Phoenix Campaign

The Battle of the Phoenix occurred in 2008 in an alternate timeline during Michael's crusade.

Prelude
"With the Wraith in disarray, Michael returned to the human populations he'd infected with the Hoffan drug. He selected the strongest and the healthiest of the survivors and converted them to hybrids. The rest he exterminated."

- Rodney McKay

After John Sheppard was transported 48,000 years into the future and Teyla had her baby, Michael was able to speed up the distribution of the Hoffan drug to Human planets and create more of his Hybrids. With the I.O.A. and the military reluctant to commit a lot of resources to protecting the human populations of the Pegasus galaxy, Samantha Carter was forced to take action. Finally, they decided to give her a new ship – the Phoenix barely off the assembly line. After placing Major Lorne in temporary command of Atlantis, she and her team spent the better part of a month getting it ready for combat. Once the ship was fully functional, she flew the ship in an attempt to destroy Michael's fleet.

The Battle
"They were able to inflict considerable damage, despite terrible odds."

- Rodney Mckay

thumb|200px|left|The Battle of the Phoenix They started a series of hit-and-run ops on Michael's fleet, destroying several hive ships with their Asgard weapons and escaping back into hyperspace. This worked for a while, until Michael deliberately leaked some intel that he was about to attack a heavily populated human world. Sam thought she could get there first, but she was wrong. The Phoenix emerged from hyperspace only to fly directly into an ambush of 3 of Michael's Hive ships.

Taking intense fire from the Hive ships, the Phoenix took evasive actions, but it was a futile effort. With Asgard weapons down, they fired several nuclear missiles, damaging the hives, but not destroying them. When the Phoenix's hyperdrive overloaded, Carter beamed the entire crew down to the planet below. However, after the crew was safely off the ship, she lost the transport system. With her engines about to go critical, she figured she didn't have anything to lose. She rammed the Phoenix into one of Michaels hive ships, resulting in a powerful explosion which destroyed the remaining two.

Aftermath
"... but eventually, their luck ran out."

- Rodney McKay

After the Phoenix was destroyed resulting in Sam's death, the Atlantis Expedition was forced to stop helping human populations altogether and Richard Woolsey took command of the city. Appalled by the thought of sitting around and doing nothing while innocent humans were left to die, Jennifer Keller and Rodney McKay left Atlantis via the Daedalus and returned to Earth, Rodney only to return several years later to restore the timeline to how it should have been. The battle was prevented after the future was changed when Michael was defeated and his crusier was destroyed by the Daedalus after Teyla was rescued. It was prevented forever when Michael was killed by Teyla when she threw him from the top of Atlantis' Control Tower.