6.25 million years ago
As the race of the ancients had spread throughout the galaxy seeding life and teaching civilizations. The Alterrans who had fled their homeworld slowly forgot why they had run. Their history had not forgotten them. Many thousands of years later a plague hit the outline sectors on the fringe edges of their empire. In a week it had swept half their empire and killed untold billions. The ancients tried everything in their power to stop iot but it spread like wildfire. Their military had almost seemed to be targeted specifically. The AlterOPs were the elite of the elite of the elite of the ancients. Trained to use ALL their gifts in combat and war. Telepathic attacks, mind reading, telekenitc barriers, telekinesis, healing, and some who trained could even manipulate the weather. The leader of the ALterOPS was Commanding General Riddick Black. His two sons Arctutus and Ridikule had joined and been trained by him personally. They were his second and third in command. Arcturus preferred inventing and tinkering to design new weapons and technologies. Ridkule trained in hand to hand combat almost religiously. Arcturus had the most powerful mind ever recorded in the alterrans history. He used it to advance his research and often got in trouble with the high council. Being 2nd in command of ALterOPS gave him equal authority to the entire high council in matters of war and combat.
Arcturus and Ridikule had been assigned to Terra Prime for a short leave before embarking on a 3 century long deep space research mission to check up on and upgrade the destiny vessel. While there, alarms began blaring throughout the military base. Immediately they transported to the AlterOPS command officers bunker and began lockdown procedures. The bunker was small. It had a main room with a console connected to the main base's weapons and command systems as well as an auxiliary communications array. In a side room there were two prototype long-term tactical stasis pods. They were called that because they were supposedly able to store you indefinitely and release you ready to fight inside of 4 minutes. The console beeped and a holo screen activated. Then orders came through, from their father. A holo appeared showing the 6ft tall, muscular form of riddick. His purple eyes were dull and near lifeless as his voice filled with sorrow; "Arcturus and Ridikule, you are hereby ordered to execute protocol Phenecian Phoenix. Enter emergency tactical stasis until revived. Arcturus I have a private message for you when you wake. End transmission"
The two young men looked at each other as an explosion rocked the entire base. Lockdown was initiated. They were venting all the launch bays and sealing them. The bunker was buried very deep. Soon all access would be destroyed except the service elevator to the chair room. As the room shook, the two men ran to the side room and arcturus jumped into his pode he flipped around layed back and spoke outloud " recognize arcturus 2nd in command, AlterOP forces. Initiate emergency tactical stasis"
And everything went black.
10,000 years ago
Pegasus galaxy
Atlantis war room / council chamber
Final meeting of the Pegasus High Council
one AlterOP tactical stasis chamber is is pagasus from before the evacuation
In a secure area of space protected by the most powerful weapons the ancients had, lay a small military base, an AlterOPS forwards recon base to be exact. Sent out on automated drones to a thousand galaxies to be used as a base in case of exploration
"This proposal has already been denied twice. They are too dangerous to re-awaken. The last of the ALterOPS is in a stasis chamber we dont understand and we dont know we could contain him if we had to."
"You would have us go extinct rather than wage true an enemy this evil?!" screamed Councilor Trafey. Rage written across her face, young though she was at only 3 decades her long blonde hair fell to her slim shoulders framing her face marred and twisted into a scowl.
Moros the High Coucilor sighed and said "its to late now. We cannot win the war so it is awaken a warrior to fight an unwinnable war. It would be cruel. Better to leave him to his dreamless sleep."
As the council debated and his proposal failed janus smiled and returned to his PERSONAL lab. He began inputting a series of commands and code writing a bridge between the pod that didnt exist in the room that wasnt in the system they would never contact there according to the high council. Within a few hours he was done. Now when they left an undetectable link would form using the gate network itself to transmit, allowing the occupant of that pod to access and interface with Atlantis.
3 weeks later evacuation of atlantis
Janus ran his hand over the primary interface console one last time as he walked out of the control room as it went dark. Then a single light flashed in the corner. Januis smiled knowing it had worked as a message appeared in his neural link, whats going ? janus explained his plan and walked through the himself never to return.
Anubis' fleet appeared in the Sol system. Home of the meddlesome tauri, soon to be extinguished. The fires of rebellion and the light of the cursed would never return. He ordered his ships to begin the attack. As they formed up and began their attack runs on earth, a small fleet of f302's launched and intercepted them outside the atmosphere trying to stop their advance. There were far too many.
The first wave was halted. The 2nd and 3rd decimated the 302's as they fell back to the arctic whilst surrounding and protecting a small cargo vessel that had dropped out of hyperspace near the southern pole. As the jaffa manning the sensor station informed his god of this development a junior weapons officer fired his primary plasma cannon missing a 302. The stray shot continued flying until it struck the planets surface. Decimating a mountain top and the small communications array hidden within.
Deep beneath the arctic lantean outpost, from which Atlantis was launched with the last survivors of that terrible plague lay the forgotten AlterOPS command bunker. As the communications array exploded it sent a security warning. The systems triggered enough to activate sensors and detect the weapons fire approaching as promethus and the 302's fought the gould incursion. Alarms blared and a voice rang out in a deep male Lantean voice " warning attack detected. Unknown enemies. Activate emergency protocols. Unable to contact primary command. Unable to access planetary defense grid contact. Deep space communications system 32% functional. Accessing emergency reanimation medical protocol. Animation in progress."
Ina small pod covered with wires and a translucent green oooze, the ooze popped and a man jumped out, 6ftt tall broad shouldered, his blue eyes shone with confusion as he stumbled out of teh room to a console. Iot did not activate at his touch. With a shake of his head, confusion mounting arcturus said outloud " computer system access required, recognize
Arturus 2nd in command AlterOPs forces. Update sequence. Execute"
The console beeped and a bluelight ran over him scanning him, "identity confirmed,. Playing message"riddinck appeared and explained why ridicule was not there. The pod next to arcturus had received a special signal from riddick himself. He was so sad and defeated in his last orders because ridikulke had unleashed the plague with the help of the ori. All of the ALterOPS command staff were dead. 98% of the military had fallen. The science, merchant, and other guilds had gotten together and evacuated with the last of the high council. Setting up shop before a new war broke out that ended their people. " Phoneceian Phoenix is now more crucial then ever son. I hereby transfer all my authority to you. Upon receipt of this message., goodbye and goodluck. The message ended and arcturus shook himself from his stupor. He checked the sensors and went to the service lift. As he made his way to the chair room, he activated his neural interface with the base systems and received an immediate alert " warning security breach secure sector neural override breached weapons fire detected neural interface accessed presiding authority supersedes presented authority facilitating restriction and command transfer. The outposts drone weapons began launching and the targeting data appeared as he set it to attack the ships who had fired on his planet, he saw primitive aircrafts fighting off the others. He ordered the launch of 4 AI drone fighters to defend the small ship that had launched the fighters and to give a short message. Then he arrived in the chair room and saw two being in black armor with wrist mounted plasma cannon firing at three humans in the chair room.; one was in the chair frozen his face a mix of shock and awe, the other two a female with short blonde hair firing a long projectile weapon and a smaller mousy man with shaped glass over his eyes firing a smaller weapon. With a thought arcturus froze both parties just as the cargo rings activated. Two more black armor clad figures materialised and opened fire after a glance. Arcturus froze them as well and began scanning everyones mind. It was incredibly taxing holding that many people in metabolic stasis as well as rip open their minds to know their histories and what kind of people they were. After a few minutes arcturus unfroze the three humans and placed the man in the chair to sleep. Then he turned to carter and daniel and simply said, " Anu An quietus, mera muse varnum. Evo shae do." ( I am ancient, I am returned evil shall die. Next he accessed the transport system and beamed himself to the military hanger in the moon. He checked the manifest and saw 2 demurs class assault ships and transported himself to one. He transferred his neural link to the bridge and gave the ship the designation H0 2.
Meanwhile on the bridge of the prometheus
General Hammond sat in shock as they received a hail from a flying disc that had shot down 9 alkesh in less then a second. Walter informed him they had received a message and hammond ordered it played.
"Greeting humans, I see the caves got cold and the air is brown. Also weren't there a lot more animals and plants here last time? Anyway, colonization crimes against nature aside, and ignoring the fact you literally broke into my house( the outpost) I mean doors exist ya know. i was wondering if you could please stay here while I kill all these annoying pests and then have a word with you? Great thanks be back in a minute!'' The message ended and hammond sat very confused.
Arcturus accessed the ships long-range communications and sent a message. He sent it to the nox, the asgard, and the last location of the furlings ranger what remained of the Alterran ( Ancient ) galactic comms network, ( less then 7%) and entered his personal emergency access code. He sent a distress signal using the four races charter protocols to ensure it would be heard. Using his code and those protocols the message would interface and send using any of the 4 races tech. Then he launched from the hangar and approached the assembled 50 hata'ak with a few hundred alkesh and that strange flagship.. Long and shaped like a bloating cylinder the prototype ancestor to the aurora launched. Weapons complement consisted of a point defense plasma pulse grid a few hundred anti fighter turrets, a triple barrel stacked three high and three long ( 9 guns total) primary plasma beam weapons, anti-matter missiles and bombs, as well as redundunt shields and powergrids. Still after millions of years of neglect even the best tech fails to time.
Armor is 45% degraded, weapons are at 37% with the port turrets completely offline, power distribution is low, but i can compensate by disenagaging lifesupport everywhere except the bridge, primary shields are offline but auxiliary are at 87% and there are a few dozen anti-matter missiles. Basically a small crystal cylinder with a varied amount of anit-matter contained in a vacuum until the container shatters and the aniti-matter is released. Violently.
"Well im not the vanguards call for nothin "