Battle of Asuras

"We need to take the Asurans out while they're all in one place, and we need to do it quickly."

- Samantha Carter

The Battle of Asuras was the battle that brought an end to the Asuran-Tau'ri-Wraith war and resulted in the destruction of Asuras and nearly all of the Asurans.

Prelude
"Just give me and the Wraith, like, ten hours to get this shut-down programme working. If I don't, then you can just feel free to go ahead and open up on ‘em with your beam weapons."

- Rodney McKay

For weeks Dr. Rodney McKay and a Wraith scientist had worked on trying to create a way to shut down the Replicators. They had no success but eventually, thanks to Replicator created clones of the team and Dr. Elizabeth Weir, they gained the ability to track the Replicator's Aurora-class warships and summoned the Apollo and the Daedalus to deal with them.

At the same time, the Atlantis team used their ability to track the Replicator ships to evacuate the human worlds in their paths, as the Replicators had begun destroying all human worlds they come across as part of a strategy in their war with the Wraith in an attempt to starve them. The Apollo and the Daedalus began ambushing the Replicator fleet with the new plasma beam weapons given to them by the Asgard and destroyed seven of the around thirty-eight ships that the Replicators had built. As the Asurans were both unable to discover how the Earth ships were tracking them and they knew of no way to stop them, the Replicators recalled all of their warships to their homeworld to regroup and rebuild their fleet.

McKay and the Wraith scientist failed in their attempts, but McKay came up with a plan to turn all of the Replicators into a super-dense blob of nanites that would render them essentialy inert. In order for this plan to work, however, the fleet needs to remain in orbit long enough for the nanites of those Replicators in orbit to be pulled in. The Daedalus and the Apollo, as powerful as they were, could not hope to hold off thirty ships for the required amount of time, and so the Atlantis Expedition asked the Wraith for help. Using Todd to negotiate, they managed to obtain seven hive-ships willing to fight with the Tau'ri side-by-side to destroy the Asurans once and for all. On the way back to Atlantis, the team encountered the Aurora-class warship commanded by Larrin of the Travelers; Sheppard managed to convince her to join in the fight, and six more Traveler ships agree to help in addition to their Aurora-class ship.

On Atlantis, McKay created a human-form Replicator named FRAN, who informed him that the mass they create will be able to regain control of itself before it reaches critical density. To counter the problem FRAN proposed overloading the Replicators ZPMs, which would cause the mass to implode, destroying both it and the planet in the process. After ironing out the details, the Daedalus, the Apollo and the Traveler's Aurora-class warship meet up with the Wraith and Traveler fleets, where they jumped to Asuras.

The Battle
"I don't wanna be doing this all day."

- Steven Caldwell

The combined human and Wraith fleet jumped into orbit over Asuras and immediately opened fire. The Asurans were caught off guard and some of their ships were destroyed in the opening salvo. The Apollo beamed Dr. Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex and a team of marines into the Core Room, while FRAN was beamed into one of the city's many corridors. McKay interfaced with the core and took control of the city's power grid in order to overload the city's ZPM's; FRAN meanwhile made her way to a room with other Replicators in it.

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In space, the allied fleet successfully held off the Asuran fleet, and the Asurans never seemed to figure out the real objective of the assault. FRAN activated the program McKay installed in her, causing every nanite on the planet to combine together and form a massive, superdense blob that McKay planed to destroy by overloading several of the planet's ZPMs, causing it to implode and take the planet with it. An Asuran warship tried to jump into hyperspace but Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard destroyed it with a salvo of drone weapons from the Traveler's Aurora-class ship before it could escape.



The nanite mass eventually grew large enough to pull the nanites in orbit into the mass, but before McKay could overload the ZPMs the mass grew so heavy that it began to sink into the planet, collapsing the power grid and causing a blackout throughout the city, preventing the ZPMs from overloading. Samantha Carter, using the Daedalus' sensors, detected that the planet's surface was rich with neutronium, a very dense material that was the building block of the nanites.

Using this data, it was determined that if the mass absorbed the neutronium around it, it would become so heavy that it would sink into the planet's core, where the pressure would cause the mass to implode. With a few minor adjustment from McKay, the blob absorbed the neutronium and sunk into the planet's core as planed. McKay, Ronon and the team of marines were beamed aboard the Daedalus and the fleet jumped into hyperspace just before the planet exploded, taking the Replicator mass and their fleet with it.

Aftermath
"We can finally get to work without having to look over our shoulders. It's time to begin."

- Elizabeth Weir

With the destruction of the Replicators, the Asuran-Tau'ri-Wraith War came to an end, as did the alliance between the Tau'ri and the Wraith. Also the team's Wraith ally (now called Todd) stole a number of ZPMs from the planet before it was destroyed, using three to power a Wraith cloning facility and clone himself an army while the rest were given to his underling Kenny to create a ZPM powered Hive Ship. While Kenny went ahead with his assignment, Todd's plan to create a clone army was interrupted when a Wraith under his command turned on him, and the facility was later destroyed by the Atlantis team crashing a hive-ship into it. It was ultimately revealed that Weir and her group were all that was left of Niam's faction and were seeking ascension. They were on the run with almost no hope until this battle was fought and the other Replicators were destroyed.

Alternate Reality
In an alternate reality, the Daedalus was possibly destroyed in the battle.