Evans was standing looking out the window. She had accessed an Asgard core before, she had been to other planets. Though she was on a spaceship, in space. A spaceship. Not a shuttle a real life spaceship. This was amazing, she wasn't encumbered by a suit, or having to worry about oxygen or gravity she was just standing looking out her bedrooms window at planet Earth. How astronauts in the International Space Station could live in space knowing what was going on she didn't know! It must be torture. Maybe they got some compensation down the line? It seemed plausible at least. She turned and hit the door activation button, almost walking into someone who was passing the hatch. She murmured an apology as she walked out of the room.

The ship had really come to life since she had boarded the IOA requesting she have priority clearance. Which she had winced at, the General didn't like people getting special treatment. Something that had been incorporated into the very design of the vessel. From the C&C to the quarters, the lack of the second mess was just good for morale. Something they had learned with the members aboard Destiny who all lived together, she felt bad for comparing herself to them. She was here by choice, they were still stranded after all this time. Though who knew what Ida held! Perhaps they'd find a way too dial Destiny or at least a planet capable off it. She smiled to herself as she walked the halls, deciding to pay a visit down to the research labs before they went off on their mission... which sounded important and dangerous. Though there'd probably be a lot of that. However, for now she could go see if any o their alien friends were aboard yet, and check they were comfortable.

“Yes, Mam that is fine, I was assisting in combat support, or recovering missing personnel during my time there and sometimes we were always busy.” Tanaka said as he started walking through the halls to the armory he had found earlier in the day. A shiver ran down his spine as a memory of reading the event of Atlantis’s dealings with the replicators, after the fact reemerged into his memory when Miyako mentioned replicators earlier. “Let’s just hope we can deal with whatever is out there. “He said with a forced smile as he continued walking passing a pair of hurrying engineers.

“If you don’t mind me asking were you born in the United States or in japan?” He asked as they continued past the crew quarters. “I myself was born and raised in Osaka in Kansai region, I love going to Osaka in Chūō-ku acting like a samurai when I was a kid.” He said as he walked, he felt warmth surface across his face as he walked, feeling embarrassed tell her about something he never brought up with other people. “Excuse me I just haven’t had company that may know a bit about japan in a while me and the other Japanese at Atlantis didn’t get along well, because I always broke some equipment and needed them to fix it.” He said just as he stopped outside of a lift.

As Elena was admiring the R-547 running her hand against the nose of the new space craft, then she heard another woman's voice. "Beautiful, isn't she came to check out the new merchandise, Lieutenant?" ?" Taking a moment she turned to see a black haired woman, taking a closer look seeing the name and rank embroidered into the upper right part of her chest. Elena stood at attention and saluted the general. "She is a beautiful craft ma'am, never seen one of these before. I'm assuming they are fresh out of Area-51?" Elena asked, quickly forgetting to introduce herself to the general. "First Lieutenant, Elena Fowler." She said extending her hand towards General Black.

The general returned the salute per protocol and shook the offered hand. "At ease. And off duty it's Catherine or Kat if you want. I figure since we're going to be alone on this ship for quite some time, it'd do us all good to relax the protocol a little bit." she greeted and turned her eyes back to the recon fighter.

"No wonder, to my knowledge we'll be performing both non- and combat evaluation of the five-four-seven. Although just like the Nyx, the design was conceived by our very own Dr. Lawson. We had the experimental R-302s on the Langford, but it was too damn small to accommodate all the necessary systems. This beauty has it all though - cloak, sprint hyperdrive, target painter missiles. It's a bit bigger target, but if you get shot at in one of these, you did something wrong." the general fangirled, "Still waiting to be added to my have-flown list, hopefully soon." she added.

She would have liked to keep talking and continue her inspection, but her communicator coughed to life. "Ma'am, system checks are complete. We are ready to head out." Kat sighed. So much for the sight seeing. "Well, it would seem we'll be on our way momentarily." she excused herself, tapping the comms: "I'm on my way, prepare the jump."

When she got to the bridge, the new faces stopped working to give her a salute. Approaching her place at the tactical station, she cleared her throat with an amused smirk behind the Doctor who seemed to be still doing something even though the necessary tests were reported finished. "Just give me shipwide."

"Attention, this is Black. We are about to leave Earth space. First let me tell you that it is a privilege to be serving on the best of Earth's ships, with the finest crew. You have all been pulled from your previous assignments because you are the best at what you do, and at what we will need on our mission. However, make no mistake - no amount of individuals will ever trump a team that works like a well oiled machine. To that end, I ask the crew that has been under my previous command to show the rookies how we do things around here."

"Our long term mission is the exploration of the Ida galaxy. However before that, we will test our metal right here. We have lost contact with one of the planets under our protected planets treaty. Our objective is to investigate and protect and assist the planet in any way we can. We will drop out on the borders of the system and investigate, but be ready for anything. Stand by for jump."

Dropping off of the intercom, she started barking orders: "Have Recon 1 prepared for launch. I want alpha wing in cockpits. Stand by to cloak the ship on exit. Get us into hyperspace." After a brief 'aye-aye', the buzz of the hyperdrive filled the ship as the ship disappeared in the hyperspace window.

“Frankly we have no choice in the matter… We will have to deal with whatever poses danger… If it comes down to the worst case scenario, we might just clash with another galaxy spamming force as our lucks seems to be…” Miyako said with a sarcastic laugh at the end. The still had problems to deal in their own galaxy with the Allience, she couldn’t even imagine what could be lurking in Ida.

“Well I was born and raised in Tokyo, so to answer your question: Japan.” She said with joking friendly voice.” Also drop with the ‘mam’. No need to be that formal with me all the time. Try calling me by name from time to time.” Miyako stated as a smile appeared on her face. She was just about to reply to his statement about him and the other Japanese on Atlantis, when she heard the intercom and Captain Black’s speech on it. Moment’s later the familiar sound of the hyperdrive appeared as the ship jumped.

“Seems like my free time is over…” Miyako stated as she quickly made a U turn and headed in the direction they came from.” It was good meeting and talking with you 2nd Lieutenant, but I must get back to my post. Hope we get the chance to talk again soon~” The doctor stated as she quickly moved in the direction of the sickbay.

A planet under protection gone silent… that usually meant a lot of trouble and by extension wounds. Lot’s of possible scenarios were running through her head and she needed to make sure the sickbay was prepared to admit patients.

“Okey, are we ready for visitors?” She asked once she entered the sickbay.

Tanaka heard the broadcast and watched the doctor leave and broke into a near a quick pace back to his quarters and came crashing into his quarters. He threw his locker open and quickly as he could slide on his plate carrier and left the quarters. “Let go Marines we haven’t got all day.” Said a grizzled sergeant as Tanaka and other marines rushed in to a lift. They poured out of the lift in an orderly fashion moving to the armory. “Marines we are going into unknown territory and must prepare for anything.” Tanaka shuffled in the line as they passed through the armory gearing up.

Tanaka filled his plate carrier with magazines for the TAR-21 and two magazines for the Glock-17 and slid the pistol into its holster and connected the TAR-21 to his sling. Tanaka and two marines been started a slow patrol around the crew deck. “This is Tanaka my team is in position.” He said into his radio as they steeled themselves for anything that could come. “Roger.” Announced his radio as a message was returned over the radio. “I hate first contact.” He whispered to himself.

Hannah

Somewhat disappointed that she didn't get to meet any new aliens, they always had such interesting stories, she took herself to the observation deck. Her dour mood was soon gone as she finally got to see the whole ship. She was different from any other ship in the Earth fleet, even the Sol took some ques from earlier designs. This was something else, elegant in design. Long and sleek, curved. Everything about her screamed purpose, speed, stealth. If only she could get a chance to see the ship from the outside, though she was no pilot. She looked down, at the navy blue suit she was wearing. It was obvious she was no pilot. Part of her felt if she had known all this existed, she could have chosen a very different career track.

She didn't even notice when the Captain gave her address, just felt the ship vibrate and then saw the blue hyperspace window open on front of them. Ready for the slight nudge that acceleration gave on most ships, except Asgard vessels she was told, she was pleasantly surprised too not feel anything as they entered the tunnel taking her into another region off space-time...

She could hardly draw herself away! Though she had too. The General hadn't given her any duties to perform on the ship and she needed something too do. She couldn't be on this ship and not get too do anything. Where was the fun in that?

So she pulled herself away from the window, and walked out.

A stupid grin on her face.

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Lawson

Lawson stepped back as the General walked in. "Oh I'm sorry, am I in your spot?"

He switched the controls back as he stode out from the centre and moved to the back of the room just to check what everyone was doing. Listening to the speech he gave a single clap, then he realized something. "Oh wait, yeah. I need to go get the plane ready... Send your pilot down to me Black. I need to go over some things." With that he turned and walked out of the room in a hurry, before running back in and picking up a tablet.

"I'll need this. Yeah just send your pilot straight to me."

"Yes, boss!" Catherine rolled her eyes under her eyelids. Duh! "Try to make sure they won't detect this one as soon as it sticks it's head through the door." she jabbed verbally as Lawson returned for the forgotten device. Fortunately SGC universally adopted the FESS, but that would only work for as long as no one else uses ship to ship missiles that would just disintegrate the safety in the blast.

Walking up to the 'stage' - seriously, elevated pedestal? What was she a supermodel? Or a micromanaging freak who needed to watch over everyone's shoulders? Well OK, maybe the last one a little... - she pulled up the flight roster for today. Incidentally the first name on it was the woman she just met. Damn her luck! She connected to the pilot's earpiece: "Lieutenant, suit up and report to Dr. Lawson in the hangar, you will be flying recon 1."

A few minutes later, the Nyx dropped out of hyperspace and parked in orbit around of the outermost planet. "Are we getting anything yet?" she asked, wondering if there was any communication traffic at least. "Nothing on subspace, either data or transit. Whatever is here, it's staying and there are no more on the way." the sensors tech reported. "Well, let's have a closer look."

Tapping the controls she connected to the hangar: "We're here, is the plane ready?"

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Elena listened to Catherine and couldn't help but let out a sharp whistle after hearing that it had a cloak installed reminding her of the Puddle Jumpers back on Atlantis, and the Tel'tak's used by the Goa'uld, Tok'ra and the Lucian Alliance. "Extremely useful for recon and stealth missions. Was nice meeting you Kat, be seeing you later." Elena said she gave General Black a nod, watching as she turned around and left the hangar. She quickly went over towards the F-302's to help the hangar crew and other pilots load up and fuel up the fighters, taking a moment she tied her hair up into a pony tail to make sure that it wouldn't be getting in her way and started to listen to the speech that General Black was making to the crew.

Elena then turned towards Recon One feeling the Nyx's engines going into hyperspace, she started to fuel up the recon fighter, then she heard General Black's voice going through her ear piece just as she was finished her final checks on everything and made sure that everything was in working order tapping her ear piece. "Lieutenant Fowler here, Recon One is fueled up and ready to go on your order ma'am." Elena couldn't help but feel giddy about flying a new craft for the very first time.

Lawson

Lawson completely ignored the pilot when he finally got to the hanger, scrambling and climbing straight into the cockpit. He began powering up the ship and flicking an assortment of different switches while hitting different button combinations bringing it online. He then reached down beside him and pulled out a specialized flight jacket and threw it down beside the pilot. "Throw that on. I know it isn't very fashionable however it'll help you keep incognito if the cloak is deactivated or fails." He then looked at her. "Not that I am expecting it to fail but this is it's first test in an actual mission." He turned back to face the console. "Sure she'll be fine. Just don't try and do anything too fancy. This is the first one I built, I don't want you breaking it."

He thought back to the R-302 and then turned around to the black box sitting behind the pilots chair, more than an average black box it contained the FESS (Pronounced "Fez"), which would beam the pilot into storage to later be recovered if something went catastrophically wrong. Not that it would, however he ran his hand over it and smiled when he felt a slight vibration indicating that it's powersource was operational. That meant that if something did go wrong at least this pilot would survive. He kinda wished he wasn't working with a new pilot but needs must.

He signalled her up the ladder, and began running over the controls. She probably read a brief at some point, but that didn't stop him from doing this. "Standard 302 controls. Over here-" He pointed to a small screen. "-Is your emissions, that putton goes to silent running and you should see a decrease. You'll get less out of the engines but you'll be invisible to most scanners without having to cloak. This only really works against Goa'uld vessels as far as we've seen." He pointed to another screen. "This one here monitors the cloak, simple button activate and de-activate. When activated all comms will switch to subspace and will be randomly stored and sent at intervals to prevent it being traced. If theres an emergency either the General can force through comms or you can put in your command code and send a full transmission."

He stood up, climbing past her and down. "I'll be monitoring your status from the C&C, any problems ask for me direct. Happy flying." He tapped his earpiece. "She's ready Cap. I mean General."

Receiving the affirmatives, the general nodded to herself. pulling up the schematics of the current star system, she quickly found the planet the Pack was supposed to be inhabiting. There was a minor noise on the sensors, but this far out not even the Nyx's suite had enough resolution to make heads or tails of it. It could have been communications satellites or any number of things, but since the contact was lost, it could have also been an invasion fleet.

"Recon 1, Nyx control. You are cleared for takeoff. Go into full stealth after you clear the deck, we need to check if the communications work. Execute jump once we upload your jump coordinates. Your primary objective is to observe the situation and relay back. We have a reason to believe enemy forces may be at play, possibly the Lucian Alliance so exercise caution. If that is the case, you are not to engage. alpha wing is standing by if you need fighter cover for any reason. They are ready to launch on your order, don't wait to go through us if you're getting shot at." Black instructed.

Turning her attention elsewhere, she turned to her head of internal security: "I want two squads ready to go down in case they're needed. One squad to secure the gate will take an engineer, the other will make contact with our allies, make them take a medic."

Tanaka was patrolling the crew decks when his radio buzzed to life with a message from the Major in charge of the marine contingent aboard the Nyx. He urgently rushed back to the briefing room where the major was waiting and ran him over the mission and told him to pick marines for his squad that was to make contact. He remembered two names from when he reviewed dossiers of the marine enlisted personnel aboard ship. “Sergeant Neilson, and Lance Corporal Mendoza report to the briefing room. “he Said over the marines closed communication network, another marine Lieutenant was doing the same thing for the star gate defense team. The briefing room filled rapidly as Neilson a giant of a man with a Texan drawl and Mendoza a weapons specialist from Los Angeles.

“Mendoza you got the M249 and will be bringing up the rear, Neilson you will be second and you bring along a zat and a stretcher, we don’t know what we will be facing out there so be ready for anything out there, from a mass casualties situation or Lucian alliance so were going in heavy and ready but don’t get jumpy.” Said Tanaka as he snapped on Kevlar helmet on the assault pack he had on. ”Standby here well I go fetch us a medic.” He walked down the hall in full kit as he entered a lift and went to the Crew deck. He walked through the crew deck until he found the sick bay. He walked into the sickbay seeing people ready and waiting. ”I wish to speak with your CO about mission down to the planet? “Asked Tanaka as he walked in.

Since the announcement of the mission and their destination, in the sickbay there was hell of a lot of commotion. Miyako had them run constant drills and perform additional checks of the inventory just in case. Considering the high possibility of the Alliance having a hand in whatever was going down on that planet, they should have been prepared for the worst. Those guys didn’t exactly care for being humane or considerate…

“Ahh 2nd lieutenant Tanaka, didn’t think I would have seen you that soon.” Miyako said as she walked towards the soldier who just entered.” I suppose you are here to inquire about a medic for the mission?” The Japanese woman said with a smile as she proceeded to take her white mantle off. It was the only reason to have the soldier in full gear come to the sickbay wihtout nay visible injuries.” A lot of my people here are civilians so I can’t exactly send them down with you. I will be the one who will be accompanying you~” She said with a friendly voice and reached towards what would appeared to be her medical bag, not much use of a medic without one of those.” Alright, 2nd lieutenant, lead the way to the armory…”
“Unless you walked all the way to the sickbay just to see me… in which case I just made a fool out of myself…” Miyako said at the end as a joke.

“Sorry I’m sadly here for business.” Said Tanaka as he led the path towards the armory as his equipment clicked as he walked. “My team Neilson and Martinez will protect you to are best extent we can out there, Nielson is trained in first responder as I am myself in case we come to a mass casualties situation.” He said as he came to the lift and led them into the lift. “If you have and questions please feel free to ask. “He stated as he activated the lift. Lift doors hissed open and Tanaka continued his pace as he came to the armory. “In side you can gear up. “He said as opened the armories door

Elena turned around when she heard the door to the hangar open watching Dr. Lawson making his way towards her, or rather towards the R-547 and completely ignoring her. "Well nice to meet you as well Doc." Elena said sarcastically and followed behind him hearing him turning on switches and other buttons. Then she quickly caught the flight jacket he had tossed her, like anything from the military clothing weren't all that fashionable. Elena sighed and started to put the flight jacket on and adjusted it slightly before climbing up the ladder when Lawson motioned her up.

The cockpit reminded her of an F-302 just with a few extra buttons and switches, she read some of the specs of the R-547 before the mission and knew the basic systems but decided to let the doctor explain anyway. When he was done Elena quickly pulled herself into the cockpit and closed the canopy, since the systems were already powered up she watched Dr. Lawson leaving the hangar and waved goodbye hearing General Black's voice again and replied. "Got it General ready to leave, and make sure you tell Doc Lawson that i'll bring his daughter back before midnight without a scratch." Elena reached for the helmet and quickly sets it over her head. "Recon 1 leaving the hangar now." She said as she used the controls and quickly pulled out of the hangar pressing the emissions button and the cloak as well. "Cloak and emissions are good, and ready to receive coordinates."

Toying with the thought of telling Phil that Elena wants to take Ruth out when they return form the mission, Black snuffed a snicker and returned to business mood. Looking over the sensors, the plane was indeed gone were it not for the occasional transmission through subspace notifying the Nyx of its presence. "Copy that recon 1, uploading coordinates. Stay safe." the general notified and nodded to the navigation officer to do so.

The space around the Pack's planet was a graveyard. A ring of Goa'Uld debris was forming around the planet, and a derelict Ha'Tak sat in geostationary orbit like a dead moon. The place was devoid of any electronic signals, whatever communications grid there was on the planet was gone, crushed like it's defenders. But the planet was full of energy signatures, condensed around the burning settlements.

“Good to know. From what I heard about the situation, chances are good there are a lot of casualties… if we find anyone alive at all.” Miyako said with dark voice. It wasn’t going to be a first time for her to encounter such situation.” Hopefully it’s something that just destroyed communications, but chances for that are regrettably low…”

“Yes, I have a question, tell me about the men in your squad.” The doctor asked genuinely interested. It was a think she had to know. She was going to meet those men soon so she at least wanted some bits of info about them." Nothing in too much detail, just the cliff notes."

“Going to be ready soon…” She said as she entered the armory and went to change uniforms from the standard uniform all of them wore on the ship, to the soldier combat garbs. Quickly changing into the green clothes the soldiers and SG teams wore, she proceeded with putting on the armored vest and then take the standard set of weapons. Last she attached her medical bag onto the military backpack and threw it on her back.” I’m ready.”

"Coordinates received General, i'll let you know what I see." Elena said as she activated the hyperspace drive, and quickly typed in the coordinates before making the quick jump over the Pack's planet. Seeing all of the space debris Elena quickly scanned the graveyard, and flew the plane further in system Elena then opened a subspace channel again to the Nyx. "Just got into the system General Black, I can say that there is a graveyard here."

Elena flew past a half of what looked like an Al'kesh. "Though there is a Ha'Tak that looks mostly intact and getting some energy signatures coming from the surface. Do you want me to return back to the Nyx, or investigate some more?"

“I have not worked with them before they were the best choices from review of their dossiers, which I reviewed before coming aboard ship and had spoken to them a couple of times when selecting my team aboard ship.” announced Tanaka as he stood by the armory door looking to the hall. “Martinez is a good guy from Los Angeles he stands about five nine he has experience in marine force recon and word from his CO is that he was an excellent marine but had a slight attitude problem.” He said well he was remembering back to the two marine’s files. ”Nielson is a former member of the air force security force a tall guy , with a thick Texan drawl and he is calm but his files said that he was very laid back but quite dependable. “ Ah well now you look ready to operate in the field. “Replied Tanaka as he activated his headset as they walked towards the standby room where both teams were waiting patiently. “General both teams are ready and standing bye, mam.” He said into his radio and he slid onto a bench ready to depart.

"Negative. We need to identify who did it. See if you can get a closer look at the signatures on the surface. Remember you're not in a 302, this thing won't fly in atmo, so low orbit scan only. If you can, get a detailed scan of the area around the stargate. Be careful, whoever did that might still be there." Catherine ordered. By no means was the Pack a big military threat, but something was off. The Lucian Alliance would stay to claim the spoils, that was if they risked violating the protected planets treaty in the first place. It wasn't their MO, but on the other hand, there weren't that many threats left in Milky way that could do this.

"Take us in, quietly." Black ordered the helm and got back to Fowler: "We'll be arriving momentarily. Stand by." She ordered the ground teams to be on standby until they knew more.

As the Nyx dropped out of hyperspace again, the cloak immediately activated as they cruised away from the exit point. "At what efficiency can we operate the sensors and not be detected?" she asked the collective, intending to look for any enemy stragglers.