A werewolf turns to beast form under the gaze of the full moon and the two days on either side when the moon is just off full. In this form they no longer remember there human selves, they would cut down there best friend if he crossed there path.
Those that can control there shifting are called skinwalkers, they maintain total control over there form while in beast form, this is also spread through biting. The shape there beast form takes will be based upon there personality and body type but it will always be some sort of canine.
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Collaborative post between Tonak and Aeryn Thorde
Aeryn eyed Tonak suspiciously, the last time they had met Tonak had been desperate to get his hands on the information regarding the Ancestral Lab. Perhaps this was another ploy designed to get information from him. He'd play along see where this went, it couldn't possibly make his situation any worse. "What would be involved in fulfilling this 'job'?" He asked slowly, what could Aeryn give the Lucien Alliance that they couldn't merely take?
Tonak leaned on a nearby stump. “Well it is all pretty easy. I’m pretty sure you still want to know what is going on with the Ancestral lab. Why did your Goa’uld care for it so much? What secrets could it possibly hold? Well I’m pretty sure you at least know the Ancestors were a major power in the Galaxy and even in other galaxies. Whatever this lab or facility is for it could benefit everyone. The only issue is, no-one on this planet can use it.” He put his knife back in its sheath and instead took out a flask and took a sip from it. “A ship will have just entered orbit, the Tau’ri and I am sure you remember who they are. Many of them possess the ability to use Ancestral technology and are the foremost experts of it, sadly. We need them to find out what you know about the facility, and you can be an inside man. All you need to do is assist them, and they will get you off this planet. They will take you in and give you new purpose.”
Aeryn cursed silently, the Lab had been one of Amenthes obsession which he’d been kind enough to imprint on Aeryn during the blending. The Lab fascinated Aeryn and Tonak knew that full well. Tonak didn’t know however how much Aeryn actually knew about the Lab. Amenthes had studied it for five years while Aeryn hosted him and many before that. It was as far as Aeryn could tell a Lab devoted to finding a power source for the Mythic City of the Ancients which according to the stories that his father has whispered to him in secret had flown to another galaxy many millennia ago. Aeryn had always thought it was just a story until the blending. Of course knowing that it existed and knowing it was a success were two completely different things. Building a ship of that magnitude would require immense resource, genious, time and skill. Even with all the immense power the Ancients wielded there was a decent chance that Atlantis had never made it off the ground.
“And how do you know that I don’t already have the secrets of that Lab.” Of course he didn’t. Amenthes had used a workout interface utilizing human genetic material that had been modified with certain characteristics of the Ancient genetic code but it had only allowed Amenthes to initialize the main control systems. Much of the lab had been inaccessible to the Goa’uld and Aeryn knew just how much it frustrated him.
“If you had the secrets of that lab, he would of had the secrets of that lab and he wouldn’t have been taken down by a rag tag group of Jaffa radicals and humans who started out using nothing other than swords and bows. No, I’ve been in the facility and while it has definitely been occupied recently I’d say it hasn’t been running since the Ancestors inhabited the galaxy.” Tonak checked a small device on his wrist and sighed. “I can always make the choice easy for you, if you really want. I don’t have to ask nicely you know. I can make it a lot harder.”Tonak moved over behind a stump and pulled out a Goa’uld torture device before sitting back down on top of it. “I can make this intensely painful for you, I’m fed up of asking nicely.” He sparked the device. “Either you can do this, or I will make you do it. It makes absolutely no difference to me.”
Collaborative Post between Adam Williams and Halion Drennon
Williams had been listening in and had just been about to takeover when the call had been routed through to him. He composed himself even though there wasn’t a visual before he started to speak after clearing his throat. “Greetings Halion Drennon. I am Mr. Adam Williams leader of the crew of the Catherine Langford and its Captain. I am a representative of Earth or the Tau’ri collaborative governments and my job is to meet with vetted leaders of other planet’s governments. I can understand where you are coming from in blaming the people of the Tau’ri for the mistakes that have been made. However the Goa’uld were always present in the Galaxy and had we not intervened would likely still be in power and at the same time while yes you could perhaps blame us for the Ori incursion we were on the frontlines and in the end we were the ones who defeated them.”
He paused for a minute. “We have made errors in judgement, as have many people on many different worlds and off several different species. However now we are aiming to repair that, and build a better galaxy for everyone. If we stand down will you allow for a peaceful delegation to be sent to the planet?”
As the ship got closer to the planet Halion was able to do an in depth scan, the results were not encouraging. The shield output he was detecting was now clear enough for him to realize that his ships weapons would not penetrate. He also discovered that if his readings were correct these shields were not Goa'uld/Asgard hybrids but purely designed by the race almost as old as the Ancients. Amenthes while in the service of several different System Lords had encountered the Asgard a half dozen times. Amenthes had meticulously recorded scans, tactics and capabilities using them to build a profile of what he thought the ships were capable of. He had hoped to find a way to out do the Asgard. It had been another project that Amenthes obsessed over before letting it fall to the wayside after he was granted control over the Ancient Lab. The scans he was receiving were different than that of those recorded in Amenthes notes but they were still very similar and surely the difference could only be resulted from the improvements to the Asgard technology since Amenthes last encountered them. His Tel'taks might have some success with their self destruct but he could not be certain. This level of technology had kept the Goa’uld in there place under the Protected Planets Treaty for a very long time.
When this Captain Black cut off communication abruptly Halion thought over what she'd said and his mind clasped onto one important detail: the pilot of the recon ship survived. Halion had personally review the sensor readings from the explosion, the craft had been torn into hundreds of pieces leaving only chunks of twisted metal lying in space, there was no possible way that pilot could have lived without beaming out and the Langford had yet to enter beaming range at the time of the ship’s destruction.
There must have been a failsafe installed on the ship, perhaps a personal shield or a portable stasis pod that protected the pilot till he could be beamed on ship. Halion had never seen such technology, it was not in the Goa’uld repertoire when Amenthes had fallen and as far as he knew still wasn’t but with the strange new technology he was faced with anything was a possibility. Halion suddenly had a theory and he went back over the telemetry from just after the Langford arrived. There was a weak energy trail leading from the debris to the ship, as Halion had suspected something protected the pilot till it was possible to beam him to safety but as Tolia’s leader went over the data that the Ha’tak had recorded he realized something. The energy signature was too weak to have converted an entire person, in fact Halion would have missed it all together had he not been looking for it. There was a possibility that at the last minute the pilot had been stored in some sort of buffer and then his pattern was transferred to the ship upon its arrival. That would explain the readings that the Ha’tak sensors had recorded.
Halion had never seen such technology and he found himself wondering where the Tau’ri could have retrieved it from. This Catherine Langford wielded a great deal of power scavenged from the Asgard, the Goa’uld possibly even the Ancients themselves. For the first time Halion began to fear that this was a battle he could not win.
When communications opened again between the Langford and Halion’s console Halion knew grudgingly that he would have to take the diplomatic route. The strong arm tactic only operated effectively if you knew you could win or your enemy thought you could. Neither of these were true.
As the transmission came through Halion found himself impressed with the skill and tact with which Adam Williams spoke. He admitted his people’s mistakes and acknowledged Halion’s argument in an apology that never reached the point of apologizing. He had clearly been doing this for many years unlike this Captain Black who seemed to enjoy blowing stuff up far more than talking. He couldn’t however switch between confrontational and diplomatic immediately without it looked strange.“Adam Williams, your people have been headstrong and reckless which has brought great damage to the peoples of this galaxy but I can at least say that for your shortcomings and mistakes you have always been a friend to human worlds and carried the best intentions in your hearts.”
Perhaps he’d laid it on more strongly than was necessary but Halion was confident that they would find an explanation for this. Perhaps there clear military superiority.
Now he had to consider Adam Williams proposal. If they were to disarm their weapons he could consent to a peaceful delegation. Of course he knew they were after the Ancestral lab and the secrets it held. Besides with a peaceful delegation on the surface he could use their lives as a shield. Of course the important areas of his world were shielded such as the storage space for the Goa’uld’s remaining technology, the burial ground of the Stargate and of course this space. The Alliance was kind enough to provide beam jammers to protect the vital areas in case of an invasion. Any Tau’ri strike force that came would have to beam in at a distance from anything important.“Disarm your ships weapons and move into a stable orbit at these coordinates.” He said sending a set of coordinates that would place the Langford not far from the Ha’tak. I will permit a four person delegation carrying no weapons to beam to this location.” Halion sent the location not far from the West River on the other side from the Ancient Facility and near one of the twelve towns scattered over Tolia’s surface. All of which were close to the main city.
Williams smiled slightly. “We both know Mr. Drennon that I am no more likely to beam down an unarmed delegation than you are likely to come up to my ship with an unarmed delegation.” He pondered for a moment. “What if I were to meet you, face to face with a delegation of four military and one scientist. We want to see the Ancient Facility and try to gather more information about it, and find out what it is for the benefit of both our peoples and the rest of the people in the galaxy.”
He paused for just a moment. “What I am proposing is that while we all meet at the site with one scientist and four guards each. Then while our scientist takes a look at the facility, kept in check by your own scientist and their three guards, you and I can speak together to initiate peace talks."
Aeryn eyed Tonak suspiciously, the last time they had met Tonak had been desperate to get his hands on the information regarding the Ancestral Lab. Perhaps this was another ploy designed to get information from him. He'd play along see where this went, it couldn't possibly make his situation any worse. "What would be involved in fulfilling this 'job'?" He asked slowly, what could Aeryn give the Lucien Alliance that they couldn't merely take?
Tonak leaned on a nearby stump. “Well it is all pretty easy. I’m pretty sure you still want to know what is going on with the Ancestral lab. Why did your Goa’uld care for it so much? What secrets could it possibly hold? Well I’m pretty sure you at least know the Ancestors were a major power in the Galaxy and even in other galaxies. Whatever this lab or facility is for it could benefit everyone. The only issue is, no-one on this planet can use it.” He put his knife back in its sheath and instead took out a flask and took a sip from it. “A ship will have just entered orbit, the Tau’ri and I am sure you remember who they are. Many of them possess the ability to use Ancestral technology and are the foremost experts of it, sadly. We need them to find out what you know about the facility, and you can be an inside man. All you need to do is assist them, and they will get you off this planet. They will take you in and give you new purpose.”
Aeryn cursed silently, the Lab had been one of Amenthes obsession which he’d been kind enough to imprint on Aeryn during the blending. The Lab fascinated Aeryn and Tonak knew that full well. Tonak didn’t know however how much Aeryn actually knew about the Lab. Amenthes had studied it for five years while Aeryn hosted him and many before that. It was as far as Aeryn could tell a Lab devoted to finding a power source for the Mythic City of the Ancients which according to the stories that his father has whispered to him in secret had flown to another galaxy many millennia ago. Aeryn had always thought it was just a story until the blending. Of course knowing that it existed and knowing it was a success were two completely different things. Building a ship of that magnitude would require immense resource, genious, time and skill. Even with all the immense power the Ancients wielded there was a decent chance that Atlantis had never made it off the ground.
“And how do you know that I don’t already have the secrets of that Lab.” Of course he didn’t. Amenthes had used a workout interface utilizing human genetic material that had been modified with certain characteristics of the Ancient genetic code but it had only allowed Amenthes to initialize the main control systems. Much of the lab had been inaccessible to the Goa’uld and Aeryn knew just how much it frustrated him.
“If you had the secrets of that lab, he would of had the secrets of that lab and he wouldn’t have been taken down by a rag tag group of Jaffa radicals and humans who started out using nothing other than swords and bows. No, I’ve been in the facility and while it has definitely been occupied recently I’d say it hasn’t been running since the Ancestors inhabited the galaxy.” Tonak checked a small device on his wrist and sighed. “I can always make the choice easy for you, if you really want. I don’t have to ask nicely you know. I can make it a lot harder.”Tonak moved over behind a stump and pulled out a Goa’uld torture device before sitting back down on top of it. “I can make this intensely painful for you, I’m fed up of asking nicely.” He sparked the device. “Either you can do this, or I will make you do it. It makes absolutely no difference to me.”
Collaborative Post between Adam Williams and Halion Drennon
Williams had been listening in and had just been about to takeover when the call had been routed through to him. He composed himself even though there wasn’t a visual before he started to speak after clearing his throat. “Greetings Halion Drennon. I am Mr. Adam Williams leader of the crew of the Catherine Langford and its Captain. I am a representative of Earth or the Tau’ri collaborative governments and my job is to meet with vetted leaders of other planet’s governments. I can understand where you are coming from in blaming the people of the Tau’ri for the mistakes that have been made. However the Goa’uld were always present in the Galaxy and had we not intervened would likely still be in power and at the same time while yes you could perhaps blame us for the Ori incursion we were on the frontlines and in the end we were the ones who defeated them.”
He paused for a minute. “We have made errors in judgement, as have many people on many different worlds and off several different species. However now we are aiming to repair that, and build a better galaxy for everyone. If we stand down will you allow for a peaceful delegation to be sent to the planet?”
As the ship got closer to the planet Halion was able to do an in depth scan, the results were not encouraging. The shield output he was detecting was now clear enough for him to realize that his ships weapons would not penetrate. He also discovered that if his readings were correct these shields were not Goa'uld/Asgard hybrids but purely designed by the race almost as old as the Ancients. Amenthes while in the service of several different System Lords had encountered the Asgard a half dozen times. Amenthes had meticulously recorded scans, tactics and capabilities using them to build a profile of what he thought the ships were capable of. He had hoped to find a way to out do the Asgard. It had been another project that Amenthes obsessed over before letting it fall to the wayside after he was granted control over the Ancient Lab. The scans he was receiving were different than that of those recorded in Amenthes notes but they were still very similar and surely the difference could only be resulted from the improvements to the Asgard technology since Amenthes last encountered them. His Tel'taks might have some success with their self destruct but he could not be certain. This level of technology had kept the Goa’uld in there place under the Protected Planets Treaty for a very long time.
When this Captain Black cut off communication abruptly Halion thought over what she'd said and his mind clasped onto one important detail: the pilot of the recon ship survived. Halion had personally review the sensor readings from the explosion, the craft had been torn into hundreds of pieces leaving only chunks of twisted metal lying in space, there was no possible way that pilot could have lived without beaming out and the Langford had yet to enter beaming range at the time of the ship’s destruction.
There must have been a failsafe installed on the ship, perhaps a personal shield or a portable stasis pod that protected the pilot till he could be beamed on ship. Halion had never seen such technology, it was not in the Goa’uld repertoire when Amenthes had fallen and as far as he knew still wasn’t but with the strange new technology he was faced with anything was a possibility. Halion suddenly had a theory and he went back over the telemetry from just after the Langford arrived. There was a weak energy trail leading from the debris to the ship, as Halion had suspected something protected the pilot till it was possible to beam him to safety but as Tolia’s leader went over the data that the Ha’tak had recorded he realized something. The energy signature was too weak to have converted an entire person, in fact Halion would have missed it all together had he not been looking for it. There was a possibility that at the last minute the pilot had been stored in some sort of buffer and then his pattern was transferred to the ship upon its arrival. That would explain the readings that the Ha’tak sensors had recorded.
Halion had never seen such technology and he found himself wondering where the Tau’ri could have retrieved it from. This Catherine Langford wielded a great deal of power scavenged from the Asgard, the Goa’uld possibly even the Ancients themselves. For the first time Halion began to fear that this was a battle he could not win.
When communications opened again between the Langford and Halion’s console Halion knew grudgingly that he would have to take the diplomatic route. The strong arm tactic only operated effectively if you knew you could win or your enemy thought you could. Neither of these were true.
As the transmission came through Halion found himself impressed with the skill and tact with which Adam Williams spoke. He admitted his people’s mistakes and acknowledged Halion’s argument in an apology that never reached the point of apologizing. He had clearly been doing this for many years unlike this Captain Black who seemed to enjoy blowing stuff up far more than talking. He couldn’t however switch between confrontational and diplomatic immediately without it looked strange.“Adam Williams, your people have been headstrong and reckless which has brought great damage to the peoples of this galaxy but I can at least say that for your shortcomings and mistakes you have always been a friend to human worlds and carried the best intentions in your hearts.”
Perhaps he’d laid it on more strongly than was necessary but Halion was confident that they would find an explanation for this. Perhaps there clear military superiority.
Now he had to consider Adam Williams proposal. If they were to disarm their weapons he could consent to a peaceful delegation. Of course he knew they were after the Ancestral lab and the secrets it held. Besides with a peaceful delegation on the surface he could use their lives as a shield. Of course the important areas of his world were shielded such as the storage space for the Goa’uld’s remaining technology, the burial ground of the Stargate and of course this space. The Alliance was kind enough to provide beam jammers to protect the vital areas in case of an invasion. Any Tau’ri strike force that came would have to beam in at a distance from anything important.“Disarm your ships weapons and move into a stable orbit at these coordinates.” He said sending a set of coordinates that would place the Langford not far from the Ha’tak. I will permit a four person delegation carrying no weapons to beam to this location.” Halion sent the location not far from the West River on the other side from the Ancient Facility and near one of the twelve towns scattered over Tolia’s surface. All of which were close to the main city.
Williams smiled slightly. “We both know Mr. Drennon that I am no more likely to beam down an unarmed delegation than you are likely to come up to my ship with an unarmed delegation.” He pondered for a moment. “What if I were to meet you, face to face with a delegation of four military and one scientist. We want to see the Ancient Facility and try to gather more information about it, and find out what it is for the benefit of both our peoples and the rest of the people in the galaxy.”
He paused for just a moment. “What I am proposing is that while we all meet at the site with one scientist and four guards each. Then while our scientist takes a look at the facility, kept in check by your own scientist and their three guards, you and I can speak together to initiate peace talks."
Depends who you want to play but I got no problem with people who want to be bad guys.
Remnant if you want to play a Cambion who works for the forces of hell or just destroys stuff cause it can I got no problem with that. You could be the first bad guy who the D.I.S has to use my character to combat.
Remnant if you want to play a Cambion who works for the forces of hell or just destroys stuff cause it can I got no problem with that. You could be the first bad guy who the D.I.S has to use my character to combat.
Welcome fellow Browncoat.
William's is a pretty good negotiator, I think I'm gonna listen to him.
Hey Sep, message me when you're free and we can work in a collab between Tonak and Aeryn.
Good to have you, you seen the show before or just thought it looked interesting?
nicolepage said
Errrrrrrrmahgerd, I am so interested. Oh so interested~
I'm a little scared now, I think I will go hide under my bed for several years.
As to the Cambion I don't think it would be a good idea, besides the fact that demonic forces are usually wicked powerful the D.I.S is much more reserved about accepting demons than it is monsters such as vampires, most monsters have some sort of vice that can be used to control them (blood, etc) but demons exist purely to destroy so they are a lot harder to control. That and we've already got an indentured demon on the team.
Collaborative Post Between Captain Catherine Black and Halion Drennon
The sensors picked up several energy signatures coming to light along the ship, "there arming weapons." Halion thought to himself. Instead of firing immediately a grainy transmission filtered through the Ha'taks communications system came through.
"...tain Black... Earth ship... nown ships... your attack... iring... vessels... act of war... pond in kind."
Halion didn't understand much of the message but he was under the impression that they were calling for a ceasefire. The other thing that he found interesting was there designation, 'Earth ship'. Even on a cut off planet such as Tolia the Tau'ri were known. Halion knew they were enemies of the Goa'uld and he also knew that they had a knack for starting conflicts for which the rest of the galaxy paid while they suffered minor losses. The Tau'ri had caused the destruction of human and Jaffa worlds alike during the before the fall of the Goa'uld and if the rumors were true they had brought the Ori to the galaxy. Tolia had been lucky enough to bury there stargate shortly before the arival of the Priors of the Ori but Tonak had told him stories, entire planets wiped out, plagues and famines caused by there powers, whole civilizations destroyed. This was the Tau'ri's legacy in the galaxy.
Halion was not foolish enough to attack the shi head on though. It would be wise to contact them first at the very least put them off guard. He opened a channel. "This is Thilas, Halion Drennon of the planet Tolia. You have deployed a recon ship above our planet which has transmitted our current military strength no doubt. In our culture enacting spies is a decloration of war. Our ancestors had not the luxury to wait for the first loss of life. Break off your current heading and disarm your weapons and we may yet come to a peacful conclusion." There was several seconds without reply before Halion relized that this ship would have understood as much of his message as he had there's
He open communications to Commander Ryken. "Commander, cloak and relocate one of the Al'kesh between the ship and our Al'kesh to improve communications. Close to the Ha'tak so that the ship will read the signal being bounced from that area and be unware of the ship itself." Halion detected one of the Al'kesh vanishing from sight and was confident that his orders had been carried out.
Halion tried again. "Alien ship are you reciving me?"
Black got a response to her hail, althought the Tolian's apparently couldn't punch through their own jamming. "Schalt den Störsender aus, Trottel.*" she cursed under her breath, earning a few giggles from the germans on the bridge. Finally another response came, this time clear. "This is captain Black of the Earth ship Catherine Langford. You fired upon a friendly vessel. Break off your attack or we'll return fire." she answered, her tone as harsh as it gets when some of your people are getting shot at.
"I am Thilas of Tolia Halion Drennon, You have deployed a recon ship above our planet which has transmitted our current military strength no doubt. In our culture enacting spies is a decloration of war. Our ancestors had not the luxury to wait for the first loss of life. Break off your current heading and disarm your weapons and we may yet come to a peacful conclusion." He said repeating his previously garbled message.
At the time, Ariadne arrived to the bridge. Good. Catherine could use someone who knew first hand how to fight Goa'Uld carft, because the situation here was deteriorating rapidly. Black told one of the officers to fill the Tok'Ra in on what's going on while she listened to Drennon's mumbling, her mood sinking with every word he said. "In civilized parts of the galaxy, first contact is not considered a spy and treated with a hail, not fire. You're lucky my pilot is alive or there would be no communication with you barbarians. In your company i'd rather keep my weapons armed, thank you." she finished. Where was Williams when he was actually needed?
It did not surprise Halion that this Captian was hard headed. "Perhaps on the Tau'ri homeworld were you have the resources to build more ships and a population that can survive loss you can afford to consider if a ship is hostile or not. Most human worlds don't have that luxury. This armada is all that keeps my people safe and we have not the ability to add to it. I could very easily lose several ships in the time it takes to accertain whether an invader is friendly or not. This planet has no intention of falling back into the hands of the Goa'uld or whatever new threat you've managed to unleash upon this galaxy. It is most definatly I That require my weapons more than you Captain."
As if your weapons could help you against anything that exists in the galaxy right now. Keep poking the hornet's nest, and you'll find out. "Navigation, assume orbit around the furthest moon. Release targets, but keep the fuses primed. Recall Alpha wing." Black ordered. She was willing to give the Tolians the benefit of a doubt, but only that far. "If you think you're situation is going to get better with making accusations as idiotic as the last one, I pity you. check your history from more than one source next time. Now, fortunately my only concern is my crew, as to why we're here, someone else will be speaking to you." She finished, her microphone muting. "Ping Williams and get this idiot off my channel!" Catherine snapped, "Sensors continue observing the situation, they as much as sneeze without telling us so, I want to know."
"Ma'am, a few minutes beofre - one contact dropped of the radar. Al'Kesh, it probably cloaked." Black shot the officer an annoyed glance that said 'And you're telling me only now why?' sighing, she rested her palms on the map: "Even if they somehow got their hands on a naquadria bomb and intended to ram us, our shields are up, we'll hold. Reset railguns for point defense and boost sensor power, let's see if we can find all that they're hiding."
Thilas: second in line to the throne in Serer pre-colonial kingdoms. No doubt a reffereance to Halion's former possition. (A cultural expert on board should know this FYI)
*shut the jammer down, moron
The sensors picked up several energy signatures coming to light along the ship, "there arming weapons." Halion thought to himself. Instead of firing immediately a grainy transmission filtered through the Ha'taks communications system came through.
"...tain Black... Earth ship... nown ships... your attack... iring... vessels... act of war... pond in kind."
Halion didn't understand much of the message but he was under the impression that they were calling for a ceasefire. The other thing that he found interesting was there designation, 'Earth ship'. Even on a cut off planet such as Tolia the Tau'ri were known. Halion knew they were enemies of the Goa'uld and he also knew that they had a knack for starting conflicts for which the rest of the galaxy paid while they suffered minor losses. The Tau'ri had caused the destruction of human and Jaffa worlds alike during the before the fall of the Goa'uld and if the rumors were true they had brought the Ori to the galaxy. Tolia had been lucky enough to bury there stargate shortly before the arival of the Priors of the Ori but Tonak had told him stories, entire planets wiped out, plagues and famines caused by there powers, whole civilizations destroyed. This was the Tau'ri's legacy in the galaxy.
Halion was not foolish enough to attack the shi head on though. It would be wise to contact them first at the very least put them off guard. He opened a channel. "This is Thilas, Halion Drennon of the planet Tolia. You have deployed a recon ship above our planet which has transmitted our current military strength no doubt. In our culture enacting spies is a decloration of war. Our ancestors had not the luxury to wait for the first loss of life. Break off your current heading and disarm your weapons and we may yet come to a peacful conclusion." There was several seconds without reply before Halion relized that this ship would have understood as much of his message as he had there's
He open communications to Commander Ryken. "Commander, cloak and relocate one of the Al'kesh between the ship and our Al'kesh to improve communications. Close to the Ha'tak so that the ship will read the signal being bounced from that area and be unware of the ship itself." Halion detected one of the Al'kesh vanishing from sight and was confident that his orders had been carried out.
Halion tried again. "Alien ship are you reciving me?"
Black got a response to her hail, althought the Tolian's apparently couldn't punch through their own jamming. "Schalt den Störsender aus, Trottel.*" she cursed under her breath, earning a few giggles from the germans on the bridge. Finally another response came, this time clear. "This is captain Black of the Earth ship Catherine Langford. You fired upon a friendly vessel. Break off your attack or we'll return fire." she answered, her tone as harsh as it gets when some of your people are getting shot at.
"I am Thilas of Tolia Halion Drennon, You have deployed a recon ship above our planet which has transmitted our current military strength no doubt. In our culture enacting spies is a decloration of war. Our ancestors had not the luxury to wait for the first loss of life. Break off your current heading and disarm your weapons and we may yet come to a peacful conclusion." He said repeating his previously garbled message.
At the time, Ariadne arrived to the bridge. Good. Catherine could use someone who knew first hand how to fight Goa'Uld carft, because the situation here was deteriorating rapidly. Black told one of the officers to fill the Tok'Ra in on what's going on while she listened to Drennon's mumbling, her mood sinking with every word he said. "In civilized parts of the galaxy, first contact is not considered a spy and treated with a hail, not fire. You're lucky my pilot is alive or there would be no communication with you barbarians. In your company i'd rather keep my weapons armed, thank you." she finished. Where was Williams when he was actually needed?
It did not surprise Halion that this Captian was hard headed. "Perhaps on the Tau'ri homeworld were you have the resources to build more ships and a population that can survive loss you can afford to consider if a ship is hostile or not. Most human worlds don't have that luxury. This armada is all that keeps my people safe and we have not the ability to add to it. I could very easily lose several ships in the time it takes to accertain whether an invader is friendly or not. This planet has no intention of falling back into the hands of the Goa'uld or whatever new threat you've managed to unleash upon this galaxy. It is most definatly I That require my weapons more than you Captain."
As if your weapons could help you against anything that exists in the galaxy right now. Keep poking the hornet's nest, and you'll find out. "Navigation, assume orbit around the furthest moon. Release targets, but keep the fuses primed. Recall Alpha wing." Black ordered. She was willing to give the Tolians the benefit of a doubt, but only that far. "If you think you're situation is going to get better with making accusations as idiotic as the last one, I pity you. check your history from more than one source next time. Now, fortunately my only concern is my crew, as to why we're here, someone else will be speaking to you." She finished, her microphone muting. "Ping Williams and get this idiot off my channel!" Catherine snapped, "Sensors continue observing the situation, they as much as sneeze without telling us so, I want to know."
"Ma'am, a few minutes beofre - one contact dropped of the radar. Al'Kesh, it probably cloaked." Black shot the officer an annoyed glance that said 'And you're telling me only now why?' sighing, she rested her palms on the map: "Even if they somehow got their hands on a naquadria bomb and intended to ram us, our shields are up, we'll hold. Reset railguns for point defense and boost sensor power, let's see if we can find all that they're hiding."
Thilas: second in line to the throne in Serer pre-colonial kingdoms. No doubt a reffereance to Halion's former possition. (A cultural expert on board should know this FYI)
*shut the jammer down, moron
Sorry, just sort of having one of those days where everything is going wrong then at the end I come home and it feels like everyone is ganging up me, I sort of snapped a bit, sorry guys.
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