This is a masterpiece of fanfiction! I have been working on my first fan fiction for months and this has been a learning experience reading all of this. Great story, and because of this I ended up getting xcom ufo defense game. Love the merging of canon between the two verses! The merge was perfection in its complete form! My story is a crossover and its nice to see where you can find little things to merge.

I have enjoyed reading all 52 chapters these past three weeks. And much to my demise my own fanfic hasn't been updated... :(

I do wish to see how the sequel goes, but Bravo!

It's the little things that really make it special I feel :-)

This story is epic in every sense of the word.

The merging of the two verses is masterfully done, as is the interactions between world when some rational though is applied.
The characters act appropriately for the changed situation. (Well the SG people do, I know nothing of X-COM outside this fic.)

There are a couple of minor points however:
Staff weapons, and Zats, do not have ammo. They will fire pretty much forever. This is because Naquadah does not, as far as canon has ever shown, run out.
This could still have been integrated the same way, just make Elerium a ten-times less dense, generate a hundred times more energy and be used up a thousand times quicker.
A mothership-sized Elerium reactor could probably match a ZPM in basic output while it had fuel.

Also the bit with the replicaters makes little sense.
1 - The plasma gun should not have worked. The humanoids are solidified clouds of nanites, blowing a hole through them should not ‘kill’ them.
2 - Why would 5th stay behind? In canon they needed to be stealthy , here they had no such limitation.

That aside this has been a true pleasure to read and I greatly look forward to the next one.

Naquadah is used up, just very slowly. We hear of naquadah reactors being depleted over time indicating it is being gradually consumed as it generates power.

The plasma weaponry doesn't just blow a massive hole, it would have all sorts of other effects on what it struck (various types of energy transfer to the target). Ronon's energy pistol was fairly effective against Replicators if you'd recall and that wasn't a patch on the "superheated beam of relativistic kinetic death".

O'Neill left him behind because Reps are extremely dangerous (and he's quite ruthless).

This is a great series! I think you overuse the passive voice, so some of the sentences are a little awkward, but great job overall. I like how you've brought together the United Worlds. :-)

Thanks. :-)

Very awesome crossover.
well worth the time to read it.
my wordage isn't enough

now I want to play the game

It's a great game. :-)

Doing another re-read of this story cause is it sooooooo awesome!!! Got to wondering about something. In 203 'Prisoners' Linea akaDestroyer of Worlds was set free by SG1 from the Planet Hadante. Then popped up in 311 'Past Pressent' having unleashed the Vorlix on a planet. She got young again, lost her memory and became Ke'ra. Later aided in helping others regain their memories, but allowed her own memory of who she really was to be buried again. In the XSGCOM Universe were does she fall? Could she become Linea again and join Loki, cause lets face it her helping him out is scary, cause she was FREAKY SMART. If she is still Ke'ra has her new world been recuirted at all?

-J-

No Linea in the story I'm afraid.

have to agree with Jack here, 'employing' Nirrti is sick
hehe nice bit with Heimdall and the later years thing *g*

Sick but efficient...

ahh nice how the two played with that slime-bag Kinsey, I hope he makes a mistake and they
get him

The man gets his just desserts. ;-)

Awesome stuff as always. Truly worth reading for anyone reading my review.

Cheers!

Wow, just wow.

Got linked to this from an email.

And it took a few days to read. But well worth it.

Some parts get me rather pissed off, but i keep reading hoping you have kingly meeting a very bad end soon.

I'll take "Wow" as a positive then. ;-)

ahh good that they are suppling the free Jaffa wit more effective, but not too effective weapons *g*

Always keep that edge. ;-)

This story was great. In the beginning I was afraid that X-COM would overwhelm the flavor/style of SG-1, but you managed to find the balance between the two fairly quickly. The writing remained tight thoughout, and the action sequences were excellent. Can't wait to read the sequel.

Hope you're enjoying Terra from the Deep then. :-)

The reason why torture is a bad idea is because it's unethical. Ethics is just enlightened self-interest of the group one belongs to. So basically, torture is unethical because it doesn't work. But let's examine WHY it doesn't work.

It doesn't work because the information obtained under torture is rarely self-verifying, because people will lie under torture, because people will confess to things they've never done, and because befriending the prisoner is a much, much better way of extracting information. One that's self-reinforcing in the large and has no nasty side-effects like lowering rates of surrender.

In the case of Cassandra, the SGC doesn't need Nirrti to confess to anything because she's freely admitted to it. The information (service actually) that Nirrti is required to provide is in fact self-verifying and Cassie's life is forfeit otherwise so they lose nothing by trusting her promise to cooperate.

More importantly, there is no better way of extracting information from the Goauld because befriending Nirrti will not work. Oh sure, I can almost see it working on a subject other than Nirrti's speciality. But in her specialty? Nirrti is arrogant and has a god complex, she isn't going to treat a mere human with respect. And in XSGCOM she never really would have if not for Heimdall.

Finally, the Goauld are self-deluded totalitarian dictators, torturers and terrorists. That last is important because the Goauld see torture as a legitimate method of persuasion AND exerting power. So they aren't going to respect someone who's squeamish about using it. In other words, torturing a system lord is almost a prerequisite for a human to successfully befriend Nirrti. And she's the only system lord available.

In this ridiculously specific set of circumstances, a spot of torture is probably the ethical way to go. Especially if it's limited to shredding Nirrti's delusions of invulnerability. Something that could be classified as necessary psychiatric treatment anyways.

Interesting analysis. :-)

Just awesome :) I started reading this once before but didn't get far before my hard drive crashing destroyed all my bookmarks etc. I'm so very glad I stumbled across it again :)

Glad you like the story. :-)

Well written, complex and plot oriented. Good military SF, which you don't see in fanfic very often at all. The characters from the series are dead on, and the others seem real.

Thanks for the review. I hope the sequel continues to entertain.

Xcom was one of my favorite games when I bought my first PC. This story makes me want to dig it out & dust it off. The Xcom members are great and he keeps all the SGC characters perfectly in-character as well. If you want an entertaining read I strongly suggest this story. And want to thank my friend for recommending it to me. I am not even sure what his name is on here or I would point him out. Great story & keep up the good work.

Thanks for the review Mordare, much appreciated :-)