Stargate Knights Templars

In 1249, the Knights Templar while retreating from the defeat of Louis IX of France, stumbled across a strange holy relic while digging for water.

It was a large metal ring and mushroom shaped domed pedestal covered with a cover stone.

While staring at the relic at night it soon became apparent that they glyphs on the metal ring and the mushroom shaped domed pedestal were stars in the night time sky.

Not wanting the heretics or the Mohammedans to gain control of the holy relic they take them along with them on their withdrawal to their island fortress of Cyprus.

By 1281, a Knight Templar playing with the Eye of God pressed the glyphs on the mushroom shapes pedestal and was shocked by a loud whoosh and the interior of the ring being covered in a water like substance.

He quickly summoned the Grand master Jacques de Molay and demonstrated it to him.

After much discussion by the order it was decided to send the original knight Anthony de Bebend through the Eye of God to discover what was on the other side as some scholars of the order had determined from writings on the cover stone that this was a stairway to heaven.

Before he was to go through the Eye of God Anthony de Bebend was allowed to study everything that came with the Eye of God.

He was particularly interested in a set of six glyphs engraved into a stone tablet.

When Anthony de Bebend stepped through the Eye of God he was stunned by what he found.

He was in a clearing surrounded by forest but he already knew he was far from home as it was dark here and there was no escaping the fact that three moons hung above him in the night time sky.

Scavenging about for wood near the Eye of God Anthony de Bebend eventually collected enough wood to start a fire.

Once the fire was going he started pressing the glyphs to try and find a way home.

It was near evening the following day when he finally got the Eye of God to make a loud whoosh and with the blind faith of a Soldier of Christ he stepped through the Eye of God and back into the companionship of his brothers Knights Templar.

Grand master Jacques de Molay listened to Anthony de Bebend's description of this new land God had shown them.

And after discussions with his senior Knights he decided to send a party through to the new land late this evening when it will be light in this new land.

If it was free of dangers he would start sending the order of Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon through to establish a land where they could have their own monastic state.

Those travelling through the Eye of God where told by Anthony de Bebend the correct pattern of glyphs required to return home.

The Templars spent a week in the new land riding in every direction and discovered no sign of life apart from the native animals.

When the exploration teams returned to the Eye of God after the predetermined time they compared notes on what they had discovered then a decision was made that their horses would not be taken back through the Eye of God but instead a small group of Knights would remain while the rest returned home to report to the Grand Master of the order.

Grand master Jacques de Molay was delighted with the reports he received.

It appears that this new land God had shown them was perfect for the Order to establish their own monastic state.

After discussions with the senior knights of the order it was decided to start the relocation of the entire order from their current holdings to their new lands God had directed them towards.

The first to be sent through would be labourers, arborists, carpenters, masons and quarrymen.

They would be followed by farmers and animal keepers.

They would build the fortifications and castles for the order.

While this is being done Grand Master Jacques de Molay would start liquefying all the orders assets and sending the funds to Cyprus and then onto New Jerusalem the name he had decided to call the Templars new world that God had sent them.

By 1290, New Jerusalem was a thriving settlement.

Over half the Knights Templars had already moved to New Jerusalem they had taken with them many peasants to work the land and to do the mundane tasks that every civilised society required.

Due to the Knights Templar close association with the Order of Saint Benedict many priests, nuns and monks of this order accepted the invitation to follow the Knights Templar to their monastic state.

Grand Master Jacques de Molay had been hearing some unsettling rumours coming from France.

Philip IV of France was deeply in debt to the order and the rumour he had heard was that Philip was asking for the dissolution of the Knights Templar and the confiscation of their assets.

This he simply couldn't allow.

Luckily most of the order had already moved to New Jerusalem and preparations were being made to bury the Eye of God on Cyprus.

Masons were building a large sturdy wall where the Eye of God is located and before the final Templar leaves for New Jerusalem the grotto in front of the room will be filled with rubble.

Hopefully once they realise that the Knights Templars have disappeared whoever takes over Cyprus won't bother with digging through the rubble of what appears to be a collapsed room.

Even if they do all they will see is another wall that would lead them to believe that it is the end of the room.

The election of Pope Clement V gave Philip IV the connections he needed to go after the Knight Templar to whom he was greatly in debt.

He was soon shocked to discover that the Templar holdings had been sold over the preceding twenty years and even his debt to them had been sold off cheaply to the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish crown.

Pope Clement V was shocked by the disappearance of the Knights Templar.

He could hardly dissolve or excommunicate the order if there was no evidence of wrong doing.

Besides that would now be a pointless gesture as all the Templars wealth along with the order had disappeared.

Philip IV would have to find another way to rid himself of the debt that was now owed to two powerful empires.

Grand Master Jacques de Molay laughed with some of his Knights at the jest of the wool they had pulled over the eyes of Philip IV.

While they still had their oath to the throne of Rome they didn't consider Clement V the true pontiff as he had moved the papacy to France to be the lapdog of Philip IV.

Anthony de Bebend had been the last through the Eye of God and had confirmed that the grotto was filled with rubble and the stonewall that the masons had built held back the rubble.

Even though they wanted to free the holy lands the current political climate doesn't leave them much option but to flee.

But now they had time to build their strength and when they return they will be strong enough to reclaim the Holy Lands for all of Christendom.

While their numbers were small the peasants had already experienced a population boom as they had been given land to tend that was theirs in all but name.

And the tribute they had to pay to the order was reasonable.

The married men of the order had brought their wives, families and possessions along with them and unlike the peasants they were allowed to purchase land as freehold as long as they pledged fidelity to the order and of course paid their tribute to the Knights Templar.

For now Grand Master Jacques de Molay could sit back and help the order develop their monastic state.

Hopefully there will be a decent abbey for him to be buried in when he dies.

With the death of Grand Master Jacques de Molay in 1314, Anthony de Bebend was elected the new grand master.

His first edit as Grand Master of the Knights Templar was the removal of the celibacy requirements.

All members of the order could now marry and have children but must remain pious to the order and follow all other rules and especially the commandments of god.

Any Templar found guilty of any breach of God's laws would be put to the Holy fire to purge their souls of Satan's influence.

With this change all members of the order even those who only entered for a set time could wear the White Mantles, Surcoat with a Red Cross.

While the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon re-established themselves on New Jerusalem not much thought was given to the Eye of God.

It wasn't until 1335 that the Eye of God was dialled again and that was done under the order of Grand Master Anthony de Bebend who wanted to make sure that nobody had tried to use the Eye of God on Cyprus.

He was most surprised when the young Knight dialling the Eye of God pressed one glyph incorrectly and the Eye of God still connected.

Intrigued Anthony de Bebend order a party through the Eye of God to discover what was on the other side.

The report was interesting.

There was a castle with more god magic in it and another Eye of God.

But apart from the other god magic were what appeared to be four languages two of which were recognisable.

One was obviously Latin based or perhaps more likely had been the base language of Latin.

The other recognisable one was the Norse runes that one of the fathers had recognised but couldn't understand what they said.

What was more interesting was that this castle was badly eroded indicating that it had been abandoned for a very long time.

After a lengthy discussion with the senior knights it was decided to try and stabilise the castle so that it and the writings in it can be studied.

With the discovery that there are more Eyes of God than just the two they knew of it was decided to continue to dial the Eye of God and make a list of which glyphs connected where.

It was during these years of the rule of Grand Master Anthony de Bebend that a sizable library of addresses were recorded but because of the fear of the unknown only the address for earth and Heliopolis named after the prison city that many crusaders had been imprisoned in.

Exploration of these addresses didn't start until after the death of Grand Master Anthony de Bebend.

His replacement was a Knights Templar who was one of the first children born on New Jerusalem, Anton de Biers.

Upon assuming the mantle of Grand Master, Anton de Biers was determined to secure his spot in history by exploring the addresses found during the rule of Anthony de Bebend.

Under the rule of Grand Masters Jacques de Molay and Anthony de Bebend the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon had grown strong.

Grand Master Anton de Biers chose another young knight in the person of Damian LeForge to lead the exploration team.

The first address explored lead to a desert world that had Egyptian hieroglyphs

Inscribed on the walls of what was discovered to be a massive pyramid.

The locals were a stone-age people who still worshiped the Egyptian god Ra.

The priests of the Order of Saint Benedict had a difficult time converting the savages and heathens to the word of the true God.

To the priests it seemed that these pagans were so afraid of this Ra who they said came every season to collect his tribute that they would not convert regardless of what they did to them.

To try to get their point across they drew pictures of the evil serpent that had caused humanities expulsion from the Garden of Eden hoping that they would remember that example of God's law to no avail.

To make an example of these pagans it was decided that every second woman between the age of twelve and twenty would be taken to New Jerusalem where they could be married off to the highest bidders and converted to the word of the true God.

One of the older women in a bid to save her youngest daughter pleaded with the strange Jaffa and offered to show them the secret catacombs if her daughter was released from bondage.

The visage that was before Damian LeForge was unbelievable.

The room was covered in glyphs and would take many months for all the glyphs to be copied.

A small force was left behind to watch for this Ra returning in his flying chariot.

They would remain away from the Abydonians and would report after this Ra had left if that was these heathens were telling the truth.

Ra was incensed when he was told the tale of strange men and armoured warriors who had stolen a third of their women and tried to force them into worshiping the serpent god.

They didn't sound like normal Jaffa but he wouldn't put it past Apophis to develop a new kind of armour and not tell anybody.

But to him the Serpent was the dead giveaway so he didn't bother to check the stargate from which world they had come.

It didn't matter anyhow because Apophis wasn't stupid enough to come from one of his own worlds to raid Ra's slaves.

Ra would get even however as nobody stole from Ra.

Now it was just a matter of seizing one of Apophis' worlds and he would bring all the slaves to Abydos to work in his mines.

Because of the fidelity shown by his Abydonian slaves in reporting this outrageous act and not falling to worship Apophis he would give the local Abydonians who had lost their women first choice of Apophis's female slaves.

After all female slaves were vitally important for producing more slaves to work his mines across his empire.

On New Jerusalem, the stargate activates and all the Knights Templar goes on to alert.

And out of the eye of god steps a dozen armoured warriors.

Knight Templar Frederick von Garger wasn't too concerned by the appearance of these strange armoured warriors as they were outnumbered thousands to one.

The Jaffa Prime sees one warrior standing in front of him almost as if it was a personal challenge.

He steps forward to offer a formal challenge and is surprised when it is accepted.

He nods at his opponent and thinks that these warriors know of honour.

Once they are defeated they will make fine Jaffa for his lord god Cronus.

Knight Templar Frederick von Garger knew right from the start of the challenge that he was outmatched.

His opponent was incredibly fast for his size and had the stamina to match.

Frederick von Garger knew that he was going to die against this opponent so he placed his faith in God and he would let him guide his arm.

As the enemy warrior continued his unrelenting attack he saw an opening and thrust his sword low into his opponent's side between the seams of his plate mail.

Knight Templar Frederick von Garger was surprised when his opponent let out a howl of agonised pain as his blade had not sunk that deep to be an immediate mortal wound.

The Jaffa second watched as his prime went down from the strike his enemy had inflicted in the prime's pouch.

He knew his prime was dead as a strike like that to the young god is always fatal to both god and Jaffa.

He then yells Jaffa Kree and raises his staff to fire on the enemy warriors.

The Templars are stunned that the enemy are firing lightning at them.

Seeing the first rank cut down they all charge forward into battle against the unbelievers for they all knew that the secret of New Jerusalem must be maintained.

Grand Master Anton de Biers looked over the field of battle with worry in his eyes.

Dozens of Templars were dead or lay mortally wounded.

The strange warriors had fought bravely to the last with their cumbersome yet powerful staff like weapons.

The Templars had quickly discovered that a strike to the abdomen was always fatal to these strange warriors.

If the enemies of Christ had weapons this powerful then it was a necessity to get more of these staff weapons for the soldiers of Christ.

Dominic Berlusconi was an artisan in the employ of the order.

He specialised in being an armorer, the crafting of weapons for the order.

The strange staff like weapon he had been given to examine was appalling from his point of view.

It was cumbersome, heavy and difficult to wield.

And it was his job to examine the weapon to see if he could recreate it.

He quickly discovered that it could be disassembled not that it did him any good as he had not the slightest idea on how it functioned.

In its current state it would never be a suitable weapon for the Templars.

Then he had an idea what if he shortened the staff changed its arrangement and built a crossbow like stock for the rest of the staff.

Surely then if it worked it would be a suitable weapon for the Templars.

He had already found out by placing the staff fixed tightly to a bench that the staff was capable of firing more than sixty lightning bolts a minute.

The problem was a proper ability at aiming the weapon and a type of crossbow conversion would be the most likely design to achieve this.

Dominic wondered what sort of reward he would receive if his new design worked like he thought it would.

Grand Master Anton de Biers was stunned when he was presented with the contraption created by Dominic Berlusconi.

The artisan had certainly excelled this time.

While it still looked like an enemy staff at the front the rest looked more like a crossbow.

The new weapon was still top heavy but that was due to the nature of the initial weapon it was developed from.

Now it was merely a matter of testing the new weapon to ensure it worked properly.

If it did then he would have the other captured staffs converted.

If they were successful then he would have to send his knights out to acquire more of the staffs to be converted.

Frederick von Garger had taken a long time to recover from his wound that the staff lightning had inflicted.

The lightning burns would scar his body for the rest of his life but he was one of the lucky ones as he hadn't been mortally wounded or crippled like many others.

Now he and his section had been given the task to acquiring more of these staffs.

He was to scout out the addresses the heathens of Abydos had shown them along with the other addresses that had previously been discovered.

What he didn't like was the orders to attack from ambush to limit his losses until such time that they had sufficient staff bows to equip more of the Templars.

Apophis was annoyed this was the twelfth patrol to be ambushed and stripped of the equipment.

He suspected the Sodan were responsible but he couldn't afford to divert more of his forces to hunting those bandits.

He still didn't know why Ra had started attacking his holdings but it didn't matter now.

He was at war and it was a war he would fight to the very end as he didn't fancy kneeling before Ra and apologise for whatever he had done to displease him.

He just hoped that none of the other System lords joined the fight against him otherwise he might face total defeat.

Knight Templar Frederick von Garger wasn't happy with his orders but the grandmaster had issued them and he was honour bound to obey.

Still he and his fellow knights weren't happy to be out of their white mantles and wearing the foreign armour with unholy symbols drawn on their foreheads.

He knew the reason for attacking the false gods dressed as their opponents he just felt it dishonourable.

At least some of the priests were now able to speak to heathen savages and the order had discovered that these people were impersonating the false gods of Egypt, Greece and Rome.

The rebellion on Malkshur was not going well for Jolinar.

She had decided to rebel against the rule of Cronus and the other System Lords and for a while it had looked like she might succeed.

Then much to her dismay Apophis had joined forces with Cronus to put down her rebellion on the proviso that Cronus assist Apophis in his ongoing war with Ra.

So here she was hiding on Malkshur trying not to be found but that was getting harder with each passing day.

Jolinar knew her chances of escape were slim as the gate was guarded around the clock while the Jaffa of Cronus and Apophis searched for her.

As she hid in the forest near the gate she saw it activate again and more Jaffa loyal to Apophis came through the gate.

Then as she watched the Jaffa of Cronus challenged the new arrivals and much to her surprise the Jaffa of Apophis started firing their strangely modified staff weapons at the Jaffa of Cronus.

Jolinar sighed at the proof before her eyes of just how duplicitous the Goa'uld are and that was why she broke from them.

She should have known that Apophis helping Cronus was merely a ploy to attack him from the inside.

Jolinar knew that she had to leave quickly before the Jaffa noticed her.

Unfortunately as she started to creep away she stepped on a large dry twig that snapped loudly under her foot and half a dozen Jaffa started pursuing her.

In her haste to escape she tripped on a tree root and was quickly surrounded by the Jaffa of Apophis.

It was then that she realised that they weren't Jaffa at all but humans masquerading as Jaffa as none of the 'Jaffa' had prim'tah.

As she was dragged back to stargate she saw something strange the humans were stabbing the prim'tah in the pouch of the Jaffa and then throw the Jaffa through the Chappa'ai along with all their weapons.

When she was back at the chappa'ai some of the humans started asking her questions in the worst Goa'uld she had ever heard.

She played dumb when it became apparent that they didn't know she possessed a symbiote.

Jolinar decided to let her host Prema take control who started her act by screaming at her captors.

One of the men then came up to her and stuffed some cloth in her mouth and had her bound before sending her through the Chappa'ai.

Frederick von Garger smiled as the feisty wench was dragged kicking and screaming through the stargate.

The grandmaster had been after him for a year now to take a wife so that he can do his duty and breed more knights for the order.

He liked spirited women perhaps after they had finished this raid he would ask the grandmaster permission to marry the wench for she was pleasant to the eye and he suspected that she would be a tiger in the bedchamber.

For now he had his duty to do and he led the rest of his knights to raid the surrounding villages and to bring the poor heathen savages back to New Jerusalem where they could be enlightened in the word of the one true God and Christ his son.

Cronus was incensed, Apophis that duplicitous bastard had only helped in order to steal his slaves and massacre his Jaffa.

Some of the remaining slaves had told of Serpent guards dragging many slaves through the chappa'ai to the address he assumed was Abydos.

Cronus thought Apophis must be going senile if he thought he would believe that it was Ra raiding his world just because the address dialled was Abydos.

Apophis was probably just using that world as a way station probably hoping that this would reinforce their alliance against Ra.

Well he'd show that duplicitous bastard that two could play that game.

He would gather his fleet and join with one of Apophis' and when they were in battle he would destroy Apophis' fleet from behind and make a deal with Ra.

He just hoped Ra would allow him to be present or even take part in the torture of Apophis for his crimes against the system lords.

Prema / Jolinar were concerned.

They had been taken to Abydos and then onto another world blindfolded so she didn't know where it was.

From there she was placed in the care of some other women who proceeded to wash and dress her in strange clothing.

Jolinar was starting to understand some of what they were saying.

They seemed to speak a multiple of languages but they had a common language that seemed to be roughly based on the language of the Ancients.

And if she understood them correctly one of her captors had decided that Prema would make him a good wife.

Jolinar was concerned this society wasn't much better than the Goa'uld.

They were apparently a militant order who served this Christ willingly with a devotion that many Goa'uld could only hope for.

Before she knew what was happening she was brought into a large building with an alter in front of a large cross.

But it was what was before the alter that stunned her.

Six men lay prostrate on the stone in front of the alter and as she watched a man approached the men on the floor and reached for a whip that a priest had been blessing before asking the men on the floor, "Who requests the honour?"

All the men replied, "We do Brother!"

With this said the six men reached behind them revealing their bare backs before the man proceeded to whip each one of the men once as the men recited oaths to God, this Christ and the order.

Having finished his part of the initiation he handed the whip back to the priest who continued preying over the men.

As Frederick von Garger turned from the men he noticed Prema / Jolinar in the presence of the woman's guardians.

Smiling at Prema he said to the other women is she ready for the rite?

With their nods he gestured for Prema to and her guardians to follow him deeper into the basilica and from there into a small chapel where waited Grand Master Anton de Biers and the cardinal of the Temple Mount.

Prema / Jolinar were pushed forward by their guardians before the man who had whipped the others took her hand and made her kneel beside him in front of the robed man carrying a thick book.

As she listened to the robed man she picked up the words union in God's grace she realised that this was some kind of marriage ceremony.

Then as the robed man waved incense and splashed water over them the man took Prema's hand and pledged fidelity unto death and then slid a ring onto Prema's finger.

Jolinar could feel Prema's fear rising and quickly bespoke her.

If what she suspected had just happened Prema would soon be taken to his bed.

It would not be the first sexual experience for Jolinar but it would be for Prema who had accepted Jolinar just a couple of days before their capture.

She would give Prema some advice and suggested that if she fulfilled her role as a wife to this Frederick von Garger they might find out more about these strange people and whether or not they could help them fight the Goa'uld.

Prema was surprised at the feast they attended more so by the fact that the eating was done in total silence before entertainments and dancing began.

As the evening drew to a close the man she surmised was her husband took her by her hand and led her into what appeared to be sleeping chambers.

With coaching from Jolinar Prema said, "Please my Lord be gentle. This will be my first time."

Prema was surprised when Frederick replied, "Me too my lovely Prema.

The Grand Master has been wanting me to take a wife for some time now.

The spirit you showed on that heathen world caught my attention and though I will protect you, you will have to submit to the word of our lord God for if you don't I fear the inquisitors will put you to the Holy fire."

With this said Frederick took Prema into his arms and kissed her before he started to undress her for what would follow.

Prema / Jolinar snuggled against Frederick and used her fingers to trace out his muscled form.

It had been an altogether a pleasant experience as Frederick had been kind and gentle while demanding at the same time.

For Prema it had been the first time a man had been inside her and after the first initial pain of losing her virginity she had enjoyed herself immensely.

Still Jolinar was concerned her and Prema's husband had said they would have to accept the word of the Lord God or face the Holy fire.

While Jolinar didn't want to worship anybody she and Prema could learn about this religion and at least pretend to worship this god.

From what she had learnt from Frederick last night between their love makings these Knights Templar are no friends of the Goa'uld but they were still religious zealots who would do whatever was necessary to bring the word of their god to those they believe are heathens.

As Prema continued to trace her new husbands muscled torso she came across a scared tough region of flesh just below her husband's left shoulder.

Jolinar immediately advised her that it was from a near miss from a Goa'uld staff blast, one that if it had been any closer would have killed Frederick.

Frederick von Garger smiled as he playfully smacked his wife's behind as he chased her out of their quarters.

She had her lessons with the priests this morning before she went to the other women to help them with their chores.

He was proud of Prema she had taken to her lessons well and the priests were very pleased with her progress.

Furthermore she of all the heathens brought back from the raids had learnt their language not only spoken but she was also able to read a write it.

That was almost unknown of all the captured heathens while only the earliest arrivals could speak their language fluently.

He was going to stake a claim for some land today so that he could build an estate of his own so that he could install Prema as last in her own home instead of living in the communal quarters.

Of course this would mean that he would have to bring in servants and develop his own men of arms that he would have to make available to the order for the war against the unbelievers.

This wouldn't be difficult as he had already started training a group of men who had showed promise.

As they had pledged themselves to him he was duty bound to see to their needs which included finding them wives who would also help run his estate.

Knight Templar Frederick von Garger rode his war horse through the eye of god to one of the worlds that didn't appear on the Abydos cartouche.

When he exited the eye of god he was startled to find people and cities on this world but more disturbing were the horseless carriages and people who were strangely dressed.

When he met a local he couldn't understand a word he said but it was what he didn't see that shocked him.

Not a church or temple of any kind could he see.

This was a world of disbelievers and that was something that couldn't be tolerated even the slaves of the Goa'uld believed even if they believed in false gods.

He turned his warhorse around and rode back to the eye of god to report what he had discovered.

Tomac saw the stranger riding an equally strange animal he had tried to greet the stranger but he hadn't understood him as the stranger had got closer to the city he had suddenly turned around and rode back to the strange ring.

Shrugging Tomac returned to his task at hand not realising the danger the stranger represented.

Grandmaster Anton de Biers listened to Frederick von Garger's report with interest.

A world full of heretical artisans who appear to be advanced in the sciences that some of the orders own scholars have only just started to study.

This was too good an opportunity to pass up.

The order would probably have to use all its available knights and men at arms and losses would be great.

But once those heretical artisans are conquered and their eyes opened to the word of God then they will work for the order creating the tools the order will need to destroy the false gods and bring the word of god to those poor unfortunate heathen savages.

Tomac was stunned by what he had seen and experienced.

The Tollan were a peaceful people and even though their security people put up a fight they were simply overwhelmed by the military trained savages.

Now his people were not free to do as they pleased but at least they weren't slaves.

The unfortunately part of their conquest was that they were being forced to indoctrinate their people with religious beliefs that they had long ago abandoned.

Still they could play lip service to this God and his son Jesus Christ that these Templars worshiped with a level of fanaticism that the Tollan could barely believe.

Tomac hopes his people don't do anything stupid as these Templars are quick to punish those who refuse to pay appropriate respect to their new "god" and the punishments dished out by these Templars made Goa'uld punishments mild by comparison.

Frederick von Garger was leading a raid on a world controlled by the Goa'uld Nirrti.

He would have preferred to stay at home as his wife Prema had just delivered him his second son.

They raid was going well he had slaughtered the entire Jaffa contingent on this world and was rounding up all the slaves.

He cast an appreciative eye over the female slaves and decided that he would claim these wenches for his estate.

They were all pleasing to the eye, young and deferred to his knights.

Frederick decided they would make excellent wives for his men at arms and the children they would bare his men would make his army strong in the fight against the heretics.

The last of the slaves were being taken to a world nominally controlled by Cronus and Frederick thought that should annoy this Nirrti nicely has she apparently hated Cronus with a vengeance.

As Frederick was stepping through the Eye of God a new contingent of Jaffa arrived and one managed to get a shot at Frederick hitting him in the middle of his back just before the Eye of God shutdown.

Phillipe D'eath heard his master cry out in pain as he fell from the Eye of God.

Just one look at his wound told Phillipe that it was a mortal wound.

Still he couldn't leave his Lord Knight to die in these god forsaken lands and he assumed command of Frederick's men at arms and had him transported back to New Jerusalem where he could die in the arms of the faithful.

Prema was in shock when she saw her husband carried through the stargate mortally wounded.

She pleaded with Jolinar to save her husband.

Feeling her hosts despair and against her better judgment Jolinar took control of her host and instructed that Frederick be taken to their bed chambers where she could tend to her husband's injuries.

Once alone with Frederick she carefully removed the Goa'uld chainmail and then collected the healing device she had carefully kept hidden.

Over the next hour she healed her husband's injuries and even the unsightly scars from his early brush with a Goa'uld staff weapon.

Prema was pleased that her husband would live but Jolinar was disconcerted.

Anyone with half a brain knew that such wounds were fatal and these Templars were still primitives and Jolinar expected to be charged with witchcraft as there would be no covering up the fact that Frederick lives and his wounds are healed.

The last thing Frederick von Garger remembered was being shot in the back.

When he woke she saw a tearful Prema and without thinking reached for her and drew her towards him.

He luxuriated in the feel of Prema pressed against him and then he realised that he felt no pain.

The first time he had been shot by one of those staff weapons it had taken him months to recover yet now he felt as good as new.

Wanting to know what had happened he pushed Prema aside and looked at himself in the mirror.

As he turned to get a look at his back he saw no sign of a wound and then he noticed his scars from the earlier would were missing as well.

Frederick turned to look at Prema and saw the look of fear in her eyes.

At first he thought witchcraft but then before his startled eyes Prema's eyes glowed yellow for a moment and then a different voice spoke to him and explained that it wasn't witchcraft but technology that had cured him.

Over the next few hours Frederick had Jolinar explain everything and then feeling a debt of honour to the parasite sharing his wife's body he told Jolinar that he would protect her but her secret must be told.

Grand Master Anton de Biers was stunned to see Frederick von Garger stride into the Knights Templar headquarters wife in tow apparently cured of his injuries.

Kneeling before Anton de Biers he said, "Master we need to talk.

A strange thing has occurred and it could be of great benefit to the order and the holy church but it needed to be treated carefully as those who don't understand the sciences would call it witchcraft and I don't want my lovely Prema put to the Holy Fire."

Grand Master Anton de Biers looked at his most senior surviving Knight and his fearful looking wife and instructed that they be taken to his office to discuss the situation.

Grand Master Anton de Biers pondered what he had just heard.

The those evil warlords known as the Goa'uld System Lords were actually people with evil parasites inside and controlling them was barely believable.

And then there was the fact the Frederick's wife Prema was possessed by one of these parasites as well but her parasite had turned against its own sickened by their own immorality.

What was more shocking was the fact that these parasites could take control of a man and the order would never even know.

Then there was the other information that this Jolinar had provided.

Like herself a Goa'uld queen called Egeria had apparently turned against her own kind and started a rebellion.

Grand Master Anton de Biers knew that these parasites and this Jolinar of Malkshur had to be carefully managed.

If what he had been told was true then this Jolinar could be a vital asset to the order in detecting any infestation and her skills of using the device she had demonstrated on one of his old wounds could save many knights from untimely deaths.

That and the fact that it could sense its fellow parasites and had informed him that none were currently on New Jerusalem.

About the only thing he believed outright was this Jolinar's explanation as to why she hadn't come forward sooner.

And he couldn't fault her reasoning there were many in the order that distrusted anything new or unknown and he wouldn't want to be put to the Holy Fire either.

For now he'd let the parasite Jolinar prove its function in the service of the order but if it tried to betray them then the Holy Fire would be the least of this Jolinar's worries.

Tomac was shocked when his people's best scientists and engineers were forced through the stargate to a world controlled by these knights Templar.

When they returned many hours later they were babbling about technological wonders that would take them years' worth of research and development to just scratch the surface of this knowledge.

While he was glad that they hadn't been harmed there were other issues he and the curia had to deal with.

The forced indoctrination of his people to this strange religion these Templars worshiped with a fanatism that even the Goa'uld dreamed of.

But this wasn't the main issue.

The one that was of the most concern was the fact that these Knights Templar were taking their young women to be wives whether the young women involved consented or not.

Yet what could the Curia do about this?

The Knights Templar their new masters were strong in numbers and were more than willing to die for their god.

If you added the fact that they were now using Goa'uld healing devices to keep their knights strong and healthy meant that freedom for the Tollan wouldn't be returned any time soon.

For now they would have to bide their time and prove their usefulness to these Knights Templar.

Perhaps with time they could get the Templars to ease the restrictions of their society and allow them full representation.

Pondering these thoughts Tomac returned to his task of administering Tolla for the Knights Templar.

Knight Templar Frederick von Garger and his men at arms came across a multisided battle.

From what they could concern Jaffa of Nirrti, Cronus, Apophis and Telchak were fighting for control of this planet to their mutual destruction.

Making a quick decision Frederick contact New Jerusalem and requested reinforcements so that they could defeat all the remaining forces and salvage what was left.

Frederick looked across the battlefield his victory hadn't been cheap dozens of knights lay dead on this foreign planet yet victory had been achieved. Now it was a matter of caring for the injured and collecting the salvage.

He had already sent word to New Jerusalem and had been advised that healers were on the way along with Prema / Jolinar.

As he instructed his knights and men at arms to collect all the Jaffa equipment and sent it through the stargate to New Jerusalem his eyes drifted to the glistening pyramid that sat in the distance.

Stone didn't reflect like that but who he wondered would build a pyramid out of metal?

Well he'd discover that soon enough after he saw to the care of his men.

For now he's join in the salvaging and would make sure that the parasites would be dead first.

Jolinar of Malkshur / Prema as they stepped from the stargate were stunned by the scene before them.

As far as the eye could see were dead Jaffa and Knights Templar.

Jolinar felt this despair radiating from Prema when she realised that this was the future for her sons.

Then Jolinar of Malkshur caught sight of the Ha'tak in the distance and wondered why it hadn't taken off.

Could it be that the ha'tak was damaged and unable to fly?

Knowing what a threat it was Jolinar of Malkshur / Prema ran towards Frederick to inform him of the situation.

Frederick von Garger listened to Jolinar as she explained what the metal pyramid was.

At first Frederick was stunned then he quickly started shouting for his knights and man at arms to stop what they were doing and too march towards the pyramid ship.

As he organised his forces Frederick von Garger thought what a prize it would be to capture an intact Goa'uld war engine.

He wondered what rewards would be showered upon his house if he managed to capture the Goa'uld ha'tak.

Telchak had been hiding on this obscure planet minding his own business when Apophis, then Cronus and final Nirrti had sent forces here and he had been caught in the crossfire.

It hadn't helped matters that hiss hyperdrive had been damaged in the first salvo and he had been working hard ever since to get it repaired.

Things had not been going well for him and he had sent the last of his Jaffa to fight off the invaders.

The last thing he had heard from his first prime was that reinforcements had arrived for Apophis' forces and then nothing.

Telchak feared that the last of his Jaffa had died in battle but then why hadn't whoever had won come to claim his ha'tak.

But their negligence is his gain if they don't come in the next hour he will have repaired the damage to his ha'taks hyperdrive and then he will be able to flee to his sole remaining world and complete the repairs to his ha'tak and rebuild his forces.

Telchak had just finished the repairs when he heard the unmistakable clanking sounds of Jaffa marching in the corridors of his Ha'tak.

Peeking from the doorway in engineering he saw the Jaffa checking every room but he didn't recognise them and they were certainly distinctive in their white mantles with a red cross.

One came close enough to him for Telchak to realise that these weren't Jaffa at all but humans.

He wondered what was happening went he felt the presence of a Goa'uld.

Telchak quickly ducked back into engineering for if he could sense another Goa'uld then they would have sensed hi as well.

Jolinar pulled up short as she walked along side Frederick in the Ha'tak.

The Templars had found it abandoned and were checking it room by room for any sign of Goa'uld or Jaffa.

Frederick stopped short when he realised that Prema had stopped.

He then saw her eyes glow that golden colour that indicated that Jolinar was in control.

Jolinar then said, "Frederick, there is a Goa'uld in this engineering section."

With a nod Frederick called out orders and before long many knights and men at arms were ready to charge in to the main engineering room and seize the Goa'uld in question.

Telchak was cursing himself how could he have been so stupid as to leave his ribbon device in his quarters.

Now he was trapped with the only way out guarded by those strange humans and the Goa'uld with them.

He then heard the strange Goa'uld call out to him saying, "Goa'uld if you surrender yourself and this ha'tak to my companions they will be lenient as they are men of honour.

However if you betray they will make sure your life is more painful than you could possibly imagine.

You see they are fanatics whose belief in their god is unshakeable.

I have seen many an unfortunate Goa'uld or Jaffa tortured for mocking their belief.

But part of that belief is honour.

If you make an agreement with them they will honour it as long as you abide by the terms as well."

Thinking of his position Telchak calls out, "I surrender!"

And he hopes what he has been told is correct or else his life is forfeit.