Since people like the Aschen idea...
Following the events of "Unending", the SG-1 team his finally split up. Daniel Jackson has taken up a professorship at Harvard University in Boston, teaching mostly about "theoretical alien cultures" and their "possible similarities" to Earth societies. Samantha Carter is now working as scientific advisor to President Hayes, and is heading up development of the planned X-305 class of Earth vessels. Cameron Mitchell and Jack O'Neill are doing what they always have; the former is leading the new SG-1, consisting of himself and three Air Force officers, and the latter is continuing in his duties as Secretary of Homeworld Defense.
Offworld, Vala Mal Doran and Teal'c have also moved on. Following the collapse of the Lucian Alliance's leadership, Vala manuevered her way into its ranks, and has found herself leading the ragtag band of mercenaries. And Teal'c is supervising the reconstruction of Jaffa worlds following the Ori incursion. All seems well, all around the galaxy.
One day, as Lt. Col. Mitchell leads his team on a recon mission on P43-771, they come across a surprise; an advanced city lies ahead of them, flying the banners of a race that Mitchell remembers, but can't seem to place. Regardless, he orders SG-1 into the city to open diplomatic relations with these people.
They claim to be a recently-established colony of an organization they call "the Confederation". Apparently, their homeworld was converted to farmland for their people's burgening population, so they decided to relocate here. Mitchell introduces himself and his team, but as soon as he mentions Earth, the city's citizens become visibly agitated. He's asked to leave, and, not wanting a confrontation, does so.
Back on Earth, Daniel's latest lecture is interrupted by an urgent call from Col. Carter. She's just unearthed an old SGC file dealing with a prototype Asgard technology, and wants to fax it to him for translation. Daniel agrees, and heads off to the nearest fax room.
As he waits for the fax to finish, he finds himself suddenly beamed away to the SGC, where an equally shocked-looking Carter is waiting with O'Neill and Landry. The latter explains that a small fleet of unknown starships has emerged from hyperspace near Neptune, and all those the Office of Planetary Defense deems "needed" are being beamed (by the Odyssey) to the SGC.
O'Neill informs Daniel that Mitchell recently returned from a world that turned very hostile upon mention of Earth. Going through both pictures Mitchell's team took and file photos, he's made a rather frightening discovery; the colony world was one of the Aschen, and they no doubt obtained Earth's stargate address when Mitchell's team returned home. That means the incoming fleet is, most likely, an Aschen one.
Around this time, there's an offworld activation, and Vala comes running through. Behind her come dozens of energy blasts, but the iris is closed in time to prevent a foothold scenario. The gathered former members of SG-1 (sans Mitchell, who O'Neill explains is back offworld), go to meet her in the gate room, and hse has very disturbing news indeed.
She was touring a Lucian Alliance shipyard in a solar system adjacent to one whose coordinates SG-1 gave to the Aschen several years before ("2001"). Apparently, they extrapolated hyperspace data from the stargate addresses they were given, and began exploring the area. When they located the Alliance facility, they attacked and destroyed eight ha'tak that were in construction. Vala herself barely had time to ring down to the planet below and escape before the Aschen vessels opened fire on it.
(NOTE: Vala didn't know the ships were Aschen; Daniel and Carter extrapolate what must have happened from her summary of events.)
With reports of Aschen attacks pouring in from worlds across the galaxy, O'Neill orders all Earth ships to be recalled immediately. Atlantis will have to reply on its ZPM for now; the Aschen have obviously been building up their fleet and technology since their last encounter with Earth, as Teal'c soon reports via subspace that the Jaffa fleet just lost a major skirmish with them near Dar Eshkalon.
Splitting up, the former SG-1 team tackles several problems head-on: Daniel and O'Neill beam aboard the Odyysey to meet the incoming fleet in the asteroid belt. Carter takes Dr. Lee and Dr. Lam and head to her old lab to work on ways to counteract Aschen energy and bioweaponry. Vala gates to one of the Lucian Alliance's strongholds to try and hold off the Aschen offenseive.
A few hours later, Carter and her team are making little headway. They have very little experience with Aschen technology in this timeline (versus the one of "2010"), and therefore are having difficulties finding good ways to defend against it. But they trudge on, hoping that the Odyssey's Asgard upgrades will be able to handle whatever's thrown at it.
Speaking of the Odyssey, it's just now coming out of hyperspace in the middle of the asteroid belt. The journey took significantly longer, Daniel explains, due to the tricky navigation of such areas and avoiding large mass shadows. But they're there, and the Aschen ships arrive soon after. O'Neill asks why they keep making small hyperspace jumps versus large ones, and Daniel guesses they're checking each major area of the solar system for bases/outposts/etc., not knowing Earth has none.
As the enemy vessels draw closer, Col. Ronson (commanding the Odyssey), notices something; their shields are dropping like a stone. O'Neill brings up a power reading, and the cause is quickly found... their ZPM, after so many months of continued use, just failed. But it's too late to retreat now, as the Aschen fleet comes within firing range and hails the Earth ship.
SG-1's old adversaries smugly lay the blame for this sudden galactic offensive on Earth, saying that they would've been content to lord over their portion of the universe had they not been so cheated six/seven years before. They also claim that they will cease hostilities if the Tau'ri agree to hand over their interstellar empire... including Earth itself. O'Neill, of course, flatly refuses. The Aschen, now angry, cut off their transmission and power weapons.
Ronson explains that their shields have dropped in efficiency by about 60%, and that the Asgard energy weapons are barely getting enough power to fire (he says they're a bit of a power hog, hence the fact that the Odyssey was always carrying a ZPM). But O'Neill and Daniel know they cannot fall back, and engage the enemy regardless.
The battle is relatively short. The Aschen ships, while inferior, are able to gather together to produce a much more powerful defensive shield, which is able to withstand a fair amount of punishment. Eventually, the Odyssey's shields go, but it's able to knock out 2 of the Aschen's 11 ships at the same time.
Shieldless, the Odyssey avoid taking direct damage for several more seconds, but a single blast finally hits, knocking its Asgard weapons offline. Knowing they can't continue to fight off the remaining 9 Aschen vessels with railguns and missiles alone, Ronson orders a retreat jump to the moon.
Back on Earth, Carter is tracking the enemy's movements around the galaxy via a Tok'ra subspace sensor system. The fleet that attacked the Odyssey appears to be holding position in the asteroid belt, effecting repairs, but other star systems aren't so lucky. A massive battle is raging over Hebridan, and several Jaffa worlds have suddenly stopped reporting in to Chulak. Things don't look very good at all.
Just then, Carter has a revelation; when they last encountered the Aschen, they were able to determine the location of their homeworld. Just as word of Daniel and O'Neill's arrival at the moon comes in, she bursts into General Landry's office. She has a daring plan that may just save Earth... and the rest of the galaxy.
The enemy fleet hanging in the asteroid belt arrives now, as well, and engage the Odyssey and the newly-arrived Daedalus. While they duke it out in space, Aschen fighters dive toward Earth and meet resisitance in the form of American and Russian F-302s over Mongolia.
Offworld, things have gotten bad. Teal'c and Vala stand in a lookout tower on Chulak, watching as a joint force of Free Jaffa and Lucian Alliance forces attempt to hold off an assault of Aschen. But the bad guys have far superior mechanized infantry, and they posess short-range bioweapons that are wreaking havoc on the battlefield. Even Colonel Mitchell and his team are here, valiantly trying to slow the Aschen advance...
At the stargate (where Mitchell's team is), an incoming wormhole gives a small pause to the battle. The SG team expects enemy reinforcements, and is shocked when, instead, a MALP comes through and begins boradcasting a message; Stargate Command has dialed the Aschen homeworld and is prepared to send as many naquadriah-enchanced nukes as it takes to stop this offensive. After a moment of silence, the Aschen forces slowly, then more quickly, fall back to their transports.
At the SGC, Jaffa/Tok'ra reports confirm that across the galaxy, the Aschen are retreating. The fleet that attacked Earth recalled its surviving fighters and retreated, and the Hebridanians report a victory. In all, this conflict lasted three days, and resulted in nearly ten-million deaths galaxy-wide. But while the former SG-1 team celebrates, Daniel hears a disturbing newscast in the background;
The Chinese military has taken complete control of Mongolia, and is shooting down anyone who dares enter. After she calculates the trajectory of Aschen fighters knocked from the air, Carter delivers the chilling news: the Chinese have reclaimed over a dozen enemy craft... and a captive.
-- * --
So while this has a happy ending (sort of), it sets up a possible sequel for the Aschen storyline (once they neutralize the threat of Earth's nukes), and also gives a possible Earth-based sequel involving a suddenly-advanced China. What do you think?
Spoiler:
An old enemy returns, seeking its retribution. But the price of victory may be greater than SG-1 ever imagined...
Following the events of "Unending", the SG-1 team his finally split up. Daniel Jackson has taken up a professorship at Harvard University in Boston, teaching mostly about "theoretical alien cultures" and their "possible similarities" to Earth societies. Samantha Carter is now working as scientific advisor to President Hayes, and is heading up development of the planned X-305 class of Earth vessels. Cameron Mitchell and Jack O'Neill are doing what they always have; the former is leading the new SG-1, consisting of himself and three Air Force officers, and the latter is continuing in his duties as Secretary of Homeworld Defense.
Offworld, Vala Mal Doran and Teal'c have also moved on. Following the collapse of the Lucian Alliance's leadership, Vala manuevered her way into its ranks, and has found herself leading the ragtag band of mercenaries. And Teal'c is supervising the reconstruction of Jaffa worlds following the Ori incursion. All seems well, all around the galaxy.
One day, as Lt. Col. Mitchell leads his team on a recon mission on P43-771, they come across a surprise; an advanced city lies ahead of them, flying the banners of a race that Mitchell remembers, but can't seem to place. Regardless, he orders SG-1 into the city to open diplomatic relations with these people.
They claim to be a recently-established colony of an organization they call "the Confederation". Apparently, their homeworld was converted to farmland for their people's burgening population, so they decided to relocate here. Mitchell introduces himself and his team, but as soon as he mentions Earth, the city's citizens become visibly agitated. He's asked to leave, and, not wanting a confrontation, does so.
Back on Earth, Daniel's latest lecture is interrupted by an urgent call from Col. Carter. She's just unearthed an old SGC file dealing with a prototype Asgard technology, and wants to fax it to him for translation. Daniel agrees, and heads off to the nearest fax room.
As he waits for the fax to finish, he finds himself suddenly beamed away to the SGC, where an equally shocked-looking Carter is waiting with O'Neill and Landry. The latter explains that a small fleet of unknown starships has emerged from hyperspace near Neptune, and all those the Office of Planetary Defense deems "needed" are being beamed (by the Odyssey) to the SGC.
O'Neill informs Daniel that Mitchell recently returned from a world that turned very hostile upon mention of Earth. Going through both pictures Mitchell's team took and file photos, he's made a rather frightening discovery; the colony world was one of the Aschen, and they no doubt obtained Earth's stargate address when Mitchell's team returned home. That means the incoming fleet is, most likely, an Aschen one.
Around this time, there's an offworld activation, and Vala comes running through. Behind her come dozens of energy blasts, but the iris is closed in time to prevent a foothold scenario. The gathered former members of SG-1 (sans Mitchell, who O'Neill explains is back offworld), go to meet her in the gate room, and hse has very disturbing news indeed.
She was touring a Lucian Alliance shipyard in a solar system adjacent to one whose coordinates SG-1 gave to the Aschen several years before ("2001"). Apparently, they extrapolated hyperspace data from the stargate addresses they were given, and began exploring the area. When they located the Alliance facility, they attacked and destroyed eight ha'tak that were in construction. Vala herself barely had time to ring down to the planet below and escape before the Aschen vessels opened fire on it.
(NOTE: Vala didn't know the ships were Aschen; Daniel and Carter extrapolate what must have happened from her summary of events.)
With reports of Aschen attacks pouring in from worlds across the galaxy, O'Neill orders all Earth ships to be recalled immediately. Atlantis will have to reply on its ZPM for now; the Aschen have obviously been building up their fleet and technology since their last encounter with Earth, as Teal'c soon reports via subspace that the Jaffa fleet just lost a major skirmish with them near Dar Eshkalon.
Splitting up, the former SG-1 team tackles several problems head-on: Daniel and O'Neill beam aboard the Odyysey to meet the incoming fleet in the asteroid belt. Carter takes Dr. Lee and Dr. Lam and head to her old lab to work on ways to counteract Aschen energy and bioweaponry. Vala gates to one of the Lucian Alliance's strongholds to try and hold off the Aschen offenseive.
A few hours later, Carter and her team are making little headway. They have very little experience with Aschen technology in this timeline (versus the one of "2010"), and therefore are having difficulties finding good ways to defend against it. But they trudge on, hoping that the Odyssey's Asgard upgrades will be able to handle whatever's thrown at it.
Speaking of the Odyssey, it's just now coming out of hyperspace in the middle of the asteroid belt. The journey took significantly longer, Daniel explains, due to the tricky navigation of such areas and avoiding large mass shadows. But they're there, and the Aschen ships arrive soon after. O'Neill asks why they keep making small hyperspace jumps versus large ones, and Daniel guesses they're checking each major area of the solar system for bases/outposts/etc., not knowing Earth has none.
As the enemy vessels draw closer, Col. Ronson (commanding the Odyssey), notices something; their shields are dropping like a stone. O'Neill brings up a power reading, and the cause is quickly found... their ZPM, after so many months of continued use, just failed. But it's too late to retreat now, as the Aschen fleet comes within firing range and hails the Earth ship.
SG-1's old adversaries smugly lay the blame for this sudden galactic offensive on Earth, saying that they would've been content to lord over their portion of the universe had they not been so cheated six/seven years before. They also claim that they will cease hostilities if the Tau'ri agree to hand over their interstellar empire... including Earth itself. O'Neill, of course, flatly refuses. The Aschen, now angry, cut off their transmission and power weapons.
Ronson explains that their shields have dropped in efficiency by about 60%, and that the Asgard energy weapons are barely getting enough power to fire (he says they're a bit of a power hog, hence the fact that the Odyssey was always carrying a ZPM). But O'Neill and Daniel know they cannot fall back, and engage the enemy regardless.
The battle is relatively short. The Aschen ships, while inferior, are able to gather together to produce a much more powerful defensive shield, which is able to withstand a fair amount of punishment. Eventually, the Odyssey's shields go, but it's able to knock out 2 of the Aschen's 11 ships at the same time.
Shieldless, the Odyssey avoid taking direct damage for several more seconds, but a single blast finally hits, knocking its Asgard weapons offline. Knowing they can't continue to fight off the remaining 9 Aschen vessels with railguns and missiles alone, Ronson orders a retreat jump to the moon.
Back on Earth, Carter is tracking the enemy's movements around the galaxy via a Tok'ra subspace sensor system. The fleet that attacked the Odyssey appears to be holding position in the asteroid belt, effecting repairs, but other star systems aren't so lucky. A massive battle is raging over Hebridan, and several Jaffa worlds have suddenly stopped reporting in to Chulak. Things don't look very good at all.
Just then, Carter has a revelation; when they last encountered the Aschen, they were able to determine the location of their homeworld. Just as word of Daniel and O'Neill's arrival at the moon comes in, she bursts into General Landry's office. She has a daring plan that may just save Earth... and the rest of the galaxy.
The enemy fleet hanging in the asteroid belt arrives now, as well, and engage the Odyssey and the newly-arrived Daedalus. While they duke it out in space, Aschen fighters dive toward Earth and meet resisitance in the form of American and Russian F-302s over Mongolia.
Offworld, things have gotten bad. Teal'c and Vala stand in a lookout tower on Chulak, watching as a joint force of Free Jaffa and Lucian Alliance forces attempt to hold off an assault of Aschen. But the bad guys have far superior mechanized infantry, and they posess short-range bioweapons that are wreaking havoc on the battlefield. Even Colonel Mitchell and his team are here, valiantly trying to slow the Aschen advance...
At the stargate (where Mitchell's team is), an incoming wormhole gives a small pause to the battle. The SG team expects enemy reinforcements, and is shocked when, instead, a MALP comes through and begins boradcasting a message; Stargate Command has dialed the Aschen homeworld and is prepared to send as many naquadriah-enchanced nukes as it takes to stop this offensive. After a moment of silence, the Aschen forces slowly, then more quickly, fall back to their transports.
At the SGC, Jaffa/Tok'ra reports confirm that across the galaxy, the Aschen are retreating. The fleet that attacked Earth recalled its surviving fighters and retreated, and the Hebridanians report a victory. In all, this conflict lasted three days, and resulted in nearly ten-million deaths galaxy-wide. But while the former SG-1 team celebrates, Daniel hears a disturbing newscast in the background;
The Chinese military has taken complete control of Mongolia, and is shooting down anyone who dares enter. After she calculates the trajectory of Aschen fighters knocked from the air, Carter delivers the chilling news: the Chinese have reclaimed over a dozen enemy craft... and a captive.
-- * --
So while this has a happy ending (sort of), it sets up a possible sequel for the Aschen storyline (once they neutralize the threat of Earth's nukes), and also gives a possible Earth-based sequel involving a suddenly-advanced China. What do you think?
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