Battle of the Void

The Battle of the Void was an event that took place in the Void between the Milky Way and Pegasus Galaxies.

Prelude
In 2006, the Wraith proposed an alliance with the Atlantis Expedition after Dr. Beckett tested his Iratus bug retrovirus on Michael. The alliance was turbulent as the Wraith were actually using the alliance as a ruse by planting a spyware computer virus into the Atlantis database to gather two key pieces of information; the Aurora mission report, in order to work out how to upgrade the Wraith hyperdrive, and the location of Earth. Whilst on the hive-ship, Ronon Dex and Rodney McKay were captured. The Daedalus fell victim to a surprise attack. John Sheppard used an F-302 and latched onto one of the hive-ships before taking off into hyperspace.

Dr. Zelenka worked out where the hive-ships were to drop out of hyperspace, so Weir commissioned the Daedalus and the Orion to the location, between the two galaxies. McKay and Ronon managed to escape from captivity to attempt to sabotage the ship they were in. Michael discovered that his life was in danger, since the Queen no longer trusted him, and managed to have contacted Sheppard, telling him to attack the ship with what little ordinance his 302 had left and damaged the hyperdrive of one of the ships before getting captured.

The Battle
"I was coordinating a strike against the hive ships when you recalled me... ...With everything we've got."

- Elizabeth Weir

Col. Caldwell ordered all missile launch tubes to fire Mark III warheads the second the Daedalus exited hyperspace. In the Daedalus' opening salvo, they managed to severely damage one of the hive-ships in a brilliant explosion, but not completely destroy it as all but one warhead were intercepted by the numerous wraith darts surrounding both Hives.

Moments after the Daedalus' initial attack, the Orion, commanded by Maj. Lorne arrived. However, Dr. Zelenka was having difficulty transferring power from shields to weapons. When the problem was corrected, the Orion fired a huge salvo of drone weapons, enough to completely destroy one of the Hive Ships. thumb|175px|right|The Battle of the VoidHowever, in order to fire Orion's drones, the shields were sacrificed. As the remaining Hive shifted its attack toward the Orion, the ship's hull began taking multiple hits. As the Daedalus was too far out to intercept, Orion's crew was beamed over to the Daedalus and the ship was subsequently destroyed in a massive explosion.

Meanwhile, Michael, Sheppard, Ronon and McKay managed to have escaped the remaining Hive Ship in a small transport and were beamed up to the Daedalus when the hive opened fire. Before their departure, Michael managed to deactivated the ship's jamming code, which would enable them to beam a nuclear warhead into the Hive. However, none remained as all Mark IIIs were fired in the Daedalus' opening salvo.

Meanwhile, the Daedalus brought all railguns to bear on the Hive's main Dart bays and every ounce of power was channeled to the forward shield until the Col. Caldwell gave the order to stop. Ultimately the plan worked; The concentrated fire on the bays created a number of secondary explosions, which stopped the Hive from firing. However, in the process, the Daedalus' shields became completely depleted and the ship sustained several direct hull impacts, exposing several interior sections directly to space. The last blast the Daedalus sustained took out life support and left the back-ups unresponsive. With the only breathable air in light years being aboard the Hive Ship, the Daedalus beamed over the retrovirus gas to convert the Wraith on the ship into Humans.

Aftermath
"We're out of food and water and we haven't slept in days but, yeah, we made it."

- John Sheppard

Many Wraith died in the conversion process and some even fed on each other. However, the surviving 200 Wraith were transformed into humans and were placed in stasis chambers aboard the Hive Ship, which was commandeered by the Atlantis expedition. After the battle's conclusion, the Hive Ship was briefly taken to Atlantis. As the Daedalus had sustained heavy damage to many systems, including its hyperdrive, the ship was taken aboard into the Hive's hanger where it remain during the Hive's voyage back to Atlantis.

Due to the strain on the Hive Ship's energy reserves caused by keeping 200 human-converted Wraith in stasis, a more permanent solution was devised&mdash;The humans would be taken to M8G-352 where they would be placed under quarantine. However, after discovering that they were in fact Wraith and not humans, the captured Wraiths started to transform again and got to the point were they could contact a Wraith-controlled Hive ship to rescue them. As to not let them, once again, fall into the hands of the Wraith, the Atlantis Expedition's hive opened fire on the planet shortly after the Wraith-controlled Hive exited hyperspace. The team aboard Atlantis' Hive escaped in a Puddle Jumper shortly before it was destroyed by the Wraith controlled Hive, which later retrieved the transformed wraith from the planet's surface. After the Daedalus' hyperdrive was repaired, the ship was sent to retrieve the team in the Puddle Jumper and return them to Atlantis.