The Unending Odyssey
Part 1 – Chapter 1
"The Fate of the Asgard"
From his position at the tactical controls, Harry controlled the large vessel. Normally, Major Marks would pilot the vessel, but Harry was piloting for good reason. Partly because Major Marks couldn't read Asgard, in which the 'directions' were written.
"Coming up to Orilla." He reported as Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter, or just Sam as she preferred, walked onto the bridge, and took position just behind Major Marks' right shoulder.
"Bring us out of Hyperspace, and park us in orbit Lieutenant." General Hank Landry ordered from the command chair, just a foot to Harry's left.
"Aye sir." He replied, and did just that.
Landry looked out the viewport, soaking in the image of the vessel exiting hyperspace, re-entering normal space relatively close to Orilla. Relatively being, much closer than earth was to the planet. As it stood, Landry was seeing the planet, at the moment of re-entering normal space, as an object he could blot out with his thumb, but with the speed they were re-entering at, despite slowing down, meant that it quickly, within seconds filled the viewport.
When the ship settled into a stable high geo-stationary orbit, Harry looked out at the planet below. Even at their distance from the planet surface they were above, they all could see the sprawling cities that the Asgard had constructed on the surface, and to the keener eyed Sam and Harry, they also saw a few O'Neill and Jackson class ships some distance between them and the large Asgard city.
Harry idly set helm controls back to Marks, and saw in his peripheral vision Marks nod in acknowledgement.
"We're being hailed…" Marks reported. After a moment, he added, "The Asgard are requesting permission to board sir."
"Granted." Landry agreed, grunting slightly when he said it.
Harry looked to the side, seeing the rest of SG-1 enter the Bridge, but staying off to the side.
From Left to Right, (Or rather, front of the bridge to the back of the bridge,) was their Team Leader (officially speaking anyway) Lieutenant Colonel Cameron 'Cam' Mitchell, Teal'c, Doctor Daniel Jackson and Vala Mal Doran, or just Vala for short.
Harry's attention was pulled towards the empty space of the bridge in front of the command and control chairs, by the bright and distinctive light of an Asgard transport beam.
It faded to show an Asgard that Harry recognised, and considering the slight gasp of pleasure from Sam, that she also recognised.
"Greetings, and Welcome to Orilla." The Asgard Spoke. Harry noted, as he usually did upon meeting this particular Asgard, that he sounded somewhat like Daniel.
Sam stepped forward of the consoles with a bright smile. "Thor." She happily greeted.
"Hello Colonel Carter, it is good to see you." Thor greeted back.
Harry heard Vala ask Daniel quietly, how they could tell who was who, and he heard Daniels reply, while he paid attention to what Sam was saying.
"It's good to see you too Thor." She then indicated people when introducing them, "This is General Landry, Commander of the SGC, and Colonel Mitchell, our team leader, and Vala, the latest addition to this motley crew called SG-1."
Harry, like most of the people on the bridge, suppressed a chuckle at Sam's introduction.
"Greetings." Thor greeted with as much humor as Harry ever saw the guy express to the 3."
Daniel piped up, "So Thor, How ya bin?" Harry smiled slightly, Even 2 years later, it was clear that Daniel had taken a few things from Jack. "We haven't heard from you in a while…" He added.
Harry sighed. None of them knew why they were here. When the Asgard requested their presence, all they had sent along was instructions, in Asgard on how to get to Orilla.
Considering the last times Harry and other members of SG-1 had been there had been on Asgard vessels, and hadn't had a Stargate to use (which the Asgard didn't use for navigation anyway) to plot a course, the latter addition was necessary. And Harry was the only one who could both read Asgard and navigate the vessel.
Harry had thought at one point that Daniel could give it a go – after all, when he was 'priorized' he literally stole the ship and took it to the Supergate.
Thor's reply distracted Harry from his thoughts.
"I am sorry, but we have occupied otherwise." Thor apologised. He spoke his next words to the rest of SG-1 and Landry. "As mentioned in our last communication, the Asgard High Council wishes to meet with you. They will explain in great detail why we called you here. But there is not much time."
Harry frowned slightly. "Not much time for what?" He asked.
Thor seemed to mull over something, but after a moment, settled on saying, "General, with your permission, a number of Asgard are prepared to board immediately and begin installing a number of technological upgrades to this vessel."
Harry looked at the others, and saw their reaction to this proclamation. When he looked at Sam last, it was obvious she alone out of the rest saw what he saw. Harry knew the Asgards' policy on sharing technology. The only reason the Odyssey, Daedalus, and the Odyssey's predecessor, the Prometheus had been equipped with Asgard technologies – Sensors, Transporters, Shields and Hyperdrive, had been because of the lengths to which Sg-1 had gone to save the Asgard from the Replicators, and the motives behind those actions.
Thor and few other Asgard were for sharing those technologies for them. Thor himself went out on a limb for handing over Hyperdrive schematics to allow the Prometheus to be fitted with them, and allow the Daedalus line to be constructed. Without it, Harry and Sam both knew that they would most likely have only had the Prometheus, and an identical X-303, and not have been up to having a 5th ship under construction.
Harry spoke after the minute of silent contemplation, "It's…?" he stopped though, unable to ask.
Thor deduced correctly what Harry wanted to ask, and nodded.
"Sorry, we're just a little stunned… I mean," Daniel paused, wondering how to put it, and just asked straight, "Why are you doing this? You've always resisted in the past, you always said we weren't ready."
Harry knew the truth behind the statement – Thor in particular didn't resist quite as much as the surface words implied, it was the others who had to agree to allow the sharing who had resisted. Thor had agreed that some in their governments weren't ready, but he had agreed that SG-1 and most of the SGC were.
Thor's answer however, altered their view on that somewhat. "Indeed, some of the Asgard still believe that to be true."
Harry smiled faintly at the implication – Thor believed them to be ready, properly.
"So what's changed?" Cam asked.
"As a race, we are dying." Thor replied.
"The Degradation in your cloning?" Cam asked. Harry knew that Cam was recalling the files he had read about the SGC that pertained to the Asgard.
"Yes." Thor answered with a nod.
"How many generations of cloning, before it fails altogether?" Daniel asked.
Harry, like the others, expected a 2 digit number at least.
But Thor had to disappoint them. "We are already at that point, Dr Jackson. Very soon, we will all be gone."
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Intro Sequence.
Shots of the Stargate, credits about who made the show etc…
STARGATE SG-1
Shots of scenes, faded into the inner ring of the Stargate, of:
Beau Bridges as General Landry
"StarGAAAATE!! It's a Great big WOOOORLD!"
Shots of F-302 piloting/P-90 firing/running/smiling:
Ben Browder as Lt Col. Cam Mitchell
"With a great big Swirl, that you step inside to Another World."
Shots of inside F-302/Inside cargo ships/in her lab/firing P-90/smiling:
Amanda Tapping as Lt Col. Sam Carter
"We're talking Stargate… It's a crazy Trip…"
Shots of kel'no'rim, then fighting Bra'tac from the dream sequence, taking out an alkesh from 48hours and smiling:
Christopher Judge as Teal'c
"You can go quite far, you don't need a car or even a ship…"
Shot's of Abydos, pyramid, in office, firing beretta pistol, ascending/trying to do in Anubis, in hazmat suit in proclarush, then with a beard from beginning of s9:
Michael Shanks as Dr Daniel Jackson
"There's Colonel O'Neill…"
Shots of two intersposed, scenes from the show had they been there, but one being on an Asgard vessel, and being young at college in one shot…
Daniel Radcliffe as Lt. Harry Potter & Claudia Black as Vala Mal Doran
"And Carter and Daniel and Teal'c too…"
Shots of the team altogether int eh gate room, zoomed from landry out to them…
"Loooook out for that… Goo-goo-goo-go-gooould."
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A/N: I'm much further along than this - 3k of a rewrite of chapter one, and i'm not even passed halfway of the re-write. Might make it 2k/3k chapters, or just throw each 'act' into a chapter. Or make each scene a chapter. meh... maybe.