Hello people.
This chapter is more of a pseudo insert. Its purpose is to answer some of the questions and comments that have been brought up in the course of this story. It was done this way because:
It explains what Earth is doing with the Colonials.
It satisfies the requirements of a certain website known as FF dot net.
It refutes the believe that Earth is a goodie, goodie world that does no wrong and is 'perfect' in this fic and at the same time denigrates the Colonials and everyone else.
It defines a touch of the Colonial mindset and the real differences between Earth and their Colonial counterparts.
Historical earth background.
Political agenda of Earth.
Norjc, I am pleased that you still live!
And finally, the response of the Goa;uld and the Race will be explored in the next chapter. I may not keep this chapter up as it sidetracks (in an important way, nevertheless).
Thank you, everyone. Now on with the story.
Interlude: Notes from two Terran Presidents
Earnest Boyd, President of the United States of America and current spokesman for the newly formed United Coalition of Worlds, the UCW, sat in his chair in his private den in the White House. His personal desk was cluttered with notes, all of which was transcribed and scribbled notes detailing the events of the revelation of the Colonial government and the hostile response by the Ashtorath Goa'uld Empire to their decision not to join them. His monthly behind-closed-doors meeting with the UCW was scheduled for tomorrow and he was just finishing up his speech, and question and answer points that were sure to follow up.
His personal notes however, were something different. In the future, the people of Earth as well as the members of the Coalition would want to know the truth of the events that happened and the subsequent consequences that followed for historical value.
Former President Henry Hayes began the private Presidential diary specifically detailing the history of the Earth Colony relations and Earnest continued the tradition (which would turn out to be a nice and very unique set of historical fact-based books after his term was over as President was over). Tonight, he didn't have time to go over all the historical facts that Hayes had already penned (or dictated in this case). But certain parts of digital entries demanded that he go over before he continued his own unique additions. It was going to be an excellent book for future historians and the average reader in the future. Quickly, he found the area he wanted to review and began to read.
The Colonial connection: historical review. Add relevant entries on Earth Alliance historical inserts here. Omit if classified data is redacted. Omit reference of Asgard's status until de-classified under general order DFR 127.28374.C17RF227.
Notes: The historical connection between Earth and the Colonial Republic are known facts. First Contact started off smoothly but, as with so many contacts that the Earth had, this soured quickly. Many people have criticized the actions of General O'Neill. Several of his critics have unjustifiably condemned him as the perpetrator of that disastrous conflict. Some of his critics have condemned him, being the officer in charge, as being trigger-happy when he damaged or destroyed several Colonial vessels doing their time in the Cyrannus system. Other critics have condemned him for not doing enough to stop the Colonials in the tracks and keep them from ever coming near the Sol system. Despite the Kinseys, and the others who advanced criticisms and attempted distortion, the documented facts are these.
In July 2014, the SGC Earth ship Prometheus inadvertently found itself in the Cyrannus system, home of the Colonials. The reasons that precipitated this incident began with the interdimensional incursion of the species called the Vorlons (de-classification pending) into our universe. They followed the Asgard through the rift for reasons that we can speculate about but are still unsure of. We do know that because of the accidental interactions of our battlecruiser Achilles with their universes Earth whose government was (is -unsure of their survival at this time) called Earth Alliance. (See classified files CFD 2000, - Achilles incident 2005).
From the Asgard's debriefing we know that the Vorlon race defined the Asgard as a middle level race (note: speculate as to the reasons why the Vorlons so completely misunderstood the Asgard), very advanced but in need of guidance. They also considered Earth, our Earth, as an unwanted, undesirable nuisance. The telepathic Vorlons could not read our minds. We appeared to them as static. The Asgard and the Nox have informed us that this is a racial characteristic of Humanity in the galaxy. Our resistance to telepathy by other races is particularity dominant when compare to our cousins scattered throughout the galaxy. It is speculated that it is a type of failsafe and genetic protection against 'alien' telepathy. We know that the Lanteans and their people can read us. The Nox have the capability as well. However most of the other species are locked out.
It was this uniqueness that frightened the Vorlons. Our Humanity was also deemed to have potential resistance to their genetic manipulation. Apparently, we have genetic locks that prevent such manipulation by those who don't have the key. That raises many questions that our scientists will research for decades. Other Humans in the alliance have such locks but the number of genetic locks in Earth's population is significantly higher. These protections apparently threatened the Vorlons agenda and we were slated for destruction on that basis alone. We learned that it was also their intention to destroy Earth and any world that Earth had influenced in any way. It was also their intention to mold the Asgard into a race that would be more in line with their thinking. The Asgard immediately rejected this and the Vorlons tried to destroy them. They launched an unprovoked attack on the new Asgard home world now located in our galaxy, that was in the process of being reconstituted. Their surprise attack destroyed the defenseless Asgard home world, a feat that we didn't think was possible. The small Asgard fleet still recovering from the replicator war was out of position when the attack from the Vorlons using overwhelming numbers.
Simultaneously, they attacked several worlds (review file on names of worlds destroyed) where Humans had been in contact with Earth. Those worlds were completely destroyed by absurd-looking but obviously effective planet killer class warship as did Earth. The Asgard declared war against the Vorlons as did we. Earth only possessed only five functional warships at the time and the Jaffa allied with Teal'c and Bra'tac added five Ha'taks to that number in those critical days. It was also the turning point of the nations of Earth's decision to become a truly unified world. Historians can debate which war threatened the survival of Earth more, the Vorlon war or the Wraith invasion. (See link 4A for details of Wraith invasion, 5A for Replicator war).
The war was short, but very vicious and in a total of nine worlds were turned into little more than broken debris. Every single world was one that had visitation by SG teams. One PPT world was destroyed before we struck back.
The Asgard response was swift, brutal and without remorse. Earth and the Jaffa Ha'taks supported them using Asgard designed beam weapons and naquada and naquadria based nuclear weaponry (reference battle of Hanron IV-further information remans classified (DFR 113,181CF-classified).
Knowing that their gambit failed, the Vorlons retreated through the interdimensional rift. But they did not expect that the Asgard would follow them. We know from the Asgard reports that they destroyed the Vorlon home world not to mention the entire star system and several adjacent colony worlds before they returned through the rift. Earth and Jaffa forces on our side of the universal rift encountered and trapped a Vorlon fleet and after a vicious firefight across three star systems, they were able to destroy those already damaged vessels including one of their two known planet killers. In that battle, the Prometheus, its hyperdrive damaged inadvertently found itself in the Cyrannus star system.
To the surprise of the crew, it was filled with a rather advanced culture calling themselves the Colonials of Kobol. After an initial positive contact, elements of the Colonial's military took offense to the religious beliefs of Earth. The Prometheus managed to flee the area and there was no more contact with the Colonials until the remnants of the Cylon Empire entered our star system. The Colonial military in pursuit discovered our system attempted to destroy the Cylon refugees fleet and bring Earth into the sphere of Colonial influence by force of arms (Hayes: review rapid installation of earmarked sensor system). The invasion failed and the survivors of the Cylon remnant fleet was given refugee status and remains under the protection of the United Coalition of Worlds.
There has been no further contact with the Vorlons and no further contact with the other universal Earth. Probes are observing the rift for incursion. Several of the Asgard probes stationed by the Asgard when the rift was first discovered by the Achilles were damaged by the fleeing Vorlon will be replaced with Coalition probes when time permits.
Those are the known facts.
Ernest Boyd, having read what he needed to read to refresh his memory, picked up his tablet begin to dictate.
As the current designated spokesman for the planet Earth and the United Coalition of Worlds, the Prime Minister of Britain and I have used a political influence to create and to maintain a peaceful relationship with the Colonials in spite of the fact that some of Earth's countries would have initially preferred to go to war with them.
There have been some criticisms that we the people of Earth portray ourselves as the 'perfect planet' unable to do any wrong, and that we have portrayed Colonials as idiots and fools unable to understand even the basics of what life is like in the galaxy. I personally find that this opinion is an error and our critics should more carefully look at the totality of the history of our two peoples and then form a coherent opinion based on the facts.
It is foolish to deny the fact that we are portraying ourselves in a mostly positive light. To do anything else would be seen as hypocritical both to our people and to our allies. We are not friends to the Colonials, but we are associates and maybe one day, allies.
Their structure of government is very close to many other governments on Earth and we have more in common than we have differences. But those differences are striking, and Earth and its allies must protect ourselves from Colonial influence and their preconceptions of what Earth and its allies are. To pretend that we are friends with them at this point in time would be a lie.
Our purpose and intent are the same as theirs. We want to bend them to our will as they want to do to us. Everything that we have done to them reflects this objective of bending them to our will. We have flaunted our superiority technology even if we are not completely comfortable with it ourselves. We have purposely intimidated them with our military to ensure that they would think twice before trying to attack us again. We have given them our historical documents and biological evidence of who and what we are. We have actively disputed their belief we are their fabled Thirteenth Colony.
We have done this to impress upon them that what they believe is an error. The technological and communications Corporation's working with us are actively seeking to undermine Colonial interests and in the process make a profit in doing so. Do we intend to add to our economy by using them as they intended to do to us?
Without doubt. Our intention has been and will be for the foreseeable future to keep them off balance without breaking them. It is called diplomacy.
An example of this is the fact that our civilian transports that travel to Caprica continually outrun any Colonial fighters that act as escorts as they transition into hyperspace. This acceleration is not required to make the transition. It is done to show that our civilian liners can out run their fastest military ships. There's no need for civilian passenger liners to accelerate to a certain speed before they jump into hyperspace. This is pure intimidation factor. In the same ways, our telecommunications corporations are using our newest subspace communications capabilities and technologies to undermine their Colonial counterparts.
We we're doing this because it is also in our best interests from a strategic perspective. Being a democratic-based grouping of worlds so like ours, it would be foolish for us to destroy or crush them as they initially wanted to do to us. As a nation, they don't yet understand that we are not the Thirteenth Tribe mentioned in their scrolls. The actual history is somewhat different. The ones that do haven't fully accepted it yet. This lack of acceptance may continue for as much as a generation maybe two. But, it is our intentions to bring to them understanding and acceptance of who and what Earth is. Not to do so would invite disaster. At this point in our relationship, their size, their unified religious beliefs, and their industrial power can be seen as a threat that they would try to use if given the proper opportunity. I can't state our agenda enough. It is our intent to bend them to our will, not to destroy them, or isolate ourselves from them as certain senators and congressmen would like to do.
We do not claim that Earth is perfect, far from it. We have studied and learned the lessons of Earth Alliance and its failures and the subsequent disaster that resulted in their Earth-Minbari war. The historical data that we collected before we left that universe was instrumental in the formation of the United Coalition of Worlds.
The EA was a growing power, victories that they won early in their formation brought about an arrogance that may have doomed them. Our Earth found itself on a very similar path. Our victory over the Goa old brought a certain arrogance. But there was a fundamental difference in our growth that gave us an advantage that Earth Alliance didn't have. We had mentors primarily in the form of the Asgard. We had instructors in the form of the Nox. We even had instruction from the Tollans, now known as the Tollanians. They helped us, they shaped and influenced us and pushed us along the path that has hopefully, at the very least slowed down our own arrogance and beliefs that we are more than what we truly are.
We've had many conflicts since the discovery of the Stargate. We've discovered an enemy in the Goa'uld. We've fought the Lucian Alliance and the Wraith. We've fought several types of replicators, and we've been in conflict against the Genii. We battled against the Vorlons and we irritated the Earth Alliance in another universe. We have frightened the Minbari in the same universe and we have had conflicts with the Colonials, all in less than twenty-five years. We have been victorious, and we have survived. But because of the influences of the wiser, elder races. We have also been given responsibilities that, in my opinion, have kept our arrogance in check.
To have so many conflicts and technological and social changes in such a brief period of our transition outside of our solar system raises many questions that I cannot answer at this time but must be asked. We have contacted many Human-inhabited worlds. We've also contacted some alien life form dominated worlds. We've made as many friends as we have enemies, but we've also become responsible for the protective planets treaty initiated by the Asgard. They entrusted us to protect those worlds that could not protect themselves. The old Goa'uld threat is over but there are other threats out there and that treaty that began with the Asgard has been extended and given to us to enforce. We of Earth and by extension the Coalition take this responsibility seriously as we know that there are many entities watching us waiting to see if we will succeed or we will fail. We wish to be known as protectors and defenders, not oppressors. This responsibility extends towards the Colonials whether they understand it or not. They are learning just like us, however we will not give into their beliefs of who or what we are. If this seems harsh or arrogant, then so be it. Our main priorities are to our planet, to our allies, to the protectorate's, and by extension to the Colonials.
We have no intentions of letting those worlds fail or fall to the Ashtorath Goa'uld or the remnants of the Lucian Alliance or others hidden in the dark. To do so would invite disaster for ourselves. In addition, they are so close to who and what we are on Earth that will be foolish in the extreme for us to ignore them or to allow them to be destroyed by the Goa'uld. But we must consider that in this point of their development, their national religious beliefs could easily sway them to force newly discovered worlds to submit to their culture. This is something that has happened in our world's history countless times and we understand why the Asgard had a hand's off protocol when it came to less developed cultures. The danger is real. The Colonials must learn this lesson and we hope it does not come at too high a cost.
They have many things that interests us, but as they begin their expansion into the greater galaxy, we see that they are as we were when we first made those first tentative steps through the stargate. We are growing, and we know that we have learned so. We also are aware that we have much more to learn about the galaxy, how it works and about ourselves. The Nox would say that we are youngsters teaching toddlers. But, we are learning.
Unknown to the Colonials, we will protect them. But we will not cuddle them. If they believe we are arrogant and superior and full of ourselves then that is what we will be.
In the Colonial newscasts following their president's speech, Ambassador Cheney revealed several truths the Colonials will have to come to terms with. What he told him will cause not only political, but social upheaval in their culture. I'm sure that many of them will not believe what has been told them but the truth will get out there, even if it must crawl through the keyholes.
There's one thing in the Colonial mindset that disturbs me, although it shouldn't, because they are just like us.
What disturbs me on a fundamental level is how they cannot understand why we have such an antagonistic viewpoint at them trying to subdue our world by use of nuclear weapons. This mindset is what I'm struggling to understand. Their belief is that once a battle is over, it is over. This mindset, if not changed, will cause tremendous damage not only to their neighbors but to themselves. The fact that they didn't succeed in the nuclear strikes against us seems to have precipitated the belief that we shouldn't be upset that they attempted such an atrocity in the first place. This is a cultural mindset that we desperately need to change if they are to go forward. Many of our cultural experts believe that because they are a set of united colonies, war is a 'local' matter that in the long term, does not fracture the Colonial people even if nuclear weapons are used. Therefore, when they attacked us and were defeated, they considered the loss as the end of the matter. We could have easily gone to war with them/ We even had a name for that conflict, the Reunion War. We have a somewhat different approach when it comes to war and when we express this difference the Colonials don't fully understand what we're trying to convey to them. This is something that we are constantly working on and hopefully they will finally understand, because if they don't it will get them killed.
The Goa'uld will not stop until they are all dead. The Goa'uld will not stop until we are all dead because we have the audacity to not resist slavery and genocide. It seems a difficult concept for the Colonials, but not one impossible for them to understand.
Another point that they must understand is that the giving of our trust is not limited to our own species. They do not understand why we trust the Race more than we trust them. That very belief is an enigma to them. We all have a long way to go."
Ernest Boyd terminated his dictation at that point. He needed the rest from the pressures of the presidency as well as see his wife and children before he fell into unconsciousness. Tomorrow was another day and he had to be ready for it.
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