Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4
“They’re supposedly dead,” Eric said in disbelief. “Did they clone and paste their conscience in their new bodies like the Asgard did? Or is it a reincarnation thing? By die did they really mean they ascended and they decided to descend? Hell, I’ll believe that they could live that long if the newspaper article hadn’t said that they died. I know that the wraith can live longer than that. Todd said he’s been around since before the hundred year Ancient\Wraith war ten thousand years ago! Old mothersucker, he is. That could explain the others, but not main six in that picture who died! Huh, main six, mane six. Now this is going to drive me crazy trying to find out what is going on, not that I’m not already.”
“Well you're not crazy and you could always ask them.”
“There are two things wrong with that statement. One, I am crazy, I just don’t act like it, and two, how in the hell do you ask someone if they died before?”
“Just ask them,” Max said as if it was as simple as that.
“I just met them barely an hour ago,” Eric deadpanned. “That is something that you ask after you’ve known them for a while or after a couple drinks at a bar. I may be crazy, but even I know that that is not a good way to start a conversation with a maybe soon to be ally.”
“So what are you suggesting?”
“That we wait and see. Watch for signs that they remember, look for slip ups, and see if there are any others like this. We keep this to ourselves, only tell command if we have to. We might be able to tell General O’Neill, members of SG-1, and AR-1 if needed. Those people are the only people that I’ll trust with something like this. Anyone else might try to use this to their advantage or make a fuss of it, gods know the IOA would,” Eric said after a thought, slightly wondering how that pain in the ass group stayed in operation. “As of now this information doesn’t leave this ship.”
“Understanded, just so you know in a minute we are exiting hyperspace.”
“Good. Let’s warn our guests about our exit and have Captain Twilight bring her communications officer up, so we can contact their command and let them know what's up,” Eric said as the the swirls of hyperspace changed to realspace. As the view cleared what only can be described as a fortress world replace the smoothing swirls.
“We may have problem,” Eric said as the sensor readings came and he paled at the numbers.
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To say that Admiral Nyx was worried was an understatement. The cruiser which was commanded by her student, that looked liked her mother’s time displaced twin, failed to check in on time. Normally that wasn’t much to worry about, as for the communication gear would occasionally develop glitches and need repair, if it was not for the fact that it had been a hour since the last check in point had passed, and before that they received a garbled transmission that they had no luck in clearing up. She sighed as she looked at the dark nebulae expanse that encircled Epona.
Epona was in a dark nebula that blocked most things from getting in or out. In times long past, Admiral then Princess Luna made small balls of magic energy to simulate stars in the night skies to make the night less drily. That fact she learned while she was forced into being Nightmare Moon when she was younger. She had forgotten about it when then Princess Luna took back what powers that were hers for her ‘punishment’. They kept them in place as for nostalgia and to help in the defense of Epona. Even with shields, something exploding with the force of a mini supernova near your ship will get your attention really fast. Only things that are able to get through the shell of the nebulae are ships flying through it in realspace or hyperspace, and subspace communications, everything else is blocked.
She smirked as she thought of her student. She seemed so much like her dead mother, heck she even had the same cutie mark! As she thought about it, how her mother died came into mind. Now that was a horrible day. She always knew that she would outlive Twilight, with her being an alicorn and alicorns being basically immortal, she knew that Twi wouldn’t be around, but to have her killed basically in front of her while her cutie mark meant that she will protect ponies... Well it was too much, as soon as Discord killed himself she broke down crying near Twilight’s burnt taire, the only thing left of her. Both Celestia and Luna let loose several tears for their dear friends. Spike took it the hardest of them all, the last anypony saw of him was at the funeral of the Elements. She spent years looking for him, in what she hoped was not in vain, with no luck. Shining and Cadence put themselves into their work to cope while the Sisters worked to find any hint of the Nightmare to kill. Thankfully there was none left.
She was startled out of her musings by a door opening behind her as an old snow white unicorn walked in.
“Any word in yet Admiral?” He asked.
“No, and I thought that I told you that you of all ponies didn’t have to call me that. You’re older than me for one, and two you’re are my Uncle Shiny,” Nyx said with smile.
“Thanks for making an old stallion feel older kid,” Shining Armor said with a chuckle.
“How are you holding up?”
“Better than I was, who knew that marrying an Alicorn grants eternal life if you ain’t killed.” Shining said with a forced smile.
“Do you think...” Nyx started.
“Hmmm... Nyx we been over this before, hell we all have. There is no way of knowing that Twilight would have been affected like I was. We could only have hoped,” Shining said sadly.
“I know, but...”
“But you can’t help but be upset knowing that she could be with you right now,” Shining Armor said. “Trust me, we all do kid. Though it would be awkward with your student having the same name and being a spitting image of her. If my mane wasn’t grey already it would because of those two, though you're helping with their experiments will cause it to turn white.”
“It wouldn’t be that bad. That is also why I took her on as my student. She reminds me of her,” Nyx said with a smile.
At this, Shining frowned. As he went to speak his mind an alarm sounded.
“Hyperspace window detected in sector six, level t-ten,” came the voice of a sensor officer over the comm net.
“Looks like they just had trouble with their communications equipment Nyx.”
“Maybe,” Nyx said as she used her magic to bring up the area in question on her armors built in data link. On it, it showed a ship that she had never seen before. It was three thousand meters long. It started out at a point which lead to a pair of half crescent shaped wings a quarter of the length from the bow, which then lead to the rear which was a full crescent. On the rear half was a pyramid shaped superstructure, dotting the hull were several barrel like turrets while at the end of the wings was a barely visible dish of some short, and at the end of the rear wings were two large iris type hatches for something. She immediately recognized it as a very powerful warship.
“That isn’t the her ship, heck it not even one of ours,” Nyx replied as she teleported out to the command center.
“Oh, lord,” Shining said as he sat back to watch the fireworks.
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“How the hell did we not pick this up! We can detect ships in hyperspace hundreds of lightyears away, but a short jump away we can’t see the most heavily protected planet we have seen yet?!” Eric shouted as he jumped into the control chair.
“For the same reason why we chose to come here, the dark nebulae nature blocks all sensors, the only sensor to work are the long range subspace sensors and those only work well to detect ships entering, in, and exiting in hyperspace. In hindsight, we should have expected them to have a base here,” Max said as she ran battle stimulations and power calculations of the force before them to figure out the best plan of attack.
As she was doing that, Eric looked at some of the ships to figure out their capabilities and weaknesses to target with the drone weapons. One of the designs immediately rang a bell.
“Max, this ship looks to be of the same class as the one we’re towing. This must be one of their major bases! Get the Captain up here NOW! Beam her here if you have to. I am raising shields, BUT KEEP THE WEAPONS UNPOWERED! Gods know that we scream warship, no need to add to their paranoia. Yes I can see all of the guns pointed in our direction, just look harmless or something,” Eric nearly shouted as he raised shields and put on the translation crystal.
There was the familiar flash of light of an Asgard beam teleporting someone onto the bridge. Twilight stumbled a bit as she got her legs back underneath her, for she was in mid stride when she was beamed.
“Captain, please tell me you have some way of contacting your people at solar system distances in a hurry.” Eric asked as so as she had her bearings.
“Why would you need that?” Twilight asked supposedly.
Eric answered by pointing out the view port, which caused her jaw to drop when she recognized where they were.
“HOW DID YOU FIND THIS PLANET!” she all but shouted at Eric.
After his ears stopped ringing and he made sure that the translator crystal wasn’t damaged, for it was surprisingly delicate, he answered her. “The sensors picked up hints of a dark nebula that I was planning on hiding in until we got in contact with your commanders, but, weelll...” Eric left off as he noticed a funky type of radiation coming from several ships and what he presumed to be defense stations around the planet. As he watched, it started to increase causing Eric to get a sinking feeling.
Which was all but confirmed when somewhere north, hundred beams of said radiation shot and impacted the shields, causing the entire vessel to shake. The shields were more than powerful enough to withstand the energy thrown at them, since the shields were the same type found on Atlantis and her sister cityships meaning that as long as they had power nothing could pierce the shield’s protective screen.
There are a couple things to know about shields to know what was happening. First is that shields are broken up into two types; barrier and capacitors shield. Both shields are made up of ions structured to build a barrier, but the differences are found in the way it uses power. A barrier type can stop tremendous amounts of fire as long as it has a sufficient amount of power fed into it without failing. If it loses power, the entire thing goes down. Only a sustained amount of energy such as what is found in beam weapons like the Asgard beams that Earth uses or the main weapon on the Firestorm can pierce it at a reliable rate. That is caused by the fluctuations from the energy beam straining one spot on the shield and that energy beam being higher than the energy threshold of the shield, which is dictated by the output of the power generators, causing a breach. It is believed that the Ori motherships used this type of shield. Because of the power requirements, it is rarely seen and used. The more common capacitor type shields use a certain amount of power at standby mode and as soon as it takes fire it immediately starts to draw power from a bank of capacitors. This type of shield slowly loses power and efficiency as the capacitors are drained of power. It is the more energy efficient of the two, and is not pierced by beam weapons like the barrier shields because it doesn’t suffer from the energy threshold weakness and the shields can be reinforced along the areas being stressed making it hard to cause fluctuations, but with enough fire they will drain causing a failure. The weapons on a Wraith ship can do this frighteningly fast. The best of this type are the Asgard shields used by Earth. The shields on a cityship and the Firestorm are a hybrid of the two combining the best of both types. There were two major flaws in the shield though. One, it guzzled energy at an insane rate when stressed, say by weapons fire, and two, the barrier that as the shield itself acted like a part of the hull, so while the impacts from weapons are absorbed harmlessly, the recoil of said impacts have been known to knock ships around if the inertial dampeners couldn’t handle the kinetic energy load. Atlantis was pushed out of orbit by this from the ZPM powered super hive over Earth.
Twilight soon got acquainted with that quirk of shields, as with everypony else who was not flying far enough away from the walls or not lying down, as she meet the floor finding out that it tasted a little like rubber. Even Eric who was in the control chair got jostled around a bit.
“What are those?” Eric asked as he brought up a holoscreen of the power levels.
“They are heavy magik cannons of the same type as the two on my ship. They basically take raw arcane energy from special storage devices, that can be filled by any magic user onboard, and focus it several times from a beam the size of what you are to one about the size of my hoof. It produces a very strong beam of concussive force that smashes anything in its path. I am surprised that your shield is taking it so well, any other ship would be destroyed by these blasts by now, especially since they are rotating the cannons out to keep up the pressure.” Twilight said the last part in awe of the strength of the shields used by the vessel they are on.
Eric decided to ask about the magic thing later and get things so they would stop being shot at. “Well they are the strongest in the know universe. Though they are very very power hungry when stressed, but we have enough power to last weeks if need be at this rate. We were roughly at eighty-five percent when we jumped in; the hyperdrive is a power hungry creature and towing a good size vessel didn’t help. But... I would very much like them to stop shooting at us for obvious reasons....” Eric started as the ship bucked causing him to fly out of the control chair into the roof of the bridge and flopping back down on floor.
“Oooww”
“And that would be one of several hundred dozen star mines. Most of which are likely headed our way,” Twilight said as she cast a diagnostic spell on him not knowing how effective it would be because of the lack of information on his species. She noted that it said that he was only dazed, bruised, and had one Tartarus of a headache.
Which he somewhat proved by getting up and saying, “Lets thind wour comms othicew to stop fvat throm happenin again,” He stopped and shook his head to reset several systems and began again. “Sorry my speech impediment came out strong there for a second. Now lets get your communications officer up here to keep that from happening again. Who is it?”
“She is Vinyl Scratch, a white unicorn with a two tone blue mane with a two bridge eighth note for a cutie mark.”
“Max?!”
In a flash of white light Vinyl appeared curled up in position that said she was holding on to something.
“Huh, wat?” she said, confused for she was hanging on for dear life as the ship shook and jerked around, and now she was on what she guessed was the bridge. She saw the Chief hanging on in a fancy looking chair while her captain stood in the middle with her horn glowing, probably powering some spell to keep her in one place.
“We need you to work your magic to get defence command to stop shooting at us.”
“By the way, not to add pressure, but that last blast knocked the shield emitters out of sync. So now there is a tenfold increase of power consumption on all five emitters, meaning we have thirty six hours before we lose hyperdrive capabilities and forty hours until the shields collapse from the lack of power. Another one of those blasts may cut that time in half if not more, so no pressure,” Eric frowned as he looked at a holoscreen showing the power levels that were dropping at a much faster rate. He then pointed to a console a few feet away, “Comm station,” was all he said.
Vinyl nodded and took that the crystal like pads seemed to be just the right size for her hoof. ‘That’s weird it seem to be designed for hoof and that thing that the Chief has at the end of his forleg to use,’ she thought as the device reformatted itself for better ease of use for her. After
taking a second to familiarize herself with its lay out, she noticed one major problem. She couldn’t read the labels on the keys.
“Captain, Chief, we have a little problem,” she said,
“Please don’t tell me the communication array got destroyed again, I just had that fixed,” Eric said, thinking of when he first found the Firestorm. The comms array had been destroyed by the wraith in a long ago engagement, so when he did get control he couldn’t contact Atlantis. It was fixed at the Sigma Shipyards as part of the overhaul that also installed the now redlining neutrino-ion reactors, that were now starting to worry him.
“No, I just can’t read your writing,” Vinyl replied.
“Should have seen that coming, since this program only works on speech. Any ideas? I’m up for flashing the hull lights if you think that will work.”
“Flashing lights. That’s it! Uhmm, I would cover your eyes if I was you,” she said as she snapped on a pair of violet colored sunglasses as her horn started to glow brighter.
“What do you... Oh,” was both Eric’s and Twilight response to as they realized what was happening, causing Twilight to drop to the deck close her eyes, cover them with her forelegs and face away from Vinyl, while Eric flipped in the chair so that he was on his stomach and proceeded to bury his face in the head rest while also closing and covering his eyes with his hands.
Later, when Eric would write his report, he would note that he had seen stars not as bright as the light that filled the bridge. After his sight returned a few minutes later, he noticed that the shuddering had stopped, causing him to take a look out the viewport and saw that the shield was slowly losing the orange hue it had taken while under fire.
“Huh, whatever you did worked, they’ve stopped shooting at us,” he said as he turned to look at the white unicorn. And proceeded to used up every ounce of self control not to laugh. For there was Vinyl Scratch with her glasses hanging half off her face while wall-eyed with a funny as hell look on her face.
“You’re alright?”
“That was awesome! Can we do that again?”
Eric then noticed that part of her mane was on fire. “No,” was his answer as he licked his hand and put out the flames.
“I agree with the Chief, lets focus on getting in contact with our command since he somehow managed to jump into our home system,” Twilight said with a slight glare in his direction.
“It is not like I knew that this was here! Wait! Did you say HOME SYSTEM!? “ Eric said in shock wondering how much of a fuck up that this was going to be in the eyes of their leaders.
Before anyone could answer there was a poof of indigo mist and a flash of light slightly brighter than an Asgard beam. As the light cleared a creature that Eric saw could only be described as full grown horse with a horn, wings, armour, and a dark purple flowing mane. He belatedly noticed that its horn was glowing and was pointed at him.
After seeing that, he did what any trained and unarmed soldier would do - throw up his hands and surrender. But it seemed that either started it to release the the built up energy or it took it as a threat. Either way he wound up flying halfway across bridge.
“Ow,” he muttered as his ears rang. He then noticed that Vinyl had came over to check to see if he was alright.
“Little help here,” he asked as he raised a hand. He was, needless to say, surprised that she looked at him as if he had spoken a different language, which he realized he did when she neighed, though the sound of it seemed familiar. But he didn’t think of that as he scrambled for the crystal on his chest. The crystal was roughly circular in shape with a blueish hue to it. As he brought it up to eye level, he noticed a large crack running from one end to another. He showed it to Scratch who looked at it for a moment confused before realizing that it was broken.
She then took it with her powers, he wasn’t ready to say magic for he was at Atlantis when Rodney was upgraded and saw him do the exact same thing with a donut though it was less flashy, and walked over to where Twilight and the what he was guessing was an Admiral or similar ranking horse were arguing. Or at he thought it was arguing since the only thing he was hearing was neighing, whimpering, and the odd snort. A part of his mind noticed that he could almost understand what was being said but he chalked it up to his imagination.
He then got back on his feet wincing at the pain that was going to be one hell of a bruise on both his chest and back. Then he went to a storage tray that held spare crystals in it. He then noticed that the bigger horse was coming closer to him, to which he raised his hand with the index finger pointing and he used the other hand to find the right crystal. As soon as he did, he slapped it on, wincing again at the now wrapped around bruise that he had irritated, before he turned his attention back to the armoured horse.
“Ok, who are you and how did you get on my ship with the shields up.”
“I should ask you the same thing,” she, it sounded like a she, said.
“I was planning on hiding in this dark nebula, so they,” he pointed at both Twilight and Vinyl, “could contact their command, of which I believe that you are of, so that we could hammer out the papers for first contact.”
“How do I know that you are not a plant for an invasion force, planning on betraying us the first chance you get?” she asked supposedly, though Eric could tell that she was slowly relaxing.
“That would be a very bad idea on my part, since I am probably the only one of my kind in this galaxy. Not to mention that that you are fighting an enemy that is scary like one of our own. Add to that fact that I have standing orders to find allies. You don’t have to think about how much that would be a bad idea on my part,” he shot back.
“Well I am Admiral Nyx of the Epona Defence Forces. And you are?” Nyx asked
“I am Chief Warrant Officer Two Eric Migzaiz of the Tau’ri Fleet, commander of the mobile defense platform Firestorm, call me Chief, Migzaiz, or Eric,” he replied back as he lowered the shields to conserve energy, noticing at the same time that the power reservoirs were at forty-five percent.
“My student tells my that you wish to seek an alliance with my ponies.”
“That is right, I am stuck in this galaxy for the time being and allies are good for getting the lay of the land as it were and resources. Plus your kind are the sixth race that the Tau’ri have met that are hyperspace capable and the third that is friendly.”
“I see. Well you will need to see Princesses Celestia and Cadence for talks about this you know.”
“Show me the way.”
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“So it seems that the children have met the friends of the parents. This will begin a new era of prosperity, right old friend?
“Indeed it will Janus, indeed it will. But not until after several hard fought battles.”
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This is the last chapter for a month, because in forty eight hours I am leaving for a month long in the field training course. I am in the Army and the location that I am going to has poor cell connection and I can not bring my laptop so no typing. See you soon.
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We still don't get much plot exposition yet, folks. It does seem, however, that there is more going on than meets the eye.
And to you, good author. Thank you for your service. I grew up with my dad in the USAF, and I currently have a couple of cousins who enlisted in the Army.
Principem Luna vigilabo super vos.
~ Lexicon, Editor of The Sixth Race
geez, I knew energy shields were powerful on Ancient ships but that... that is just wow
BTW, are we going to be meeting a Wraith hive ship or an Ori cruiser soon?
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Ori isn't likely. They've been defeated, and hardly anybody other than a Prior can operate an Ori ship. Wraith, however, are a possibility.
1448357 think you can add them in next chapter? how about... 4 wraith hive ships + cruisers and darts
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I have no control over the story. I just edit it. From what I've seen happen in the story so far, I doubt the wraith will be there for a few chapters, if at all.
1448300 Probably not, need to have an 'Officail' ( read Deadelus) First Contect first before we show the ponies what we have to deal with.
1448377 don't have to, the Wraith find the gate, find the hyperspace window and show up at their doorstep
1448399 True but remember the wraith are in a whole other galaxy from the Relay Gate as I am calling it, and the only wraith ships campable of crossing the distance in anywhere short of a decade are the super ZPM power hives that Todd has, two of, both have tracking devices with a built in nuke to destroy them if they go rogue on him again. He just press a device that send a single to blow them or warn us of what happened.
1448490 well, who says the Wraith haven't stolen other ZPMs and made their ships into super hives?
I still love reading this, although the sentence structure needs fixing.
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Interestingly enough, there was a talk just last week at the Rice University centennial about digitizing DNA sequences. They managed to reprogram a yeast cell and turn it into some bacteria cell with nothing left from the original yeast.
The guy was talking about space exploration, and instead of scooping up samples of life, just digitize the DNA and send that back for scientists to synthesize here.
This looks promising, I'll read later
Whats Janus doing here?, did he use his time machine to travel to the future?
1790809 What he did begins with an A. Hint, Daniel Jackson did it to, to live.
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Oh i see, and have you started writing the next chapter?
sorry i ask, but but i love this story, this is my 3rd time reading it
Getting better. A lot more questions than answers at this point. So...immortality and such? In that case, where's Luna?
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Nyx focuses on the defensive part of warfare while Luna focus on the offensive part so she leads more from the frontlines while Nyx ensures the surviving planets are properly defended, they trade off every so often so theirs personal fleets can get of the real things while the 'old warhorses' train the newbie's.
1863344 when is this story gonna be updated?
This strictly belongs in the "Autor's Note.
Furthermore, I believe it is no longer relevant information do to later updates ..