Stargate Atlantis: Back to Pegasus 1

Stargate Atlantis: Back to Pegasus # 1 is the first issue in the Stargate Atlantis Back to Pegasus portion of the Stargate Atlantis comic series by American Mythology Productions.

Publisher's Summary
Stargate: Atlantis is back with a brand new monthly comic book series that continues the television series continuity and is jam packed with fun extras! Comic illustrating legend, Greg LaRocque (Flash Return of Barry Allen, Web of Spider-Man), joins the team of Mark L. Haynes and J.C. Vaughn (Fox's 24) to deliver the next official chapter in Stargate: Atlantis mythology. Following the destruction of the Super-Hive ship, Atlantis and her crew find themselves stranded on Earth. But a startling discovery sends the team in search of a new Gate system and reveals that the horrors of the Pegasus Galaxy are not far away. A new threat rises to challenge the crew and stop the city from returning to its rightful place. Come with us on this new comic book season of Stargate Atlantis and join the fight to get #BackToPegasus!

Chronological Placement
The events depicted in this adventure take place after season five of Stargate Atlantis.

Story
The story starts out with previously on Atlantis with scenes from the episodes Rising, First Contact, The Daedalus Variations, and Enemy at the Gate.

The story then picks up thee months later at the Pegasus Alpha Site on MG-482.

Alpha Site, Pegasus

The Stargate on that planet actives and the gray skinned aliens from The Daedalus Variations come through the gate and start attacking the base. Ronon, Teyla, and others who have returned to Pegasus on the Daedalus, leave from the operations center to help. As Dr. Zelenka arrives in a cloaked Jumper, he is shot down.The remaining group has to survive for four days until the Daedalus arrives and then it's a week before it can get to a planet with a gate.

Atlantis, Milky Way

Woolsey informs Colonel Sharped that the I.O.A may not let Atlantis return to Pegasus because it's Earth's best defense with the Earth chair having been destroyed by the Wraith. As the ZPMs are reconnected to the main grid, the Stargate activates without chevron locking or a vortex appearing. They pick up a radio call from SG-1 since the Atlantis gate is a Pegasus model and that takes priority over a Milky Way gate.

Alpha Site, Pegasus

The Atlantis team witnesses the aliens coming and going through the gate's Event Horizon at the same time.Dr. Zelenka says that this is impossible however based on what is known about wormhole physics. He wonders if instead of being a wormhole, if it could be a gateway between realities. The team end up getting backed into a corner by the aliens. Just as is seems like there no escape, the team is beamed up to the Daedalus. Teyla says that they need to warn Atlanis. Col. Caldwell informs them that Stargate at the Alpha site is the only one the can dial to Earth. The only other way to contact Earth, would be to return to the Milkyway via the Daedalus, which would take days. Zelenka says they could make another attempt to get the Earth crystal.

Atlantis, Milkyway

Woolsey tells Col. Carter that since the Atlantis stargate take priorty over the SGC gate, it is a good reason to have Atlantis return to the Pegasus Galaxy. Gen. O'Neill tells Woolesy to wait. All we see on the the monitor however, is a floating mug because he is invisible do to a Furling power cell triggering residual particles left in his body from the time that Col. Carter made him invisible. He tells them that the I.O.A wants Atlantis to stay in order to protect Earth. The General then orders Col. Carter to relocate the Stargate Command staff to Atlantis.

Alpha Site, Pegasus 

The team returns from the Daedalus and pushes the aliens back through the Stargate. As Zelinka starts working on the crystal, an incoming wormhole connects and some Genii come through lead by Ladon Radim. When asked about what he is doing there, he informs them that unknown aliens have taken control of the Genii homeworld. He is asked what they look like. Radim points to the grey skinned aliens on the ground and tells the Atlantis team that they look like that.

Atlantis, Milkyway

Mckay's firewall computer is breached and an update from an unknown source attempts to to load into the Stargate and some of it makes it into the system. The data that gets downloaded turns out to be a handful of new gate addresses and some new subroutines. The gate then starts to dial and they can not abort it. After the wromhole is established, Woolsey orders a MALP to investage. He tells Col. Carter that if they find another control chair, then Atlantis should be allowed to return to Pegasus.When the MALP telemetry data comes back, they see a room with five Stargates. Woolsey then has them investagate what is at the other end. After they eixt on the other side, they discover that they are in a room that is a hub with mutiple Stargates around an an area in the center of the room. Mckay notices that the symbols on one of the Stargates match some of the symbols that were uploaded to the Atlantis gate.