Chapter 12
The Liberation of Dakara
Author's Begining- Note: I am so, so, so sorry, ladies and gentlemen, for putting out this unfinished chapter 12 out after keeping you all waiting more than a year. I intend to come back and finish it, and will be happy to personally notify each and every one of you that wants me too, when I complete this chapter.
Any of you who've reviewed deserve to have An OC based after you, and you have but to ask for me to do so .
Author's acknowledgements:
I would like to thank AlexanderD, my fellow Stargate fanfic author, as well a former US Army special operations commisioned officer and current DARPA project manager, for sharing his invaluable expertise with me. Unlike some other people on this site, who may have served in the military, but who really haven't experienced any combat at all, but try to fool those of us who don't know better about how to conduct battles and wage war, and then get upset when we don't take them for their word, Alex is very nice about teaching us about military strategy and tactics as well as military hardware design, without being condescending at all. If any of you wish to learn from him, you will be able to enrich your Stargate fanfics. However, as he is currently very busy due to doing work for unfilled DARPA personnel postions, he will not be able to dive in fully and help you out until he fills those positions. I have based Colonel Alexander Donoghue on him and hope he likes the passages with Colonel Donoghue.
I also would like to thank AnimalKingdom for wiritng such extensive reviews for ym chapters, essentially being a non-paid consultant. Ben is one of the most supportive readers I've seen, and puts his heart into assessing peoples' work and suggesting related ideas At least once, the fact that he does so helped me get a second wind when I really needed one. I have based the character Secondary Adjuter Benjaymin Vinsent after him and hope he likes the Adjuter Vinsent passges.
Milky Way Galaxy
Ida Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy
In three different galaxies of the universe, the Furling, Asgard, and their current Triangulum and Milky Way allies were now scrambling to send diplomatic personnel to negotiate. They were also scrambling to send military personnel and military hardware to defend the particular Milky Way planets populations that they still wished to bring into this great alliance to stand up to the Ori and their Orisian servants. They had to make them dedicated to saying 'no' to the invading Ori and be backing up their adamant 'no' reply with a convincing show of force, should the Ori's corporeal servants decide not to respect their wishes. Earth and SG-1 had helped out the people of many of these civilizations and they trusted Earth to do their best to aid them. This included helping them to not to have to respond positively to the Ori propagandas, which they knew would be selling their souls at a dirt-cheap price just in order to survive physically. They would perish metaphyscially though. Goodness willing, the people would throw in their lot with the Anti-Ori Alliance.
They first needed to draw in Jaffa to their cause, who might be currently be considered in-betweeners in terms of declaring allegiance to the Alliance and trhe Ori. The Jaffa, after all, were a numerous people . Since the Ori could field a fraction of trillions of soldiers to contend with the alliance (it had hundreds of trillions of corporeal subjects after all), it was very important to gain this species as allies, whose available troops also numbered very high, and would get even higher once more joined.
The alliance, of course, couldn't send all the transporting warships and each warship's crew, from one single race. That would be unfarily expending the resources of that one race. Instead, several races would contribute one ship each and of course the personnel to crew the ship. The races who could afford it would also send ground troops to particpate in the completely necessary ground battle. They would have do their suppressing and 'negotiating agressively' with the Orisian forces not with their starships's many different armaments, but with. To use shipboard armaments would be to endanger the non Ori-aligned Jaffa unfortunate enough to be stuck on the planet, who couldn't simply leave the proximity of their hated hated Orisian and pro-Ori Jaffa, because the Orisians and Ori-aligned Jaffa were holding them captive.
In Orbit Over Dakara
Milky Way Galaxy
One single Ori "toilet-ship" dreadnought loomed over the planet, ready to deliver the gods' who provided the design schematics's wrath. downwards onto any possible heathens , should the heathens attempt to act like miscreants and disrupt their gods'will for the Dakaran Jaffa to convert and worship. It had been here ever since good High Councillor Gerak (good specifically to the Ori, their corporeal servants, and the power-hungry Jaffa who followed him) had made a deal with the invading Ori to govern the Free Jaffa Nation (at least the combined faction whose people either deludedly believed in Origin, who believed in appeasing the Ori, or who simply did whatever Gerak did) in their cause's name.
Down below, on the recently renamed Jaffa Origin Devout Nation's(dediated to worshipping non other) capital world, Gerak in his infinite wisdom, had declared martial law. Sadly, this state of politics wasn't that far off from how Gerak would've had he had his way from the beginning, without the more liberal Free Jaffa Nation High Council members opposing him.
The Ori vessels had been in the same place where they had been waiting for the Ori Priests and Acolytes on the surface to inform their Prior supervisors of any recalcitrant Jaffa, so they could persuade them to cooperate more willingly, by displaying the dreadnought's awesome crater-forming, multi-story building levelling firepower and devastating the offending Jaffa planetside.
Like the reliable allies they were (or overseers, these Ori corporeal followers were aboard their characteristic toilet-shaped vessel to lend hand to their new ally ((or the Ori's underling servant)) newly-Prioritized Lower-Prior-In-Training Gerak. Gerak's tens of thousands of assuredly most loyal Jaffa footsoldiers were guarding the planet down below, along with tens of thousands of Orisian Heavy Footmen who the Ori didnt' need elsewhere, here to reinforce their Jaffa brethren. They were here to give the anti-Ori heathen invaders a most enthuiasitc welcoming.
The Orisian Priests and The Orisian Acolytes below were feeling very bored and devoid of purpose. They had felt so full of purpose and excitement in the past, helping to teach he Origin-ignorant Origin knowledge anew, cramming their minds full of the essential Origin points, and correcting any irritating misperceptions they might have pertaining to the power and generosity of the Ori.
The allied Jaffa below were too Footsoldiers below, from the rank of Commander all the way down to Ordinaryman, were . How they felt their great sense of purpose when they were 'unfortunately' but harshly torturing, maiming, and executing those who refused to join the new wave waive religious fervor of Celestia. They were contributing much more than when they were here, to 'persuade' those who weren't worshipping the Ori enthusiastically enough to those who weren't laboring quickly enought o construct the massive Ori-dedication monuments
A large newly constructed human vessel, a large newly-constructed Jaffa vessel, a large newly-constructed Tok'ra vessel, a large Asgard vessel, a large Adenian vessel, and a large Furling vessel converged on the Jaffa capital world.
The Earth Theseus class battleship the Theseus took up one end of the killzone-trap. It was a whole one point five kilometers (one thousand five hundred kilometers) in length and point five kilometers (five hundred meters) in width. This vessel was somewhat similar in design to the Earth 304 Daedelus design, except its 'wings' and main body were much larger.
For powersources, it sported: a Mark Twenty Naquadriah Reactor designed by Sam Carter with Furling and Asgard aid, two fully-charged ZPMs courteousy of the Furling, who had learned from their Alterran allies in an exchange of each's powersource knowledge ,how to construct them, four Asgard Neutrino-Ion Generators, and one Furling Particle String Reaction Energy Generator (PSREG), which was equivalent to three ZPMs at least.
For anti-firepower protection, its hull was made up of highly energy ablative metal and highly energy-absorbing metal. It had three layers of energy shields: the first energy shield layer was loosely based on the strongest Goa'uld design with drastic improvement Earth's most brilliant scientist-engineers had developed, an Asgard shield more powerful than that of the original O'Neill, and a Furling Taphys Class shield.
For devastating firepower, it held railguns firing much larger slugs at a much faster rate than any of the previous Earth space-capable warships had. It had four of the newest design ionized-plasma burst guns the Asgard had just gifted Earth with the schematics for and constructed four copies of. Adding to this were four of the Asgard Solid State Plasma beams. For missile weaponry, the Earthans had loaded twenty Mark Sixteen naquadah-enhanced nuclear warheads aboard, with the help of members of the Four Great Races.
The Free Jaffa Nation (Anti-Ori Faction) Chulak Class battleship the Chulak placed itself on another end of the cordone. This vessel was of comparable quality to that which the Go'auld Anubis had constructed using his Ascended Knowledge of Ancient Natural Sciences and Engineering Principles. Along with their allies, those Jaffa talented in various aspects of combat-purpose starship building had finally displayed their talents openly, no longer having to attempt to hide their rather significant theoretical and applied natural sciences knowledge.
The Free Jaffa engineers and combat officers had been working with Alliance engineers and combat officers to develop what they termed the Colossal Plasma Torpedo (CPT). In sheer size, this torpedo was larger than any starship torpedo in existence in the known galaxies. Hence the highly descriptive, if not bluntly decriptive, and possibly witty name.
The Tok'ra Protectorate Sel'mak/Jacob Class Battleship Class the Sel'mak/Jacob , named after the current oldest living Tok'ra and his human host, represented the current pinnacle of what the best Tok'ra engineering minds could do with help from two of the four original great races. It had amazing stealth capabilities in character with the Tok'ra method of conducting warfare. It also boasted a weapon similar to the Tok'ra tunneling device, but instead moved much more speedily forcefully, end up tunneling to deadly effect inside enemy starships.
The Furling Tarys (Furling for Victory) Class battleship the Tarys occupied yet another end of the box. The Tarys had a very sleek, streamlined, polished look, and the various designers had expended every effort into planning the details of. It had large 'wings' placed at a thirty-five degree angle to the ship's main body, which was slimmer than an Earth warship's and an Asgard warship's.
For shielding, it had a triple layer of Furling battleship-class shielding.
For weapons, it had characteristics Furling Turbo Plasma Pulse Turrets (TPPTs) which could fire at an amazing rate. It also had Independent Trajectory Missiles (ITM) launchers and Sun Fusion Torpedo (SFT) launchers.
The Adenian Aturria Class battleship the Aturria occupied another end of the box. It was more squarish and angular than its Furling Taphys class inspired design but less linear than its equally Ancient Aurora class inspired design.
The Asgard O'Neill II Class vessel formed the final portion of the formation meant to box in the . They had to prevent these misled idiot from retalaiting against the planet below and to prevent it from escaping and informing the rest of the Ori Theocratic Nation of these occurrences as well as taking away valuable intelligence on the current state of the Ori forces elsewhere. The O'Neill II was equipped with more powerful shields than the O'Neill I was. It also had Asgard Accumulated Motion Torpedos (AMTs) (FN1).
This time, they weren't planning to give the Orisians fanatics a chance to surrender first before opening fire. Per humanitarian policy, they might have given the Orisians onboard the
This time, they weren't planning to give the Orisians fanatics a chance to surrender first before opening fire. Per humanitarian policy, they'd avoid blowing the Ori warships and Orisian personnel to tiny pieces to leave out floating in space, if they could avoid doing so. But they determined not to lose an advantage by letting the Ori, who were in great likelihood, going to open fire on them. Even the Free Jaffa. So they were
The Ori starship seemed to take longer than usual to acknowledge the starships were there, because the starship didn't immediately fire on the enroaching "heathen" starships. The personnel inside allied starships immediately opened up with their highest frequency weapons. They were supposed to capture the Ori personnel alive in the hopes of gaining information and insight on their enemies. Additionally, the allies' head honchos wished to capture the Ori battleship intact to use in order to ruse their way into a advantageous situation. The Free Jaffa battleship let out Jaffa Colossal Plasma Torpedo, which impacted the lone Ori dreadnought and promptly lowered its shield to 60% of full strength.
Inside the Ori dreadnought, a group of naval officers who ranked lower than Admiral panicked as soon as they witnesed their gods' 'invincibl' ship taking that much damage so quickly. . A few, the most devout, were shouting that the Ori would protect them somehow. The rest, perhaps more pragmatic, were panicking and attempting to react in the optimal way to the situation of
The combined starships let loose their pulse weapons in a gigantic, widely encompassing flurry of blue, green, golden-yellow. The Ori shiedl was flickering clearly, and For good measure
"Please open a communication channel" Il'ras instructed the Tarys Class vessel he was on's communcation officer.
"As you request, Consul." the comm officer complied.
Simultaneously, the allied starships opened up communications channels to this lone Ori battleship in orbit of the planet, intending to ask those in charge to suurender peacefully before they decided to unleash their quite formidable weaponry and shields to match capabiltiies against the lone Ori dreadnought.
A most self-assured and pompous high-ranking Ori servant appeared on their common screen. "Hallowed are the Ori. If you are here to disrupt their will, you do so at the risk of your pathetic and currently pointless lives. Swear your allegiance to them right now and we'll spare your lives." the Orisian officer in charge of the vessel greeted the newcomers about the vessels and requested of them.
"Uh-huh. Whatever. Where's your boss the political commissar?" Jack O'Neill replied and inquired, referencing the Soviet Union era Russian civilian overseers who were stationed with each high-ranking Russian military officer's command to approve or disapprove the order in the name of the Communist Party.
The head bridge officer, probably holding the rank of Admiral judging by the very fancy naval uniform he wore, all in the characteristic style of an Ori soldier, raised an eyebrow and looked quite irritated to be recieving this request, spoken in such bizarre language, from this Tauri high-ranking officer.
"You know, your immediate superior. The guy who's a civilian, a noncombatant and a holy cleric of your religion technically, who accompanies you once everywhere and countersigns every one of your orders first before you're allowed to issue it." O'Neilkl explained laconically.
"I shall request his presence, infidel! Perhaps he can better talk you into your right senses and surrender all your vessels and personnel and then devoting your lives to the incomparable service to the unsurpassed beings that are the Ori!" the Admiral replied in a strictly-business manner and disappeared from view quickly.
Jack mimicked the other flag officer's speech very mockingly. "No to surrendering and switching allegiance, yes to speaking to your genetically-enhanced boss." O'Neill commented.
"Speak more respectfully, you despicable abominable infidel! You will not take a good first step towards the redemption of your countless sins! The Prior is in fact deeply meditating right now, but will interrupt this activity because the Ori would want him to know his unrepentant enemies are here. You could "
"Well, sooooorrrryyy. Wouldn't want to disrupt the Prior while he's communicating his devotion to the Ori, now would we? Deprive those deceivers of their undue daily praise?"
"Silence, infidel! Carefully mind your insolent tongue!" the Orisian flag officer reprimanded O'Neill furiously. "When I return with my superior he will deal with you most harshly!"
"You had your chance, you idiot. Don't say we didn't warn you when you're sitting in our prisons eating mush. And I should make it very clear to you that our military prisons are not so comfy as civilian prisons might be." O'Neill reprimanded
Normally, the allied military forces would've attacked the Ori from space or from the sky, going no
further. But they faced two problems. Firstly, the Orisians seemed to have cleverly held hostages
close to where their military forces were stationed, making it very dangerous to orbitally and aerially
bombard the . Second they had seevral anti-trasnporter jamming devices hidden all over the city.
This made deploying the TES and SSBDT very necessary.
"And now, ladyelves, and gentleelfmen, we shall prepare to jump into the fray once again" comanders were telling their suboridnates.
Iliphas Tasis, Lekilis's counterpart in the SSBDT, was preparing his to crash-land and initially assault the Ori ground forces on this capital world. Lekilis would follow up using extremely high-tech parachutes, which allowed them to be much dafer than modern non-augmented Earth paratrooper s could.
"You seem like a capable warrior, Colonel Donoghue." Furling Terrestrial Engagment Service Elite Land Warrior regiment commander Colonel Aldir observed as he was loading his small-arms. "Those Terror-Knights have exaggerated abilities, despite themselves being which we will expose just how exaggerated when we engage them."
Colonel Alexander "Alex" Donoghue, formerly of the United States Army Rangers and currently of the United State Army Special Forces, had been waiting in the Theseus's away room to parachute down and liberate this world from the Ori Footmen and Terror-Knights, in conjunction with the Furling Terrestrial Engagement Service (TES). Nicknamed "Alexander the Great" for his long string of victories in battle, he was one of the US Armed Forces' youngest full-bird colonels. He was a friend of Jack O'Neill's back in the day. They'd saved each other's lives repeatedly when O'Neill first started working as an Air Force Combat Controller and Donoghue first started working as an Army Special Forces soldier. They'd lost contact for a while after Stargate Command recruited Jack, but as soon as Homeworld Command and Stargate Command had decided that they needed to bring both more soldiers and more civilians alike into their fold if they were to succeed at neutralizing the Ori menace, he'd gone to visit and filled the Colonel in on all the offworld friends and enemies they'd made all these years, after of course asking him t o sign a non-disclosure agreement. Donoghue knew very well that O'Neill had been involved all those years in activities as covert at least as the Special Tactics Squadron's activities were. O'Neill and some other high-ranking officers US Armed Forces officers wanted to promote him to Brigadier General very soon, but Donoghue plainly told him "No." He'd served in the United States Army for most of his adult life and wanted to move on to do something else. A while ago, defense-related companies such Raytheon and Metal Storm had been recruiting him with competing offers which they kept upping every week or so. Unbeknownst to those who weren't so familiar with his background, Alex held two engineering degrees, both Summa Cum Laude, and this meant that he was qualified to supervise the cutting-edge military-use technology these companies were contantly developing. After travelling all over the world in defense of United States interests and those of the US's allies, Donoghue was ready to settle down in his Besides, he couldn't imagine himself as a general officer.
O'Neill had often prodded him about accepting this promotion. "We need more officers of your type filing those positions, Alex." O'Neill had emphasized. "I can't stick it to the folks in charge at the top all by myself, after all."
"Sorry, Jack, and no offense, but I find generals have to act like political animals too often for my taste." Alex had explained why he didn't really feel up to accepting his first star.
"Ach, none taken at all buddy. It's actually fun sometimes, doing a bit of real-politik-sometimes one of my absolute damn favorites. Oh, come on, Alex-it could be super-duper fun. I mean, you do realize what you can get away with as a member of Homeworld Command when dealing with Kinsey-like politicians? After all, they need you, so you can communicate much more bluntly with them than you normally could." O'Neill had countered.
Alex nodded back at Aldir's comments. "Thank you, Colonel. Much appreciated. I familiarized myself with your service record too. Found it to be really vile and what the faction which opposed your current High Consul were willing to do in order to keep the status quo of their self-serving plans. From what I know of your nation, it's really shockingly unthinkable that your legislative branch and your executive branch ordered every military officer to either st
state their objection to former Supreme Warfare Officer Tran'duil Aelerothi's assertion that the Erri were arming themselves massively while feigning to prefer peaceful relations, or to courteously resign, or accept the fact that either they would not gain any further promotion or that they'd in fact receive demotion. You yourself refued I'm aware of and found yourself suddenly demoted from a Primary Delegate rank to the lowest non-commissioned officer rank."
Aldir nodded. "All under that sickening facade of civility and that they genuinely didn't wish to, but they had to do this to ensure that we were truly of one mind in order to convince them we'd follow their program and not be unpredictable free agents." he explained and chortled sarcaistically. "However, very thankfully, when my friend General Lekilis Aelerothi and his colleagues returned from his inflitration of the Erri Spy Station and brought with him every single abducted Furling aboard, including the love of his life Elryn Aravansel-yes High Consul Aravansel's daughter she is, the nation finally woke up to the fact that the Erri ahd been most lethally deceiving them. Admiral Aelerothi-Lekilis's father, re-assumed his pre-purge position as well as gaining the additional rarely joint position of Executor For National Military Defense. In line with his exemplary character, he didn't seek retaliation at all on those civilian officials and military officers who'd conspired against him. He did, however, issue a personally signed letter of apology to every officer who'd been harmed because they refused to denounce him on principle. In my case, he personally issued the order to promote me to Primary Adjuter with a a condition that I also be on an accelerated track for promotion to the rank of Terrestrial Colonel. So I find myself in this role at this very moment."
"A great wrong was righted finally; very glad to have have you on board for this mission, Colonel!" Alex responded and clapped Aldir on the shoulder enthusiastically.
"Thank you very much, Colonel Donoghue. I'm in great awe of your 'Green Berets'. They're truly a formidable fighting force, one of the greatest heavy infantries your people have. They also are quite skilled in assisting the very unfortunate civilians who find themselves in the midst of a warzone."
"I've familiarized myself with the history and work of your nicknamed 'Warriors'-our counterpart special operations type. I found myself wondering the very first moment how our Furling comrades-in-arms also had such a similarly designated type of soldier, and I believe that is in no small part to cultural influences from the Furling to the Earthans during the Furling stay on Earth to protect the Asgards' former charges." Alex informed Aldir.
"They conducted a two-way ideological exchange, I should emphasize. The Furling also learned a good deal of ideology-military and governmental, from your people during that era." Aldir emphasized in turn. Your people had great potential even that long ago.
Another Furling officer, who held the rank just below Aldir's, came onto the scene and saluted both men with a fist to his forehead. "Secondary Adjuter Benjaymin Vinsent at your service, sir" he told Alex."
"This is my second-in-command, Colonel Donoghue. He is resourceful, dedicated officer, and has a great sense of humor and can create great artwork too." Aldir introduced Benjaymin.
"Five minutes to heavy-infantry units' embarkation." a staff officer announced over the ship's intercom.
The plan of attack on the enemy combatants down below was both brilliant and logical. The US Marines and the Furling SSBDTs would first forcibly enter the battlefield by their special boxes large enough to fit 4 in each. After successfully forcibly enter enemy territory, they'd then be the first to appear and cause the Orisian enemies a living hell. Those boxes weren't just transport-purposed;they could do enemy units and equipment serious damage, accidentally too!
Then the United States Army 's 82nd Airborne Division and the Furling Terrestrial Engagment Service (TES)'s 164th would parachute downwards, being able to fire on enemy targets who were on the ground.
The 164 Aerially Deployed Corps (ADC) woukld drop from the sky and additionally, add another layer of envelopment of the enemy, this time vertical envelopment, which was much harder to avoid.
Major General Ryan Parrish, the spoke up next. "Give them hell and shock to start off this battle. These Orisian Heavy Footmen will be tougher, ofcourse, than those Enhanced Light Footmen the experienced forces fought. Be very aware of this important fact. You are all wearing body armor that the best minds in the Furling Unified Republicand the United States' most intelligent minds have come up with. Use it well and use it wisely."General Patterson instructed the soldiers.
All eyes were next on United States Army Special Forces (aka Green Aberets) Colonel Alexander Donoghue and his right-hand officer Major Matthew 'Matt' Miller. The Green Berets usually operated in much smaller units, teaching friendly forces how to fight effectively, fomenting allies to rise up, as well as countering enemies rising up.
"'Alright, Gentlemen, today we have the great opportunity to work alongside our units' equivalents in the Furling Unified Republic, .as well as the Free Jaffa Republic. We will be working with the Furling Elite Land Warriors, also known as the Emerald Hats, and the Jaffa Jaffa Elite Heavy Infantry. We can learn much from eazch other, and we will be dropping in on the enemies as a nasty surprise, after they've had to stomach the Marines/SSBDTs and the 82and Airborne,/164th ADC."
The Jaffa commander of the Jaffa elite heavy infantry (JEHI) regiment grinned at them enthusiastically. "It is so nearly time, time to be deal the Ori a dismaying blow and retaking the capital world, the first step to joining this great alliance to refuse the Ori's shamelessly deceptive propaganda all across this galaxy" he announced.
*What are these unholy contraptions that fall from the sky so rapidly?* the Prior's wondred.
The Furling Atmopsphic Entry Transport Pod ( AETP)'s door opened abruptly, hitting one clueless and battle-inexperienced Prior on the head, who fell down unconscious right there.
The Earthan Orbital Troop Drop Pod (OTDP) also opened suddenly and purposely with great velocity, hitting the other ignorant, unfortunate Prior squarely and sending him crashing into oncoming Orisian Heavy Footmen.
Blocking the start of their way into the capitol city were what was called the "Gerakian Guard", who'd been prepared to defend their stretch of sandy soil from these outrageously impudent infidels coming their way.
Composed of the newly installed dictator Gerak's most competent and fanatically loyal Jaffa guards, the allies noticed that these particular villains seemed to have the tackiest fashion sense. This was because they seemed to be wearing a hybrid Jaffa and Orisian armor in terms of structure of and in engraving designs. The Jaffa were holding what looked very suspiciously like a modified staff weaponin their hands. There was also a few holding what happened to be more ergonomic versions of the Jaffa staff canons.