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L0B0 posted:
The last part really has me intrigued though. What is this? Evolution of the Asgard? In every sense of the word? I can hardly wait to see what they are capable of now.
The only thing that really worries me is that the Jedi are stretched pretty thin right now and some are in very vulnerable positions. That, and the fact that there haven't been any major-character deaths in a while...
Allow me to shed some light on the Asgard subject. In case you did not know the Asgard race was slowly but surely dying out because of genetic damage that they could not repair in the original timeline because they had no genetic siblings to speak off. In this story thanks to their siblings the Antarans. The Asgard have a whole new lease on life and even the possibility of Ascension if they so choose!
Awesome update Marrs!  One thing though please do not kill off Archer ok? 'nuff massacring of ST characters have gone off already!
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Awesome update!!!
I'm so glad that the Asgard aren't extinct or on the brink of extinction anymore!!!
Way to go on giving the Asgard what they needed most!
Yes it is awesome that the Asgard are now back and in their prime again. You can thank their cousins the Antarans for that! 
Wait a minute! Marrs does this means that Thor now has the same power the Antarans wield? Is Thor now a force wielder? 
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Skreed01—Couldn’t leave Danny boy hanging out with the bad guys forever. I like him too much.
TigerofRobare—Thank you. I think McKay was an invaluable addition to the quest for the grail.
LOBO—Liz is another I like to much. I might have to kill her just to get over it. Or not. I’m pretty easy. Thanks for the kind words. The ground combat in this story is much more immediate than anything in Gods of Dark and Light, and I believe that is because of the SG-1 element. Ground battles in OT SW had a surreal quality (and a stupid one if involving Ewoks). SG-1 went for close-up battles, probably because of budget. As for the Asgard, well, I did promise a reader early on that the Asgard do not die off in this story. And there was a specific reason why, back 500 pages ago, I noted that the Antarans and Asgard came from the same root species.
Jedi-2B—I love Hannah. I would love to do a fanfic of nothing but Hannah. But I doubt anyone would read a OC-centric fanfic based an another fanfic that doesn’t have a huge number of readers to begin with. But oh well.
Jedi_Aurelan_Carter—I was pretty pleased with that too, if I do say so myself.
PunkMaister—Hehe. Hehehehehe. Thor and the rest of the Asgard are now essential a pre-Ascension civilization much as the Alterans were. If they chose to wield the Force, they probably could. But truthfully, I’m not sure they would find advantage in the Force over their fantastic symbiosis with technology. Still, it is a fun thought, isn’t it?
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Chapter Seventy-Six: The Crystal Cave
Merlin’s Planet
Monday, August 25, 6 CE (2008 A.D.)
7:32 p.m. GMT.
Liz limped backward as her lightsaber flashed across her eyes, deflecting disruptor and stave blasts. The Ori had reinforced their position in strength, and the Commonwealth forces had little choice but to retreat back through the woods.
Three times Priors came against them, and three times the Jedi fought them off or killed them outright. The Prior Protocols second phase were a set of new anti-prior weapons that created disrupting energy fields that could temporarily strip priors of powers. Since they had to surround the priors to work, they only worked once.
The second and third times they had to fight without aid. They won, but not without a price. Hanna Volper was evacuated from the front line with a stave wound to the chest. She was going to survive, but only if they were able to get off the rock. Cassie was fighting one handed due to a disrupter burn on her left shoulder.
John O’Neill fought on her left side, making up for her wounds. And Liz had an out-right hole in her right thigh where a stave had managed momentarily to pierce her defenses.
“This sucks!” Mitchell called. His armor had long ago lost its charge and was now as white as storm trooper armor, save for the carbon scoring from repeatedly close calls. “No contact from air cover in over an hour. We lost our last AT-AC with that last encounter and energy packs are falling low. We’re going to have to switch over to P-90s here in a bit if we don’t get some support.”
Liz nodded—she needed no report to know they were in a losing position. Just half an hour ago, they all saw a massive bar of fire burning through the sky. She couldn’t identify exactly which ship it was, but she could see from the outline visible even with the naked eye that it was a Commonwealth destroyer that fell from the heavens. The resulting explosion just over the horizon had the destructive yield of a thermonuclear bomb and sent shockwaves for miles in every direction.
At the time, Padawan O’Neill said, “I hope it landed right on their port-o-potties!” It elicited a few smiles, but watching hundreds of their fellow humans die was not a laughing occasion.
Now, they were running low on supplies and fighting a rearguard retreat through the woods. “Fire in the hole,” a soldier called. Liz, Cassie and John all hit the deck as a round of automated mortar shells landed with computer precision on the approaching line of soldiers.
“We lose any more Jedi,” Colonel Cameron Mitchell said, “we won’t have anything left to throw at the priors. You and the others need to back off the front lines.”
It was a mark of her exhaustion and Cameron’s logic that Liz did not argue. Even with the Force as her ally, it had been a long time since she’d fought continuously for so long against an inexhaustible foe. Modern warfare was fast and lethal. But the followers of the Ori ignored half that equation, throwing away lives in order to continually push the Commonwealth Forces.
She nodded to John and Cassie, and with Mitchell and a pair of marines fell back further into their shifting lines, until they reached the first of the transport trains. They found Hanna almost immediately, breathing lightly while Dr. Carolyn Lam and a medic worked on her chest.
Liz stepped to her side. “How are you doing?”
Hanna smiled weakly. “Least they missed my boob. I just got the things; I’d be pretty upset if I had one burned off.”
Nearby Cassie snorted and John looked embarrassed. Liz just laughed and leaned over to gently kiss the young padawan’s forehead. As much as her own children, Liz cherished Hanna. “You’ll be all right. Go into a healing trance. We’ll protect you.”
Hanna smiled up at Liz. “I know you will.” She took as deep a breath as she could without wincing, and closed her eyes to sink into a deep, healing trance.
Lam nodded with satisfaction. “She wouldn’t go down before she saw you. Now that we have her in her trance, we should be able to treat this.”
“Was her lung punctured?”
“It was. I injected the wound with bacta. Between that and her trance, she should make a full recovery.” She stood and looked up the long train of wounded. “I have a lot of work to do.”
“Go, Carolyn,” Liz said. “We’ll watch her.”
The former SGC chief medical officer gave a stout nod and continued up the train to the next wounded soldier. The medic stayed there, eyeing Liz’s leg and Cassie’s arm.
“Liz,” Cameron said, “sit down, sweetie, before you fall. Let’s at least take a look at that leg. You too, Cassie. Frazier would kill me if I let anything happen to her little girl.”
“Yeah, she would,” Cassie said with an easy laugh.
“We’re not going to hold,” John O’Neill summed up as the two others let themselves be treated. “We don’t have any fortifications to fall back to, and with the communications black out we don’t even know if we have a fleet to return to. The Stargate is so far behind enemy lines I don’t even want to think about it.
“Have faith,” Liz said. “One way or the other, things will work out.”
“It’s that ‘other’ way that worries me,” John said. He heard Cassie yelp as she flexed her wounded arm and he almost stumbled over himself to go to her.
“Stop hovering,” she said, even as she kissed him.
Liz ignored them and concentrated on easing the pain in her leg as the medic cut away the thigh plate from her armor, and then the fabric below it. “A clean burn,” the medic summarized. “Missed the bone and the femoral artery.” He placed a bacta patch over both the entry and exit points and wrapped it up with gauze before taping the thigh plate back in place. When finished, he looked up and smiled. “Won’t even leave a scar once the bacta’s done.”
“Thank you.”
Suddenly troops emerged from the tree line in front of them, firing at unseen targets still in the woods. Liz heard the grinding sound of Romulan tanks and the Hosnock equivalent, and knew their reprieve was over.
“Get ready,” Cameron said. “Defend the wounded!”
Suddenly the sky cracked open. Clouds billowed down and away in the pre-dawn sky as a massive ship dropped into the atmosphere. In the distance Liz could see another. It wasn’t until they heard the ringing zip and the bright white lights of Asgard beams that they realized reinforcements had finally arrived.
Ori and Romulan fighters tore through the sky and fired on the massive Asgard ships, but were quickly removed by more of the white beams. The ringing sound grew shockingly loud as it swept the trees just in front of them. Where it passed, the only sound remaining was that of the wind blowing in the trees.
“This is Admiral O’Neill to any Commonwealth ground forces. Come in.”
Jack O’Neill’s voice roared through every communicator in every helmet in the entire operation. The surviving marines let up a roar of joy at the sound. “Nice of you to drop by,” Cameron Mitchell said with a huge grin when the worst of the commotion passed. “How are things up there?”
“Boring,” O’Neill said. “They took a look at our new Asgard fleet and ran away. How are things down there?”
Mitchell’s grin faded. “Pretty bad. We’re in need of multiple triage and medical teams.”
“A hospital ship just arrived,” O’Neill said. “All Ori forces have either evacuated the planet or have been neutralized. This operation is over. Prepare to beam up. We’ll debrief when you get back.”
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Merlin’s Cave
Monday, August 25, 6 CE (2008 A.D.)
7:38 p.m. GMT.
Five Jedi and a scientist stood in a cave on a different planet than just moments ago. “We’ve moved,” Michael said, sensing the different feel in the Force.
“Morgan Le Fey’s automated defense system,” Daniel explained. “It will continue to transport this entire cave through the Stargate for as long as we require, or until Adria catches up.”
“How would she catch up?” Siana said suspiciously.
“She has much of the knowledge and power of the Ori in her. They, with the Ancients, were the gatebuilders. She will be able to read our destination point through the DHDs. It’s only a matter of time before she catches up with us.”
“So where is the Sangraal?” Rodney asked.
Daniel shrugged. “It was destroyed thousands of years ago. The Ancients were terrified that such a weapon could exist, all but one.”
He stepped aside, and in a far corner they could see an Ancient cold storage unit much like the one researchers found in the Antarctic base Kyle Katarn used to defend the world on Doomsday. Within the unit they could see an elderly man with a long white beard.
“Is that…?” Rodney started to say.
“Merlin,” Daniel confirmed.
Siana stepped to within a foot of Daniel. “How can you know all this?”
“When Kyle absorbed the Ancient repository of knowledge, he somehow retained it all. He couldn’t necessarily access or even understand it, but because of his heritage as a descended Alteran and because of his mastery of the Force, he was able to retain all the knowledge. When he and Adria fought during the first Battle of Sol, the moment before Kyle ascended he sent me that knowledge in a way I could retain it. All of it. As an Ascended being he would not be allowed to do it, but during those last few moments of his physical existence, he could bend the rules.”
“You’re an Ancient?” Rodney asked. He sounded somehow jealous.
“No, just a man. I’m following Kyle’s guidance. But more. You see, there were Ancients who were frighteningly prescient in their predictions and prophecies. Morgan was sent by the other Ancients to keep a watch on Merlin, but she knew that someday his weapon may be needed. And so within the repository she stored a copy herself. As an Ascended being she could not interfere, but the copy of her corporeal form can without hindrance. It was the ghost of Morgan herself that guided me here.”
“But why the subterfuge with Adria?” Tess asked.
“You’ll see in time,” Daniel said sadly. “I won’t lie to any of you. I do have feelings for her. She has committed terrible atrocities, but I have also seen her face light up like a child’s when someone accepts her message. I have seen her heal as well as kill. I’ve seen her weep at another’s suffering, and then wipe out a whole village. She is the Messiah of the Ori. The fact the message is evil to us does not change that fact. She is a Messiah, and a beautiful and awesome being.”
Rodney turned to Tess. “See. When you look at it like that, I’m not so bad.”
Daniel arched a brow at the two, and then clapped his hands. “Okay, then. Let’s see about waking Merlin up!”
The sheath covering the ancient figure faded on its own even before the Jedi could reach him, and the old man tumbled forward until Daniel caught him and lifted him to the archaic wooden table occupying the center of the cave, next to what looked like an Ancient repository.
“So what’s Morgan telling you now?” Rodney demanded.
“Right now she’s thinking how old he looks,” Daniel said. “These stasis chambers can prolong life for hundreds of years, but there is a practical limit to how long you can stay in one and expect to live. We know he’s been in there for at least a thousand years, judging by the fact he must have been in Europe during the time of King Arthur.”
“Is she the only voice you hear?” Tess asked.
“No, unfortunately not. There’s also something called a Q that pops in on occasion. You don’t even want to start that conversation.”
The old man’s eyes flickered, and with help he sat up and looked around with a dazed expression. He looked from Siana, to Tess and then to Sidney. “Am I in Avalon again, surrounded by angels?”
“I like him already,” Tess said with a smile.
“Merlin,” Daniel said, kneeling down.
Merlin turned and stared at Daniel for the longest time, and then reached out and touched his head. “You carry much, don’t you, Daniel Jackson?”
“How did you…”
“I knew you would come, I just did not foresee you coming like this.” He looked around at the others, and saw the lightsabers hanging from their belts. “Jedi? I knew our lost children had founded the Jedi order in another galaxy, at least this is what our friends the Asgard said. But how came Jedi to this area? And how are you one of them, Daniel Jackson?”
“It was an accident,” Daniel said. He nodded to Siana. “She is from the Corusca Galaxy and was a Jedi padawan. She crashed on Earth by accident seven years ago. Her master Kyle Katarn followed her, and together they founded a Terran Jedi Order. We’ve been fighting against a force called the Ori for two years now.”
Merlin took a deep breath, and then slowly started to laugh. It was a dry, dusty sound, but still managed to bubble with mirth. “Oh, what a shock to the Ori that must have been, to find you here.” He bent over and wheezed out a cough.
When he recovered, he said, “Where is Ganos?” Only then did the others realize Daniel and Merlin had been speaking in Ancient, and their LADs were translating for them.
“She has Ascended,” Daniel said. “I carry a memory of her, but she herself has moved on.”
Merlin nodded. “As much friend as foe. She opposed me, and yet saved me. I shall miss her for my short time in this realm.” He took a deep breath, and looked around. “It is for the Sangraal that you come?”
“It is,” Siana said soberly.
Merlin nodded tiredly and stepped toward the repository. “Watch, Daniel Jackson,” Merlin said. “I do not have much time.”
“I understand,” Daniel said.
Merlin put his face to the visor of the repository. Almost immediately, a glowing object appeared over the table in the room. Daniel rested his hand on the old man’s shoulder and closed his eyes, and in the Force the Jedi could feel him merging his consciousness with that of Merlin.
“Amazing,” Rodney whispered as he studied his handheld triple recording device. “It’s like an Asgard construction device.”
It took nearly thirty minutes, but eventually a metallic plate materialized from the glowing pattern. Suddenly the entire cave shifted. “We’ve switched worlds again,” Siana noted.
Merlin and Daniel stepped back from the device. “Morgan’s protections again, to be sure.” He straightened his back and looked appreciatively at Daniel. “You are strengthening me.”
“You’ve spent thousands of years preparing to save us all,” Daniel said. “I will do everything I can for you.”
“All of us can,” Siana said. “We are all Jedi.”
Merlin nodded with a weak smile. “We in Atlantis only knew of the Jedi by way of the Asgard, who liked to watch surrounding galaxies and study them. By then the war with the Wraith was such that we had to pool all our resources to either flee, or Ascend.”
“The Wraith?” Siana asked.
“Atlantis?” Rodney chimed.
“Stories for another time, perhaps,” Merlin said. “We have to survive the now first.” He stood with a little more spring in his step and returned to the repository with Daniel at his side. This time, however, Siana, Sidney and Michael joined them, linking hands and sending strength and energy through the Force into Merlin.
Rodney looked at Tess and then back at the others. “Why aren’t you helping them?”
“I’m sending them what I can,” Tess said. “My Antaran powers sometimes interfere with Force bonding. Spontaneous combustion and shooting fireballs. It’s bothersome for everyone.”
Rodney blinked and with a squeak, said, “Fireballs?”
She glanced back at the others, then took Rodney’s hand and walked him to the mouth of the cave. The world they looked out on was one of clean desert and blue sky. It was as beautiful as Nevada. She stood there a moment next to Rodney before she said, “Rodney, what do you think there is between us?”
He opened his mouth, then closed it. Then opened, then closed. Then he bent his head to study his feet, before finally nodding. “I get it,” he said, crestfallen. “Puppy love. I’m an amusement for you.” He looked at her, and for the first time saw nothing but her face. “I…things like this are really hard for me. I never dated much in school. I was a nerd and everyone knew it. Girls stayed away or made fun of me.”
“I’m not making fun of you, Rodney,” Tess said. “I was raised by a killer, did you know that?”
Rodney shook his head.
“He went by many names, but I knew him as Nasedo. He was the appointed protector of the Royal Four—Max, Me, Isabel and Michael. Only, we were separated and he was only able to watch me. He killed humans without thought, any time we were endangered. He taught me that killing was okay to get what you needed. And so, getting what I needed, I killed Liz and Maria’s best friend.”
Rodney stammered. The personnel files of Jedi were wiped clean of any public record, so he knew nothing of their histories. “I’m sure that you….”
“One of my Antaran abilities is to warp the thought patterns of humans to believe what I willed. I had a young man named Alex Whitman trying to translate a document for me, but I warped his mind to think he went overseas. The warping kept slipping, and I had to keep doing it, until he had an aneurysm and died. I then warped the mind of my best friend into helping me make it look like Alex died in a wreck. That friend of mine was later killed by Kivar’s agents here on Earth.”
Rodney stared dumbfounded but wasn’t able to speak.
“After Doomsday, I went back to Roswell and made a full confession and served two years before I was released on a probationary status to Kyle Katarn, and I’ve been a Jedi ever since.”
“Why are you…?”
She smiled, and it was such a sweet expression Rodney couldn’t imagine her doing those things.
“I can read your mind, Rodney,” she said as she stepped closer to him. She slowly reached up to touch his cheek. He stood frozen in place. “I did do those things. And I am telling you because you have this image of me as a perfect person. That’s not me, Rodney. I am a woman capable of anger and hatred. Of doing evil things. I can kill. I have found peace in the Force, and I pray that I will never be the woman I was, but I will never be the woman you think I am.”
Rodney found himself pulled into the sea of her eyes. “Tess, I… I know I’ve been a pain. I don’t care about what you’ve done. I spent most of my teen years playing video games.” He ducked his head. “Then designing video games. What I see when I look at you is a genuine hero. I feel safe around you, even if it’s only because I amuse you.”
She smiled up, then pulled his head down until their lips melded. “You don’t amuse me, Rodney,” she said when they parted. “You make me feel like a woman.” Then she gave a wicked little grin. “And if we survive this, I’m going to make you feel like a man.”
Rodney blushed down to his navel. Tess laughed and kissed him again before turning and heading back into the cave. “God, I love that woman,” he whispered to himself.
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Ah hah. So I take it with all those Jedi Helping out Merlin, than he won't nessacerily Die from attempting to creat the Sangral, aka the Ascension Killer. And you sneaked in info about the Wraith and Atlantis as well. Now they will probably have to send a team to go looking for it. Very nice, Hopefull Merlin will be sticking around for a bit after the sangral is complete to help the Jedi and Earth with the Ori. The Rodney and Tess romance is a nice twist, and with her telling him about her past, hopefully he will think twice before doing something stupid to get her really miffed at him. First rule of dateing a woman who can weild a lightsaber, Don't peave her off or she will cut off something VERY important to you. Sitting on pins and needles for the next chapter. Peace Out.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Asgard calvary makes me want to smile 
I do recall you mentioning that the Asgard & Antarans shared evolutionary heritage, so it should be interesting to see the ramifications of that as the story reaches its climax.
What Daniel says makes alot of sense, especially with the revelation that Morgan (aka Oma) has been guiding him to Merlin. Now that the Sangral has been reconstructed, all bets are off.
*goes to make popcorn and wait impatiently for the next exciting update*
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L0B0 posted:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Asgard calvary makes me want to smile
I do recall you mentioning that the Asgard & Antarans shared evolutionary heritage, so it should be interesting to see the ramifications of that as the story reaches its climax.
What Daniel says makes alot of sense, especially with the revelation that Morgan (aka Oma) has been guiding him to Merlin. Now that the Sangral has been reconstructed, all bets are off.
*goes to make popcorn and wait impatiently for the next exciting update*
Umm... No! Oma Desala and Morgana Lafei are 2 different and distinct individuals my friend...
This was a truly superb update! I really love the angle you are taking on Adria, as we all know she was always a tragic sort of character becauase she was never really given a choice as to what she could be or not, instead she was created altered and bred by the Ori to be their vessel but the human part of her longs for the most basic human needs she wants her mother, she wants to be loved etc. In the original timeline she was denied of this so I'm glad she is really getting hands on experience on what this things really are. Still the question remains can she be turned? And if so would it kill her just as it does the Priors?
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Finally! Tess and Rodney are getting together! I've been waiting for this for a long time. Their children are going be Mentat Jedi or something.
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Wow! I had a lot ot get caught up on.  I always seem to be a day late and a credit short when it comes to getting over here on time. My apologies! I'll just say that you're crafting a truly remarkable tale.
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Skreed01—Indeed. The Wraith and Atlantis are not integral to the story, but they do make an appearance. I’ve noticed with Rodney and Tess that people either really like it, or are absolutely repulsed.
Lobo—I love Asgard cavalry. FYI, I’m still getting that PM error. I apologize for the inconvenience. I’m have the same problem with Darth Draconus.
PunkMaister—Indeed they are. And I appreciate your support on make Adria more than a two-dimensional villain. As for the ending, well, you’ll just have to wait and see.
TigerofRobare—Yes they are, and very quickly as well. And Mentat Jedi? ROFLAO. I almost snorted Dr. Pepper on my keyboard!
VaderLVR64—No worries, we’re approaching the end of the story and after a year of posting your still reading along. Thank you!!
I also had a mix up with my PM lists today, so if you got something for my other fic, my apologies.
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Chapter Seventy-Seven: Unending
UECS Washington HSC-113 orbiting Merlin’s Planet
Monday, August 25, 6 CE (2008 A.D.)
8:52 p.m. GMT.
When Liz saw Max standing on the edge of the beam receiving platform, she could not help the welling of a tear as she ran to meet him. The two embraced so intensely the padawans that beamed up with them coughed.
“What happened to Emotion, yet peace?” John asked.
“Shut up,” Cassie said.
Liz ignored them and kissed Max intensely. Then she stepped back and said, “You left the kids.”
“Mom, Isabel and Izzie are with them,” Max said. “They’re okay.”
“You would never let me leave the kids alone.”
“I would after a battle like you just survived,” Max said, not backing down. He looked down at the taped armor plate on her thigh. “Are you okay?”
“Nothing a healing trance and the bacta won’t fix.”
Behind them, Fleet Admiral Jack O’Neill clapped his hands. “Folks, got more people coming. Let’s move it along.” He looked at John with an arched brow. “Hello, Mini-Me.”
John stared right back. “Hello, Old-Guy me.”
“Ouch,” Cassie muttered.
O’Neill wasn’t smiling, but they could feel the mirth rolling off him. “Come on, let’s get to the bridge.”
“So what’s up with the Asgard?” Liz said. “Are those new ships?”
“Everything about the Asgard is new,” Max said. “When they first responded to Admiral O’Neill’s request for aid I thought they were Antarans.”
They arrived on the spacious but low-ceilinged bridge. Even with modern technology, space in spaceships was expensive. Floor space was doable, but almost every inch of the ceiling was taken up by pipes, vents, or computer screens. In the middle of the bridge, surrounded by bustling humans and an occasional Vulcan or Jaffa stood a creature at once utterly alien and yet completely familiar. He stood perhaps five feet tall, only a little shorter than Liz herself, and wore a white robe cinched at the waist. His arms were much thinner than human norm and his head was larger, but his eyes were not too much larger than those of an Antaran. The only thing familiar from his old Asgard self was the deathly pallor of his skin.
In the Force, Liz recognized him immediately. “Thor?”
“It is a pleasure to see you again, Knight Evans,” Thor said. “I regret the losses you suffered. We came as soon as we could.”
“What happened to you?” Liz said.
“We have resolved our cloning difficulties,” Thor said. “With yours and Max’s help.” Liz knew that the Asgard continued themselves through cloning. There had not been a new Asgard born in millennia. But she also had heard rumors that the Asgard were experiencing difficulty with their clones; that the cloned bodies grew weaker and more short-lived with each succeeding generation.
Then the second part of his comment caught her attention. “Our help?”
“It was the Gandarium,” Max explained.
Liz blinked, and only then remembered the artificially engineered life form that the Antarans used to initially fuse the human and Antaran DNA that resulted in Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess. “I thought it was destroyed.”
“Nucleotides remained in Max’s bloodstream,” Thor said. “He graciously offered us a sample. King Zane of Antar also allowed us to take extensive genetic samples of Antaran people, including his own, while our own studies provided samples of human genetic make up. While there are significant differences in all, using a newly grown Gandarium, we were able to recreate a viable version of a proto-Antaran/Asgard body with an enhanced humanoid immune system. Although we will continue to clone for the continuation of those individuals who wish to continue, our species will start again with the ability to procreate.”
He said the last word as if it were immensely distasteful.
“This means that you’re not going to die out,” Liz said.
“Indeed,” Thor confirmed. Although his face was more human in appearance, he still did not emote physically. His age alone might have prevented even the possibility. “We look forward to many more eons of partnership with the Fifth Great Race.”
Liz leaned over and gave the startled creature a hug. She leaned back and smiled. He was emoting now with a frown. “Get used to it,” she said, laughing. “Physical contact is essential if you ever want to procreate.”
Thor visibly shuddered. “I believe my participation in such affairs will be of little value. Still, I shall keep your recommendation in mind. Where is Jedi Master Delun?”
Liz reared back and looked up at Max. “She’s not here?”
“She wasn’t on the surface at all,” Max said. “We got a brief reading of a sizable force of Ori soldiers going through the Stargate before the Ori fleet retreated, but we don’t have anything from Siana.”
“We did get a message from Admiral Shintre, though,” Jack said. “The Ori have a new ally. You won’t know about them, but I’ve met the Aschen. Slick little bastards.”
“They attacked him at Dakara?” Liz asked.
“He beat the snot out of them,” Jack said, gloating. “Just plastered their whole fleet and two Ori mother ships. Plus a fleet of Hosnock. I’ve already told Minister Maynard that when I retire, he’s going to have to promote that man.”
“Even I see the irony in promoting the man who ordered the destruction of an Earth continent to the position of Fleet Admiral charged with its protection,” Thor said.
“Yeah, there is that,” Jack muttered. “Well, now all we can do is head back home until we hear from Siana. She’s obviously not here.”
“Home sounds good,” Liz admitted.
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Merlin’s Cave
Monday, August 25, 6 CE (2008 A.D.)
8:45 p.m. GMT.
Merlin stepped away from the repository with a sigh. “Amazing,” he said as he did so. “Your powers of healing are greater even than those of my people. I should be dead by now, and yet I feel better than when I entered the chamber.”
He still looked as old as sand, but Siana smiled at his energetic tone.
The result of his energy rested on the table before them. “That’s the Sangraal, then?” Rodney asked, studying it with hand, eyes and handheld sensor.
“No, that’s the activator,” Merlin said. He reached up and held the crimson stone hanging from his neck. “This is the actual Sangraal—the key that makes it all work. When placed in the activator, all Ascended beings in this galactic space-time region will cease to exist.”
He took off the stone, and handed it to Daniel. “You must know that the Ori will attempt to stop you.”
“Will the Ancients?”
“Doubtful,” Merlin said. “That’s why I chose to regain my human form. As a human, they have no control over me without breaking their own rules. But they will break those rules to preserve their own existence.”
“What about Q?”
“What are Q?’ the other Jedi asked in unison. Rodney closed his mouth when he saw they beat him to the question.
Merlin sighed. “You have been in contact with the Q?” He shook his head. “They are hard to predict. Even as Ascended beings, there were beings even beyond our plane, ancient even to the Ancients. The Alterans and other Ascended beings were just that—corporeal races that evolved and ascended to a higher plane. We do not believe the Q ascended. We believe that they came into existence when this universe was created. If the Q view this as a threat, then we are all doomed. They would gladly destroy our galaxy before allowing any one of their number to perish. Then, they might do so just out of pernicious spite. For omnipotent beings, they show a stunning lack of maturity.”
Siana blinked. “They could do that?”
“The Ori consider themselves gods,” Merlin said. “Yet I can shield us against their wrath here. The Q are gods. Should one choose to come, there would be little I could do to protect you.”
A flash of white light like an Asgard beam burned in the cave for a moment, and in its place stood a man in his late forties, with thinning black hair and a Romanesque nose.
“He’s right, you know.”
“Q,” Daniel said calmly.
“Hello, Daniel. Congratulations on Adria. A delicious piece of betrayal there.” He sneered much like a school child. “She’s really unhappy. She’s following after you, by the way. I suspect in another hour or so, she’ll catch up.”
Siana backed away from the creature called Q. In the Force, his light shown so brightly it hurt. She noticed winces from the other Jedi as well, and eventually had to stop using her Force senses.
“Good decision,” Q said, looking her in the face. “Your puny Force gives just enough insight into my true being to be dangerous. You do not want to see my true self. Your minds are not capable of processing that information.”
“Are you here to stop us?” Daniel asked. He retained his calm exterior.
“I haven’t decided yet,” Q admitted. “The Continuum is looking into your little toy to see if it poses a threat or not. Personally I think it might tickle a little, but I doubt it would be lethal to us.’
“Then why are you here?” Siana asked.
Q shrugged. “I enjoy irritating little Danny boy there. Also, it’s fun to let people know when they’re going to die.”
Merlin shrugged with irritation. “You Q are as arrogant now as when we first Ascended.”
Q laughed. “And you Alterans are as stupid now as Ascended beings as you were before you ascended.” He stood abruptly and crossed the floor to put an arm around the Ancient’s shoulders. “Except you, Merlin. I’ve watched you for a long time. You had foresight. Gumption. But even you had bouts of Homo Ancientus stupidity. You know the mantle you hid your notes in? These little insects are going to turn it into shielding for their ships. Why didn’t any of you ever think about that during your war with the Wraith?”
Merlin’s eyes widened. “By the stars,” he whispered.
Q stepped back with his arms stretched out triumphantly. “Even with nothing but intellect, the Q show themselves superior.”
“Why are you here, Q?” Daniel asked.
Q suddenly looked bored. “The Ori know what you’ve been up to. They’re ready for you. The moment that ship crosses the event horizon of their supergate, the Ori will pour all of their hate into the gate and destroy it before the device has a chance to begin the energy transfer. If you try crossing galaxies by ship, they will strike you down in the void. You have your weapon, but you have no means of deploying it.”
“He’s helping us,” Michael said of Q.
“He’s helping us,” Daniel agreed. He turned to study Q. “You’ve been trying to help us since the first time you contacted me on Kheb.”
Q shrugged. “You’re more fun than the Ori,” he admitted grudgingly. “Ori followers are so boring. No excitement, no challenges. Prayer three times a day. Pious thoughts. Absolute devotion. No exploration. No original thoughts. Burning blasphemers every second Thursday at four. It gets boring.”
“Why don’t you just snap your fingers and make the Ori go away?” Siana said. “You’re omnipotent.”
Q snapped his fingers, and the Jedi Master suddenly found herself doing the chicken dance to a German polka band that materialized just as quickly. He snapped his fingers and once again the cave fell into quiet.
Siana stared, stunned at the display of power. Michael found himself laughing. “I never knew you could dance like that, Siana.”
Q snapped his fingers, and Michael suddenly found himself in a pink tutu doing pirouettes while a full orchestra played Swan Lake. A moment later, it faded. “Touché,” he muttered.
“Very impressive,” Daniel said. “But back to the question. Why don’t the Q confront the Ori directly?”
“There are limits,” Merlin finally said. “The Q are omnipotent, but the Ascended beings are not without power. Although the Q would undoubtedly win, there is the very real risk that individual Qs could be destroyed.”
“You know what happens when a Q dies, Danny boy?” Q asked. “Suns go supernova and planetary systems die. Whole quadrants of this galaxy could cease to exist.”
“Any conflict would have disastrous affects through the Omniverse,” Merlin said. “That is why the Ancients do not confront the Ori directly.”
“Kyle once said the Ori tried to destroy the universe to remake it in their image,” Siana said.
“After the Jedi of your old galaxy kicked their collective posteriors, we disabused them of that notion,” Q said. “We showed them they would not survive outside of their dimension, while we would. We do not want to go through another four or five billion years waiting for intelligent life to begin again. It was bad enough the first four times.”
While Rodney started sputtering with Q’s casual dismissal of the origin of the Universe, Daniel said, “Do you have any suggestions, then?”
“None at all, Danny-boy. Think of it as a test. You’ve spread out across the stars faster than any species in history. You went from fossil-fuel based airplanes to hypermatter-fueled superlasers in less than a decade. Your cities have ’57 Chevys driving on the ground and Model 3 Toyota hover cars in the air. You have people still starving to death in Africa while your ships provide emergency supplies to Jaffa on Dakara. You have terrorist groups on Earth trying to destroy any alien presence there, while you actively recruit non-humans to aid you. Are you truly ready to take a place in galactic affairs, Danny-boy?”
“Does it matter?” Daniel asked. “It’s too late to ask if we’re ready. We’re already here, and we can’t put that knowledge back in the box.”
“True,” Q said with a smile. He pinched Daniel’s cheek. “Good boy, Danny. Sometimes it’s not the answers you have that matter, but the questions you ask.”
With that, Q was gone.
“I have never liked those beings,” Merlin sighed.
“So what do we do?” Michael asked. “If he’s right, how do we get the weapon to the Ori?”
Daniel merely slipped the Sangraal into the pocket of his Romulan-made slacks. “We have a plan.”
“We?” Siana asked.
She and Daniel held eye-contact for several minutes, sharing a silent communication the others could not decipher. “Are you sure about this?” she asked finally.
“As sure as anything. If we’re wrong, we lose it all.”
Daniel turned to Merlin. “Can this device construct anything? Even a zero point module?”
Merlin nodded. “And I will show you how.”
Rodney looked faint and had to sit down. “Can you show me?”
Merlin smiled down at the scientist. “It is not something I could show in a way you would understand, at least not in the time we have left. The Ori are coming soon. We must be quick.”
They watched as the empty shell of a ZPM took shape over the table. Even with the introduction of stable nequadriah reactions and hypermatter reactors, they had yet to encounter any energy source as powerful or effective as ZPMs. Even the Corusca galaxy engineers were astounded by the power output of the half-depleted ZPM in Antarctica.
The air around the ZPM began to take on a glittering glow. Rings appeared over the air and then were sucked down into the crystalline structure. The rings grew larger and disappeared more rapidly, creating a whirlpool affect in the air as it created its own region of subspace time. Suddenly all the light and energy over it collapsed into the crystal, leaving the room oddly dark in its absence, save for the glow of the now fully charged ZPM.
“Oh my God,” Rodney whispered. “It works?”
“It does,” Merlin said. He stepped back and looked at Daniel. “You try.”
Daniel, who had stood by Merlin with his hand on the older man’s shoulder, repeated the exercise, and after a few minutes there were two ZPMs. Then three, followed by a fourth.
“My own ZPM is weakening,” Merlin said after the fourth. “I wish I could do more for you, but four is enough.”
“Yes,” Rodney muttered. “We could power the Antarctic outpost at full power and have enough to adjust the phase shielding to a planetary scale.”
“You never thought to use that as shields in your war against whatever those buggers are called?” Michael asked the Ancient.
“The Wraith?” Merlin said with a wry, sad smile. “No. By then we were in full retreat mode. We won every battle, and yet lost the war. Our technology held back the tide, but could not reverse it. Perhaps, should you ever return to Atlantis, you will fare better.”
Before anyone could speak, the Jedi felt a darkness in the Force. “The Ori approach,” Merlin whispered. “They have caught up to the cave’s first line of defenses.”
“Grab the ZPMs!” Rodney said, even as he moved to do exactly that. Sidney Bristow grabbed the weapon as Tess helped Rodney with his armful of ZPMs move behind Merlin and the other Jedi. Even as they took position, Ori soldiers began pouring into the cave, followed a moment later by Adria herself.
Her beautiful face was warped by rage. “You,” she said, staring at Merlin. “You have no place in this galaxy.”
“And neither do you, Abomination,” Merlin snapped back.
“Give me the weapon,” she demanded, “and I might let you all live.” She looked at Daniel. “Except for you.”
“There is no death,” Daniel said.
“There is,” Adria said. “I won’t just kill your body. I will destroy your very soul.”
“Exes make the worst enemies,” Michael muttered.
“Enough!” Adria said. She raised her hands and around her the air began to shimmer with unbearable heat.
Merlin stepped forward, raised his own hands, and from them lashed lightning very similar to that of Jedi Force-lightning. Soldiers behind Adria screamed and died as she was forced to take a step back.
At that same moment, a white beam swept across the humans. When it passed, they found themselves in front of the cave on the edge of a cliff, overlooking an alien sea lit by four moons. A stargate stood at the edge of the cliff.
“Merlin evacuated us!” Daniel said.
“Rodney, go dial the Beta Site gate!” Siana said. “Tess, go with him.”
Those Ori soldiers that survived Merlin’s counter-strike rushed out of the cave entrance, only to be met by Michael and Siana. Two lightsabers blazed, and in seconds twenty soldiers died.
Just as Rodney finished dialing, all of them heard a loud explosion. They turned as the top of the rocky hill containing the cave blew outward and away. Billows of smoke washed out of the cave entrance, followed a moment later by Adria herself. Her black leather suit was actually torn in spots, revealing the olive-toned skin beneath. Her hair hung loose and wild about her neck, and her eyes glowed with white-yellow light.
The air around her shimmered as she summoned her power. “You cannot hide from me forever!” she cried as they all ducked into the gate. Daniel was the last and stood at the edge of the event horizon, staring back at her.
The shimmering disappeared as did the glow in her eyes. “You can’t hide forever,” she said again. Her voice had changed from that of the wrathful messiah of the Ori, to a woman looking at the man who hurt her.
“I am sorry,” Daniel called back. “I love you.” He turned and ducked into the gate, just as the wormhole deactivated.
Adria remained alone on the cliffs, staring blankly at the empty gate.
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Nice action, and Q is always welcome.
Looks like you almost have all the pieces in place for another major confrontation.
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That was an awesome update. I love all the appearances of Q. And Micheal had the best line ever  . I can't wait for next week's installment.
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When Liz saw Max standing on the edge of the beam receiving platform, she could not help the welling of a tear as she ran to meet him. The two embraced so intensely the padawans that beamed up with them coughed.
Scenes like this are makes it all worthwhile.
Behind them, Fleet Admiral Jack O’Neill clapped his hands. “Folks, got more people coming. Let’s move it along.” He looked at John with an arched brow. “Hello, Mini-Me.”
John stared right back. “Hello, Old-Guy me.”
LOL - that is fraking hilarious. I can imagine the look on Jack's face
Liz blinked, and only then remembered the artificially engineered life form that the Antarans used to initially fuse the human and Antaran DNA that resulted in Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess. “I thought it was destroyed.”
“Nucleotides remained in Max’s bloodstream,” Thor said. “He graciously offered us a sample. King Zane of Antar also allowed us to take extensive genetic samples of Antaran people, including his own, while our own studies provided samples of human genetic make up. While there are significant differences in all, using a newly grown Gandarium, we were able to recreate a viable version of a proto-Antaran/Asgard body with an enhanced humanoid immune system. Although we will continue to clone for the continuation of those individuals who wish to continue, our species will start again with the ability to procreate.”
I cannot believe I didn't see that coming. I guess I just didn't think about it very much earlier, but in hindsight that
makes perfect sense.
Thor visibly shuddered. “I believe my participation in such affairs will be of little value. Still, I shall keep your recommendation in mind. Where is Jedi Master Delun?”
LOL - Thor's got jokes. Who knew? Good question though...just exactly where in the galaxy is Siana, anyway?
“He beat the snot out of them,” Jack said, gloating. “Just plastered their whole fleet and two Ori mother ships. Plus a fleet of Hosnock. I’ve already told Minister Maynard that when I retire, he’s going to have to promote that man.”
“Even I see the irony in promoting the man who ordered the destruction of an Earth continent to the position of Fleet Admiral charged with its protection,” Thor said.
For some reason, I sense some ominous foreshadowing in this passage...
* * *
Merlin stepped away from the repository with a sigh. “Amazing,” he said as he did so. “Your powers of healing are greater even than those of my people. I should be dead by now, and yet I feel better than when I entered the chamber.”
All things are possible through the Force.
“Doubtful,” Merlin said. “That’s why I chose to regain my human form. As a human, they have no control over me without breaking their own rules. But they will break those rules to preserve their own existence.”
Interesting. So if the Sangraal is deployed in the Milky Way, it would kill the ancients just as sure as the Ori but if deployed in the Ori galaxy, the ancients would be unaffected? Yeah, I can't see them letting that happen here, as it kind of spoils the whole point of being an ascended immortal. On the other hand, it does level the playing field and forces the ancients to reconsider their so-called rules.
“What about Q?”
I have been wondering that for some time now.
Merlin sighed. “You have been in contact with the Q?” He shook his head. “They are hard to predict. Even as Ascended beings, there were beings even beyond our plane, ancient even to the Ancients. The Alterans and other Ascended beings were just that—corporeal races that evolved and ascended to a higher plane. We do not believe the Q ascended. We believe that they came into existence when this universe was created. If the Q view this as a threat, then we are all doomed. They would gladly destroy our galaxy before allowing any one of their number to perish. Then, they might do so just out of pernicious spite. For omnipotent beings, they show a stunning lack of maturity.”
OK, thanx for clearing that up. I was wondering about the difference between the power of Q compared to everybody else, and this clears that up nicely. Still, I wonder where to Force fits into all of this?
Siana blinked. “They could do that?”
“The Ori consider themselves gods,” Merlin said. “Yet I can shield us against their wrath here. The Q are gods. Should one choose to come, there would be little I could do to protect you.”
Straight up. sounds like a que for, uh, Q!
A flash of white light like an Asgard beam burned in the cave for a moment, and in its place stood a man in his late forties, with thinning black hair and a Romanesque nose.
“He’s right, you know.”
“Q,” Daniel said calmly.
“Hello, Daniel. Congratulations on Adria. A delicious piece of betrayal there.” He sneered much like a school child. “She’s really unhappy. She’s following after you, by the way. I suspect in another hour or so, she’ll catch up.”
He would show up just for the sake of taunting them like that. Great job capturing his personality. I didn't watch a lot of Star Trek TNG, but I do recall the Q as being one of the more intriguing elements of that series. What can I say, wild cards usually add an interesting, if not particularly welcome, twist to any game.
Siana backed away from the creature called Q. In the Force, his light shown so brightly it hurt. She noticed winces from the other Jedi as well, and eventually had to stop using her Force senses.
“Good decision,” Q said, looking her in the face. “Your puny Force gives just enough insight into my true being to be dangerous. You do not want to see my true self. Your minds are not capable of processing that information.”
So, that means that the Q are not beyond the reach of the Force, and if the Force does in fact connect all things in existence, then it stands to reason that even the Q are susceptible to its influence, given a Force-wielder of sufficient skill and power?
Merlin shrugged with irritation. “You Q are as arrogant now as when we first Ascended.”
Q laughed. “And you Alterans are as stupid now as Ascended beings as you were before you ascended.” He stood abruptly and crossed the floor to put an arm around the Ancient’s shoulders. “Except you, Merlin. I’ve watched you for a long time. You had foresight. Gumption. But even you had bouts of Homo Ancientus stupidity. You know the mantle you hid your notes in? These little insects are going to turn it into shielding for their ships. Why didn’t any of you ever think about that during your war with the Wraith?”
LOL - pwnt by Q. Great stuff. Also, it serves to illustrate the potential of us poor measly humans and our ability to improvise and adapt.
Q suddenly looked bored. “The Ori know what you’ve been up to. They’re ready for you. The moment that ship crosses the event horizon of their supergate, the Ori will pour all of their hate into the gate and destroy it before the device has a chance to begin the energy transfer. If you try crossing galaxies by ship, they will strike you down in the void. You have your weapon, but you have no means of deploying it.”
Ah. If I recall, that is how the Ori were defeated in canon SG. In this case, it isn't going to work. Of course the fact that Q is here to point this out ahead of time is quite interesting, and makes this story all the more interesting because now they must improvise yet again, and now that the canon solution has been rendered useless, I am more anxious than ever to see what you have come up with for the end.
“He’s helping us,” Michael said of Q.
“He’s helping us,” Daniel agreed. He turned to study Q. “You’ve been trying to help us since the first time you contacted me on Kheb.”
Looks like...
“Why don’t you just snap your fingers and make the Ori go away?” Siana said. “You’re omnipotent.”
That wouldn't be any fun.
“There are limits,” Merlin finally said. “The Q are omnipotent, but the Ascended beings are not without power. Although the Q would undoubtedly win, there is the very real risk that individual Qs could be destroyed.”
“You know what happens when a Q dies, Danny boy?” Q asked. “Suns go supernova and planetary systems die. Whole quadrants of this galaxy could cease to exist.”
“Any conflict would have disastrous affects through the Omniverse,” Merlin said. “That is why the Ancients do not confront the Ori directly.”
Then there's that...
“Kyle once said the Ori tried to destroy the universe to remake it in their image,” Siana said.
“After the Jedi of your old galaxy kicked their collective posteriors, we disabused them of that notion,” Q said. “We showed them they would not survive outside of their dimension, while we would. We do not want to go through another four or five billion years waiting for intelligent life to begin again. It was bad enough the first four times.”
While Rodney started sputtering with Q’s casual dismissal of the origin of the Universe, Daniel said, “Do you have any suggestions, then?”
“None at all, Danny-boy. Think of it as a test. You’ve spread out across the stars faster than any species in history. You went from fossil-fuel based airplanes to hypermatter-fueled superlasers in less than a decade. Your cities have ’57 Chevys driving on the ground and Model 3 Toyota hover cars in the air. You have people still starving to death in Africa while your ships provide emergency supplies to Jaffa on Dakara. You have terrorist groups on Earth trying to destroy any alien presence there, while you actively recruit non-humans to aid you. Are you truly ready to take a place in galactic affairs, Danny-boy?”
Perspective is everything, and Rodney would do well to remember that. Put another way, by a certain Jedi Master not so long ago, perception is influenced greatly by our own point of view. The big picture is difficult to grasp if you refuse to look past the limitations of your own self-imposed artificial boundaries of imagination. When you consider the bigger picture, as Q has demonstrated, you begin to see new possibilities.
“Does it matter?” Daniel asked. “It’s too late to ask if we’re ready. We’re already here, and we can’t put that knowledge back in the box.”
“True,” Q said with a smile. He pinched Daniel’s cheek. “Good boy, Danny. Sometimes it’s not the answers you have that matter, but the questions you ask.”
With that, Q was gone.
This just keeps getting better & better.
“I have never liked those beings,” Merlin sighed.
Yeah, Q can give even an ascended being an inferiority complex.
“So what do we do?” Michael asked. “If he’s right, how do we get the weapon to the Ori?”
Daniel merely slipped the Sangraal into the pocket of his Romulan-made slacks. “We have a plan.”
“We?” Siana asked.
She and Daniel held eye-contact for several minutes, sharing a silent communication the others could not decipher. “Are you sure about this?” she asked finally.
“As sure as anything. If we’re wrong, we lose it all.”
No pain, no gain.
Daniel turned to Merlin. “Can this device construct anything? Even a zero point module?”
I have got to get me one of those...
“The Wraith?” Merlin said with a wry, sad smile. “No. By then we were in full retreat mode. We won every battle, and yet lost the war. Our technology held back the tide, but could not reverse it. Perhaps, should you ever return to Atlantis, you will fare better.”
Atlantis is still the only major thing missing. The story has so much already, I don't know if you really need it, but it would be cool if it comes into the mix. (Personally, I'd still rather have a Star Destroyer)
Merlin stepped forward, raised his own hands, and from them lashed lightning very similar to that of Jedi Force-lightning. Soldiers behind Adria screamed and died as she was forced to take a step back.
I didn't know he had it in him. Merlin rocks.
Those Ori soldiers that survived Merlin’s counter-strike rushed out of the cave entrance, only to be met by Michael and Siana. Two lightsabers blazed, and in seconds twenty soldiers died.
Jedi with lit sabers are still the coolest thing ever.
The shimmering disappeared as did the glow in her eyes. “You can’t hide forever,” she said again. Her voice had changed from that of the wrathful messiah of the Ori, to a woman looking at the man who hurt her.
“I am sorry,” Daniel called back. “I love you.” He turned and ducked into the gate, just as the wormhole deactivated.
Adria remained alone on the cliffs, staring blankly at the empty gate.
Absolutely fantastic update from start to finish.
Some important questions from the start have been answered, but I am left with newer and bigger ones than before. it really feels as if the fate of the universe is at stake, and nobody is entirely safe.
This is a great story.
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PunkMaister
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Oct '06
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Date Posted:
6/9 2:32pm
Subject:
RE: Heaven Falls: A Jedi On Earth Updated 6/8/2008
- Date Edited:
6/9 6:42pm (1 edits total)
Edited By:
PunkMaister
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L0B0 posted:
Interesting. So if the Sangraal is deployed in the Milky Way, it would kill the ancients just as sure as the Ori but if deployed in the Ori galaxy, the ancients would be unaffected? Yeah, I can't see them letting that happen here, as it kind of spoils the whole point of being an ascended immortal. On the other hand, it does level the playing field and forces the ancients to reconsider their so-called rules.
Their rules only apply to fully ascended beings and for obvious reasons, however they did went a bit overboard on them when they tried to stop Merden (Merlin) from his goal of developing a weapon that could destroy the Ori.
L0B0 posted:
So, that means that the Q are not beyond the reach of the Force, and if the Force does in fact connect all things in existence, then it stands to reason that even the Q are susceptible to its influence, given a Force-wielder of sufficient skill and power?
Not before the Q snaps the offender Jedi, Sith or whoever force wielder out of existence for daring to do such a thing...
L0B0 posted:
Perspective is everything, and Rodney would do well to remember that. Put another way, by a certain Jedi Master not so long ago, perception is influenced greatly by our own point of view. The big picture is difficult to grasp if you refuse to look past the limitations of your own self-imposed artificial boundaries of imagination. When you consider the bigger picture, as Q has demonstrated, you begin to see new possibilities.
Indeed... 
L0B0 posted:
I have got to get me one of those...
Who wouldn't besides Lightsabers and Stardestroyers they are about the coolest things outthere!
L0B0 posted:
Atlantis is still the only major thing missing. The story has so much already, I don't know if you really need it, but it would be cool if it comes into the mix. (Personally, I'd still rather have a Star Destroyer)
Actually a fully powered Alteran city ship would pwn a Stardestroyer 100 times over!
L0B0 posted:
I didn't know he had it in him. Merlin rocks.
Considering what Danny boy did in the original timeline it does not surprise me at all. The only thing that I do not understand is how the lightning he created different from standard force lightning? That it is more powerful? Not that it would be that surprising given Merlin's age and experience in wielding such powers anyway...
Excellent update by the way Marrs! One question though that I forgot to ask about the previous chapter. In it you mentioned that they used devices that temporaly cancel the Prior's powers. But if you have effectively a "Force" cancelling device would that not affect the Jedi that are nearby the cancelling field as well? 
Another thing I have my serious doubts about the Q's alleged omnipotence, because they were clearly terrified of the Borg as seen in ST:Voyager and we are talking about cyborgs that do not even come to half the power the Goa'uld wielded at the height of their power...
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