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STARGATE: RETALIATION
By 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 planet Abydos. The first troops he'd see
on this world would be Skinner's thirнteen 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
beнneath 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 unreнlenting eye,
the men had made sure that every item of kit and weaponry was in the only
acceptable condiнtion-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 transition well before the general's official advent.
"Trying to catch us looking bad."
'This general might be the one who looks bad," a corporal replied sotto voce.
"Most people don't come out too great after a ride through the puke chute."
Skinner had to admit that the Marine slang for a trip through the StarGate was