[b][right]DAEDALUS // UNKNOWN SPACE[/right][/b]

Caldwell was still pouring through the data when an alarm began to trill. Marks was already keying through the data. "Sir, we have a contact." He immediately put down his tablet and focused on the viewscreen in front of him where Marks was displaying the sensor readings. "Three ships, [i]Resurgence[/i] Class. They're hailing the [i]Resurgence.[/i]" Caldwell listened to the message to Commander Erthos, as well as Erthos' message to the Daedalus and the rest of the rag-tag fleet. As messages came streaming in he had to admit he was was Shipmaster Falul. He wasn't exactly pleased with Erthos and wasn't quite ready to get into a fight just yet. That said this fight presented them with an opportunity. 

"Have McKay paged to the bridge." He then turned his attention back to Marks. "Shields to maximum, prepare the main battery for retaliatory fire only. Lock targets on the farthest ships." 

"Sir."

"What have we got?" That was Sheppards team as they all came into the bridge, typical when he had only requested the presence of one of them that they all came in.

"The Galactic Empire apparently. Three ships, all the same class as the [i]Resurgence[/i] and an opportunity. Erthos is calling for a fight, while also planning boarding operations of the lead ship. Which means it's going to be disabled only, not destroyed."

McKay scoffed. "You want us to go over there don't you?"

"Correct." He nodded to Cooper who brought up a crosssection of the 'enemy' ship on the screen at the side of the room. McKay walked over to it reading it. "We're going to beam you over here-" The map highlighted one of the bridge towers. "-if they're anything like us they won't expect boarding parties on the bridge. Take out any guards, get what data you can and then I'll beam you all out before they know what happened."

"I thought you were trying to keep the beaming thing a secret?"

"It will be a secret. You'll be in and out before anyone else even has a chance to reach the bridge."

"Well, there is one, slight, problem."

"McKay." That was Sheppard now, he had the glint in his eye that he always got when getting to go steal some fancy alien technology. A glint McKay often shared, though right now it was more a look of mild panic.

"I'd love to scrounge through their systems for data too, but the fact is while I can no doubt work their systems we have nothing to interface it with to take data with us. We're either going to need to set up a transmission, then monitor it, ask Erthos or bring a computer back with us."

"A Robot." Sheppard suddenly had an idea. 

"What?"

Sheppard turned to face Caldwell, directing the plan directly too him. "We go aboard, we get one of their robot things. Make it download the data and bring it back here, that way McKay and Hemroid-"

"Hermiod." Interjected McKay.

"-Hermiod can have more time to download and interpret the data."

Caldwell turned to McKay. "Can you do it?"

"Well I mean, of course, I can do it-"

"McKay."

"-Fine, it'll take time and I don't really know how their robots operate. If they have some kind of programming that prohibits potentially hostile users taking them. If not, then-" He started snapping his fingers as he came up with an idea. "-The TabData, the tablet thing, whatever he called it-"

Teyla turned to McKay with a confused expression on her face. "The datapad?"

Clicking his fingers as he pointed at Teyla he smiled. "Yes! It'll probably be far too small to hold all the data we're after but it'll be able to interface with their robots then I can reprogram it."

"Your sure about this Rodney?"

Rodney turned to Sheppard with a hurt look on his face. "When have I ever let you down?" Sheppard went to open his mouth "And don't bring up the time I blew up a solar system."

"I wasn't going too, it's just this is a lot of work-"

Ronon sighed. "This is all a lot, am I going to have stuff to shoot at or not?"

"Well, yes. Probably."

"Good."

Sheppard turned to Caldwell. "Well Sir, it looks like we've got a plan."

"You better go gear up then, you go over in five."