That was a very good, and exciting story. Too bad you never wrote a sequel on Sia, Bastet. I loved what you had going on with Sia and Carter and I can't imagine that the science gou'ld who was outsmarted by a tauri that also helped to destroy her beloved Ra would go unpunished. Its a great open ender for a revenge tale. Anyway, I really enjoyed this story.

Despite the fact that you wrote this story almost a decade ago, I see you are still writing fanfic, albeit in other fandoms. Still, I think most authors like to have their efforts acknowlegded and some of us came to the fandom late and is only now getting into reading fanfiction.

I love the premise and start of your story here and I love your characterizations, which are right on the money so far. I've started watching the entire series again,(up to S5 now) and this time around, I'm amazed at just how much pressure the SGC and O'Neill often put on the wonderkids Carter and Jackson, especially Carter as the pressure on her was usually to formulate the plans, most of which were near impossible and usually insane but effective. I'm appreciating the character so much more this time around as I really appreciate how cool, calm and collected she was in the midst of an often hotheaded, impatient, and often screeching O'Neill, a revenge driven and often uncommuncative Jaffa. Thank God for Daniel Jackson.

Great job.

Entertaining story. I think Ra's characterization was spot on. Well, to be true, most Goaul'ds in the series verged on the "arrogant, impulsive megalomaniac" side ;-)

Great Story! I think I can help you with your question about the P90 and MP5. The P90 has a higher rate of fire at 900 rounds per min. The MP5 has a rate of 500 rounds per min, however some variants have a 900/min rate. Also, the P90 has an effective range of 200 m compared to the 25 to 100 m range of the MP5. I don't know about the P90/M16 one though. They both have a 900/min fire rate, but the M16 has an effective range of 550 m.

I hope this helps you some.

KingofthePhoenixes

Nice ending!

For what it's worth, sorry about that review. I'm not the person who wrote it anymore.

RogueCanuck: Thank you for the kudos and the info!

Carradine: You weren't under any obligation whatsoever to answer the question. As demonstrated by RogueCanuck, there were others out there who a) know as much about firearms as you do, and b) know how to relate said information without being smug or snide. Read his review and take a lesson...and a chill pill.

Scholar:

"A little late coming, this is, I suppose, as I just got into this particular area. I was a huge fan of the movie, or course, but SG-1 has mostly disappointed me. So I've been very slow in getting into stories on it. But I was really hoping to see some stories involving Ra, so I was very glad to find this."

Happy to oblige.

"I just wanted to mention a couple of things.

In Egyptian Myth, Sia was a god, not a goddess."

I found that out while I was working on chapter six, but at that point I had no intention of going back and rewriting everything. Besides, if Osiris (a decidedly male god) had no qualms possessing a female (Sarah Gardner), and there were no major complaints from the Egyptologist community, I'm not going to lose sleep over making Sia a woman.

"He wasn't a very strong presence, however. He acted more as a godly attendant, than an actual diety. Though myths mention him a diety of perception, sitting at Ra's right hand, he had no followers. I couldn't see that type of character being as dominant as this story allows, though I could see him finding a way to bring back the being he was so loyal to."

But a Goa'uld with no followers would also have no resources to put a "Raise Ra" plan into effect. He would simply end up the slave of some other Goa'uld, most likely Apophis...and then there'd be no story. Which do you prefer? "The Return of Ra" or "Yet Another 'Apophis Kidnaps SG-1' Story"?

"In your story, Ra was very... rash and unpredictable. The movie portrayed him as superior, regal and mostly calm, with an air of death and destruction about him. I liked that, and I think that would have worked well for this story. I was also hoping for more of a confrontation between Jackson and Ra. Everyone always stood a little at awe in Ra's presence, he almost had a hypnotic effect on those around him. Like he was absolutely sure of his power and could spare a little amusement for his foes. It was such a great affect, and has not been dupicated with any other "god" on the show yet."

Forgive me, but we are taking about the same Ra, right? The one from the movie? The one who, at one point, in a fit of pique over the escape of O'Neill, Jackson and the Abydonians, used his ribbon device to throw a Horus Guard across his throne room and then subsequently fried his brains? The one who, when the rebellion began, swept the pieces off a game board in a rage? Whose teeth were gritted in anger when he ordered Anubis "Send the bomb through the Stargate now!"? Who, in one of those aforementioned confrontations with Jackson, snatched the locket from his neck for DARING to let people even THINK he was Ra, and in the other smiled with glee as he was frying Jackson's brains?

I'm sorry, Scholar, but as far as I'm concerned I depicted Ra as exactly what he was: a megalomaniac parasite in the body of a hormonal teenage Egyptian boy.

And if none of the "gods" on the show can play it the same way, I would stipulate that it's because they're played by actors who are overtly male or female, not glorified hermaphrodites like Jaye Davidson.

"But thanks for writing this, because it really got me thinking and I like that."

And thanks for returning the favor on the thinking part.

Great story.

I like how you took aspects of the original movie and the pre-SG-1 spinoff books and seamlessly interwove them into your writing. I also liked how you managed to rationally explain the resurrection of Ra so perfectly.

Now, you asked about the MP-5/P90 thing. Part of the reason that so many people have them using the P90 now is that it's canon as the standard weapon as of mid season four. Another part is that the P90 carries 50 rounds of 5.7mm ammunition as opposed to the 30 rounds of 9mm that the MP-5 carries.

The 5.7mm is a more powerful round, capable of punching through some of the best body armour we currently have available at ranges greater than the MP-5 can accurately hit a target. As well, the P90 comes with an integrated 1x optical scope and a laser aiming module. The compact shape renders it easier to handle than an MP-5 while the 900 rounds a minute firing rate allows for a greater volume of fire in the sametime. The MP-5 fires at 800 rounds per minute.

If you'd like more information on the MP-5 (in all three calibers) I would suggest visiting

For information on the P90, a look around for Fabrique Nationale (I may have spelled that wrong - it's a Belgian company) or google the P90.

A little late coming, this is, I suppose, as I just got into this particular area. I was a huge fan of the movie, or course, but SG-1 has mostly disappointed me. So I've been very slow in getting into stories on it. But I was really hoping to see some stories involving Ra, so I was very glad to find this.

I just wanted to mention a couple of things.

In Egyptian Myth, Sia was a god, not a goddess. He wasn't a very strong presence, however. He acted more as a godly attendant, than an actual diety. Though myths mention him a diety of perception, sitting at Ra's right hand, he had no followers. I couldn't see that type of character being as dominant as this story allows, though I could see him finding a way to bring back the being he was so loyal to.

In your story, Ra was very... rash and unpredictable. The movie portrayed him as superior, regal and mostly calm, with an air of death and destruction about him. I liked that, and I think that would have worked well for this story. I was also hoping for more of a confrontation between Jackson and Ra. Everyone always stood a little at awe in Ra's presence, he almost had a hypnotic effect on those around him. Like he was absolutely sure of his power and could spare a little amusement for his foes. It was such a great affect, and has not been dupicated with any other "god" on the show yet. It would be so cool to see more of a scene with Ra and Jackson one-on-one. (I say Jackson instead of O'Niell because Jackson was the only one who actually spoke with Ra at legnth. The only one who could speak Ra's language, when it comes to that. As the supposed rival for Ra's title, Jackson would be the one most likely to be gone after by Ra.)

But thanks for writing this, because it really got me thinking and I like that.

I haven't done more than skim this story and because of that wasn't going to review it until I had, but then I saw the gun question at the beginning of this chapter and felt obliged to answer it.

Heckler and Koch Defense Inc (HK) MP5 submachine gun: Invented in the 1960s, this series, by the German manufacturer Heckler and Koch (HK), has proved in every usage its reliability, and thanks to how many different versions of it there are, versatility. I've looked into these guns...enough and have never been able to find an instance of one jamming, and coming from HK they're definitely accurate. Given they fire 9x19mm Parabellum/Luger rounds - the exact same round as the standard SGC sidearm, the Beretta M92FS - you can carry a lot of ammo without sacrificing weight, too. That's why people use them, though they're bulky, for short-ish ranges, their rounds can't really pierce armor, and the 9x19mm round has no power. Though a normal-sized 9x19mm gun (in this case a Glock 17) can carry a lot of ammo - like 17 rounds in a normal magazine - there's one case in which a drugged-up guy took 33 9x19mm rounds and DID NOT DIE (until a cop snuck up behind him and killed him with a 12-gauge shotgun). There are other cases like that, but you get the point. I don't know if the Stargate people know this, but one good reason why a team would switch to a different gun is because MP5-series guns have no power. While I'm on that, you're being too vague. There have been two or three versions of the MP5 in the Stargate series, and none of them are the plain "MP5" from 1970 has never made an appearance. The version of the MP5 with a stock on it as shown in the movie is an MP5A2. The version in the show is either the MP5A3 or MP5A5 and both of which have telescoping stocks - those little strut things on the backs of the gun. I think that at first SG-1 used MP5A3s and swapped to P90s but other SG teams used MP5A5s. An MP5A5 is the same as an -A3 except that it has a three-round burst option where -A3s are either on semi-automatic or full-auto. Since nobody ever uses anything but full-auto, the only way you can be sure is to look at the side for the fire selector - if you see four lines of bullets it's an MP5A5 and if you see three it's an -A3. Also look at the pistol grips. MP5A3s have slight finger grooves and palm swells but MP5A5s have straight pistol grips with a curve at the bottom for ambidextrous use. If you don't want to be specific you don't have to but don't do half the job; trying to simultaneously be specific yet vague never works. And by "stock MP-5 variants" do you mean ones with stocks on them?

Fabrique Nationale Herstal (FNH) P90 personal defense weapon: This Belgian gun is the forerunner of a new class of gun, a subclass of submachine guns. By the way, I'm going to establish this now: MP5s and P90s are not assault weapons, and there aren't hyphens in either of their names. It's "MP5" and "P90." Anyway the class of weapons a P90 belongs to - and sort of invented (though it wasn't the first one in the thing) - is the PDW class, for Personal Defense Weapon, as mentioned above. The P90's been in production since 1990 but was invented from 1988 to then. I don't know why the SG-1 folks switched it from the MP5A5s or -A3s SG-1 was using, but it's brilliant. The P90's cartridge, the 5.7x28mm FNH round, is not only more powerful than the 9x19mm round but also much more high-velocity, so it gets much better armor penetration, which's dreamy for killing heavily-armored jaffas. The P90's also much shorter than most MP5-series guns, and the only MP5s shorter than it are the MP5K-series (K for Kurz - "short" in English), which aren't so great for general-purpose activities like exploring because they don't have stocks and are not as accurate as other MP5-series guns, as well as louder, though their small size helps for concealment. If you don't know what MP5s look like, Neo uses them in The Matrix during the government lobby scene. I think they're MP5KA4s (a plain MP5K with a three-round burst feature of HK's newer trigger group, as with the plain MP5 series and MP5SDs) but they may also be straight MP5Ks. In addition to being smaller and more powerful than an MP5-series gun a P90's standard magazines - mounted horizontally on top of the gun - carry 20 more bullets than the standard MP5 magazine, the total being 50 of course. Simply put, a P90 has all the advantages of any MP5-series gun and more. I don't know why other SG-1 FFers are switching to P90s, but I assume it's because SG-1 did in the show because I'm near-certain none of them know much about guns. In other words, P90s have a significant advantage over MP5s.

Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co M4/M16 assault rifle series: These actually are assault weapons, and the only advantage either a P90 or an MP5A5 would have over one of these is that they're shorter...usually, though Carter's been using some rip-off of an M4A1 (or maybe a Colt spin-off) since season 7, and it looks shorter than an MP5A5 with the stock extended, if not by much. It's hard to tell exactly what Carter's gun is, but I'm guessing it's a Colt M933 Commando because she uses a gun with a flattop and it's the only Commando with one, which's why there's a 3.5x Ernst Leitz scope on the top where a carrying handle/rear iron sight would be normally. It could be a rip-off too, as I mentioned above, but rip-offs suck and the SG-1 producers probably wouldn't use one, and few have flattops. Anyway I think all SG teams should (and if they really existed would) use M4-series guns because they're extremely versatile and are more powerful than the P90 (and DEFINITELY the MP5) with their 5.56x45mm NATO/.223 Remington rounds. They're so damn versatile because of how popular the series is - MP5s have plenty of main manufacturer accessories as well as off-brand ones, but where an MP5 has several an M4A1 (note: M4s aren't automatic and M4A1s are. you might've known that, but if no, there ya are) has dozens. This is embodied best, perhaps, by the Special Forces Peculiar Modification (SOPMOD) kit, which consists of things like a huge RIS (Rail Interface System) invented by the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and Knights Armament Co (KAC), onto which other SOPMOD components can be mounted - they being things like an AN/PEQ-5 visible laser and a vertical foregrip (which Carter uses) and even a little shotgun, an M870P "Masterkey," which is a very short Remington Model 870 Police - and scopes, including a Trijicon Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG), which's where I wish I could ask SG-1 producers personal questions because while the ACOG (a 4x32 scope) is in the SOPMOD kit the Ernst Leitz 3.5x scope Carter uses is also used by the U.S. government and has a good rep, but is not in the SOPMOD kit, which's what Carter would probably get, and the Leitz 3.5x isn't as good as the ACOG.

I hope I've answered your question. If you've any more email me.

Great story! I really liked the kind of epic feel that it had. Keep the stories coming. )

It was entertaining.

I loved it so far, but I just have to get this off my chest, and maybe you could help me? WHY Carter? What is so special about her? Don't say she's cool, or that she is female, I mean fact wise. What is so great about her? If you could tell me that would be nice.
Dani'yell.

WOW! *applause* Great story! n_n Lol, I dare you to ask Ra where Sia and Hu really came from. You really had Ra in character. :'( And it was just so sad when he died! Ra's my fav Goa'uld. You must have really done some hard work to find a way to save his ass and cover all the plot holes/movie differences. Like the diamond-mouthed alien you see when Ra is about to blow up. Lol, I'm trying to write a Ra fic (You're a great inspiration!) And I can't find a way to save him. 'Suddenly, Ra remembered the BLUE pill!' -_-' No way SERIOUS to save his life.