OKAY, I've decided to rewrite this story, as I've been rereading it, and I'm not happy with the way it has gone. As such, although following the basic premise as the original, it's more extensive, better written and generally a much better story.

I hope you like it, and please read and review so I can get your thoughts on it.

Thanks. Enjoy the story.

Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 and all related technologies, characters, races and planets are not mine. They belong to MGM.

Any original characters, technologies, races and planets are mine, although I do apologize if I have used the names etc that someone else has come up with. It would more than likely mean that I liked your character so much, I based a character of mine on yours (although I more that likely would have asked you for permission first), however, it could also be nothing more than a big coincidence.

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1994 – March

An unidentified object is detected by HMS Gleaner during a survey of the seabed approximately 10 miles off the coast of Peterhead (40 – 45 miles north of Aberdeen), which has altered following a submarine subsidence.

Initially thought to simply be a natural feature (ie: an outcrop of rocks), a further examination of the data reveals the shape to be too regular and too angular to be natural, so a second, more intensive survey sweep of the object is ordered.

When the results of the second sweep are analysed, the shape of an unknown ship/vessel of some kind is clearly seen.

This information is transmitted to the Ministry of Defence, which, in a conference with the Prime Minister, make the decision to declare the area off limits while they attempt to lift the ship and transfer it to a Royal Navy shipyard for examination.

The Ministry of Defence releases a press statement, informing everyone that HMS Gleaner, during a routine survey of the seabed, detected what appears to be a large concentration of objects, which appear to be similar in size and shape to World War 2 mines. As such, the entire area has been declared off-limits until the Royal Navy can ensure that the mines have been removed and destroyed.

To ensure that this off-limits area is not breached, the Ministry of Defence assigns HMS Middleton, HMS Atherstone (both Hunt Class Minehunters), HMS Northumberland (a Type 23 Frigate) and HMS Sovereign (a Swiftsure Class Submarine) to patrol the area, officially ensuring that all civilian ships are kept well away from the area, and expanding the search area to ensure that all the mines have been detected and made safe, while unofficially providing cover for the survey teams to free and lift the unknown ship.

1994 – April

Over the past month, the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary have been involved in the recovery of the unknown ship from the seabed, while at the same time maintaining the illusion of clearing the area of mines. To maintain this illusion, several times Minehunter ships have travelled away from the site to another, close by site which has also been secured by the Royal Navy, and have detonated a small amount of explosives, the vast majority of which had already been scheduled for destruction anyway, to give the image of the mines being detonated.

Finally, the ship is raised off the sea floor and is towed by 3 Royal Naval Submarines to as close to Rosyth Dockyard as possible, before being lifted onto a barge and transported the rest of the way during the night to limit any possibility of anyone seeing it.

Once secured inside a construction shed at Rosyth Dockyard, the Royal Navy, in conjunction with the Royal Airforce, the British Army and selected civilian organisations, begin to examine the still unidentified ship.

1994 – September

After five months of study, very little of the ship, its technology or its builders is known, but analysis has revealed some information: The hull of the ship is made of an unknown alloy nearly 100 times as strong as the equivalent thickness of steel and almost 10 times as light; The builders of this ship use crystals for the computers, indicating that they are far beyond Earth in terms of technology; The ship appears to be powered by an extremely dense element not seen on Earth, with enormous energy amplifying capabilities; The builders of this ship appear to have had some kind of relationship with the Ancient Egyptians, due to the similar looking hieroglyphics covering the vast majority of the ships interior walls, which appears, at least in parts, to have constructed from solid gold.

With these facts in mind, and also acknowledging that to study the ship on their own would place too high a strain on the United Kingdom's budget, the Prime Minister decides to bring Australia, Canada and New Zealand into the project, not only wanting to keep this as a Commonwealth project, but also because involving a country like America, which although it has the capability to bring a much greater budget to the project, would mean that Britain would quite likely become marginalised in their own project.

With this in mind, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence contact their counterparts in Australia, Canada and New Zealand and inform them of the discovery and a proposal.

The proposal is, in the wake of the failure of NFR-90 (NATO Frigate Replacement for the 90's), both the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy were in need of a replacement for their aging Type 42 and Iroquois Class Destroyers and the Royal Australian Navy were also beginning to look for a replacement for their Perth Class destroyers, which were scheduled to be decommissioned by the turn of the century, and as such, the countries should publically begin a joint collaboration to develop a multi-role ship class for all four member nations, while at the same time, in the small print of the treaty and not to be released to the public, all four countries will agree to researching the ship and its technology for both civilian and military use.

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A/N 1: The ship recovered is a Goa'uld Troop Transport. This is the ship type that Anubis uses to attack Abydos with, and they are seen in several other episodes. I wanted the Commonwealth to have access to a relatively advanced ship, so that they could be able to reverse-engineer certain technologies. However, I didn't want them to have access to large amounts of goa'uld technology such as hyperdrives and weapons that would push their development too fast. I didn't want them to a threat to the Goa'uld in any way, or expanding outside the solar system until they have discovered the SGC.

From the fact that one of these ships can shrug off a SAM attack with no visible damage, I believe that they have very basic shields, capable of repelling most surface to air attacks, in order to give the ships some survivability going from orbit to the ground. Based on the idea that they are troop transports, I would assume that they would be carried inside the hangar bays of the Ha'taks and then be launched in orbit. This means that the ship doesn't have a hyperdrive for the Terran Commonwealth to reverse engineer. I have also assumed that it doesn't have any weapons due to the fact that none of the Troop Transports appearances have shown them to have any visible weapons. I have also decided that as it is supposed to be a troop transport that it should be capable of deploying large numbers of troops to a contested area, so I have given it 3 ring transporters to allow for ease of loading and unloading troops and equipment.

The lack of Naquadah prevents the Terran Commonwealth from reproducing the technology in the ship, so they have to reverse engineer it and develop their own from the information they gather. Therefore their technology will not be as powerful and effective as the original technology that it's based on.

A/N 2: I have decided to split this section of the story up into several sections, especially as the original of this part was 199 words, and this is 860 words.

A/N 3: I've pushed the discovery of the Ship a year earlier as, in agreement with several critics, I feel that the technology research and development is too fast for reality. Thus, approximately 4 years is now available for the countries to begin to reverse engineer the technology and translate the information.