Fourth mission review log [✱3]
Posted on Sun Aug 31st, 2025 @ 12:10pm by Captain Rovak
Edited on Sun Aug 31st, 2025 @ 12:17pm
705 words; about a 4 minute read
Captain’s log, Stardate 79710.28. The last few weeks have proved especially eventful. Shortly before discovering the first reachable objects in another universe, we received a guest in the form of the traveller Mana’i, a biomechanical lifeform who served as a scientist in the oddly primitive society she was born to. Since appearing through a portal, she has proven to be a dedicated and effective member of our team, and has since been awarded a provisional rank of Ensign, and a position in our multiversal science team.
Our venture into universe E-5, or ‘Tau’ri’ as it has come to be known, was quite involved. First we discovered a solar system that was largely unremarkable beyond a world replete with a mineral resource unknown to our science, but with energy potential greater than most natural substances in our universe. After six days of study and mineral requisition, we had prepared to return when five ships arrived into the system by faster-than-light travel.
Only three of the fleeing ships survived their attempt to cross the anomaly, but their attacker too was destroyed. The inhabitants of the vessels revealed themselves to be Atenists, members of a heretical sect among their symbiotic race who believed in producing offspring who bore the genetic memory of two lines, something otherwise forbidden in their culture for millennia.
Their race, the Goa’uld, and their servant species the Jaffa fled a complex history of galactic conflict, and while there were three factions of varying intentions, the spiritual leader Akhenaten seemed to genuinely believe in the betterment of his people, and asylum was granted to all in the brief time before the anomaly switched to its next destination.
Only a few days into their arrival, the forces of the Lady Hera attempted an insurgency to overtake the station. At first they succeeded in overpowering the senior staff and seizing control of our computers with a malicious program, but a series of deceptions allowed us to isolate most of their number as they attempted to flee in a previously unseen vessel.
By powering up one of the previously inactive docks, the crew were able to disable Hera’s vessel. Shortly afterwards, a vessel of the beings that had pursued the Atenists when they were first encountered appeared. The beings, an alliance known as the Tau’ri, accused the Atenists of warcrimes, and a tribunal was held to evaluate the extradition request.
Though the trial failed to produce cause to extradite, after the death of one of the officers injured in Hera’s uprising caused the Captain to order her extradition, and when tests to ensure all the symbiotes had the consents of their hosts, the Lord Typhon also fled, and was destroyed by the Tau’ri as he attempted to cross the anomaly.
While a rogue symbiote somehow got loose and took an involuntary host despite the security we held the Goa’uld and Jaffa in after the uprising, the affected crewmember has since made a full recovery. The Atenists have since established two colonies on Dreizhen III, Akhet-Aten, or the City of the Horizon under Akhenaten, and New Ischia under Typhoeus, once known as Chimaera, son of Typhon.
We look greatly forward to seeing how the colonies develop, especially given their insistence on the comparatively hostile desert world Dreizhen III, instead of the idyllic Dreizhen IV, which they were originally offered for settlement. We also look carefully forward to discovering the nature of the device, known as a 'Stargate' which allowed the Tau'ri to cross universes. Though we cannot make trips so far without immense sources of power beyond our capability, the stargate itself allows wormholes to form between fixed points where gates are placed. Three such devices have been left in our possession.
What this will mean for our operations here, as well as the galactic status quo remains to be seen. If nothing else, a shorter trip back to the Alpha Quadrant would be appreciated by many aboard, I'm sure.
I note that we commit to the record; Lieutenants Adrax Kakistos and Eris sh'Rhavar, fallen in the line of duty. Though the circumstances were quite different, I have spoken with their families, and both will remain in my thoughts. End log.
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