The Skirmish on the Taranian settlement was an event that took place in 2007 during the Tau'ri-Wraith war.
Prelude[]
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard's team is sent to investigate why Atlantis has lost contact with the Taranian settlement.[3]
Battle[]
Exploring they find a hatched cocoon and finally the Taranian's who have been fed upon by Iratus bugs. They find what looks to be a Wraith lab and come under attack from one of the Bug People who they manage to drive off. On the surface Lt. Negley and his team are captured when a Wraith Dart suddenly arrives and Negley is apparently forced by whoever was in the Dart to send a message to Atlantis saying that the Taranians simply moved to another settlement further away. In the tunnels below the surface, Sheppard, Dr. Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex and Teyla Emmagan find hundreds of cocoons filled with Bug People. They set C-4, but barley get away before one of the Bug People hatch. Sheppard sets off the C-4 destroying the cocoons and hatched Bug Person. They retreat to the Stargate but are unable to dial out as the person responsible for these creatures has removed the control crystal. After returning to the tunnels to search for Negley and his team, Sheppard and his team come under attack from a Bug Person and are separated from Teyla. This time the Bug Person is killed but Teyla is captured by the person responsible for the creation of them: Michael Kenmore, the Wraith turned human a couple of times who was believed to have been killed on M8G-352. Michael explains that he was rescued by the Hive ship that arrived, but they sensed that he wasn't fully Wraith and he was forced to run for his life. As he was wanted dead by both human and Wraith, he decided to reverse the Iratus bug retrovirus used to turn him human and create a creature even more powerful than Wraith or human by having Iratus bugs feed on humans and then lay eggs while they still had a lot of human DNA left in them from the feeding which he then manipulated to create the Bug People to do his bidding. Sheppard, McKay and Ronon blast there way through a sealed door to a shielded part of the complex where Teyla is held as Michael releases an Iratus bug to feed on Teyla and continue his experiment. The three find the dead bodies of the marines and are attacked by another Bug Person who Ronon manages to kill. They manage to reach Michael's lab just before the Iratus bug can feed on Teyla and Ronon kills it and they free Teyla who reveals that Michael is behind everything. Sheppard and Ronon go after Michael while Teyla and McKay stay to examine the data in his computers and McKay attempts to unshield the base. McKay manages to unshield the base as Michael releases his Bug People. Ronon ends up going up against a few as Sheppard and Michael confront each other. Sheppard tries to get him to give up the Dial Home Device control crystals but he refuses and runs off when Sheppard comes under attack from more Bug People which Ronon rescues him from while McKay and Teyla head for the Stargate. Ronon and Sheppard escape through an air shaft and find Michael's Wraith Dart which Sheppard steals and scoops Ronon up with the culling beam. McKay and Teyla get surrounded by the creatures and stunned by Michael, but before any more can happen to them, Sheppard beams them aboard the Dart and they escape through the Stargate to another planet using the Dart's DHD. There they ditch the Dart and return to Atlantis where they dispatch the Daedalus to deal with Michael, but he has already left by the time the ship gets there. From the information McKay downloaded from Michael's computer they learn that his number of Bug People is well into the hundreds and he had labs on three more planets other than the one the Taranians settled on. Also he got the location of that world from the information the Wraith had downloaded during their brief disastrous alliance with them that had nearly led to the Wraith coming to Earth.[3]
Aftermath[]
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