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Chapter 12 - The Excalibur

Colonel John Shepard sat in the command chair on the bridge of the USS. Excalibur.

John loved his new command post, he was in command of one of the new Phoenix class ships, and was also Currently In charge of of the Pegasus fleet ,seeing as he was The highest ranking officer currently stationed in the Pegasus galaxy.

He is also the one with the most experience with the wraith, and the other peoples of the Pegasus galaxy that the expedition had come to know.

For this reason general JackO'Neill,believed that Shepherd was the ideal man for the job.

The general had been following John Shepherd's career,and was looking out for him where he could.

The general saw a kindred spirit in John, in the generals opinion John had done a marvelous job in Pegasus and deserved the posting.

The Excalibur and the victory accompanied by two Asgard ships, the Valhalla and the Aegir,were cloaked and scanning ,waiting for the Wraith to drop out of hyperspace , the Wraith were on their way to cull another world.

Unlike the Tau'ri ships that could travel across galaxies without damage from hyperspace travel .

The wraith ships being organic in nature,had no choice but to stop ,and allow time for the ship to repair itself ,from the damage caused by radiation from traveling through hyperspace.

Atlantis had been tracking the Wraith's movements, and had calculated where they would drop out of hyperspace for the ship to repair itself, before the last hyperspace jump to the world that the Wraith planned to cull.

On board the Excalibur, The sensor operator called out detecting hyperspace windows opening In 45 seconds,and 45 seconds later two hives and three cruisers dropped out of hyperspace .

The ships of the Tau'ri and Asgard, positioned themselves two behind the Wraith ships, and two in front of them.

"Drop the cloak on my order, raise shields and target the nearest hive, give me three burst from the beam weapons ,and target the first cruiser, at the same time fire three drones at the hive ship.

Inform the victory to target the other hive, and the other cruiser, put me through to the Valhalla" ,Colonel Shepherd,Stated. Shepherd quickly relayed his strategy to the Asgard .

"Drop the cloak,rise shields and fire"said Shepherd.

The Meriin faze shifting cloak ,was dropped and the Excalibur appeared before the Wraith a few seconds later the victory did the same, both ships instantly raised their shields,and opened fire on the enemy ships .

The Asgard beam weapons sliced through the hull of the Wraith hives, and drones flew from the Tau'ri warships towards the Wraith cruisers .

The Valhalla and the Aegir dropped their cloaks ,and fired ion blots at the rear of the cruisers ,and Asgard beam weapons at the rear of the hive ships .

Under the combined assault from the Tau'ri and Asgard, the Wraith ships were destroyed without them being able to fight back ,the entire battle was over in less than a minute.

The same scenario would be repeated many times, across the galaxy over the next few days , the Wraith began to fear for the first time in ten thousand years .