The Serpent's Tooth [3]
Mission Info
| Status | Completed Mission | |
| Description | A flotilla of starships crosses through the anomaly seeking asylum, followed by pursuers who seek to punish the runaways for crimes against their galaxy.  |
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| Mission Group | Year One | |
| Start Date | Sun Jan 19th, 2025 @ 1:48pm | |
| End Date | Mon Jul 28th, 2025 @ 1:48pm | |
Mission Posts
Mission Summary
A biomechanical being known as a Toa appears in the last few minutes of the connection to the universe designated D-4. Named Mana'i, she turns out to be well suited to the Starfleet experience, and begins shadowing science staff. In the universe designated E-5, there are objects in range of the station for the first time, an entire solar system awaits to be explored.
Though the only planet in the system with an atmosphere is at too volatile a developmental stage to be visited, the crew discover a strange mineral within it, and beam sizable samples aboard. After a week of exploration and mineral extraction, the Excalibur prepares to head back. A quintet of pyramid-shaped starships arrive in the system and move directly for the anomaly.
Two of the five are destroyed, but not before they take out the vessel attacking them. The Pharoah Akhenaten makes contact on behalf of his people, Goa'uld and Jaffa who share a faith known as Atenism. He requests sanctuary, which the crew dispatch teams to the three surviving ships to assess. Shortly before the anomaly's change to universe F-6, the decision is made to grant asylum to the Atenists, who claim that they are targeted for death for having produced Harcesis offspring, children born of two Goa'uld inhabited hosts.
Two days into their stay docked at DS13, the Goa'uld Hera and her forces interrupt a treaty-signing ceremony by summoning weapons with strange technology and taking hostages.
While many of DS13's crew are incapacitated by the surprise attack, and the Excalibur docks at Hera's orders after they threaten the hostages. Those in the great hall are soon left alone, but they learn that the Goa'uld have managed to take control of the station's computer systems. Hera sends her Lieutenants to attempt to implant the Space Marine Volsunga with a symbiote, but he resists their efforts and kills the Goa'uld Hekate and several of Hera's Jaffa.
With the help of several of the Jaffa, and the Klingon Ambassador, the crew are able to get the injured to sickbay and restore one of the inactive docks that has not been infected by the Goa'uld algorithm. As the crew slowly take back areas of the station, Hera sends her Jaffa aboard the Excalibur, believing they will use it to escape. She does not realise that they are trapped by the Excalibur's Commander using his timeship's defences, until her son Heracles rejects her, choosing instead to stay with his beloved fellow Harcesis, Atonu. Hera soon realises they have lost contact with the Jaffa aboard the Excalibur, and makes her escape in a previously hidden cloaked ship.
The station's defences are restored sufficiently to disable Hera's vessel before it can leave the system. Shortly after control of the station is retaken, a strange energy reading is detected within one of the inactive Goa'uld ships. A sequence of strange blocks emerge from within it, forming a large ring in which a massive artifical wormhole forms. Through the ring comes a ship of the Tau'ri Alliance, the beings who had pursued the Atenist ships when they first passed through the anomaly.
The Tau'ri offer their assistance and friendship, helping DS13's crew to keep the insurgents contained, and claim to have evidence of warcrimes committed by the Atenists. Captain Rovak agrees to hold a trial to determine if extradition is justified, and over several days the trial proceeds, with a telepathic jury assigned to determine if the witnesses are lying, in lieu of evidence beyond what the Tau'ri can provide.
Despite the evidence of Goa'uld brutality and grave danger posed by the Harcesis, the Captain determines that there is no hard evidence of wrongdoing by the Atenist leaders, the Federation has no right to judge the cultural norms that Goa'uld and Jaffa in their home universe. When the injured Lieutenant Eris sh'Rhavar dies of injuries sustained during Hera's attack however, Rovak changes his verdict, and orders Hera's immediate extradition. He also orders that the Goa'uld hosts all be examined using Tau'ri technology to determine if they consent to their role, and if not they are to be sent home if they so wish.
When Typhon hears of this, he activates a secret transporter and attempts to flee through the anomaly, but his escape shuttle is destroyed by the Tau'ri ship. The Tau'ri soon depart, leaving behind the Asgard Tyr, and the Goa'uld Polyphron who was responsible for taking over DS13's computers, though she agrees to remain behind without a host in the hopes of demonstrating contrition. The Tau'ri also decide to leave behind three 'Stargates', ringed devices through which the components of the 'Supergate' they arrived through emerged.
Though interuniversal travel after the impending trip home for the Tau'ri seems near-impossible without incomprehensibly massive amounts of power, the advisors left behind offer to assist the crew in understanding the devices where needed, leaving them to discover them on their own, but offering to step in if any danger emerges.
With Hera's forces following Hercules, who declares his loyalty to Akhenaten, the Atenists are reduced down to two factions, Akhenaten's and Chimaera's. Each is offered settlement on Dreizhen III, choosing the rugged world over the comfort of Dreizhen IV. A small city of residences with a massive pyramid is built for each of the two factions, forming colonies known as New Ischia and Akhet-Aten (The City of the Horizon).
Aboard DS13, Commander Atna is unexpectedly attacked by a rogue symbiote that had remained hidden. Though it has been rejected from her body, seems to have been rendered braindead by her Vulcan immune system and she appears restored, in private she seems to remain under its influence.
