The Galaxy Project

T-MINUS 250 YEARS

(ORBSyndicate and CrowbarKnight)

EARTH THEATRE

The world's reaction to the news was mixed. The world leaders of the various nations and the religious leaders gave many speeches over the course of the next week, trying to keep everyone calm and orderly. The world was anything but calm and orderly. The Internet exploded within minutes of the announcement, everyone flooding the UN website with all the information and posting it everywhere. They discovered the existence of the Wraith quickly, and discovered that many events over the last decade had really been influenced by aliens. Some people were understandably mad, yelling at the entire world for having a conspiracy. Mentions of the Illuminati were brought up both in jest and semi-seriously. Many of these people quickly realized that they hadn't been told for their own protection - and if there had been a war going on there would probably have been more mass panic than there already was. Revealing it now was obviously a strategic move: the population didn't have to worry about annihilation at this point in time. The only nearby hostile force, the Lucian Alliance, did not have the resources (or the guts) to attempt a run on Earth. There was the initial fear of aliens ending up ruling the world, but with only the Serrakins being truly alien, most people were eventually accused of being racist, and that shut them up for the most part.

There were very few violent riots even among the angry people. They were angry that they weren't told earlier, but they couldn't riot with any real purpose in mind because they were already told. Aside from the few groups who tried to get laws passed that prevented the governments from keeping secrets, there was little organized political movement against the governments and their choices.

Laws had already been established regarding space travel and alien technology during the week the UN was in session, giving more than a few lawyers a bit of a headache with the new major laws coming in. The Tau'ri Alliance itself was unique: it was essentially an uber-government that represented the interests of all nations within the Alliance. There was no definite leader of the Alliance - there were representatives from each nation, and department heads which collectively made up the Alliance Command. General O'Neill was quickly put in charge of the military arm due to his experience in the field, while Daniel Jackson became in charge of the diplomatic relations arm. There were other arms: such as research and development, exploration, colonization, and trade.

The economy took less than a week to start booming, new companies came into existence that began to not only use the alien technologies suddenly at their disposal, but also to try and improve them to use in the daily lives of the Earth population. Economies skyrocketed, and the overall wealth of the planet increased. Relief programs were created within a month of the announcement, giving food to needy peoples in Africa, and helping along their industrialization. Companies like Space X began to experiment with the hyperdrives they were given, already drawing up plans for commercial ships.

Violence did threaten to erupt in the Middle East a few times due to much political unrest, but the simple presence of the Enterprise looming over their heads quieted most of them. (After the bombs turned out to do nothing to the shields, at least.) There was obviously still resentment in the Middle East, but they couldn't do anything at the moment, and the governments were cracking down on the terrorist organizations with all the technology they could use now. The organizations likely wouldn't survive more than a few years.

One would expect many countries to complain and threaten the other nations, but those concerns were dealt with during the UN week conference - any objecting countries ended up getting extra aid, technology, or money in some form or other.

A month and a half after the speech, Hebridan ships were given the go ahead to start advertising themselves as passenger ships to take civilians to other locations in the Alliance, though any ship carrying civilians could not leave Tau'ri space without clearing it with the Alliance Command, and all interstellar ships needed to be registered and carefully monitored so no-one tried to sneak away.