked at the protestors with confusion.

"Why are those males and females here?" inquired the Protocol Master to a nearby Tau'ri.

"They are here to tell you how they feel about you." explained the Tau'ri "And believe me they are not happy to see you."

"Why didn't you add superior sir!" snapped one of the other delegation "He outranks you?"

"Sorry, sir but I am not under your command I am just here to make sure you get to the President office for the meeting." said the officer "Also I can't tell your rank."

"Our body paints clearly mark our rank to anyone with a single glance of the eye turret." countered the Palace Guard

"To you it does, but can you tell my rank?" countered the officer, as the Race looked him up and down. He wore a similar uniform to everyone else and the only thing that stood out was the different collar patches on the wrapping around his neck and different patches on his arms and what looked to be metal pins on the fabric as well. None of them could tell his rank or place in the command but none of them wanted to admit it. "I'll take that as a no, now let's get you to the President's office."

"Very well, but explain why those males and females are there?" inquired the Protocol Master

"They are here because it is a free world and they are able to speak their minds and yell at the top of their lungs about how much they hate what you are doing on Ovea or as you call it Vantic 5." explained the Tau'ri solider as the Race was lead to a waiting limonene. Thanks to the low ground clearance it was easy for the members of the Race to get in however what surprised them was the two military vehicles in front of them with Tau'ri manning machine guns on them. There was also multiple police cars in the front and in the back.

"Why are they upset with what we are doing? We are bringing culture to the Vantic people?" inquired the researcher Ttomalss who had joined the delegation as well.

"I'll let the President explain that." Said the Tau'ri guard as he opened the door and let the Race into the car. Once in the driver made sure everyone was buckled in and then they took off down the main boulevard. It was basically a straight path to the Presidential estate, with the only turn coming when they took the roundabout around the Tau'ri congress building in the center of the city. They rounded the building passing by a newly in place statue showing the upside-down V symbol of the Tau'ri with smaller statues of SG1 under the V. Then they turned back onto the main boulevard and headed toward the Presidential Estate.

The Estate sat on a patch of green land and was noticeably smaller than all the buildings around it. Trees shot up from the grass and it had a central building with two arching wings which shot out of the main part with colonnade on them. A dome graced the top of the building with a large window in the white marble walls. A drive way ran up to the building before looping around with a center fountain in the middle of the grassy area. Armed Tau'ri guards stood under a covered entrees, which had two large stone beasts gracing each side of the large wooden door.

The two guards stood at attention as the limo pulled up and the members of the Race got out and looked at the building. To them it was ugly and made no sense, the large windows and columns made no sense and the stone was also pointless as well. A male dressed in a strange wrapping of black with a white under wrapping stood before them.

"Welcome, I am Vice President Jonas Quinn." said the man through a translator, here there was no confusion. The race knew that this was likely someone of great importance, likely a second to this President Carter. The Race entered the building and entered the Presidential estate, the lofty ceilings seamed pointless to them, they also didn't like the carpet or the colors. To a human it spoke of elegance with fine hardwood floors with carpets and rugs which was from the best in the Tau'ri alliance. Fine paintings and pieces of art could be spotted along the halls.

Finally the Race reached a wooden door with two Tau'ri guards in similar black wrappings to the male who was their Vice President stood on either side of the door. One of them opened the door and allowed them to enter the room only to have the delegation of the Race stopped dead in their tracks.

Standing there talking with the President of the Tau'ri was a Vantic and he wasn't alone a handful of others stood along the back wall. It was Atvar who spoke up first as he recognized the Vantic male before him.

"You are the terrorist Unia." hissed Atvar as he opened his claws and moved forward. "How I wished for this day, the day I could say to you that you are under arrest."

"Well you may say those words Atvar but you have no power here." Said Prince Unia with distain in his voice.

"President Carter, we thank you for handing over this terrorist to us." Said Atvar as Prince Unia looked at this female who was in command of the Tau'ri.

"Whatever made you think we were going to hand him over to you?" inquired President Carter "Allies do not hand over the other to those who would do him harm."

"Allies?" inquired the Protocol Master "He is a terrorist."

"That is all a matter of perspective, see to you he is a terrorist but to his people he is a freedom fighter." explained President Carter "It is also how the Tau'ri public."

"He had blown up buildings and attacked males of the Race." Countered Atvar "He has stood in the way of spreading the light of culture to Vantic 5."

"Well that light was already there when you arrived to change it and the Tau'ri have recognized his world as a free and independent world and him as the head of government in exile." Said Carter as the lizards looked at her with moving eye turrets which at the moment where all locked on her. "Now we are here to discuss how to avoid any more bloodshed."

"Any more bloodshed?" inquired Atvar

"Yes, Tau'ri special forces are currently on the ground of Ovea." Stated Carter which caused all the members of the Race to freeze and look at her very still. "And believe me what they have reported back to high command and the images they took from the surface is not in your favor. We also have some recon teams on the other worlds of your Empire but we are currently focused on Ovea."

With that Carter pressed a button and a holographic display in the center of the table light up as images of the soldiers of the Race rounding up the Vantic children and attacking anyone who got in their way. The images of the camps appeared which included Vantic children being lead around at gunpoint. Carter like all the other humans in the room studied the visiting members of the Race seeing if they could read their expressions to find out what they were feeling. They failed, the Race didn't have eyebrows or a mobile mouth with lips on them to inform the Tau'ri what they were feeling. When the images stopped the entire room was quiet for a moment.

"What is your point?" inquired Ttomalss "I saw nothing that wrong with the images, granted the soldiers could have been gentler when it came to gathering the young vantic but other than that."

"Other than that!" yelled Prince Unia his anger boiling to the surface as he moved forward only to be stopped when Carter out stretched arm stopped him. "You take children from their families and…."

"Again, with the pointless bloodlines." Hissed Atvar before turning to look at the Tosetives. "I can understand these backward people not grasping the simple idea that birth doesn't matter but why should these offend you."

"Because like the Ovea people and most other people in the galaxy family is highly important to us." explained Carter causing the Race to look at her in amazement. "Taking children away from their parents for no reason is a crime that cause the blood of almost every Tau'ri to boil. People are willing to fight, to die and to kill to protect their children and seeing it happen to another people doesn't make the anger go away."

"Surely you are joking." said the Protocol Master "Outside of the line of the Emperor blood is not important in any way."

"To you maybe but not to the Tau'ri people or the Opochti people. The people are protesting you in the streets because of your actions." stated Carter "Now to I have asked you here so that we can work out a deal which will hopefully put all major issues to rest."

"There are no issues to put to rest." said the Protocol Master "We are the Race, we have conquered these worlds and they are growing under our light."

He paused for a moment to gather his thoughts and prepared to make a huge concession.

"In the light of the development that you have reached a level of science comparable to our own, we will allow that you have the right to keep Tosev 3 and all the worlds in the system." Said the Protocol Master as the members of the Race looked at the elder male. They all knew that this went against the orders given by the Emperor who had declared a soldier's time and the conquest of Tosev 3 and Vantic 5. "We will enter talks to settle a border with your Empire and then we will recall our forces from the Tosev system and you will recall your forces from Home and the other worlds of the Empire."

"This is a great concession does the Emperor Approve this?" inquired Atvar

"He has." confirmed the Protocol Master "We will have to find a new world to conquer, maybe the Yainia system, we can prepare a probe to study that system for a habitable world. So do we are done here."

"What if we offer you two worlds, will you leave Ovea peacefully then?" inquired Carter as one of the lizards gave a gesture she had seen them do multiple times but had no idea what it meant.

"No, space is big and we will not doom the Vantic people into darkness because of your backwards illogical concern about blood and birth outside of the line of the Emperor." said the Protocol Master "Vantic is and shall always be ours."

"I see." said Carter her eyes narrowing a bit "So I guess we are done here."

"Very good, shall we talk about the borders?" inquired the Protocol master

"No, I said we are done here. I never said we agreed to your terms." said Carter as the members of the Race was taken aback.

"We offer you a fair deal, we are the Race you can't stand against us." said the Protocol Master "Our Empire has lasted hundreds of thousands of years, you can't challenge us."

Carter grinned at threat, coming from this lizard.

"We shall see." Said Carter "We will have those who came from Home returned to Home and the rest returned to the Fleet."

"Very well." Said the delegation of the Race as they turned and left the room. Once outside and into the limo. They got into it and as it drove down the road, they began to speak. There was no Tau'ri in the vehicle beside the driver and he was behind a wall so there was no way the Tau'ri could hear them.

"So it will be war." Stated Atvar "I will have the ships with the most land cruisers and other ground weapons turned and head back to Home. They will be needed to protect it from any Tau'ri attack."

"Yes, if the Tau'ri rush they will likely attack us within the next 37 years. It will take time for them to build an army and weapons of war. We have the weapons built and while they can travel faster then light by the time our weapons arrive back on Home the Tau'ri should have just finished building their own weapons and training soldiers." said the Protocol Master, here once again the Race was putting the Tau'ri into a premade box because it was only mold they knew. They believed that there was no way that the Tau'ri would possibly have a standing army already ready to fight. Since Earth's orbit was just over two times longer than Home, 37 years to the Race would translate to around 17 years on Earth. That idea made the Tau'ri spies listening to them over the small hidden microphones and recorders laugh a bit before wondering if the Race was pulling their chain and giving them false information.

Inside the Presidential palace Carter turned to an aid.

"Green light to begin the operation." stated Carter as the word was sent out from Earth to the waiting Akula class stealth warships in the Vantic system.

With the green light given the cloaked ship moved toward the planet and waiving in between the ships, shuttlecrafts and satellites of the Race moved into beaming range of the planet. Once in range a blinding light filled the small cargo/shuttlecraft hanger on the ship as the cargo was beamed away. Once away the captain made a turn and headed back into space and away from the planet. The cloak replaced the shield and having a ship ram into a cloak ship was the last thing the Tau'ri wanted.

Down on the surface, a Tau'ri special forces team had been spending a good amount of time digging a trench in the middle of the woods outside of the city of Nysha. The local freedom fighters watched in some confusion as the Tau'ri went to work, even though they didn't understand they helped using what looked to be wheel barrows only with longer handles to clear away the dirt dug by the Tau'ri. Once that was done the Tau'ri jumped out of the long narrow trench and waited.

"What is the point of all of this?" inquired a local freedom fighter as a blinding flash of light filled the air. When it faded a large metal, ring was before them. The trench held the bottom in place so it didn't fall over. "Ancestors protect me what is that?"

"That is a stargate." explained the nearest Tau'ri as the thing began to spin and light up at different points. When it was done a vortex of energy shot out before settling down like a pool of water. "And it is the key to liberating your world."

"How so?" inquired the fighter as suddenly more Tau'ri came out of the pool of water, following them came a vehicle with a heavy machine gun and a column of other vehicles. The fighters stood there stunned as the military fire power kept coming.

"Now, let's go get everything in place and start the liberation of your world." Said the Tau'ri

Well my new computer has arrived and while I am still organizing everything and clearing out old files into a portable hard drive I hope you find this chapter acceptable until next time when more action follows. Now until next time please keep reading, thanks Wilkins75.