While fleeing from the Ori after the death of their alllies, the Odyssey is near destruction. In a desperate bid for surviaval, a future version of Samantha Carter develops a plan to use the power of the Ori beam to save the ship. But it goes horribly wrong...now the cruiser is in a new reality, and a new war. Can they help their cousins in the UNSC? Or will the Covenant prevail?