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STARGATE: RETALIATION

Bill McCay




[THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL APPEARS BEFORE THE START OF THE BOOK]

COMBATANTS IN A STRUGGLE THAT SPANS A GALAXY

DANIEL JACKSON-once an academic outcast on Earth, is now a hero to a people in need of
technology and education. Torn between his new bride and a movement he cannot resist, his unique
knowledge of the StarGate may be his undoing.... JACK O’NEIL-leader of the rebellion that destroyed
Ra and stood firm against Hathor, finds himself faced with war of a very different kind ... when old
friends become new enemies, and control of the StarGate may cost him his command, his life, and his
men....

SHA’URI-anxious to help usher in a new era for her suffering people, has staked everything she believes
on the promises of her new allies from Earth. But the growing strife between her and her husband, Daniel,
may destroy a great deal more than their marriage....

SKAARA-having earned his militia leadership in the war for freedom, must now hold his fragile army
together although waves of violence buffet the new ship of state at every turn, and the future seems
doomed.... HATHOR-enraged at her failure to crush her enslaved subjects and their intrusive allies, she
summons a weapon that Ra held in reserve for just such an occasion....




CHAPTER 1

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

Sergeant Eugene Skinner, USMC, ran a baleful eye over his honor guard detachment. In minutes, a
general would come hurtling through the StarGate to inspect the expeditionary force on the planetAbydos
. The first troops he’d see on this world would be Skinner’s thir-teen men.

The sergeant had been inspected by a lot of different people in some very weird places. But this was the
first time he’d be on parade in a man-made cavern be-neath a five-hundred-feet-high pyramid on an alien
planet. Skinner intended that everything go well.

His Marines were not in dress blues but in desert camouflage BDU’s, mottled tans and greens on a
sand-colored background. Under the sergeant’s unre-lenting eye, the men had made sure that every item
of kit and weaponry was in the only acceptable condi-tion-perfect.

Sergeant Skinner did not like surprises, but he tried to prepare for them. That was why his men were
already in formation well before General West’s scheduled arrival at 1100 hours.

“Typical,” the sergeant muttered as a low, nearly subsonic tone announced the beginning of a StarGate