Lucian Alliance

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Summary

The Lucian Alliance was a coalition of former smugglers and mercenaries who banded together to take advantage of the power vacuum left by the demise of the Goa'uld (9.04 "The Ties That Bind"). At one time they were a serious threat to the Free Jaffa Nation and to the Tau'ri, but in-fighting and the Ori crusade in the Milky Way saw to their eventual downfall (10.15 "Bounty").

Stargate References

SG-1 Meets the Alliance

When the space thief Vala Mal Doran stole the Prometheus, she intended to trade the ship to two Oranians named Tenat and Jup for a case of weapons grade refined naquadah. Daniel Jackson, the only crewmember left onboard Earth's ship, successfully confined Vala to the brig and went out to meet the two aliens on a planet that Vala had programmed into the ship's systems to land upon. Tenat and Jup met Daniel outside the ship, but Daniel soon discovered that Vala had lied to him about who these two aliens were. She had told him that they were landing on her homeworld to transport refugees who were attempting to flee from Ba'al's forces. Daniel introduced himself as "Hans Olo" and tried to break off the deal, but the two aliens drew their weapons on him. To make the situation even worse, death gliders began firing upon the defenseless ship. Daniel zatted the two aliens and left them beside their case of naquadah as he began to start procedures to put the ship into hyperspace, but the gliders had inflicted too much hull damage to make that possible. Fortunately, the remaining members of the Prometheus crew came to Daniel's rescue in the al'kesh to which Vala had abandoned them when she stole their ship. (8.12 "Prometheus Unbound")

Somehow, Tenat and Jup lost the case of naquadah. This naquadah was extremely expensive and it belonged to the Lucian Alliance. One of the leaders of the Alliance, Vosh, placed a bounty on Vala's head, wanting her dead or alive, in order to make her an example of all those who defy the Alliance. Tenat and Jup were given the chance to capture Vala and her partner, Hans Olo. They set off in their cargo ship to search for her after putting the word out about the bounty. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")

Vala knew how the Alliance approached their problems and devised a plan to get the cargo ship back from Tenat so that she could give it back to its original owner, a smuggler named Caius. She agreed to get the cargo ship back for Caius because of a string of deals she needed to undo in order to get information about how to sever the physiological bond she had with Daniel that was established through her use of "kor mak" bracelets. Vala devised a plan where Col. Mitchell and Teal'c would pose as bounty hunters who had captured her and her partner and were seeking the reward of a case of weapons grade naquadah. While Jup took Daniel and Vala onboard the cargo ship, Tenat and Mitchell and Teal'c held their weapons on each other awaiting the ringing down of the reward. Once onboard the cargo ship, Daniel and Vala overpowered Jup and ringed him down at the same time they ringed Mitchell and Teal'c up. They promptly took off with the ship. There was never a case of naquadah to trade because the Alliance would not trust them with it after they lost the other one. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")

Tenat knew that there was a possibility that he would be double-crossed, so he had arranged to have a portion of the Alliance's fleet meet the cargo ship not far from the planet. Because Caius had made several upgrades to the cargo ship's systems, most of which were designed to evade capture, Vala and her partners made their escape and gave the ship back to Caius. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")

Alliance Runs Kassa Market

The SGC discovered that there was a highly-addictive corn crop called kassa being distributed to several human populations throughout the galaxy. Even the Free Jaffa Nation's Interim High Council had heard reports of eratic behavior among these human populations. After one of the members of SG-3 inadvertantly became addicted to the corn, Gen. Landry sent SG-1 undercover to the planet that was supposedly the origin of the crop, P6G-452. SG-1 met a kassa farmer in the middle of his field while he was harvesting a cartload of the crop. Mitchell arranged a meeting with the farmer's boss, Worrel, to attempt to gain information about who was distributing the corn. He posed as a drug dealer and asked for a large quantity of the crop for his buyers. Worrel grew suspicious of Mitchell's act and put him into custody. The remaining members of SG-1 extracted him from Worrel's headquarters, but while they were in the process of dialing the Stargate, both the Stargate and the DHD were beamed away. Worrel captured SG-1 and began torturing them for the whereabouts of the Stargate. (9.16 "Off the Grid")

As it turned out Worrel was working for Netan of the Lucian Alliance. Netan was one of the most powerful of the leaders among the Alliance, commanding a large fleet of ha'tak vessels. Eventually, Netan notified Worrel that SG-1 was of no use to them because Netan did not believe that they had stolen the Stargate. Worrel's men were about the kill the team when they were beamed away in the nick of time by Col. Emerson of the Odyssey. SG-1 learned that Ba'al had been stealing the Stargates and tracked his ha'tak down. Netan, using his vast network, found out the same information. He took three of his ha'tak to intercept Ba'al's ha'tak. Soon the Odyssey found itself in the middle of a potential battlefield. SG-1 had beamed aboard Ba'al's ha'tak and was tagging all of the Stargates and DHDs with locator beacons so that the Odyssey could beam them away. SG-1 escaped Ba'al's ha'tak through one of the Stargates right before Netan's ha'tak destroyed Ba'al's ship (with several of Ba'al's clones onboard). Netan was prepared to fire upon the Odyssey since Emerson had fired upon his ship with rail guns to prevent them from firing upon Ba'al's ship while SG-1 was still onboard, but Emerson quickly left the scene through hyperspace. Netan was angry because a large portion of his crop would rot since he no longer had a Stargate on P6G-452 to distribute it. (9.16 "Off the Grid")

The SGC began researching a new insect that was appearing on various planets. These bugs were extremely voracious and the SGC entertained the idea that they could be genetically altered to go after the kassa crops. After an experiment at the Gamma Site went awry and the bugs turned into carnivores, the SGC had to rethink their options. They found out that the bugs were sent by the Priors of the Ori to worlds that had not been easily convinced to convert to Origin. After the bugs had eaten all of the vegetation and had gone through a short starvation period, they automatically switched to carnivores and ate the human populations. The SGC's R&D department are currently working on a solution to target these bugs without harming other plant and animal life. (9.17 "The Scourge")

Alliance Enters Ori War

Teal'c urges Netan to join battle against Ori
Carter rescues Teal'c from Alliance
Odyssey witnesses Alliance destroy their own ha'tak

Despite the grudge that Netan held against SG-1, when it came to fighting against the Ori, the Lucian Alliance sided with those of Earth. Teal'c purposely had himself captured by Netan when he penetrated the Alliance's territory in a cargo ship in order to request that Netan join the battle against an Ori invasion fleet. Netan was prepared to kill Teal'c on the spot, but Teal'c gained the upper hand against those who held him and ended up pointing a gun at Netan's head. This action and Teal'c's urgent words convinced Netan to take three of his ha'tak to the site of the Ori's invasion. They joined two of Earth's ships, the Odyssey and the Korolev, several ha'tak of the Free Jaffa, and an O'Neill-Class Asgard vessel in the battle against four Ori Warships. (9.20 "Camelot Part 2")

Of the three ha'tak that Netan brought to the battle, only his remained when the four Ori warships continued on after decimating the allied fleet. After several hours of repair, Teal'c contacted the Odyssey, which had also suvived the battle. Netan stopped his communications with the Odyssey and had him taken as prisoner, torturing him with a Goa'uld pain stick because he was angry at the destruction of part of his fleet. (10.01 "Flesh and Blood Part 3")

Since the Odyssey and Netan's ha'tak were the only ones left that had life support capabilities, Col. Emerson and SG-1's Mitchell asked that Netan work with them in rescuing survivors of the other ships who were sending out distress beacons. Netan instead insisted that Emerson surrender the Odyssey or be destroyed. His threat was empty, however, because he did not have any weapons with which to destroy Earth's ship. Joined by two operational ha'tak, Netan again threatened the Odyssey with destruction, but Bra'tac arrived with three ha'tak and demanded that Netan stand down or engage in battle. Outnumbered, Netan had his two newly-arrived ha'tak destroy his crippled one rather than have it available for rescue efforts and then they left the scene through hyperspace. Fortunately, the Odyssey's beaming technology was repaired in time to rescue Teal'c before the Alliance's ha'tak was completely destroyed. Netan, however, most likely believed that Teal'c was killed in the blast. (10.01 "Flesh and Blood Part 3")

Mitchell Infiltrates Alliance

With the destruction of Netan's ha'tak at the site of the Ori's invasion, the Odyssey was the only ship that survived the galaxy's defense against the Ori's first wave of four warships. To the Lucian Alliance, the Odyssey was a formidable ship and represented the Tau'ri's strength. If the Odyssey could be destroyed, it would send a message to Earth that the Alliance was stronger. After more of the Alliance's planets fell to the Ori, the failing kassa production due to drought and floods, and the reduction of the Alliance's fleet in the battle with the Ori, some of Netan's men were starting to doubt his leadership. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

One such man was Anateo. He had asked for more territory after some of his fell to the Ori. When Netan sent him to destroy the Odyssey, he most likely felt that Anateo would be killed in the battle. Even so, Netan gave Anateo a strategy that would give him a better chance at destroying the ship. They fed false information to the Free Jaffa who then, in turn, told the SGC that the Ori had built a second Supergate. The location given was near a neutron star that produced a gravitional force that reduced the ship's shields. Anateo's ships fired upon the weakened ship, forcing it into a mine field that caused additional damage. Anateo's men boarded the ship via a ring transporter and took over, killing Col. Emerson to force Carter to help them make repairs and to set a trap for the rest of SG-1. Anateo believed that capturing the Odyssey and SG-1 would prove his leadership capabilities and that he'd take Netan's place. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

Anateo used the Odyssey's subspace beacon and recorder as bait for the rest of SG-1. Mitchell, Daniel, Teal'c, and Vala went on a search for the Odyssey and tracked the beacon to a planet that had affiliation with the Alliance. Vala and Daniel met one of her contacts on the planet, Borzin, and tried to get more information about who had given him the beacon. Borzin turned Daniel and Vala over to Solek, Anateo's right-hand man. Borzin accompanied Solek, Daniel, and Vala back to the Odyssey where he expected to get paid for capturing part of SG-1, but he unwittingly walked into a trap because Anateo didn't plan to pay him. Borzin was totally clueless when Anateo ordered Solek to "take care" of him. In addition to Solek, Anateo had about fourteen other men with him on the Odyssey, one of whom was Teresh, who manned one of the bridge stations. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

After Daniel and Vala were captured, Mitchell and Teal'c returned to the SGC to report what they had learned. They enlisted the help of Maj. Escher who had extensive background on the Alliance's organization. According to Escher, "Each division of Lucian Alliance territory is controlled by one of Netan's lieutenants, or "seconds", as they're called. There are about twenty such individuals overseeing operations including smuggling, extortion, racketeering, and of course, trafficking in kassa." Among these seconds was Kefflin, one of Netan's most loyal and trusted men. He oversaw a large kassa production operation on a remote group of planets on the outskirts of the galaxy. Kefflin was said to be a brutal killer with a notorious temper, as well as a recluse who stayed onboard his command ship, rarely seen by any of the other seconds. Mitchell proposed infiltrating Netan's organization in order to determine where the Odyssey was and recapture it. Using the Reol chemical that produces illusions, Mitchell succeeded in his undercover mission by impersonating Kefflin. Teal'c, however, was captured by one of Netan's men, Vashin, when the cloak on his cargo ship failed. Netan wasn't surprised to see him, no doubt having heard that Teal'c survived his ship's destruction. Mitchell, as Kefflin, asked to "torture" Teal'c for information on why he was spying on them, and Netan approved, knowing Kefflin's brutal nature and delight in causing another's pain. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

Mitchell "tortures" Teal'c as Kefflin

Mitchell used the information from Daniel and Vala's contact with Borzin as a way to convince Netan that he had succeeded in torturing Teal'c for information. When he, as Kefflin, revealed that Anateo had captured the Odyssey instead of destroying it and intended to capture SG-1 as well, Netan's other seconds were amazed. Gavos, one of the most outspoken of Netan's seconds, challenged Netan's strategy concerning Anateo and the Odyssey and Netan killed him in front of the others with his handgun. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

While all of this was happening on Netan's ha'tak, Daniel, Vala, and Carter regained control of the Odyssey. Vala beamed Anateo out into space and Solek was also transported to parts unknown. The rest of Anateo's men were accounted for and were under watch in the same cargo hold in which they had imprisoned the crew. The Odyssey was greatly damaged, but the crew worked diligently to restore hyperdrive and defense capabilities. Although Carter was the ranking officer on the ship, the crew also looked to Daniel as one in authority. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

Netan ordered the rest of his seconds who were on his ha'tak, Slaviash, Rameris, Karug, and Millic, to locate the Odyssey immediately. Amazingly, though, it was Tenat who found Earth's ship and he accompanied Netan's ha'tak with his own to the Odyssey's location. Tenat, however, had recognized Mitchell, so the two of them made a deal to keep Mitchell's identity a secret from Netan and share the goods from Mitchell's alleged scam. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

Mitchell had used the Reol Ring on Tenat at the time they parted and when he boarded Tenat's ha'tak, he gave the illusion that he was Netan. Knowing that Netan intended to destroy the Odyssey, Mitchell ordered Tenat to fire on Netan's ha'tak instead. Tenat was confused, but complied when he thought that Netan had promised him he'd receive vast territories to command. Netan contacted Tenat's ship and demanded to know why he was firing on his ship. Tenat, realizing he had been duped, could only stutter in response. Netan destroyed Tenat's ship as the Odyssey escaped into hyperspace after beaming Mitchell and Teal'c over. Netan's position of leadership had been challenged once again by SG-1, and, no doubt, he began planning his revenge. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")

The Shake-Up in the Alliance's Power Structure

After SG-1 destroyed a third transport full of kassa, it was apparent that they weren't going to stop their operations against the Alliance. Realizing that SG-1 was undermining his power, Netan put out a bounty on each member of the team. Several bounty hunters and assassins entered the hunt:

Bounty Hunter Odai Ventrell
Alien bounty hunter killed by Odai Ventrell
Alien bounty hunter killed by Odai Ventrell
Bounty Hunter after Daniel
Cha'ra and Teal'c battle with hidden assassin
Sniper Assassin after Carter

The Alliance made it easy for the hunters to track down the members of SG-1 by tagging them with a radioactive isotope when they were on the last kassa transport they destroyed. Bounty Hunter Odai Ventrell managed to eliminate two Serrakin bounty hunters in their cargo ship before making it to Earth. Ventrell also eliminated an Oranian bounty hunter inside the school building where Mitchell and Vala were attending Mitchell's twentieth high school class reunion. The Oranian bounty hunter used a mimicking device that changed his appearance to be that of Phil, one of Mitchell's classmates, whom he attacked in the parking lot. Once inside, "Phil" also attacked Gary Walesco when he got too close to identifying him as an imposter. Ventrell attacked another of Mitchell's classmates in the parking lot to obtain his clothes, killed the Oranian, and hid the alien's body in a closet before cornering Mitchell in the corridor while Mitchell was talking to Gen. Landry on the pay phone. (10.15 "Bounty")

Daniel was doing research in a museum on Earth and was accosted by an attractive woman who propositioned him. As soon as her body language changed when he turned her down, Daniel went into self-defense mode and quickly got away from her as she fired a small hand-held weapon (similar to the weapon used by Zatarc assassins in 4.05 "Divide and Conquer") at him. She used her transporter from her cloaked cargo ship to rematerialize near him as he stood in the middle of the street. When he raised his hands in surrender after she threatened to kill a mother and her baby nearby, she began to cross the street, but was struck and killed by a bus. (10.15 "Bounty")

Teal'c managed to fight off his assassin who hid in the bushes near the DHD on a Jaffa planet. His fellow Jaffa Cha'ra stood next to him in their brief battle, but even so, Teal'c was slightly wounded in the side. Using this wound as an excuse for him to lay a trap for the assassin to return to finish him off, Teal'c instructed Cha'ra to spread the word that he was seriously wounded. Taking the bait, the assassin entered the tent and Teal'c zatted him, finding that he had disguised himself as a Jaffa, but was apparently a human with a fake forehead tattoo. (10.15 "Bounty")

The assassin who located Carter found her and Dr. Lee at a conference where they were demonstrating advances in defense technology, including an Asgard-like holographic system called the Chimera Optics Projection System (COPS) and a plasma cannon called the X-699. The sniper tried to kill Carter as she appeared on stage to demonstrate the COPS, but she was actually a holographic projection. She quickly got Lee's X-699 and managed to take the assassin out with one shot. (10.15 "Bounty")

Ventrell managed to take Mitchell, Vala, and Mitchell's classmates hostage in the gym where the reunion was being held. The rest of SG-1 gathered together, located Ventrell's cloaked cargo ship in a nearby field, and used Carter's COPS to fake their ringing down into the gym as a trade for the hostages. Ventrell ringed up with them to his ship, but was surprised to find that Carter, Teal'c, and Daniel were already there, holding weapons against him. Amazingly, Mitchell convinced Ventrell that the Lucian Alliance was prime for take over by anyone willing to be bold enough to take it and let the bounty hunter go. Ventrell raided Netan's ha'tak and killed him. With Netan's death, his seconds were left to vie for his position, allowing Ventrell the opportunity to gain the great wealth he desired. (10.15 "Bounty")

The Alliance Regroups and Attacks Icarus Base

Hammond in battle over Icarus Base
Icarus Base defense during the attack
Alliance Fleet destroyed at Icarus Base

The Lucian Alliance apparently regrouped after Netan's fall, and a little over two years later, a fleet of their ships attacked and destroyed Icarus Base, the Stargate Program's research facility that was focused on the dialing of a nine-chevron address found in the Ancient Database. The reasons for this attack are still not known and it was only pure speculation that the ships belonged to the Alliance, but Col. Samantha Carter of the USS George Hammond, the only Earth ship to defend the Base, felt confident that it was the Alliance based on their ships and their attack strategy of immediately bombarding the planet without announcing themselves. (Stargate Universe: 1.01 "Air Part 1")

The attack on Icarus Base caused the planet's highly unstable naquadria core to go critical. The Alliance fleet was utterly destroyed in the explosion. The personnel in the Base had to evacuate through the Stargate, and they ended up aboard the Ancient spaceship Destiny as a result of dialing the nine-chevron code. (Stargate Universe: 1.01 "Air Part 1")

Icarus Base was supposed to be a well-protected secret, but somehow the Lucian Alliance found out about it. (Stargate Universe: 1.01 "Air Part 1")

Notable Characters

  • Tenat and Jup - Tenat and Jup, both of Oran, were the two representatives who were sent to purchase a ship from Vala Mal Doran with a case of weapons grade refined naquadah. They didn't get the ship that Vala stole to sell them, the Prometheus, and they lost the case of naquadah somehow. Later, they attempted to capture Daniel and Vala for bounty, but lost their cargo ship in the process. Tenat was killed by Netan when Tenat was conned by Mitchell into firing on Netan's ha'tak. Jup was elsewhere when Tenat died.
  • Vosh - He was the leader of a large fleet of al'kesh and cargo ships who put a price on the head of Vala Mal Doran.
  • Worrel - He worked for Netan in growing the highly-addictive corn crop called kassa that the Lucian Alliance distributed to several human populations.
  • Netan - He was the most powerful man of the Alliance and commanded a large fleet of ha'taks and kassa-producing operations. He was assassinated by Bounty Hunter Odai Ventrell who hoped to take advantage of the chaos that would result among Netan's seconds following his death.
  • Kefflin - He's one of Netan's seconds and closest friends, but is a recluse. It isn't known what kind of impact Mitchell's impersonation of Kefflin had on his relationship with Netan.
  • Gavos - Netan killed him when he challenged Netan's tactical decision to go after the Odyssey.
  • Slaviash, Karug, Millic, and Rameris - They are Netan's seconds and control vast territories that are falling to Ori control.
  • Anateo - He was one of Netan's seconds who wished to take Netan's place as leader of the Alliance, but he was killed by SG-1 when he attempted to take control of the Odyssey.
  • Vashin - He was one of Netan's soldiers who captured and tortured Teal'c. Upon Teal'c's escape, Teal'c forcefully struck Vashin repeatedly, possibly killing him.
  • Solek - He was Anateo's right-hand man and was the one who executed Col. Emerson of the Odyssey. Solek was beamed to parts unknown by Vala when SG-1 retook the ship.
  • Teresh - He was one of Anateo's soldiers and was captured by the crew after they regained control of the Odyssey.
  • Borzin - He helped Anateo capture Daniel and Vala. Anateo had Solek "take care" of him after he handed the two SG-1 members over and asked for payment.
  • Odai Ventrell - As a bounty hunter, Ventrell responded to Netan's call for bringing down SG-1 after they caused problems for the Alliance's distribution of kassa. Taking the opportunity to profit from the in-fighting among Netan's seconds, Ventrell assassinated Netan instead.

Alliances

  • SGC - A tenuous alliance was made with those of Earth in the battle against the first wave of the Ori's invasion of the Milky Way. Netan led three of his ha'tak into the battle against four Ori Warships at Teal'c's request. Netan has expressed his contempt for the members of SG-1, especially after the team had a hand in stopping the distribution of his valuable kassa crops and after he lost three of his ha'tak in the battle with the Ori warships.

Enemies

  • SG-1 - The Lucian Alliance had several run-ins with SG-1, and as a result, each member of the team was considered an enemy. Eventually, Netan put out a bounty on each member of the team, but was assassinated instead.
  • Ori - The Ori's attempt to control the galaxy made them an enemy of the Lucian Alliance.

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--DeeKayP 18:18, 29 May 2006 (PDT)