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Stargate: Resistance is a novel by ROC publications and it continues the story of the original film. While the book was fully licenced by MGM, it should not be considered canon to the Stargate SG-1 television series and its predecessors.
Publishers Summary[]
Led by Colonel Jack O'Neil and Daniel Jackson, the Abydan refugees left Earth for a world of their own to call home. Instead they found hell....
Earth's Stargate link to planet Ballas is broken, leaving the Abydan colonists stranded—and stalked by a merciless enemy. Believed at first to be primitive beasts native to Ballas, these cat-like predators arrived through the Stargate—possessing superior firepower and innate military cunning. But who are these aliens, and why are they on Ballas? The answers lie in the secret past of an alien race—a race that is all too familiar to O'Neil and Jackson....
Plot[]
Before...[]
An technologically advanced race of lizards ruled the cosmos. They built great machines, spacecraft, and the StarGates. They became known as the Predecessors. In need of servants, they bred and genetically altered a race of cats. Using brain modification technology, trained them to fight and the serve. Eventually, the Predecessors died out, save for one who would become Ra.
The cats took over the Predecessors empire, using their leftover technology to try to rebuild the domain of their former masters. They became known as the Successors.
Now...[]
The Successor attack force invades Ballas, lead by Director Merraq and a warrior named Sekhmet, who was the sole survivor from the original expedition. They slowly take control of the pyramid and the StarGate, driving out the Abydon and Earth military defenders. During the assault, they attack and kill a group of children who were to be evacuated through the Gate.
O'Neil tries to rally his troops, who are scattered between the pyramid, the base camp, and the surrounding woods. His helicopters inflict early casualties upon the Successor force before they are taken out. He withdraws all troops to the base camp, before retreating to and fortifying the Predecessor building discovered by Ferretti.
Daniel, Sha'uri, Ferretti, and several Abydons are cut off from the base camp and forced to retreat in the opposite direction. After running far enough, they set up a makeshift camp to hide. At the pyramid, one of the Earth marines who was wounded in the original attack manages to activate the C-4 left behind there. The explosion buries the StarGate in rubble, cutting the Successors off from their reinforcements and trapping both groups on Ballas.
Merraq directs his troops to make repeated attempts to storm O'Neil's stronghold, but they are constantly frustrated by the tanks and artillery fire, which they are not used to dealing with. O'Neil tries to play the long game of attrition against the Successors, hoping to defeat them before his men run out of food or ammunition.
Daniel and his group send out small scouting parties to steal food and supplies from the abandoned base camp. On one such sortie, Daniel notes that the Successors appear to be hunting for food, suggesting their supplies are running low.
On Earth, Barbara Shore is working to try to re-establish contact with Ballas. With the help of the Setim and the Central Command computer, she deduces there may be a way to send transmissions through the Gate by fabricating a new component. She and her team create and install it.
On Ballas, Ferretti leads a group to steal more food from base camp when he runs into a Successor patrol. His men fight them and defeat them by killing what appears to be the group's officer. Ferretti realizes that if the officer is killed, the remaining fighters don't know what to do and are easily overcome. Ferretti returns to Daniel and they agree that since the Successors likely know where they are, they need to try to connect with O'Neil. Daniel and Ferretti leave the group to try to sneak past the patrols and meet with O'Neil.
At the Predeccessor building, O'Neil assigns some Abydons to look through the technology on display for anything useful. They find what they believe is a portable matter transporter, similar to what Ra used to travel to and from his ship. Another device activates and O'Neil realizes its a communicator. It's Shore, who has successfully used the StarGate to contact them. At the same time, Daniel and Ferretti arrive and report their findings to O'Neil.
Merraq, extremely frustrated by his troops' constant defeat, orders an all out attack on O'Neil's base and the Abydon group in the woods now lead by Sha'uri. O'Neil's troops engage the Successor force. O'Neil uses the portable matter transporter to beam many of the enemy troops into space. Then, he allows the Successors forces into the base, before destroying it. Last, using the intel provided by Ferretti, he has his artillery target the Successor officers. His efforts completely collapse the enemy attack. With the advantage his, O'Neil and his men goes on the offensive to retake the pyramid.
With O'Neil's success, the troops attacking Sha'uri's group abruptly retreat. Merraq, realizing that his plans are coming apart, orders all of his troops to engage in a suicidal counter-attack. Sekhmet realizes that her leader has lost his mind and kills him. She then takes command and surrenders.
O'Neil, Daniel, and Sha'uri wonder what will happen next.