Hello everyone: Normally I wouldn't post a long snippet I call snippens. But this was needed so that I could address certain comments for STI-1. Call me petty but I have to address these particular comments and have chosen not to waste my time using up FFs review section. I have a problem with this and I am dealing with it. To everyone else, I am sorry and there is no need for you to be subjected to this drivel. Psychology specialists and students, read the reviews . it is a psychological and cultural goldmine.

The response occurs after the snippen. I didn't want you to seen a new chapter and have nothing in it relating to the story. Please note that this below is subject to change and additions in the coming future chapter. It will be up for only a short period of time. Before the real chapter comes out.

Thank you. AlbertG

Chapter 36 Snippet

Earth Orbit

Earth Force ship Comanchero

…"It doesn't appear to be a normal beacon used by Earth Alliance of any of the known races in our… sectors of space." Those words made both men frown. For John Sheridan, it reminded him of rumors he'd originally dismissed. "The fact that Earthforce just learned of your location, and because there is a beacon already here." He paused for a second. "One of the quiet rumors that continued in EF was that Clark had outside help…"

"Possibly the Vorlons?" Woosley asked, surprising the Earthforce personnel.

"I don't believe so. No one has heard from them in almost twenty years. But I do mean help from unknown sources, possibility alien," his father added.

"It's possible," John said. "There were things Earthforce couldn't account for like Santiago's death. Earthforce One blew up and we never officially discovered the cause. Then, there was the Centauri battle near Beta Durani. The Centauri attacked one of our bases, but every Centauri ship was destroyed by unknown forces. There were other things, strange sightings, unexplained events , all of them benefitting Clark."

Woosley stared at him. "You are implying that he had outside help, secret associates as it were."

"Yes. But there was never any solid proof. The Presidency always kept information classified. Few people knew what was actually happening without Clark's cabal's permission."

"Maybe not," Senator Mander whispered. "General Bindley may know something. But in the state he's in…"

"We will attend to his medical needs," Woosley responded. "And your rumors concerning clandestine help for your government may have already been confirmed."

"What do you mean, sir?" asked John.

"Are you aware if President Clark has a hidden fleet that might be using this beacon?"

"Not that I know of," he answered. Then he paused, deep in thought. "Maybe I'm wrong. Something doesn't add up."

Again, he paused and Woosley recognized the signs. "I see we have a lot to discuss. And my government wishes you to open a jump point near the beacon so that we can destroy it, will you do this?"

"Yes, we can. Just let us know when you are ready."

"We will prepare and let you know," Richard responded. "Naturally, we understand that this is a short postponement. We are assuming that the perpetrators must have a plan be as backup, but the beacon's destruction should give them pause and give us a little more time. We will see you soon."

"I look forward to our discussion." More so than you know he thought as he glanced at the Colonial fleet on screen in the distance. He grimaced, not wanting to bring the subject up so early, but the politician in him couldn't allow him to stall. "Mr. Woosley, I would like to know how long the Kobollians have been here in your star system?"

Richard looked surprised. You know who they are," he said, his voice filled with suspicion.

"It is a problem I'm afraid that I am going to have to confront." The man looked horrified. "It won't be pretty. Again, please, how long have they been here?"

The urgency in his voice was unmistakable and foreboding. Woosley immediately answered. "They arrived here a little less than two weeks ago. Why is that important?"

"Because they're not shooting at us," was the answer. When David looked into Woosley's eyes, he knew that the man knew or at least suspected. "Earthforce explorers discovered the Kobollians and another government two years after we were able to safely transverse the rift. We were looking for your home world." Oh how he hated saying that. "Clark immediately begin planning to invade the Colonies when he found out it wasn't the Tau'ri star system. He wanted to use it as a staging area. A month ago, Clark's forces attacked the Kobollians. The damage was massive with at least two worlds completely destroyed." David found himself unable to continue.

"My world's military forces killed several billion people on those worlds and decimated the Kobollian military. With advances taken from the Minbari and Abbai not to mention some of the technology you gave to us, the Kobollians didn't stand a chance. But they still have some fight left. But it's not enough. They are being stripped dry of everything. Military ships and assets, civilian sips, equipment, everything. All of it is being sent back through the rift."

"How s Earth Alliance getting through the rift without being damaged?" asked a sober Woosley.

" We built a type of jump gate that allows ships and crews through without being torn apart. We also have energy shields similar to yours, obtained or rather stolen from the Abbai."

The Tau'ri were incensed.

David looked disgusted. "Clark doesn't believe that the people of his universe are real humans. So, he can do what he wants. Years of indoctrination has a whole new generation of Earthforce and civilians believing the same. I am leaping to the conclusion that the Kobollian fleet doesn't know about this , or we'd be in a shooting battle right now."

"That is why you wanted to know how long they've been here," Richard Woosley concluded. "This is going to be a problem. We will have to sort this out as soon as possible. I would suggest that you do not contact them or take any of their communications until we have this… discussion on the surface in a controlled environment. And a piece of advice."

"Yes?"

"Whatever you do, please do not tell them you are from a different universe. At least not yet. They are not ready for that revelation. Senator Sheridan, Captain Sheridan, please prepare your people to come to the surface. We have medical support and food for your people." I believe you need substance other than what you've been subsisting on."

"Thank you," answered both very grateful men.

"Please send representatives down as soon possible, the representatives of the UCW and the visiting Kobollians will be present at the talks."

"I assume that you will have sufficient security there?" David Sheridan asked. "And I don't want us to start a fight near your planet's orbit if these talks go badly."

"Hopefully, it won't come to that, but we will ensure that security will be sufficient to kept things from escalating into violence."

END Snippen

To STI-1: Ah, I see there are some cultural differences going on here and that is resulting in a couple of misunderstandings here. But Take my word for it, I understood and read your comments perfectly. Whether you read this or not is of little concern, as I will respond for the record.

First, (sounds like a disclaimer here) this is only my personal opinion. And I will not speak for anyone else. I also promise not to make this a small novelette response. That last sentence is now inaccurate because it is not in the review comments.

If you had read the story without your personal prejudices getting in the way, it states that the Vorlons first wanted the Asgard to renounce their technology and follow the Vorlon way. And they wanted to wipe out all human life (everywhere in the galaxy) because they felt that these humans introduced a chaos that the Vorlons felt was undesirable. First that means they couldn't read humans and second, they had every intention of doing to the SGverse as the Shadows are now trying to do. The Asgardian and Earth weren't interested in Vorlon motivation because it was already made clear when the Vorlons SPOKE AND THEN attacked the Asgard in the first place. I see you didn't notice that. Yes, it is important to know your enemy. But his wasn't conference time when they were wiping out your people.

Sorry, Halo motivations means nothing to me, and their ideas, motivations, and actions have nothing to do with this story or myself.

You see, here is where your arguments falls on its face. SGC or the ICW is not responsible for the affairs of other nations unless they chose for one reason or another, to get directly involved. They are responsible for the protected planets treaty. But common sense tells anyone that that doesn't mean they are responsible for every human planet, and they shouldn't be. You assume it is abandonment, I assume its reality. The System lords whether we like them or not is a sovereign nation and the Tauri will not go to war with them to impose their idea of freedom and justice just because that is what they believe.

You mentioned annexing the Kobollians and EA for their own good. Who's good are we talking about? Advance technology does not give you the right to lord over your people or other nations, although it has been done, and you see in real life how that went. Also, my fellow humans have to earn respect first. In this story, the Race earned respect before the EA and Colonials. Besides humans know how humans are. Blood calls out to blood but only to a point.

The last thing Earth needs to do is become a galactic police force because they have advanced technology. Galactic police have a tendency to become police state as we have all seen in far too many countries.

Ah and here we get to it:

America. The West as well as Eastern European countries have destabilized everything they've touched. Let's not even discuss Russia. That is human nature. But let's certainly not forget the Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries have done exactly the same thing to others for countless generations. So don't blame crap that is going on right now as if it's something new because we see it in the here and now. And it still continues. And here is something else that eluded you. The Asgard didn't act as galactic police with the Protected planet's treaty. They were protectors of those SPECIFIC worlds under the treaty. To keep the goa'uld away from them, not to enforce their rules on the people of those worlds.

Your jumping to conclusions is breathtaking. The Tau'ri was given the Asgard tech as an inheritance because they thought they were going to collectively die out and the Tau'ri earned their trust. They were to protect those worlds, not police them. Big difference there. Now, should they have been monitoring the EA form another universe to see how they were doing? Oh no. Why should they, really and they are still in the process of getting themselves and their organization together and worrying about a hundred different things. Next, They should have been monitoring the rift? Well, the Asgard were doing that, and you missed it which is in the story. I see selective memory here. Close the rift. Wow, how are they going to do that, with it be hundreds of light years across? And being that large, one can only monitor so much. Good luck with both monitoring AND CLOSING SOMETHING THAT HUGE.

Deep critical thinking is one thing, overthinking and adding things that are not in your control is another. Besides, you don't know what they were thinking. And he Tau'ri or Asgard for that matter, placing a probe though the rift and hundreds of light years away from said rift, and getting a signal through and relaying it back through the rift to the monitoring probe already there, and back to the home office is a… challenge.

Knowing their enemy's name? Of course not. The EA and everyone else didn't know either. Maybe because they weren't active at that time and were rather secretive? Let's ask the Vorlons… no wait, they won't tell, especially after they got their collective butts kicked while trying to commit genocide on two species Asgardian and human. They may not be that talkative. Besides trying to get a straight answer is like trying to operate on your own liver. Wait, haven't the survivors left for the Rim? Yes, I think they did.

I love this God complex you've given the Tau'ri. How do you know that the Asgard can do the job themselves? How many Asgard are there? What resources do they have. What resources do the Shadows have?

I can almost applaud your attitude about your fellow man, if it wasn't for your assumptions that you've thrown out in your comments. You claim to know your limits however, but what you have commented on suggests otherwise when it comes to other people and their limits. THIS IS A STORY! A fantasy! And if you don't know the phrase you should look it up in google because it fits your image of what SHOULD be assumed in this story perfectly. Trust me, you have even assumed things about myself you have absolutely no clue about.

You wrote: "And all this tech was given to them for one reason, uphold the PPT and protect civilizations that are not capable of resisting Allen attacks." Wrong. See, you added something that wasn't part of the mandate. See my above comments.

Give the EA ability to teleport nukes onto Minbari ships to scare them into stopping he war? Not on your life. First of all, the war is over. Second, the EA never knew about the transporters. Third, they would have been all over the Tau'ri trying to 'acquire' that technology before the war was even over. Fourth, the EA assumed it was their right to have it in the first place because they were 'human'. Does that sound familiar to you and your arguments?

You are on this monitoring kick as if it is the 'end all to everything. Well, it is not. Besides, in the story the UCW is still setting up a viable system. Furthermore. How can they monitor the Shadows that they don't know about in the first place and why monitor the Colonials do didn't have a clue as to where Earth was for almost fifteen years ago as if they were the enemy? Let the Tau'ri get their own house in order first. You are throwing in past, present and future knowledge of them all together like a spaghetti mix to prove a thesis that you can't support. And once more, the Tau'ri and Asgard know next to nothing about the Vorlons or their enemies (read adversaries or rivals here) and they were not forthcoming.

Your argument concerning the Tau'ri not knowing about the Vorlons or Shadows motivations, and not studying them and not monitoring them and not giving their motive the correct amount of time to really analyze them and possibly finding a better way to deal with them while they were trying to obliterate both human and Asgard in the galaxy because they didn't like what they saw is noted, was well as not killing senator Clark and monitoring the EA to see how they were doing, and giving them Earth technology so they wouldn't have to steal it because they were human, or having Clark coming into power in Earth alliance and becoming a monster not unlike Hitler or some of the middle eastern, and Russian, etc., dictators and thereby annexing them for the greater good of humanity; and monitoring the Colonials and not consider them as enemies to be eventually annex for their greater good as you specifically reasoned has been noted as well.

And discarded.

Sorry. I cannot comment on someone else's story about Tau'ri competence or the story line.

Next point. In this story there will be no pre-emptive strike on what ifs. If it is a clear and present danger to them or their allies or responsibilities, then the probability increases significantly. Otherwise, not a chance. For example. The Ashen, yes. The Colonials and EA, no. the Shadows, if they find out where they are and there is proof that it is them AND the threat is continuing, then yes.

America is not going to strike Russia in the off chance that the Russians suggest using nuclear weapons on Ukraine or in the most recent times, Britain and the implied threat on Finland and Sweden. The world would have been in a nuclear war a long time ago. It is interesting that your concept of the Tauri being 'dumbed down' and mine are literally worlds apart, and notice that you're not going to see a plan at all until I reveal it and for you to open your eyes. The secret to this story is that the Tau'ri are trying to keep from going to war with the Colonials and to give them a brief idea of what is really going on before they inadvertently start a war.

Both have just found out that they are both in the middle of a war and will respond accordingly, not go out looking for one as you are going out of your way to imply.

You said: "I'm willing to drop the O'Neill and caring for humanity argument because you simply lack care for your fellow humans and that from their perspective it's logical but that doesn't excuse them for being incompetent and not upholding the treaties, they were made to upheld." Your interpretation of the treaty is your own, not what was written and decided upon in the series.

You said: "I don't care if you ever reply again, it's clear that you like most Americans are ignorant of the wider world and look down on others, never considering the opinions of other."

Oh, and how do you know I'm an American? An assumption? You know what they say about assumptions, if not look it up in Google. As I said, this is a cultural as well as a POV difference of opinion. Glad you claim not to hate to hate Americans. Americans have enough problems hating each other. And how did we get to the discussion of the relationship of America to the Middle East? This is not part of your commentary on this story. But if you insist…

As I said earlier, every country on this planet is guilty of atrocity and genocide in one form or another. You may not 'hate' Americans because of the attitude per se. You talk of peace and co-operation and understanding, and co-existence of humans for humans, but your words and commentary says something else. We are known by our words, and you have made yourself quite clear.

Global politics, unless it has to do with this story, is a waste of everyone's time here in this place. That is a subject of another time. I will say I am not a fan of Russia and how they have treated Ukraine and its people for the last 100 years. Again, look up the history if you wish and try to justify the Russian government wishes peace but the U.S. keeps interfering by helping Ukraine. As I said. Your words show your attitude, politics, and trains of thought.

Back to writing. If a story is dull, move on. But more importantly, write your own – whatever. Stories express the author's ideas and intent. I started writing to express myself and get my ideas out. People read it or they don't, but my intent was to also stimulate others to write so that I could sit back and read.

For now, I am content with the way I have portrayed the Tau'ri and the others. I consider other inputs which I have more often than you'd believe. But I will not change to something I don't believe to make someone else happy. Should have, could have, would have, as you understand it and as you assume it to be, will not be integrated into this story. Unless I write about it, politics will not be a part of this story, as you see it, either. You are wrong, though. I did read everything you wrote very carefully, and I now know why you have a need to annex other governments. I don't agree with your assumptions or your ideas of obtaining peace.

So, this is the last time (I assume) that I will be replying to this subject. We each have our different opinions, but note that I didn't need profanity, or rush into global politics to get my point across. Word of advice. Keep your beliefs but don't expect them to transfer to others. You might also want to contemplate that ,ay Ukraine wants peace, but not under the boot of the Russian government's boot on their necks. If you can figure this out, then, you can understand why I have approached this story in my way.

Enough said.

To everyone else, sorry about this but occasionally, I have to rant against foolishness.