The General Hammond had been sent to Tollana, to investigate the ruins of the Tollan world for any advanced technology that remains. Col. Carter had brought along Freya, Novak, and Brody to assist in the search. The Hammond had dropped out of hyperspace, conducting a scan of the area. No ships were in the vicintity. A scan of the planet showed no humans alive on the planet. Col. Carter had hoped she might have found a few survivors, maybe her friend Narim.
First thing was to examine the remains of the Ion Cannons to see if they were salvageable.
"If we have all of the knowledge of the Ancients and Asgard, why are we here searching for new technology?" asked Novak, "Weren't they more advanced the Tolan?"
Carter smiled, "Yes they were, however remember the Asgard came to us for help with the replicators, because they would never have thought of gunpowder to create our weapons, that were effective against the replicators."
"So we're looking to what dumber societies have done?" asked Novak.
Freya answered, "I believe Col. Carter is referring to different ways of seeing problems and resolving them. Reports I have read on these Ion Cannons they were very effective, but used very little energy."
"Exactly we've used Ancient technology in many different ways than the Ancients ever did and accomplished a lot." replied Carter.
They began investigating the first of many remains of the Ion Cannons. They found a few salvageable parts. They began getting parts beamed back to the cargo bay, slowly re-assembling them. After examining 23 of the cannons over four days, they believed they had assembled a complete cannon.
Freya offered, "I am willing to beam down and test fire the cannon."
"No I should do it." replied Brody.
Freya looked at Brody, "Adam Brody are you offering because I am female and you are male?"
"Well I just feel that I should be the one." replied Brody, noticing that Novak, and Carter were both staring at him.
Freya grinning, "Let me remind you, Anise is capable of healing me. I believe Col. Carter would be able to beam me out of here before any significant damage would occur."
"Freya are you sure?" asked Carter.
"Yes Col. Carter" replied Freya.
"I will beam you and the cannon back down to the open area near the city. Once I have a lock on you with the Asgard sensors I will let you know to fire the cannon." replied Carter.
"Very well. Adam Brody your concern for my safety is appreciated." smiled Freya.
Carter beamed the cannon down first, followed by Freya. Confirming lock on her with the sensors, she gave Freya the go ahead to fire. Freya adjust the cannon target a mountain top about 10 clicks away. The test fire was successful, a significant chunk of the mountain top was destroyed. A second firing confirmed the cannon was working. Now it was to the Tollan capital to explore the ruins there.
"Three things in particular we are looking for here. A Tollan Phase device, it's a small device that allows an individual to phase shift to pass through solid matter. Second a Tollan security device, it's a device that will deactivate our guns, and Goa'uld energy weapons from working, until it passes back out the device. Third the Tollan had a health implant that could monitor a person's health and report it back to a central system. And finally we don't know what else they may have, so look for anything." ordered Carter.
They began searching, additional members of the crew were assisting each scientists trying to find any thing salvageable. Removal of debris uncovered the remains of a few Tollan, these were gently moved and placed inside the remains of the building were Omac's funeral had been held. Further searching revealed a few things here and there. A tablet computer that appeared to be functional. The remains of a phase device badly damaged, Freya thought she might be able to reverse engineer it.
After much searching they managed to find a security device, however it's discovery sparked some interest, laying next to it was a holographic message from Narim. Carter activated it upon discovery.
A holographic Narim, one who had obviously been struggling, "I hope this message is found by Samantha Carter of Earth, if it is not, I ask those who find it try to deliver it to her. My people are lost, the Goa'uld devastated our planet. The stargate was destroyed, only a few pieces remain. Only a small handful of my people remain. We are leaving this planet, the Goa'uld have left us now. You convinced me to sacrifice my people to save your own. I called for your help, you never came. We were of no use to you anymore. Sacrificed to save the people of Earth and you were done with us. I thought we were friends, you have betrayed me! I shall have my revenge, my people shall be avenged."
Col. Carter had tears in her eyes as the message ended, her friend felt betrayed by her, and her team. Her heart ached at the thought of him feeling betrayed. They had no way to reach the planet, the stargate had been destroyed, they had no ships capable of reaching here. Yet her friend felt betrayed. Carter felt a number of emotions, not knowing how to deal with them, she clung to her training as a soldier, putting them all behind a door and locking it.
"Well that was particularly comforting. I'll send a message back to Atlantis with this information. Keep searching for anything else." replied Carter, "Wait, has anyone found any other security devices or pieces of them?"
Everyone present shook their head no. Carter thought for a moment, "Leave that device, Narim left this message next to a working piece of technology that he knew we wanted, if he is as upset as he indicates, then it's trapped."
"Trapped?" asked Brody setting the device back down.
"There is no way this message wasn't planted right next to the security device on purpose. Narim knew we would take the security device. If he's turned on us, then it's a trap." replied Carter.
Over the communicator, "Evac now!" as they were all beamed back to the Hammond.
Banks said, "Sorry ma'am, we detected a build of energy in the Ion Cannon, down there. It has detonated, there doesn't appear to much left of the capital."
"Good work! If we hadn't left it down there after the test fire, it would have destroyed the ship. It must have been triggered with the message." replied Carter, "What else do we have on this ship from there."
Novak looked down, "This tablet ma'am."
"This phase device." replied Freya.
"Beam them down to the surface." replied Carter. Banks immediately beamed them off the ship and back down to the planet.
"Scan the planet again for life signs." ordered Carter.
Banks reading the sensors, "Nothing detected ma'am."
"Target each of the Ion Cannon locations with the plasma beam and destroy everything that remains. Then destroy anything that remains of their capital." ordered Carter.
Four hours later with everything destroyed on Tollana, Carter ordered, "Take us back to Atlantis, send a message I need to meet with Gen. Caldwell, Landry and O'Neill upon my arrival."
Eight hours later, Carter beamed directly to the conference room on Atlantis.
"Colonel, you seem particularly disturbed." asked O'Neill, "What's going on?"
"I believe we have made a new enemy." replied Carter, "It appears Narim of the Tolan, blames us for the death of his people sir. He believe we abandoned them to save ourselves. That we didn't come to their aid when he pleaded with us."
"The last message we got from them he warned us to stay way. There was nothing we could have done." replied O'Neill.
"Could someone refresh our minds on the events here?" asked Caldwell.
"We found a number of people on Tolan, they had stayed behind to destroy the stargate, they failed, we rescued them brought them back here. They were very unhappy being here with us primitives. They managed to make contact with the Nox, who took them in, and they helped them reunite with their people who had escaped by ship on Tollana. We were able to become friends with them. Narim was the nice one. They refused to share their technology. One day they were willing to share their Ion Cannon technology for a small amount of trinium. We discovered it was a Goa'uld plot to send a bomb through our gate using their phase shifting technology to bypass our iris. Narim led his people to fight the Goa'uld and basically they all got killed." replied O'Neill.
"Not all of them, apparently Narim, and a few others survived. After the Goa'uld left apparently they left as well. He left a bomb behind for us. We found just enough parts between their ion cannons to build one, it detonated right after we found the message. If it had been on my ship, or if Banks had hesitated a second longer I wouldn't be standing here. We beamed everything we took off the planet back down, and destroyed everything on the planet to prevent anyone else from being hurt." replied Carter.
"You really think he booby trapped these?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes sir. The message was right next to an intact Tolan Security Device." replied Carter.
"An intact completely functional security device?" asked O'Neill.
"Yes sir." replied Carter.
"He knew we wouldn't leave that behind. It was one of the pieces of technology we asked for on a number of occasions." replied O'Neill.
"Does this mean somewhere out there we have a Tolan, who knows advanced technology, with a chip on his shoulder and planning revenge?" asked Landry.
"That would appear to be a yes sir." replied Carter
Landry sighing, "Any idea how big of a threat he might be?"
"Significant if he wanted to sir. He knows how to build the phase bombs." replied Carter.
"Can our shield on the gate block a phased bomb from passing through?" asked Landry.
"We don't know sir." replied Carter.
"I'll have Col. Davis get additional shield generators up around the gateroom to protect the city from a blast." replied O'Neill.
"Any good news Colonel?" asked Caldwell.
"Yes sir. Freya, and Brody believe they saw enough of the Ion Cannon they can build a new one using Ancient and Asgard pieces." replied Carter.
"Generals we need to make sure everyone is informed of the Tolan, and given a photo, if they encounter him they need to know how to handle the situation. If possible we need to talk to him and explain our situation to him." ordered O'Neill.
"Col. Carter are you OK? I know you were close to Narim." asked O'Neill.
"I would be lying if I said this was easy. For a friend to think we abandon and used them, I hate that sir." replied Carter.