Corrupted SGC Scenario

[StargateMillennium]

Let's say that in the future, long after the SGC has begun integrating that Asgard core and Asgard technology into their own, long after the stargate is public, the new leaders of Earth were...less than honorable. In fact, what if Earth and the SGC had become corrupt and instead of using their newfound technology for exploration they decided to use it for conquest.

What do you think would happen? How would the corrupted SGC go about conquering the galaxy? And how would Earth's former allies respond?

[garhkal]

I could see them adapt all they know of the gate network to lock out many planets if they failed to capitulate.. Cut them off from aid, and resources.
As far as enemies go, with all the tech they have, they could easily wipe out any threats if small enough. BUT a concerted effort, if brought to the SGC's home, could do serious damage.. Imagine if you will someone learning WHAT SG1 did to cause that one sun to go supernova (early S3 iirc) taking out the Gou'ald Sokar. Now imagine they do the same/ Would be kind of hard for earth to get out of that one..

[thekillman]

Earth would probably spend the majority of it's effort becoming an interstellar empire, rather than directly fighting foes. Starships are mobile but on our planet we're a gigantic piece of target practice.

The galaxy is big, very big, and we can easily settle a thousand planets before we're even a hundred lightyears out.

Conquest is most easily done by just orbital bombarding the enemy. We can also use asgard beaming tech to forcibly relocate lower tech civilizations, dumping a couple of billion on a planet to fend for themselves. What advanced races remain should be easily subdued with our ridiculously advanced technology.

[Mnikolic]

This scenario could very easily be perfect for a true SG series finale. Here's how I would have loved to see it happen.

Firstly, I'm going to take some things into consideration. The Wraith have been defeated, as well as any last remaining Pegasus Replicator. Stargate: Ark of Truth, Stargate: Continuum, Stargate: Revolution and Stargate: Extinction have all taken place (albeit in a better way with better writing). Secondly, SGU has also completed its course and we saw its ending. So the only thing remaining is making the Stargate Program public.

So, it's a couple of days before the announcement and all remaining characters for all three series would take part in this scenario. Daniel retires, but not before proving what he's been after since the original movie (SG 1994). He succeeds in doing it and the publication goes flawlessly during the next 30 years.

We fast-forward into the future (about 50 years) and see a different society on Earth. Everything seems perfect, the Stargate program ended its process of being made fully public about 20 years ago. Earth's allies from the Milky Way, Pegasus, Ori and a dozen of other distant Galaxies (the ones from SGU) seem to be living in piece with it. However, there's a lot that's not being told/revealed, as the leader of an Earth's high-modern SG team starts having suspicions about the SGC, formerly Stargate Homeworld when his children express the wish to do an essay on the original SG-1 team. There simply isn't any data to be found on Jack, Daniel, Sam, Teal'c and General Hammond. Same with General Mitchell and General Landry, who both died under suspicious circumstances.

As his investigation continues, the SG team leader (we'll call him Tim), he also finds out that every data on the original Atlantis and Destiny expeditions is gone too (including data on Ford, Ronnon and Teyla) and is nowhere to be found. Upon contacting some Stargate Program outsiders who still operate underground, he comes to a conclusion that Earth is no longer respected by its allies (or anyone in known Galaxies and planets for that matter). Earth has become a corrupted planet with a corrupted Stargate Command in its place and as Tim eventually discovers - it all began following Daniel Jackson's public speech about extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization. As the time goes on, Tim also finds out that there are others like him at the SGC (who hate the corrupted officials, scientists and even military personnel). When his family is kidnapped, he quickly connects the dots together and attempts saving his family, but his close friends (who are also on his side) tell him that it's too late anyway as he went too far with his investigation. The only way to stop SGC and the whole Earth being corrupted is to stop the Stargate Program from going public.

Tim gathers the members of his SG team and they all agree that something must be done on the matter. One of the operatives (who is related to Norman) helps them out by breaking regulations and risking his life and career by setting up the Stargate for a time travel. Tim and his teammates agree to go with the plan, but before they can get to the Stargate, they are discovered and captured, however, one of Tim's friends uses speed device (the one that SG-1 used in an episode) to bypass the corrupted leadership of the SGC and its military personnel and enter the wormhole anyway.

It's 2016 and it's revealed that the group also used alien technology to mask their true identities. Tim manages to warn everyone that if they start the publication project right now, everything will be lost forever. There won't be any greater good left, or any good for that matter. It's a trap and it will set up certain events in place that will make Stargate Homeworld (formerly Stargate Command) a corrupted organization. He also reveals that all of those, involved with the program until the end 2015 will start misterisouely disappearing following Daniel's public speech about extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization. Jack O'Neill and the rest of the SG-1 members will be the first to go, followed by the original Atlantis & Destiny expeditions. By 2030, all data of them will be erased and it will be like they never even existed in the first place. Earth will become a hungry imperial colony who only seeks power and control over the entire universe. All tech, acquired on SG missions by all SG teams until the end of 2015 will be hacked and modified for criminal use.

Everyone is at disbelief at first, but later on, Daniel and Jack do some illegal investigating on their own and find out that the remaining soldiers of the now-disbanded Lucian Alliance are planning and preparing a complete takeover of the Stargate Program. With Telford going undercover again (this time disguised as someone else), they are able to confirm Tim's story and Daniel, one week before his final retirement has the President cancel all further plans of making the program public and a full-fledged investigation on the Stargate Homeworld in Washington is put into motion. More Lucian Alliance members are discovered and arrested within the facility and the President (with the government mostly supporting him) orders a complete re-stucture of the program. New technologies are invented so any possible terrorists within the base can be detected - but not only the base, but the government and the presidency as well.

We fast-forward to 50 years into the future again and the old SGC has been back in business for a while. The Stargate Homeworld has been disbanded and with proper usage of the World's economy, the financial crisis on Earth has been completely defeated. The Stargate Program went half-public instead of fully-public 20 years ago, which means only the major countries (USA, Russia, Germany, China, France and UK) are fully integrated into the program, while the rest of the World still lives in dark about the Stargate.

Back in 2016, Daniel, Sam, McKay, Zelenka, Carson (the real one, not the clone), Rush, Eli, Camile, Jack, John and Young are having an important private meeting where they decide it's best to keep the knowledge and existence of the Stargate program as low-profile as possible in order to avoid the entire planet going crazy with it and screw up all intergalactic stuff even more, while the rest of the characters from the three series are seen leading a normal life.