The Skirmish on the Travelers' Aurora-class battleship was an event that took place in 2007 during the Tau'ri-Wraith war.
Prelude[]
The Travelers were still attempting to fully reactivate the ship with the intention of using it as a generational ship for their people. In the process, they set up several shield emitters around the ship designed to contain the vessel's leaking radiation. However, as the Travelers lack the Ancient Technology Activation gene required to operate Ancient technology, the process of initializing the ship's systems was slow going, despite attempting several work-arounds. While they themselves did not posses the Ancient gene, they knew that there was at least one race in the galaxy which did, the Tau'ri members of the Atlantis expedition. To this end, they kidnapped Lt. Colonel John Sheppard with the intention of having him initialize the ship's systems as to finish an adapter allowing them to use Ancient technology, reverse-engineered from the systems Sheppard had initialized.
However, upon reactivating the engines, Sheppard was able to incapacitate the small Traveler crew aboard the ship by not activating the inertial dampeners, causing them to be thrown backwards. After Lt. Colonel John Sheppard manages to take control of the Traveler Aurora-class battleship, he tries to take it to Atlantis but is forced to stop and drops it out of hyperspace in a solar system with a planet with a Stargate and sends out an SOS in morse code. Atlantis receives it, but unfortunately so do the Wraith. However, Sheppard dropped the vessel out prematurely due to the shield emitters being shut down, by Larrin, causing the bridge to become flooded with raditation. He was then taken to one of the ship's holding cells.[3]
Battle[]
The Wraith send a Wraith cruiser to attack the ship. Sheppard manages to convince Larrin to let him go to help. He makes his way to the ship's Drone weapon Control chair, but due to a malfunction of some kind is unable to fire right away. Meanwhile, the cruiser opens fire on the ship and as the shields are only at twenty percent, they fail and the cruiser takes out the bridge, killing Silas and Nevik. Sheppard manages to fix the problem and fires a salvo of drones, destroying the cruiser, but four Wraith Darts escape the destruction and land in one of the ship's bays. One of the Wraith attacks Larrin, but Sheppard kills him. Larrin then leads two more into a corridor on the side of the ship and Sheppard fires a drone into it, releasing the Wraith into space and killing them. Unfortunately, the last Wraith had broken off before this attack and ambushes Larrin and drains her lifeforce somewhat in order to question her but is in turn ambushed by Sheppard who bluffs him with an empty gun into restoring her lifeforce. Afterwards he lets the Wraith escape via its Dart and the Stargate in the solar system as part of the deal.[3]
Aftermath[]
The Atlantis expedition offer a alliance with the Travelers.[3]